Steven D'Aprano :
> Some people prefer to say "Python has no variables, it has name
> bindings". I think that it's better to say that Python's variables are
> not *like* C or Pascal variables, rather than invent a distinction
> between name bindings and variables. Name bindings are a type of
> var
On Thu, 26 Mar 2015 08:48 pm, Mario Figueiredo wrote:
> Sorry for the late reply. We experienced a 3 day blackout following
> one of the most amazing thunderstorms I've witnessed in my life.
Wow. Where abouts are you? Apart from the blackout, did you get through it
alright?
More below...
> On T
On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 8:53 PM, Mario Figueiredo wrote:
> However, lambda functions do read well in my mind and I find it hard
> to spot where they obscure the code more than a function. So the
> explicit vs. implicit part of the argument doesn't translate well with
> me. I however agree that a f
On Tue, 24 Mar 2015 15:33:41 -0400, Terry Reedy
wrote:
>
>You have discovered one of advantages of a def statement over a
>name=lambda assignment statement. In Python, there is no good reason to
>use the latter form and PEP 8 specifically discourages it: "Always use a
>def statement instead o
Sorry for the late reply. We experienced a 3 day blackout following
one of the most amazing thunderstorms I've witnessed in my life.
On Tue, 24 Mar 2015 22:49:49 +1100, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
>On Tue, 24 Mar 2015 07:55 pm, Mario Figueiredo wrote:
>
>> Reading PEP 257 and 258 I got the impression
On 3/24/2015 4:55 AM, Mario Figueiredo wrote:
Reading PEP 257 and 258 I got the impression that I could document
module attributes and these would be available in the __doc__
attribute of the object.
So things like the one below are something I got used to do, but that
don't work after all, as I
On Tue, 24 Mar 2015 07:55 pm, Mario Figueiredo wrote:
> Reading PEP 257 and 258 I got the impression that I could document
> module attributes and these would be available in the __doc__
> attribute of the object.
PEP 258 is rejected, so you can't take that as definitive.
PEP 257 has this defini
On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 7:55 PM, Mario Figueiredo wrote:
> So things like the one below are something I got used to do, but that
> don't work after all, as I learned today:
>
> value_factory = lambda _, row: row[0]
> """Row factory. To be used with single-column queries."""
>
> There are o
Reading PEP 257 and 258 I got the impression that I could document
module attributes and these would be available in the __doc__
attribute of the object.
So things like the one below are something I got used to do, but that
don't work after all, as I learned today:
value_factory = lambda _, r
