Ian Kelly wrote:
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Ethan Furman wrote:
The big question, though, is would you do it this way:
some_var = bytes(23).replace(b'\x00', b'a')
or this way?
some_var = bytes(b'a' * 23)
Actually, I would just do it this way:
some_var
Andrew Berg wrote:
ElementTree doesn't seem to have been updated in a long time, so I'll
assume it won't work with Python 3.
I don't know how to use it, but you'll find ElementTree as xml.etree in
Python 3.
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Several folk have said that objects that compare equal must hash equal,
and the docs also state this
http://docs.python.org/dev/reference/datamodel.html#object.__hash__
I'm hoping somebody can tell me what horrible thing will happen if this
isn't the case? Here's a toy example of a class I'm
Chris Rebert wrote:
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 10:43 PM, Ethan Furman wrote:
Several folk have said that objects that compare equal must hash equal, and
the docs also state this
http://docs.python.org/dev/reference/datamodel.html#object.__hash__
I'm hoping somebody can tell me what hor
Peter Otten wrote:
Ethan Furman wrote:
Several folk have said that objects that compare equal must hash equal,
and the docs also state this
http://docs.python.org/dev/reference/datamodel.html#object.__hash__
I'm hoping somebody can tell me what horrible thing will happen if this
isn&
Ulrich Eckhardt wrote:
Ethan Furman wrote:
Several folk have said that objects that compare equal must hash equal,
and the docs also state this
http://docs.python.org/dev/reference/datamodel.html#object.__hash__
I'm hoping somebody can tell me what horrible thing will happen if this
isn&
Ethan Furman wrote:
Several folk have said that objects that compare equal must hash equal,
and the docs also state this
http://docs.python.org/dev/reference/datamodel.html#object.__hash__
Two things I didn't make clear originally:
I'm using Python3.
My objects (of type Wierd
Peter Otten wrote:
Ethan Furman wrote:
Peter Otten wrote:
Ethan Furman wrote:
Several folk have said that objects that compare equal must hash equal,
and the docs also state this
http://docs.python.org/dev/reference/datamodel.html#object.__hash__
--> class Wierd():
... def __ini
Terry Reedy wrote:
On 5/25/2011 8:01 AM, John Bokma wrote:
to. Like I already stated before: if Python is really so much better
than Python readability wise, why do I have such a hard time dropping
Perl and moving on?
[you meant 'than Perl'] You are one of the people whose brain fits Perl
(o
tkp...@hotmail.com wrote:
Thanks for the guidance - it was indeed an issue with reading in
binary vs. text., and I do now succeed in reading the last line,
except that I now seem unable to split it, as I demonstrate below.
Here's what I get when I read the last line in text mode using 2.7.1
and i
MRAB wrote:
On 26/05/2011 00:25, tkp...@hotmail.com wrote:
Thanks for the guidance - it was indeed an issue with reading in
binary vs. text., and I do now succeed in reading the last line,
except that I now seem unable to split it, as I demonstrate below.
Here's what I get when I read the last l
John,
You say English is not your first language. Let me assure you that the
words you chose to use in reply to Stephen were vulgar as well as rude,
and did more to lesson the overall friendliness of this forum than
Stephen's adversarial style.
You usually have interesting and informative p
I've tried this in 2.5 - 3.2:
--> 'this is a test'.startswith('this')
True
--> 'this is a test'.startswith('this', None, None)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
TypeError: slice indices must be integers or None or have an __index__
method
The 3.2 docs say this:
str.sta
Thorsten Kampe wrote:
* Steven D'Aprano (27 May 2011 03:07:30 GMT)
Okay, I've stayed silent while people criticize me long enough. What
exactly did I say that was impolite?
Nothing.
John threw down a distinct challenge:
if Python is really so much better than Python [sic]
readabil
Ethan Furman wrote:
Any reason this is not a bug?
Looks like someone else beat me to filing:
http://bugs.python.org/issue11828
Looks like they fixed it as well.
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Duncan Booth wrote:
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
I was thrilled to learn a new trick, popping keyword arguments before
calling super, and wondered why I hadn't thought of that myself. How on
earth did I fail to realise that a kwarg dict was mutable and therefore
you can remove keyword args, or inj
Miki Tebeka wrote:
https://docs.google.com/present/view?id=ah82mvnssv5d_162dbgx78gw ;)
+1
That was hilarious.
