Op 16/10/2022 om 13:03 schreef Chris Angelico:
On Sun, 16 Oct 2022 at 21:19, Antoon Pardon wrote:
My idea would be to reserve different unicode blocks for the keywords
and the identifiers. e.g. We could reserve the mathematical alphanumeric
block for keywords and all other letters and
Op 16/10/2022 om 17:05 schreef Chris Angelico:
On Sun, 16 Oct 2022 at 22:47, Antoon Pardon wrote:
Why would I need good luck? I expressed an idea and you didn't like it.
That won't affect my life in a meaningful way.
Well, with that attitude, it's not going to affect any
Op 16/10/2022 om 19:03 schreef Chris Angelico:
On Mon, 17 Oct 2022 at 03:57, Antoon Pardon wrote:
Op 16/10/2022 om 17:05 schreef Chris Angelico:
On Sun, 16 Oct 2022 at 22:47, Antoon Pardon wrote:
Why would I need good luck? I expressed an idea and you didn't like it.
That won
to and from a
long list of reserved key words that may vary by locale?
I think you are carrying my idea further than I intended. I was just
thinking that instead of using U+0064 U+0065 U+0066 [beinf def] we could
be using U+1D41D U+1D41E U+1D41F [being 𝐝𝐞𝐟].
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Op 16/10/2022 om 19:01 schreef Peter J. Holzer:
On 2022-10-16 12:17:39 +0200, Antoon Pardon wrote:
Op 16/10/2022 om 00:50 schreefavi.e.gr...@gmail.com:
That might not easily solve this problem. But I wonder if reserving
some kind of prefix might help, so anything like extension.0nNoBreak
gerent reaction.
You made it clear you wanted a fight. I choose not to enter that
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You can use the following decorator for what you probably want.
def copy_defaults(func):
"""
This decorator makes that defaults values are copied on a call.
"""
signature = inspect.signature(func)
parameter_items = list(signature.parameters.items())
@wraps(func)
def
t could possibly go wrong?
Nothing that can't go wrong otherwise. It is my experience that
when a [Return] is needed, people just type in a two key combination.
They don't type one key, then check, then type [Return].
So in practice the same things go wrong, either way.
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logging module to call the
function from my module to get the current_thread, instead of it calling
"current_thread" from the threading module.
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Op 27/12/2022 om 11:37 schreef Chris Angelico:
On Tue, 27 Dec 2022 at 21:29, Antoon Pardon wrote:
OK, I am writing an alternative for the threading module. What I would
like to know is how I can get some library modules call my alternative
instead of the threading module.
For instance there
Op 27/12/2022 om 12:28 schreef Chris Angelico:
On Tue, 27 Dec 2022 at 22:13, Antoon Pardon wrote:
Op 27/12/2022 om 11:37 schreef Chris Angelico:
On Tue, 27 Dec 2022 at 21:29, Antoon Pardon wrote:
OK, I am writing an alternative for the threading module. What I would
like to know is how
Op 27/12/2022 om 13:09 schreef Chris Angelico:
On Tue, 27 Dec 2022 at 23:06, Antoon Pardon wrote:
How do you intend to distinguish one from the other? How should the
logging module know which threading module to use?
That is my question! How can I get the logging module to use my module.I
Op 27/12/2022 om 13:46 schreef Chris Angelico:
On Tue, 27 Dec 2022 at 23:28, Antoon Pardon wrote:
At the moment I am happy with a solution that once the programmer has
imported from QYZlib.threaders that module will used as the threading
module.
Oh! If that's all you need, then y
Op 27/12/2022 om 16:49 schreef Thomas Passin:
On 12/27/2022 8:25 AM, Antoon Pardon wrote:
Op 27/12/2022 om 13:46 schreef Chris Angelico:
On Tue, 27 Dec 2022 at 23:28, Antoon Pardon
wrote:
At the moment I am happy with a solution that once the programmer has
imported from QYZlib.threaders
Op 23/01/2023 om 17:24 schreef Johannes Bauer:
Hi there,
is there an easy way to evaluate a string stored in a variable as if
it were an f-string at runtime?
