Re: Question on lambdas
Ben Finney wrote: Christoph Becker cmbecke...@gmx.de writes: Ben Finney wrote: It's best to remember that ‘lambda’ is syntactic sugar for creating a function; the things it creates are not special in any way, they are normal functions, not “lambdas”. Could you please elaborate why ‘lambda’ does not create “lambdas”. I'm a Python beginner (not new to programming, though), and rather confused about your statement. We already have a term for what the ‘lambda’ keyword creates: a function. That is, ‘lambda’ creates a function object, without anything to distinguish it from a function created any other way. Ah, now I understand. It's just about proper naming. Thanks. :) -- Christoph M. Becker -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Do you like the current design of python.org?
Chris Angelico wrote: On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 11:16 AM, Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote: The flaw is that when you get a 404, it claims that the maintainers have been notified, but they apparently don't do anything about it. They should be fixing broken links without waiting for somebody to raise an issue. Otherwise, what's the point of being notified? It's actually worse than that. By telling the end user that the maintainers have been notified, they *discourage* people from raising an issue. Why raise an issue for something that is already being attended too? Okay, *that* is a design flaw. Though personally, I never believe those maintainers have been notified pages. I mean, anyone can go looking at their server error logs, but how many people *get notified*?? And when does it *ever* result in prompt fixing of errors? So even if this is the one site on the entire internet where that's true, I'd be inclined to drop that text, because it's pretty much useless. It seems to me that text can't be useless. Either it is useful (because it conveys correct information) or it is harmful (because it keeps visitors from submitting an explicit bug report). -- Christoph M. Becker -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Cherrypy - prevent browser prefetch?
Tim Chase wrote: I haven't investigated recently, but I remember Django's ability to trigger a log-out merely via a GET was something that irked me. All this to also say that performing non-idempotent actions on a GET request is just begging for trouble. ;-) ACK. However, isn't log-out an idempotent action? -- Christoph M. Becker -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Content-Type (was: Fwd: Python Signal/Slot + QThred code analysis)
Juan Christian wrote: OFF-TOPIC: You guys said that my emails had some trash HTML and strange stuffs, is it OK now? You're still sending: Content-Type: multipart/alternative Please configure your MUA to send Content-Type: text/plain only. -- Christoph M. Becker -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
