[Python-Dev] Re: Sponsoring Python development via the PSF

2019-06-27 Thread Hobson Lane
I wholeheartedly support accepting Bitcoin and Etherium and other popular cryptos at PSF. Bitpay is an alternative, but they can be more complicated to work with than Coinbase. Of course you can always chose to manage your own crypto wallet independent of any go-between business, but that has risks

Re: [Python-Dev] We now have C code coverage!

2018-07-02 Thread Hobson Lane
` # noqa` works with linters --Hobson On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 6:25 AM, Brett Cannon wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 28, 2018, 21:28 Terry Reedy, wrote: > >> On 6/24/2018 5:03 AM, Ammar Askar wrote: >> >> Is it possible, given that we are not paying for those reports, to >> >> customize the 'exclude

Re: [Python-Dev] Format strings, Unicode, and Py2.7: need clarification

2017-05-18 Thread Hobson Lane
t; On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 7:25 AM, Random832 wrote: > On Thu, May 18, 2017, at 01:14, Hobson Lane wrote: > > Because `.format()` is a method on an instantiated `str` object in e and > > so > > must return the same type > > That it *must* return the same type is overstating th

Re: [Python-Dev] Format strings, Unicode, and Py2.7: need clarification

2017-05-17 Thread Hobson Lane
Because `.format()` is a method on an instantiated `str` object in e and so must return the same type so additional str methods could be stacked on after it, like `.format(u'hi').decode()`. Whereas the % string interpolation is a binary operation, so, like addition, where the more general type can