I.e., what I want is to be able to do this:
x = { "y": "z" }
print(f"-> {x['y']}")
This prints "-> z", as expected. But consider:
x
Op 27/01/21 om 05:17 schreef Dan Stromberg:
On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 8:13 PM Dan Stromberg wrote:
On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 4:01 PM C W wrote:
Hello everyone,
I'm a long time Matlab and R user working on data science. How do you
troubleshooting/debugging in Python?
I frequently read trac
Op 2/02/21 om 01:54 schreef Skip Montanaro:
Here's the crux of the problem. Where does responsibility generally
fall for low level exception handling? I don't mean to pick on
IMAPClient. It's just a recent example and got me thinking about the
problem. Is it (generally) the responsibility of the
Most of us know of the perils of mutable default values. So I came up with the
following proof of concept:
from inspect import signature as signature_of, Parameter
from itertools import zip_longest
from copy import copy
def copy_defaults(f):
signature = signature_of(f)
def wrapper(*ar
I need to do some development on this legacy system. It only runs
python2.6 and there is little hope of installing an other version. How
can I best proceed to install modules for working with mysql and ldap?
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Op 24/02/21 om 17:12 schreef Ethan Furman:
I'm looking for a name for a group of options that, when one is
specified, all of them must be specified.
It seems you are looking at an equivalence.
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languages.
Can that be done with f-strings?
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Have I missed something and has the maillinglist been moved. Activity is
very low here, about one message every five days.
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I have a file with python code but the name doesn't end with the '.py'
suffix.
What is the easiest way to import this code as a module without changing
its name?
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ight the second code over
the first.
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By putting limits on the walrus code, you are not reducing complexity, you are
increasing it.
You are increasing complexity because you can't just reuse the code that
handles an ordinary
assignment. You now need specific code to limit it's use.
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Op 25/10/2021 om 20:39 schreef Chris Angelico:
> On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 5:35 AM Antoon Pardon wrote:
>> By putting limits on the walrus code, you are not reducing complexity, you
>> are increasing it.
>> You are increasing complexity because you can't just reuse th
Op 25/10/2021 om 23:03 schreef Chris Angelico:
> On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 7:18 AM Antoon Pardon wrote:
>> Op 25/10/2021 om 20:39 schreef Chris Angelico:
>>> On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 5:35 AM Antoon Pardon wrote:
>>>> By putting limits on the walrus code, you ar
Op 25/10/2021 om 18:47 schreef Christman, Roger Graydon:
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Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2021 11:20:52 +0200
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se an assignment.
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that one use case or is that a use case for each kind of couple?
And even if the benefits are little per case, they can add up with every
occasion such a case pops up.
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Op 27/10/2021 om 10:05 schreef Chris Angelico:
On Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 6:00 PM Antoon Pardon wrote:
Op 26/10/2021 om 00:24 schreef Chris Angelico:
TBH, I don't think there's a lot of value in multiple-assignment,
since it has a number of annoying conflicts of syntax and few
Op 27/10/2021 om 10:05 schreef Chris Angelico:
On Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 6:00 PM Antoon Pardon wrote:
Op 26/10/2021 om 00:24 schreef Chris Angelico:
TBH, I don't think there's a lot of value in multiple-assignment,
since it has a number of annoying conflicts of syntax and few
walrus operator we should
combine those two work variables into some kind of instance no matter
how contrived.
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Op 27/10/2021 om 10:49 schreef Chris Angelico:
On Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 7:46 PM Antoon Pardon wrote:
So if you want this added, show a use-case that makes it look way
better than the alternatives (including a generator, a mid-loop break,
etc).
Way better according to which criteria? IMO to
s probably a whole let useful.
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Op 27/10/2021 om 18:16 schreef Christman, Roger Graydon:
On 27/10/2021 at 12:45 Antoon Pardon wrote:
However with the introduction of the walrus operator there is a
way to simulate a significant number of one and a half loops.
Consider the following:
>do
> a =
Op 27/10/2021 om 20:20 schreef Avi Gross:
I think anyone who suggests we should separate costs from benefits belongs
securely within the academic world and should remain there.
