Brendan Barnwell writes:
> What it means for me for something to "be an HTML string" (or more
> precisely, to be an instance of HTMLString or whatever the class name
> is) is for it to be a string that has an extra tag attached to the
> object that means "this is HTML".
I don't like t
On Tue, 20 Dec 2022 at 13:56, Brendan Barnwell wrote:
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> On 2022-12-19 13:59, Chris Angelico wrote:
> > On Tue, 20 Dec 2022 at 07:13, Brendan Barnwell
> > wrote:
> >> > See my example regarding a StrEnum and tell me whether that would be
> >> > more irritating.
> >>
> >> I can't ru
On 2022-12-19 13:59, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Tue, 20 Dec 2022 at 07:13, Brendan Barnwell wrote:
> See my example regarding a StrEnum and tell me whether that would be
> more irritating.
I can't run that example myself as I don't have Python 3.11 set up.
The enum module was adde
On Tue, 20 Dec 2022 at 12:55, Ethan Furman wrote:
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> On 12/19/22 13:59, Chris Angelico wrote:
>
> > The way things are, a StrEnum or an HTML string will behave *exactly
> > as a string does*. The alternative is that, if any new operations are
> > added to strings in the future, they have to be
On 12/19/22 13:59, Chris Angelico wrote:
> The way things are, a StrEnum or an HTML string will behave *exactly
> as a string does*. The alternative is that, if any new operations are
> added to strings in the future, they have to be explicitly blocked by
> StrEnum or else they will randomly and
On Tue, 20 Dec 2022 at 11:16, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Speaking of dicts, the dict.fromkeys method cooperates with subclasses.
> That proves that it can be done from a builtin. True, it is a
> classmethod rather than an instance method, but any instance method can
> find out its own class by calli
On Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 03:48:01PM -0800, Christopher Barker wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 3:39 AM Steven D'Aprano wrote
>
> > In any case, I was making a larger point that this same issue applies to
> > other builtins like float, int and more.
>
>
> Actually, I think the issue is with immut
On Tue, 20 Dec 2022 at 07:13, Brendan Barnwell wrote:
> > See my example regarding a StrEnum and tell me whether that would be
> > more irritating.
>
> I can't run that example myself as I don't have Python 3.11 set up.
The enum module was added in Python 3.4.
Nonetheless, a StrEnum is
Sorry, accidentally replied off-list. . .
On 2022-12-19 11:36, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Tue, 20 Dec 2022 at 06:29, Brendan Barnwell wrote:
On 2022-12-19 03:45, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Mon, 19 Dec 2022 at 22:37, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
But this much (say with a better validator) gets you st
On Mon, 19 Dec 2022 at 22:37, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> > But this much (say with a better validator) gets you static type checking,
> > syntax highlighting, and inherent documentation of intent.
>
> Any half-way decent static type-checker will immediately fail as soon as
> you call a method on thi
On Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 01:02:02AM -0600, Shantanu Jain wrote:
> collections.UserString can take away a lot of this boilerplate pain from
> user defined str subclasses.
At what performance cost?
Also:
>>> s = collections.UserString('spam and eggs')
>>> isinstance(s, str)
False
which pretty muc
On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 10:23:18PM -0500, David Mertz, Ph.D. wrote:
> I'd agree to "limited", but not "hostile." Look at the suggestions I
> mentioned: validate, canoncialize, security check. All of those are
> perfectly fine in `.__new__()`.
No, they aren't perfectly fine, because as soon as y
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