Re: simple perl program in python gives errors

2006-02-01 Thread Dan Lowe
On Feb 1, 2006, at 7:59 AM, Tim Roberts wrote: Dan Lowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not sure if you typo'd that, but that should read: a += 20 * 14 print a Did you try to run that? Well, I did, but I had given 'a' a value first. And now I'm thinking that I may have forgotten some

Re: simple perl program in python gives errors

2006-01-31 Thread Dan Lowe
On Jan 31, 2006, at 8:28 AM, morris carre wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : $a += 20 * 14; print $a; a = 20 * 14 print a where's the problem ? Not sure if you typo'd that, but that should read: a += 20 * 14 print a -dan -- I am not a vegetarian because I

Re: Python vs C for a mail server

2006-01-28 Thread Dan Lowe
On Jan 28, 2006, at 8:39 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: On Sat, 28 Jan 2006 18:03:56 +1100, Steven D'Aprano said: Google is your friend. The first four mail servers listed are, in order: sendmail postfix Microsoft Exchange qmail Dig a bit deeper, and exim might be a candidate

Re: Filename case-insensitivity on OS X

2006-01-06 Thread Dan Lowe
On Jan 3, 2006, at 9:50 PM, Tom Anderson wrote: On Tue, 3 Jan 2006, Dan Sommers wrote: On Tue, 03 Jan 2006 15:21:19 GMT, Doug Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Strictly speaking, it's not OS X, but the HFS file system that is case insensitive. Aaah, of course. Why on earth didn't

Re: Filename case-insensitivity on OS X

2006-01-06 Thread Dan Lowe
On Jan 6, 2006, at 1:13 PM, Mark Jackson wrote: Dan Lowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Think about it - how many things used by average people are case sensitive? Passwords? That's about it. (And judging by most user passwords I have seen, they're almost all lowercase anyway.) Email addresses

Re: Filename case-insensitivity on OS X

2006-01-05 Thread Dan Lowe
On Jan 4, 2006, at 4:32 AM, Michael Anthony Maibaum wrote: You can choose if HFS+ behaves in a case-preserving, case-insensitive or case-sensitive manner. See man newfs_hfs. Case sensitive is not supported on the 'System' volume, but I have several external disks using it without a problem

Re: PYTHONDOCS on OSX

2005-11-28 Thread Dan Lowe
On Nov 28, 2005, at 5:27 PM, Robert Hicks wrote: I have that...and it isn't working with the OSX version of IDLE in the MacPython folder. If I start Python from the Terminal it works. Any idea why it doesn't work that way? Unless a program is launched in a Terminal window, your .profile

Re: How to paste python code on wordpress?

2005-11-21 Thread Dan Lowe
On Nov 21, 2005, at 8:17 PM, could ildg wrote: Wordpress.com blog will eat up the spaces before a line, just as it will trim every line of my article. So I can't paste python code indentedly. Does any one use wordpress blog here? Please tell me how to leave the sapces as they are when

Re: How to paste python code on wordpress?

2005-11-21 Thread Dan Lowe
On Nov 22, 2005, at 12:30 AM, could ildg wrote: Thank you~ It works! but how can paste and , please? these 2 symbols will also confuse wordpress and I can't publish what I want. Replace with lt; Replace with gt; (where those abbreviations stand for less than and greater than)