Greg Ewing schrieb:
I've just discovered the hard way that NamedTemporaryFile
automatically deletes the file when you close it. That
doesn't seem very useful to me, since surely the reason
you're using NamedTemporaryFile instead of TemporaryFile
is that you want to do something else with it
Tony Meyer schrieb:
ISTM that there is value in submitting a patch (including tests and
documentation, and making appropriate comment in related patches), even
if that is all that is done (i.e. no follow-up).
That's certainly, absolutely, true. It's also true that there are very
many kinds
Now that this thread has celebrated its 100th message, I feel
compelled to say something.
My first observation is that this is a tempest in a teacup.
My second observation is that there seems to have been a lack of
people skills all around. That is perhaps to expect in a community of
geeks, but
Guido van Rossum schrieb:
And Martin, if I decide that the change should be
rolled back, will you be okay with that?
Certainly. I would wish somebody contributed a documentation patch
pointing out that specific detail in the documentation (and in
the process making the documentation match the
Guido van Rossum wrote:
If you want, I can make a decision. But I will only do that if I hear
from both sides of the debate that they are willing to accept my
choice even if it favors the other party. Can I hear agreement to
that?
From me - definitely.
I put my position forward (anti this
Delaney, Timothy (Tim) wrote:
From me - definitely.
Damned Outlook, reformatting sent emails! That statement was obviously
from me ...
Tim Delaney
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[Mark Dickinson]
The current cmath module has some significant numerical problems,
particularly in the inverse trig and inverse hyperbolic trig
functions.
IIRC, cmath was essentially whipped up over a weekend by a scientist,
transcribing formulas from a math reference. Such an approach is
Damien Miller wrote:
That annoyed me too, so I submitted a patch[1] that was recently
committed.
That looks good. Seems to me it should really be the
default behaviour, but I suppose that would break
code that was relying on the automatic deletion.
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Greg
On 18 Mar, 07:53 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My second observation is that there seems to have been a lack of
people skills all around. That is perhaps to expect in a community of
geeks, but given the length of the previous thread on this topic
(before Martin checked it in) I think all the
