As of 3.7, there is now a python feature called Development Mode:
https://docs.python.org/3/library/devmode.html#devmode
Which has a confusingly similar and nearly identical name to a setuptools
feature:
https://packaging.python.org/guides/distributing-packages-using-setuptools/#working-in-deve
On 2/26/21 13:49, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Hi Coyot, and welcome!
Can you explain the circumstances where a developer, or an end user,
might be confused as to which development mode is meant?
"Dev mode" is a very common term: Windows 10 has a development mode. So
does the X-Box and the Samsung Ga
On 3/1/21 08:49, Paul Moore wrote:
On Mon, 1 Mar 2021 at 16:25, Coyot Linden (Glenn Glazer)
wrote:
This is one of those cases, where those of us who have been around
Python for awhile can perhaps infer from context which his meant, but
the
On Sun, Mar 27, 2022 at 3:08 AM Paul Moore p.f.mo...@gmail.com wrote:
...
exactly - let's say someone needs to write some JSON for the
first time.
With the json package included, all they need to do is `import
json`. If
that wasn't there,
I would like to point out another use case of triple quotes outside of
docstrings. We do a lot of SQL here and so doing a parameterized query like:
"""SELECT foo
FROM bar
WHERE baz = %s"""
is a whole lot cleaner and more natural than
("SELECT foo" +
"FROM bar" +
"WHERE baz = %s")
For this toy
I would welcome a multiline comment format that didn't involve docstrings.
Err, sorry, I meant multiline string format.
Best,
coyot
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On 4/4/22 09:25, Paul Moore wrote:
On Mon, 4 Apr 2022 at 17:22, Coyot Linden (Glenn Glazer)
wrote:
I would welcome a multiline comment format that didn't involve docstrings.
Err, sorry, I meant multiline string format.
I'm confused, what's wrong with """...&quo
"Well, that escalated quickly." :-)
How did we get from a specific issue with docstrings and the
unittest package's test reporting to multi-line comments? If
this was Discourse that entire subdiscussion would have been
flagged as
