how to discover what values produced an exception?

2024-05-03 Thread Johanne Fairchild via Python-list
How to discover what values produced an exception? Or perhaps---why doesn't the Python traceback show the values involved in the TypeError? For instance: --8<>8--- >>> (0,0) < 4 Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in TypeE

Re: xkcd.com/353 ( Flying with Python )

2024-04-01 Thread Johanne Fairchild via Python-list
HenHanna writes: > https://xkcd.com/1306/ > what does SIGIL mean? A glyph used in magic. Or, for Perl, the symbol in front of a variable name, such as $, @, and %. Source: https://perldoc.perl.org/perlglossary#sigil Sigil is noun. Definitions: A seal;

Re: the name ``wheel''

2024-03-21 Thread Johanne Fairchild via Python-list
r...@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes: > Johanne Fairchild wrote or quoted: >>Why is a whl-package called a ``wheel''? Is it just a pronunciation for >>the extension WHL or is it really a name? > > PyPi in its initial state was named "cheese shop", as the famous > part in the show "Mon

the name ``wheel''

2024-03-21 Thread Johanne Fairchild via Python-list
Why is a whl-package called a ``wheel''? Is it just a pronunciation for the extension WHL or is it really a name? Also, it seems that when I install Python on Windows, it doesn't come with pip ready to run. I had to say python -m ensurepip and then I saw that a pip on a whl-package was insta