| 2:54p |
Security updates for Wednesday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (blueman), Fedora (nodejs), Gentoo (firefox), openSUSE (kleopatra), Oracle (java-1.8.0-openjdk), SUSE (apache2, binutils, firefox, pacemaker, sane-backends, spice, spice-gtk, tomcat, virt-bootstrap, xen, and zeromq), and Ubuntu (ca-certificates, mariadb-10.1, mariadb-10.3, netty, openjdk-8, openjdk-lts, perl, and tomcat6). |
| 10:19p |
[$] The recurring request for keyword indexing in Python
Python has keyword arguments for functions that is a useful (and popular)
feature; it can make reading the code more clear and eliminate the
possibility of passing arguments in the wrong order. Python can also index
an object in various ways to refer to a subset or an aspect of the object.
Bringing the idea of keywords to indexing would provide a way to get the clarity
benefit for indexing operations; doing so has been discussed in Python
circles for a long time.
Some renewed interest, in the form
of lengthy discussions on the python-ideas mailing list and a new Python enhancement
proposal (PEP), look like they just might take keyword indexing over the finish line. |