On 3 May 2017 at 02:48, Erik wrote:
> Anyway, I know you can't stop anyone from *proposing* something like this,
> but as soon as they do you may decide to quote the recipe from
> "https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#zip"; and try to block
> their proposition. There are already thread
On 3 May 2017 at 06:43, Serhiy Storchaka wrote:
> On 02.05.17 22:07, Ram Rachum wrote:
>>
>> I have a suggestion: Add a function shutil.get_dir_size that gets the
>> size of a directory, including all the items inside it recursively. I
>> currently need this functionality and it looks like I'll ha
On 03May2017 09:13, Ram Rachum wrote:
Calling `du` is possible but I prefer to avoid these kinds of solutions.
(OS-specific, parsing text output from a third-party program.)
Your choice, and fair enough.
However I'd point out that "du" is available on all UNIX systems (includes
MacOS) and UN
On Tue, May 02, 2017 at 09:07:41PM -0400, Juancarlo Añez wrote:
> On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 8:43 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>
> > String methods should return strings.
> >
>
> >>> "A-B-C".split("-")
> ['A', 'B', 'C']
Yes, thank you. And don't forget:
py> 'abcd'.index('c')
2
But in context, I wa
On Wed, May 03, 2017 at 02:48:03AM +0100, Erik wrote:
> On 03/05/17 01:43, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> >I'm not stopping anyone from proposing a generalisation of this that
> >works with other sequence types. As somebody did :-)
>
> Who? I didn't spot that in the thread - please give a reference. Th
On 3 May 2017 at 08:10, Greg Ewing wrote:
> For a name, I think "group" would be better than "chunk".
> We talk about grouping the digits of a number, not chunking
> them.
As soon as I added an intermediate variable to my example, I came to
the same conclusion:
>>> digit_groups = b'\xb9\x01\
Hi Paul,
On 03/05/17 08:57, Paul Moore wrote:
> On 3 May 2017 at 02:48, Erik wrote:
>> Anyway, I know you can't stop anyone from *proposing* something like
this,
>> but as soon as they do you may decide to quote the recipe from
>> "https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#zip"; and try
On Thu, May 04, 2017 at 12:13:25AM +0100, Erik wrote:
> I had a use-case where splitting an iterable into a sequence of
> same-sized chunks efficiently improved the performance of my code
[...]
> So I didn't propose it. I have no idea now what I spent my saved hours
> doing, but I imagine that i
On 04/05/17 01:24, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Thu, May 04, 2017 at 12:13:25AM +0100, Erik wrote:
I had a use-case where splitting an iterable into a sequence of
same-sized chunks efficiently improved the performance of my code
[...]
So I didn't propose it. I have no idea now what I spent my sav
