Am 08.08.2017 um 12:56 schrieb Chris Warrick:
On 8 August 2017 at 03:30, Ben Finney wrote:
Thomas Güttler writes:
Why is "the sane default is 'use console_scripts entry-point in
setup.py'" not a good answer?
Because third-party Setuptools is required for entry points, which means
entry p
Dear Python experts,
What exactly does the three dots do?
> aList = ...
> type(pList)
ellipsis
It's an ellipsis, a spot holder to later. But what data type is it: vector,
matrix?
In every other language, you initialize a variable you want to use. What's
the point of ellipsis?
Thanks!
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> > The machine I'm on here is writing big endian UTF-16 and UTF-32.
> >
> > As you note, the 16 and 32 forms are (6 + 1) times 2 or 4 respectively. This
> > is because each encoding has a leading byte order marker to indicate the big
> > endianness or little endianness. For big endian data that
On Tue, Aug 08, 2017 at 12:56:56PM +0200, Chris Warrick wrote:
> While setuptools is not officially part of the stdlib,
This is the critical factor. How can you use *by default* something that
is *NOT* supplied by default?
Obviously you cannot. It is physically impossible.
> it *is*
> recomme
This is a follow up. I actually ran into this today:
import numpy as np
xArray = np.ones((3, 4))
> xArray.shape
(3, 4)
> np.shape(xArray)
(3, 4)
It was confusing to see that both xArray.shape and np.shape() worked. Are
they equivalent?
In the case of sort() vs sorted(), they are different, but
On 09/08/17 22:15, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 08, 2017 at 12:56:56PM +0200, Chris Warrick wrote:
>
>> While setuptools is not officially part of the stdlib,
>
> This is the critical factor. How can you use *by default* something that
> is *NOT* supplied by default?
I have to agree wit
On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 11:32 PM, Alan Gauld via Tutor wrote:
> On 09/08/17 22:15, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>>
>> This is the critical factor. How can you use *by default* something that
>> is *NOT* supplied by default?
>
> I have to agree with Steven here. Any mature language should
> ship with all