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Prasad, Ramit wrote:
I have to say, I do like Python's lack of keywords for these things
I thought True/False were among the list of keywords in Python 3.x ? Or are
those the only keywords?
http://docs.python.org/py3k/reference/lexical_analysis.html#keywords
False class finally
Lew Schwartz wrote:
So, if I read between the lines correctly, you recommend Python 3? Does
the windows version install with a development environment?
Dabo, last I checked, uses wxPython, which uses wxWidgets (sp?), which
is not yet ported to Python 3. So if you got that route you'll need to
I suspect the larger issue is that Multiple Inheritance is complex, but
folks don't appreciate that. Ask anyone about meta-classes and their
eyes bug-out, but MI? Simple! NOT.
On the other hand, perhaps the docs should declare that the built-in
objects are not designed for MI, so that that,
harrismh777 wrote:
Chris Angelico wrote:
To say that "most" 2.x code is
incompatible with 3.x is to deny the 2to3 utility,
all I'm
saying is that 3.x is not compatible with 2.x code (completely not
compatible)
and you're ignoring
the people who deliberately write code that can cross-execu
Henry Olders wrote:
[...] what I want is a function that is free of side effects [...]
Shoot, that's easy! Just write your function to not have any!
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Henry Olders wrote:
Clearly, making a copy within the function eliminates the possibility of
the side effects caused by passing in mutable objects. Would having the
compiler/interpreter do this automatically make python so much
different?
It would be a different language.
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Eric Snow wrote:
Looking at the ABC code [1], I noticed that Mapping's __eq__ method can
return NotImplemented. This got me curious as to why you would return
NotImplemented and not raise a TypeError or a NotImplementedError.
My understanding is that if your object does not know how to perf
Eric Snow wrote:
Guido indicates earlier in the thread that NotImplemented is used so
that you know that it came from the function that you directly called,
and not from another call inside that function. Why does it matter if
it came directly from the function or not? And couldn't the
NotIm
Carl Banks wrote:
For instance, say you are using an implementation that uses
> floating point, and you define a function that uses Newton's
> method to find a square root:
def square_root(N,x=None):
if x is None:
x = N/2
for i in range(100):
x = (x + N/x)/2
return
On 09/08/2017 07:49 AM, Steve D'Aprano wrote:
On Sun, 3 Sep 2017 03:03 am, MRAB wrote:
Timer is a subclass of Thread, so you can set its .daemon attribute.
Sorry for the long delay in replying to this, but if I set its daemon attribute,
won't that mean it will live on after the interpreter s
On 09/17/2017 01:14 AM, Steve D'Aprano wrote:
On Sun, 17 Sep 2017 04:16 pm, Terry Reedy wrote:
On 9/17/2017 2:04 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Sun, Sep 17, 2017 at 4:00 PM, Terry Reedy wrote:
The numerical extensions have been quasi-official in the sense that at least
3 language enhancements
On 09/19/2017 09:37 AM, justin walters wrote:
On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 9:17 AM, Grant Edwards
wrote:
On 2017-09-19, Jan Erik =?utf-8?q?Mostr=C3=B6m?=
wrote:
And I'm amazed how often I see people trying to calculate
change = sum handed over - cost
and then trying to figure out what bi
On 09/20/2017 09:24 AM, Chris Warrick wrote:
On 20 September 2017 at 17:16, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
And if wxPython had been part of the stdlib, it would have meant Python
3 would have been delayed years until wxPython had been ported -- or
wxPython would have been pulled from the stdlib and
On 10/04/2017 04:50 PM, Stefan Ram wrote:
names: are sequences of letters and stand for values
function names: names that stand for callable values
function call operator: calls a callable value (first operand)
argument: if present, it's value is passed to the function
And, lo, I have explai
On 11/20/2017 10:47 AM, Michael Torrie wrote:> On 11/20/2017 07:50 AM, Stefan
Ram wrote:
>>I am posting to a Usenet newsgroup. I am not aware of any
>>"Python-List mailing list".
>
> As far as I'm concerned, this list is primarily a mailing list, hosted
> by Mailman at python.org, and is
On 12/05/2017 09:27 PM, km wrote:
[snip]
Many things in this world are frustrating, but being hateful will not solve
anything. Please control yourself.
