Tim Roberts t...@probo.com wrote:
Steve Holden st...@holdenweb.com wrote:
Johannes Bauer wrote:
Sebastian Bassi schrieb:
No, there is no certification for Python. Maybe in the future...
I'll hand out the Johannes Bauer Python Certificate of Total
Awesomeness for anyone who can
ÀîÌï litia...@gmail.com wrote:
To emluate a soap service or client.
look at Pyro, and look at xmlrpclib
It may not be exactly what you are looking for,
but if you are doing both sides, it will help.
- Hendrik
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http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Paddy O'Loughlin patrick.olough...@gmail.com wrote:
Any other suggestions for a possible wow reaction from an audience like
that?
two simple demos:
The first one is a simple client server thingy on the LAN.
I have seen hardened people do a double take
when they see how little code it takes to
Kay Schluehr ka..@gmx.net wrote:
On 24 Mrz., 05:30, Steve Holden st...@holdenweb.com wrote:
O'Reilly School of Technology have plans to offer a Python
certification. But I have to write the courses first :)
If you're done with it I'd additionally suggest the honory title of a
VIPP:
Nick Craig-Wood ni...g-wood.com wrote:
I wrote a serial port to TCP proxy (with logging) with twisted. The
problem I had was that twisted serial ports didn't seem to have any
back pressure. By that I mean I could pump data into a 9600 baud
serial port at 10 Mbit/s. Twisted would then
Nick Timkovich prom@gmail.com wrote:
I've been working on a program that will talk to an embedded device
over the serial port, using some basic binary communications with
messages 4-10 bytes long or so. Most of the nuts and bolts problems
I've been able to solve, and have learned a
Aahz a...@pyft.com wrote:
8
.. Because the name Python is derived from the
comedy TV show Monty Python, stupid jokes are common in the Python
community.)
Sacrilege!
A joke based on the Monty Python series is BY DEFINITION
psaff...@lemail.com wrote:
I'm filing 160 million data points into a set of bins based on their
position. At the moment, this takes just over an hour using interval
So why do you not make four sets of bins - one for each core of your quad,
and split the points into quarters, and run four
MRAB goo...@mrett.plus.com wrote:
BJörn Lindqvist wrote:
8 ---
For example, to find the email you can use a simple regexp. If there
is a match you can be certain that that is the authors email. But what
algorithms can you use to figure out the other information?
Tim Rowe digil.com wrote:
8 -
. If Finance users and non-professional
programmers find the locale approach to be frustrating, arcane and
non-obvious then by all means propose a way of making it simpler and
clearer,
Paul Rubin http://phr...@nospam.invalid wrote:
Paul Rubin http://phr...@nospam.invalid writes:
'%.3K' % 1234567 = 1.235K # K = 1000
'%.:3Ki' % 1234567 = 1.206K # K = 1024
I meant 1.235M and 1.177M, of course.
I went tilt like a slot machine long before I noticed...
:-)
-
John Nagle na...@animats.com wrote:
Yes. In COBOL, one writes
PICTURE $999,999,999.99
which is is way ahead of most of the later approaches.
That was fixed width. For zero suppression:
PIC ,$$$,$99.99
This will format 1000 as $1,000.00
For fixed width zero suppression:
PIC
Ulrich Eckhardt eck...aser.com wrote:
IOW, why not explicitly say what you want using keyword arguments with
defaults instead of inventing an IMHO cryptic, read-only mini-language?
Seriously, the problem I see with this proposal is that its aim to be as
short as possible actually makes the
Kenneth Tilton ke...ail.comwrote:
ps. when the hell do I get an eponymous banning thread?! I have been
flaming this damn group for 13 years and no recognition!! k
Well you are obviously not trying hard enough, so you have nobody
but yourself to blame if you get pipped at the post after
Tim Golden ma...lden.me.uk wrote:
Well, a little bit of experimentation shows that you can
*create* paths this deep (say, with os.mkdir). But you
can't actually set the current directory to it. So the
Is this also true if you try to go there by a succession
of shorter hops of the ./next_level
Grant Edwards gra...isi.com wrote:
There you go: a 30-second psychological diagnosis by an
electrical engineer based entirely on Usenet postings. It
doesn't get much more worthless than that...
Oh it is not entirely worthless - as a working hypothesis,
it seems to cover and explain the
Daniel Dalton d.dal...@iinet.net.au wrote:
I've got a program here that prints out a percentage of it's
completion. Currently with my implimentation it prints like this:
0%
1%
2%
3%
4%
etc taking up lots and lots of lines of output... So, how can I make it
write the percentage on the
Aahz a...@pythoncraft.com wrote:
In article mailman.99.1234863853.11746.python-l...@python.org,
Hendrik van Rooyen m...@microcorp.co.za wrote:
If Aahz was trolling, then he got me. I know about William of Occam,
after whom the language was named, and his razor, but did not make
Benjamin Peterson b...@phon.org wrote:
So called encodings like hex and rot13 are abuse of
encode() method. encode() should translate
between byte strings and unicode, not preform
transformations like that. This has been removed
in 3.x, so you should use binascii.
