Re: [Python-Dev] yield * (Re: Missing operator.call)

2009-02-08 Thread Georg Brandl
gl...@divmod.com schrieb: > On 01:00 am, greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz wrote: >>Guido van Rossum wrote: >>>We already have yield expressions and they mean something else... >> >>They don't have a "*" in them, though, and I don't >>think the existing meaning of yield as an expression >>would carry ove

[Python-Dev] Mark old distutils as deprecated

2009-02-08 Thread Tarek Ziadé
Hello To avoid confusion, as suggested by Akira who works on cleaning the Distutils pages on the python.org website, I would like to move http://svn.python.org/view/distutils/trunk into a branch and add a README.txt in an empty trunk to explain the current status of the package. Any objection ?

Re: [Python-Dev] Mark old distutils as deprecated

2009-02-08 Thread A.M. Kuchling
On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 11:15:46AM +0100, Tarek Ziadé wrote: > To avoid confusion, as suggested by Akira who works on cleaning the > Distutils pages on the python.org website, > I would like to move http://svn.python.org/view/distutils/trunk into a > branch and add a README.txt in an empty trunk >

Re: [Python-Dev] IDLE reading IDLESTARTUP or PYTHONSTARTUP on restart

2009-02-08 Thread Aahz
On Sat, Feb 07, 2009, Mitchell L Model wrote: > > I have a small change (shown below) to PyShell.py in idlelib that causes > the subprocess interpreter to read IDLESTARTUP or PYTHONSTARTUP each time > it restarts. To me this would make IDLE much more useful for myself and > students I teach. It

Re: [Python-Dev] yield * (Re: Missing operator.call)

2009-02-08 Thread Greg Ewing
gl...@divmod.com wrote: has anyone considered the syntax 'yield from iterable'? That would be reasonable, too. I don't really have any strong feelings about the syntax at the moment, except that I'd like it to be something reasonably short so that embedding it in an expression is a feasible th