Re: [Python-Dev] Avoiding cascading test failures

2007-09-02 Thread Alexandre Vassalotti
On 8/28/07, Collin Winter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/22/07, Alexandre Vassalotti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I was fixing tests failing in the py3k branch, I found the number duplicate failures annoying. Often, a single bug, in an important method or function, caused a large number of

[Python-Dev] Product function patch [issue 1093]

2007-09-02 Thread Ryan Freckleton
Hello, At one time Guido mentioned adding a built-in product() function to cover some of the remaining use cases of the built-in reduce(). I don't know if this function is still wanted or needed, but I've created an implementation with tests and documentation at http://bugs.python.org/issue1093 .

Re: [Python-Dev] Product function patch [issue 1093]

2007-09-02 Thread Martin v. Löwis
At one time Guido mentioned adding a built-in product() function to cover some of the remaining use cases of the built-in reduce(). What is the use case for product()? Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org