When all else fails, and just
S Arrowsmith si...intbox.UUCP wrote:
Small integers get a similar treatment:
a = 256
b = 256
a is b
True
a = 257
b = 257
a is b
False
This is weird - I would have thought that the limit
of small would be at 255 - the biggest number to
fit in a byte. 256 takes two bytes, so it
Steve Holden ste.nweb.com wrote:
My well-known-search-engine-foo must be at an all-time low today. *Is*
there an index and I can't see for looking?
typing in python weekly at google gives me:
Python-URL!The bookmark for this page is:
http://purl.org/thecliff/python/url.html. Dr. Dobb's
Diez B. Roggisch de...@nospam.web.dewrote:
Is your email program broken or what? Why are you sending the same
exact message 5 times!?
Not to mention that the name Cool Dude isn't exactly convincing me
that I should apply for a job there...
Quite so.
The only name that could
Rhodri James rh...@wi..mon.co.uk wrote:
A souq is a bazaar :-)
Well, close enough anyway. It's another arabic word that translates as
market in both the mercantile and financial senses, I believe. Maybe
I've just read too much arabic-themed fiction, but I was surprised not
to find
Paul Rubin http://phr...@nospam.invalid wrote:
The cost of messing with the multiprocessing module instead of having
threads work properly, and the overhead of serializing Python data
structures to send to another process by IPC, instead of using the
same object in two threads. Also, one way
Christian Heimes liss.de wrote:
John Nagle wrote
If bytes, a new keyword, works differently in 2.6 and 3.0, that was
really
dumb. There's no old code using bytes. So converting code to 2.6 means
it has to be converted AGAIN for 3.0. That's a good reason to ignore
2.6 as
gert ger.@gmail.com
Hope you do not mind ignoring part of answers, so I can figure out
more why things work the way they are.
This two examples work, what i do not understand is that in function
display i do not have to declare root, v or x ?
x is easy - it was declared outside, in
Steve Holden ste...@..web.com wrote:
heresyPerhaps it's time Python stopped being a dictatorship?/heresy
This will need a wholesale switch to the worship of Freya - It is rumoured
that She is capable of herding cats.
- Hendrik
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http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
gert gert...@gmail.com wrote:
On Feb 18, 8:25 am, Hendrik van Rooyen m...@microcorp.co.za wrote:
gert gert.cuyk...@gmail.comwrote:
After reading the docs and seeing a few examples i think this should
work ?
Am I forgetting something here or am I doing something stupid ?
Anyway I
bleah jo...@ph...arizona.edu wrote:
I'm trying to get PIL 1.16 installed on a SUSE SLES10 system, and
cannot, for the life of me, get the thing to compile with jpeg
support.
The libjpeg-devel libraries are installed, and are present in /usr/lib
JUST WHERE SPECIFIED in the setup.py file, and the
Aahz a...@pyaft.com wrote:
In article mailman.52.1234797812.11746.python-l...@python.org,
Hendrik van Rooyen maorp.co.za wrote:
Occam was the language that should have won the marketing prize, but
didn't.
It wasn't simple enough.
I thought (at the time) that it was quite good
Ben Finney bignose+hates-s...@benfinney.id.au wrote:
a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) writes:
In article mailman.52.1234797812.11746.python-l...@python.org,
Hendrik van Rooyen m...@microcorp.co.za wrote:
Occam was the language that should have won the marketing prize,
but didn't.
It wasn't
gert gert.cuyk...@gmail.comwrote:
After reading the docs and seeing a few examples i think this should
work ?
Am I forgetting something here or am I doing something stupid ?
Anyway I see my yellow screen, that has to count for something :)
from tkinter import *
from threading import
andrew cooke and...@aorg wrote:
The GIL is an implementation detail. I suspect that it could be largely
removed if there was sufficient need. But that still wouldn't make Python
a good language for programming on multiple cores. That's not as big a
deal as you think, because we currently
Hendrik van Rooyen ma...@morp.co.za wrote:
If you can get down so low in baud rate, then you can fudge it in software.
Set the port to the single stop bit, and make a transmit character function
that outputs a single character and a flush(), and then waits for a bit time
or so
John Nagle na...@...ats.comwrote:
So the correct combination, 5 bits with 1.5 stop bits, isn't supported in
Python. 1 stop bit will not physically work on Baudot teletypes; the
main camshaft doesn't come around fast enough. (Yes, there's an actual
mechanical reason for 1.5 stop bits.)
