Re: Confessions of a Python fanboy

2009-07-30 Thread Inky 788
On Jul 30, 12:04 am, alex23 wrote: > On Jul 30, 1:06 pm, r wrote: > > > 1.) No need to use "()" to call a function with no arguments. > > Python --> "obj.m2().m3()" --ugly > >   Ruby --> "obj.m1.m2.m3"  -- sweeet! > > Man, i must admit i really like this, and your code will look so much > > clean

Re: Help understanding the decisions *behind* python?

2009-07-24 Thread Inky 788
On Jul 23, 3:42 am, Hendrik van Rooyen wrote: > On Wednesday 22 July 2009 16:36:51 Inky 788 wrote: > > > On Jul 22, 2:36 am, Hendrik van Rooyen > > > wrote: > > > The good reason is the immutability, which lets you use > > > a tuple as a dict key.   > &g

Re: Documentation Problems

2009-07-22 Thread Inky 788
On Jul 22, 7:15 am, Tim Golden wrote: > Mark du Preez wrote: > > Hi > > > Can anyone tell me where to go to suggest changes to the Python > > documentation? > > Drop an entry in the tracker: > >  http://bugs.python.org > > Patches are always welcome, Could you please provide brief instructions on

Re: Help understanding the decisions *behind* python?

2009-07-22 Thread Inky 788
On Jul 22, 2:36 am, Hendrik van Rooyen wrote: > On Tuesday 21 July 2009 15:49:59 Inky 788 wrote: > > > On Jul 20, 12:27 pm, Phillip B Oldham > > > wrote: > > > [snip] We > > > understand that lists are mutable and tuples are not, but we're a > >

Re: Help understanding the decisions *behind* python?

2009-07-21 Thread Inky 788
On Jul 20, 12:27 pm, Phillip B Oldham wrote: > [snip] We > understand that lists are mutable and tuples are not, but we're a > little lost as to why the two were kept separate from the start. They > both perform a very similar job as far as we can tell. My guess is that it was probably for optimi

Re: Why not enforce four space indentations in version 3.x?

2009-07-16 Thread Inky 788
On Jul 16, 10:18 am, Tim Chase wrote: > > I realize that a small portion of the community likes the tabs. > > They're sold on the tabs. They like the tabs. But tabs are an archaic > > holdover from an era when typewriters had physical tabstops on them. > > However, they are a single logical level

Re: Why not enforce four space indentations in version 3.x?

2009-07-16 Thread Inky 788
On Jul 10, 7:35 pm, Ben Finney wrote: > walterbyrd writes: > > I believe Guido himself has said that all indentions should be four > > spaces - no tabs. > > Yes. That's a “should” and not a “must”, even though PEP 8 says it > with a simple imperative:: > >     Use 4 spaces per indentation level.

Re: Where does setuptools live?

2009-07-10 Thread Inky 788
On Jul 10, 10:26 am, Chris Withers wrote: > Inky 788 wrote: > > Currently, distutils itself is being actively developed. More info > > about this here:http://tarekziade.wordpress.com/ > > > My (albeit anonymous) advice is: use distutils. Manually download > > pa

Re: Where does setuptools live?

2009-07-10 Thread Inky 788
On Jul 10, 10:26 am, Chris Withers wrote: > Inky 788 wrote: > > Currently, distutils itself is being actively developed. More info > > about this here:http://tarekziade.wordpress.com/ > > > My (albeit anonymous) advice is: use distutils. Manually download > > pa

Re: Where does setuptools live?

2009-07-07 Thread Inky 788
On Jul 7, 4:06 am, Chris Withers wrote: > David Lyon wrote: > > > What hasn't happened is enough testing of pypi packages and installing > > with setuptools/pip/enstall from pypi. > > What needs testing? > > More important for me is which of these has the most active development > community. How d