Practical things need to be built considering costs. Theoretical things,
sure, cost is not an issue.
Seperating co
he loop that is initialized to True and then later
assign that boolean the result of the test which you use to control this
loop.
Should I think it worth the trouble to rewrite your example, quod non,
it would be like below, with that unneeded list.
while [
play_game(),
input("P
ying costs are
not as issue. I then explain you
misunderdood en now you come with the above.
Maybe you should be more aware of the history of a thread before coming with
this kind of statements.
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= 0
Did I get that right?
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ou may consider writing a reverse_view function, that takes a list
as argument and produces something that behaves as the reversed list
without actually reversing the list and then as in the first option
use the [y:] slice on that.
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nd the original iterator
with an extra termination condition. So in order to start the next
group-iterator the previous
group-iterator is exhausted, because the original iterator has to be
ready to produce values
for the next group-iterator.
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() - a.keys()
{3}
Why not frozenset({3})?
My 2 cents worths: Because dictviews mutate with the directory. That makes
them more like set than like frozenset. So operations on them produce a set.
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You could try miniconda.
Op 17/01/2022 om 20:53 schreef Sina Mobasheri:
Consider scenario that I want run python 3.10 in CentOS 8, I think last python
version in CentOS repository is 3.6, if I use epel I can get 3.8 so ..., I
think (correct me if I'm wrong 🙏🏻) the only way that I can run pytho
Op 22/02/2022 om 09:40 schreef Chris Angelico:
On Tue, 22 Feb 2022 at 19:33, Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer
wrote:
As discussed here but, it would have been nevertheless great to have this
tiny function instead of
nothing
Here's a function that determines whether or not you have an internet
conn
work? The result seems to be an empty list,
which IMO is a perfectly valid result.
All possible permutations over two collections where one collection is
empty, should IMO give you an empty collection.
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Op 2/03/2022 om 14:44 schreef Larry Martell:
On Wed, Mar 2, 2022 at 8:37 AM Antoon Pardon wrote:
Op 2/03/2022 om 14:27 schreef Larry Martell:
On Tue, Mar 1, 2022 at 7:21 PM<2qdxy4rzwzuui...@potatochowder.com> wrote:
On 2022-03-01 at 19:12:10 -0500,
Larry Martell wrote:
If I
Op 2/03/2022 om 15:29 schreef Larry Martell:
On Wed, Mar 2, 2022 at 9:10 AM Antoon Pardon wrote:
Op 2/03/2022 om 14:44 schreef Larry Martell:
On Wed, Mar 2, 2022 at 8:37 AM Antoon Pardon wrote:
Op 2/03/2022 om 14:27 schreef Larry Martell:
On Tue, Mar 1, 2022 at 7:21 PM<2qdxy4rzwz
Op 2/03/2022 om 15:58 schreef Larry Martell:
On Wed, Mar 2, 2022 at 9:37 AM Antoon Pardon wrote:
If one list is empty I want just the other list. What I am doing is
building a list to pass to a mongodb query. If region is empty then I
want to query for just the items in the os list. I
Op 4/03/2022 om 02:08 schreef Avi Gross via Python-list:
If Python was being designed TODAY, I wonder if a larger set of key words would
be marked as RESERVED for future expansion including ORELSE and even
NEVERTHELESS.
I think a better solution would be to have reserved words written lette
ated
functions.
Maybe if you contact them they can be interested in making a similar decorating
macro
for use with such recursive decorators.
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So what would be a relatively easy way to get the same result without wasting
too much memory on entries that haven't any weeding done on them.
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Op 7/04/2022 om 16:08 schreef Joel Goldstick:
On Thu, Apr 7, 2022 at 7:19 AM Antoon Pardon wrote:
I am working with a list of data from which I have to weed out duplicates.
At the moment I keep for each entry a container with the other entries
that are still possible duplicates.
