On Jan 18, 6:20 am, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote: > Note that the cmp() builtin and the cmp parameter for list.sort() are gone > in Python 3.
I've got Python 3 installed, and am using it for most new development. In this case case, however, I'm writing for the Google App Engine, which is stuck at 2.5. :( (Curiously, no matter how I order my PATH, the wrong version seems to appear first more than half the time! I'm seriously considering renaming all my Python 3 code to use a .py3 file extension.) > samwyse wrote: > > As a side note, wouldn't it be nice if '...' could be used in more > > places than just slices? IMHO, a useful idiom would be to use it to > > signify "irrelevant" or "don't care", as opposed to 'None' which (in > > my mind, at least) signifies "missing" or "unknown". > > That is a pretty subtle distinction... Hey, I'm a pretty subtle person... > I prefer keyword arguments, but in Python 3 you can use the ellipsis literal > freely: > > >>> ... == ... > True > >>> [..., 42, ...].count(...) > > 2 > > Peter I must have either missed or forgotten about that. Thanks! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list