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On 12/06/2017 08:33 AM, Steve D'Aprano wrote:
I'm going to defend KM (srikrishnamohan) -- his comments were not "an attack",
On 12/05/2017 08:38 PM, km wrote:
> I dont know how these students are selected into b tech stream in India.
> they are so dumb.
On 12/05/2017 09:27 PM, km wrote:
> You
The simple answer is No, and all the answers agree on that point.
It does beg the question of what an identity function is, though.
My contention is that an identity function is a do-nothing function that simply
returns what it was given:
--> identity(1)
1
--> identity('spam')
'spam'
--> ide
On 12/07/2017 10:53 AM, Peter Otten wrote:
Ethan Furman wrote:
The simple answer is No, and all the answers agree on that point.
It does beg the question of what an identity function is, though.
My contention is that an identity function is a do-nothing function that
simply returns what it
On 12/07/2017 11:23 AM, Ned Batchelder wrote:
On 12/7/17 1:28 PM, Ethan Furman wrote:
--> identity('spam', 'eggs', 7)
('spam', 'eggs', 7)
I don't see why this last case should hold. Why does the function take more
than one argument? An
On 12/07/2017 11:46 AM, Paul Moore wrote:
On 7 December 2017 at 18:28, Ethan Furman wrote:
The simple answer is No, and all the answers agree on that point.
It does beg the question of what an identity function is, though.
My contention is that an identity function is a do-nothing function
On 12/07/2017 12:24 PM, Peter Otten wrote:
identity((a, b, c))
calls identity() with one argument whereas
identity(a, b, c)
calls identity() with three arguments. That's certainly an effect; you just
undo it with your test for len(args) == 1. That means that your identity()
function throws aw
On 12/07/2017 10:28 AM, Ethan Furman wrote:
The simple answer is No, and all the answers agree on that point.
It does beg the question of what an identity function is, though.
Thankfully, Paul answered that question with a good explanation*.
Thanks, everyone, for the discussion.
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On 12/05/2017 09:27 PM, km wrote:
[snip]
Many things in this world are frustrating, but being hateful will not solve
anything. Please control yourself.
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On 01/07/2018 12:33 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 7:13 AM, Thomas Jollans wrote:
On 07/01/18 20:55, Chris Angelico wrote:
Under what circumstances would you want "x != y" to be different from
"not (x == y)" ?
In numpy, __eq__ and __ne__ do not, in general, return bools.
On 01/07/2018 04:31 PM, breamore...@gmail.com wrote:
On Monday, January 8, 2018 at 12:02:09 AM UTC, Ethan Furman wrote:
On 01/07/2018 12:33 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 7:13 AM, Thomas Jollans wrote:
On 07/01/18 20:55, Chris Angelico wrote:
Under what circumstances
On 01/07/2018 04:57 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 11:35 AM, Ben Finney wrote:
Chris Angelico writes:
Let's put it this way. Suppose that __eq__ existed and __ne__ didn't,
just like with __contains__. Go ahead: sell the notion of __ne__.
Pitch it, show why we absolutely need
On 01/29/2018 02:41 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Mon, 29 Jan 2018 11:43:36 -0800, John Ladasky wrote:
On Sunday, January 28, 2018 at 7:07:11 AM UTC-8, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
(The day a programmer posts a WAV file of themselves reading their code
out aloud, is the day I turn my modem off and
On 4/21/22 15:00, Greg Ewing wrote:
On 20/04/22 10:57 pm, Sam Ezeh wrote:
Has anyone here used or attempted to use a nested class inside an enum?
If so, how did you find it? (what did you expect to happen and did
your expectations align with resulting behaviour etc.)
That's a pretty open-ende
On 4/22/22 12:36, Michael F. Stemper wrote:
Tells caller whether or not a permutation is even.
Determines if a permutation is even. (Alternative is that it's odd.)
Returns True if permutation is even, False if it is odd.
Third option.
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async-...@python.org
as it has an interesting post about ASGI and PEPs 3156 and .
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On 7/29/22 16:24, Peter Pearson wrote:
> ... but if the apostrophe in "a'b" is replaced with a
> RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK, the returned h is of type
> "email.header.Header", and seems to contain inscrutable garbage.
>
> I'd think an exception would be the right answer.
>
> Is this worth a bug
Greetings, all!
I know our stress levels can be higher than normal around the holidays, but let's please be patient with each other.
Both conversations and debates will be smoother if we assume other posters are asking/debating in good faith (at least,
until proven otherwise).
