[Python-ideas] Re: PEP 671 (late-bound arg defaults), next round of discussion!

2022-06-16 Thread Rob Cliffe via Python-ideas
On 15/06/2022 23:01, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Wed, Jun 15, 2022 at 01:58:28PM +0100, Rob Cliffe via Python-ideas wrote: Please.  This has been many times by several people already.  No-one is going to change their mind on this by now.  There's no point in rehashing it and adding noise to the

[Python-ideas] Re: PEP 671 (late-bound arg defaults), next round of discussion!

2022-06-16 Thread Rob Cliffe via Python-ideas
On 17/06/2022 04:23, David Mertz, Ph.D. wrote: I've been scolded that I'm not allowed to post unless I support the PEP. Please do not misrepresent me.  That is NOT what I said. Rob Cliffe Nonetheless, I reiterate that I oppose it. There is no "preponderance" of support, but perhaps a slim majo

[Python-ideas] Re: Bare wildcard in de-structuring to ignore remainder and stop iterating (restart)

2022-06-16 Thread Chris Angelico
On Fri, 17 Jun 2022 at 12:52, Steve Jorgensen wrote: > > Restarting this with an improved title "Bare" vs "Raw", and I will try not to > digress so much in the new thread. > > My suggestion is to allow a bare asterisk at the end of a desctructuring > expression to indicate that additional elemen

[Python-ideas] Re: PEP 671 (late-bound arg defaults), next round of discussion!

2022-06-16 Thread David Mertz, Ph.D.
I've been scolded that I'm not allowed to post unless I support the PEP. Nonetheless, I reiterate that I oppose it. There is no "preponderance" of support, but perhaps a slim majority of the small number who have commented (5 vs 3, I think). On Thu, Jun 16, 2022, 10:38 PM Steve Jorgensen wrote:

[Python-ideas] Bare wildcard in de-structuring to ignore remainder and stop iterating (restart)

2022-06-16 Thread Steve Jorgensen
Restarting this with an improved title "Bare" vs "Raw", and I will try not to digress so much in the new thread. My suggestion is to allow a bare asterisk at the end of a desctructuring expression to indicate that additional elements are to be ignored if present and not iterated over if the rhs

[Python-ideas] Re: PEP 671 (late-bound arg defaults), next round of discussion!

2022-06-16 Thread Steve Jorgensen
Is there anything that I can do, as a random Python user to help move this to the next stage? I'm happy to go along with whatever the preponderance of responses here seem to think in terms of which syntax choice is best. Although I have a slight preference, all of the options seem decent to me.