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> Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >So, under PEP 328 rules, the original poster's current-directory
> >module could only be imported (a) if the current directory was in
> >sys.path, or (b) if the code specified a relati
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alex wrote On 17/02/05 02:08:
how can I check if a variable is a structure (i.e. a list)? For my
special problem the variable is either a character string OR a list
of character strings line ['word1', 'word2',...]
You're trying to apply the LBYL principle. My bet is that your "special
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> To turn a byte string into a file-like object for use with PIL, extract
> the byte string as ‘image_data’, use the standard library ‘io.StringIO’
> class http://docs.python.org/3/library/io.html#io.StringIO>, then
> create a new ‘PIL.Image’ object by reading f
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I'd try very hard to find an equivalent URL that isn't so long :-) but
URLs in comments are a good example of a PEP 8 exception: if the line is
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fine, as I'm not expecting the human reader to be scanning it carefully
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Not least because you're very likely going to use the value of
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> > [A triple-quoted string is] not syntactically a comment, and I don't
> > think pretending triple-quoted strings are comments is good
> > practice. If nothing else, you'l
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> On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 10:40 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
> > What information would you want access to? Why would a library
> > (rather than, say, a short set of strings) be needed?
> >
> Movie ratings. EG G, PG, PG-13, etc.
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> Larry Martell writes:
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> > On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 8:42 PM, Roy Smith wrote:
> > > rusi wrote:
> > >
> > >> Many assumptions need to be verified/truthified/dovetailed
> > >> starting from switching on the machine
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> wrote:
> > Should we expect (ignoring pathological cases) the assertion
> > ‘type(obj) is obj.__class__’ to hold true? If not, under what
> > circumstances would it be sensible for those to diff
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Michael Torrie writes:
> On 01/05/2014 04:30 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
> > In short: Everything that was good about OpenOffice is now called
> > LibreOffice, which had to change its name only because the owners of
> > that name refused to let it go.
>
> Your information i
grammers need to learn this messy
arbitrary crap, at least to the point of knowing unambiguously what we
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Chris Angelico writes:
> On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 2:34 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
> > With time zones, as with text encodings, there is a single
> > technically elegant solution (for text: Unicode; for time zones:
> > twelve simple, static zones that never change)
>
> Twe
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Kushal Kumaran writes:
> Ben Finney writes:
>
> > Kushal Kumaran writes:
> >
> >> Roy Smith writes:
> >> > How, in Python, do you get an aware UTC datetime object?
> >>
> >> classmethod datetime.utcnow()
> >>
> >>
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> > Who says it's frowned on to do work in the initialiser? Where are they
> > saying it? That seems over-broad, I'd like to read the context of that
> > advice.
>
> There are some people who advocate that C++ co
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removal of ‘except ExcClass, exc_instance’ (use ‘except ExcClass as
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> > Since 3.0, we have added new syntax ('yield from', u'' for instance)
> > but I do not believe we have deleted or changed any syntax (I might
> > have forgotten something minor)
>
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> > Makes sense, since ‘datetime’ can do everything ‘date’ can do, and
> > is conceptually a subset of the same concept.
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2014, 1, 29, 22, 35, 7, 900526, tzinfo=)
>>> now.astimezone(LOCAL_TZ)
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Ben Finney writes:
> Time zones are a hairy beast to manage, made all the more difficult
> because national politicians continually fiddle with them which means
> they can't just be a built-in part of the Python standard library.
PyCon 2013 had a good talk on calendaring and t
Steven D'Aprano writes:
> On Fri, 31 Jan 2014 11:35:14 +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
>
> > Cameron Simpson writes:
> >> Firstly, replace is a verb, and I would normally read
> >> td.replace(microseconds=0) as an instruction to modify td in place.
> >>
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Ned Batchelder writes:
> On 1/31/14 6:05 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
> > Here we disagree. I think the meaning “… and that returns the new
> > instance” is entailed in the meaning of “constructor”.
> > […]
>
> You say these terms already have meanings, and that construc
Ethan Furman writes:
> On 01/31/2014 03:47 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
> > I suggest:
> >
> > Called automatically by the constructor “__new__” during
> > instance creation, to initialise the new instance.
>
> But __new__ does not call __init__, type does [1]
Ben Finney writes:
> My apologies, you're right and that's made clear at
> .
And that's a URL to my local filesystem.
Clearly it's time for me to step away from the discussion for a while
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