The problem
Op 8/04/2022 om 08:24 schreef Peter J. Holzer:
On 2022-04-07 17:16:41 +0200, Antoon Pardon wrote:
Op 7/04/2022 om 16:08 schreef Joel Goldstick:
On Thu, Apr 7, 2022 at 7:19 AM Antoon Pardon wrote:
I am working with a list of data from which I have to weed out duplicates.
At the moment I
Op 8/04/2022 om 16:28 schreef duncan smith:
On 08/04/2022 08:21, Antoon Pardon wrote:
Yes I know all that. That is why I keep a bucket of possible duplicates
per "identifying" field that is examined and use some heuristics at the
end of all the comparing instead of starting to we
Op 9/04/2022 om 02:01 schreef duncan smith:
On 08/04/2022 22:08, Antoon Pardon wrote:
Well my first thought is that a bitset makes it less obvious to calulate
the size of the set or to iterate over its elements. But it is an idea
worth exploring.
def popcount(n):
"""
Op 11/04/2022 om 02:01 schreef duncan smith:
On 10/04/2022 21:20, Antoon Pardon wrote:
Op 9/04/2022 om 02:01 schreef duncan smith:
On 08/04/2022 22:08, Antoon Pardon wrote:
Well my first thought is that a bitset makes it less obvious to
calulate
the size of the set or to iterate over
Op 11/04/2022 om 02:31 schreef Dan Stromberg:
It sounds a little like you're looking for interval arithmetic.
Maybe https://pypi.org/project/python-intervals/1.5.3/ ?
Not completely but it suggested an idea to explore.
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I need an interator that takes an already existing iterator and
divides it into subiterators of items belonging together.
For instance take the following class, wich would check whether
the argument is greater or equal to the previous argument.
class upchecker:
def __init__(self):
sel
Op 12-09-16 om 23:29 schreef Chris Angelico:
> On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 7:19 AM, BartC wrote:
>> By the same argument, then strings and ints are also mutable.
>>
>> Here, the original tuple that a refers to has been /replaced/ by a new one.
>> The original is unchanged. (Unless, by some optimisatio
Op 13-09-16 om 11:27 schreef Chris Angelico:
> On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 5:25 PM, Antoon Pardon
> wrote:
>> Op 12-09-16 om 23:29 schreef Chris Angelico:
>>> On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 7:19 AM, BartC wrote:
>>>> By the same argument, then strings and ints are also muta
Op 27-09-16 om 10:09 schreef cpx...@gmail.com:
li=[lambda :x for x in range(10)]
res=li[0]()
print res
> 9
>
> why?
Because there is no nested scope for the x variable.So your list looks
like this: [lambda :x, lambda :x, lambda :x, lambda :x, lambda :x,
lambda :x, lambda :x, lambda
Op 02-10-16 om 07:59 schreef Rustom Mody:
>
> You are explaining the mechanism behind the bug. Thanks. The bug remains.
> My new car goes in reverse when I put it in first gear but only on full-moon
> nights with the tank on reserve when the left light is blinking
> The engineer explains the inter
Op 26-10-16 om 12:22 schreef pozz:
> Il 26/10/2016 09:13, pozz ha scritto:
> > [...]
>> When the user press Start button (the pressed handler is in the GUI
>> class):
>>
>> self.comm_active = True
>> threading.Thread(target=self.comm_thread).start()
>>
>> The backend thread is:
>>
>> def comm
Some time ago I read a text or saw a video on iterators and one thing
I remember from it, is that you should do something like the following
when working with iterators, to avoid some pitt falls.
def bar(iterator):
if iter(iterator) is iterator:
...
However I can't relocate it and ca
(arg)
>
> What a drag.
What about how the random module solves this?
The random module provides a factory class: Random.
It also provides functions which are methods of a
hidden instantiation.
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Op 07-12-16 om 19:02 schreef BartC:
> On 07/12/2016 16:53, Michael Torrie wrote:
>> On 12/07/2016 08:48 AM, BartC wrote:
>>> I would prefer that the program "t" can be invoked exactly the same way
>>> under both systems. I don't want different instructions for Linux, or
>>> for the user (of my lang
up?
Here you are no longer just talking about nested functions, you are talking
about closures. A stack is no longer sufficient for implementing closures.
