Re: Python

2025-12-16 Thread Left Right via Python-list
Nobody should be encouraged to change their editor. Neither do you know why the person chose the editor they chose, nor do you actually help in solving the problem the person has. To try to answer to the substance of the complaint about indentation-driven structure: when Python was created, the tr

Re: Python

2025-12-16 Thread rbowman
On Tue, 16 Dec 2025 17:51:26 +1300, Greg Ewing wrote: > Any decent programming editor will have a facility for selecting a group > of lines and adding/removing the appropriate commenting characters. > > (If your editor doesn't have that, then by definition it's not det. > :-) :.,'as/^/#/ assu

Issues compiling Python 3.14.2 on Rhel 8.10

2025-12-16 Thread Mads Boye via Python-list
Hi. I am currently facing issues compiling Python 3.14.2 on my RHEL 8 server. It seems to relate to the --enable-optimizations argument. If I build with out the --enable-optimizations it is finalizing the build, but with the argument, it segfaults during the "test_functools" ./configure not wor

Re: Python

2025-12-16 Thread Michael Torrie via Python-list
On 12/16/25 1:12 AM, Left Right via Python-list wrote: > Nobody should be encouraged to change their editor. Neither do you > know why the person chose the editor they chose, nor do you actually > help in solving the problem the person has. Well the fact is an editor that does not automate indenti

Re: Python

2025-12-16 Thread dn via Python-list
On 16/12/2025 21:12, Left Right via Python-list wrote: Nobody should be encouraged to change their editor. Neither do you know why the person chose the editor they chose, nor do you actually help in solving the problem the person has. Yes, starting from what the Learner knows, and moving forwar

Re: Python

2025-12-16 Thread Left Right via Python-list
> Well the fact is an editor that does not automate indenting blocks to > one degree or another will make Python much more difficult to learn and > use, and his experience with Python will not be positive. The editor > not making Python indenting easy to manage is in reality the problem the > orig

Re: Python

2025-12-16 Thread Chris Angelico via Python-list
On Wed, 17 Dec 2025 at 10:33, Left Right via Python-list wrote: > No. Again. This is not your place. Not anyone else's to suggest users > switch their editor to anything else. What you do is just being a jerk > by not admitting the problem with Python and blaming it on the user. > It's Python desi

Re: Python

2025-12-16 Thread rbowman
On Tue, 16 Dec 2025 21:45:42 - (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote: > On Mon, 15 Dec 2025 12:57:57 +, mm0fmf wrote: > >> On 14 Dec 2025 11:56:42 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote: >> >>> My issues with python are: >>> - It's using indentations, so when I comment a block of code to see >> >> '

Re: Python

2025-12-16 Thread Ethan Furman
On 12/16/25 14:19, Left Right via Python-list wrote: > No. Again. This is not your place. Not anyone else's to suggest users > switch their editor to anything else. This is a mailing list, where advice may be freely given, including about which text editor to use. -- ~Ethan~ Moderator -- https

Re: Python

2025-12-16 Thread Benjamin Schollnick
> On Dec 16, 2025, at 5:19 PM, Left Right via Python-list > wrote: > >> Well the fact is an editor that does not automate indenting blocks to >> one degree or another will make Python much more difficult to learn and >> use, and his experience with Python will not be positive. The editor >> n

Re: Python

2025-12-16 Thread MRAB
On 16/12/2025 22:19, Left Right via Python-list wrote: Well the fact is an editor that does not automate indenting blocks to one degree or another will make Python much more difficult to learn and use, and his experience with Python will not be positive. The editor not making Python indenting ea

Re: Python

2025-12-16 Thread Thomas Passin
On 12/16/2025 5:19 PM, Left Right via Python-list wrote: Well the fact is an editor that does not automate indenting blocks to one degree or another will make Python much more difficult to learn and use, and his experience with Python will not be positive. The editor not making Python indenting