[Python-ideas] Re: Implement POSIX ln via shutil.link and shutil.symlink

2019-06-29 Thread Tom Hale
Based on the below positive feedback, I've created a PR here: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/14464 Only shutil.symlink is currently implemented. Feedback (and possibly fixes) requested from Windows users. Thanks to all for their ideas, input and constructive criticism. Cheers, -- To

[Python-ideas] Re: something like sscanf for Python

2019-06-29 Thread Christopher Barker
This thread caught my interest because I’ve written code that wraps fscanf More than once (And have some in production). So a few observations: 1) my primary reason for doing it was performance — reading lots of numbers into numpy arrays. I literally NEVER felt Python’s built in string manipulatio