Skip Montanaro writes:
What AMK says makes perfect sense until you examine some of the other things that are in the language, like the Ellipsis object and complex numbers. If I recall correctly both were added as a result of the NumPy package development.
True, but note that you can compile Python with WITHOUT_COMPLEX defined to remove complex numbers.
1. When using something like the simple file i/o idiom for line in f.readlines(): dofunstuff(line) the programmer should not have to care how big the file is.
What about 'for line in fileinput.input()', which already exists? (Hmmm... if you have an already open file object, I don't think you can pass it to fileinput.input(); maybe that should be fixed.) On a vaguely related note, since there are many things like parser generators and XML stuff and mxTextTools, I've been speculating about a text processing topic guide. If you know of Python packages related to text processing, please send me a private e-mail with a link. -- A.M. Kuchling http://starship.python.net/crew/amk/ Constraints often boost creativity. -- Jim Hugunin, 11 Feb 1999