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x, = res # I didn't think of this one before recently
Are all answers, but none of them I would consider *obvious*.
And from my SQL-hacking experience:
x = min(s)
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I find I have a need in randomized testing for a shorter version
of getstate, even if it _is_ slower to restore. [blah about big state]
Sounds like you could easily wrap the generator to get this.
It would slow you down but would give
overlooked? Is there a better forum
in which to ask this question?
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correctly, the default csv dialect is just the Excel dialect, so
this would be two different ways of saying the same things.
Right, but Guido's point is, decide which one is the is the definition
and stick to talking about it in that form.
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setup.py uninstall some_package
Then explicitly say so for us poor schlubs.
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packagers to actually
come to a hard decision. If you want approval either admit you have no
solution in the PEP (and detail the issues that prevent a decision),
provide a minimally acceptable command, or expect that nobody sees the
value of what you propose
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is the only one of the four I checked; I suspect
the other three are similarly mislabeled.
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with:
1157920892373161954235709850086879078532699846656405640e+23
or 115792089237316195423570985008687907853269984665640564.0e+24
or some such, rather than
1.157920892373162e+77
or 1.15792089237316195423570985008687907853269984665640564e+77
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Mark Dickinson wrote:
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scott.dani...@acm.org wrote:
As a user of Idle, I would not like to see the change you seek of
having %f stay full-precision. When a number gets too long to print
on a single line, the wrap depends on the current
ark Dickinson wrote:
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...
I had also said (without explaining:
only the trailing zeroes with the e, so we wind up with:
1157920892373161954235709850086879078532699846656405640e+23
and more surprising thing. We do
at least have
('1' + '2') + '3' == '1' + ('2' + '3')
But we don't have:
(1e40 + -1e40) + 1 == 1e40 + (-1e40 + 1)
Non-associativity is what makes for floating point headaches.
To my knowledge, floating point is at least commutative.
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to strip whitespace off the end of lines as
information-destroying.
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Nick Coghlan wrote:
Collin Winter wrote:
That would be a bikeshed discussion of such
magnitude, you'd have to invent new colors to paint the thing.
Octarine. Definitely octarine :)
I'm not so sure of the color itself, but its name should definitely
rhyme with orange.
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are looking for). In any case, even a charter of unit tests to 50%
coverage of Idle would be a huge improvement.
I've run after specific bugs in Idle, but don't really know the lay of
the land.
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for a single file should probably push back out to a full sync. This
would be trickier to accomplish if the using code had to suss out how
to get to the fp. Clearly I have plans for a ZipFile expansion, but
this could only conceivably hit 2.7, and 2.8 / 3.2 is a lot more likely.
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be worth while here?
But you must decide if what you want really does LRU -- does accessing
the oldest entry make it the most recent entry?
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I need?
* Bazaar 1.0 or newer. As of this writing (04-Nov-2008) Bazaar 1.8
is the most recent release. As Bazaar is written in Python (yay!),
it is available for all major platforms, See the Bazaar home page
for information about versions for your platform.
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Christian Heimes wrote:
... The performance penalty is slime to nothing for the common case
Sorry, I love this typo.
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**kwarg-passing functions), but even hard to document.
So, I'd avoid it.
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overwrite **
20K modify one unit at a time 0.296 0.0721.320 4.09 18.26
400K modify 20 units at a time 5.690 1.360 22.500 4.18 16.54
400K modify 4096 units at a time 151.000 88.300 509.000 1.71 5.76
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) for p in paths]))
give '/a', not '/a/b'.
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/c.d/e'f', r'a\b\c.d\eve'], delimited=True)
return either
'a/b/c.d'
or r'a\b\c.d'
Perhaps even ['a', 'b', 'c.d'] (suitable for os.path.join).
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warnings.showwarning. If you get it wrong, a deprecation warning can
prevent a module like md5 from loading (for example).
