[Python-Dev] Re: PEP 617: New PEG parser for CPython

On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 9:45 PM Guido van Rossum wrote: > But I never found the time to make it an appealing parser generator tool > for other languages, even though that was on my mind as a future > possibility. > I simply want to +1 on this. A general purpose parser library in the stdlib woul

Re: [Python-Dev] On the dangers of giving developers the best resources

On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 12:22 AM, MRAB wrote: > On 08/10/2013 23:21, Tim Delaney wrote: > >> On 9 October 2013 09:10, Guido van Rossum > > wrote: >> >> It's not actually so much the extreme waste that I'm looking to >> expose, but rather the day-to-day annoyances o

Re: [Python-Dev] AST optimizer implemented in Python

On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Gregory P. Smith wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Victor Stinner > wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I started to implement an AST optimizer in Python. It's easy to create >> a new AST tree, so I'm surprised that I didn't find any existing >> project. >> >> http

Re: [Python-Dev] Suggested addition to PEP 8 for context managers

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 8:30 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote: > On Apr 15, 2012, at 01:13 PM, Raymond Hettinger wrote: > >>We should publish some advice on creating content managers. > > I agree, I'm just not sure PEP 8 is the right place for it. > > PEP 8 seems like it is structured more as mechanical gui