Content-Type (was: Fwd: Python Signal/Slot + QThred code analysis)
Juan Christian wrote: > OFF-TOPIC: You guys said that my emails had some trash HTML and strange > stuffs, is it OK now? You're still sending: Content-Type: multipart/alternative Please configure your MUA to send Content-Type: text/plain only. -- Christoph M. Becker -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Cherrypy - prevent browser "prefetch"?
Tim Chase wrote: > I > haven't investigated recently, but I remember Django's ability to > trigger a log-out merely via a GET was something that irked me. > > All this to also say that performing non-idempotent actions on a GET > request is just begging for trouble. ;-) ACK. However, isn't log-out an idempotent action? -- Christoph M. Becker -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Question on lambdas
Ben Finney wrote: > Christoph Becker writes: > >> Ben Finney wrote: >> >>> It's best to remember that ‘lambda’ is syntactic sugar for creating >>> a function; the things it creates are not special in any way, they >>> are normal functions, not “lambdas”. >> >> Could you please elaborate why ‘lambda’ does not create “lambdas”. I'm >> a Python beginner (not new to programming, though), and rather >> confused about your statement. > > We already have a term for what the ‘lambda’ keyword creates: a > function. > > That is, ‘lambda’ creates a function object, without anything to > distinguish it from a function created any other way. Ah, now I understand. It's "just" about proper naming. Thanks. :) -- Christoph M. Becker -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Do you like the current design of python.org?
Chris Angelico wrote: > On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 11:16 AM, Steven D'Aprano > wrote: >> The flaw is that when you get a 404, it claims that the maintainers have >> been notified, but they apparently don't do anything about it. They should >> be fixing broken links without waiting for somebody to raise an issue. >> Otherwise, what's the point of being notified? >> >> It's actually worse than that. By telling the end user that the maintainers >> have been notified, they *discourage* people from raising an issue. Why >> raise an issue for something that is already being attended too? > > Okay, *that* is a design flaw. Though personally, I never believe > those "maintainers have been notified" pages. I mean, anyone can go > looking at their server error logs, but how many people *get > notified*?? And when does it *ever* result in prompt fixing of errors? > > So even if this is the one site on the entire internet where that's > true, I'd be inclined to drop that text, because it's pretty much > useless. It seems to me that text can't be useless. Either it is useful (because it conveys correct information) or it is harmful (because it keeps visitors from submitting an explicit bug report). -- Christoph M. Becker -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
