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Re: rst and pypandoc

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On 2015-03-02 14:08, Dave Angel wrote:
> On 03/02/2015 08:51 AM, alb wrote:
>> Hi Steven,
>>
>> Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
>>>
[snip]

>>> Oh, by the way, "i" is normally a terrible variable name for a string. Not
>>> only doesn't it explain what the variable is for, but there is a very
>>> strong convention in programming circles (not just Python, but hundreds of
>>> languages) that "i" is a generic variable name for an integer. Not a
>>> string.
>>
>> I'm not in the position to argue about good practices, I simply found
>> more appropriate to have i for input and o for output, considering they
>> are used like this:
>>
>> i = "some string"
>> o = pypandoc.convert(i, ...)
>> f.write(o)
>>
>> with very little risk to cause misunderstanding.
>
> How about "in" and "out"?  Or perhaps some name that indicates what
> semantics the string represents, like   "rst_string"  and "html_string"
> or whatever they actually are?
>
[snip]

"in" is a reserved word, but "in_" would be OK.

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rst and pypandoc al.basili@gmail.com (alb) - 2015-03-02 07:59 +0000
  Re: rst and pypandoc Wolfgang Maier <wolfgang.maier@biologie.uni-freiburg.de> - 2015-03-02 12:03 +0100
  Re: rst and pypandoc Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2015-03-02 07:03 -0500
    Re: rst and pypandoc al.basili@gmail.com (alb) - 2015-03-02 12:36 +0000
  Re: rst and pypandoc Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-03-02 23:33 +1100
    Re: rst and pypandoc al.basili@gmail.com (alb) - 2015-03-02 13:51 +0000
      Re: rst and pypandoc Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2015-03-02 09:08 -0500
        Re: rst and pypandoc Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-03-03 01:43 +1100
          Re: rst and pypandoc Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2015-03-02 13:55 -0500
          Re: rst and pypandoc Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2015-03-03 06:09 +1100
          Re: rst and pypandoc Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2015-03-02 14:16 -0500
        Re: rst and pypandoc al.basili@gmail.com (alb) - 2015-03-02 22:30 +0000
          Re: rst and pypandoc Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-03-03 09:51 +1100
          Re: rst and pypandoc Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2015-03-03 10:18 +1100
          Re: rst and pypandoc Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-03-03 10:32 +1100
            Re: rst and pypandoc al.basili@gmail.com (alb) - 2015-03-03 20:35 +0000
        Re: rst and pypandoc al.basili@gmail.com (alb) - 2015-03-02 22:40 +0000
          Re: rst and pypandoc Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-03-02 23:08 +0000
            Re: rst and pypandoc al.basili@gmail.com (alb) - 2015-03-03 20:37 +0000
          Re: rst and pypandoc Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-03-03 10:22 +1100
            Re: rst and pypandoc al.basili@gmail.com (alb) - 2015-03-03 20:46 +0000
          Re: rst and pypandoc Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2015-03-02 18:23 -0500
      Re: rst and pypandoc MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2015-03-02 14:37 +0000
        Re: rst and pypandoc al.basili@gmail.com (alb) - 2015-03-02 22:37 +0000
          Re: rst and pypandoc Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2015-03-03 19:40 +1300
            Re: rst and pypandoc al.basili@gmail.com (alb) - 2015-03-03 20:50 +0000
              Re: rst and pypandoc Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2015-03-04 11:27 +1300
      Re: rst and pypandoc MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2015-03-02 14:40 +0000
      Re: rst and pypandoc Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-03-03 02:09 +1100

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