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Match the new warning protocol exactly:
def showwarning(message, category, filename, lineno,
file=None, line=None):
...
If the line is not None, use it (which will happen if you pass it
along to showwarning
, and it looked
to me like this would accidentally swallow errors getting
warning context and make them fail silently. The Idle issue
that I'm fiddling with is that it doesn't take the new
showwarning call format, and it looked like this should
possibly be fixed at the same time.
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i = list(d)
is a more reasonable way to do this. I seldom find a reason
to use .keys
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ever I am working without similar tests available.
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self.failure_exception(%(first)r %(op)r %(second): %(msg)
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def assert_compare_true(op, first, second, msg=None):
if op(first, second):
return
raise self.failure_exception(msg)
if msg is None
I just noticed that the bz2lib version was updated to 1.0.5 in December
of 2007, for security reasons. I suspect it would be good to be sure
to ship this with 2.6 or 3.0.
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Alessandro Guido wrote:
Nick Coghlan wrote:
Eric Smith wrote:
Because None means 'use the default value'. You probably want:
print('a', 'b', sep='', end='')
I think this is a not optimally designed API
because you have to read the documentation to understand why
Excuse me, I don't know
Jeffrey Yasskin wrote:
The second returns the simplest rational within some distance. For
instance, it'll prefer 22/7 over 333/106 if both are close enough. We
might call it .simplest_within() for now. This seems useful for
converting from float and displaying results to users, where we prefer
of applications could:
A: cope with stupidly long path names.
V: cope with spaces in path names.
I bet they never intended to keep the huge names, just to make you cope
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, there should be an indication of how much your box
must be opened up before you can log on, at least in the screen you
get to when you log on.
However, each time I went to enter such a note, I needed to log on.
I just gave up.
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behavior will be the correct one.
c) Given a filename, make an appropriately named associated file.
pyo_name = os.path.splitext(name)[0] + '.pyo'
This argues for os.path.splitext('.pythonrc') == ('.pythonrc','')
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Bob Ippolito wrote:
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Christos Georgiou wrote:
Does anyone know why this happens? I can't find any information pointing to
this being deliberate.
Also note: the Os/X universal seems to include a Tix runtime for the
non-Intel
in the book,
and not everyone uses it.
...
Can't this just be enabled for platforms where it's known to work and let
Python as it currently is for the users of these legacy systems ?
Ah, but that _is_ the current state of affairs. .5 :-)
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a quoted joke.
I'm hoping this was a typo of an e-mail address for sending, because
this is not appropriate for python-dev.
This absolutely was a matter of clicking the wrong spot. I completely
agree it would be inappropriate
, it will be 'turtle'.
Perhaps in the meantime (if xturtle is not loved),
you could go with turtle_ as in like the standard
turtle, but my definition.
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a capability I'd like to be able to control.
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Martin v. Löwis wrote:
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... if I remember the standard
correctly, the following code shouldn't complain:
PyObject_CallFunction((PyObject*) (void *) PyRange_Type,
lll, start, start+len*step, step)
You remember the standard incorrectly
code shouldn't complain:
PyObject_CallFunction((PyObject*) (void *) PyRange_Type,
lll, start, start+len*step, step)
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Trying to satisfy the profit-lust of angels has redirected more than one
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Chermside, Michael wrote:
... I will say that if there were no legacy I'd prefer the tounicode()
and tostring() (but shouldn't itbe 'tobytes()' instead?) names for Python 3.0.
Wouldn't 'tobytes' and 'totext' be better for 3.0 where text == unicode?
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I use =, since zero-tolerance should pass equal values.
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libs = glob.glob(os.path.join(lib_dir, *s.o))
==
lib_dir = Path(/lib)
libs = lib_dir.files(*.so)
Probably that should be:
...
libs = glob.glob(os.path.join(lib_dir, *.so))
...
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and other weird formats, as
well as providing decimal conversion into some unicode number ranges
outside the ASCII group.
