Re: [Python-Dev] What if replacing items in a dictionary returns the new dictionary?

2011-05-05 Thread Giuseppe Ottaviano
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Roy Hyunjin Han wrote: >>   You can implement this in your own subclass of dict, no? > > Yes, I just thought it would be convenient to have in the language > itself, but the responses to my post seem to indicate that [not > returning the updated object] is an inten

Re: [Python-Dev] how GNU stow is complementary rather than alternative to distutils

2009-05-11 Thread Giuseppe Ottaviano
Talking of stow, I take advantage of this thread to do some shameless advertising :) Recently I uploaded to PyPI a software of mine, BPT [1], which does the same symlinking trick of stow, but it is written in Python (and with a simple api) and, more importantly, it allows with another trick