Re: enhancing 'list'

2010-01-19 Thread Steve Holden
samwyse wrote: > On Jan 18, 1:56 am, Terry Reedy wrote: >> On 1/17/2010 5:37 PM, samwyse wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >>> Consider this a wish list. I know I'm unlikely to get any of these in >>> time for for my birthday, but still I felt the need to toss it out and >>> see what happens. >>> Lately, I'v

Re: enhancing 'list'

2010-01-18 Thread Stefan Behnel
samwyse, 18.01.2010 13:49: > Curiously, no matter how I > order my PATH, the wrong version seems to appear first more than half > the time! I'm seriously considering renaming all my Python 3 code to > use a .py3 file extension. You should be able to start the interpreter as "python3.1" to be sure

Re: enhancing 'list'

2010-01-18 Thread samwyse
On Jan 18, 6:20 am, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote: > Note that the cmp() builtin and the cmp parameter for list.sort() are gone > in Python 3. I've got Python 3 installed, and am using it for most new development. In this case case, however, I'm writing for the Google App Engine, which is

Re: enhancing 'list'

2010-01-18 Thread Peter Otten
samwyse wrote: > On Jan 18, 3:06 am, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote: >> samwyse wrote: >> > Lately, I've slinging around a lot of lists, and there are some simple >> > things I'd like to do that just aren't there. >> >> > s.count(x[, cmp[, key]]) >> > - return number of i‘s for which s[i] ==

Re: enhancing 'list'

2010-01-18 Thread samwyse
On Jan 17, 11:30 pm, Asun Friere wrote: > On Jan 18, 9:37 am, samwyse wrote: > > > Consider this a wish list.  I know I'm unlikely to get any of these in > > time for for my birthday, but still I felt the need to toss it out and > > see what happens. > > > Lately, I've slinging around a lot of li

Re: enhancing 'list'

2010-01-18 Thread samwyse
On Jan 18, 3:06 am, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote: > samwyse wrote: > > Lately, I've slinging around a lot of lists, and there are some simple > > things I'd like to do that just aren't there. > > > s.count(x[, cmp[, key]]) > > - return number of i‘s for which s[i] == x.  'cmp' specifies a c

Re: enhancing 'list'

2010-01-18 Thread samwyse
On Jan 18, 1:56 am, Terry Reedy wrote: > On 1/17/2010 5:37 PM, samwyse wrote: > > > > > > > Consider this a wish list.  I know I'm unlikely to get any of these in > > time for for my birthday, but still I felt the need to toss it out and > > see what happens. > > > Lately, I've slinging around a l

Re: enhancing 'list'

2010-01-18 Thread Peter Otten
samwyse wrote: > Lately, I've slinging around a lot of lists, and there are some simple > things I'd like to do that just aren't there. > > s.count(x[, cmp[, key]]) > - return number of i‘s for which s[i] == x. 'cmp' specifies a custom > comparison function of two arguments, as in '.sort'. 'key

Re: enhancing 'list'

2010-01-17 Thread Terry Reedy
On 1/17/2010 5:37 PM, samwyse wrote: Consider this a wish list. I know I'm unlikely to get any of these in time for for my birthday, but still I felt the need to toss it out and see what happens. Lately, I've slinging around a lot of lists, and there are some simple things I'd like to do that j

Re: enhancing 'list'

2010-01-17 Thread Asun Friere
On Jan 18, 9:37 am, samwyse wrote: > Consider this a wish list.  I know I'm unlikely to get any of these in > time for for my birthday, but still I felt the need to toss it out and > see what happens. > > Lately, I've slinging around a lot of lists, and there are some simple > things I'd like to d

enhancing 'list'

2010-01-17 Thread samwyse
Consider this a wish list. I know I'm unlikely to get any of these in time for for my birthday, but still I felt the need to toss it out and see what happens. Lately, I've slinging around a lot of lists, and there are some simple things I'd like to do that just aren't there. s.count(x[, cmp[, ke