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Re: .split() Qeustion

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Date Wed, 14 Aug 2013 18:46:07 +0100
Subject Re: .split() Qeustion
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On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 6:29 PM, Tim Chase
<python.list@tim.thechases.com> wrote:
> On 2013-08-14 18:14, Chris Angelico wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 6:05 PM,  <random832@fastmail.us> wrote:
>> > On Wed, Aug 14, 2013, at 10:32, wxjmfauth@gmail.com wrote:
>> >> I'm always and still be suprised by the number of hard coded
>> >> '\n' one can find in Python code when the portable (here
>> >> win)
>> >>
>> >> >>> os.linesep
>> >> '\r\n'
>> >>
>> >> exists.
>> >
>> > Because high-level code isn't supposed to use the os module
>> > directly. Text-mode streams automatically convert newlines you
>> > write to them.
>>
>> I'm always, and will still be, surprised by the number of hard coded
>> decimal integers one can find in Python code, when the portable way
>> to do it is to use ctypes and figure out whether your literals
>> should be big-endian or little-endian, 32-bit or 64-bit, etc. Yet
>> people continue to just put decimal literals in their code! It
>> can't be portable.
>
> No, no, no...you want
>
>   from sys.platform.integers import 0, 1, 2, 3, 14, 42
>
> to be portable against endian'ness and bit-width.

Oh! I didn't know about sys.platform.integers. All this time I've been
doing it manually, usually copying and pasting a block of integer
definitions from the re module. (I used to copy them from
adamant.princess.ida but some of them were buggy. 2+2 made 5, or 3, or
7, or 25, depending on need.)

ChrisA

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    Re: .split() Qeustion Alister <alister.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2013-08-14 08:30 +0000
      Re: .split() Qeustion Joshua Landau <joshua@landau.ws> - 2013-08-14 11:31 +0100
        Re: .split() Qeustion Alister <alister.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2013-08-14 13:29 +0000
        Re: .split() Qeustion Duncan Booth <duncan.booth@invalid.invalid> - 2013-08-15 09:15 +0000
          Re: .split() Qeustion wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2013-08-15 02:46 -0700
            Re: .split() Qeustion Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-08-15 10:54 +0100
            Re: .split() Qeustion Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-08-15 11:22 +0000
              Re: .split() Qeustion wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2013-08-15 06:58 -0700
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          Re: .split() Qeustion random832@fastmail.us - 2013-08-14 13:05 -0400
            Re: .split() Qeustion Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2013-08-15 07:17 +0000
          Re: .split() Qeustion Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-08-14 18:14 +0100
            Re: .split() Qeustion wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2013-08-15 00:46 -0700
              Re: .split() Qeustion Lele Gaifax <lele@metapensiero.it> - 2013-08-15 16:38 +0200
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              Re: .split() Qeustion Lele Gaifax <lele@metapensiero.it> - 2013-08-15 17:30 +0200
              Re: .split() Qeustion Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-08-15 16:43 +0100
                Re: .split() Qeustion Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-08-16 04:13 +0000
                Re: .split() Qeustion Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-08-16 00:29 -0400
                Re: .split() Qeustion Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-08-16 05:27 +0000
                Re: .split() Qeustion Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-08-17 02:38 +0000
                Re: .split() Qeustion Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-08-17 03:45 +0100
                Re: .split() Qeustion Gene Heskett <gheskett@wdtv.com> - 2013-08-16 10:30 -0400
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                Re: .split() Qeustion Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2013-08-16 15:59 +1000
                Re: .split() Qeustion Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-08-16 07:14 -0400
                Re: .split() Qeustion wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2013-08-16 06:14 -0700
                Re: .split() Qeustion Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-08-16 09:23 -0400
                Re: .split() Qeustion wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2013-08-17 01:09 -0700
                Re: .split() Qeustion Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-08-17 07:55 -0400
                Re: .split() Qeustion Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2013-08-18 11:30 +1200
                Re: .split() Qeustion wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2013-08-18 00:17 -0700
                Re: .split() Qeustion Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2013-08-16 13:59 +0000
              Re: .split() Qeustion Joshua Landau <joshua@landau.ws> - 2013-08-15 17:54 +0100
              Re: .split() Qeustion Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-08-15 19:28 +0100
                Re: .split() Qeustion Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-08-16 04:17 +0000
              Re: .split() Qeustion Joshua Landau <joshua@landau.ws> - 2013-08-15 19:40 +0100
              Re: .split() Qeustion Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-08-15 17:40 -0400
                Re: .split() Qeustion Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-08-16 04:22 +0000
              Re: .split() Qeustion Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-08-15 22:56 +0000
                Re: .split() Qeustion Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-08-16 04:39 +0000
                Re: .split() Qeustion Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-08-16 04:41 +0000
          Re: .split() Qeustion Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2013-08-14 12:29 -0500
          Re: .split() Qeustion Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> - 2013-08-14 12:38 -0500
          Re: .split() Qeustion Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-08-14 18:46 +0100
          Re: .split() Qeustion Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-08-14 15:45 -0400
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