On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 7:56 AM Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote:
> No, it's because the message speaks English, not Python, and in English we > count starting from one. Users would be very confused you counted from zero > here, > And we can tell users that speak Geek more fluently that English that it's because "self" is zero :-) -CHB > On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 02:24 Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I suspect it's because zip() is actually a class constructor, so >> argument zero is self... >> Paul >> >> On Wed, 20 May 2020 at 10:10, Neil Girdhar <mistersh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > I'm just curious, but is it usual for errors to be one-based rather >> than zero-based? If I do zip(*iterables, strict=True), then "argument 1 >> is too long" refers to iterables[0]? >> > >> > On Friday, May 1, 2020 at 2:20:12 PM UTC-4, Brandt Bucher wrote: >> >> >> >> I have pushed a first draft of PEP 618: >> >> >> >> https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0618 >> >> >> >> Please let me know what you think – I'd love to hear any *new* >> feedback that hasn't yet been addressed in the PEP! >> >> >> >> Brandt >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Python-ideas mailing list -- python...@python.org >> >> To unsubscribe send an email to python-id...@python.org >> >> https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ >> >> Message archived at >> https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/ZBB5L2I45PNLTRW7CCV4FDJO5DB7M5UT/ >> >> Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org >> > To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org >> > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ >> > Message archived at >> https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/3ZXTCHVRXDVWZ5VB6YBMZ2Z3FF7PL7RQ/ >> > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >> _______________________________________________ >> Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org >> To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org >> https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ >> Message archived at >> https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/HM43KBNXA6ZJ66N7WPRZXIKQ372DTXVZ/ >> Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >> > -- > --Guido (mobile) > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/IB7DGTWVHMDVNOTQ7CQ24VULL2KZQQP4/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ > -- Christopher Barker, PhD Python Language Consulting - Teaching - Scientific Software Development - Desktop GUI and Web Development - wxPython, numpy, scipy, Cython
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