> I think that the issue of searchability and signature are pretty
> compelling reasons for such a simple feature to be part of the
> function name.
I would absolutely agree with that if all three function were in the same
namespace (like the string methods referred to earlier), but in this case,
On 04/30/2020 07:58 AM, Christopher Barker wrote:
On 04/29/2020 10:51 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
I think that the issue of searchability and signature are pretty
compelling reasons for such a simple feature to be part of the
function name.
I would absolutely agree with that if all three f
On 2020-04-30 1:07 p.m., Ethan Furman wrote:
On 04/30/2020 07:58 AM, Christopher Barker wrote:
On 04/29/2020 10:51 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
I think that the issue of searchability and signature are pretty
compelling reasons for such a simple feature to be part of the
function name.
I
On Apr 30, 2020, at 07:58, Christopher Barker wrote:
>
>> I think that the issue of searchability and signature are pretty
>> compelling reasons for such a simple feature to be part of the
>> function name.
>
> I would absolutely agree with that if all three function were in the same
> namespac
On 1/05/20 2:58 am, Christopher Barker wrote:
Imagine someone that uses zip() in code that works for a while, and then
discovers a bug triggered by unequal length inputs.
If it’s a flag, they look at the zip docstring, and find the flag, and
their problem is solved.
Why would they look at th
On Apr 29, 2020, at 22:50, Stephen J. Turnbull
wrote:
> Andrew Barnert via Python-ideas writes:
>
>>> Also -1 on the flag.
>
> Also -1 on the flag, for the same set of reasons.
>
> I have to dissent somewhat from one of the complaints, though:
>
>> auto-complete won’t help at all,
Thanks fo
Hi,
Here's something I wanted in Python for many years. If this has been
discussed in the past, please refer me to that discussion.
On one hand, it's something that I can't imagine the python-dev community
supporting. On the other hand, it would maintain backward compatibility.
I wish there were
