Ronald Oussoren wrote:
> On 8-mei-2006, at 4:07, Bill Janssen wrote:
> >
> > Much as we might like to think otherwise, there's no standard GUI in
> > the Python core, and IDLE (or anything else that depends on it) won't
> > work in some cases where it should work.
>
> Yes there is. Some distributo
Talin wrote:
>
> There are two reasons why I think that bundling a GUI library with
> Python is a good idea:
>
> -- It makes it possible to include GUI-based tools and applications
> in the base distribution.
I agree with this, although how ambitious are such tools? If you're just
popping a d
On Monday 08 May 2006 15:30, Greg Ewing wrote:
> Paul Boddie wrote:
> > Promoting a successor to stdwin doesn't seem like progress to me.
>
> It's a bit hard to sort out what you're actually saying
> in all that. Are you arguing for or against something
>
On Monday 08 May 2006 16:20, Jim Jewett wrote:
> On 5/8/06, Paul Boddie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > I agree with this, although how ambitious are such tools? If you're just
> > popping a dialogue asking for user input, there are typically other means
> &g
On Tuesday 09 May 2006 02:42, Greg Ewing wrote:
> Paul Boddie wrote:
> > I think it would be
> > a bad thing if something in the standard library claimed to provide, or
> > just gave the vague impression of providing, a definitive solution for
> > all environments
&
Guido van Rossum wrote:
>
> I'm not convinced that we need all this for the likely intended use,
> since static type checking isn't really high on the agenda anyway.
I know I'll get into trouble for quoting this out of context, and I accept
that there's a difference between static typing and writ
Tony Lownds wrote:
>
> Paul Boddie wrote:
> >
> > What's the general opinion on systems which attempt to infer and
> > predict inappropriate type usage?
[...]
> > Couldn't such systems be a better aid to program reliability?
> > Would "optio
Brett Cannon wrote:
> As part of my New Years resolution to get all of my current and planned PEPs
> actually written, accepted, and implemented for 2007, here is the stdlib
> reorg PEP. I have already checked it into svn but I have inlined it below
> for comments.
There's a document on the pytho
