bility with API, with the first digit being major
changes and the second minor but not fully backwards compatible changes.
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> p...@python.org
> _
While I am not a lawyer, or even play on on TV, I can imagine that for
such an agreement to really be enforced, they need to know who actually
is agreeing to it. Just a name isn't a unique a unique identifier, so
more inf
documents that can track back
your 'official' address over time, so confirming that you are the Joe
Smith from 15 Main ST, Anytown USA, is possible. Try to think how you
could legally prove you were or were not the owner of
joe.sm...@example.com 10 years ago, where example.com is some major free
em
Now, one case where there is an intentional bias to the bottom is Map
Grid Coordinate system, where you specify 1 meter resolution within a
grid with 5 digits, but if you want to specify to less precision, the
specification it to ALWAYS truncate so map coordinate 1234 represent the
range
every have that same ID number, and people may not think of the
fact that some other ID numbers, like the SSN do get reused. Since the
Python Object Identities can get reused after the object goes away, the
analogy really needs to keep that clear, and not give the other extreme
of a false impress
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just forcing the programmer to be making the copies
explicitly.
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On 5/27/19 2:05 PM, Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 5/27/2019 9:52 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
>> On 5/27/19 9:12 AM, Terry Reedy wrote:
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>>> I believe that the situation is or can be thought of as this: there is
>>> exactly 1 function locals dict.
>
> per function inv
the snapshot
itself is dynamic, and thus changes at that environment changes (and you
could pass that snapshot to some other place, and they could get a view
of things just like you would see it there,
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but your program will be violating the conventions of the host environment.
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tually have infinite of something without
special casing it. (and if you special case infinite, you might not make
the effort handle large values of many).
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On 12/13/19 12:27 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 10:30:15PM -0500, Richard Damon wrote:
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>> I will way that in my many years of
>> programming experience I can't think of any great cases where a language
>> as part of the language definition limite
a somewhat vague idea, get it approved, and have
someone else stuck with the job of getting it done.
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tes != characters, so if you want to
actually count how many characters are in a string, you need to be
aware, and avoid splitting a string in the middle of a code-point, but a
lot will still just work.
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e unit, and thus would need to be at least a 21 bit
type (typically, it would be a 32 bit type), but Windows makes it a 16
bit type due to ABIs being locked before the Unicode expansion.
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ut having to do a lot of research, and even then
you may need to figure out which meaning was meant. If your goal is to
communicate, going to the old core is usually the best.
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(unless the mark is just havig a dot in the name).
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s promise will need to be
broken.
UTF-16 grew out of a need to fix what has become UCS-2, which is the
encoding used for earlier Unicode standards, before the need for code
points above U+ (now the BMP) was seen.
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then remove that after things calm down. That depends on the moderator
being willing to take on that job (like the graphite rods in a reactor).
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On 6/25/20 6:48 PM, Emily Bowman wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 3:41 PM Richard Damon
> mailto:rich...@damon-family.org>> wrote:
> > Actually, you could make _ less special by still binding the value to
>
> it, just make it special in that you allow se
es,
maybe even specify which if you want.
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On 6/27/20 5:36 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
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> > I thought _ was also commonly used as:
> >
> > first, -, last = (1, 2, 3)
> >
> > as a generic don't care about assignment.
>
> It is. But there are other options (eg, '
ssage as offensive to others
due to implication, all because some people are easy to offend.
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and those 'White Guys' were, at least in part, the people the
white supremacy came from, i.e., guilt by association.
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t;> for i in range(1,11):
> ... sys.stdout.write('\r%d' % i)
> ... time.sleep(1)
> ...
> 10>>>
> # displays '1', '2' ... '10' as intended.
>
> Best wishes
> Rob Cliffe
Is that what the REPL is defined to do? print the results of each
statement (unless it is
n
may bring more clarity to the PEP as a whole.
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> On Jul 16, 2020, at 1:36 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
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> On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 3:25 AM Federico Salerno
> wrote:
>> Tools should adapt to the language, not the other way around. If things had
>> to be done the way they had always been done, without any change, for fear
>> of people not
he object address. If some other
method was chosen for generating the object id, then by necessity, there
would need to be a method to let multiple interpreters keep the number
unique, perhaps some bits being reserved for an interpreter id, and the
rest be a serial number.
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>> One comment about having the exception handler 'save state' and restore
>> it is that frequently the purpose of the exception handler is TO make
>> changes to outer v
One comment about having the exception handler 'save state' and restore
it is that frequently the purpose of the exception handler is TO make
changes to outer variable to fix things up based on the exception.
I could see the desire of a way to create an internal scope of sorts and
create names
e of
if b:
pass
which is the equivalent to
if b.__bool__():
pass
Yes, perhaps there is more of an expectation that __bool__() is
innocuous, but is that a an assumption that should be baked into the
language.
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of the program,
so that no other process could change the contents behind its back. I
think normal mmapping doesn't do this, but if that sort of lock is
available, then it probably should be used.
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positional if that seems REALLY important to do, but it is much harder
to take back a syntax that has been given.
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uence says that some people will
have a VERY hard time entering usable code if there tools support
Unicode, but use the other convention.
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ft u 00e9". In that
case, I actually know the codepoint.
But would have to look up the actual number to enter them.
Imagine of ALL your source code had to be entered via code-point numbers.
BTW, you should be able to enable 'composing' under Linux too, just like
under OSX with the right input
r elements
in order if the previous ones are the same.
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> On Jan 18, 2022, at 11:34 AM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
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> At best it shows that deprecations are complicated no matter how well you
> plan them. I remember that "noisy by default" deprecation warnings were
> widely despised.
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>> On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 6:49 AM Antoine Pitrou wrote:
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