The environment for the nested variables of the closure is often alloceted
on the heap.
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So we are just eliminating the replacement of an empty field with an
empty field. There is no harm in that and trying to eliminate it just
makes your test unnecessarily complex.
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Is there something going on with the mailinglist? Because I have receive
a lot of double messages. One copy is fairly normal and is part of the
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of double messages. One copy is fairly normal and is part of the discussion
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Op 09-01-17 om 07:58 schreef Deborah Swanson:
> Peter Otten wrote, on January 08, 2017 5:21 AM
>> Deborah Swanson wrote:
>>
>>> Peter Otten wrote, on January 08, 2017 3:01 AM
>>
>> Personally I would recommend against mixing data (an actual location)
> and
>> metadata (the column name,"Location"
ut the different ones for
> deletion, and then resume processing the records after the last one?
If I understand correctly you want something like:
records.sort(key = lamda rec: rec.xx)
AKA
from operator import attrgetter
records.sort(key = attrgetter('xx'))
or maybe:
records.sort(key = lambda rec: (rec.xx,) + tuple(rec))
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Op 09-01-17 om 04:53 schreef Steven D'Aprano:
> Suppose you have an expensive calculation that gets used two or more times in
> a
> loop. The obvious way to avoid calculating it twice in an ordinary loop is
> with
> a temporary variable:
>
> result = []
> for x in data:
> tmp = expensive_ca
at
sense is wrong. All the participants can do is take a clue from the
question and then guess what respons would help this person best.
Nobody can expect that this list will treat their questions in a way
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will monkey-patch it. Something like:
class MyLock:
def __init__(self):
self.lock = Lock()
def __getattr__(self, attr):
return getattr(self.lock, attr)
So I wonder what reasons do you have prefering that your users monkey-patch your
class instead of subclassing it?
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> When you create a Python file object from a file descriptor using
> os.fdopen(), does it dup the descriptor? No. Would a reasonable
> person expect socket.fromfd() to duplicate the descriptor? No.
>
> Should it?
>
> No.
The standard response to issues like this is:
A f
This is on a debian 9 box python 2.7.13
My interpretation is that a timeout exception is thrown and that the
args attribute of such an exception is an empty tuple which then causes
an IndexError in line 482 of module /usr/lib/python2.7/socket.py. Does
that soundplausible?
Here is the traceback:
On 10-03-18 02:13, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> I am trying to enumerate all the three-tuples (x, y, z) where each of x,
> y, z can range from 1 to ∞ (infinity).
>
> This is clearly unhelpful:
>
> for x in itertools.count(1):
> for y in itertools.count(1):
> for z in itertools.count(1):
>
On 23-03-18 14:01, ast wrote:
> Le 23/03/2018 à 13:43, Rustom Mody a écrit :
>> On Friday, March 23, 2018 at 5:46:56 PM UTC+5:30, ast wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I found this way to put a large number in
>>> a variable.
>>
>> What stops you from entering the number on one single (v long) line?
>
>
> It i
On 23-03-18 14:35, ast wrote:
> Le 23/03/2018 à 14:16, Antoon Pardon a écrit :
>> On 23-03-18 14:01, ast wrote:
>>> Le 23/03/2018 à 13:43, Rustom Mody a écrit :
>>>> On Friday, March 23, 2018 at 5:46:56 PM UTC+5:30, ast wrote:
>
>
>> What meaningful infor
On 25-03-18 00:54, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>
> There's nothing wrong with super() in Python 2. You just have to
> understand what you're doing. It's still the right solution for doing
> inheritance the right way.
>
> ...
>
> The trick is to use new-style classes that inherit from object, and avo
On 25-03-18 06:29, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Python 3 is now six point releases in (and very soon to have a seventh,
> 3.7 being in beta as we speak). It is stable, feature-rich, and a joy to
> work in. As well as a heap of great new features, there have been a
> metric tonne of performance improv
On 26-03-18 10:52, Ben Finney wrote:
> Antoon Pardon writes:
>
>> But did they start up cleaning the standard library yet? I'll confess
>> I'm only using 3.5 but when I go through the standard library I see a
>> lot of classes still using the old style of calling
On 27-03-18 08:21, Gregory Ewing wrote:
> The idea that super() is *always* the right way to call
> inherited methods in a multiple inheritance environment
> seems to have been raised by some people to the level
> of religous dogma.
