On 27/08/14 15:57, Albert-Jan Roskam wrote:
if *fewer* than 1 in 10 operations will raise an exception, then use
try...except; but if *more* than 1 in 10 operations will raise an
exception, and it is safe to do so, then LBYL may be appropriate.
Thanks a lot, Steven! This kind of stuff should
- Original Message -
> From: Steven D'Aprano
> To: tutor@python.org
> Cc:
> Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2014 2:08 PM
> Subject: Re: [Tutor] simple unicode question
>
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 03:58:17AM -0700, Albert-Jan Roskam wrote:
>
>> Interesting,
On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 03:58:17AM -0700, Albert-Jan Roskam wrote:
> Interesting, you follow a "look before you leap" approach here,
> whereas `they` always say it is easier to ”ask forgiveness than
> permission” in python.
Anyone who says it is *ALWAYS* easier is lying or confused :-)
It is
- Original Message -
> From: Danny Yoo
> To: Albert-Jan Roskam
> Cc: Python Tutor Mailing List
> Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2014 2:53 AM
> Subject: Re: [Tutor] simple unicode question
>
> On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 2:10 PM, Albert-Jan Roskam
> wrote:
>> H
On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 02:10:21PM -0700, Albert-Jan Roskam wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have data that is either floats or byte strings in utf-8. I need to
> cast both to unicode strings. I am probably missing something simple,
> but.. in the code below, under "float", why does [B] throw an error
> but
Danny Yoo writes:
> Hi Albert,
>
> Just following up: I consider the 2 (or 3) arg form of unicode() to be
> a design flaw in the Standard Library. It's redundant because the
> bytes type already has a decode() method:
>
> https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#bytes.decode
>
>
> So
Hi Albert,
Just following up: I consider the 2 (or 3) arg form of unicode() to be
a design flaw in the Standard Library. It's redundant because the
bytes type already has a decode() method:
https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#bytes.decode
So I would personally write convert() l
On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 2:10 PM, Albert-Jan Roskam
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have data that is either floats or byte strings in utf-8. I need to cast
> both to unicode strings.
Just to be sure, I'm parsing the problem statement above as:
data :== float
| utf-8-encoded-byte-string
Albert-Jan Roskam Wrote in message:
> Hi,
>
> I have data that is either floats or byte strings in utf-8. I need to cast
> both to unicode strings. I am probably missing something simple, but.. in the
> code below, under "float", why does [B] throw an error but [A] does not?
>
>..
>>>
Hi,
I have data that is either floats or byte strings in utf-8. I need to cast both
to unicode strings. I am probably missing something simple, but.. in the code
below, under "float", why does [B] throw an error but [A] does not?
# Python 2.7.3 (default, Feb 27 2014, 19:39:10) [GCC 4.7.2] on l
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