RE: [Rest2web-develop] Docs revision, "length" removal

[Michael F. <mi...@pc...>]

Hello Nicola,


-----Original Message-----
   >From: "Nicola Larosa"<ni...@te...>
   >Sent: 21/08/05 09:57:04
   >To: "res...@li..."<res...@li...>
   >Subject: [Rest2web-develop] Docs revision, "length" removal
     >Completed revising configobj.txt, committed it in two steps: in the first
   >one there's only trailing spaces removal, the real changes are in the

The docutils spec. Seemed to indicate that a trailing (or leading) space was needed where you break a line. I freely admit to not having tested this of course !

   >second one. This way it may be easier reviewing the changes. Now I'm
   >looking at validate.txt .
   >

Great - are you making big changes ?

I made a few changes myself - but they should be easy enough to merge.

Nice one - thanks.

As I mention in my other email - I've been working on the other pythonutils modules and their docs.

   >I'd like to remove the "length" argument for lists (and strings). It's
   >redundant (one may set "min" and "max" to the same value), and probably it
   >isn't used often to warrant special-casing it.
   >
   >Moreover, it prevents being able to write "list(1)" or "list(1,4)", forcing
   >explicit specification: "list(min=1)", "list(min=1, max=4)", and making it
   >incoherent with "integer" check definition.
   >
   >What do you think?
   >

Ok - fine with me. Just do appropriate changes in docstrings/docs. I'm sure you would have anyway.

All the Best,

Fuzzyman 
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python 

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   >Nicola Larosa - ni...@te...
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   >creates a culture where it's acceptable to write horrible code. [...]
   >Maybe with PHP 5 they are trying to clean up the neighborhood, but that
   >doesn't change the fact when you program in PHP you are programming in
   >a dump. -- Ian Bicking, July 2005
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