On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 08:10:26PM +1200, Greg Ewing wrote:
> Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> > ...at the cost of slowing down access to properties and __slots__, by
> > adding an *extra* dictionary lookup there.
>
> Rather than spend time tinkering with the lookup order,
> it might be more productive to
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 09:14:02AM +1000, Anthony Baxter wrote:
> I'd like to suggest that we remove all (or nearly all) uses of
> xrange from the stdlib. A quick scan shows that most of the usage
> of it is unnecessary. With it going away in 3.0, and it being
> informally deprecated anyway, it
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 01:53:01PM -0400, A.M. Kuchling wrote:
> On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 04:42:09PM +0100, Michael Foord wrote:
> > Implicit string concatenation is massively useful for creating long
> > strings in a readable way though:
>
> This PEP doesn't seem very well-argued: "It's a common
On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 07:15:35PM +0100, "Martin v. L??wis" wrote:
> Brian Harring schrieb:
> > For dict; it actually *cannot* work. You can't remove keys from a
> > dict as you're iterating over it (can change the val of a key, but not
> > remove the
On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 08:35:58PM -0600, Ben Wing wrote:
> but i still don't see why supporting iter.delete() is so wrong. clearly
> it doesn't need to work on files or other such things where it doesn't
> make sense.
>
> before you diss this completely, note that java supports exactly the
> s
On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 06:24:17AM -0600, Ben Wing wrote:
> many times writing somewhat complex loops over lists i've found the need
> to sometimes delete an item from the list. currently there's no easy
> way to do so; basically, you have to write something like
>
> i = 0
> while i < len(list):
On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 12:05:19PM -0700, Bob Ippolito wrote:
> On 9/22/06, Josiah Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Michael Foord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > I have a suggestion for a new Python built in function: 'flatten'.
> >
> > This has been brought
