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>
> > […] we feel that the only way to *enforce* that guidelines is to
> > provide environments where the `python` command does not work
> > (unless explicitly installed).
>
> Yes. The ‘python’ command is confusing,
wish you
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> On 28 July 2015 at 13:35, Ben Finney wrote:
> > People can, do, and probably must make many decisions through
> > non-rational processes. I don't propose to change that.
>
> Good.
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> >> straight to my biggest fear when doing a commit (on any project) -
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> >> […] my biggest fear when doing a commit (on any project) - what if,
> >> after all the worrying and consideration I put into doing this
> >> commit,
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> > By definition, advocating to not add cruft to an API is going to be in
> > advance of being bitten by those additions.
>
> That's not what people are doing. Folks are actually arguing for
> *r
Antoine Pitrou writes:
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> Ben Finney wrote:
> >
> > +1.
> >
> > These checks are a good thing, but they belong in a linter tool not as
> > aliases in the API.
>
> Practicality beats purity. Unless you have been a
hese checks are a good thing, but they belong in a linter tool not as
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"Jim J. Jewett" writes:
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> > Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> >> I think that heuristics to guess the encoding have their role to play,
> >> if the caller understands the risks.
>
> Ben Finney wrote:
> > In my opinion, content-type guessing
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> > Kristján Valur Jónsson writes:
> >
> >> Believe it or not, sometimes you really don't care about encodings.
> >> Sometimes you just want to parse text files.
> >
> > Files
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> >> when all you want is to open that .txt file on the drive and
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> >> For draft PEP, the identifier may change.
Note that this isn't a matter of the PEP being draft; once a PEP has a
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> 19.07.13 10:25, Ben Finney написав(ла):
> > Serhiy Storchaka writes:
> >> What type of dash is preferable in the documentation? The en dash
> >> (–) or the em dash (—)?
> >
> > They have different purposes; use whichever is appr
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> On Jun 15, 2013, at 10:45 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
> > Is there anything I can do to keep the ‘enum’ package online for
> > continuity but make it clear, to automated tools, that this is
> > end-of-life and obsoleted by another package?
>
> Right
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> > "Stephen J. Turnbull" writes:
> >> A failure to sign the CLA is already a decision not to contribute
> >> to the distribution
> >
> > As someone who cannot in good fai
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> On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 7:10 PM, Ben Finney
> wrote:
> > Unambiguous storage of absolute time can be achieved with POSIX
> > timestamps, but that is certainly not the only nor best way to do
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> Georg Brandl writes:
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> > list of possible features for 3.3 as specified by PEP 398:
> >
> > Candidate PEPs:
> […]
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> > * PEP 3143: Standard daemon process library
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> Our porting work will not be done in time for Python 3.3.
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> >> […] using rename() on POSIX systems and MoveFileEx() on Windows
> >> (which are now available through os.replace()). It would also use
> >
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