Re: [Python-Dev] str with base

2006-01-17 Thread Gisle Aas
Jack Diederich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > However... if %b were to represent arbitrary bases, I think that's > > backwards. It should be %[][.]b, which would do this: > > > > >>> '%08b %08o %08d %08x' % 12 > > '1100 0014 0012 000C' > > > > Were I BDFAD (not to be

Re: [Python-Dev] str with base

2006-01-17 Thread Andrew Bennetts
Guido van Rossum wrote: [...] > > I'd propose bin() to stay in line with the short abbreviated names. > [...] > > The binary type should have a 0b prefix. It seems odd to me to add both a builtin *and* new syntax for something that's occasionally handy, but only occasionally. If we're going to

Re: [Python-Dev] str with base

2006-01-17 Thread Neal Norwitz
On 1/17/06, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The difference between hex() and oct() and the proposed binary() is > > I'd propose bin() to stay in line with the short abbreviated names. Are these features used enough to have 3 builtins? Would format(number, base) suffice? format

Re: [Python-Dev] Building on OS X 10.4 fails

2006-01-17 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
> "Anthony" == Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Anthony> It sounds like configure needs to grow a test to detect Anthony> that a "libreadline" it finds is actually the crackful Anthony> "libedit" and refuse to use it if so. FYI: Real libreadline is GPL, and rms made a po

Re: [Python-Dev] str with base

2006-01-17 Thread Brett Cannon
On 1/17/06, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1/17/06, Bob Ippolito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There shouldn't be a %B for the same reason there isn't an %O or %D > > -- they're all just digits, so there's not a need for an uppercase > > variant. > > Right. > > > The difference b

Re: [Python-Dev] str with base

2006-01-17 Thread Guido van Rossum
On 1/17/06, Bob Ippolito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There shouldn't be a %B for the same reason there isn't an %O or %D > -- they're all just digits, so there's not a need for an uppercase > variant. Right. > The difference between hex() and oct() and the proposed binary() is I'd propose bin()

[Python-Dev] computed goto's in ceval loop

2006-01-17 Thread Simon Burton
I have been experimenting with replacing the big switch in ceval.c by a computed goto construct [1]. It uses #define's to make it optional. This work was inspired by Mono's MINT interpreter code, and Neil Norwitz's attempt to use a function pointer table [2]. Result: about 1% slower on the pysto

Re: [Python-Dev] str with base

2006-01-17 Thread Bob Ippolito
On Jan 17, 2006, at 7:12 PM, Jack Diederich wrote: > On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 06:11:36PM -0800, Bob Ippolito wrote: >> >> On Jan 17, 2006, at 5:01 PM, Jack Diederich wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 04:02:43PM -0800, Guido van Rossum wrote: On 1/17/06, Adam Olsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrot

Re: [Python-Dev] str with base

2006-01-17 Thread Jack Diederich
On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 06:11:36PM -0800, Bob Ippolito wrote: > > On Jan 17, 2006, at 5:01 PM, Jack Diederich wrote: > > >On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 04:02:43PM -0800, Guido van Rossum wrote: > >>On 1/17/06, Adam Olsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In-favour-of-%2b-ly y'rs, > >>> > >>>My only oppo

Re: [Python-Dev] str with base

2006-01-17 Thread Adam Olsen
On 1/17/06, Bob Ippolito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jan 17, 2006, at 4:09 PM, Adam Olsen wrote: > > > On 1/17/06, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On 1/17/06, Adam Olsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In-favour-of-%2b-ly y'rs, > >>> > >>> My only opposition to this is that

Re: [Python-Dev] str with base

2006-01-17 Thread Adam Olsen
On 1/17/06, Bob Ippolito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jan 17, 2006, at 3:38 PM, Adam Olsen wrote: > > > I dream of a day when str(3.25, base=2) == '11.01'. That is the > > number a float really represents. It would be so much easier to > > understand why floats behave the way they do if it w

Re: [Python-Dev] str with base

2006-01-17 Thread Bob Ippolito
On Jan 17, 2006, at 5:01 PM, Jack Diederich wrote: > On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 04:02:43PM -0800, Guido van Rossum wrote: >> On 1/17/06, Adam Olsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In-favour-of-%2b-ly y'rs, >>> >>> My only opposition to this is that the byte type may want to use it. >>> I'd rather wa

