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Hi, The standard argparse library supports a convenient FileType class (https://docs.python.org/3/library/argparse.html#filetype-objects) which automatically converts file paths to open filehandles ...
Dan Lenski
Jul 22, 2015 at 8:25 pm
Jul 24, 2015 at 10:12 pm -
.. for my previous e-mail. I misread stdlib for stdeb, oh well! -- Geoff
Geoff Clements
Dec 23, 2014 at 6:06 pm
Dec 23, 2014 at 6:06 pm -
difflib appears to be very well laid out and utilizes well-known algorithms. The only difficulty is that it only works when everything is in memory. Is there any ongoing effort to allow it to work on ...
Watson, Paul
Sep 26, 2013 at 4:11 pm
Oct 2, 2013 at 5:26 pm -
Hi, This is my first time writing to a python list, so sorry if this message is misdirected. Recently I wrote something like: functools.reduce(lambda x, y: x and y, ...) and I was wondering why there ...
Gary Miguel
Apr 27, 2013 at 10:23 pm
Apr 27, 2013 at 10:51 pm -
Over 50% of the top 200 most downloaded packages on PyPI are python 3 compatible. So http://python3wos.appspot.com/ has become the Python 3 Wall of Superpowers. It took 4 years from the initial ...
Yuval Greenfield
Dec 15, 2012 at 2:21 pm
Dec 20, 2012 at 7:57 pm -
What do you guys think about including a very simple game with the standard library? My very first lines of code were modifications to a QBasic game called "nibbles" which came with QBasic. A memory ...
Yuval Greenfield
Aug 16, 2012 at 11:38 am
Aug 18, 2012 at 8:37 pm -
Hello, in Python 3, this is a TypeError: At the moment, argparse.FileType.__call__("-") unconditionally returns sys.stdout even if mode is binary so writing binary data will fail if the user selects ...
Moritz Klammler
Jun 5, 2012 at 10:18 am
Jun 5, 2012 at 10:56 am -
I'm kind of surprised to see that the subprocess module doesn't have a documented function for calling to properly quote command-line arguments. Nor does it seem to do so automatically -- at least on ...
Bill Janssen
May 24, 2010 at 2:46 pm
May 25, 2010 at 10:37 pm -
My apologies if this message is to the wrong group. I have been experimenting with socket.makefile()from Python 3.1.1. I have not had much difficulty reading from the returned file object, but I ...
Tim
Jan 31, 2010 at 10:46 pm
Feb 1, 2010 at 5:03 pm -
During the moratorium PEP discussions Guido said he wanted to quiet down deprecation warnings. I see there being two options on this. One is to keep things as is, but to require two releases with ...
Brett Cannon
Nov 8, 2009 at 9:26 pm
Nov 14, 2009 at 7:15 pm -
(1) It would be helpful to have the API classes named earlier, even before the examples if the examples take more than three lines (as they currently do). The details of what methods they have can ...
Jim Jewett
Nov 7, 2009 at 10:46 pm
Nov 7, 2009 at 10:46 pm -
Figured I'd start a new thread rather than overloading the existing one. If we were to seriously go down the path of building out a concurrent package for Python's stdlib, I think 99% of the work ...
Jesse Noller
Nov 7, 2009 at 6:40 pm
Nov 7, 2009 at 6:40 pm -
Hey all, I'd like to propose adding a module/package to Python that makes it easy to parallelize arbitrary function calls. I recently wrote a solution for the use case of parallelizing network copies ...
Brian Quinlan
Nov 6, 2009 at 10:35 pm
Mar 5, 2010 at 2:39 pm -
Is there a way that Python and C can have a shared definition for a binary data structure? It could be nice if: 1. struct or ctypes had a function that could parse a .h/.c/.cpp file to auto-generate ...
Yuvgoog Greenle
Oct 18, 2009 at 6:37 pm
Oct 18, 2009 at 6:43 pm -
Amen! Currently there are a number of penalties for package-savy developer to use packages in the standard library, since they can't use their normal tool chains to work with the standard library. ...
Kevin Teague
Oct 1, 2009 at 10:17 am
Oct 1, 2009 at 10:17 am -
Aye, me mateys, In Python 3 the parrrsing function of urllib do not work with bytes. What's the prrrroblem? I tell you: U'RLs only have a charrrrrset rrecommendation and sometimes you have to deal ...
Armin Ronacher
Sep 19, 2009 at 7:27 pm
Sep 20, 2009 at 8:21 pm -
Hi all, I am currently using the ConfigParser module to parse MySQL configuration files. Just plain config files, nothing fancy except... options without values. There is a number of options here ...
