BartC <b...@freeuk.com> writes:
> On 08/11/2015 21:00, Ben Finney wrote:
> > The namespace can change dynamically, which is another way of what
> > people have been trying to tell you all through this thread.
> >
> > The compiler *cannot* know what the names
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> On 07/11/2015 03:43, Ben Finney wrote:
> > Bartc <b...@freeuk.com> writes:
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> >> Is there no way then in Python to declare:
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> >> pi = 3.141519 # etc
> >>
> >> and make it impo
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> Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> writes:
> > The opposite of string typing is weak typing.
>
> Well, I would say *string* typing [as used in, for example, sh and tcl]
> is actually a form of weak typing.
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> > How can I convince ‘print’, everywhere throughout a module, that it
> > should coerce its arguments using ‘unicode’?
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> How about lay-English ontology in
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> What does it mean to access something, if not to d
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> > own value accessible directly by the running program, such as a pointer
> > in C.
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The ‘testscenarios’ library is one way to have a set of scenarios
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So, both XML and JSON should be considered write-only, and produced
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Terry Reedy tjre...@udel.edu writes:
On 7/15/2015 9:51 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
What well-defined data type exists with the following properties:
* Mapping, key → value.
* Each key is a sequence (e.g. `tuple`) of items such as text strings.
* Items in a key may be the sentinel `ANY
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Are those the ‘__contains__’, ‘__getitem__’ methods? What actually
is the API of a mapping type, that would need to be customised for
this application?
The problem is that potential key matches are found
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Fine by me. What is the mapping API that needs to be implemented though?
Have a look at collections.MutableMapping.
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Is there a way of getting the key used by the dictionary, short of
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Since the introduction of keyword-only arguments in Python functions,
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