Re: [Python-Dev] r87389 - in python/branches/py3k: Doc/library/unittest.rst Lib/unittest/case.py Misc/NEWS

On 22 December 2010 01:37, Guido van Rossum wrote: > Furthermore, Java's jUnit puts expected first (and makes this part of > the culture/religion), so people coming from there will use that order > and be freaked out if you were to swap them. And last, the order of > diff arguments (old new) is al

Re: [Python-Dev] Set the namespace free!

On 22 July 2010 14:14, Xavier Morel wrote: > getattr(elem, 'param') I believe, rather than elem.getattr('param') Doh! You're absolutely right, of course. -- Cheers, Simon B. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mail

Re: [Python-Dev] Set the namespace free!

On 22 July 2010 15:04, Bartosz Tarnowski wrote: > What should I do then, when the attribute is a reserver word? You would use elem.getattr('param'). That's what it's for. > Let all reserved words be preceded with some symbol, i.e. "!" (exclamation > mark). Oh, God, no. This would be better off

Re: [Python-Dev] Automatic installer builds (was Re: Fwd: Broken link to download (Mac OS X))

On 14 April 2010 20:02, wrote: > I ran a Mac OSX buildbot for the community buildbots for awhile but never > did figure out at the time how to get it to fire up on reboot.  That was a > few years ago.  I think today that would easily be accomplished with an > @reboot crontab entry.  Dunno if that

Re: [Python-Dev] Another version of Python

2010/2/24 skip : > Some of you have probably already seen this, but in case you haven't: > >    http://www.staringispolite.com/likepython/ > > :-) I'm reminded of LOLPython: . -- Cheers, Simon B. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-

Re: [Python-Dev] Pronouncement on PEP 389: argparse?

2009/12/14 Ian Bicking : > Another thing I just noticed is that argparse using -v for version > where optparse does not (it only adds --version); most of my scripts > that use -v to mean --verbose, causing problems. Oh, me too. -- Cheers, Simon B. ___

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] MSI being downloaded 10x morethan all other files?!

On 12/12/06, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And I just found out (after everyone else probably :-) that YouTube is > almost entirely written in Python. (And now I can rub shoulders with > the developers since they're all Googlers now... :-) That'll put to bed any "Does Python scale"

Re: [Python-Dev] Python Doc problems

On 9/29/06, Greg Ewing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > An example of a good way to do it is the original Inside > Macintosh series. Each chapter started with a narrative-style > "About this module" kind of section, that introduced the > relevant concepts and explained how they fitted together, > witho

Re: [Python-Dev] implementation of copy standard lib

On 8/14/05, Martijn Brouwer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I noticed that this lib is implemented in python, not in C. As I can > imagine that *a lot* of libs/scripts use the copy library, I think it > worthwhile to implement this lib in C. > Unfortunately I cannot do this myself: I am relatively ine

Re: [Python-Dev] How do you get yesterday from a time object

On 4/19/05, Ralph Hilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i'm a beginning python programmer. > > I want to get the date for yesterday This is the wrong place for this question. Nip over to http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list, and I'd be more than happy answer it there... -- Cheers,

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 2.4 won the "Jolt productivity award" last night

On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 09:07:19 +, Simon Brunning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The 2005 winners are listed here: > http://www.sdmagazine.com/pressroom/jolt_winners_2005.pdf Oh, and while I'm breaking cover on python-dev; congratulations to the lot of you for this. You all

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 2.4 won the "Jolt productivity award" last night

On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 16:01:03 +, Gareth McCaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.sdmagazine.com/jolts/ , > > but it's not been updated yet and therefore still has last year's > winners on it. I haven't found anything with more up-to-date > results. The 2005 winners are listed here