Re: [Python-Dev] version numbers mismatched in google search results.

2014-01-31 Thread Vincent Davis
On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 5:41 AM, Rick Boyce wrote: > 28.3. builtins — Built-in objects — Python 3.3.3 documentation -> > https://docs.python.org/3/library/builtins.html > ​I can't get the https link to work. Does python.org support https

Re: [Python-Dev] version numbers mismatched in google search results.

2014-01-31 Thread Vincent Davis
As I understand it, http://docs.python.org/library redirects to http://docs.python.org/2/library so that old links, blog posts. that exist in the world and originally referenced python 2 will sti

Re: [Python-Dev] version numbers mismatched in google search results.

2014-01-31 Thread Rick Boyce
I get caught out a lot by the titles Google is showing for pages quite often too, but as far I can tell they are not related to the /dev docs. If I Google "python builtins" the top 3 results, for me, are as follows: 2. Built-in Functions -- Python v2.7.6 documentation -> http://docs.python.org/li

Re: [Python-Dev] version numbers mismatched in google search results.

2014-01-31 Thread Rick Boyce
> > On 31 January 2014 14:23, Vincent Davis wrote: > >> >> On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 5:41 AM, Rick Boyce wrote: >> >>> 28.3. builtins -- Built-in objects -- Python 3.3.3 documentation -> >>> https://docs.python.org/3/library/builtins.html >> >> >> I can't get the https

[Python-Dev] Summary of Python tracker Issues

2014-01-31 Thread Python tracker
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Re: [Python-Dev] Negative times behaviour in itertools.repeat for Python maintenance releases (2.7, 3.3 and maybe 3.4)

2014-01-31 Thread Larry Hastings
On 01/28/2014 09:18 PM, Ethan Furman wrote: On 01/28/2014 06:50 PM, Larry Hastings wrote: I think the "times behaves differently when passed by name versus passed by position" behavior falls exactly into this category, and its advice on how to handle it is sound. I don't agree with this. Thi

Re: [Python-Dev] Negative times behaviour in itertools.repeat for Python maintenance releases (2.7, 3.3 and maybe 3.4)

2014-01-31 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 07:23:52PM -0800, Larry Hastings wrote: > Python is the language that cares about backwards-compatibility--bugs > and all. If your code runs on version X.Y, it should run without > modification on version X.(Y+Z) where Z is a positive integer. > > Therefore it would be

Re: [Python-Dev] Negative times behaviour in itertools.repeat for Python maintenance releases (2.7, 3.3 and maybe 3.4)

2014-01-31 Thread Ethan Furman
On 01/31/2014 07:23 PM, Larry Hastings wrote: On 01/28/2014 09:18 PM, Ethan Furman wrote: On 01/28/2014 06:50 PM, Larry Hastings wrote: I think the "times behaves differently when passed by name versus passed by position" behavior falls exactly into this category, and its advice on how to hand