Re: [Python-Dev] Fwd: i18n

2010-08-27 Thread Massa, Harald Armin
>
> Incidentally, on the topic of translating keywords and such, it looks
> like one project to do so, Chinese Python, hasn't been updated since
> 2004: http://www.chinesepython.org/cgi_bin/cgb.cgi/news/news.html
>
> I just don't think there's much demand for translating the keywords.
>
> I really want to to beg everybody to never localize the keywords. Microsoft
did this with their Word and Excel-Functions, and it is a source of
frustration.

While learning any programming language, you're learning new concepts
anyway. new concepts = new words.

Harald


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Re: [Python-Dev] Two small PEP ideas

2010-09-02 Thread Massa, Harald Armin
>> Without a BDFL, I think we need a committee to make decisions, e.g. by
>> majority vote amongst committers.
>
> It is better to have one experienced developer decide than to have
> a committee.

I feel that the concept of a BDFM (benevolent dictator for the moment)
has the advantage of a clear visible responsibility, which most times
leads to better decisions than if nobody is sure which ammunituion is
the real one while shooting in a committee.

Harald
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Re: [Python-Dev] Porting Ideas

2010-12-01 Thread Massa, Harald Armin
>
> http://onpython3yet.com/ might be helpful to you. It orders the projects
> on PyPI with the most dependencies which are not yet ported to 3.x.
>
> Note that there are a number of false positives, e.g., the first result --
> NumPy, since people don't seem to keep their classifiers up-to-date.
>
> That could be a nice list. But quite disturbing content, as "Python, the
programming language" is stated as "not being ported to 3.0". Does not
really provoke trust.


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