Happy Pythoning
On 12/28/22 11:07, MRAB wrote:
On 2022-12-28 18:42, Alexander Richert - NOAA Affiliate via Python-list wrote:
In a couple recent versions of Python (including 3.8 and 3.10), the
following code:
import re
print(re.sub(".*", "replacement", "pattern"))
yields the output "replacementreplacement".
On 1/10/23 12:03, Jen Kris via Python-list wrote:
> I am writing a spot speedup in assembly language for a short but
computation-intensive Python
> loop, and I discovered something about Python array handling that I would
like to clarify.
> But on the next iteration we assign arr1 to something
On 1/13/23 09:06, Stefan Ram wrote:
>"Beautiful is better than ugly." - The Zen of Python
>
>This says nothing. You have to sacrifice something that
>really has /value/!
>
>"[A]esthetics are more important than efficiency." - Donald E. Knuth
[okay, falling for the troll bait]
Th
This thread has run its course and seems to now be generating more heat than
light.
It is now closed (at least on the Python List side).
Thank you everyone for your participation and understanding.
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On 2/23/23 12:29, Jim Byrnes wrote:
> I have been reading the python-list for some time now. At first via gemane
and since it's demise via a subscription.
> Recently I noticed that I have not received any emails for quite sometime.
>
> I tried resubscribing but still have received no emails from
Greetings, all!
As has been stated, Hen Hanna is posting through Google Groups, over which the
Python List moderators have zero control.
The only thing we can do, and which has now been done, is not allow those posts
in to the Python List.
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On 2/27/23 12:20, rbowman wrote:
> "By using Black, you agree to cede control over minutiae of hand-
> formatting. In return, Black gives you speed, determinism, and freedom
> from pycodestyle nagging about formatting. You will save time and mental
> energy for more important matters."
>
> Someho
On 3/3/23 03:32, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Mar 2023 at 20:44, Alan Gauld wrote:
>> On 02/03/2023 20:54, Ian Pilcher wrote:
>>> Seems like an FAQ, and I've found a few things on StackOverflow that
>>> discuss the technical differences in edge cases, but I haven't found
>>> anything that ta
On 1/14/21 9:44 AM, Denys Contant wrote:
I don't understand why sqrt is not a built-in function.
Why do we have to first import the function from the math module?
I use it ALL THE TIME!
And thousands, tens of thousands, and maybe hundreds of thousands don't.
That felt good. Thank you.
Any
On 1/14/21 11:06 AM, Eli the Bearded wrote:
"There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it."
Meanwhile, Alan Gauld pointed out:
AG> because pow() is a builtin function and
AG> root = pow(x,0.5)
AG> is the same as
AG> root = math.sqrt(x)
Plus the ** operation
On 1/26/21 9:05 AM, Terry Reedy wrote:
On 1/26/2021 4:01 AM, Maziar Ghasemi wrote:
...
Please do not repost, especially the same day.
Maziar Ghasemi appears to be a new user, and had to sign up to the Python List mailing list. Are you seeing his request
twice because you use gmane?
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On 2/15/21 2:02 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2021-02-15, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
You said you used Usenet (and your reply here was via Usenet).
Usenet posts to comp.lang.python don't go to the mailing list (the
"here" that Ethan is talking about). Mails to the list /are/ sent
here, but it's one-w
On 2/16/21 12:09 PM, Kevin M. Wilson via Python-list wrote:
My employer has hundreds of scripts in 2.7, but I'm writing new scripts in 3.9!
I'm running into 'invalid syntax' errors.I have to maintain the 'Legacy' stuff,
and I need to mod the path et al., to execute 3.7 w/o doing damage to the
Kevin, please reply to the list (preferably Reply-to-list, or
Reply-all), that way others can chime in with help.
On 2/16/21 12:55 PM, Kevin M. Wilson wrote:
Windows 7 OS, and typically run in conjunction with testing SSD', as for
stand alone scripts.
Those require: python BogusFile.py. I too
I'm looking for a name for a group of options that, when one is specified, all
of them must be specified.
For contrast,
- radio buttons: a group of options where only one can be specified (mutually
exclusive)
- check boxes: a group of options that are independent of each other (any
number o
On 2/24/21 8:28 AM, 2qdxy4rzwzuui...@potatochowder.com wrote:
Entangled?
