[Python-Dev] an alternative to embedding policy in PEP 418 (was: PEP 418: Add monotonic clock) (original) (raw)
Oleg Broytman phd at phdru.name
Thu Apr 5 18:01:48 CEST 2012
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On Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 07:22:17PM +0400, Oleg Broytman wrote:
On Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 11:45:06PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > find it > hard to imagine use cases where "file = open(thisfile) or > open(thatfile)" makes sense. Not even for the case where thisfile == > 'script.pyc' and thatfile == 'script.py'.
Counterexamples - any configuration file: a program looks for its config at $HOME and not finding it there looks in /etc. So config = open('~/.someprogram.config') or open('/etc/someprogram/config') would make sense.
A counterexample with gethostbyname - a list of proxies. It's not an error if some or even all proxies in the list are down - one just connect to the first that's up. So a chain like proxy_addr = gethostbyname(FIRST) or gethostbyname(SECOND) would make sense.
Oleg.
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