wish list for python

[Andrew Bennetts]

On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 06:47:27AM +0200, Jim Newton wrote:
> does anyone know where i can find the current wish-list or to-do list
> for futer python releases?

Python Enhancement Proposals:

    http://python.org/peps/

and the SourceForge bug/patch trackers:

    http://sourceforge.net/bugs/?group_id=5470
    http://sourceforge.net/patch/?group_id=5470

And failing all else, try searching the comp.lang.python archives :)

> Does anyone know if there is a play to allow non-evaluatable statements
> to return values?    I'm only a week to this language so far but it
> seems very strange to me (coming from a list background) that i cannot
> somehow say
>    x = if a:
>     then b
>     else c

For this particular expression, see PEP 308 (which has been rejected).

>     x = for i in some-sequence:
> 	        blah blah blah.

I'm not sure what this is meant to mean, but I suspect PEP 289 would provide
what you're after.

> and what about something like the following?
> 
>     x = cond:
>         a > 1:
>             0
>         a > 10:
>             1
>         a > 100:
>             2
>         True:
>             -1

See the second proposed solution in PEP 275, which is still listed as "Open"
-- but Guido doesn't seem keen on the idea:
    http://www.python.org/doc/essays/pepparade.html

Besides, this particular example is probably better written as:
    try:
        x = int(math.log10(a))
    except (OverflowError, ValueError):
        x = -1

-Andrew.