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> Which one would you say is more readable?
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> On Mon, 22 Oct 2012 13:51:35 +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
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> > Walter Hurry writes:
> >> It is Google bloody Groups which is the problem. I should have
> >> plonked posts from there ages ago, and am about to remedy that
> >> omission.
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it's quite off-topic, I'll respond briefly and ask for a change of forum
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> > please do that!
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> Isn't it perfectly accurate to say that the RCs are now available?
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Benjamin Peterson writes:
> Ben Finney benfinney.id.au> writes:
> >
> > Putting “RELEASED” in the subject, when they're not released and are
> > instead *candidates for* release, is confusing and muddies the issue of
> > what you even mean by “release”.
>
Steven D'Aprano writes:
> On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 19:47:49 +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
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> >> An integer variable is a variable holding an integer. A string variable
> >> is a variable holding a string. A list variable is a variable holding a
> >> list.
>
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> Some time ago Ben Finney offered to take over lockfile.
That offer is still open. (Though I would appreciate ongoing development
help from people who use non-Linux operating systems, since file locking
works differently there and I don't have the resources to
her the object inherits from ‘unicode’, test
whether it behaves how you expect – preferably by just using it as
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> > I think that's a Python bug. If the latter succeeds as a no-op, the
> > former should also succeed as a no-op. Neither should ever get any
> > errors when ‘s’ is a ‘unicode’ object
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> On 03/03/2012 21:43, Ben Finney wrote:
> > I don't see a need to horse around with Git either :-) It's currently in
> > Subversion, right? Can you not export the VCS history from Google Code's
> > Subversion repository […]
> Wha
Steven D'Aprano writes:
> On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 08:35:12 +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
> > That feels too magical to me. I don't see a need to special-case
> > that usage. There's not much burden in being explicit for the
> > argument type.
>
> And yet you
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> On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 11:31 PM, Ben Finney
> wrote:
> > Another good reason to advocate for proper typography. "John 14:5-7"
> > indicates a range (because it uses U+2013 EN DASH), whereas "7-5"
> > indicates subtraction (
Chris Angelico writes:
> On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 12:16 AM, Ben Finney
> wrote:
> > Hopefully, the fact that your quoting of my text munged the
> > characters down to ASCII is also pure coincidence, and is soon to be
> > corrected at your end? Or has your client program
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Arnaud Delobelle writes:
> On 15 March 2012 22:35, Ben Finney wrote:
> > I agree, and am glad PEP 8 has been updated to recommend an extra
> > level of indentation for continuation, to distinguish from the new
> > block that follows
> > http://www.python.org/dev
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> wrote:
> > You have control over how large your window size is, and if you have
> > purposes so different that they demand different widths, then you
> > can easily make different-width windows
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Roy Smith writes:
> In article <87haxahh51@benfinney.id.au>,
> Ben Finney wrote:
> > As someone who uses OpenID, what can I read about why OAuth is better?
>
> OpenID is for people who worry about things like how OpenID is different
> from OAuth. Oauth is for p
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> In article <878vimhfdp@benfinney.id.au>,
> Ben Finney wrote:
> > So, if I want to be free to choose an identity provider I trust, and
> > it's not Facebook or Google or Twitter or other privacy-hostile
> > services, how does OAuth hel
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the intent.
AFAICT the above code is a proposal. I don't know who (other than the
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Programming.
Yes. Maybe you need to let go of this need to control the order in which
the reader views your code; we're going to be looking at small, focussed
parts anyway, not reading the whole thing in one go. So work with that
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This will work fine, AFAICT.
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Ben Finney writes:
> Miki Tebeka writes:
> > The way I'm doing it currently is:
> > ...
> > no_edit = 'no-edit'
> > parser.add_argument('-e', '--edit', help='open editor on log',
> > nargs='?',
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> Thanks for the suggestion. I've imported it from Subversion into Bazaar
> (my preferred DVCS), and it went smoothly.
Development of ‘python-lockfile’ now proceeds on Alioth
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Ben Finney writes:
> It's best to implement Memoize as a Python decorator in one place
> http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonDecoratorLibrary#Memoize>.
Michele Simionato discusses a better implementation of a Memoize
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into a single
expression.
> Just curious if anyone could explain how this works or maybe share a link
> to a website that might explain this?
Does the above help?
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> > > (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/312443/how-do-you-split-a-list-int...)
> >
> > This is an excellent example of why “clever” code is to be shunned.
> > Whoever wrote this ne
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