Re: PEP 372 -- Adding an ordered directory to collections

2008-06-19 Thread Armin Ronacher
Small Status update of the changes incorporated in the PEP: - The PEP Title was fixed. Of course it's a dictionary not a directory :-) - A questions and answers section was added that covers some of the questions raised here and on the original thread on python-devel. - Compar

Re: PEP 372 -- Adding an ordered directory to collections

2008-06-18 Thread Armin Ronacher
Martin v. Löwis v.loewis.de> writes: > > > I think I have lost the thread here, sorry. So I explain again what I > > mean. I think for this data structure it's important to keep all the > > normal dict operations at the same speed. If you use a C > > implementation vaguely similar to my pure pyt

PEP 372 -- Adding an ordered directory to collections

2008-06-16 Thread Armin Ronacher
Abstract This PEP proposes an ordered dictionary as a new data structure for the ``collections`` module, called "odict" in this PEP for short. The proposed API incorporates the experiences gained from working with similar implementations that exist in various real-world applications and

Re: New Python website, new documentation ?

2006-03-30 Thread Armin Ronacher
I paste my idea (original posted in #pythonpaste a few days ago): Chairos: what I really miss is a "go-python.org" page :) which would be what? showing up python gui application, python wsgi applications, a python documentation with a comment section, tutorials and a wiki and everything compac

Re: Try Python!

2006-03-29 Thread Armin Ronacher
BartlebyScrivener wrote: > Armin, > > Mike Meyer already took a crack at this, and his starts right up just > by clicking on the link. > > http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/try_python/ Hm. Looks not that useful since you can't create any functions and you can remove the prompt :-) > Yours looks pretti

Try Python!

2006-03-29 Thread Armin Ronacher
Hiho, One week ago I came across the nice `Try Ruby!`_ demonstration which features an ajax based ruby console and a 20 minutes ruby tutorial. I really liked that application and so I started to port that to python. Since I got a bit confused by the very complex javascript code I wrote a webconsol

Re: New python.org site

2006-03-12 Thread Armin Ronacher
I don't like the new python.org But i have I (in my mind) nice idea. Dedicate python.org to the language developers and python interna. And create a nice small page on go-python.org dedicated to the users. It should *only* feature a documentation with a comment box on the bottom of each side, a d