Re: [Python-3000] ordered dict for p3k collections?

2007-09-26 Thread Charles D Hixson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Mark> With sorteddict you pay O(log N) for accessing, but you pay > Mark> nothing for sorting. > > Pay me now or pay me later, but maintaining a sorted sequence will always > cost something. > > Skip > Very frequently, however, I want frequent sorted access to

Re: [Python-3000] New io system and binary data

2007-09-24 Thread Charles D Hixson
Skip Montanaro wrote: >> P.S.: If opening files on Linux is now to be semantically meaningful, >> then the documentation on that section also needs to change. Currently >> it appears to mean that it's a meaningless specification that will be >> ignored unless you happen to be using the MSWindows

Re: [Python-3000] New io system and binary data

2007-09-23 Thread Charles D Hixson
Brett Cannon wrote: > On 9/19/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Guido> You can repeat that until you're blue in the face but it's not >> Guido> going to change. Way more programs (especially simple ones) deal >> Guido> with txet than with binary data. >> >> For us

Re: [Python-3000] New io system and binary data

2007-09-23 Thread Charles D Hixson
Guido van Rossum wrote: > On 9/19/07, Bill Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> This really isn't a UTF-8 problem. It is the problem with file opens >> defaulting to "text" mode instead of "binary" mode rearing its ugly >> head again. >> > > You can repeat that until you're blue in the