Re: Python and GUI development

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Re: Quotation Ugliness

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Re: Quotation Ugliness

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Using a password with ‘sudo’ (was: Quotation Ugliness)

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Re: PyWart: Python's import statement and the history of external dependencies

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Python-friendly IDE (was: Python IDE.)

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Import a module from a specific file path (was: PyWart: Python's import statement and the history of external dependencies)

specifying a filesystem path for a file containing the module? -- \“I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance | `\ any day.” —Douglas Adams | _o__) | Ben Finney

Re: Import a module from a specific file path

for respectability.” —John | _o__)Kenneth Galbraith, 1970-06-07 | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: isiter builtin

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Messages from code analysis tools (was: Using map())

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Re: How modules work in Python

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Re: Error when trying to open an image

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Re: caught in the import web again

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Re: encode and decode builtins

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Re: How to recover bytes function?

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Re: io.UnsupportedOperation: fileno

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Re: io.UnsupportedOperation: fileno

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Re: fileno() not supported in Python 3.1

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Re: Bad file descriptor

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Re: fileno() not supported in Python 3.1

.” —Justice Louis Brandeis | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Converting a PHP app to Python + Django (was: Communicating with a PHP script (and pretending I'm a browser))

it. -- \ “The double standard that exempts religious activities from | `\ almost all standards of accountability should be dismantled | _o__) once and for all.” —Daniel Dennett, 2010-01-12 | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

[issue22843] doc error: 6.2.4. Match Objects

Ben Finney added the comment: The current wording of the passage “Match objects always have a boolean value of True” implies that the value compares equal to the ‘True’ constant. That implication is incorrect. I disagree with R. David Murray; if we want to say that a value is considered true

Re: Trouble with python

teach a yodeling class, probably the hardest thing | `\ is to keep the students from just trying to yodel right off. | _o__) You see, we build to that.” —Jack Handey | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: I love assert

freedom you give to | `\ others, not by how much you can coerce others to do what you | _o__) want.” —Larry Wall | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python modules

Will Acheson willyac...@gmail.com writes: I have had a lot of trouble with executing relative imports with some of my projects in python. Are there any best practices or methods besides '../../' type hard-coding? The important point to learn with Python's import system, as contrasted with

Re: I love assert

of moral awareness.” —Dr. Francesca Stavrakoloulou, bible | _o__) scholar, 2011-05-08 | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: html page mail link to webmail program

’. Now they have two problems.” | _o__) —Jamie Zawinski, in alt.religion.emacs | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Combining lists to dictionary

’ has this as a primary intended purpose, so it seems fine to me. -- \ “Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least | `\ studied.” —John Kenneth Galbraith, _The Age of Uncertainty_, | _o__) 1977 | Ben Finney

Re: html page mail link to webmail program

.” —Groucho Marx | `\ | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: I love assert

Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com writes: On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 7:03 AM, Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au wrote: An ‘assert’ statement in the code will sometimes be active, and sometimes be a no-op, for *exactly* the same code under different circumstances. That's a trap

Re: What does (?Pname) pattern syntax do?

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Re: Python modules

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Re: Python modules

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Re: What for -- for? (was A bug?)

your keys into a river of molten lava, let | `\ 'em go, because, man, they're gone.” —Jack Handey | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: What for -- for? (was A bug?)

via IMAP. -- \“Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?” “Wuh, I think | `\ so, Brain, but how will we get three pink flamingos into one | _o__) pair of Capri pants?” —_Pinky and The Brain_ | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python

Dive Into Python 3, good tutorial (was: Newbie suggestion: nice tutorial)

this program.” | `\—Microsoft Vista security dialogue | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: (test) ? a:b

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Re: id == vs is

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Re: (test) ? a:b

, | `\plain and simple.” —Daniel Dennett, 2010-01-12 | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: (test) ? a:b

Joshua Landau jos...@landau.ws writes: On 27 October 2014 02:28, Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au wrote: Guido is incorrect. I've already stated what's wrong. You were arguing about what Guido thinks. I don't know where I did that; to my knowledge, this is the first time I've mentioned

Re: Classes and the command line

to | `\ ask is if they ever press charges.” —Jack Handey | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: id == vs is

Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au writes: Dan Stromberg drsali...@gmail.com writes: Are the following two expressions the same? […] It depends what you mean by “the same”. My apologies, I mis-read the question. My answers were for a different question (one you didn't ask). Please ignore

Re: (test) ? a:b

as a boolean. -- \ “As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of | `\ the demand.” —Josh Billings | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python

Re: (test) ? a:b

to | `\ think.” —Niels Bohr | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: (test) ? a:b

-couple the hell out of everything.” —Aahz | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: (test) ? a:b

Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au writes: This is short and clear and needs no leaking of the underlying bool implementation:: len(True for line in lines if line.strip()) Correction:: len([True for line in lines if line.strip()]) -- \ “Our task must be to free ourselves

Re: I am out of trial and error again Lists

. In Python 3, print is a function. -- \ “[W]hoever is able to make you absurd is able to make you | `\unjust.” —Voltaire | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman

The “trials” in “trial and error” should be as simple as possible (was: I am out of trial and error again Lists)

dollars for the second glass. The refill | _o__)contained the antidote.” —Emo Philips | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Struggling with python-daemon and subprocess module to work together

and the rest will run fine inside the daemon. -- \ “I may disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the | `\death your right to mis-attribute this quote to Voltaire.” | _o__) —Avram Grumer, rec.arts.sf.written, 2000-05-30 | Ben Finney -- https

Re: Quick Question About Setting Up Pytz

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Re: Quick Question About Setting Up Pytz

on MS Windows. -- \ “Nothing is more sacred than the facts.” —Sam Harris, _The End | `\ of Faith_, 2004 | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python

