[Python-ideas] Re: Using explicit parenthesization to convey aspects of semantic meaning?

2020-12-14 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 01:09:56AM +0300, Paul Sokolovsky wrote: > Do you think there can be difference between the following two > expressions: > > obj.meth() > (obj.meth)() > > ? Okay, I'll bite. Of course there is a difference: the first statement is ten characters long, the second is 12 c

[Python-ideas] Re: Add the brotli & zstandard compression algorithms as modules

2020-12-14 Thread Daniel Holth
I think packaging ought to be able to use binary dependencies. Some disagree. The binary ZStandard decompressor could be offered in a gzip-compressed wheel. The reason an improved packaging format can only use ZStandard and not LZMA is that we need to improve everyone's experience, not just min