Re: [BangPypers] [OT] Guido's Tweet on Top Posting

2009-09-11 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Friday 11 Sep 2009 11:09:52 am Noufal Ibrahim wrote: Why? do you mean why does wikipedia contains BS? or why do I think that the quotation is BS? -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate NRC-FOSS http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ ___ BangPypers mailing

Re: [BangPypers] [OT] Guido's Tweet on Top Posting

2009-09-11 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Friday 11 Sep 2009 12:21:48 pm Noufal Ibrahim wrote: Why do you consider the quotation to be BS? I assume from your first question that you do consider it to be BS. yes I do - but since your top post has removed the context I will have to go searching in the archives for it - so will reply

Re: [BangPypers] [OT] Guido's Tweet on Top Posting

2009-09-11 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Friday 11 Sep 2009 11:00:41 am Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: On Friday 11 Sep 2009 10:54:27 am srid wrote: From Wikipedia: Objections to top-posting on newsgroups, as a rule, seem to come from persons who first went online in the earlier days of Usenet, and in communities that date to

Re: [BangPypers] [OT] Guido's Tweet on Top Posting

2009-09-11 Thread steve
On 09/11/2009 01:24 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: On Friday 11 Sep 2009 11:00:41 am Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: On Friday 11 Sep 2009 10:54:27 am srid wrote: From Wikipedia: Objections to top-posting on newsgroups, as a rule, seem to come from persons who first went online in the

Re: [BangPypers] [OT] Guido's Tweet on Top Posting

2009-09-11 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Friday 11 Sep 2009 1:44:50 pm steve wrote: Just to be a pedant, I should point out that the quoted paragraph clearly states that Objections to top-posting on /newsgroups/... The entire paragraph is in the context of newsgroups (and Usenet in particular). who knows what the context is -

Re: [BangPypers] [OT] Guido's Tweet on Top Posting

2009-09-11 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Friday 11 Sep 2009 2:02:19 pm Noufal Ibrahim wrote: On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.org wrote: [..] why? in the first place I am extremely sensitive to top posting, [..] I noticed. You need to chill a little. :) AFAIK this list does not enforce the 'no

Re: [BangPypers] [OT] Guido's Tweet on Top Posting

2009-09-11 Thread Baishampayan Ghose
why? in the first place I am extremely sensitive to top posting, but have never used usenet or been in a C forum. I only learned about interleaved posting in about 2002 or so. And the vast majority of people online now have similar experience to mine. And also the vast majority of top

Re: [BangPypers] [OT] Guido's Tweet on Top Posting

2009-09-11 Thread S.Ramaswamy
who knows what the context is - the OP did not provide the link The in reply to link in the tweet provides the context. I am using the Twitter web ui, not sure how it works with various Twitter clients. Context: = http://twitter.com/jtauber/status/2403953604

Re: [BangPypers] [OT] Guido's Tweet on Top Posting

2009-09-11 Thread Dhananjay Nene
Comments inline On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Baishampayan Ghose b.gh...@gmail.comwrote: why? in the first place I am extremely sensitive to top posting, but have never used usenet or been in a C forum. I only learned about interleaved posting in about 2002 or so. And the vast

Re: [BangPypers] [OT] Guido's Tweet on Top Posting

2009-09-11 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Dhananjay Nene dhananjay.n...@gmail.com wrote: [..] IMO, at the end of the day it really doesn't matter and probably the best thing is to simply get comfortable with both and move beyond the issue. On a similar note, I continue to use British spellings but

Re: [BangPypers] [OT] Guido's Tweet on Top Posting

2009-09-11 Thread Dhananjay Nene
Kenneth, Comments inline, On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.orgwrote: On Friday 11 Sep 2009 2:41:48 pm Dhananjay Nene wrote: I haven't since a convincing argument either way on the topic why should newer folks adopt or not adopt a Usenet sensibility. IMO

Re: [BangPypers] [OT] Guido's Tweet on Top Posting

2009-09-11 Thread Dhananjay Nene
Correction inline (sorry for one more post just for that) On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Dhananjay Nene dhananjay.n...@gmail.comwrote: Kenneth, Comments inline, On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.orgwrote: On Friday 11 Sep 2009 2:41:48 pm Dhananjay Nene

[BangPypers] Recommendation of hotels nr Pycon event

2009-09-11 Thread Dhananjay Nene
Just did my travel reservations for travelling to banglore for Pycon. Need recommendations on hotels that are relatively near the event premises (its in IISc right ?). Preferably looking for something less than 3k per night (though I am told such a price category no longer exists in Bangalore

