On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:15:48 -0400 Eric Astor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> True, but 'else' can be a more specific operator, so that
> >>> arg = arg else bar
> is equivalent to:
> >>> if arg is None: arg = bar,
Yes, but only because you used arg twice. Dealing with the general
case clarifies thing
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 2:27 PM, Nick Coghlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
...
> Late binding default arguments would do some fairly bad things to nested
> functions such as preventing the use of class attributes when defining
They'd also be SERIOUSLY problematic wrt a VERY common issue -- one
th
Stefan Behnel wrote:
In the absence of information provided by an external transport protocol (e.g.
HTTP or MIME), it is a fatal error for an entity including an encoding
declaration to be presented to the XML processor in an encoding other than
that named in the declaration [...]
But if the X
Chris Rebert wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 11:01 AM, Brett Cannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 9:29 AM, Sam Bishop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 8:31 PM, Chris Rebert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
You might then be interested in the following r
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 11:01 AM, Brett Cannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 9:29 AM, Sam Bishop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 8:31 PM, Chris Rebert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> You might then be interested in the following related discussions from
>
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 9:29 AM, Sam Bishop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 8:31 PM, Chris Rebert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> You might then be interested in the following related discussions from
>> last year wherein I proposed something extremely similar:
>>
>> [Python-idea
Guido van Rossum wrote:
> 2008/8/24 "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> Parsing Unicode XML strings isn't quite that meaningful.
>
> Maybe not according to the XML standard, but I can see lots of
> practical situations where the encoding is always known and applied by
> some other layer, i.e
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 8:31 PM, Chris Rebert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You might then be interested in the following related discussions from
> last year wherein I proposed something extremely similar:
>
> [Python-ideas] proto-PEP: Fixing Non-constant Default Arguments
> http://mail.python.org/
