On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Andrew Kuchling wrote:
Note: this is an experiment in whether I can make a useful, interesting, somewhat coherent summary of python-dev activity.
Very nice job! Well done. Thanks for doing all the work!
* Accuracy. I skipped past some threads such as the list comprehensions one, and may be unaware of a resolution.
As Paul mentioned, there was some talk about range literals. There was some stuff about augmented assignment too, i believe? Thomas Wouters tried to summarize the list-comp, parallel-iteration, and range-literal threads, to which i responded with an alternative proposal. Huaiyu Zhu also presented a fairly complete list-comp proposal (though i think the syntax is not quite implementable). Eric suggested adding a cross-platform "browse" routine to urllib. Some discussion ensued; some names for a separate module were proposed including "webbrowser.py"; some people suggested using the "start" command on Windows instead; i suggested a "launch" module for launching other kinds of external applications as well as web browsers; i don't remember if any resolution was reached. Paul started a small thread on automatic coercion of any type to string. There was some discussion of rearranging newsgroup and mailing list traffic, choosing more distinct purposes for comp.lang.python and python-dev, etc. A suggestion to make string.atoi work for negative bases was politely but quickly squashed. There were random gripes about SourceForge. Moshe suggested a file-copy routine that accepted objects; Greg Stein checked it in. Paul raised the issue of bringing an XPath implementation into Python. Paul made a fairly detailed proposal for an online help mechanism (this happened on July 15 at the end of your time window; more discussion ensued). -- ?!ng "Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life." -- Brooke Shields