[Python-ideas] chunks implementation

[Guido van Rossum]

EVERYBODY, STOP THIS DISCUSSION. IT IS NOT PRODUCTIVE. IT IS
OFF-TOPICS FOR THIS LIST.

Anatoly, the next time you bring this up on any list you WILL be
banned. This is your last warning. (But, Antoine, better sit on your
hands than provoke him. :-)

On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 2:17 PM, anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 6:09 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 1 May 2013 17:56:28 +0300
>> anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > 16+ hours work.
>> >
>> > print(list( chunks('sadfdfa', 3) ))
>> > print(list( chunks(range(8), 3) ))
>> > print(list( chunks([1,2,3,4,5,7], 3) ))
>>
>> As long as you are not willing to sign a contributor's agreement,
>> there's no point posting any code snippets or patches here.
>
>
> This code is in public domain. What's wrong with that? I can say  what's
> wrong with Python CLA which basically relicenses code under Apache 2.0
> license to "whatever license PSF wants", which is pretty illegal (i.e.
> doesn't work) as I see it. But that's really offtopic. I've posted a
> question to the python-legal-sig related to documentation and Wikipedia.
> I.e. Wikipedia doesn't require you to sign CLA, so let's allow them to sort
> it out first.
>
> You have my confirmation as an author that the code is in public domain. You
> can use MIT license if there is a problem with public domain works not made
> by NASA in US. You can ask me about patents and I say that I don't own and
> don't aware of any patents related to this code. What's wrong with community
> process here? I am here. I am not dead yet. If PSF is afraid of something -
> I can answer publicly. Just tell me what's wrong with that. What is this
> deal with signing these papers? Nobody understands the outcomings, nobody
> can say in public how it works, but everybody follows the procedure. Is this
> the modern behavior of Python hackers praised by Paul Graham. To me it looks
> like a lemming behavior liked by corporations and controlling organizations.
> May I opt-out from be a lemming in Python community as I see it and still
> have an ability to contribute?
>
> Sorry, my SSD or Vista or some software had just failed and I am a little
> bit on the edge for losing a partition with experimental code and a lot of
> valuable notes for more than half of the year, so I am not filtering that I
> write, and that's also the reason I probably won't be able to support the
> discussion in upcoming few weeks.
>
>> If you want advice about your personal work, it is off-topic for
>> python-ideas, please use python-list instead.
>
>
>  There is a trick in this code which I believe is crucial to understanding
> why this code is not in stdlib yet.
>
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