Re: [Python-Dev] New string method - splitquoted

2006-05-20 Thread Guido van Rossum
"I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that." We hear you, Dave, but this is not a suitable function to add to the standard library. Many respondents are trying to tell you that in many different ways. If you keep arguing for it, we'll just ignore you. --Guido PS. Give up TDMA. Try Spambayes ins

Re: [Python-Dev] zlib module doesn't build - inflateCopy() not found

2006-05-20 Thread Guido van Rossum
On 5/20/06, Georg Brandl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Martin v. Löwis wrote: > > Guido van Rossum wrote: > >> It seems I have libz 1.1.4. Is this no longer supported? > > > > Apparently so. This function started to be used with > > > > ---

Re: [Python-Dev] New string method - splitquoted

2006-05-20 Thread Dave Cinege
On Thursday 18 May 2006 16:13, you wrote: > Dave Cinege wrote: > > For example: > > > > s = ' Chan: 11 SNR: 22 ESSID: "Spaced Out Wifi" Enc: On' > > My complaint with this example is that you are just using the wrong tool > to do this job. If I was going to do this, I would've immediately j

Re: [Python-Dev] New string method - splitquoted

2006-05-20 Thread Dave Cinege
On Thursday 18 May 2006 11:11, Guido van Rossum wrote: > This is not an apropriate function to add as a string methods. There > are too many conventions for quoting and too many details to get > right. One method can't possibly handle them all without an enormous > number of weird options. It's bet

Re: [Python-Dev] New string method - splitquoted - New EmailAddress

2006-05-20 Thread Dave Cinege
Sorry to all about tmda on my dcinege-mlists email addy. It was not supposed to be, however the dash in dcinege-mlists was flipping out the latest incarnation of my mail server config. Please use this address to reply to me in this thread. Dave ___ Py

Re: [Python-Dev] New string method - splitquoted

2006-05-20 Thread Heiko Wundram
Am Donnerstag 18 Mai 2006 06:06 schrieb Dave Cinege: > This is useful, but possibly better put into practice as a separate > method?? I personally don't think it's particularily useful, at least not in the special case that your patch tries to address. 1) Generally, you won't only have one chara

Re: [Python-Dev] zlib module doesn't build - inflateCopy() not found

2006-05-20 Thread Georg Brandl
Martin v. Löwis wrote: > Guido van Rossum wrote: >> It seems I have libz 1.1.4. Is this no longer supported? > > Apparently so. This function started to be used with > > > r46012 | georg.brandl | 2006-05-16 09:38:27 +0200 (D