Re: [Python-3000] how about switching to a preprocessor? (Re: A better way to initialize PyTypeObject)

2006-12-04 Thread Mike Klaas
On 12/2/06, Greg Ewing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mike Klaas wrote: > > > Reducing the pyrex magic and adding more detailed errors to the code > > generator should eliminate much of the "code-peering" that is > > currently necessary (at least, by me) when writing extensions. > > Can you expand on

Re: [Python-3000] features i'd like [Python 3000?] ... #4: interpolated strings ala perl

2006-12-04 Thread Ka-Ping Yee
On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, Ben Wing wrote: > how about something nice like > > maybe_errout(i"[title], line [lineno]: [errstr]\n") See PEP 215. http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0215/ -- ?!ng ___ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://ma

Re: [Python-3000] Implementations: A syntax for extending method dispatching beyond type/class inheritance

2006-12-04 Thread Bill Janssen
Jim Jewett writes: > On 12/3/06, Bill Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Implementations are used to make Method Dispatching more flexible by > > > allowing a class to claim that it acts like another class/type even > > > though it is not derived from that class/type. > > > I'm not sure just

Re: [Python-3000] Implementations: A syntax for extending method dispatching beyond type/class inheritance

2006-12-04 Thread Jim Jewett
On 12/3/06, Bill Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Implementations are used to make Method Dispatching more flexible by > > allowing a class to claim that it acts like another class/type even > > though it is not derived from that class/type. > I'm not sure just what this adds over the simple

Re: [Python-3000] features i'd like [Python 3000?] ... #4: interpolated strings ala perl

2006-12-04 Thread Talin
Nick Coghlan wrote: > I'm not entirely averse to that idea, even though poking around in the frame > stack is always somewhat dubious. I don't recall it coming up directly in > previous discussions (certainly PEP 3101 doesn't say anything that explicitly > rejects the concept). PEP 3101 had add

Re: [Python-3000] features i'd like [Python 3000?] ... #4: interpolated strings ala perl

2006-12-04 Thread Barry Warsaw
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Dec 4, 2006, at 5:08 AM, Ben Wing wrote: > i see in PEP 3101 that there's some work going on to fix up the string > formatting capabilities of python. it looks good to me but it still > doesn't really address the lack of a simple interpolated stri

Re: [Python-3000] features i'd like [Python 3000?] ... #4: interpolated strings ala perl

2006-12-04 Thread Nick Coghlan
Ben Wing wrote: > i see in PEP 3101 that there's some work going on to fix up the string > formatting capabilities of python. it looks good to me but it still > doesn't really address the lack of a simple interpolated string > mechanism, as in perl or ruby. i find myself constantly writing st

[Python-3000] features i'd like [Python 3000?] ... #4: interpolated strings ala perl

2006-12-04 Thread Ben Wing
i'd already posted this to python-dev, but someone suggested is would belong more on python-3000, so i'm posting it here. hope that's ok. i see in PEP 3101 that there's some work going on to fix up the string formatting capabilities of python. it looks good to me but it still doesn't really add

[Python-3000] [Fwd: features i'd like [Python 3000] ... #3: fix super()]

2006-12-04 Thread Ben Wing
on suggestion of someone on python-dev, reposted on python-3000. hope that's ok. ben Original Message Subject:features i'd like [Python 3000] ... #3: fix super() Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2006 21:06:07 -0600 From: Ben Wing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: python-dev@python.org

Re: [Python-3000] iostack and Oh Oh

2006-12-04 Thread Paul Moore
On 12/4/06, Jim Jewett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/3/06, Bill Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [Skillped Jim's point that I'm 100% in agreement with, about what people will end up doing in practice...] > > What I'd like to see as documentation is more along the lines of > > > foo (type