Mats Kindahl
Sep 17, 2009 at 4:53 pm
Sep 27, 2009 at 6:19 am -
The recent discussions on breaking the standard library made something click for me. I wrote a long blog post about it, which I am pasting here. The original is at ...
Orestis Markou
Sep 16, 2009 at 3:35 pm
Sep 16, 2009 at 4:19 pm -
Hi everybody, I'm known for my dislike of the standard libray. In the past I wrote some blog posts about this topic into my personal blog already. However as many people pointed out earlier, a blog ...
Armin Ronacher
Sep 16, 2009 at 12:19 pm
Oct 12, 2009 at 5:32 pm -
OK, I think everyone's opinions on adding argparse (Steven), breaking out the standard library from python-dev (Frank), and potentially pruning the standard library (Jesse?) has been heard and we are ...
Brett Cannon
Sep 15, 2009 at 6:51 pm
Sep 15, 2009 at 6:51 pm -
Hello list, What started as a joke yesterday in the Bug Tracker and on Twitter now evolved into a serious consideration. In case the only reason for optparse to go away is that it does not have a ...
Armin Ronacher
Sep 15, 2009 at 6:44 pm
Sep 15, 2009 at 8:25 pm -
Note, since I drafted this, brett's posted some thought on evolution as well: http://sayspy.blogspot.com/2009/09/evolving-standard-library.html So, here's a small pile of thoughts - the main driving ...
Jesse Noller
Sep 14, 2009 at 3:13 pm
Sep 16, 2009 at 8:14 pm -
Upfront people need to realize that we might have three argument parsing libraries for a while, but it won't be forever. If we get argparse accepted we would slowly deprecate at least optparse, if ...
Brett Cannon
Sep 10, 2009 at 6:56 pm
Sep 14, 2009 at 5:04 pm -
Hi stdlib-sig, I wanted to ease exposing functions to the command-line using python 3 features and the result is http://code.google.com/p/pyopt/ <http://code.google.com/p/pyopt/ I think this could be ...
Yuvgoog Greenle
Sep 10, 2009 at 12:38 am
Sep 11, 2009 at 6:30 am -
For Pynie we're developing a bootstrapping test suite, which may be useful to other implementations as they migrate to 3.x. It uses Robert Collins' SubUnit, which decouples the testing framework from ...
Allison Randal
Apr 12, 2009 at 6:55 pm
Apr 13, 2009 at 6:28 pm -
Me too. bcc python-dev, - stdlib-sig First question: Do people want the unladen-swallow performance tests in the CPython repository until the whole library gets moved out? If so, where? ...
Jeffrey Yasskin
Apr 4, 2009 at 6:30 pm
Apr 5, 2009 at 10:18 am -
(this mailing list seems to have quieted down a bit, but it seems like it's the most appropriate place to bring this up). Now that python has the multiprocessing module that also has it's own Queue ...
Erick Tryzelaar
Oct 25, 2008 at 4:55 am
Oct 25, 2008 at 5:44 am -
I want to know if python can be ported into embedded linux system.and it's big? thank you for your help! -- ???????????? An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: ...
李仁林
Oct 20, 2008 at 4:10 am
Oct 20, 2008 at 4:11 pm -
Removal of the Mac modules resulted in the Mac framework install breaking because many of the install scripts depended upon the modules (see #3174). My current plan is too make a built copy of the ...
Benjamin Peterson
Jun 28, 2008 at 3:56 pm
Jun 28, 2008 at 8:57 pm -
Apparently pickle doesn't like the way renames have been handled in 2.6 and people don't want to mess with pickle, so that means the renames need to change. So, here is my idea (only need to care ...
Brett Cannon
May 19, 2008 at 7:21 pm
May 20, 2008 at 6:36 pm -
I don't see gestalt on PEP 3108, but it is a Mac module. -- Cheers, Benjamin Peterson "There's no place like 127.0.0.1."
Benjamin Peterson
May 12, 2008 at 2:10 am
May 16, 2008 at 6:10 pm -
Hi, I know that the deadline for module removal is now passed, but I think we forgot to decide what should happen to the deprecated sre module: :1: DeprecationWarning: The sre module is deprecated, ...
Alexandre Vassalotti
May 5, 2008 at 10:35 pm
May 8, 2008 at 2:48 am -
http://bugs.python.org/issue2750 holds the issue to get simplejson 1.9 into the stdlib as the new 'json' module. I am going to give this SIG a week to go through the code and such before I announce ...
Brett Cannon
May 3, 2008 at 10:16 pm
May 5, 2008 at 8:25 pm -
[bcc to stdlib-sig] After two false starts over the YEARS of trying to cleanup and reorganize the stdlib, creating a SIG to get this going, having Guido give the PEP the once-over over the past ...
