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This is IMO another good reason to migrate ASAP to Python 3; better
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Ethan Furman writes:
> On 02/14/2016 04:08 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
>
> > I am unconcerned with whether there is a real filesystem entry of that
> > name; the goal entails having no filesystem activity for this. I want a
> > valid unique filesystem path, without touching the
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nstance(3, type)
False
>>> isinstance("spam", type)
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>>> isinstance(int, type)
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.path’, I import it explicitly so no
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> On Fri, 26 Feb 2016 10:38 am, Ben Finney wrote:
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> > Gregory Ewing writes:
> >
> >> sohcahto...@gmail.com wrote:
> >> > Now, I've noticed people talking about importing os.path. Is there any
> >> > rea
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Rustom Mody writes:
> On Monday, February 29, 2016 at 10:26:32 PM UTC+5:30, Ben Finney wrote:
> > Ian Kelly writes:
> >
> > > On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 9:21 AM, Larry Martell wrote:
> > > > I found this to be a very sad story. Sure, he had some issues, but
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The style I recommend above is PEP 8 compliant, easy to read, remember,
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(some and compound and condition)]
if some_condition and all(play_conditions):
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Ben Finney writes:
> Denis Akhiyarov writes:
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> > Is it possible to embed CPython in CPython, e.g. using ctypes, cffi,
> > or cython?
>
> I don't know what you mean by “embed” in this context. What would
> qualify as “yes” for you?
Here is CPython embed
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sohcahto...@gmail.com writes:
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> > We can't put the binary operator in multiple places,
>
>
>
> Who are you, the binary operator police? Watch me!
>
> if x == y and \
> x == z and \
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Python bug tracker. Here, it will simply be ignored.
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“plz”, leads to a needlessly
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entations will be faster at some things, slower at other
things, where “things” can be a very lumpy and convoluted landscape of
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aviour.
Until then, with all the experience in the world, to claim you know the
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>>> infile_text = infile.read()
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Steven D'Aprano writes:
> On Monday 21 March 2016 13:11, Ben Finney wrote:
> > Please, stop making assertions about Python code until you have
> > learned Python.
>
> I don't see how "I don't have a clue about exceptions" is an assertion
> about P
Steven D'Aprano writes:
> On Mon, 21 Mar 2016 06:47 pm, Ben Finney wrote:
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> > Bart can show good faith by *learning* idiomatic Python, with the
> > humility of a beginner. And also by refraining from rhetoric about
> > how bad Python's performance is,
/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environment_variable#Unix_2> for
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he “flag” really
represents an entity which will soon have more than two states, and
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Ben Finney writes:
> This is short and clear and needs no leaking of the underlying bool
> implementation::
>
> len(True for line in lines if line.strip())
Correction::
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Joshua Landau writes:
> On 27 October 2014 02:28, Ben Finney wrote:
> > Guido is incorrect. I've already stated what's wrong.
>
> You were arguing about what Guido thinks.
I don't know where I did that; to my knowledge, this is the first time
I've mentioned
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Ben Finney writes:
> Dan Stromberg writes:
> > Are the following two expressions the same?
[…]
>
> It depends what you mean by “the same”.
My apologies, I mis-read the question. My answers were for a different
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Will Acheson writes:
> I have had a lot of trouble with executing relative imports with some
> of my projects in python.
>
> Are there any best practices or methods besides '../../' type
> hard-coding?
The important point to learn with Python's import system, as contrasted
with various other la
of any description to help you have some |
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I think ‘zip’ has this as a primary intended purpose, so it seems fine
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> wrote:
> > An ‘assert’ statement in the code will sometimes be active, and
> > sometimes be a no-op, for *exactly* the same code under different
> > circumstances. That's a trap for the reader,
ntation goes into. I recommend it.
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