On Fri, Jul 15, 2022 at 9:33 AM Skip Montanaro
wrote:
> Email protocols were long ago standardized. As a result, people can use
> any of a large number of applications to read and organize their email. To
> my knowledge, there is no standardization amongst the various forum tools
> out there.
>
On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 8:50 PM Mike Miller wrote:
> I never understood the fear around version conflicts.
With binary extension modules, version conflicts lead to (at best) runtime
segfault and (at worst) subtle *data* bugs that return incorrect results.
There are also deeper concerns around s
Thank you Thank you, Larry! 3.4 and 3.5 were so critical to getting the
scientific & pydata data community over the 2to3 hump.
-Peter
On Mon, Oct 5, 2020 at 1:43 PM Barry Warsaw wrote:
> They say being a Python Release Manager is a thankless job, so the Python
> Secret Underground (PSU), which
On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 9:57 PM Tim Peters wrote:
> > It's not obvious to me that insertion order is even the most obvious or
> > most commonly relevant sort order. I'm sure it is for Larry's program,
> but
> > often a work queue might want some other order. Very often queues
> > might instead,
I strongly second not breaking backwards compatibility and
interoperability, especially for persistent artifacts, unless there is a
*REALLY* good reason. A potential unintended side effect of such breakages
is that it slows down adoption of the new version.
-Peter
On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 10:27 A
On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 3:31 PM Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 09:34:34AM -0400, Calvin Spealman wrote:
>
> > Simply put, there is no valid use case for os.system over subprocess
>
> If you depreciate and then remove os.system, all you will do is force
> people to re-invent it,
On Mar 20, 2008, at 11:31 AM, Martin v. Löwis wrote:
>> I'll note that I use easy_install *only* to work in *non-system*
>> locations: if I want to install Python packages to /usr/lib/
>> python2.x/,
>> I use the standard system installer, e.g. 'apt-get install
>> python-frobnatz'.
>
> This is p
