On 12 February 2017 at 16:05, Steve Dower wrote:
> It depends on what the code beneath the if is doing. "Windows" may be a
> shorthand for "uses backslash", in which case the check is correct.
In this case, it's to decide whether the default way of entering EOF
at the terminal is by pressing Ctrl
On Sun, Feb 12, 2017, at 07:26, Alex Walters wrote:
> On august 7th, 1998, Guido committed
> https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/d89fa0c5761254c970af72e5abcea420fd2
> 3e893 to python, adding the quit() and exit() built-ins. He decided to
> determine the platform python was running on by check
>
> Cheers,
> Steve
>
> Top-posted from my Windows Phone
> --
> From: Alex Walters
> Sent: 2/12/2017 4:35
> To: python-ideas@python.org
> Subject: [Python-ideas] site.py uses os.sep to determine platform
>
> On august 7th, 1998, Gui
rom my Windows Phone
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From: "Alex Walters"
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To: "python-ideas@python.org"
Subject: [Python-ideas] site.py uses os.sep to determine platform
On august 7th, 1998, Guido committed
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/d89fa0c5761254c970a
On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 07:26:29AM -0500, Alex Walters
wrote:
> Is there any reason not to change...
Do not change things that work for the sake of a change. Isn't it a
good reason?
Oleg.
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On august 7th, 1998, Guido committed
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/d89fa0c5761254c970af72e5abcea420fd2
3e893 to python, adding the quit() and exit() built-ins. He decided to
determine the platform python was running on by checking os.sep. I don't
understand the rationale behind this ch
