Language change and code breaks
"Jürgen A. Erhard"
juergen.erhard at gmx.net
Wed Jul 11 20:23:52 EDT 2001
>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Hansen <peter at engcorp.com> writes:
Peter> Steve Holden wrote re BDFL and int/int:
>> That fact that *I* was unable to convince you leaves me feeling somewhat
>> chastened about the qualities of my own criticism, however :-)
Peter> Take heart: I suspect it was more than the one posting
Peter> which had this effect!
Peter> Perhaps one could say Terry's posting represented a
Peter> crystallization of a number of concerns various people have
Peter> had. It worked for me too, and Guido's comments had
Peter> previously already convinced me of the value of the change,
Peter> in spite of my own concern of what it would mean in my
Peter> area.
[Yeah, yeah, I can't shut up ;-)]
I hope the change does get done, with an appropriate use of the
__future__ statement as Guido outlined.
I had a script recently where I wanted to pass in a command line param
that could be a numeric ratio, s.th. like
thescript --ratio=1/3
Now, what do I do with that? I can't use 1/3, because that eval'd is
0. So... either people need to specify a float (--ratio=.3333... not
very good looking) or I have to do some magic inside the script (look
whether the ratio contains a /, split, float() on part, and merge)
If 1/3 gave the obvious result, all would be well.
Bye, J
PS: Guido said he has "second thoughts" and that "maybe" it's better
to leave it as is. I still have hope ;-)
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