Re: [Python-3000] Requirements for a standard GUI library

2006-05-10 Thread Robert Kern
. Then another PyGUI > backend would wrap the KDE libraries directly for its look and feel (but > the same PyGUI paradigm). Unfortunately, that approach duplicates a tremendous amount of effort that was put into the wrappers in the first place. Wrapper on top of wrapper may feel icky, but th

Re: [Python-3000] Ellipsis Literal

2008-01-22 Thread Robert Kern
roblem. Just thought I would bring it up. I've never encountered a problem with this ambiguity. At least, not in software. I don't know if affects newbie-comprehension of code snippets. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless

Re: [Python-3000] Wither PEP 335 (Overloadable Boolean Operators)?

2007-05-19 Thread Robert Kern
orkaround is something like this: > http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/384122, which could > probably be extended to more "operators" that numpy can't simulate using the > plain Python syntax. Much as we'd like it to be, it's just not practica

Re: [Python-3000] Wither PEP 335 (Overloadable Boolean Operators)?

2007-05-19 Thread Robert Kern
s probably a mistake. For numpy, the bitwise operators |&~ work fine on boolean arrays, and that's all such operators really need to work on. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to i

Re: [Python-3000] PEP 368: Standard image protocol and class

2007-06-30 Thread Robert Kern
sharing is precisely what the new buffer type is intended for. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco

Re: [Python-3000] PEP 368: Standard image protocol and class

2007-06-30 Thread Robert Kern
Robert Kern wrote: > Lino Mastrodomenico wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> >> I have submitted a new PEP: >> >> http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0368/ >> >> It starts from a Pete Shinners' suggestion and from the consideration >> that there a