[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: python and typeforms
- From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 09:38:57 -0600
I think it would be a good idea to add a new subsection to liblouis.texi
under Programming in liblouis. It could be called Language bindings and
would have sub-subsections for the various bindings, such as Puthon
Java, etc.
John
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 03:23:36PM +0000, Michael Whapples wrote:
> I have committed a change doing what I described. I am just thinking
> this probably needs documenting as I can foresee the questions of "when
> I hand in a list X happens but when I hand in a tuple Y happens". I am
> wondering whether the python docstring is really the place for this sort
> of detail or if it would be better in something like the userguide.
> Doctests would be really good to demonstrate the behavior.
>
> Michael Whapples
> On 02/11/2010 02:56 PM, Christian Egli wrote:
> >Michael Whapples<mwhapples@xxxxxxx> writes:
> >
> >
> >>As the issue with using typeforms has only been raised recently I
> >>assume not many are even using typeforms, so is backwards
> >>compatibility a concern?
> >>
> >I would assume that there are hardly any users that use the typeform
> >currently, so I wouldn't worry about it.
> >
> >
> >>Also there was the suggestion of people possibly not handing in a
> >>list, which raises its own issues. The docs actually say list, but
> >>currently a tuple would be accepted fine.
> >>
> >I would make sure that you handle the case when a tuple is passed in
> >e.g. the way you suggest below.
> >
> >
> >>I personally quite like the idea of, if you want typeform data back
> >>then use a list, if you use a tuple then typeform data won't be
> >>modified (it fits with python's mutable and immutable objects).
> >>
> >Thanks
> >Christian
> >
>
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