Raymond Hettinger wrote:
Fredrik Lundh wrote:
does anyone remember? given what we're currently working on, implementing it would take roughly no time at all. do people still think it's a good idea ?
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Yes. It went to my todo list and is awaiting some free raymond-cycles to finish it up. I've been task saturated of late but would like to get this a number of other patches complete for Py2.5.
Also, Crutcher had long ago posted a patch for exec/eval to accept generic mapping arguments. If someone like Tim or /F has the time, feel free to pick it up.
This reminds me I am tasked with trying to find out what the interface to timeit.py is supposed to look like. Raymond, your name has been mentioned as someone who took part int he discussions. Google hasn't given me a lot to go on. Anyone? [Follow-ups to python-dev would be best, I suspect]. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +44 150 684 7255 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC/Ltd http://www.holdenweb.com Love me, love my blog http://holdenweb.blogspot.com Recent Ramblings http://del.icio.us/steve.holden
Steve Holden wrote:
This reminds me I am tasked with trying to find out what the interface to timeit.py is supposed to look like. Raymond, your name has been mentioned as someone who took part int he discussions. Google hasn't given me a lot to go on. Anyone?
IIRC, Guido's words were that too much to the smarts in timeit.py were in the command-line interface and not in the Timer object were in should be. So, this should be a simple refactoring exercise to expose more of the existing API. No inventiveness is required. While you're at it, please document the import trick or testing existing code without copying it in to a text string. Raymond
2006/5/25, Raymond Hettinger
IIRC, Guido's words were that too much to the smarts in timeit.py were in the command-line interface and not in the Timer object were in should be.
Just end user experience's two cents here (btw, this line is correct at English level?) I found myself a lot of times going to command line to test a function, just to use timeit.py, because doing that from the interactive interpreter was more complicated. Maybe should exist some "quick measure method" like,
import timeit timeit.no_effort(some_function_defined_before)
Regards, -- . Facundo Blog: http://www.taniquetil.com.ar/plog/ PyAr: http://www.python.org/ar/
"Facundo Batista"
Just end user experience's two cents here (btw, this line is correct at English level?)
Since you asked...your question would be better written "is this line correct English?" And the line before, while not formal English of the kind needed, say, for Decimal docs, works well enough for me as an expression of an informal conversational thought.
Maybe should exist some "quick measure method" like,
Maybe *there* should.... [This is one situation where English is wordier than, for instance, Spanish.] Terry Jan Reedy
2006/5/26, Terry Reedy
And the line before, while not formal English of the kind needed, say, for Decimal docs, works well enough for me as an expression of an informal conversational thought.
That's why Decimal docs were written by Raymond, ;) -- . Facundo Blog: http://www.taniquetil.com.ar/plog/ PyAr: http://www.python.org/ar/
Terry Reedy wrote:
Just end user experience's two cents here (btw, this line is correct at English level?)
Since you asked...your question would be better written "is this line correct English?" And the line before, while not formal English of the kind needed, say, for Decimal docs, works well enough for me as an expression of an informal conversational thought.
Wouldn't it be still be conventional to have an article somewhere? e.g. " Just /some/ end user's two cents here" (also, isn't "two cents" and "experience" roughly the same thing, so that one is redundant?) Regards, Martin
On Sat, 27 May 2006, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: [...]
Just end user experience's two cents here (btw, this line is correct at English level?) [...] Wouldn't it be still be conventional to have an article somewhere? e.g. " Just /some/ end user's two cents here"
Yes, but "one" (or maybe "an") rather than "some".
(also, isn't "two cents" and "experience" roughly the same thing, so that one is redundant?)
There's no such thing as a synonym of course, but it does sound funny, yes. John
""Martin v. Löwis""
Terry Reedy wrote:
Just end user experience's two cents here (btw, this line is correct at English level?)
Since you asked...your question would be better written "is this line correct English?" And the line before, while not formal English of the kind needed, say, for Decimal docs, works well enough for me as an expression of an informal conversational thought.
Wouldn't it be still be conventional to have an article somewhere?
Yes, as well as a verb...
e.g. " Just /some/ end user's two cents here" (also, isn't "two cents" and "experience" roughly the same thing, so that one is redundant?)
Maybe.... However, Facundo's compressed idiom struck me as an enter-the-conversation gambit rather than a convey-some-facts statements. So trying to pick it apart a piece at a time, with logic, does not work very well. Hence I restricted my intended-to-be-helpful suggestions to simple changes to the question itself and and the following statement. Terry Jan Reedy
Martin v. Löwis wrote:
Just end user experience's two cents here (btw, this line is correct at English level?)
Wouldn't it be still be conventional to have an article somewhere? e.g. " Just /some/ end user's two cents here"
Or "Just two cents' worth of end-user experience here", which is almost as concise as the original and much easier to parse. -- Greg
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