[Python-Dev] Python 3.0a documentation
I'd like to help out cleaning up the Python3.0 documentation. There are a lot of little leftovers from 2.x that are no longer true. (mentions of long, callable() etc.) Ideally (especially in the tutorial), we should only refer to 3.0 features and syntax, and keep the special cases and "other ways to do it" to a minimum. Before I dive in and start submitting patches, what does everyone else think? How much reference to previous python versions should be left in? Does it make sense to keep notes of the nature of "since version 2.3 ..." when there is an intentional discontinuity at 3.0? Peter Harris ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Python-Dev] Partial function application 'from the right'
Hi all, > On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 6:12 AM, Ben North wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I find 'functools.partial' useful, but occasionally I'm unable to use it >> because it lacks a 'from the right' version. > -1 For me, the main objection to a partial that places its stored positional arguments from the right is that you don't know which positions those arguments will actually occupy until the partial is called. Who *really* thinks that would be a neat feature? There's probably a reason why Haskell doesn't do this... Peter Harris ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
