Friday Finking: Limiting parameters

2020-07-10 Thread dn via Python-list
Do you prefer to limit the number of parameters accepted by a single function/method, and if so, how do you handle situations where more data is needed? TLDR; specific questions at the end of this msg Along with one of our list-colleagues (a fellow graduate?survivor from the time of mainfram

Re: python software foundation

2020-07-10 Thread dn via Python-list
On 11/07/20 5:19 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: On Sat, Jul 11, 2020 at 3:10 AM Jithesh Thirumaran wrote: please uninstall the site packages of python 3.7.2 and tell me the result thank you The result was 1. @Chris, we should discuss this: A correc

Re: python installation help

2020-07-10 Thread Bob Gailer
On Jul 10, 2020 1:04 PM, "Deepak Didmania" <6073sum...@gmail.com> wrote: > > please help me in installing python Visit this page: https://www.python.org/about/gettingstarted/ If you get stuck, reply-all and tell us: Your computer's operating system, Version of python you're trying to install, Wh

unittest test discovery: regular packages vs. namespace packages

2020-07-10 Thread Ralf M.
Hello, to my last question I got many helpful and enlightening answers. So I try again with a completely different topic. https://docs.python.org/3/library/unittest.html#test-discovery says about test discovery: "Unittest supports simple test discovery. In order to be compatible with test disc

Re: python installation help

2020-07-10 Thread Bischoop
On 2020-07-10, Deepak Didmania <6073sum...@gmail.com> wrote: > please help me in installing python Well I don't think anybody here has a Wizard Glass Ball. You need to state what is your problem, what erro message you have during istallation. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-lis

Re: python software foundation

2020-07-10 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sat, Jul 11, 2020 at 3:10 AM Jithesh Thirumaran wrote: > > please uninstall the site packages of python 3.7.2 and tell me the result > thank you The result was 1. You're welcome. ChrisA PS. If that answer wasn't very helpful, consider clarifying y

python software foundation

2020-07-10 Thread Jithesh Thirumaran
please uninstall the site packages of python 3.7.2 and tell me the result thank you (T.Jithesh) -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

python installation help

2020-07-10 Thread Deepak Didmania
please help me in installing python -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Equivalent of "make install" for Python on windows?

2020-07-10 Thread Patrick Stinson
Oh right, and another example: The binary names for debug builds have a _d suffix, but modules like pip (which I assume can only be installed with get-pip.py) expect them not to have this suffix. Once I started copying lots of .exe and .lib files around just to make the distribution work I sta

Equivalent of "make install" for Python on windows?

2020-07-10 Thread Patrick Stinson
Building python from source on windows is straightforward enough with PCBuild/build.bat. But it seems as though the resulting distribution that runs from these standard build dirs ends up sort of incomplete and/or fragmented - at least for what I am used to on *NIX. Binaries are in ./PCBuild/pl