Re: [Python-Dev] Backporting PEP 3127 to trunk

2008-02-22 Thread Bernhard Herzog
Greg Ewing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't know about oct(), but I found hex() to be quite useful > the other day when I was using the interactive interpreter to > to some hex calculations. It would have been quite tedious > having to say "%x".format(_) or some such all the time to > see the

Re: [Python-Dev] [poll] New name for __builtins__

2007-11-30 Thread Bernhard Herzog
Oleg Broytmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 11:22:03AM +1300, Greg Ewing wrote: >> The next step up from global would be __galactic__. > >Let me skip __universe[al]__ and go directly to The Ultimate >Questions: So maybe it should be called __42__? Bernhard

Re: [Python-Dev] Dropping __init__.py requirement for subpackages

2006-04-27 Thread Bernhard Herzog
"Gustavo Carneiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Now the problem. Suppose you have the source package python-foo-bar, > which installs $pythondir/foo/__init__.py and $pythondir/foo/bar.py. This > would make a module called "foo.bar" available. Likewise, you can have the > source package pytho

Re: [Python-Dev] Proposal: defaultdict

2006-02-18 Thread Bernhard Herzog
"Guido van Rossum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If the __getattr__()-like operation that supplies and inserts a > dynamic default was a separate method, we wouldn't have this problem. Why implement it in the dictionary type at all? If, for intance, the default value functionality were provided

Re: [Python-Dev] Please comment on PEP 357 -- adding nb_index slot to PyNumberMethods

2006-02-17 Thread Bernhard Herzog
"Travis E. Oliphant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 2) The __index__ special method will have the signature > >def __index__(self): >return obj > >Where obj must be either an int or a long or another object >that has the __index__ special method (but

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 310 and exceptions

2005-04-23 Thread Bernhard Herzog
Nick Coghlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > holger krekel wrote: >> Moreover, i think that there are more than the "transactional" >> use cases mentioned in the PEP. For example, a handler may want to >> log exceptions to some tracing utility or it may want to swallow >> certain exceptions when >>