Re: [Numpy-discussion] except expression discussion on python-ideas

2014-02-19 Thread Benjamin Root
So, this is kind of like Perl's "unless"? On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 10:18 PM, Alexander Belopolsky wrote: > I would like to invite numpy community to weigh in on the idea that is > getting momentum at > > https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2014-February/025437.html > > The main motivat

Re: [Numpy-discussion] except expression discussion on python-ideas

2014-02-19 Thread Robert Kern
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 3:18 AM, Alexander Belopolsky wrote: > I would like to invite numpy community to weigh in on the idea that is > getting momentum at > > https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2014-February/025437.html > > The main motivation is to provide syntactic alternative to pr

[Numpy-discussion] except expression discussion on python-ideas

2014-02-18 Thread Alexander Belopolsky
I would like to invite numpy community to weigh in on the idea that is getting momentum at https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2014-February/025437.html The main motivation is to provide syntactic alternative to proliferation of default value options, so that x = getattr(u, 'answer',