Re: [SUSPICIOUS MESSAGE] Re: Cult-like behaviour [was Re: Kindness]

2018-07-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 16 July 2018 15:04:53 Terry Reedy wrote: > On 7/16/2018 10:54 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Monday 16 July 2018 10:24:28 Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > >> Plus the bytes syntax is really ugly. I wish Python3 had reserved > >> '...' for byte strings and "..." for UTF-32 strings. > > Aside from

Re: [SUSPICIOUS MESSAGE] Re: Cult-like behaviour [was Re: Kindness]

2018-07-16 Thread Terry Reedy
On 7/16/2018 11:50 AM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: For Python 4000 maybe Please don't give people the idea that there is any current intention to have a 'Python 4000' similar to 'Python 3000'. Call it 'a mythical Python 4000', if you must use such a term. -- Terry Jan Reedy --

Re: [SUSPICIOUS MESSAGE] Re: Cult-like behaviour [was Re: Kindness]

2018-07-16 Thread Terry Reedy
On 7/16/2018 10:54 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 16 July 2018 10:24:28 Marko Rauhamaa wrote: Plus the bytes syntax is really ugly. I wish Python3 had reserved '...' for byte strings and "..." for UTF-32 strings. Aside from the fact that Python3 strings are not UTF-32 strings, this would

Re: [SUSPICIOUS MESSAGE] Re: Cult-like behaviour [was Re: Kindness]

2018-07-16 Thread Chris Angelico
On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 12:54 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 16 July 2018 10:24:28 Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > >> Antoon Pardon : >> > I really don't understand why the author of that article didn't just >> > copy his python2 program but used sys.stdin.buffer and >> > sys.sydout.buffer instead

Re: [SUSPICIOUS MESSAGE] Re: Cult-like behaviour [was Re: Kindness]

2018-07-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 16 July 2018 10:24:28 Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > Antoon Pardon : > > I really don't understand why the author of that article didn't just > > copy his python2 program but used sys.stdin.buffer and > > sys.sydout.buffer instead of plain sys.stdin and stdout. > > Yes, it would be nice if you

Re: [SUSPICIOUS MESSAGE] Re: Cult-like behaviour [was Re: Kindness]

2018-07-16 Thread Antoon Pardon
On 16-07-18 16:24, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > Antoon Pardon : > >> I really don't understand why the author of that article didn't just >> copy his python2 program but used sys.stdin.buffer and >> sys.sydout.buffer instead of plain sys.stdin and stdout. > Yes, it would be nice if you could simply

Re: [SUSPICIOUS MESSAGE] Re: Cult-like behaviour [was Re: Kindness]

2018-07-16 Thread Marko Rauhamaa
Antoon Pardon : > I really don't understand why the author of that article didn't just > copy his python2 program but used sys.stdin.buffer and > sys.sydout.buffer instead of plain sys.stdin and stdout. Yes, it would be nice if you could simply restrict yourself to bytes everywhere when your

Re: [SUSPICIOUS MESSAGE] Re: Cult-like behaviour [was Re: Kindness]

2018-07-16 Thread Antoon Pardon
On 15-07-18 09:33, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > Paul Rubin : >> Py3's unicode picture is described here and it isn't pretty: >>