Re: Problems using struct pack/unpack in files, and reading them.

From	Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Re: Problems using struct pack/unpack in files, and reading them.
Date	2015-11-14 14:01 +1100
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On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 1:40 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Nov 2015 09:42 am, Chris Angelico wrote:
>
>> However, this is a reasonable call for the abolition of unary plus...
>
> The only way you'll take unary plus out of Python is by prying it from my
> cold, dead hands.
>
>
> BTW, unary minus suffers from the same "problem":
>
> x =- y  # oops, meant x -= y
>
> If anything, this is an argument against the augmented assignment
> short-cuts, rather than the operators.

Yes, unary minus has the same issue - but it's a lot more important
than unary plus is. In ECMAScript, unary plus means "force this to be
a number"; what's its purpose in Python?

ChrisA

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Re: Problems using struct pack/unpack in files, and reading them. Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-11-14 09:42 +1100
  Re: Problems using struct pack/unpack in files, and reading them. Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-11-14 13:40 +1100
    Re: Problems using struct pack/unpack in files, and reading them. Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-11-14 14:01 +1100
      Re: Problems using struct pack/unpack in files, and reading them. Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-11-14 16:40 +1100
        Re: Problems using struct pack/unpack in files, and reading them. Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-11-14 08:43 -0700
          Re: Problems using struct pack/unpack in files, and reading them. Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-11-14 18:52 +0200
            Re: Problems using struct pack/unpack in files, and reading them. Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-11-15 04:04 +1100
              Re: Problems using struct pack/unpack in files, and reading them. Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2015-11-16 19:19 +1300
            Re: Problems using struct pack/unpack in files, and reading them. Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-11-14 10:04 -0700
              Re: Problems using struct pack/unpack in files, and reading them. Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-11-14 23:53 +0200
              Re: Problems using struct pack/unpack in files, and reading them. Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2015-11-16 19:15 +1300
                Re: Problems using struct pack/unpack in files, and reading them. Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-11-16 23:11 +1100
                Re: Problems using struct pack/unpack in files, and reading them. Dave Farrance <df@see.replyto.invalid> - 2015-11-17 09:54 +0000
            Re: Problems using struct pack/unpack in files, and reading them. Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-11-14 10:13 -0700
            Re: Problems using struct pack/unpack in files, and reading them. Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> - 2015-11-14 17:53 -0500
              Re: Problems using struct pack/unpack in files, and reading them. Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-11-15 02:12 +0200
              Re: Problems using struct pack/unpack in files, and reading them. Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-11-15 12:14 +1100
                Re: Problems using struct pack/unpack in files, and reading them. Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-11-15 11:09 -0500
                Re: Problems using struct pack/unpack in files, and reading them. Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2015-11-16 19:11 +1300
            Re: Problems using struct pack/unpack in files, and reading them. MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2015-11-15 00:49 +0000
          Re: Problems using struct pack/unpack in files, and reading them. Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-11-15 13:08 +1100
            Re: Problems using struct pack/unpack in files, and reading them. Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-11-15 13:23 +1100
              Re: Problems using struct pack/unpack in files, and reading them. Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-11-17 00:17 +1100
                Re: Problems using struct pack/unpack in files, and reading them. Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-11-17 00:27 +1100
        Re: Problems using struct pack/unpack in files, and reading them. Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-11-15 03:59 +1100
    Re: Problems using struct pack/unpack in files, and reading them. Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-11-13 20:45 -0700
    Re: Problems using struct pack/unpack in files, and reading them. Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-11-13 20:48 -0700
    Re: Problems using struct pack/unpack in files, and reading them. Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-11-14 14:56 +1100
    Re: Problems using struct pack/unpack in files, and reading them. Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-11-14 14:57 +1100

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