Hey, I like that one! ;-)
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On 2/24/21 12:40 PM, Alan Gauld via Python-list wrote:
On 24/02/2021 16:12, Ethan Furman wrote:
I'm looking for a name for a group of options that, when one is specified, all
of them must be specified.
For contrast,
- radio buttons: a group of options where only one can be spec
On 2/24/21 1:23 PM, 2qdxy4rzwzuui...@potatochowder.com wrote:
entangled (none or all):
image size override: height width
IMO, that's *one* option (-s 640x480 or -s 640,480), not two. In
argparse/optparse terms, a required argument with a custom type.
(OTOH, in a GUI, it'd be two sepa
On 2/24/21 1:54 PM, 2qdxy4rzwzuui...@potatochowder.com wrote:
Ethan Furman wrote:
I didn't say it was a good example. ;-) Hopefully it gets the idea across.
Ditto. ;-)
IMO, the whole idea of "my program has two options, and the user has to
specify both or neither," isn&
On 2/25/21 7:06 PM, Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
Ethan Furman writes:
Like I said, at this moment I don't have a good example, only an awareness that
such a thing could exist and I don't know the name for it (if it has one).
So far I have seen that there are even fewer good use-cases th
I'm looking for an editor to use for Python programming, as well as related
incidentals such as markdown files, restructured text, etc.
I'm currently using vim, and the primary reason I've stuck with it for so long
is because I can get truly black screens with it. By which I mean that I have
On 3/11/21 1:45 PM, dn via Python-list wrote:
Is assert so much faster/cheaper than try...except...raise?
Infinitely faster when they are not there. ;-)
Basically, you are looking at two different philosophies:
- Always double check, get good error message when something fails
vs
- check
On 3/31/21 4:14 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
I think this code makes some sort of argument in the debate about
whether Python has too much flexibility or if it's the best
metaprogramming toolset in the world. I'm not sure which side of the
debate it falls on, though.
Well, `__init_subclass__` is t
On 4/12/21 3:06 PM, Jaime wrote:
> Hi all. Line 102 of https://github.com/python/peps/blob/master/pep2html.py
says:
>
> print(__doc__ % globals(), file=out)
>
> I realise that globals() is a standard-library
> built-in function that returns a dictionary representing the current
> global symbol ta
On 4/19/21 11:22 AM, Unbreakable Disease wrote:
[offensive drivel]
List, my apologies -- not sure how that one got through.
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On 5/5/21 5:58 AM, Peter Otten wrote:
> On 05/05/2021 13:03, Jan van den Broek wrote:
>> On 2021-05-05, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote:
>> Perhaps there's something wrong on my side, but I'm
>> seeing this message twice:
>>
>> Msg-ID: mailman.145.1620211376.3087.python-l...@python.org
>> Re
On 5/5/21 7:39 AM, Peter Otten wrote:
> On 05/05/2021 16:10, Ethan Furman wrote:
>> I see your messages twice (occasionally with other posters as well). I have
no idea how to fix it. :(
>
> OK, I'll try another option from Thunderbird's context menu: Followup to
On 5/4/21 7:20 PM, Chris Nyland wrote:
> Here is
> where I my primary design question comes in. As organized now as described
> to import and use the package I need
>
> from database import database
>
> or I have to put in the init file
>
> from database import *
>
> Either of these still leaves
On 5/6/21 11:05 AM, Jon Ribbens via Python-list wrote:
> On 2021-05-06, Stestagg wrote:
>> Where's this discussion going?
>>
>> Which of the practically possible options are best for this list <->
>> newsgroup setup?
>
> And it appears even the suggestion that
> Mailman 3 cannot be used while a g
Here's a question on SO about typing, enum, and ABC:
https://stackoverflow.com/q/67610562/208880
No answers so far.
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Greetings!
The Flag type in the enum module has had some improvements, but I find it necessary to move one of those improvements
into a decorator instead, and I'm having a hard time thinking up a name.
What is the behavior? Well, a name in a flag type can be either canonical (it represents on
On 5/30/21 9:57 AM, Irv Kalb wrote:
> I understand what a "property" is, how it is used and the benefits, but apparently my explanation hasn't made the
light bulb go on for my editor.
My answer from Stackoverflow [1]:
> Properties are a special kind of attribute. Basically, when Python encoun
On 6/1/21 1:18 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> I'd appreciate recommendations on the process to find where the bug lives
> since I can't seem to find it with print() or line-by-line in pdb.