Re: [Python-Dev] Building on OS X 10.4 fails

2006-01-17 Thread Bob Ippolito
On Jan 17, 2006, at 4:17 PM, Anthony Baxter wrote: > On Wednesday 18 January 2006 06:19, Barry Warsaw wrote: >> On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 19:17 +0100, Thomas Heller wrote: >>> Building the readline on OS X 10.4 fails, is this known, or am I >>> doing something wrong? >> >> There are definitely seriou

Re: [Python-Dev] str with base

2006-01-17 Thread Bob Ippolito
On Jan 17, 2006, at 3:38 PM, Adam Olsen wrote: > On 1/17/06, Thomas Wouters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 09:23:29AM -0500, Jason Orendorff wrote: >> >>> I think a method 5664400.to_base(13) sounds nice. >> [And others suggested int-methods too] >> >> I would like to point

Re: [Python-Dev] str with base

2006-01-17 Thread Jack Diederich
On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 04:02:43PM -0800, Guido van Rossum wrote: > On 1/17/06, Adam Olsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > In-favour-of-%2b-ly y'rs, > > > > My only opposition to this is that the byte type may want to use it. > > I'd rather wait until byte is fully defined, implemented, and releas

Re: [Python-Dev] str with base

2006-01-17 Thread Bob Ippolito
On Jan 17, 2006, at 4:09 PM, Adam Olsen wrote: > On 1/17/06, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 1/17/06, Adam Olsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In-favour-of-%2b-ly y'rs, >>> >>> My only opposition to this is that the byte type may want to use it. >>> I'd rather wait until byte

Re: [Python-Dev] Building on OS X 10.4 fails

2006-01-17 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Wednesday 18 January 2006 06:19, Barry Warsaw wrote: > On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 19:17 +0100, Thomas Heller wrote: > > Building the readline on OS X 10.4 fails, is this known, or am I > > doing something wrong? > > There are definitely serious issues with readline on OS X 10.4. > I've hit them too

Re: [Python-Dev] str with base

2006-01-17 Thread Adam Olsen
On 1/17/06, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1/17/06, Adam Olsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > In-favour-of-%2b-ly y'rs, > > > > My only opposition to this is that the byte type may want to use it. > > I'd rather wait until byte is fully defined, implemented, and released > > in

Re: [Python-Dev] str with base

2006-01-17 Thread Guido van Rossum
On 1/17/06, Adam Olsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In-favour-of-%2b-ly y'rs, > > My only opposition to this is that the byte type may want to use it. > I'd rather wait until byte is fully defined, implemented, and released > in a python version before that option is taken away. Has this been pr

Re: [Python-Dev] str with base

2006-01-17 Thread Adam Olsen
On 1/17/06, Thomas Wouters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 09:23:29AM -0500, Jason Orendorff wrote: > > > I think a method 5664400.to_base(13) sounds nice. > [And others suggested int-methods too] > > I would like to point out that this is almost, but not quite, entirely as > i

Re: [Python-Dev] basenumber redux

2006-01-17 Thread Adam Olsen
On 1/17/06, Alex Martelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Being able to change imaplib to use basenumber instead of (int, float) > won't make it SIMPLER, but it will surely make it BETTER -- why should > a long be rejected, or a Decimal, > for that matter? Because there's no guarantee that they'll pr

Re: [Python-Dev] str with base

2006-01-17 Thread Thomas Wouters
On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 09:23:29AM -0500, Jason Orendorff wrote: > I think a method 5664400.to_base(13) sounds nice. [And others suggested int-methods too] I would like to point out that this is almost, but not quite, entirely as inapropriate as using str(). Integers don't have a base. String rep

Re: [Python-Dev] basenumber redux

2006-01-17 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Alex Martelli wrote: > But this doesn't apply to the Python Standard Library, for example see > line 1348 of imaplib.py: "if isinstance(date_time, (int, float)):". [...] > Being able to change imaplib to use basenumber instead of (int, float) > won't make it SIMPLER, but it will surely make it BETT

