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> > "M.-A. Lemburg" writes:
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> >> No, you tell them: "If you want Unicode 6 semantics, use regex, if
> >> you're fine with Unicode 2.0/3.0 semantics, use re".
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> > Dan Stromberg writes:
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> > > It's been suggested that […] if people had added symlinks first,
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> > will remain useful to the person learning Python.
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> The usage of the object determines what we call
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> Done now (http://svn.python.org/projects/peps/trunk/>, revision
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> > So it's not abandoned, but I don't know which version should be the
> > current target. What change should I make to the PEP in such a case?
>
> Put 3.3 or 3.x if you're thinking really long term. :)
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> > num = float(input_from_the_external_world)
> >
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> > > If someone wants to depend on some undocumented detail of the
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> | Would it help if the traceback showed the ‘repr()’ of each of the
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> > > On 23.03.2010 02:28, Ben Finney wrote:
> > > > http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/fhs/fhs-2.3.html
> > > >#VARCACHEAPPLICATIONCACHEDATA
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