Travis Oliphant wrote:
> you would like to make the original memory
> read-only until you are done with the algorithm and have copied the data
> back into memory.
Okay, I see what you mean now.
Maybe this should be called Py_BUF_LOCK_CONTENTS or
something to make the semantics clearer. Otherwis
"Travis Oliphant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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| I'm good with using an identifier to differentiate between an "allowed"
| flag and a "require" flag. I'm not a big fan of
| VERY_LONG_IDENTIFIER_NAMES though. Just enough to understand what it
| means but not so mu
Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> -1
Me too.
> While this may be theoretically preferable, I believe that in practice
> changing this would be a major pain for very little gain. I don't
> recall ever finding a bug related to this feature, and I believe it's
> occasionally useful.
I f
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-1
While this may be theoretically preferable, I believe that in practice
changing this would be a major pain for very little gain. I don't
recall ever finding a bug related to this feature, and I believe it's
occasionally useful.
Here's somethi
There is one thing I'd like to see changed in a future python. I always
found it surprising, that
>>> x = [1,2,3,4,5]
>>> x[1:10]
[2, 3, 4, 5]
is not an error. This is perhaps the only case (but a fundamental one!)
where an error is silently ignored.
I really can't think of a good justification
On behalf of the Python development team and the Python
community, I'm happy to announce the release of Python 2.5.1
(FINAL)
This is the first bugfix release of Python 2.5. Python 2.5
is now in bugfix-only mode; no new features are being added.
According to the release notes, over 150 bugs and pat
Carl Banks wrote:
> Travis Oliphant wrote:
>> Carl Banks wrote:
>>> Ok, I've thought quite a bit about this, and I have an idea that I
>>> think will be ok with you, and I'll be able to drop my main
>>> objection. It's not a big change, either. The key is to explicitly
>>> say whether the flag