Re: [Python-Dev] str with base

2006-01-17 Thread Guido van Rossum
On 1/17/06, Alex Martelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, so, should I just submit a patch? Hmm, there are quite a few people who strongly dislike the particular API you're proposing. The problem is, bright newbies might be led to wanting str(i, base) as an analogy to int(s, base) only because th

Re: [Python-Dev] basenumber redux

2006-01-17 Thread Alex Martelli
On 1/17/06, M.-A. Lemburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alex, I think you're missing a point here: what you are looking > for is an interface, not a base class - simply because the I expect numbers to support arithmetic operators, &c -- no need for basenumber to "spell this out", i.e., "be an itner

Re: [Python-Dev] str with base

2006-01-17 Thread Alex Martelli
On 1/16/06, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1/16/06, Alex Martelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is it finally time in Python 2.5 to allow the "obvious" use of, say, > > str(5,2) to give '101', just the converse of the way int('101',1) > [I'm sure you meant int('101', 2) here] Ye

Re: [Python-Dev] Building on OS X 10.4 fails

2006-01-17 Thread Brett Cannon
On 1/17/06, Barry Warsaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 19:17 +0100, Thomas Heller wrote: > > Building the readline on OS X 10.4 fails, is this known, or am I doing > > something wrong? > > There are definitely serious issues with readline on OS X 10.4. I've > hit them too but

Re: [Python-Dev] Include ctypes into core Python?

2006-01-17 Thread Thomas Heller
"Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Guido van Rossum wrote: >> On 1/16/06, Thomas Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>>It looks like we need a pronouncement now. >> >> >> Sorry. It appeared to me that there was general agreement to using a >> strongly worded warning in the docs,

Re: [Python-Dev] Building on OS X 10.4 fails

2006-01-17 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 19:17 +0100, Thomas Heller wrote: > Building the readline on OS X 10.4 fails, is this known, or am I doing > something wrong? There are definitely serious issues with readline on OS X 10.4. I've hit them too but haven't had time to post about it yet. I'm far from an expert

Re: [Python-Dev] Building on OS X 10.4 fails

2006-01-17 Thread Bob Ippolito
On Jan 17, 2006, at 10:17 AM, Thomas Heller wrote: > Building the readline on OS X 10.4 fails, is this known, or am I doing > something wrong? Mac OS X doesn't ship with readline. It ships with BSD libedit symlinked to readline. Not good enough for Python. You need a third party copy. I

Re: [Python-Dev] str with base

2006-01-17 Thread Armin Rigo
Hi Alex, > Is it finally time in Python 2.5 to allow the "obvious" use of, say, > str(5,2) to give '101', just the converse of the way int('101',1) > gives 5? +1. That's obvious enough for me. Clearly it should only work with int and long arguments, just like int(x,base) only works if x is a st

Re: [Python-Dev] Python icon

2006-01-17 Thread skip
Georg> Interesting, didn't even know a new page was in the making... Do Georg> you know who is responsible for the new page? Tim Parkin is heading things up. Look here: http://beta.python.org/ Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@

Re: [Python-Dev] Python icon

2006-01-17 Thread Georg Brandl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> does Python have an official icon? > > Ping> i found some images at http://www.pythonology.com/logos... > > It appears the yin/yang Python's on that page are being used in the new site > (beta.python.org). I don't know if that makes it official or not though

[Python-Dev] Building on OS X 10.4 fails

2006-01-17 Thread Thomas Heller
Building the readline on OS X 10.4 fails, is this known, or am I doing something wrong? Thanks, Thomas building 'readline' extension gcc -fno-strict-aliasing -Wno-long-double -no-cpp-precomp -mno-fused-madd -DNDEBUG -g -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -I. -I/Users/theller/svn/trunk/./Include -I/U

Re: [Python-Dev] str with base

2006-01-17 Thread Aahz
On Mon, Jan 16, 2006, Alex Martelli wrote: > > Is it finally time in Python 2.5 to allow the "obvious" use of, say, > str(5,2) to give '101', just the converse of the way int('101',1) > gives 5? I'm not sure why str has never allowed this obvious use -- > any bright beginner assumes it's the