Python 3 is the active language, recommended for newcomers (was: Import Doesn't Import)

you have some | `\kind of moral awareness.” —Dr. Francesca Stavrakoloulou, bible | _o__) scholar, 2011-05-08 | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Caching: Access a local file, but ensure it is up-to-date from a remote URL

know there's a DRM, what it is, and how it | `\ works, we've already failed.” —Peter Lee, Disney corporation, | _o__) 2005 | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: help with regex

, most or all of our religious | `\ beliefs and rituals would fall into the domain of mental | _o__) disturbance.” —John F. Schumaker | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: operator module functions

for the functions in the ‘operator’ module. -- \ “It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final | `\examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity's fate.” | _o__) —Richard Buckminster Fuller, _Critical Path_, 1981 | Ben Finney -- https

Re: Toggle

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Re: program to generate data helpful in finding duplicate large files

' time.” —Bill | `\ Gates, 2004-01-24 | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: [OT] Question about Git branches

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Re: [OT] Question about Git branches

as the criterion, and redirecting most topics away. -- \ “I believe our future depends powerfully on how well we | `\ understand this cosmos, in which we float like a mote of dust | _o__) in the morning sky.” —Carl Sagan, _Cosmos_, 1980 | Ben Finney -- https

Posting style: interleaved responses (was: My backwards logic)

to itself, leaving | `\ nothing for faith.” —Bernard of Clairvaux, 1090–1153 CE | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Keeping python code and database in sync

versions 1.4, 1.5 and 1.6. URL:http://south.aeracode.org/ -- \ “I think Western civilization is more enlightened precisely | `\ because we have learned how to ignore our religious leaders.” | _o__)—Bill Maher, 2003 | Ben Finney

Re: Why can not initialize the class?

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Re: what do you get with 1 divide by 998001, interesting results

literally, what a very large part of our brain has | _o__) evolved to do.” —Douglas Adams | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: what do you get with 1 divide by 998001, interesting results

if your mission on earth is finished. If | `\ you are alive, it isn't.” —Francis Bacon | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Distinguishing attribute name from varible name to make codes clear and definite

for security.” —Brian | `\ Valentine, senior vice-president of Microsoft Windows | _o__)development, 2002 | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: what do you get with 1 divide by 998001, interesting results

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Re: Very basic question. How do I start again?

that | `\ will not admit of even the *possibility* of correction.” —Sam | _o__) Harris, _The End of Faith_, 2004 | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How can I get the timezone time of a location?

the “Video origin” field to the right side of that page. -- \ “Truth would quickly cease to become stranger than fiction, | `\ once we got as used to it.” —Henry L. Mencken | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https

Re: what is the difference between name and _name?

. -- \ “Are you pondering what I'm pondering?” “Umm, I think so, | `\Brain, but what if the chicken won't wear the nylons?” —_Pinky | _o__) and The Brain_ | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How can I get the timezone time of a location?

Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au writes: luofeiyu elearn2...@gmail.com writes: There is no video in the web when i open it in my firefox. The page describing the video also has a link to the hosted site of the video, see the “Video origin” field to the right side of that page

Re: what do you get with 1 divide by 998001, interesting results

by governments and incorporated into law and policy.” | _o__) —Russell Blackford, 2010-03-06 | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: what do you get with 1 divide by 998001, interesting results

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Re: what do you get with 1 divide by 998001, interesting results

; the rest love | `\ not freedom, but license.” —John Milton | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: 'is not' or '!='

was so surprised I couldn't talk for a year | `\and a half.” —Gracie Allen | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: More Pythonic implementation

Devil's Dictionary_, 1906 | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How to look up historical time zones by date and location

is that | `\ the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked | _o__) and he has not been caught.” —Henry L. Mencken | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: why i can't get the sourcecode with inspect module?

the name / | `\But if I did, well, really, what's it to you?” —Leonard Cohen, | _o__) _Hallelujah_ | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How to look up historical time zones by date and location

of any idea is | _o__) experiment.” —Richard P. Feynman | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Why Python 4.0 won't be like Python 3.0

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How to look up historical time zones by date and location (was: How can I get the timezone time of a location?)

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Re: For using python ability, what should I do???

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Re: timezone argument %z and %Z

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Re: how to change the time string into number?

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Re: how to change the time string into number?

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Re: Captcha identify

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Re: problem on top-post

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Re: timedelta problem

is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, | `\but to set some limit on infinite error.” —Bertolt Brecht, | _o__)_Leben des Galilei_, 1938 | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: problem on top-post

that time we | `\regret that you will be unbearable.” —hotel, Bucharest | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: how to change the time string into number?

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Re: what is the / mean in __init__(self, /, *args, **kwargs) ?

of human ignorance that | `\ will not admit of even the *possibility* of correction.” —Sam | _o__) Harris, _The End of Faith_, 2004 | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: what is the / mean in __init__(self, /, *args, **kwargs) ?

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Re: Captcha identify

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Re: why i can't copy mail with imaplib?

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Re: The right way to use config files

or not existing.” —Homer, _The Simpsons_ | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How to get mac address of bluetooth with python in win7?

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Re: How to delete letters automatically with imaplib?

long after the end.” —Igor | `\ Stravinskey | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How to delete letters automatically with imaplib?

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Re: Test for an empty directory that could be very large if it is not empty?

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Re: Test for an empty directory that could be very large if it is not empty?

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Re: Wikibooks example doesn't work

I'm pondering?” “I think so, Brain, but | `\ wouldn't his movies be more suitable for children if he was | _o__) named Jean-Claude van Darn?” —_Pinky and The Brain_ | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

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