"M.-A. Lemburg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> This is exactly what I'm getting at: I can see the potential
> use for resource management (which is what started out the
> whole idea IIRC), but fail to see why you'd want to use it
> for anything more complicated than that.
I, as a concrete example,
Raymond Hettinger wrote:
> {MAL]
>
>>This is exactly what I'm getting at: I can see the potential
>>use for resource management (which is what started out the
>>whole idea IIRC), but fail to see why you'd want to use it
>>for anything more complicated than that.
>
>
> Substitute "different" for
Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> Guido van Rossum wrote:
>
>>Ah, sigh. I didn't know that os.listdir() behaves differently when the
>>argument is Unicode. Does os.listdir(".") really behave differently
>>than os.listdir(u".")? Bah! I don't think that's a very good design
>>(although I see where it comes f
M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> This is exactly what I'm getting at: I can see the potential
> use for resource management (which is what started out the
> whole idea IIRC), but fail to see why you'd want to use it
> for anything more complicated than that.
The other suggested uses (redirecting stdout, log
M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> If you then start using terms in the documentation that cause
> wrong associations, you make life harder for new programmers.
I agree that every new construct and protocol makes life that much harder for
anyone learning Python, but the bit I'm having trouble grasping is why
Nick Coghlan asked Marc-Andre Lemburg:
> There's clearly something that bothers you about this though, and I'd like to
> understand what it is. Does the term 'context' carry additional, more
> specific, connotations for you that I'm simply not taking into account?
To me, a context is much large
Michael Hudson wrote:
> "M.-A. Lemburg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>
>>This is exactly what I'm getting at: I can see the potential
>>use for resource management (which is what started out the
>>whole idea IIRC), but fail to see why you'd want to use it
>>for anything more complicated than tha
On 7/15/05, Ron Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[several new syntax proposals]
Please stop proposing new syntax. The PEP was accepted after quite
enough back-and-forth; there's no point opening this up yet again.
--
--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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Guido van Rossum wrote:
> On 7/15/05, Ron Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [several new syntax proposals]
>
> Please stop proposing new syntax. The PEP was accepted after quite
> enough back-and-forth; there's no point opening this up yet again.
My apologies Guido.
Subtracting the inappropriat
Ron Adam wrote:
> 3. The "with" documentation could possibly be grouped with or after
> the "try" documentation as it may be easier to understand in that context.
I was looking for an appropriate place in the tutorial to put a couple of
usage examples - a new subsection immediately after th
> "Jim" == Jim Jewett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Jim> Nick Coghlan asked Marc-Andre Lemburg:
>> There's clearly something that bothers you about this though,
>> and I'd like to understand what it is. Does the term 'context'
>> carry additional, more specific, connotations for
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