Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org added the comment:
I had too the need to find out the value to pass when there are no flags, so a
mention of 0 in the doc would have been enough for me. -0 on a new constant.
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Eli Bendersky eli...@gmail.com added the comment:
I think we have enough 0 to reject the issue. Closing.
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resolution: - rejected
status: open - closed
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http://bugs.python.org/issue13385
Raymond Hettinger raymond.hettin...@gmail.com added the comment:
Thank you for closing this. I think it would only add clutter to a module that
is already puts readers into information overload.
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nosy: +rhettinger
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New submission from Eli Bendersky eli...@gmail.com:
The flags 're' accept are numeric underneath, and the current value of no
flags is just 0, which is also specified in the documentation as the default
value. However, using raw numeric values is not a good programming practice.
The
Eric V. Smith e...@trueblade.com added the comment:
Since the flags are OR'd together, I don't see what other value the no flags
parameter could have, other than zero. That said, I don't feel strongly about
it, and if it helps readability I'm not opposed.
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Antoine Pitrou pit...@free.fr added the comment:
As Eric, I don't really think it's useful, and it might actually be confusing
(people will start wondering if there's a difference between 0 and NOFLAGS).
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nosy: +pitrou
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Ezio Melotti ezio.melo...@gmail.com added the comment:
I think a proper solution would be fixing #11957. Adding a NOFLAGS alias for 0
would help fixing #12875, but I don't think it will be useful/use otherwise.
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Eli Bendersky eli...@gmail.com added the comment:
Antoine, what's the outcome of people wondering about the difference? I don't
see what's bad about it, it's not as if people are writing (or supposed to
write) code that does arithmetic on these flag values. Their only usage is to:
1. Provide
Ezio Melotti ezio.melo...@gmail.com added the comment:
If you want to provide no flags, I think it's easier to provide no flags,
rather than having to learn some NOFLAGS constant value that can be used to
make the fact that you are passing no flags more explicit than it already is.
I might
