Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 3144: IP Address Manipulation Library for the Python Standard Library

2009-08-20 Thread Joel Bender
Nick Coghlan wrote: Maybe this is something that differs by country, but I have *never* heard the first address in an IP network (i.e. every bit not covered by the netmask set to zero) referred to as anything other than the "network address". Ah! A change to interject a mostly pointless comme

Re: [Python-Dev] Py3k and asyncore/asynchat

2008-02-15 Thread Joel Bender
Bill Janssen wrote: > I think we should just replace the current "loop" with this (and add > the "schedule" function). Then other folks won't have to figure out > how the module works and write their own loop. Having beaten my way down this road of broken glass, I would like args and kwargs if y

[Python-Dev] Optional positional-only parameters (was Re: [Python-3000] PEP 3102)

2008-02-19 Thread Joel Bender
Nick Coghlan wrote: > We've also veered fairly far off topic for the Py3k list - further ideas > for positional-only argument syntax or decorators should probably be > kicked around on python-ideas rather than here or python-dev. For a function specification like this: def f(w, x=1, *, y,

Re: [Python-Dev] Things to Know About Super

2008-08-28 Thread Joel Bender
Greg, Do you have a real-life example of this where multiple inheritance is actually used? I have built a framework that I have called the "capability pattern" which uses multiple inheritance in a way that might be unique (I'm not familiar enough with other frameworks to know for sure). T