Sounds like a console issue. Try using `logging` with a file... you could even
use `print` with a file if you
On 6/1/21 1:42 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> When I run it this is the output:
> $ python activitytypes.py 2021-06-01 13:39:10,219 -DEBUG - Start of Program
> 2021-06-01 13:39:15,229 -DEBUG - End of Program
Well, you only had two logging statements in that code -- logging is like
print: if you want
From Tim Peters:
> `secrets` is just a wrapper around `random.SystemRandom`, so the
> presence or absence of `secrets` doesn't matter.
>
> As to SystemRandom, all answers depend on the quality of the platform
> os.urandom(), which Python has no control over. See my answer here,
> and the comments
PEP: 663
Title: Improving and Standardizing Enum str(), repr(), and format() behaviors
Version: $Revision$
Last-Modified: $Date$
Author: Ethan Furman
Discussions-To: python-...@python.org
Status: Draft
Type: Informational
Content-Type: text/x-rst
Created: 23-Feb-2013
Python-Version: 3.11
Post
On 9/21/21 11:12 AM, Michael F. Stemper wrote:
> It seems to me that XML is the right approach for this sort of
> thing, especially since the data is hierarchical in nature.
If you're looking for a format that you can read (as a human) and possibly
hand-edit,
check out NestedText:
https://ne
On 9/26/21 9:21 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2021-09-26, Chris Angelico wrote:
>> I'm not sure whether the policy change happened on python-list, or at
>> gmane. From the look of the error message you got, it may have
>> actually been gmane's decision. Haven't heard anything from the list
>> ad
On 9/26/21 10:34 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2021-09-26, Ethan Furman wrote:
>> I am unaware of a change in the newsgroup <--> mailing list policy,
>> and other newsgroup posts were coming through last week (it's been a
>> light weekend).
>
> We're n
On 10/23/21 6:42 AM, Jon Ribbens via Python-list wrote:
> On 2021-10-23, Chris Angelico wrote:
>> The onus is on you to show that it needs to be more flexible.
>
> Is it though?
Yes.
> It seems to me that the onus is on you to show that
> this special case is special enough to be given its own
On 2/4/22 6:28 AM, Cecil Westerhof via Python-list wrote:
> It was already not a good name, but I am rewriting the class
> completely, so now the name is a complete bumper. (No more timer.) I
> am thinking about naming the class repeating_thread, but I cannot say
> that I find it a very good name
On 2/7/22 4:27 PM, Greg Ewing wrote:
> On 8/02/22 8:51 am, Chris Angelico wrote:
>> Some day, we'll have people on Mars. They won't have TCP connections -
>> at least, not unless servers start supporting connection timeouts
>> measured in minutes or hours - but it wouldn't surprise me if some
>>
On 2/21/22 3:19 AM, vanyp wrote:
> The option to filter by topic is offered in the mailing list subscription
customization page, although
> no option list is given. Topics may have been a project that was never
implemented.
Topics are not currently enabled. I suspect for them to be useful, pe
On 3/3/22 5:32 PM, Rob Cliffe via Python-list wrote:
> There are three types of programmer: those that can count, and those that
can't.
Actually, there are 10 types of programmer: those that can count in binary,
and those that can't.
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On 4/15/22 04:19, Sam Ezeh wrote:
Elsewhere, the idea of supporting new syntax to automatically initialise
attributes provided as arguments to __init__ methods was raised.
[...]
Good post! You'll want to send this to python-ideas at some point (that's where most new python features are
discu
On 08/10/2016 01:57 PM, Cai Gengyang wrote:
Yea, using IDLE on OSX, Python 3.4.3.
Yeah it works now ... I had to increase the font size and the indentation
width. When that happened , it could define miles_driven
I suspect you were defining it before, you just couldn't see the underscore.
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On 08/11/2016 07:14 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Thu, 11 Aug 2016 03:06 pm, Paul Rubin wrote:
The basic characteristic of asynchronous programming is that it involves
changing all your usual blocking i/o calls to non-blocking ones, so your
program can keep running as soon as your request is st
On 08/11/2016 10:47 PM, Paul Rudin wrote:
Steven D'Aprano writes:
[...]
In this case, all the work is pure computation, so I don't expect to save
any time by doing this, because the work is still all being done in the
same process/thread, not in parallel. It may even take a little bit longer,
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