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Ben Finney writes:
> On last week's Byte Into It we had two good interviews on software
> freedom. We interviewed organisers of Software Freedom Day, and the
> organisers of CryptoParty.
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Howdy all,
Where can I find a standard implementation of the docstring parsing and
splitting algorithm from PEP 257?
PEP 257 describes a convention of structure and formatting for
docstrings http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0257/>. Docstrings
that conform to this convention can therefore be pa
Ben Finney writes:
> Ideally what I want is to be able to write:
>
> import textwrap
>
> (summary, description) = textwrap.pep257_parse(foo.__doc__)
The function I want is ‘pydoc.splitdoc’. It's not documented in the
library documentation http://docs.python.org/lib
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Ben Finney writes:
> Graeme Cross writes:
>
> > 1. Email me that you want in on this order
> > 2. Let me know how many T-shirts you want
>
> I would like one XL shirt please.
Grrr. And that's why munging “Reply-To” is a bad idea. A reply-to-author
function
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derable type, I get a TypeError:
> not comparable.
Who is “I” in all this? There are multiple points of responsibility
being discussed, and I don't know which one you're identifying with by
“I”.
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Lars Yencken writes:
> For example, if you are expecting to be passed in a list that you're
> going to append to, or some compatible duck type
There's a misunderstanding here. “Duck typing” refers to a *principle*
to be followed in the practice of programming; it is not an attribute of
types the
Lars Yencken writes:
> On 5 September 2013 14:48, Ben Finney wrote:
> > Why is it a problem for the exception to be raised within the bowels
> > of your program? I'm not saying there can't be a reason, but you
> > haven't said what the problem is.
> >
&
Javier Candeira writes:
> On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
> > Javier Candeira writes:
> >> I have a sorted list.
> >
> > What do you mean? Is this a Python builtin list that you have
> >sorted? If not, where did this ‘sorted_list’ co
Brian May writes:
> On 5 September 2013 14:48, Ben Finney wrote:
>
> > Why is it a problem for the exception to be raised within the bowels
> > of your program? I'm not saying there can't be a reason, but you
> > haven't said what the problem is.
>
>
.
There is no defined order for dicts nor sets, and they have a uniqueness
guarantee which lists do not have.
So appending lists is an unambiguously correct behaviour for ‘+’ for two
lists, whereas the same is not true for dicts and sets.
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> Yes, this campaign aligns well with my values. I would like to
> volunteer my time and skills to the project.
Well, that was unexpected. Why the twenty-day-delayed post of that
message? I am not aware of anything I did to cause that.
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Brian May writes:
> On 6 March 2014 11:40, Ben Finney wrote:
> > For [reading the version of an installed package distribution], we
> > need the third-party ‘pkg_resources’. This library was proposed for
> > the Python standard library in PEP 365, but rejected
> > h
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can use a list of tuples, where each tuple is a record. The
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odel instance for me.
So I still need to have the ModelForm connect to the database I specify
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> On 9 August 2016 at 14:29, Ben Finney wrote:
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> > I'm wanting to specify *exactly one* database at *run-time*, and
> > have the operation use *that* database only (or fail if it can't).
> > The configured multi-database routing is n
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essentially by talking about its content.
How to Make Mistakes in Python
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Ben Finney writes:
> I have recently read a short book, of good general interest to Python
> programmers.
For those who enjoyed the presentation, “How to Make Mistakes in Python”
http://www.oreilly.com/programming/free/how-to-make-mistakes-in-python.csp>
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Ben Finney writes:
> Instead, how can I use the operating-system package manager [to
> install] the necessary tools? I don't see an Anaconda package in
> Debian, and there is no discussion I can find on how to do this.
There is a ‘conda’ package on PyPI. That doesn't do what
Ben Finney writes:
> Instead, how can I use the operating-system package manager [to
> install] the necessary tools? I don't see an Anaconda package in
> Debian, and there is no discussion I can find on how to do this.
I see that Debian Stretch (the latest stable release) has pa
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