Re: [Python-ideas] CoC violation

2018-09-21 Thread C. Titus Brown
On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 01:55:03PM -0400, Franklin? Lee wrote: > On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 10:52 AM Elazar wrote: > > > > > > > > On Fri, Sep 21, 2018, 16:56 Philipp A. wrote: > >> > >> The main clause differentiating bad, weaponizable CoCs from good ones is > >> > >> "Assume good faith" > >> > >>

Re: [Python-ideas] Retire or reword the "Beautiful is better than ugly" Zen clause

2018-09-17 Thread C. Titus Brown
Hi everyone, on behalf of the moderators… please, let’s stop discussing who accused whom of what, and either stick to the discussion at hand or be silent. If you can’t make a point without aggression or name calling, then it’s not a point you should be making. (That’s a general statement about

[Python-ideas] Meta question: python-ideas HOWTO (re Re: PEP's shouldn't require a sponsor)

2019-07-29 Thread C. Titus Brown
Hi folks, one of the list admins here, my eye was caught by this ongoing discussion. I’m responding to this message out of several on this topic, because it brings up an interesting point - do we have good documents on this process that are attached to python-ideas and/or core mentoring lists?

[Python-ideas] Re: Meta question: python-ideas HOWTO (re Re: PEP's shouldn't require a sponsor)

2019-07-29 Thread C. Titus Brown
//mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/DVUIY3FCDB5VXD65NEXSVPZL5WEZRDWC/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ -- C. Titus Brown, ctbr...@ucdavis.edu ___ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org T

[Python-ideas] Re: Meta question: python-ideas HOWTO (re Re: PEP's shouldn't require a sponsor)

2019-07-29 Thread C. Titus Brown
+1, will circle back around to this list with news. best, —titus > On Jul 29, 2019, at 11:38 AM, Guido van Rossum wrote: > > I suggest to put this in the devguide and deep-link there from the > python-ideas (and python-dev?) description. The more we have under version > control the better.

[Python-ideas] Re: Python should take a lesson from APL: Walrus operator not needed

2019-11-11 Thread C. Titus Brown
Hi folks, moderator here. I’d (strongly) suggest no further replies, unless there’s something Python specific to discuss. I’ll put the list into emergency moderation for a bit. thanks, —titus > On Nov 11, 2019, at 9:05 AM, Ricky Teachey wrote: > > > I have found that trying to explain the

[Python-ideas] Re: COMBINE operator

2019-11-18 Thread C. Titus Brown
/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/FIEXDBO47QRKX4O7OSNTJRGDCYH5YJKU/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ -- C. Titus Brown, ctbr...@ucdavis.edu

[Python-ideas] Where should we put the python-ideas HOWTO?

2019-12-01 Thread C. Titus Brown
Hi folks, sorry, took me more than a few months, but I wrote a draft of a python-ideas HOWTO here, https://hackmd.io/@-6xkuCDkTrSFptQEimAdcg/B1noEGh2H Thanks to Eric Smith and Chris Barker for their link suggestions, and Chris Angelico and Guido van Rossum for their additional thoughts in a

[Python-ideas] Re: Where should we put the python-ideas HOWTO?

2019-12-01 Thread C. Titus Brown
> On Dec 1, 2019, at 8:15 AM, Jonathan Goble wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 1, 2019, 11:06 AM Ned Batchelder wrote: > On 12/1/19 10:45 AM, C. Titus Brown wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > sorry, took me more than a few months, but I wrote a draft of a > > py

[Python-ideas] Request: pointers to exemplar threads from python-ideas?

2019-11-29 Thread C. Titus Brown
Hi folks, I’m working on some help documentation for python-ideas and first-time contributors, and I’d like to include a few examples of discussions that were productive and led to changes. I browsed through the archives and found a few positive and negative examples (below) but didn’t find

[Python-ideas] Re: Add a __valid_getitem_requests__ protocol

2020-02-23 Thread C. Titus Brown
WHATS WRONG WITH TOP POSTING IN ALL CAPS AND NO PUNCTUATION!?!?!?! :) No one has complained to the moderators that CoC is being violated. and if they did, there’s a whole bunch of safeguards to ensure that it’s not being misused. I do occasionally (once or twice a year?) place specific

[Python-ideas] Re: Traits

2020-02-15 Thread C. Titus Brown
Hi folks, moderator here. I’m calling it for this discussion. No further discussion is called for, IMO, although I’m sure Brett and I would be happy to be overridden by private request. Stephen, thank for providing an excellent summary post on which to lay this thread to rest :) :) best,

