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with something new is to remove the old,
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Carl Banks writes:
> On Jun 27, 4:35 pm, Ben Finney wrote:
> > Carl Banks writes:
> > > Seriously, almost every other kind of library uses a binary API.
> >
> > Except for the huge number that deal with text protocols or languages.
>
> No, not really. Almos
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> On Jun 27, 8:33 pm, Ben Finney wrote:
> > Carl Banks writes:
> > > I'm disappointed, usually when you sit on your reinforced soapbox and
> > > pretense the air of infinite expertise you at least use reasonable
> > > logic.
> >
e already failed.” —Peter Lee, Disney corporation, |
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> On Thu, 01 Jul 2010 13:13:53 +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
>
> > Steven D'Aprano writes:
> >> I suppose in principle those extra three key presses (shift-9
> >> shift-0 vs space) could be the straw that breaks the camel's bac
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urself in the set of “Python 3
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only increase over time* as Python 3.x diverges further from what Python
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Paul Rubin writes:
> Ben Finney writes:
> > The point, one more time with feeling, is that the incompatibilities
> > between 2.x and 3.x will *increase* over time.
>
> The issue is less the "incompatibilities" than the -backwards-
> incompatibilities.
Yes
geremy condra writes:
> On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 9:14 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
> > [backward-]incompatibilities between 2.x and 3.x will *increase*
> > over time.
>
> ...and? I don't get to use features from 2.7, why would I expect to
> use features from 3.3?
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ake the tuple, not the parentheses.
args = (connection_string,)
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> > Sadly, Python's package management is rather lacking by these
> > standards. The Distutils legacy assumption of “package recipient,
> > system administrat
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> > Use a list when the semantic meaning of an item doesn't depend on
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> > conversation less confusing.)
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y)] > 0 for (x, y) in pos[:, 0:2]])]
array([[ 5., 2., 0., 0.],
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I've been asked off-list whether I have any suggestions for those who
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> > For this and other differences introduced in the Python 3.x series, see
> > http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3100/>.
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> > from the dictionary returned by ‘vars()’.
> > ...
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> You are not the only one:
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> > Yes. That's a “should” and not a “must”, even though PEP 8 says it
> > with a simple imperative::
> >
> > Use 4 spaces per indentation level.
>
> That actually sounds pretty weird. "Don&
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> > A mutable string would not (AFAICT) be usefully implementable as a
> > subclass of the built-in string types. So even if such a type
> > existed, it would not be useable with all the fu
es is the same, and is covered by the Developer's FAQ
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