On Monday 11 April 2016 14:03, Fillmore wrote:
> I'll make sure I approach the temple of pythonistas bare-footed and with
> greater humility next time
Don't forget to rip your clothes into rags and heap ashes on your head too.
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On Monday, April 11, 2016 at 11:12:39 AM UTC+5:30, Stephen Hansen wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 10, 2016, at 10:18 PM, Rustom Mody wrote:
> > On Monday, April 11, 2016 at 10:17:13 AM UTC+5:30, Stephen Hansen wrote:
> > > On Sun, Apr 10, 2016, at 09:03 PM, Fillmore wrote:
> > > > and the (almost always to be
Terry Reedy :
> On 4/10/2016 8:17 PM, Fillmore wrote:
>
>> apparently my 'discontinuity' is mappable to the fact that there's no
>> such thing as one-element tuples in Python, and attempts to create
>> one will result in a string (i.e. an object of a different kind!)...
>
> Please work through the
On Sun, Apr 10, 2016, at 10:18 PM, Rustom Mody wrote:
> On Monday, April 11, 2016 at 10:17:13 AM UTC+5:30, Stephen Hansen wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 10, 2016, at 09:03 PM, Fillmore wrote:
> > > and the (almost always to be avoided) use of eval()
> >
> > FWIW, there's ast.literal_eval which is safe and
On Monday, April 11, 2016 at 10:17:13 AM UTC+5:30, Stephen Hansen wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 10, 2016, at 09:03 PM, Fillmore wrote:
> > and the (almost always to be avoided) use of eval()
>
> FWIW, there's ast.literal_eval which is safe and there's no reason to
> avoid it.
Its error reporting is clunky
On Sun, Apr 10, 2016, at 09:03 PM, Fillmore wrote:
> and the (almost always to be avoided) use of eval()
FWIW, there's ast.literal_eval which is safe and there's no reason to
avoid it. You'll still have to deal with the fact that a single string
on a line will return a string while multiples will
On 04/10/2016 11:54 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Mon, 11 Apr 2016 12:48 pm, Fillmore wrote:
funny, but it seems to me that you are taking it personally... thank god i
even apologized in advance for what was most probably a stupid question..
I hope you did get a laugh out of it, because it w
On Mon, 11 Apr 2016 12:48 pm, Fillmore wrote:
>
> funny, but it seems to me that you are taking it personally... thank god i
> even apologized in advance for what was most probably a stupid question..
I hope you did get a laugh out of it, because it wasn't meant to be nasty.
But it was meant to
funny, but it seems to me that you are taking it personally... thank god i even
apologized
in advance for what was most probably a stupid question..
On 04/10/2016 09:50 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Fillmore, you should feel very pleased with yourself. All the tens of
thousands of Python program
On Mon, 11 Apr 2016 08:51 am, Fillmore wrote:
> at which point did the language designers decide to betray the
> "path of least surprise" principle and create a 'discontinuity' in the
> language?
It was March 1996, and I was there. I don't remember the date, I'm afraid.
Some of the core Python de
On 4/10/2016 8:17 PM, Fillmore wrote:
apparently my 'discontinuity' is mappable to the fact that there's no such
thing as one-element tuples in Python, and attempts to create one will
result in a string (i.e. an object of a different kind!)...
Please work through the tutorial before posting wr
On Sun, Apr 10, 2016, at 05:17 PM, Fillmore wrote:
> On 04/10/2016 07:30 PM, Stephen Hansen wrote:
>
> > There's nothing inconsistent or surprising going on besides you doing
> > something vaguely weird and not really expressing what you find
> > surprising.
>
> well, I was getting some surprisin
On 04/10/2016 07:30 PM, Stephen Hansen wrote:
There's nothing inconsistent or surprising going on besides you doing
something vaguely weird and not really expressing what you find
surprising.
well, I was getting some surprising results for some of my data, so I can
guarantee that I was surpris
On Sun, Apr 10, 2016, at 03:51 PM, Fillmore wrote:
>
> let's look at this:
>
> $ python3.4
> Python 3.4.0 (default, Apr 11 2014, 13:05:11)
> [GCC 4.8.2] on linux
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>> line1 = '"String1" | bla'
> >>> parts1 = line1.split("
Fillmore writes:
> let's look at this:
Can you set a “Subject” field that pertains to the actual question? As
is, it doesn't help know what you want to discuss.
> the question is: at which point did the language designers decide to
> betray the "path of least surprise" principle and create a
>
On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 8:51 AM, Fillmore wrote:
> the question is: at which point did the language designers decide to betray
> the
> "path of least surprise" principle and create a 'discontinuity' in the
> language?
> Open to the idea that I am getting something fundamentally wrong. I'm new to
>
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