Re: [BangPypers] Recommendation of hotels nr Pycon event

2009-09-11 Thread Ramdas S
There are quite a few service apartments in and around the place, which should be within the budget. I think that'll be comfortable for you too On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Dhananjay Nene dhananjay.n...@gmail.comwrote: Just did my travel reservations for travelling to banglore for

Re: [BangPypers] Recommendation of hotels nr Pycon event

2009-09-11 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Dhananjay Nene dhananjay.n...@gmail.com wrote: Just did my travel reservations for travelling to banglore for Pycon. Need recommendations on hotels that are relatively near the event premises (its in IISc right ?). Preferably looking for something less than 3k

[BangPypers] webservice

2009-09-11 Thread sudhakar s
HI, Can any one suggest me how to create a simple web service. i heared ZSI but i was getting error when i import SOAPpy , i was unable to install SOAPpy on my mac. with regards S Sudhakar. ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org

Re: [BangPypers] Friendfeed's web server framework open sourced

2009-09-11 Thread Harish Mallipeddi
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 9:03 PM, Pradeep Gowda prad...@btbytes.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Dhananjay Nene dhananjay.n...@gmail.com wrote: I am curious about the objective .. to the best of my knowledge wsgi is essentially blocking (unless my understanding is incorrect),

Re: [BangPypers] Friendfeed's web server framework open sourced

2009-09-11 Thread Anand Chitipothu
2009/9/11 Dhananjay Nene dhananjay.n...@gmail.com: I am curious about the objective .. to the best of my knowledge wsgi is essentially blocking (unless my understanding is incorrect), whereas tornado is primarily non-blocking. So would you see any specific advantages of deploying a wsgi app

Re: [BangPypers] [OT] Guido's Tweet on Top Posting

2009-09-11 Thread srid
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 12:54 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.org wrote: On Friday 11 Sep 2009 11:00:41 am Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: On Friday 11 Sep 2009 10:54:27 am srid wrote: From Wikipedia: Objections to top-posting on newsgroups, as a rule, seem to come from persons who first

Re: [BangPypers] [OT] Guido's Tweet on Top Posting

2009-09-11 Thread srid
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 1:21 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.org wrote: does GVR top post? I have seen him doing both. An example of him top-posting, http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/python-dev/3743554 and here, for instance, he does not use top-posting,

Re: [BangPypers] Friendfeed's web server framework open sourced

2009-09-11 Thread Harish Mallipeddi
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:32 PM, Anand Chitipothu anandol...@gmail.comwrote: 2009/9/11 Dhananjay Nene dhananjay.n...@gmail.com: I am curious about the objective .. to the best of my knowledge wsgi is essentially blocking (unless my understanding is incorrect), whereas tornado is

Re: [BangPypers] [OT] Guido's Tweet on Top Posting

2009-09-11 Thread srid
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Venkatraman S venka...@gmail.com wrote: @srid: Wow. How do you manage to find time to search these things? Did you go via each of the posts by Guido? If yes, tell him :) Actually since I follow python-dev@ (and occasionally python-ideas@), I have already seen

Re: [BangPypers] [OT] Guido's Tweet on Top Posting

2009-09-11 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Friday 11 Sep 2009 10:56:09 pm srid wrote: does GVR top post? I have seen him doing both. An example of him top-posting, http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/python-dev/3743554 and here, for instance, he does not use top-posting,

[BangPypers] A doubt in list comprehension

2009-09-11 Thread Shashwat Anand
We can pack multiple if-loops and if-else within a list generators. Here is an example : [i*j for i in range(1,10) for j in range(1,10) if i==j ] [1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36, 49, 64, 81] Another one: noprimes = [j for i in range(2, 8) for j in range(i*2, 50, i)] primes = [x for x in range(2, 50) if

Re: [BangPypers] [OT] Guido's Tweet on Top Posting

2009-09-11 Thread srid
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.org wrote: On Friday 11 Sep 2009 10:56:09 pm srid wrote: does GVR top post? I have seen him doing both. An example of him top-posting,   http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/python-dev/3743554 and here, for

Re: [BangPypers] A doubt in list comprehension

2009-09-11 Thread srid
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 4:57 PM, Shashwat Anand anand.shash...@gmail.com wrote: However what if I want an if-else loop in nested for loop. Are you referring to this: ['EVEN' if x%2==0 else 'ODD' for x in range(10)] for i in range(10): for j in range(10): for k in range(10):

Re: [BangPypers] [OT] Guido's Tweet on Top Posting

2009-09-11 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Saturday 12 Sep 2009 7:25:52 am srid wrote: Objections to top-posting *as a rule* is silly. please be polite - invective never wins arguments. Please explain what is invective (insulting, abusive, or highly critical language) about anything said here. And what would be a polite