Re: [Python-Dev] Type hints -- a mediocre programmer's reaction

2015-04-20 Thread Chris Kaynor
On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 11:30 AM, Harry Percival wrote: > My first reaction to type hints was "yuck", and I'm sure I'm not the only > one to think that. viz (from some pycon slides): > > def zipmap(f: Callable[[int, int], int], xx: List[int], >yy: List[int]) -> List[Tuple[int,

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 2.7 patch levels turning two digit

2014-06-23 Thread Chris Kaynor
Not being a Python developer, I normally just lurk on Py-Dev, but I figured I'd throw this out there for this thread: Recent version of Maya embed Python 2.x, and the newer version of Maya (I believe 2012 was the first version) embeds a Python 2.7 compiled with VS 2010. From my experience, most C

Re: [Python-Dev] summing integer and class

2013-10-03 Thread Chris Kaynor
This list is for development OF Python, not for development in python. For that reason, I will redirect this to python-list as well. My actual answer is below. On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 6:45 AM, Igor Vasilyev wrote: > Hi. > > Example test.py: > > class A(): > def __add__(self, var): >

Re: [Python-Dev] Non-string keys in type dict

2012-03-07 Thread Chris Kaynor
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 5:45 PM, Victor Stinner wrote: > > During the Language Summit 2011 (*), it was discussed that PyPy and > > Jython don't support non-string key in type dict. An issue was open to > > emit a warning on such dict, but the patch has not been commited yet. > > It's the issue #114

Re: [Python-Dev] unittest missing assertNotRaises

2011-09-27 Thread Chris Kaynor
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > But I can't see this being a useful test. As written, exceptions are still > treated as errors, except for excClass, which is treated as a test failure. I > can't see the use-case for that. assertRaises is useful: > > "IOError is allowed,