Re: [Python-Dev] str with base

2006-01-17 Thread Adam Olsen
On 1/17/06, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > class Color: > msg = {'en':['red', 'green', 'blue'], 'de':['rot','grün','blau']} > def __str__(self, language='en'): > return self.msg[language][self.value] > > red = Color(0) > > so you could say > > print str(red, 'de'

Re: [Python-Dev] index (was str with base)

2006-01-17 Thread Adam Olsen
On 1/17/06, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1/17/06, Jim Jewett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Guido wrote: > > > > > more important to implement __index__() in Python 2.5. > > > This behaves like __int__() for integral types, but is not > > > defined for float or Decimal. > > > >

Re: [Python-Dev] str with base

2006-01-17 Thread Fredrik Lundh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Skip> A shortcoming in int() hardly seems like a good reason to mess >Skip> with str(). > >Gareth> How's it a shortcoming in int() that it doesn't do anything >Gareth> with, say, int(2.345,19)? > > My reasoning was that just because int() was written to ig

Re: [Python-Dev] str with base

2006-01-17 Thread skip
Alex> Identically the same situation as for int: the base argument is Alex> only accepted if the first argument is a str (not a float, etc). Alex> Just the same way, the base argument to str will only be accepted Alex> if the first argument is an int (not a float, etc). >>

Re: [Python-Dev] index (was str with base)

2006-01-17 Thread Guido van Rossum
On 1/17/06, Jim Jewett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Guido wrote: > > > more important to implement __index__() in Python 2.5. > > This behaves like __int__() for integral types, but is not > > defined for float or Decimal. > > Why not for Decimal, or even float? I would not be surprised > if 10.79

Re: [Python-Dev] str with base

2006-01-17 Thread Gareth McCaughan
On Tuesday 2006-01-17 15:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Alex> Identically the same situation as for int: the base argument is > Alex> only accepted if the first argument is a str (not a float, etc). > Alex> Just the same way, the base argument to str will only be accepted > Alex> i

Re: [Python-Dev] str with base

2006-01-17 Thread skip
Alex> Identically the same situation as for int: the base argument is Alex> only accepted if the first argument is a str (not a float, etc). Alex> Just the same way, the base argument to str will only be accepted Alex> if the first argument is an int (not a float, etc). A shortcom

Re: [Python-Dev] str with base

2006-01-17 Thread skip
Raymond> My reason is that I've rolled-my-own more times than I can Raymond> count but infrequently enough to where it was easier to Raymond> re-write than to search for the previous use. Maybe a bin() builtin would be better. Even better it seems to me would be to add a method to in

[Python-Dev] str with base

2006-01-17 Thread Jim Jewett
Raymond wrote: > I presume that only the str() builtin would > change and that the underlying __str__ slot > would continue to be hard-wired to the > (reprfunc) signature. Are you saying that subclasses of str should behave differently from the builtin str, and not in the slots that were added or

[Python-Dev] index (was str with base)

2006-01-17 Thread Jim Jewett
Guido wrote: > more important to implement __index__() in Python 2.5. > This behaves like __int__() for integral types, but is not > defined for float or Decimal. Why not for Decimal, or even float? I would not be surprised if 10.798 failed, but I would expect 1000D to work. If indexing worked

Re: [Python-Dev] str with base

2006-01-17 Thread Andrew Bennetts
On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 09:23:29AM -0500, Jason Orendorff wrote: > It seems dumb to support *parsing* integers in weird bases, but not > *formatting* them in weird bases. Not a big deal, but if you're going > to give me a toy, at least give me the whole toy! > > The %b idea is a little disappoint

Re: [Python-Dev] str with base

2006-01-17 Thread Jason Orendorff
It seems dumb to support *parsing* integers in weird bases, but not *formatting* them in weird bases. Not a big deal, but if you're going to give me a toy, at least give me the whole toy! The %b idea is a little disappointing in two ways. Even with %b, Python is still dumb by the above criterion

Re: [Python-Dev] basenumber redux

2006-01-17 Thread Collin Winter
On 1/17/06, Raymond Hettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > I don't see a way around creating an integer recognition tool that > doesn't conflate its terminology with broadly-held, pre-existing math > knowledge: complex is a superset of reals, reals include rationals and > irrationals some of

