Re: [Python-Dev] pypy-0.9.0: stackless, new extension compiler

2006-06-26 Thread Ben . Young
Congratulations! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 25/06/2006 13:07:01: > The PyPy development team has been busy working and we've now packaged > our latest improvements, completed work and new experiments as > version 0.9.0, our fourth public release. > > The highlights of this fourth release of P

Re: [Python-Dev] Visual studio 2005 express now free

2006-04-26 Thread Ben . Young
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 25/04/2006 13:22:27: > "Neil Hodgson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Martin v. Löwis: > > > >> Apparently, the status of this changed right now: it seems that > >> the 2003 compiler is not available anymore; the page now says > >> that it was replaced with the 2005

Re: [Python-Dev] Class decorators

2006-03-30 Thread Ben . Young
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 30/03/2006 11:38:30: > Jack Diederich wrote: > > > Classes have a unique property in that they are the easiest way to make > > little namespaces in python. > > For a while now, I've been wondering whether it would > be worth having a construct purely for creating lit

Re: [Python-Dev] any support for a methodcaller HOF?

2006-02-03 Thread Ben . Young
Michael Hudson wrote on 03/02/2006 09:36:30: > > Hmm. > > >>> funcTakingCallback(lamda x:x.method(zip, zop)) > >>> funcTakingCallback(methodcaller("method", zip, zop)) > > I'm not sure which of these is clearer really. Are lambdas so bad? > (FWIW, I haven't internalized itemgetter/attrgetter y