Message77434
| Author | lemburg |
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| Recipients | amaury.forgeotdarc, benjamin.peterson, brett.cannon, christian.heimes, georg.brandl, lemburg, mark.dickinson, pitrou, rhettinger |
| Date | 2008-12-09.16:45:27 |
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| Message-id | <493EA0A5.4060101@egenix.com> |
| In-reply-to | <1228835215.68.0.307817759742.issue1717@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> |
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On 2008-12-09 16:06, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > Antoine Pitrou <pitrou@free.fr> added the comment: > >> The idea was to have one implementation of the work-around (a>b) - (b<a) >> instead of 10 or so instances of this snippet in the Python stdlib >> and probably a few hundred places in other code. > > But what use-case does it solve, except for making legacy code easier to > port to Py3k? It implements the DRY principle. |
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| Date | User | Action | Args |
| 2008-12-09 16:45:29 | lemburg | set | recipients: + lemburg, brett.cannon, georg.brandl, rhettinger, amaury.forgeotdarc, mark.dickinson, pitrou, christian.heimes, benjamin.peterson |
| 2008-12-09 16:45:28 | lemburg | link | issue1717 messages |
| 2008-12-09 16:45:27 | lemburg | create | |