gt; Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] Best practice for documentation for std lib
>
>
> On 2013-09-22, at 21:24 , Westley Martínez wrote:
>
> >> From: gvanros...@gmail.com [mailto:gvanros...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Guido
> >> van Rossum
> >> Sent: Sunday, Septemb
> From: gvanros...@gmail.com [mailto:gvanros...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Guido
> van Rossum
> Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2013 11:35 AM
>
> You seem to misunderstand the use of "autogeneration". It refers to generating
> the .rst docs from the docstrings in the source. And FWIW, I'm against that
>
Since help() is usually the first thing I use to remind myself of an
API, it's imperative that the doc strings are up to date and make sense
to end users.
So, autogeneration of doc strings would be good for someone like me who
hardly uses the html docs.
> -Original Message-
> From: Python
> -Original Message-
> From: Python-Dev [mailto:python-dev-bounces+anikom15=gmail@python.org] On
> Behalf Of Ben Finney
> Sent: Saturday, September 21, 2013 12:56 PM
> To: python-dev@python.org
> Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] Use an empty def as a lambda
>
>
chosen def in lieu of typedef or #def in lieu of #define, I
doubt that def would have been chosen as the keyword for functions in
Python.
> -Original Message-
> From: Ryan [mailto:rym...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Saturday, September 21, 2013 10:55 AM
> To: Westley Martínez; 'Ben G
'def' is no more ambiguous than 'lambda', and is in fact more ambiguous,
for 'def' doesn't lend itself to anything other than the word define,
whilst 'lambda' can only mean lambda function. Calling def explicit is
silly. It only makes sense because def arbitrarily means a function in
Python (I'm
On Thu, 2011-03-31 at 21:21 -0500, s...@pobox.com wrote:
> Antoine> Let's say that by using non-metric units you have already lost
> Antoine> me, sorry.
>
> Wouldn't it be cool if you could feed the text to Google Translator and have
> it not only translate the English to bad French, but trans
On Thu, 2011-03-31 at 21:18 -0500, s...@pobox.com wrote:
> Terry> Even though such is standard for the majority of web fora?
>
> I participate in a couple different web forums (914s and swimming). Both
> present their topics in chronological order and provide a link at the top of
> every page whi
On Thu, 2011-03-31 at 16:27 -0700, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
>
> On Mar 31, 2011, at 9:52 AM, Terry Reedy wrote:
>
> > I would like to try putting the comment box after the last (most
> > recent) comment, as that is the message one most ofter responds to.
> > Having to now scroll up and down betwe
On Sun, 2011-03-20 at 05:36 -0400, Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 3/20/2011 3:22 AM, Glenn Linderman wrote:
> On 3/19/2011 7:38 PM, Mark Hammond wrote:
> [snip]
>
> As both a writer and reader, I would like to just add, for instance,
>
> #! python3
>
> (or 3.3 or whatever) and have the launcher do the
On Wed, 2011-03-09 at 18:20 -0500, James Y Knight wrote:
> It's well known that OpenSSL is incompatible with the GPL. [1] Python (from
> 2.6) is *always* linked against openssl, instead of waiting for you to
> "import ssl".
>
> Doesn't this mean it's now impossible (rather, a license violation)
On Mon, 2011-03-07 at 15:54 +0100, Éric Araujo wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > Roadmap is not a strict plan for release. It helps people
> > *self-organize into teams* around specific feature or bugs.
> I think the tracker is used to this effect with success.
>
> > Yes, there can (or even should) be a way for
On Sun, 2011-03-06 at 11:18 +1100, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Westley Martínez wrote:
>
> > I believe singular they should not be used in formal writing. So what if
> > you use it in an email?
>
> If you, personally, dislike it, then don't use it. But if y
On Sun, 2011-03-06 at 10:25 +1100, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Daniel A. Welty wrote:
>
> > * "they" and "their" are plural, and should never be used in the singular.
>
> Thank you for sharing your option here, but you are not a linguist and
> you are simply wrong.
>
> At least two people in this
On Sat, 2011-03-05 at 03:27 +1100, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Westley Martínez wrote:
> > On Fri, 2011-03-04 at 00:54 -0800, Aaron DeVore wrote:
> >> On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 11:44 PM, Kerrick Staley
> >> wrote:
> >>> That way, if the sysadmin
On Fri, 2011-03-04 at 22:21 +0100, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote:
> As for Windows support: we currently don't install a python3.exe binary,
> let alone python2.exe or pythonw2.exe (or is that python2w.exe?). I'll
> adjust the installer if the PEP asks me to. For the reasons discussed,
> I'm -0 on the ch
On Fri, 2011-03-04 at 00:54 -0800, Aaron DeVore wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 11:44 PM, Kerrick Staley
> wrote:
> > That way, if the sysadmin does decide to replace the installed "python"
> > file, he can do so without inadvertently deleting the previously installed
> > binary.
>
> Nit pick:
On Wed, 2011-03-02 at 16:20 +0100, Piotr Ożarowski wrote:
> [Allan McRae, 2011-03-02]
> > Having made the packages using python-2.x code from an entire
> > distribution point at /usr/bin/python2, I have a fair idea of how much
> > work is involved...
>
> * is every Arch package that uses Pytho
On Wed, 2011-03-02 at 13:08 +0100, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Tue, 01 Mar 2011 19:25:00 -0800
> Westley Martínez wrote:
> >
> > If I got a message like that in my mailbox I would be rather annoyed,
> > mark it as spam, and be less likely to contribute a
On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 22:24 +0100, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> Hello,
>
> In
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-committers/2011-February/001340.html,
> I was asking whether it would be useful to make a survey of past
> contributors, as in:
>
> First, we did a survey of all our past d
On Tue, 2011-02-22 at 23:03 +0100, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 07:52:23 +1000
> Nick Coghlan wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 4:51 AM, Brett Cannon wrote:
> > > The very long term view is for %-formatting to go away, but that's as far
> > > as
> > > the thinking has gone. Th
On Wed, 2011-02-16 at 12:34 -0500, Terry Reedy wrote:
> I would like the next release called 3.2.0 rather than just 3.2.
- -1
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