[Python-ideas] Re: How to propose a change with tests where the failing test case (current behaviour) is bad or dangerous

2020-05-27 Thread Ethan Furman
On 05/27/2020 05:53 PM, Rob Cliffe via Python-ideas wrote: No, I downloaded a 3rd-party package.  I'm not sure if that's "specialist sotware" by your definition. I won't name it here, but it was dead easy to install and use and works perfectly. Personally I'd recommend it. You'd recommend

[Python-ideas] Re: Optional keyword arguments

2020-05-27 Thread Chris Angelico
On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 10:42 AM Rob Cliffe wrote: > > > > On 26/05/2020 20:03, Chris Angelico wrote: > > On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 2:51 AM Steven D'Aprano wrote: > >> But doing otherwise, having Undef be *not an object* but a kinda ghost > >> in the interpreter, is a huge language change and I

[Python-ideas] Re: How to propose a change with tests where the failing test case (current behaviour) is bad or dangerous

2020-05-27 Thread Rob Cliffe via Python-ideas
On 25/05/2020 15:33, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 03:54:30PM +0100, Rob Cliffe via Python-ideas wrote: I find having a RAM drive is very handy.  Could this be another use for it? Could be, if there's a standard way to create a RAM drive on all windows machines without

[Python-ideas] Re: Optional keyword arguments

2020-05-27 Thread Rob Cliffe via Python-ideas
APOLOGY: My e-mail client (Thunderbird) crashed as I hit Send; I don't know if it was actually sent. Therefore I am sending it again - sorry if it's a duplicate post. Rob Cliffe On 26/05/2020 20:03, Chris Angelico wrote: On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 2:51 AM Steven D'Aprano wrote: But doing

[Python-ideas] Re: Optional keyword arguments

2020-05-27 Thread Rob Cliffe via Python-ideas
On 26/05/2020 05:03, David Mertz wrote: On Mon, May 25, 2020, 11:56 PM Christopher Barker well, yes and no. this conversation was in the context of "None" works fine most of the time. How many functions take None as a non-sentinel value?! How many of that tiny numbers do so only

[Python-ideas] Re: An HTTP API to list versions of Python

2020-05-27 Thread Joseph Banks
The downside to the FTP solution however is that little metadata is present about the versions The FTP pages are primarily for downloading versions which isn't the aim of the proposal, it's to be able to fetch the metadata. Adding some sort of metadata file to all versions on the FTP server

[Python-ideas] Re: An HTTP API to list versions of Python

2020-05-27 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 27.05.2020 18:59, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > On Tue, 26 May 2020 22:19:12 -0400 > Kyle Stanley wrote: >> >>> It could become more detailed about each minor versions, git tag, links >> to changelogs, links to the repositories, to the docs, download links, >> and so on. >> >> I don't know that it

[Python-ideas] Re: Python JIT Compilation Thoughts

2020-05-27 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Wed, 27 May 2020 21:24:08 +0300 Paul Sokolovsky wrote: > Hello, > > On Wed, 27 May 2020 08:18:11 - > redrad...@gmail.com wrote: > > > Thanks Guido !! > > > > I have not known about `pyston` ... It is pretty good like for me > > I will take a close look at this project > > A recent

[Python-ideas] Re: Python JIT Compilation Thoughts

2020-05-27 Thread Paul Sokolovsky
Hello, On Wed, 27 May 2020 08:18:11 - redrad...@gmail.com wrote: > Thanks Guido !! > > I have not known about `pyston` ... It is pretty good like for me > I will take a close look at this project A recent attempt to collect known Python JITs/compilers:

[Python-ideas] Re: An HTTP API to list versions of Python

2020-05-27 Thread Christian Heimes
On 27/05/2020 18.59, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > On Tue, 26 May 2020 22:19:12 -0400 > Kyle Stanley wrote: >> >>> It could become more detailed about each minor versions, git tag, links >> to changelogs, links to the repositories, to the docs, download links, >> and so on. >> >> I don't know that it

[Python-ideas] Re: Optional keyword arguments

2020-05-27 Thread Christopher Barker
On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 9:52 AM Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 08:54:52PM -0700, Christopher Barker wrote: > > On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 6:37 PM Steven D'Aprano > wrote: > > > > > A NOT_SPECIFIED singleton in builtins would be pretty clear. > > > > Guido's time machine

[Python-ideas] Re: An HTTP API to list versions of Python

2020-05-27 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Tue, 26 May 2020 22:19:12 -0400 Kyle Stanley wrote: > > > It could become more detailed about each minor versions, git tag, links > to changelogs, links to the repositories, to the docs, download links, > and so on. > > I don't know that it needs to be said, but for now, I think we should

[Python-ideas] Re: Optional keyword arguments

2020-05-27 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Greg Ewing writes: > "Did the user supply a value for this optional argument?" is a > simple and reasonable question to ask. True. > It deserves to have a simple and direct way of answering it that > always works. "Deserves"? I wouldn't go farther than "it might be fun to have" that. In

[Python-ideas] Re: Python JIT Compilation Thoughts

2020-05-27 Thread redradist
Thanks Guido !! I have not known about `pyston` ... It is pretty good like for me I will take a close look at this project ___ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org