[Python-ideas] Re: Change List Metadata

2020-01-15 Thread C. Titus Brown
/library/collections.html#collections.Counter best, --titus -- C. Titus Brown, ctbr...@ucdavis.edu ___ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/

[Python-ideas] Re: Argumenting in favor of first()

2019-12-27 Thread C. Titus Brown
ZGFCAKY2WA2RACHITPECFDKQ7/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ -- C. Titus Brown, ctbr...@ucdavis.edu ___ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https:

[Python-ideas] Re: dunder methods for encoding & prettiness aware formal & informal representations

2020-03-16 Thread C. Titus Brown
(no reason to moderate a topic that wanders off what you think is the linear path, Rob… no one is violating CoC and that’s mostly what I care about) > On Mar 16, 2020, at 6:11 PM, Rob Cliffe via Python-ideas > wrote: > > This makes on my count 6 messages on arcane mathematical topics that

[Python-ideas] Re: Explicitly defining a string buffer object (aka StringIO += operator)

2020-04-02 Thread C. Titus Brown via Python-ideas
(Folks, sorry for letting this spam slip through! It was reasonably clever compared to most of the stuff we get :) best, —titus > On Apr 2, 2020, at 12:49 AM, gstindianews.i...@gmail.com wrote: > > ya that's what I also get for quickly whipping something up and not > testing it. Good catch

[Python-ideas] MODERATOR - in re "Amend PEP-8 to require clear, understandable comments instead of Strunk & White Standard English comments"

2020-06-28 Thread C. Titus Brown via Python-ideas
Hello everyone, the above referenced thread is getting heated and unfriendly; I’ve already rejected a message as inappropriately ad hominem. Please take some time to (re)consider the content of your e-mails before sending them. We may turn on default moderation if it continues. As a reminder:

[Python-ideas] Re: [Python-Dev] Re: Amend PEP-8 to require clear, understandable comments instead of Strunk & White Standard English comments

2020-06-29 Thread C. Titus Brown via Python-ideas
Hi all, as a moderator of python-ideas, I’ve asked postmaster to place python-ideas into emergency moderation. (I do not have the tools to do so myself.) I’m willing to review messages individually as needed. best, —titus > On Jun 29, 2020, at 9:24 AM, Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer > wrote: > >

[Python-ideas] Context manager for csv module 'reader' and 'DictReader'?

2021-09-05 Thread C. Titus Brown via Python-ideas
Hi all, the product of Sunday morning idle curiosity... I’ve been using the csv module a lot, and I’m wondering if there would be value in adding a standard mechanism for opening a CSV file (correctly) using a context manager? So, instead of with open(filename, newline=“”) as fp: r =

[Python-ideas] Re: Context manager for csv module 'reader' and 'DictReader'?

2021-09-06 Thread C. Titus Brown via Python-ideas
stead? Codifying that in some standard way could be nice. best, —titus > On Sep 5, 2021, at 5:30 PM, Oscar Benjamin wrote: > > On Mon, 6 Sept 2021 at 01:13, Greg Ewing wrote: >> >> On 6/09/21 3:07 am, C. Titus Brown via Python-ideas wrote: >>> with csv.DictReader.open(

[Python-ideas] PEP-671 thread - let's take a break, please.

2021-12-09 Thread C. Titus Brown via Python-ideas
Hi all, the PEP-671 thread is starting to accumulate an awful lot of heat. I’ve placed the list into emergency moderation for the day to give everyone a chance to take a step back and (re)consider their next e-mails. Thank you! best, —titus (list moderator)

[Python-ideas] 'frozen set' discussion - please consider taking some time off.

2022-01-21 Thread C. Titus Brown via Python-ideas
Hi all, python-ideas moderator here. It’d be great if y’all could take a few days to cool off the frozen set discussion, which is veering off the rails a little bit into emotional language. I’ll keep an eye on it and put emergency moderation into effect if I must, but it’d be nicer if I

[Python-ideas] Re: Idea: Tagged strings in python

2022-12-17 Thread C. Titus Brown via Python-ideas
> On Dec 17, 2022, at 10:08 AM, e...@emilstenstrom.se wrote: > > Bruce Leban wrote: >>> Try googling "python-ideas string prefixes". Doing mimimal diligence is a >>> reasonable expectation before writing up an idea. > > Thanks for the query "string prefixes". I tried other queries but not that