Re: [Python-Dev] [Visualpython-users] How VPython 6 differs from VPython 5

2013-01-14 Thread Bruce Sherwood
For the record, I do not know of any evidence whatsoever for a supposed "split" between the tiny VPython community and the huge Python community concerning floating point variables. Nor do I see anything in Python that needs to be "fixed". The new (currently experimental) version of VPython based

Re: [Python-Dev] [Visualpython-users] How VPython 6 differs from VPython 5

2013-01-14 Thread Bruce Sherwood
Since this was copied to the Python-Dev list, I want to go on record as stating firmly that there is no evidence whatsoever to substantiate claims that there has ever been some kind of conflict between VPython and Python. Since __future__ was also mentioned, I'll take the opportunity to say that I

[Python-Dev] [Visualpython-users] How VPython 6 differs from VPython 5

2013-01-13 Thread Mark Janssen
> Since this was copied to the Python-Dev list, I want to go on record as > stating firmly that there is no evidence whatsoever to substantiate claims > that there has ever been some kind of conflict between VPython and Python. My apologies, Bruce, I didn't mean for that second message to go to th

Re: [Python-Dev] [Visualpython-users] How VPython 6 differs from VPython 5

2013-01-13 Thread Mark Janssen
On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 12:14 PM, Bruce Sherwood wrote: > For the record, I do not know of any evidence whatsoever for a supposed > "split" between the tiny VPython community and the huge Python community > concerning floating point variables. Nor do I see anything in Python that > needs to be "fi

Re: [Python-Dev] [Visualpython-users] How VPython 6 differs from VPython 5

2013-01-13 Thread Mark Janssen
On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 1:15 AM, Bruce Sherwood wrote: > Here is detailed information on how VPython 6 differs from VPython 5, which > will be incorporated in the Help for upcoming releases of VPython 6. Note > that the fact that in a main program __name__ isn't '__main__' is an > unavoidable "fea