On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 7:12 AM, Michele Simionato
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I like Martin's proposals (use a function, remove -O) very much.
That's too bad, since I don't like it at all :-). You can write your
own function trivially that does this; however IMO the *language*
should support som
I like Martin's proposals (use a function, remove -O) very much.
Actually I wanted
to propose the same months ago. Here is my take at the assert function, which
I would like to be able to raise even exceptions different from AssertionError:
def assert_(cond, exc, *args):
"""Raise an exception
What I really want is for the need to be less common. What if assert
recognized certain commonly used expression types and actually
generated appropriate error messages?
>>> assert foo.answer == 42
AssertionError: expected foo.answer == 42; actual: 'a suffusion of yellow'
Maybe that's too ma
On Tue, 16 Sep 2008 10:50:45 am Greg Ewing wrote:
> Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> > I was confused about the role of commas, and totally gobsmacked
> > when I discovered that commas make tuples everywhere except when
> > following an except statement.
>
> Um... you've never written a function call with
On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 3:00 PM, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I think in general Python has erred on the side of having too many
> different syntactical uses for commas. We killed a few in 3.0 with the
> introduction of "except E as v" and the demotion of print to a
> function ca
On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 12:47 PM, Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> C. Titus Brown wrote:
>
>> over on the pygr list, we were recently discussing a mildly confusing
>> edit I made:
>>
>> assert 'seq1' in self.db, self.db.keys()
>> This was interpreted by someone as being
>>
>> assert '
C. Titus Brown wrote:
over on the pygr list, we were recently discussing a mildly confusing
edit I made:
assert 'seq1' in self.db, self.db.keys()
This was interpreted by someone as being
assert 'seq1' in (self.db, self.db.keys())
which is very different from the actual meaning,
a
