[Catalog-sig] A simple printer of nested lists

2011-03-24 Thread Chris Withers
Hi, Any chance we could put a block in place on packages that mention this phrase? Has anyone had any joy tracking down the author of the book that resulted in this avalanche of junk? At the very least they could publish an errata explaining their horrific mistake... Chris -- Simplistix

Re: [Catalog-sig] A simple printer of nested lists

2011-03-24 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
Chris Withers wrote: Hi, Any chance we could put a block in place on packages that mention this phrase? Has anyone had any joy tracking down the author of the book that resulted in this avalanche of junk? At the very least they could publish an errata explaining their horrific

Re: [Catalog-sig] A simple printer of nested lists

2011-03-24 Thread Chris Withers
On 24/03/2011 08:58, Ronald Oussoren wrote: On 24 Mar, 2011, at 7:46, Chris Withers wrote: Hi, Any chance we could put a block in place on packages that mention this phrase? Has anyone had any joy tracking down the author of the book that resulted in this avalanche of junk? At the very

Re: [Catalog-sig] A simple printer of nested lists

2011-03-24 Thread Richard Jones
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 7:51 PM, M.-A. Lemburg m...@egenix.com wrote: Is it possible that the book used the module to explain creating distutils packages and uploading them to PyPI ? That's exactly what it is, and I have a script I run sometimes to delete the simple printer of nested lists

Re: [Catalog-sig] A simple printer of nested lists

2011-03-24 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
Chris Withers wrote: On 24/03/2011 08:58, Ronald Oussoren wrote: On 24 Mar, 2011, at 7:46, Chris Withers wrote: Hi, Any chance we could put a block in place on packages that mention this phrase? Has anyone had any joy tracking down the author of the book that resulted in this avalanche

Re: [Catalog-sig] A simple printer of nested lists

2011-03-24 Thread Laura Creighton
In a message of Thu, 24 Mar 2011 09:20:29 GMT, Chris Withers writes: Yup, I believe it's the one, and the publication date ties in with the start of the problem. Does anyone have contact details for Paul Barry? cheers, Chris Google does. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/3677 But I don't have

Re: [Catalog-sig] A simple printer of nested lists

2011-03-24 Thread Ronald Oussoren
On 24 Mar, 2011, at 7:46, Chris Withers wrote: Hi, Any chance we could put a block in place on packages that mention this phrase? Has anyone had any joy tracking down the author of the book that resulted in this avalanche of junk? At the very least they could publish an errata

[Catalog-sig] [monit] pypi.python.org - Connection failed

2011-03-24 Thread monitor
Connection failed Service pypi.python.org Date:Thu, 24 Mar 2011 16:40:18 -0500 Action: alert Host:jacobian.org Description: failed protocol test [HTTP] at INET[pypi.python.org:80] via TCP Your faithful employee, monit

Re: [Catalog-sig] A simple printer of nested lists

2011-03-24 Thread Terry Reedy
On 3/24/2011 7:57 AM, René Dudfield wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Richard Jonesrich...@python.org wrote: I've previously contacted someone involved with this book - it may have been Paul, I'm not sure. Searching historical Twitter is next to useless. In any case the response was

Re: [Catalog-sig] A simple printer of nested lists

2011-03-24 Thread Richard Jones
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Terry Reedy tjre...@udel.edu wrote: On 3/24/2011 7:57 AM, René Dudfield wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Richard Jonesrich...@python.org  wrote: I've previously contacted someone involved with this book - it may have been Paul, I'm not sure.