On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 12:38 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> A deployed Python distribution generally has .pyc files for all of the
> standard library. I don't think people want to lose the ability to
> call help(), and unless I'm misunderstanding, that requires
> docstrings. So this will mean twice
On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 12:00 PM, Carl Bordum Hansen wrote:
> I played around with a newer Python build, but when using the new
> `breakpoint` builtin, I missed my weapon of choice: dirty print-debugging.
>
> I suggest we combine forces and make the default `sys.breakpointhook`
> forward *args and
On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 1:07 PM, Steve Dower wrote:
> My preferred solution for this is to rename "py.exe" to "python.exe" (or
> rather, make a copy of it with the new name), and extend (or more likely,
> rewrite) the launcher such that:
>
> * if argv[0] == "py.exe", use PEP 514 company/tag resolu
On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 3:06 PM, Mikhail V wrote:
> I have a small syntax idea.
> In short, contraction of
>
> for x in range(a,b,c) :
>
> to
>
> for x in a,b,c :
>
> I really think there is something cute in it.
> So like a shortcut for range() which works only in for-in statement.
> So from synt
On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 6:07 AM, Erik Bray wrote:
> Greetings all,
>
> I wanted to bring attention to an issue that's been languishing on the
> bug tracker since last year, which I think would best be addressed by
> changes to CPython's C-API. The original issue is at
> http://bugs.python.org/iss
On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 9:45 AM, eryk sun wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 1:12 PM, Paul Moore wrote:
>> By the way - if you're on a system with readline support included with
>> Python, GNU readline apparently has a binding for clear-screen
>> (CTRL-L) so you may well have this functionality alr
On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 3:01 PM, Arek Bulski wrote:
> Sometimes I find myself in need of this nice operator that I used back in
> the days when I was programming in .NET, essentially an expression
>
expr ?? instead
>
> should return expr when it `is not None` and `instead` otherwise.
>
> A pie
