Re: [Python-Dev] Python 2.4 won the "Jolt productivity award" last night

2005-03-19 Thread Aahz
On Fri, Mar 18, 2005, Simon Brunning wrote: > On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 16:01:03 +, Gareth McCaughan > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> http://www.sdmagazine.com/jolts/ , >> >> but it's not been updated yet and therefore still has last year's >> winners on it. I haven't found anything with more

Re: [Python-Dev] python-dev Summary for 2005-03-01 through 2005-03-15 [draft]

2005-03-19 Thread Brett Cannon
[Nick Coghlan] - sum() semantics discussed - Guido's blog entry on `the fate of reduce() in Python 3000`_ (which reiterated Guido's plan to cut map(), reduce(), filter() and lambdas (what about zip()?) caused a huge discussion on whether sum() worke

Re: [Python-Dev] python-dev Summary for 2005-03-01 through 2005-03-15 [draft]

2005-03-19 Thread Brett Cannon
[Paul Moore] On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 18:21:33 -0800, Brett C. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 2.4.1 should be out soon Python 2.4.1c1 is out. Very shortly c2 will be released. Assuming no major issues come up, 2.4 final will be out. You probably mean somet

Re: [Python-Dev] python-dev Summary for 2005-03-01 through 2005-03-15 [draft]

2005-03-19 Thread Kurt B. Kaiser
Nick Coghlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That last sentence isn't quite true. With an appropriate second > argument, sum can be used to sum any sequence (even one containing > strings): > > Py> class additive_identity(object): > ... def __add__(self, other): > ... return other > ... ==> s

[Python-Dev] bdist_deb checkin comments

2005-03-19 Thread Sean Reifschneider
I'm hoping to get the bdist_deb patch committed this week. This is SF patch 1054967: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1054967&group_id=5470&atid=305470 Does anyone have any feedback on this before I do so? I'm imagining committing it into the Python CVS, but as my f

Re: [Python-Dev] Re: Change 'env var BROWSER override' semantics in webbrowser.py

2005-03-19 Thread Oleg Broytmann
On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 06:55:09PM -0500, Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote: > On Friday 18 March 2005 17:44, Reinhold Birkenfeld wrote: > > Additionally, there are several patches on SF that pertain to > > webbrowser.py; perhaps you can review some of them... > > Given the time I haven't been able to de

Re: [Python-Dev] bdist_deb checkin comments

2005-03-19 Thread Kurt B. Kaiser
Sean Reifschneider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does anyone have any feedback on this before I do so? I made a few comments on the Tracker. -- KBK ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Un

[Python-Dev] identity operands (was python-dev Summary for 2005-03-01 through 2005-03-15 [draft])

2005-03-19 Thread Nick Coghlan
Kurt B. Kaiser wrote: Nick Coghlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: This is fairly abusive of sum, though :) [snip Kurt's timings] Even avoiding the object instantiation doesn't help much: Python 2.4 (#60, Nov 30 2004, 11:49:19) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" o

[Python-Dev] Python 2.4 | 7.3 The for statement

2005-03-19 Thread Juan Carlos Rodrigo Garcia
Hi My name is Juan Carlos Rodrigo, and I love Python. It is the most impressive and usefull language that I have ever seen. I am studing, at http://www.uoc.edu, an Information Technology Postgraduate. And I have programmed some REXX applications in my past Jobs (So I love python, no more ENDS

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 2.4 | 7.3 The for statement

2005-03-19 Thread Nick Coghlan
Juan Carlos Rodrigo Garcia wrote: It is easier if we see it beforehand: - leave = False alist = [1,2,3,3,4,5,6,7,8,9] for item in alist and not leave: if item is 1: leave = True Interesting idea, but not really needed given the existence of the break statemen

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 2.4 | 7.3 The for statement

2005-03-19 Thread Nick Coghlan
Juan Carlos Rodrigo wrote: Interesting idea, but not really needed given the existence of the break statement: Goto = break I'm not interested. All non-sequential control structures are merely constrained ways of using goto (the underlying machine code will devolve into conditional and unconditio

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 2.4 | 7.3 The for statement

2005-03-19 Thread Aahz
On Sun, Mar 20, 2005, Juan Carlos Rodrigo Garcia wrote: > > Hi My name is Juan Carlos Rodrigo, and I love Python. It is the most > impressive and usefull language that I have ever seen. Glad to hear that! However, your post is off-topic for python-dev; you'll have a better discussion posting to