[Python-Dev] list splicing

2005-09-18 Thread Karl Chen
Hi, has anybody considered adding something like this: a = [1, 2] [ 'x', *a, 'y'] as syntactic sugar for a = [1, 2] [ 'x' ] + a + [ 'y' ]. Notes: - This is a common operation - To me, the splicing form looks much better than the concatenation form - It can be implemented more ef

Re: [Python-Dev] textwrap.py wordsep_re

2005-02-27 Thread Karl Chen
> On 2005-02-24 05:04 PST, Greg Ward writes: Greg> Post a patch to SF and assign it to me. Make sure the Greg> unit tests still pass, and add a new one that doesn't Greg> pass without your fix. Done. Patch id 1149508. -- Karl 2005-02-27 10:29 __

Re: [Python-Dev] textwrap.py wordsep_re

2005-02-24 Thread Karl Chen
> On 2005-02-24 05:04 PST, Greg Ward writes: Greg> Post a patch to SF and assign it to me. Make sure the Greg> unit tests still pass, and add a new one that doesn't Greg> pass without your fix. Pester me mercilessly until I Greg> act on it. (I think your change is probably f

[Python-Dev] textwrap.py wordsep_re

2005-02-22 Thread Karl Chen
Hi, textwrap.fill() is awesome. Except when the string to wrap contains dates -- which I would like not to be filled. In general I think wordsep_re can be smarter about what it decides are hyphenated words. For example, this code: print textwrap.fill('aa 2005-02-21', 18) produces:

[Python-Dev] textwrap wordsep_re

2005-02-21 Thread Karl Chen
Hi, textwrap.fill() is awesome. Except when the string to wrap contains dates -- which I would like not to be broken. In general I think wordsep_re can be smarter about what it decides are hyphenated words. For example, this code: print textwrap.fill('aa 2005-02-21', 18) produces: