Raymond Hettinger wrote:
> My colleague got an odd result today that is reproducible on his build
> of Python (RedHat's distribution of Py2.4.2) but not any other builds
> I've checked (including an Ubuntu Py2.4.2 built with a later version of
> GCC). I hypothesized that this was a bug in the unde
On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 16:16 -0400, Edward C. Jones wrote:
> Please keep Python simple.
+1 on this sentiment.
I use switch statements all the time in C, but I'd rather not see them
in Python - even though I'd use them if they were there! - purely to
keep the cognitive overhead low.
http:
On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 23:29 +0200, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote:
> That may be off-topic for python-dev, but can you please explain how
> this works?
It's simple enough. In place of a central server that hosts a set of
repositories and a number of branches, and to which only a few people
have access,
Pardon me for coming a little late to the SCM discussion, but I thought
I would throw a few comments in.
A little background: I've used Perforce, CVS, Subversion and BitKeeper
for a number of years. Currently, I hack on Mercurial
http://www.selenic.com/mercurial>.
However, I'm not here to try an
