On 2016-09-13 07:57, Mark Lawrence via Python-Dev wrote:
On 12/09/2016 23:25, Gregory P. Smith wrote:
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The problem is... I don't know how to express this as an API. Which
sinks my whole though process and tables the idea.
"tables the idea" has the US meaning of close it down, not the UK
meaning of open it up? :)
Indeed. The US usage differs from the rest of the English-speaking world.
A better phrase would've been "shelves the idea". There's even a module
in Python called "shelve", which makes it Pythonic. :-)
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