>
> I don't buy it. In order for it to work, the following
> two c
On 30-03-18 08:16, Iranna Mathapati wrote:
> Hi Team,
>
>
> how to achieve fallowing expected output?
>
> str_output= """
>
> MOD1 memory : 2 valid1790 free
> MOD2 memory : 128 valid 128 free
> UDP Aware *MEMR*
On 04-05-18 15:01, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> A re-occurring feature request is to add a default to itemgetter and
> attrgetter. For example, we might say:
>
> from operator import itemgetter
> f = itemgetter(1, 6, default="spam") # proposed feature
> f("Hello World!") # returns ('e', 'W')
> f("He
On 05-05-18 09:33, Peter Otten wrote:
> I think you have established that there is no straight-forward way to write
> this as a lambda. But is adding a default to itemgetter the right
> conclusion?
>
> If there were an exception-catching decorator you could write
>
> f = catch(IndexError, "spam")
On 07-05-18 17:45, Peter Otten wrote:
> Antoon Pardon wrote:
>
>> On 05-05-18 09:33, Peter Otten wrote:
>>> I think you have established that there is no straight-forward way to
>>> write this as a lambda. But is adding a default to itemgetter the right
>>&g
MO it would be nicer if it could be written as:
while a := prepare_a(); b := prepare_b(); condition(a, b):
Do other stuff
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On 07-06-18 05:55, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Python strings are rich objects which support the Unicode code point \0
> in them. The limitation of the Linux kernel that it relies on NULL-
> terminated byte strings is irrelevant to the question of what
> os.path.exists ought to do when given a path
On 07-06-18 11:29, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> Antoon Pardon :
>
>> On 07-06-18 05:55, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>>> As a Python programmer, how does treating NUL specially make our life
>>> better?
>> By treating possible path values differently from impossible
On 07-06-18 14:47, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Thu, 07 Jun 2018 10:04:53 +0200, Antoon Pardon wrote:
>
>> On 07-06-18 05:55, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>>> Python strings are rich objects which support the Unicode code point \0
>>> in them. The limitation of
cessible to the user.
Maybe some FS that is hooked up to my linux box does allow embedded NUL
bytes. I won't be able to notice that because even if there are such
files, they will need some remapping in order to make them accessible.
To the user the actuale filenames are the remappe
On 08-06-18 04:19, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Thu, 07 Jun 2018 17:45:06 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:
>
>> So... an ASCIIZ string *can* contain that character, or
>> at least a representation of it. Yet it cannot contain "\0".
> You keep saying that as if it made one whit of difference to what
> o
that mean the
behaviour
should be fixed or that the behaviour should be better documented?
Either could be an answer and in trying to find the answer I don't think
the actual
FS is relevant because the doesn't access the FS directly but through
the OS api.
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On 08-06-18 13:35, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Fri, 08 Jun 2018 09:27:17 +0200, Antoon Pardon wrote:
>
>> On 08-06-18 04:19, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>>> On Thu, 07 Jun 2018 17:45:06 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:
>>>
>>>> So... an ASCII
still return False.
> There is no requirement that different functions do the same thing with
> the same bad input. The *whole point* of o.p.exists is to return False,
> not raise an exception.
And the price is that it will not always give the correct answer.
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On 11-06-18 10:35, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> Antoon Pardon :
>> On 11-06-18 02:28, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>>> The *whole point* of o.p.exists is to return False, not raise an
>>> exception.
>> And the price is that it will not always give the correct answer.
&g
On 11-06-18 13:59, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Jun 2018 09:55:06 +0200, Antoon Pardon wrote:
>
>> On 11-06-18 02:28, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> [...]
>>> open(foo) raises an exception if foo doesn't exist;
>>>
>>> os.path.exist
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