[Ben Finney]
I encourage anyone whose messages are munged like that to seek
correction from their mail service provider, and switch to a different
one until it's fixed.
The post was typed on a mobile device into the text window on Google
Groups.
It's too bad that inane concerns with newline
On Sep 10, 2:13 pm, Terry Reedy tjre...@udel.edu wrote:
Reading the third paragraph out of context, one can miss the restriction
to built-in objects. I had assumed that the conversion using len(), when
available, happened prior to the __getitem__ call.
Yes, that's a common misconception. It
In article 87r5gz93sv@benfinney.id.au,
Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au wrote:
Neil Hodgson nhodg...@bigpond.net.au writes:
There appear to be deliberate wraps at sentence end or automatic wraps
to fit 80 columns.
The automatic wraps in the code presented in the message are wrong.
In article 87vd6d84f7@benfinney.id.au,
Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au wrote:
Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au writes:
Raymond Hettinger pyt...@rcn.com writes:
It doesn't seem to be common knowledge when and how a[x] gets
translated to a[x+len(x)]. So, here's a short info post
Ben Finney:
For those who think the problem may be with the recipient's software, I
see the same annoying line-wrapping problems in the archived message
URL:http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2010-September/1255167.html.
That looks well-formatted to me and just the same as I see
On 10Sep2010 12:46, Daniel Fetchinson fetchin...@googlemail.com wrote:
| Raymond Hettinger pyt...@rcn.com writes:
| It doesn't seem to be common knowledge when and how a[x] gets
| translated to a[x+len(x)]. So, here's a short info post on how Python
| supports negative indices for sequences.
Neil Hodgson nhodg...@bigpond.net.au writes:
There appear to be deliberate wraps at sentence end or automatic wraps
to fit 80 columns.
The automatic wraps in the code presented in the message are wrong. The
automatic wraps in the bullet point list are, if not wrong, at least
presumably
Raymond Hettinger wrote:
collections.deque('abcde').__getitem__[-2] # extension class, magic
method
Small nit: You don't mean [square] brackets here, right?
Otherwise, good posting, thank you!
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Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au writes:
Raymond Hettinger pyt...@rcn.com writes:
It doesn't seem to be common knowledge when and how a[x] gets
translated to a[x+len(x)]. So, here's a short info post on how Python
supports negative indices for sequences.
Thanks for this. Could you
On Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:37:49 -0700, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
Hello Folks.
It doesn't seem to be common knowledge when and how a[x] gets translated
to a[x+len(x)]. So, here's a short info post on how Python supports
negative indices for sequences.
[...]
Hope you all found this to be
Raymond Hettinger pyt...@rcn.com writes:
It doesn't seem to be common knowledge when and how a[x] gets
translated to a[x+len(x)]. So, here's a short info post on how Python
supports negative indices for sequences.
Thanks for this. Could you post your messages using a channel that
doesn't
On 9/9/2010 9:37 PM, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
The docs guarantee that Python's builtin sequences implement support
for negative indices (
http://docs.python.org/dev/reference/expressions.html#subscriptions
The relevant paragraphs are
For built-in objects, there are two types of objects that
In article mailman.634.1284115580.29448.python-l...@python.org,
Daniel Fetchinson fetchin...@googlemail.com wrote:
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I encourage anyone whose messages are munged like that to seek
correction from their mail service provider, and switch to a different
one until it's fixed.
Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au writes:
Raymond Hettinger pyt...@rcn.com writes:
It doesn't seem to be common knowledge when and how a[x] gets
translated to a[x+len(x)]. So, here's a short info post on how
Python supports negative indices for sequences.
Thanks for this. Could you
Hello Folks.
It doesn't seem to be common knowledge when and how a[x] gets
translated to a[x+len(x)]. So, here's a short info post on how Python
supports negative indices for sequences.
I've put the answer below, but if you want to quickly test your own
knowledge, ask yourself which of these
Raymond Hettinger pyt...@rcn.com writes:
It doesn't seem to be common knowledge when and how a[x] gets
translated to a[x+len(x)]. So, here's a short info post on how Python
supports negative indices for sequences.
Thanks for this. Could you post your messages using a channel that
doesn't
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