Re: [Python-3000] Low-hanging fruit: change interpreter prompt?

2006-11-30 Thread Giovanni Bajo
Guido van Rossum wrote: > But the >>> prompt is Python's trademark! I always get a warm fuzzy > feeling when I see it, e.g. in a corner of a slide in a NASA > presentation. In fact, there would be another reason to change the prompt in Py3k: to identify Py3k snippets and tell them from Python 2.

Re: [Python-3000] Low-hanging fruit: change interpreter prompt?

2006-11-30 Thread Greg Ewing
Guido van Rossum wrote: > But the >>> prompt is Python's trademark! Maybe you could change it to something like _/\_/\_P (That's meant to be an ascii-art python.) -- Greg ___ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/ma

Re: [Python-3000] Low-hanging fruit: change interpreter prompt?

2006-11-30 Thread Giovanni Bajo
Aahz wrote: >> it's a minor issue, but I was wondering if the interpreter prompt could be >> changed in Py3K. The current prompt is ">>>" which happens to match the >> standard character used for quotes in e-mails. As a result, intepreter >> sessions might look funky when copy & pasted inside m

Re: [Python-3000] Low-hanging fruit: change interpreter prompt?

2006-11-30 Thread Steven Bethard
On 11/29/06, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But the >>> prompt is Python's trademark! I always get a warm fuzzy > feeling when I see it, e.g. in a corner of a slide in a NASA > presentation. I was using ``py>`` for a while. That still gave me a warm fuzzy feeling ;-) and seemed to

Re: [Python-3000] Low-hanging fruit: change interpreter prompt?

2006-11-30 Thread Guido van Rossum
OK, let's stop this. It's not going to change. The deficiencies of email shouldn't be dictating the language. If I hear more pleading I'll have to add it to PEP 3099. Please read http://yellow.bikeshed.com. --Guido On 11/30/06, Steven Bethard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/29/06, Guido van R

Re: [Python-3000] Low-hanging fruit: change interpreter prompt?

2006-11-30 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Guido van Rossum wrote: > Please read http://yellow.bikeshed.com. make that http://gold.bikeshed.com/ ___ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/m

Re: [Python-3000] Low-hanging fruit: change interpreter prompt?

2006-11-30 Thread LD 'Gus' Landis
NEITHER, both hard to read due to color intensity... http://white.bikeshed.com/ ;-O see >Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:http://gold.bikeshed.com/ >Guido van Rossum wrote: http://yellow.bikeshed.com/ ___ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@pytho

Re: [Python-3000] iostack and Oh Oh

2006-11-30 Thread tomer filiba
> http://wiki.python.org/moin/AbstractBaseClasses N! so many baseclasses, who can remember all that?! now whenever i wish to implement, say, MyFunnyDict, i'll have to go over the manual, see all the standard interfaces (which may reach hundreds of classes), and think which interfaces i d

Re: [Python-3000] iostack and Oh Oh

2006-11-30 Thread Bill Janssen
> so no offense in advance. Sure, no offense taken. I've seen comments like this before on this list (recently :-). I think both approaches (interface types and duck typing) are complicated in different ways. But interface types seem less so, because they provide a place where the user can stop

Re: [Python-3000] iostack and Oh Oh

2006-11-30 Thread Greg Ewing
Bill Janssen wrote: > So file.readlines() would return an iterable, then? I wasn't thinking of having a file.readlines(), just a stand-alone function. I'd like to see the file object's interface made quite minimal in Py3k. -- Greg ___ Python-3000 mailin

Re: [Python-3000] Low-hanging fruit: change interpreter prompt?

2006-11-30 Thread Greg Ewing
Giovanni Bajo wrote: > In fact, there would be another reason to change the prompt in Py3k: to > identify Py3k snippets and tell them from Python 2.x snippets. P3> -- Greg ___ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/

Re: [Python-3000] iostack and Oh Oh

2006-11-30 Thread Bill Janssen
> Bill Janssen wrote: > > So file.readlines() would return an iterable, then? > > I wasn't thinking of having a file.readlines(), just > a stand-alone function. I'd like to see the file > object's interface made quite minimal in Py3k. > > -- > Greg Where would the standalone function live? How

Re: [Python-3000] Generic functions vs. OO

2006-11-30 Thread Bill Janssen
I've updated the page to reflect more of Jim Jewett's comments. And to reflect more of the underlying "special methods". "Container", for instance, now has "get" (for __getattr__), as well as "len" (for __len__). By the way, all these interfaces are already in Python; they just aren't written do