On 11/9/18 11:19 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 12:56:07PM +1100, Chris Angelico wrote:
>
>> Not ambiguous. It takes as many valid octal digits as it can.
> What is the rationale for that? Hex escapes don't.
>
> My guess is, "Because that's what C does". And C probably does it
I'm interested in proposing several additions to the Python standard
library, and I would like more information on the procedure for doing so.
Are all additions done via a PEP? If not what is the procedure. If so, I've
read that the first step was to email this board and get feedback.
I have a lib
On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 08:36:52PM -0500, Jonathan Crall wrote:
> I'm interested in proposing several additions to the Python standard
> library, and I would like more information on the procedure for doing so.
> Are all additions done via a PEP?
Not necessarily. Small, obvious enhancements can go
@Steve, this is just the sort of feedback I was looking for. Small and
conservative additions make sense. I definitely think that some functions
do fit into existing stdlib modules. For instance, AutoDict might go in
collections.
Sorry, some of these aren't descriptive enough, and if you're trying
I'm aware that syntax for ranges and slices has been discussed a good
amount over the years, but I wanted to float an idea out there to see if it
hasn't been considered before. It's not really original. Rather, it's a
combination of a couple parts of Python, and I find it
fascinatingly-consistent w
On Sun, Nov 11, 2018 at 4:59 PM Nicholas Harrison
wrote:
> It has a couple of siblings that should be obvious (think list or set
> comprehension):
>
> [start:stop:step] # gives a list
> {start:stop:step} # gives a set
>
Be careful of this last one. If you omit the step, it looks like this:
{sta
