Title: RE: [Python-Dev] Rationale for sum()'s design?
[Guido van Rossum]
#- 1. When omitting the second argument, would supplying an
#- empty list return 0,
#- None or raise an exception?
#-
#- Good question...
I'd go for None:
- Is a good default for a non-existing argument.
- If
Title: RE: [Python-Dev] Rationale for sum()'s design?
[Guido van Rossum]
#- 3.0 is soon?!?
*You* should answer this, ;)
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Title: RE: [Python-Dev] comprehension abbreviation (was: Adding any() and all())
[Gareth McCaughan]
#- 1 Some bit of my brain is convinced that [x in stuff if condition]
#- is the Right Syntax and keeps making me type it even though
#- I know it doesn't work.
My brain says: 'x in stuff
Title: RE: [Python-Dev] Legacy bugs on SF
[Reinhold Birkenfeld]
#- The month is over now, so what to do with them?
The month is like a minimum time limit.
I got separated and moved to my parent house. I still don't have internet connection, so I have this work a bit overdue.
But I'll
Title: RE: [Python-Dev] string find(substring) vs. substring in string
[Fredrik Lundh]
#- any special reason why in is faster if the substring is found, but
#- a lot slower if it's not in there?
Maybe because it stops searching when it finds it?
The time seems to be very dependant of
Title: Deprecating old bugs
As I discussed in this list, in the Policy about old Python versions thread at 8-Nov-2004, I started verifying the old bugs.
Here are the results for 2.1.*. This maybe should be put in an informational PEP.
When I verified the bug, I filled two fields:
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Title: RE: [Python-Dev] logging class submission
[Stephan Stapel]
#- There's a license issue here?
#-
#- I was given the advise to use this license. If this license
#- prohibts inclusion into Python, how should I re-license the code?
I just was asking. Who gave you the advise?
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Title: RE: [Python-Dev] Re: Re: 2.4 news reaches interesting places
[Stephan Deibel]
#- For example, a September article in InfoWorld said But the
#- big winner
#- this time around is the object-oriented scripting language
#- Python, which
#- saw a 6 percent gain in popularity, almost
