On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 6:46 AM Steven D'Aprano <[email protected]> wrote:
> I find it remarkable how people on this > list who often argue "just put it on PyPI" as if that didn't condemn the > proposal to die are now arguing that importing from itertools is an > undue burden. > are you sure it's the SAME people? I don't think ever indicated the "just put it PyPi" waas not a MAOJOR impediment to adoption. And I wouldn't say "undue burden" either, but a burden -- so not always the best place to put things ... > I believe boolean mode switches are usually a bad design > > This proposed mode is not a composable flag like reverse or closefd. If > we treat it as a flag instead of a mode, then we either rule out future > enhancements to zip (they *must* go into new functions), or commit to > piling bool flag upon bool flag even though most of the combinations > will be an error. > I'm still confused why the ternary flag (mode) idea never comes up in these arguments -- I know I like that the best. But yeah, I can except that it's dead. -CHB -- Christopher Barker, PhD Python Language Consulting - Teaching - Scientific Software Development - Desktop GUI and Web Development - wxPython, numpy, scipy, Cython
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