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Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote:
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Would expect_fail, expect_failure, expected_fail, or
expected_failure, work for you?
None of these use the same naming convention as the other unittest object
attributes. Perhaps something like failureExpected?
I'd definately
function in unittest.
Here is where the recipe is, for those who want to comment further:
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my main nit is the name: the test isn't broken in itself, and doesn't need
to be fixed; it's just not expected to succeed at this time.
the usual term for this is expected
...
Or, perhaps:
class _Quitter(str):
def __call__(self): raise SystemExit
quit = _Quitter('The quit command. Type quit() to exit')
exit = _Quitter('The exit command. Type exit() to exit')
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for debugging
and output.
Tell me:
a = [0] * 3
b = [0] * 3
a[0] = b
b[0] = a
What order should a and b have?
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Michael Chermside wrote:
... a meme will spread which says (and PLEASE don't quote this!)
ElementTree has a great API, but it's just too slow for real work.
+1 DNQOTW :-) (Do Not Quote Of The Week)
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ineffective and annoying. For example,
distutils.msvccompiler uses a bunch of instance variables which would I
would like to access in a subclass, but are unavailable because the
author could not imagine why I would need them.
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Perhaps The __ name convention is designed for 'mixins'; as a means of
enforcing private it is both ineffective and annoying. For example,
distutils.msvccompiler uses a bunch of instance variables which would I
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Well, wouldn't you know it.
I get the code right and mess up the directions.
Scott David Daniels wrote:
if you build this module, I'd suggest using
from to_int import chomp to get a function that works like int
(producing a long when needed and so on).
Well, actually it is a bit more than
Michael Hudson wrote:
How does a copying gc differ much from a non-copying non-refcounted gc
here?
One important issue for C coded modules is that addresses may change
when a GC is invoked, so no remembering addresses in your module; you
must recalculate before each use.
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sources unnecessarily inefficient.
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dynamic blocks with no distance codes
* Fix crc check bug in gzread() after gzungetc()
* Do not return an error when using gzread() on an empty file
I'd guess this belongs in 2.5, with a possible retrofit for 2.4.
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... if Py3k ever happens, I'd hope that it would be the *one* Python
to use -- too many incompatibilities would probably mean *two*
Pythons fighting each other).
A caduceus to heal software problems?
http://www.pantheon.org/articles/c/caduceus.html
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Michael Hudson wrote:
Gary Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
... bus error 100% of the time ...:
We've boiled it down pretty far, and I've sent him off to
the mac-python folks (looks gcc-compilerish to me, or maybe
fallout from slight changes in C function call semantics).
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has been rejected, the trailing L no longer introduces
ambiguity in the representation of roman(40) vs. roman(10L).
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+ return NULL;
+ }
return PyFloat_FromDouble(dx);
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Somehow, I thing 1.0 is not the best possible representation for +Inf.
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^^ here ^^
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of declaration helps show the purpose of the class.
Have a look at:
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document with no real content. Really, the twenty two pages
included an introduction, conclusion, table of contents, appendix,
and index. It just didn't have anything but section headings. It
was a thrilling triumph of form over function; a real Suahuab
aesthetic, to coin a term.
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final summary
could be a personal view of PyCon for those of us unable to get there.
If you make no more contribution to Python than you have so far, you
will have done us a great service.
Hip-hip-hooray-ly y'rs
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I'm hoping to add BZIP2 compression to zipfile for 2.5. My primary
motivation is that Project Gutenberg seems to be starting to use BZIP2
compression for some of its zips. What other wish list things do
people around here have for zipfile? I thought
open a pseudo-file for STORED files in binary read mode, for
example, to allow reading zip-in-zip files without fully occupying
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I'm hoping to add BZIP2 compression to zipfile for 2.5. My primary
motivation is that Project Gutenberg seems to be starting to use BZIP2
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people around here have
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