On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 5:55 AM, Christian Gollwitzer <aurio...@gmx.de> wrote: >> - Arbitrary-precision non-integers > > > https://pypi.python.org/pypi/bigfloat/ > > ?
Wasn't aware of that. Cool. Not that I need it very often (and when I do, I can use Pike, which has MPFR support built-in). Or I can use decimal.Decimal, which isn't exactly the same, but often accomplishes the same thing. >> - Convenient syntax for a few array/list manipulations > > > Huh? Slices and list comprehensions go a long way. What syntax can you > imagine that goes beyond that? Imagine you have a list (or array, depending on language) of objects, some of which may be None (or null). Call the foo method on every object, ignoring the null/None ones. # Python - creates a useless list [obj.foo() for obj in objects if obj] # Python - a bit clunky for obj in objects: if obj: obj.foo() //Pike objects->foo(); But my point wasn't "hey, Python sucks", but "look what is *not* on my list". Other people's lists of stuff they miss will differ (either because they know of third-party solutions, like bigfloat, or because they just don't need them... like bigfloat), and that's fine and correct. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list