Re: Type hinting of Python is just a toy ?

On Friday, January 4, 2019 at 9:05:11 AM UTC+1, iam...@icloud.com wrote: > I read that pep 484 type hinting of python has no effect of performance, then > what’s the purpose of it? Just a toy ? Having no effect on performance is a good thing; Python is already slowish, additional runtime type

Re: Are the critiques in "All the things I hate about Python" valid?

On Saturday, February 17, 2018 at 12:28:29 PM UTC+1, Ben Bacarisse wrote: > Marko Rauhamaa writes: > > > Many people think static typing is key to high quality. I tend to think > > the reverse is true: the boilerplate of static typing hampers > > expressivity so much that, on

Re: Getting back into PyQt and not loving it.

PyGTK is obsolete and stopped at Python 2.7, while PyGObject for Windows is several versions behind (currently 3.18 vs 3.21) and it doesn't support Python 3.5. Game over for GTK+. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Which one is the best XML-parser?

On Thursday, June 23, 2016 at 11:03:18 PM UTC+2, David Shi wrote: > Which one is the best XML-parser? > Can any one tell me? > Regards. > David Lxml offers lxml.etree.iterparse (http://lxml.de/tutorial.html#event-driven-parsing), an important combination of the memory savings of incremental

Re: anomaly

, and routinely made without bothering other people with inane conversations. Lorenzo Gatti -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: New user's initial thoughts / criticisms of Python

Regarding the select statement, I think the most Pythonic approach is using dictionaries rather than nested ifs. Supposing we want to decode abbreviated day names (mon) to full names (Monday): day_abbr='mon' day_names_mapping={ 'mon':'Monday', 'tue':'Tuesday', 'wed':'Wednesday',

Re: Choosing GUI Module for Python

On Nov 11, 9:48 am, Lorenzo Gatti ga...@dsdata.it wrote: On a more constructive note, I started to follow the instructions athttp://www.pyside.org/docs/pyside/howto-build/index.html(which are vague and terse enough to be cross-platform) with Microsoft VC9 Express. Hurdle 0: recompile Qt

Re: Choosing GUI Module for Python

be resumed) after about 2 hours: trial and error at 1-2 builds per day could take weeks. Regards, Lorenzo Gatti -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Choosing GUI Module for Python

a project underway to produce PyQT compatible LGPL python bindings under the PySide project. I also would like to use PySide, but unlike PyQt and Qt itself it doesn't seem likely to support Windows in the foreseeable future. A pity, to put it mildly. Regards, Lorenzo Gatti -- http://mail.python.org

Re: Pyfora, a place for python

On Nov 3, 11:37 am, Steven D'Aprano st...@remove-this- cybersource.com.au wrote: On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:11:59 -0800, Lorenzo Gatti wrote: [...] Are you saying that now that comp.lang.python and stackoverflow exists, there no more room in the world for any more Python forums? I think that's

Re: Pyfora, a place for python

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Re: random number including 1 - i.e. [0,1]

by (N-1)/N the minimum and maximum results for the two choices can be made identical up to floating point mangling. Regards, Lorenzo Gatti -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Thoughts on language-level configuration support?

, wizards, etc. and they shouldn't because they don't want to tweak little bits, not even if they have to. Regards, Lorenzo Gatti -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: type-checking support in Python?

://www.boost.org/ doc/libs/1_36_0/doc/html/boost_units.html) with a modest increase of cumbersomeness, but Python would need very heavyweight classes containing a value and its dimension and a replacement of all needed functions and operations. Regards, Lorenzo Gatti -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: XML-schema 'best practice' question

application without the sort of big bang redesign you seem to be planning; chances are that the needed objects are already in place and you only need to make workflow more explicit and add appropriate new features. Regards, Lorenzo Gatti -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: XML-schema 'best practice' question

grow inside your existing accounting application without the sort of big bang redesign you seem to be planning; chances are that the needed objects are already in place and you only need to make workflow more explicit and add appropriate new features. Regards, Lorenzo Gatti -- http://mail.python.org

Re: XML-schema 'best practice' question

, either as XML or as serialized Python data structures. Regards, Lorenzo Gatti -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: 2d graphics - what module to use?

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Re: str(bytes) in Python 3.0

data corruption in a working system. Regards, Lorenzo Gatti -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Beginner's assignment question

' (for example a, b = b, a swaps two variables), overlaps within the collection of assigned-to variables are not safe! For instance, the following program prints [0, 2]: x = [0, 1] i = 0 i, x[i] = 1, 2 print x Lorenzo Gatti -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list