Re: [Python-Dev] Mailbox module - timings and functionality changes

2010-06-29 Thread Miki Tebeka
Hello Steve, > Can someone who is set up to do easily just do a timing of test_mailbox > under 2.6 and 3.2, to verify they see the same disparity as me? The test > takes about twice as long under 3.1 here On Ubuntu timing was: Python 2.6.5: 23.8sec Python 2.7rc2: 32.7sec Python 3.1.2: 32.3sec

Re: [Python-Dev] Removing IDLE from the standard library

2010-07-10 Thread Miki Tebeka
Hello Tal, > I would like to propose removing IDLE from the standard library. -1. One of the biggest "selling points" for me when switching to python was the "out of the box" working IDE with REPL, syntax highliting and a debugger. The only other candidate I think of to replace IDLE might be IPyth

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-ideas] itertools.chunks(iterable, size, fill=None)

2012-09-01 Thread Miki Tebeka
See the "grouper" example in http://docs.python.org/library/itertools.html On Friday, August 31, 2012 11:28:33 PM UTC-7, anatoly techtonik wrote: > > I've run into the necessity of implementing chunks() again. Here is > the code I've made from scratch. > > def chunks(seq, size): > '''Cut sequ