Hello,
On Sat, 19 Dec 2020 03:52:46 +0100
Marco Sulla wrote:
> Maybe it's a crazy idea, but what if we could decorate a single line
> of code?
That's definitely useful, as a generic programming language concept. My
favorite example is from (embedded) C, where I'd like to have
per-callsite cont
Sorry -- I can't find the thread, but there was a discussion on this list
about whether there should be a built in for clearing the terminal screen.
I'm was on the fence about it -- but one more data point:
One of my beginning Python students just submitted code with this in it:
def clear_scree
Thread is here:
https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/EWQ2BOL3WVZAU2V2MT3HLXN3AEBHANNZ/
I don't think this needs to be a literal built-in, part of the
interpreter. I think it could be a library function which is added to
builtins on startup, like `help` and `qui
On Sat, Dec 19, 2020 at 7:43 PM Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Thread is here:
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> https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/EWQ2BOL3WVZAU2V2MT3HLXN3AEBHANNZ/
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> I don't think this needs to be a literal built-in, part of the
> interpreter. I think it could be a library
