Re: [Python-ideas] venv *is* provided in the standard Python install on Debian/Ubuntu

On Tue, Nov 14, 2017, 04:06 Stephan Houben, wrote: > Hi Brett, > > The current documentation *cannot* be fixed, since > fixing it would entail adding an initial two-page essay > on "how to start Python on various platforms/systems" > (it is really NOT as simple as

Re: [Python-ideas] Consider (one day) adding an inheritance order class precedence mechanism

On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 3:15 AM Nick Coghlan wrote: > On 17 November 2017 at 15:52, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > There's a lot of benefit to having a relatively simple, understandable > > algorithm for determining the MRO, as opposed to some sort of

Re: [Python-ideas] Consider (one day) adding an inheritance order class precedence mechanism

On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 1:11 AM Greg Ewing wrote: > Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > These are not equivalent: > > > > B < S, E > > B < E, S > > Not in general, but in many cases they will be, e.g. if > E and S have no method names in common. I think the OP is > implying

Re: [Python-ideas] Rewriting the "roundrobin" recipe in the itertools documentation

I find this refactored code intriguing. While I would not suggest changes to the itertools recipes, it is a pleasant exercise to think of alternative recipes with an itertools way. There are a few third-party libraries dedicated to itertools recipes. For example, more-itertools has an

Re: [Python-ideas] Ignorable whitespaces in the re.VERBOSE mode

I put the actual space characters here so you can see them in a non-proportional font (which I assume most Python programmer use). https://gist.github.com/stephanh42/7c1c122154fd3f26d864233a40d8 The control characters aren't rendered at all (Vim renders them as ^\ ^] ^^ ^_, respectively).

Re: [Python-ideas] Ignorable whitespaces in the re.VERBOSE mode

I don't think that we need more than space (U+0020) and Unix newline (U+000A) ;-) Victor 2017-11-16 11:23 GMT+01:00 Serhiy Storchaka : > Currently the re module ignores only 6 ASCII whitespaces in the re.VERBOSE > mode: > > U+0009 CHARACTER TABULATION > U+000A LINE

Re: [Python-ideas] Looking for input to help with the pip situation

On 17/11/2017 09:13, Paul Moore wrote: > On 17 November 2017 at 01:57, Nick Coghlan wrote: >> On 17 November 2017 at 05:15, Chris Barker wrote: >>> >>> On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 11:07 AM, Steve Dower >>> wrote: If you

Re: [Python-ideas] Looking for input to help with the pip situation

On 17 November 2017 at 01:57, Nick Coghlan wrote: > On 17 November 2017 at 05:15, Chris Barker wrote: >> >> On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 11:07 AM, Steve Dower >> wrote: >>> >>> If you write such a PEP, please also research and write

Re: [Python-ideas] Consider (one day) adding an inheritance order class precedence mechanism

On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 10:14 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > On 17 November 2017 at 15:52, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > There's a lot of benefit to having a relatively simple, understandable > > algorithm for determining the MRO, as opposed to some sort of

Re: [Python-ideas] Ignorable whitespaces in the re.VERBOSE mode

17.11.17 00:09, MRAB пише: On 2017-11-16 21:44, Serhiy Storchaka wrote: 16.11.17 19:38, Guido van Rossum пише: Who would benefit from changing this? Let's not change things just because we can, or because Perl 6 does it. I don't know. I know the disadvantages of making this change, and I ask

Re: [Python-ideas] Consider (one day) adding an inheritance order class precedence mechanism

On 17 November 2017 at 15:52, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > There's a lot of benefit to having a relatively simple, understandable > algorithm for determining the MRO, as opposed to some sort of adaptive > rule that will try to reorder classes according to potentially clashing >