Brett Cannon
Apr 29, 2008 at 2:30 am
Apr 29, 2008 at 2:30 am -
I just noticed the textwrap module in the standard library will break and line-wrap hyphenated words given the opportunity: ['yaba daba-', 'doo'] I have two questions about that: 1) Wouldn't it be ...
Sylvain Fourmanoit
Apr 19, 2008 at 6:18 am
Apr 19, 2008 at 7:36 pm -
Now that April 15th has past, it's time to start thinking about how best to handle the reorg. I have some ideas on how to make it all work. For 2.6, the modules should be renamed. The old names ...
Brett Cannon
Apr 17, 2008 at 11:40 pm
Apr 19, 2008 at 7:16 pm -
Hi guys, I saw in the stdlib-reorg PEP that test.test_support should be renamed to just test.support. I've done at patch at issue 2621. -- Cheers, Benjamin Peterson
Benjamin Peterson
Apr 12, 2008 at 4:42 pm
Apr 12, 2008 at 4:42 pm -
So simplejson is going to be added to the stdlib (this came down from up high, which is why there has not been more of a discussion here). That means we need to choose a name. Obviously 'json' would ...
Brett Cannon
Apr 10, 2008 at 9:03 pm
Apr 12, 2008 at 10:17 am -
This is just a friendly reminder that the list of modules/packages to remove are due by April 15th. -Brett
Brett Cannon
Apr 10, 2008 at 8:56 pm
Apr 10, 2008 at 8:56 pm -
... Great, assuming that the capitalization is still OK for a module name. But looking through platform convinced me that it really ought be part of the sys reorg. And it provides at least one ...
Jim Jewett
Apr 9, 2008 at 6:43 pm
Apr 9, 2008 at 6:58 pm -
Yes and no. If important information is in the interpreter-specific location, it would be nice to know where that is. That could be a specific module name, but a module-name-pattern might be enough. ...
Jim Jewett
Apr 8, 2008 at 5:42 pm
Apr 8, 2008 at 7:58 pm -
I originally brought this in the discussion about removing types, but it can be separate. Through the years, sys has gather a fare share of crud. Much of these new additions are low-level and CPython ...
Benjamin Peterson
Apr 3, 2008 at 6:07 pm
Apr 8, 2008 at 7:52 pm -
You can just call 'type' on something to get the type needed. And practically all of the types listed are easy to get from some object lying about that is of the proper type. Plus Guido supports its ...
Brett Cannon
Apr 3, 2008 at 11:24 am
Apr 4, 2008 at 4:16 pm -
*If* it's to be renamed (which I have no strong opinion on) would making it sys.classes (or sys.types) be plausible? With the "sys = core" connotation, I find this better than an underscored name. ...
Paul Moore
Apr 3, 2008 at 11:10 am
Apr 3, 2008 at 11:21 am -
hi, I propose adding a json lib in combination with a reorganisation of xmlrpc in order to support jsonrpc either by choice of the programmer or content-type neogation. This mostly requires a json ...
Ronny Pfannschmidt
Mar 29, 2008 at 2:02 pm
Mar 29, 2008 at 3:18 pm -
Hi, Do you think it would be possible to create a mirrror of this list to Google Groups? I usually read python-dev, python-3000 and python-ideas via Google Groups which I find very convenient (or, at ...
Giampaolo Rodolà
Mar 28, 2008 at 1:13 pm
Mar 29, 2008 at 7:00 am -
Hi, I notice that in PEP 3108 the dbm modules are going to be in package dbm: New Old ----------- -------------------------------------------- dbm.tools anydbm + whichdb dbm.db db.hash (actually bsd ...
Mark Summerfield
Mar 26, 2008 at 7:15 am
Apr 10, 2008 at 8:55 pm -
Hi, I would like to know what is the plan for the removal warnings in 2.6. PEP 3108 states: For the removal of modules that are continuing to exist in the Python 2.x series (i.e., not deprecated ...
Alexandre Vassalotti
Mar 22, 2008 at 4:44 am
Mar 22, 2008 at 8:41 am -
FYI ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Michael Bishop <report at bugs.python.org Date: 20-mar-2008 12:20 Subject: [New-bugs-announce] [issue2433] Merge audio modules To: new-bugs-announce ...
Facundo Batista
Mar 20, 2008 at 5:47 pm
Mar 21, 2008 at 2:53 am -
dirache is less useful than linecache as getting the directory contents is typically a very cheap operation. And implementing the feature if you need is really cheap and not difficult to get right. ...
Brett Cannon
Mar 20, 2008 at 5:02 am
Mar 20, 2008 at 8:33 am
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