On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 1:50 AM Soni L. <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On 2020-04-28 12:32 p.m., Edwin Zimmerman wrote: > > On April 28, 2020 9:38 AM Soni L. wrote: > > > On 2020-04-28 7:50 a.m., Edwin Zimmerman wrote: > > > > On 4/27/2020 11:47 PM, Soni L. wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > > > tbh my particular case doesn't make a ton of practical sense. I have > > > > > config files and there may be errors opening or > > deserializing > > > them, and I have a system to manage configs and overrides. which means > > > you can have multiple config files, and you may wanna log > > > errors. you can also use a config manager as a config file in another > > > config manager, which is where the error logging gets a bit > > weirder. > > > I'm currently returning lists of errors, but another option would be to > > > yield the errors instead. but, I'm actually not sure what > > the best > > > approach here is. so yeah. I can't *use* that motivating example, because > > > if I did, everyone would dismiss me as crazy. (which I > > am, > > > but please don't dismiss me based on that :/) > > > > > > > > > Maybe you could start by actually writing the code, and then > > > > demonstrate how your idea would make the code easier to read or > > > understand, or less error prone, or whatever other improvement it would > > > bring. > > > > > > that thing about wrapping things from other generators and returning the > > > number of generators I messed with? > > > > > > yeah. that's what I wanted to do. it doesn't do any of those things, > > > it's just fun. > > > > > > I think I will stop replying to this thread, since we aren't getting > > anywhere. Either I'm a poor communicator or someone else is a > > poor listener. Either way, my attempts to constructively approach this > > thread are failing. > > --Edwin > > > > this code: > > def foo(self): > for x in self.things: > for y in x.foo(): > yield Wrap(y) > else with z: > yield z > return len(things) > > this is what it'd look like. and it'd be fun. the point of it is to be > fun. it's a nuisance to actually use the results but if you're just > printing them out (which is what I'd do) it's fine. > > if you don't want me telling you, maybe don't ask.
I suggest forking CPython and implementing the feature. If the entire value of it is so you can write "fun" code, then there's no reason to have it in the core language. ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/FM3USEMSLKGLUQUOVCSCJ5P6DIRHXDFR/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
