Re: How to decode UTF strings?

2019-10-25 Thread Arne Vajhøj
On 10/25/2019 4:52 PM, DFS wrote: =?iso-8859-9?b?T/B1eg==?= =?utf-8?Q?=EB=AF=B8?= =?GBK?B?0Pu66A==?= =?UTF-8?B?zp3Or866zr/PgiDOks6tz4HOs86/z4I=?= How does something like: from email.header import decode_header def test(s): print(s) s2 = decode_header(s) print(s2[0][0])

Re: security quirk

2013-01-30 Thread Arne Vajhøj
On 1/29/2013 11:55 PM, RichD wrote: I read Wall Street Journal, and occasionally check articles on their Web site. It's mostly free, with some items available to subscribers only. It seems random, which ones they block, about 20%. Anywho, sometimes I use their search utility, the usual author

Re: Which Lisp to Learn?

2009-03-08 Thread Arne Vajhøj
Xah Lee wrote: For those of you imperative programers who kept on hearing about lisp and is tempted to learn, then, ... You: * consider yourself unfairly treated by various communities * post a long drivel about various Lisp flavors to newsgroups that are not in any way Lisp related ? There

Re: Mathematica 7 compares to other languages

2008-12-10 Thread Arne Vajhøj
Jon Harrop wrote: Xah Lee wrote: Kaz Kylheku wrote: Really? ``50 or hundreds'' of lines in C? #include math.h /* for sqrt */ void normalize(double *out, double *in) { double denom = sqrt(in[0] * in[0] + in[1] * in[1] + in[2] * in[2]); out[0] = in[0]/denom;

Re: The Importance of Terminology's Quality

2008-08-22 Thread Arne Vajhøj
Paul Wallich wrote: Martin Gregorie wrote: On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:56:09 +, sln wrote: On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 09:11:48 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Warnock) wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *IS* raw machine code, *NOT* assembler!! [snip] I don't see the distinction. Just dissasemble it and

Re: The Importance of Terminology's Quality

2008-08-21 Thread Arne Vajhøj
Piet van Oostrum wrote: Arne Vajhøj [EMAIL PROTECTED] (AV) wrote: AV Robert Maas, http://tinyurl.com/uh3t wrote: John W Kennedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: JWK Into the 60s, indeed, there were still machines being made JWK that had no instruction comparable to the mainframe BASx/BALx JWK family

Re: The Importance of Terminology's Quality

2008-08-12 Thread Arne Vajhøj
Robert Maas, http://tinyurl.com/uh3t wrote: John W Kennedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: JWK Into the 60s, indeed, there were still machines being made JWK that had no instruction comparable to the mainframe BASx/BALx JWK family, or to Intel's CALL. You had to do a subprogram call by JWK first

Re: spam [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2008-07-13 Thread Arne Vajhøj
Kevin McMurtrie wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Lew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: WDC wrote: BTW I reported it, yo should too. To whom did you report it, so that we may also report it there? Google does not accept spam complaints. Go ahead, try it. That's why they've been the #1 Usenet

Re: spam

2008-07-13 Thread Arne Vajhøj
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: rickman wrote: I love the way that people who plonk others feel the need to inform everyone of it. That ranks up there with, I know what you are, but what am I? It is a matter of basic politeness and common courtesy. Without the plonk, the killfiled poster is left

Re: spam [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2008-07-13 Thread Arne Vajhøj
donald wrote: Arne Vajhøj wrote: Google does not accept spam complaints. Go ahead, try it. That's why they've been the #1 Usenet spamming tool for years now. What you're seeing is the spam slowly expanding into the software development groups. uk.railway is probably a random group added

Re: The Importance of Terminology's Quality

2008-06-01 Thread Arne Vajhøj
szr wrote: Arne Vajhøj wrote: szr wrote: Peter Duniho wrote: On Fri, 30 May 2008 22:40:03 -0700, szr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Arne Vajhøj wrote: Stephan Bour wrote: Lew wrote: } John Thingstad wrote: } Perl is solidly based in the UNIX world on awk, sed, } bash and C. I don't like

Re: The Importance of Terminology's Quality

2008-05-31 Thread Arne Vajhøj
szr wrote: Arne Vajhøj wrote: Stephan Bour wrote: Lew wrote: } John Thingstad wrote: } Perl is solidly based in the UNIX world on awk, sed, bash and C. } I don't like the style, but many do. } } Please exclude the Java newsgroups from this discussion. Did it ever occur to you that you don't

Re: The Importance of Terminology's Quality

2008-05-31 Thread Arne Vajhøj
szr wrote: Peter Duniho wrote: On Fri, 30 May 2008 22:40:03 -0700, szr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Arne Vajhøj wrote: Stephan Bour wrote: Lew wrote: } John Thingstad wrote: } Perl is solidly based in the UNIX world on awk, sed, } bash and C. I don't like the style, but many do. } } Please

Re: The Importance of Terminology's Quality

2008-05-30 Thread Arne Vajhøj
Stephan Bour wrote: Lew wrote: } John Thingstad wrote: } Perl is solidly based in the UNIX world on awk, sed, bash and C. } I don't like the style, but many do. } } Please exclude the Java newsgroups from this discussion. Did it ever occur to you that you don't speak for entire news groups?

Re: SPAM

2007-11-14 Thread Arne Vajhøj
Lew wrote: Yes, but it's not SPAM. SPAM is a registered trademark of Hormel Foods Corporation for a canned pork product. Spam is unwanted messages or email. It should be rather obvious what is was. Why not leave it to Hormel to complain ? Arne --

Re: Distributed RVS, Darcs, tech love

2007-10-21 Thread Arne Vajhøj
Lew wrote: very different. Having a dead - i mean end of development line software like TeX - and Based on what do you call it dead end. It's used, it's outlasted many other flashes in the pan, it does what its users require. You will need evidence for such a claim. According to

Re: Distributed RVS, Darcs, tech love

2007-10-21 Thread Arne Vajhøj
llothar wrote: I'm, not sure that I'm getting your point, but are you trying to argue that _not_ knowing mathemathics makes you a better programmer? No but it doesn't help you very much either. They are just different skills. Many things within programming have a foundation in mathematics

Re: which language allows you to change an argument's value?

2007-09-30 Thread Arne Vajhøj
Erik Wikström wrote: their reference (alias) mechanism. And C, Python, and Ruby probably won't let you do that. What about Java and Perl? C will let you do it with pointers (it is just a syntactical difference from references in this case) and Java's references allows it. Neither C or

Re: Car-ac-systems

2007-09-14 Thread Arne Vajhøj
[text reordered from top post to standard newsgroup style] John Timney (MVP) wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sep 11, 9:35 am, John Timney \(MVP\) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I control one with C# then! Thats not on your site, clearly not everything

Re: Latest models of Gibson guitars

2007-08-19 Thread Arne Vajhøj
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [some spam deleted] This is a newsgroup of programming language Python, stop with this! Actually this was posted to a bunch of newsgroups of which one is about python. Arne -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Computer Language Popularity Trend

2006-09-30 Thread Arne Vajhøj
Danno wrote: Xah Lee wrote: This page gives a visual report of computer languages's popularity, as indicated by their traffic level in newsgroups. This is not a comprehensive or fair survey, but does give some indications of popularity trends. http://xahlee.org/lang_traf/index.html Wow,