Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 380 (yield from a subgenerator) comments

2009-03-27 Thread Stefan Rank
on 2009-03-27 05:17 P.J. Eby said the following: At 04:08 PM 3/27/2009 +1300, Greg Ewing wrote: You can't expect to improve something like that by stuffing yield-from into the existing framework, because the point of yield-from is to render the framework itself unnecessary. But it doesn't. Yo

Re: [Python-Dev] proposed which.py replacement

2007-04-01 Thread Stefan Rank
on 01.04.2007 17:23 Guido van Rossum said the following: > It's out of character for the standard library, since (regardless of > whether it's implemented in Python or part of the standard library) > it's a stand-alone utility. I don't see much use for this as a library > module. I use it as a lib

Re: [Python-Dev] proposed which.py replacement

2007-04-01 Thread Stefan Rank
on 31.03.2007 22:39 Guido van Rossum said the following: > If you ask me, having it hosted by Trent is probably more helpful for > its popularity than putting it in the Python source distro; the Tools > directory is mostly a poorly-maintained collection of trivia I wrote > many years ago that is no

Re: [Python-Dev] urllib.quote and unicode bug resuscitation attempt

2006-07-13 Thread Stefan Rank
on 13.07.2006 10:26 Mike Brown said the following: > Stefan Rank wrote: >> on 12.07.2006 07:53 Martin v. Löwis said the following: >>> Anthony Baxter wrote: >>>>> The right thing to do is IRIs. >>>> For 2.5, should we at least detect that it's un

Re: [Python-Dev] urllib.quote and unicode bug resuscitation attempt

2006-07-12 Thread Stefan Rank
on 12.07.2006 07:53 Martin v. Löwis said the following: > Anthony Baxter wrote: >>> The right thing to do is IRIs. >> For 2.5, should we at least detect that it's unicode and raise a >> useful error? > > That can certainly be done, sure. > > Martin That would be great. And I agree that updati

[Python-Dev] urllib.quote and unicode bug resuscitation attempt

2006-07-11 Thread Stefan Rank
Hi, urllib.quote fails on unicode strings and in an unhelpful way:: Python 2.4.3 (#69, Mar 29 2006, 17:35:34) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import urllib >>> urllib.quote('a\xf1a') 'a%F1a' >>> url

Re: [Python-Dev] Alternative path suggestion

2006-05-04 Thread Stefan Rank
on 04.05.2006 16:18 Paul Moore said the following: > On 5/4/06, Nick Coghlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> My inclination was to have a PlatformPath subclass that accepted 'os', 'sep' >> and 'extsep' keyword arguments to the constructor, and provided the >> appropriate 'sep' and 'extsep' attributes

Re: [Python-Dev] Alternative path suggestion

2006-05-04 Thread Stefan Rank
on 04.05.2006 14:57 Nick Coghlan said the following: > Mike Orr wrote: >> Intriguing idea, Noam, and excellent thinking. I'd say it's worth a >> separate PEP. It's too different to fit into PEP 355, and too big to >> be summarized in the "Open Issues" section. Of course, one PEP will >> be rejec

Re: [Python-Dev] str object going in Py3K

2006-02-15 Thread Stefan Rank
on 16.02.2006 06:59 Alex Martelli said the following: > On Feb 15, 2006, at 9:51 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote: > >> On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 09:17 -0800, Guido van Rossum wrote: >> >>> Regarding open vs. opentext, I'm still not sure. I don't want to >>> generalize from the openbytes precedent to openstr or

Re: [Python-Dev] Octal literals

2006-02-03 Thread Stefan Rank
on 03.02.2006 00:16 Delaney, Timothy (Tim) said the following: > Andrew Koenig wrote: >>> I definately agree with the 0c664 octal literal. Seems rather more >>> intuitive. >> I still prefer 8r664. > The more I look at this, the worse it gets. Something beginning with > zero (like 0xFF, 0c664) immed

Re: [Python-Dev] The path module PEP

2006-01-27 Thread Stefan Rank
on 27.01.2006 11:16 Paul Moore said the following: > [...] >>> Arguably, Path objects should always maintain an absolute path - there >>> should be no such thing as a relative Path. So you would have >> you realise that one might need and/or want to represent a relative path? > > Absolutely. But n

Re: [Python-Dev] The path module PEP

2006-01-26 Thread Stefan Rank
on 26.01.2006 16:34 Aaron Bingham said the following: > Stefan Rank wrote: >> on 26.01.2006 14:15 Paul Moore said the following: >> [snip] >> >>> Arguably, Path objects should always maintain an absolute path - there >>> should be no such thing as a relative

Re: [Python-Dev] The path module PEP

2006-01-26 Thread Stefan Rank
on 26.01.2006 14:15 Paul Moore said the following: [snip] > > Also note that my example Path("C:", "Windows", "System32") above is > an *absolute* path on Windows. But a relative (albeit stupidly-named > :-)) path on Unix. How would that be handled? wrong, Path("C:", "Windows", "System32") is a r

Re: [Python-Dev] properties and block statement

2005-10-19 Thread Stefan Rank
on 18.10.2005 19:17 Antoine Pitrou said the following: >>What would this mythical block statement look like that would make >>properties easier to write than the above late-binding or the subclass >>Property recipe? > > I suppose something like: > > class C(object): > x = prop: >