Re: [Python-Dev] str with base

2006-01-17 Thread Michael Hudson
Donovan Baarda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I personally think %b would be adding enough. The other suggestions are > just me being silly :-) Yeah, the whole area is just crying out for the simplicity and restraint that is common lisp's #'format function :) Cheers, mwh -- INEFFICIENT CAPIT

Re: [Python-Dev] str with base

2006-01-17 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 10:05 +, Nick Craig-Wood wrote: > On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 11:13:27PM -0500, Raymond Hettinger wrote: [...] > Another suggestion would be to give hex() and oct() another parameter, > base, so you'd do hex(123123123, 2). Perhaps a little > counter-intuitive, but if you were

Re: [Python-Dev] str with base

2006-01-17 Thread Bob Ippolito
On Jan 17, 2006, at 2:48 AM, Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Bob Ippolito wrote: > >> I want binary all the time when I'm dealing with bitflags and such. >> Of course, I'm trained to be able to read bits in hex format, but it >> would be nicer to see the flags as-is. Even worse when you have to >> deal w

[Python-Dev] Summer of PyPy

2006-01-17 Thread Armin Rigo
Hi Brett, hi all, On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 05:51:25PM -0800, Brett Cannon wrote: > That would be cool! I definitely would not mind working on PyPy. > Unfortunately I would not consider changing universities; I really > like it here. We are looking at the possibility to do a "Summer of PyPy" in t

Re: [Python-Dev] str with base

2006-01-17 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Bob Ippolito wrote: > I want binary all the time when I'm dealing with bitflags and such. > Of course, I'm trained to be able to read bits in hex format, but it > would be nicer to see the flags as-is. Even worse when you have to > deal with some kind of file format where fields are N bits long,

Re: [Python-Dev] str with base

2006-01-17 Thread Bob Ippolito
On Jan 17, 2006, at 2:36 AM, Ian Bicking wrote: > Bob Ippolito wrote: >> On Jan 16, 2006, at 9:12 PM, Andrew Bennetts wrote: >>> On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 11:54:05PM -0500, Raymond Hettinger wrote: >>> [...] >>> That suggests that it would be better to simply add an int method: x

Re: [Python-Dev] str with base

2006-01-17 Thread Ian Bicking
Bob Ippolito wrote: > On Jan 16, 2006, at 9:12 PM, Andrew Bennetts wrote: > > >>On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 11:54:05PM -0500, Raymond Hettinger wrote: >>[...] >> >>>That suggests that it would be better to simply add an int method: >>> >>> x.convert_to_base(7) >> >>This seems clear and simple to

Re: [Python-Dev] str with base

2006-01-17 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
Alex Martelli wrote: > Is it finally time in Python 2.5 to allow the "obvious" use of, say, > str(5,2) to give '101', just the converse of the way int('101',1) > gives 5? I'm not sure why str has never allowed this obvious use -- > any bright beginner assumes it's there and it's awkward to e

Re: [Python-Dev] str with base

2006-01-17 Thread Nick Craig-Wood
On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 11:13:27PM -0500, Raymond Hettinger wrote: > My reason is that I've rolled-my-own more times than I can count but > infrequently enough to where it was easier to re-write than to search > for the previous use. Me too! The assymetry is annoying. Its easy to consume base 2.

Re: [Python-Dev] basenumber redux

2006-01-17 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
Alex, I think you're missing a point here: what you are looking for is an interface, not a base class - simply because the assumptions you make when finding a "KnownNumberTypes" instance are only related to an interface you expect them to provide. A common case class won't really help all that muc

Re: [Python-Dev] str with base

2006-01-17 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 01:03 -0500, Barry Warsaw wrote: > On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 20:49 -0800, Bob Ippolito wrote: > > > The only bases I've ever really had a good use for are 2, 8, 10, and > > 16. There are currently formatting codes for 8 (o), 10 (d, u), and > > 16 (x, X). Why not just add a

Re: [Python-Dev] str with base

2006-01-17 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Alex Martelli wrote: > Is it finally time in Python 2.5 to allow the "obvious" use of, say, > str(5,2) to give '101', just the converse of the way int('101',1) > gives 5? I'm not sure why str has never allowed this obvious use -- > any bright beginner assumes it's there and it's awkward to e