On 9/6/05, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> My hypothesis is that there are actually only two use cases that
> matter enough to be supported directly:
>
> (a) quickly print a bunch of items with spaces in between them and a
> trailing newline
>
> (b) print one or more items with p
On 9/6/05, Antoine Pitrou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> One could use "class decorators". For example if you want to define the
> method foo() in a file-like class, you could use code like:
I like the sound of this. Suppose there were a function textstream()
that decorated a file-like object (su
> Perhaps the renaming should be more radical, to indicate the extent of
> the change.
Another possiblity would be to use the new name to indicate a position
in a spectrum of programming languages. For instance, "beryl",
"topaz", "steel" and "jade" are (on the Mohs scale) all sturdier than
pearl
> perhaps the Python 3 executable should have a different name as part
> of the standard distribution? I suggest "py" / "py.exe"
Perhaps the renaming should be more radical, to indicate the extent of
the change.
I suggest "second", to commemorate "Second City" in Chicago, another
famous comedy tr
On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 17:23 +1200, Greg Ewing wrote:
> Peter Jones wrote:
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> > Another problem (which I have not fixed) is that when realpath() is
> > used, in some cases MAXPATHLEN is smaller than the system's
> > PATH_MAX/pathconf(path, _PC_PATH_MAX).
>
> The linux man page for realpath() has
On 9/11/05, Delaney, Timothy (Tim) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> James Y Knight wrote:
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> > Just to be clear, I do not want nor expect this. I wish to be able to
> > specifically modify code with full knowledge of what has changed in
> > Py3.0 such that it will work with both Py2.X and Py3.0.
>
>
Brett Cannon wrote:
> On 9/8/05, Tony Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> [finding Tools/i18n/pygettext.py]
>> > You're right, I think Tools is probably a bad place for
>> > anything. If it's not part of the stdlib, I'll likely never
>> > find it.
>>
>> Agreed. Maybe with the introduction of -m
On 9/12/05, Greg Ewing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Oren Tirosh wrote:
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> > I suggest an explicitly and permanently different name for the
> > interpreter executable of this new and incompatible branch of the
> > language. I want Python 3 scripts starting with #! to have an average
> > shelf life
Oren Tirosh wrote:
> I suggest an explicitly and permanently different name for the
> interpreter executable of this new and incompatible branch of the
> language. I want Python 3 scripts starting with #! to have an average
> shelf life longer than 18 months.
That makes sense, but I'd prefer some