MRAB goo...@m...tt.plus.com wrote:
Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2009-02-14, John Nagle na...@animats.com wrote:
Can Python's serial port support be made to run at 45.45 baud,
the old 60 speed Teletype machine speed?
If your hardware and OS supports it, Python can be made to
support
azrael ju...@gmail.com wrote:
To be honest, in compare to Visual Studio, Gui Builders for wx widgets
are really bad. Also completly for python there is not one good
GuiBuilder. The only one I have seen that would come near VS was
BoaConstructor, But the number of Bugs is just horrific. Too
Steve Holden stenweb.com wrote:
Jeez, doesn't anyone read the fine manual any more? I hope this was just
an academic exercise.
socket.inet_ntoa(struct.pack(!l, 10))
'59.154.202.0'
Holden's rule: when it looks simple enough to be worth including in the
standard library it
birdsong dav...@gmail.comwrote:
8--- select not blocking on empty file stuff -
Any help on what I'm missing would be appreciated.
Why do you expect it to block?
It is ready to read, to return end of file.
- Hendrik
--
rantingrick ra.@gmail.com wrote
8 - dreams, goals and tentative spec -
Have you looked at Pycad ? - it started off with a similar rush
some time ago.
Maybe there is something there that you can use and/or salvage.
- Hendrik
--
cptn.spoon cpt..n@gmail.com wrote:
On Feb 9, 6:48 pm, Hendrik van Rooyen m...@microcorp.co.za wrote:
No.
At this level, just use a list of instances of your Stock class.
- Hendrik
How do I get a list of instances of a particular class? Is there a way
to do this dynamically?
Yes
Spacebar265 spa...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks. How would I do separate lines into words without scanning one
character at a time?
Type the following at the interactive prompt and see what happens:
s = This is a string composed of a few words and a newline\n
help(s.split)
help(s.rstrip)
Nicholas Feinberg wrote:
Code that caused the problem (unlikely to be helpful, but no reason not to
include it):
self.canvas.scale(self.body,self.radius/(self.radius-.5),self.radius/(self.radi
us-.05),0,0)#radius is greater than .5
scale's arguments are:
Luis Zarrabeitia ky...@u...cu wrote:
Is there any way to import a .py file that is not on sys.path?
I'd like to 'import' a file that resides somewhere on my filesystem without
having to add it's directory to sys.path. At first, I thought that something
like
my_module = __import__(path/to/file)
cptn.spoon cp..@gmail.com wrote:
On Feb 9, 3:58 pm, Paul Rubin http://phr...@nospam.invalid wrote:
Thanks Paul! I thought this might be the case. So how would I get the
StockMarket class instance to contain many Stock class instances and
then be able to iterate through them? I'm guessing the
Steve Holden st...@holdenweb.com wrote:
There's something called PythonCard built on top of wxPython that's
fairly newb-friendly, though it gets clunkier as your demands grow.
You might also want to look at Dabo, which is a much more comprehensive
framework that also hides much of
John Machin s...@le..n.net wrote:
By the way, has anyone come up with a name for the shifting effect
observed above on str, and also with repr, range, and the iter*
family? If not, I suggest that the language's association with the
best of English humour be widened so that it be dubbed the Mad
Mensanator m@aol.com
On Feb 5, 4:20 pm, Terry Reedy tjre...@udel.edu wrote:
mk wrote:
(duck)
542 comp.lang.python rtfm
What is so unfriendly about 'read the fine manual'?
You've seen a fine manual?
Oh Fine!
- Hendrik
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http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Steve Holden st...@h...eb.com wrote:
Yes, and I'm fine well sure this is somewhere between a silly thread and
a troll.
Fine reads wrong - it should be fining.
Silly? Us here on clp, silly?
What a monstrous thought!
I'll have you know this is a respectable
establishment, and you should be
MRAB goo...@mrett.plus.com wrote:
The actual names of the variables and functions shouldn't matter to the
outside world; the name of an output file shouldn't depend on the name
of a variable.
That is a matter of opinion.
It is however, an interesting problem, namely:
How does one get
Power Button mjbuc...@gmail.com
My question is, how can I create the Queue in my main object and set
the target function for the Thread Constructor to be a function in
foo?
Just create it, giving it some name.
Then start the static long running stuff,
and pass the name you gave it.
Pass the
Stephen Hansen wrote:
8 - arguments I don't agree with -
P.S. Aiee, this discussion is getting overwhelmingly long. :)
It is indeed and I do actually have other stuff to do so I shall
try to retreat with defiant dignity.
