On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 10:03 +1000, Peter Gummer wrote: > Hi Tim, > > Tim, you're reminding me of the old days when I programmed in Delphi,
Ahhh yes. The good old days of Clipper. :-) > In Python's case, I imagine that the root cause of the problem would be that > it's an interpreted language. Is this why circular imports cause trouble in > Python? Well, first of all Python doesn't have the concept of Interfaces in the language. This is added by another library that abuses the 'class' statement to create them. More on this issue in followup emails. > > Can you fix the problem by putting the two interfaces in the same module? > Nope. In fact I started with this approach and it was MUCH worse. > > Does one of these work for you? > Nope. They aren't the same problem. > - Peter > > P.S. Your posts to the mailing lists are always interesting, Tim, but those > of us using Microsoft Outlook (and its successor Windows Live Mail) have to > go to considerable effort to read them, because the messages appear empty > with the content as an attachment. I realise that this is because of a > defect in those applications, but you are one of only two people in all the > various lists that I subscribe to who send emails in this form, so I'm > certainly not going to all the trouble of moving to a new email client. I > know of one person who simply deletes your posts because of this issue. (For > the benefit of people using these email clients, I've manually pasted your > message in full below.) Thanks for this reminder Peter. The problem is manifested in the way that Outlook Express and it's successor(s) handle MIME types. I digitally sign all of my outgoing email. I think it is the right thing to do and if the world ever catches on then we could eliminate SPAM with simple filters that dump all unsigned/unauthenticated email. However, I realize that I am in a 1% minority and I try to remember to subvert this issue by creating an attachment to my emails. This (somehow) causes those email clients to correctly display the text (see my attached graphic). I often forget to attach something and without it, that causes certain clients to display my text as an attachment. I have also had several corporate email systems reject my emails because of the signature. They seem to think it's a virus. Go figure; a more 'certain' email is rejected due to sociological and technological ignorance. I remain steadfast though and will hopefully remember to add the attachment so people don't have to reach for the delete button. Though I am sure many people go into the ignore mode upon receiving email from me. :-) Cheers, Tim -- Timothy Cook, MSc Health Informatics Research & Development Services LinkedIn Profile:http://www.linkedin.com/in/timothywaynecook Skype ID == timothy.cook ************************************************************** *You may get my Public GPG key from popular keyservers or * *from this link http://timothywayne.cook.googlepages.com/home* ************************************************************** -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Displayemail.gif Type: image/gif Size: 4274 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/private/openehr-technical_lists.openehr.org/attachments/20080704/e3b3b35d/attachment.gif> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/private/openehr-technical_lists.openehr.org/attachments/20080704/e3b3b35d/attachment.asc>
