Mailman 3 October 2019 - Python-ideas

Simple feature for argparse.py
by brent bejot Oct. 10, 2019

Oct. 10, 2019

Hello all, Aspiring contributor here. I am not at all certain that this is the right place to discuss this. Do refer me to a better location if I'm out of place. I would like to add a simple feature to the argparse library. I frequently find myself writing small utilities, stylistically similar to unix's "rm" whose main parameter(s) get bundled into a list and it doesn't matter if flags are sprinkled throughout. e.g. "rm foo.txt -f bar.txt" removes both foo.txt and bar.txt forcefully. … [View More]

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Re: Adding support for adequately tagging AIX (pep425) to support distributed wheels
by Michael Felt Oct. 9, 2019

Oct. 9, 2019

Among other places, Python ideas was recommended as a place to goto. In the meantime I have been discussing this on pypa/pip (mainly), and also on wheel and packaging. Even submitted PRs. But the PRs are only needed if the tag is inadequate. So, part of my reason for being here is to figure out if I can call the current tag algorithm a bug, or is correcting it a feature? I am trying to approach this the Python way rather than be seen as a bull in a china shop. Thanks for replying! Sent from my iPhone

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adding "port" parameter to urllib.parse.urlunparse
by AMIR MOHAMMADI Oct. 9, 2019

Oct. 9, 2019

Hi. I'm a newbie and Python ideas was recommended to me as a place to go to. I think this is a good idea that have port parameter in "urlunparse" method. (refer to: https://bugs.python.org/issue38408) One way is to add keyword parameters to urlunparse, like: def urlunparse(components, *, username=None, password=None, hostname=None, port=None): Which would be called like this: site_to_test = urllib.parse.urlunparse((scheme, host, page, '', '', ''), port=9097) Another interface would be have … [View More]

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Allow kwargs in __{get|set|del|}item__
by Caleb Donovick Oct. 8, 2019

Oct. 8, 2019

While there is no restriction on passing dicts to getitem. Doing so tends to be a bit ugly. I have two main use cases in mind for this syntax. The first and perhaps the most obvious, is doing relational queries. ``` where_x_1 = db[x=1] ``` is more beautiful than ``` where_x_1 = db[dict(x=1)] where_x_1 = db[{'x': 1}] # or by abusing slices where_x_1 = db['x':1] # or in the style of Pandas where_x_1 = db[db['x'] == 1] ``` Beyond relational queries my own personal use case is a shorthand for … [View More]

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Quick notice about an update to the Code of Conduct
by Brett Cannon Oct. 2, 2019

Oct. 2, 2019

We just wanted to quickly let people know that the PSF Code of Conduct recently got an update: https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2019/09/the-python-software-foundation-has_24.…. Since this list falls under the PSF CoC these changes apply here. In terms of reporting CoC violations, you can continue to report them to python-ideas-owner@ and then Titus and I will have a look. Otherwise you can always report directly to conduct@ (see https://www.python.org/psf/conduct/reporting/ for details).

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