Python 3 Features

Re:Python 3 Features by jlarocco on Sunday June 29, 2014 @02:15PM (#7961908)

I agree. I use Python3, but for none of the reasons given. Some of the advice was just flat out bad, IMO.

Like replacing

    def wat(a, b, *args)

with

    def wat(*args)
        a, b, args = *args

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Re:Python 3 Features by mewwts on Sunday June 29, 2014 @02:26PM (#7961936)

I'm sure (I hope) that was just a proof of concept. It's a horrible idea!

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Re:Python 3 Features by eliben on Sunday June 29, 2014 @03:12PM (#7962050)

No one in the Python community is advocating the "replacement". I think it's just an example of new syntax.

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Re:Python 3 Features by sourpoi on Monday June 30, 2014 @05:14AM (#7964277)

Slight typo - the sample replacement should read:

  def wat(*args)
    a, b, *args = args

..But I don't see how moving required arguments from the signature to the body (or turning a TypeError into a ValueError) might be useful, or how it differs from the presentation's first advanced unpacking example.

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