Steven D'Aprano wrote:
imp.find_module is deprecated and should not be used in new code.
...
try:
block
except (ImportError, RuntimeError):
block
Thanks Steven and others who replied. Looks more elegant.
By the way, RuntimeError is almost never something you want t
On 06/04/2018 07:16, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
- instead of counting days, with all the difficulty that
causes, we could just count how many times the month
changes;
- in which case, Jan 31 to Feb 1 is one month.
If you book airport parking in the UK, the charge period runs from the
midni
On Fri, 06 Apr 2018 10:56:21 +0100, bartc wrote:
> Agree with the messiness of dealing with months, but I think it's one of
> those quirks that make life more interesting, like imperial measure. I
> don't think we really want metric applied to time and to dates. (10-day
> weeks? I don't think so.)
I stumbled across this post from the Timbot, Tim Peters, back in 2000,
where he correctly predicted that Python would get generators and
iterators in Python 2:
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2000-January/033955.html
as well as list comprehensions.
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On Fri, 6 Apr 2018, 15:52 Steven D'Aprano, <
steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote:
> I stumbled across this post from the Timbot, Tim Peters, back in 2000,
> where he correctly predicted that Python would get generators
>
> >> > It's probably better to write the function yourself according to what
> >> > makes sense in your use-case, and document its behaviour clearly.
> >>
> >>
> > I suggest using the dateutil module (
> > https://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-dateutil) before writing your own.
>
> I'm not seeing a
