On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 1:34 AM, Steven D'Aprano st...@pearwood.info wrote:
I think that a line beginning with #spam is ambiguous, it isn't clear
if it is intended as a comment spam or a key starting with #, so by
the Zen, configparser should refuse to guess.
Seriously?
Perhaps the second
On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 08:13:35PM -0400, Donald Stufft wrote:
I agree that I’ve never taken the name to mean that you’re claiming any
sort of endorsement. There are a *vast* number of projects that implement
something that was defined somewhere else and I don’t think any reasonable
person
On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 08:42:02PM -0400, Donald Stufft wrote:
On Apr 25, 2014, at 7:20 PM, Ethan Furman et...@stoneleaf.us wrote:
On 04/25/2014 03:26 PM, Donald Stufft wrote:
pep8.py doesn’t violate PEP8, it just takes a stricter view of it.
If pep8 reports errors on things that
Donald Stufft writes:
For instance there are things on PyPI named after websites, like
github, twitter, Facebook, etc. These things are not written by the
companies behind those websites and are merely written to interface
with those websites. Should we assume that those companies all
On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 01:59:27AM -0400, Fred Drake wrote:
On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 1:34 AM, Steven D'Aprano st...@pearwood.info wrote:
I think that a line beginning with #spam is ambiguous, it isn't clear
if it is intended as a comment spam or a key starting with #, so by
the Zen,
I accidentally posted a question to here. I am returning to Python after a
couple years away and I am trying to brush up my skills and make the switch to
Python 3.x.
---Andrew
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On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 7:23 AM, Steven D'Aprano st...@pearwood.info wrote:
But the entry in question wasn't a line, it was a key=value pair in a
dict. Here's that line again:
cp.read_dict({'DEFAULT': {';foo': 'bar'}})
or it could have been:
cp['DEFAULT'][';foo'] = 'bar'
Either way, if
On Apr 25, 2014, at 11:47 AM, Terry Reedy tjre...@udel.edu wrote:
So I wonder whether the thought-to-be-buggy behavior is
actually buggy with respect to *all* the supported styles or just some of them.
I can't how being able to write a file that isn't read back with the
same meaning could be
