Re: On Lists and Iterables

2017-12-16 Thread Xen
John Lenton schreef op 15-12-2017 13:02: On 15 December 2017 at 10:40, Xen wrote: Zipping by definition produces a list of tuples No it's not I was talking about the semantical definition, not implementation details. That's how it was defined in python 2, yes. The definition changed fo

Re: Detecting the init system in use

2017-12-16 Thread J Fernyhough
On 13/12/17 17:57, Robie Basak wrote: > 2) Come up with and agree on some other universal way for testing for > systemd and make that work everywhere. Then we can SRU that test to MAAS > in Trusty, and fix any other packages in Trusty affected by the > behaviour change of the original test. Possib

Re: On Lists and Iterables

2017-12-16 Thread J Fernyhough
On 16/12/17 15:13, Xen wrote: > Python is a high-productivity language. > > It's not C. > > I think I have to stop posting here for a while... > I've only been vaguely following this thread as it doesn't appear to be related to Ubuntu Development, but it seems to me you're annoyed that you star

Re: On Lists and Iterables

2017-12-16 Thread Neal McBurnett
As J Fernyhough notes elsewhere in the thread, this is not the list to quibble about Python 3. Though, as John Lenton notes, there are excellent reasons for most of the changes in Python 3, which of course has a different leading version number precisely because it is not backward compatible. Se

Re: On Lists and Iterables

2017-12-16 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
On 16/12/17 15:13, Xen wrote: > Python is a high-productivity language. > > It's not C. > > I think I have to stop posting here for a while... > I've only been vaguely following this thread as it doesn't appear to be related to Ubuntu Development, but it seems to me you're annoyed that you star