Re: seeking deeper (language theory) reason behind Python design choice

2018-05-09 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Wed, 09 May 2018 22:48:42 +0100, bartc wrote: > On 09/05/2018 06:44, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> On Tue, 08 May 2018 22:48:52 -0500, Python wrote: >> >> >> But by the time 1.4 came around, Guido had settled on a clean >> separation between statements and expressions as part of Python's >> desig

Re: seeking deeper (language theory) reason behind Python design choice

2018-05-09 Thread bartc
On 09/05/2018 06:44, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Tue, 08 May 2018 22:48:52 -0500, Python wrote: But by the time 1.4 came around, Guido had settled on a clean separation between statements and expressions as part of Python's design. That separation has gradually weakened over the years, Presu

Problems after upgrading Python 3.6.3 to 3.6.5

2018-05-09 Thread Jim
I am running Linux Mint 18.1 and Python3 version 3.5.2, Awhile ago I installed Python3.6 from LP-PPA-jonathonf-python-3.6/now. I did it to run 3.6 in virtual environment. Everything was working until I allowed the package manager to upgrade 3.6.3 to 3.6.5. See (1) below. First problem I had wa

Re: seeking deeper (language theory) reason behind Python design choice

2018-05-09 Thread Rhodri James
On 09/05/18 06:57, Chris Angelico wrote: On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 3:44 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Tue, 08 May 2018 22:48:52 -0500, Python wrote: I've always felt that this mentality was insulting to the programmer: "You're too stupid to get this right." Sure, I've created that bug in other l

EuroPython 2018: Ticket Sales Update

2018-05-09 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
Some community members have been wondering why tickets are not available yet. We’d like to update you on the current status. EuroPython is run by the EuroPython Society located in Sweden. However, the conference being held in the UK, we have to charge UK VAT for the tickets we sell and submit the