https://pypi.python.org/pypi/apipkg provides a much more effective way
to denote API than an _
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 12:20 PM, R. David Murray wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Jul 2013 17:46:34 -0400, Terry Reedy wrote:
>> On 7/16/2013 9:39 AM, R. David Murray wrote:
>> > On Tue, 16 Jul 2013 23:19:21 +1000
On Tue, 16 Jul 2013 17:46:34 -0400, Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 7/16/2013 9:39 AM, R. David Murray wrote:
> > On Tue, 16 Jul 2013 23:19:21 +1000, Steven D'Aprano
> > wrote:
>
> >> For example, pkgutil includes classes with single-underscore methods,
> >> which I take as private. It also has a func
When precision is needed I say things like 'a str object' or 'a bytes
object'. There is no shame in a bit of verbosity around such issues,
especially in the reference docs (tutorials are a different issue).
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 4:50 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On 17/07/13 19:05, Terry Reedy w
On 17/07/2013 05:15, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
Terry Reedy writes:
> On 7/15/2013 10:20 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>
> >> Or is this something deeper, that a group *is* a new object in
> >> principle?
> >
> > No, I just think of it as returning "a string"
>
> That is exactly wha
On Jul 17, 2013, at 09:35 AM, Brett Cannon wrote:
>Or how about dropping the whole ``from ... import ...`` format entirely?
><0.5 wink; seriously, it's implementation is a pain and it has wonky
>semantics>
Yes, let's break *everything* :)
-Barry
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> On Jul 16, 2013, at 07:34 PM, Tres Seaver wrote:
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> >On 07/16/2013 07:09 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
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> >> I did find it interesting that we *don't* explicitly advise against
> >> the use
16.07.13 20:21, Guido van Rossum написав(ла):
The situation is most egregious if the target string is a bytearray,
where there is currently no way to get the result as an immutable
bytes object without an extra copy. (There's no API that lets you
create a bytes object directly from a slice of a b
On 17/07/13 19:05, Terry Reedy wrote:
Saying that input arguments can be "Unicode strings as well as 8-bit strings'
(the wording is from 2.x, carried over to 3.x) does not necessary exclude other
inputs.
"8-bit strings" seems somewhat ambiguous to me. In UTF-8, many Unicode strings
are 8-bi
2013/7/13 Cameron Simpson :
> This sentence:
>
> The flag is cleared in the child process before executing the
> program, the change does not change the flag in the parent process.
>
> needs a semicolon, not a comma.
Fixed.
Victor
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2013/7/7 Cameron Simpson :
> On 06Jul2013 14:43, Victor Stinner wrote:
> | 2013/7/6 Cameron Simpson :
> | > Yes. Please forget I mentioned fork(); it is only relevant if you
> | > were offering some facility to undo the addition of cloexec to a
> | > Popen passed file descriptor. Which you are not
2013/7/7 Charles-François Natali :
> Well, it complicates the signature and implementation.
> If we go the same way, why stop there and not expose O_DSYNC, O_SYNC,
> O_DIRECT...
I added this counter-argument to the PEP.
> If you want precise control over the open() sementics, os.open() is
> the w
Terry Reedy writes:
> > "stringish"
>
> This word is an adjective, not a noun.
Ah, a strict grammarian. That trumps any cards I could possibly play.
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On 7/17/2013 12:15 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
Terry Reedy writes:
> On 7/15/2013 10:20 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>
> >> Or is this something deeper, that a group *is* a new object in
> >> principle?
> >
> > No, I just think of it as returning "a string"
>
> That is exactly w
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