On 12/06/2016 03:27 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
On 5 December 2016 at 22:53, Tomas Orsava wrote:
On 12/05/2016 01:42 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
Essentially, that would be the "name.missing.py" part of the draft
proposal for optional standard library modules, just with a regular
"name.py" module name
On Sat, Nov 12, 2016, at 13:05, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> I'm rather luke-warm on this proposal, although I might be convinced to
> support it if:
>
> - w'...' unconditionally split on any whitespace (possibly
> excluding NBSP);
>
> - and normal escapes worked.
Is there any particular objecti
Random832 writes:
> Is there any particular objection to allowing the backslash-space escape
> (and for escapes that mean whitespace characters, such as \t, \x20, to
> not split, if you meant to imply that they do)? That would provide the
> extra push to this being beneficial over split().
Yo
On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 04:01:24PM -0500, Random832 wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 12, 2016, at 13:05, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> > I'm rather luke-warm on this proposal, although I might be convinced to
> > support it if:
> >
> > - w'...' unconditionally split on any whitespace (possibly
> > excluding NB
On 7 December 2016 at 02:50, Tomas Orsava wrote:
> So using _sysconfigdata as inspiration, it would likely be possible to
> provide a "sysconfig.get_missing_modules()" API that the default
> sys.excepthook() could use to report that a particular import didn't
> work because an optional standard li
On Tue, Dec 6, 2016, at 19:51, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Random832 writes:
>
> > Is there any particular objection to allowing the backslash-space escape
> > (and for escapes that mean whitespace characters, such as \t, \x20, to
> > not split, if you meant to imply that they do)? That would
On Tue, Dec 6, 2016, at 20:03, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> > I also have an alternate idea: sl{word1 word2 'string 3' "string 4"}
>
> Why "sl"?
Well, shlex was one of the inspirations.
> That looks like a set or a dict. Its bad enough that w-strings return a
> list, but to have "sl-sets" return a
Random832 writes:
> I don't understand what this "after splitting" you're talking about
> is. It would be a single pass through the characters of the token,
Which may as well be thought of as a string (not a str). Although you
can implement this process in one pass, you can also think of it i
