On Sun, Apr 07, 2019 at 01:42:46PM +0200, Thomas Gläßle wrote:
> It would be nice to just type, e.g. any of:
>
> pyval os.pathsep
How will it know what object os is, without guessing, if you haven't
imported it?
> There is already a tool like this on PyPI [1] (sadly py2 only atm), but
>
On 4/7/2019 10:32 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
There are quite a few important algorithms which require lists to be
sorted. For example, the bisect module, and for statistics median and
other quantiles.
Sorting a list is potentially expensive: while Timsort is very
efficient, it is still
On Sun, Apr 7, 2019 at 7:37 PM Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> There are quite a few important algorithms which require lists to be
> sorted. For example, the bisect module, and for statistics median and
> other quantiles.
But this flag doesn't affect those modules, right? 'bisect' already
requires the
On 08Apr2019 12:32, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
There are quite a few important algorithms which require lists to be
sorted. For example, the bisect module, and for statistics median and
other quantiles.
Sorting a list is potentially expensive: while Timsort is very
efficient, it is still
On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 3:13 PM Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 4/1/2019 1:14 AM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> > We do have a parser generator in the standard library:
> > https://github.com/python/cpython/tree/master/Lib/lib2to3/pgen2
>
> It is effectively undocumented and by inference discouraged from
On 08Apr2019 00:17, Terry Reedy wrote:
On 4/7/2019 10:32 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
There are quite a few important algorithms which require lists to be
sorted. [...]
Proposal: let's give lists a dunder flag, __issorted__, that tracks
whether the list is definitely sorted or not:
[...]
Hi,
what do you think about adding a tool to print a specified object,
similar to pydoc shows its help?
I regularly find myself checking the contents of variables to get a
quick grasp on what the value looks like during development, and then
type something like this:
python -c 'import os;
