Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: Mark Lawrence Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Make a unique filesystem path, without creating the file Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 09:00:28 +0000 Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: <85r3gf55k4.fsf@benfinney.id.au> <85mvr26dij.fsf@benfinney.id.au> <56cba1bc$0$1604$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <87si0k2mal.fsf@jester.gateway.pace.com> <87h9gzx2co.fsf@jester.gateway.pace.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de dfpQSZYUclKUWCnh9vzcoQjCrQ5pbM8md38HvgJTtNNQ== Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.012 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.98; '*S*': 0.00; 'from:addr:yahoo.co.uk': 0.05; 'url:pipermail': 0.05; 'subject:file': 0.07; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'python': 0.10; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:io': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'received:psf.io': 0.16; 'recipes': 0.16; 'something.': 0.16; 'stuff.': 0.16; 'usenet': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.16; "wouldn't": 0.16; 'thanks.': 0.18; 'language': 0.19; '>>>': 0.20; "aren't": 0.22; 'lawrence': 0.22; 'made.': 0.22; 'minor': 0.22; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.24; 'paul': 0.24; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.26; 'header:X-Complaints- To:1': 0.26; 'pep': 0.29; 'comments': 0.30; 'somebody': 0.30; 'guess': 0.31; 'post': 0.31; "can't": 0.32; 'language.': 0.32; 'url:python': 0.33; 'choices': 0.33; 'draft': 0.35; 'lists.': 0.35; 'url:dev': 0.35; 'level': 0.35; 'but': 0.36; 'there': 0.36; 'url:org': 0.36; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.36; 'subject:: ': 0.37; 'client': 0.37; 'received:org': 0.37; 'hundreds': 0.37; 'mailing': 0.38; 'subject:the': 0.39; 'url:mail': 0.40; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.40; 'mark': 0.40; 'some': 0.40; 'further': 0.62; 'bring': 0.62; 'charset:windows-1252': 0.62; 'is.': 0.63; 'relatively': 0.63; 'more': 0.63; 'our': 0.64; 'benefit': 0.66; 'url:lists': 0.66; 'here': 0.66; 'subject': 0.70; 'blogs': 0.76; 'sounds': 0.76; 'pythonistas,': 0.84; 'unclear': 0.84; 'subject:Make': 0.91 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.234.182.166 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.6.0 In-Reply-To: <87h9gzx2co.fsf@jester.gateway.pace.com> X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21rc2 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:103399 On 23/02/2016 08:22, Paul Rubin wrote: > Mark Lawrence writes: >> https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2015-September/036333.html >> then http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/1223780 > > Thanks. It would be nice if those were gatewayed to usenet like this > group is. I can't bring myself to subscribe to mailing lists. Piece of cake using even a semi-decent email client (I use Thunderbird on Windows) via gmane. It provides access to hundreds of Python mailing lists, blogs and even updates to the Activestate recipes :) > >>> There are a few other choices in the PEP whose benefit is unclear to me, >>> but they aren't harmful, and I guess the decisions have already been >>> made. >> The PEP status is draft so is subject to change. > > Well they might be changeable but it sounds like there's a level of > consensus by now, that wouldn't be helped by more bikeshedding over > relatively minor stuff. I might write up some further comments and post > them here > You might as well, can't do any harm and somebody might pick up on something. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence