[issue39416] Document default numeric string formats

2020-10-21 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Change by Karl O. Pinc : -- pull_requests: +21809 pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/22867 ___ Python tracker <https://bugs.python.org/issue39

[issue39416] Document default numeric string formats

2020-01-22 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Karl O. Pinc added the comment: On Wed, 22 Jan 2020 06:09:41 + "Eric V. Smith" wrote: > Eric V. Smith added the comment: > > Is the lack of this documentation causing some confusion somewhere? > This isn't rhetorical, I'm genuinely curious what proble

[issue39416] Document default numeric string formats

2020-01-21 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Change by Karl O. Pinc : -- keywords: +patch pull_requests: +17498 stage: -> patch review pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/18111 ___ Python tracker <https://bugs.python.org/issu

[issue39416] Document default numeric string formats

2020-01-21 Thread Karl O. Pinc
New submission from Karl O. Pinc : Seems sane to put _some_ restrictions on the string representations of the Numeric classes. This would be a change to the Python language specification. Suggestions made in a pull request. See the email thread: Subject: Documenting Python's float.__

[issue23814] argparse: Parser level defaults do not always override argument level defaults

2015-03-30 Thread Karl O. Pinc
New submission from Karl O. Pinc: In the argparse library parser library, contrary to the documentation, parser-level defaults do not always override argument-level defaults. https://docs.python.org/3.5/library/argparse.html#argparse.ArgumentParser.set_defaults says "Note that parser-