Been fun though, to see the other viewpoints when
Diez B. Roggisch de...@nospam.web.de
Your argument would be valid if *any* of the *languages* implementing
encapsulation would offer that real isolation. None does. So where from
comes the feeling that this must be something a *language* should offer?
Sure one could envision a system where
er wrote:
Simple question, I think: Is there a way to make a
completely global variable across a slew of modules?
If not, what is the canonical way to keep a global state?
The purpose of this is to try to prevent circular module
imports, which just sort of seems nasty. Thank you!
Take
Scott David Daniels s..@acm.org wrote:
You might enjoy looking at QNX, since I think it is built along the
lines you are describing here. I have an ancient copy of their OS,
but haven't followed for more than couple of decades.
I vaguely know about it, and I know they claim to be hot on
Steve Holden s...@hol.eb.com wrote:
My previous reply assumed you are running some UNIX-like operating
system. If you are on Windows then Jean-Paul's advice stands, as Windows
*does* allow several processes to listen on the same port and randomly
delivers incoming connections to one of the
rd.mur...@bitdance.com wrote:
You, sir, should be programming in some language other than Python.
Why? - Python is object oriented, but I can write whole systems
without defining a single class.
By analogy, if data hiding is added to language, I could write a
whole system without hiding
r..@bi...nce.com wrote:
Quoth Hendrik van Rooyen m...@mi...orp.co.za:
Now there are a LOT of dicey statements in the above passionate
plea - python is a language, and not a philosophy, but I won't go
into that, as that would lead off onto a tangent, of which there have
been
Hendrik:
I wonder why the designers of processors do such silly things as having
user and supervisor modes in the hardware - according to your
arguments a code review would solve the problem, and then they
could use the silicon saved to do other usefull stuff. - then any process
could
Stephen Hansen apt.shan...@gmail.com wrote:
8--- arguments for the status quo --
I'm missing the careful explanation. What I've heard is that the lack
of enforced encapsulation is a danger. What I've heard is that
people want it because they've been told they should want it and
rdmur...@bi..nce.com wrote:
Quoth Hendrik van Rooyen m...@microcorp.co.za:
rd.mur...@bitdance.com wrote:
You, sir, should be programming in some language other than Python.
8- reasons given
This is IMO an arrogant attitude -
My apologies
flagg iana.@gmail.com wrote:
Let me see if i can elaborate on the requirements. I have 20+
different zone files. I want the xmlrpc server to be able to
determine what zone file to open by looking at the incoming xml
request. For example one of the functions I have now is to show a DNS
Gabriel Genellina gagsl-...@yahoo.com.ar wrote:
Of course this is clearly stated in the Language Reference Variables used
in the generator expression are evaluated lazily in a separate scope when
the next() method is called for the generator object (in the same fashion
as for normal generators).
Gabriel Genellina ga.@yaz.oo.com.ar wrote:
Consider this expression: g = (x+A for x in L for y in M). This is
currently expanded more or less like this:
def foo(L):
for x in L:
for y in M:
yield x+A
g = foo(iter(L))
(as your example above) Note that L has a special status
Gabriel Genellina gagsl-...@yahoo.com.ar wrote:
Seems that it is important *when* those functions are evaluated, but I
don't understand *why*...
Because the scope changes - see also the recent thread on exec woes
where towards the end I put in a similar example - funny, it must the
flux or
Gabriel Genellina gagsl-...@yahoo.com.ar wrote:
En Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:00:43 -0200, Scott David Daniels
scott.dani...@acm.org escribió:
The reason is that once your created object has its id taken, you
must keep a handle on it, otherwise it may get recycled and reused.
It doesn't matter in
Rhodri James rho...@wildebst.demon.co.uk wrote:
To: python-list@python.org
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 6:12 AM
Subject: Re: Exec woes
On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 07:47:00 -, Hendrik van Rooyen
m...@mic,..p.co.za wrote:
This is actually not correct - it is the root cause of my trouble
Laszlo Nagy ga...@s..eus.com wrote:
I have a program that uses socket.bind() and socket.listen() frequently.
After that program stops, it is not able to bind() again for a while:
s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
s.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_REUSEADDR, 1)
Jean-Paul Calderone ex.@di..od.com wrote:
8--
... Setting the
SO_REUSEADDR flag on POSIX fixes this problem (don't set it on Windows,
though).
Why not? I have been merrily setting it, and I have not noticed anything weird.
(yet)
- Hendrik
--
Luis Zarrabeitia k@uh.cu wrote:
8
Hehe. At the beginning of this thread, I also thought that Russ P. and Paul
Robin were the same person. I have serious problems with names.
*nods in agreement, because the man's surname is Rubin, not Robin*
:-)
- Hendrik
--
It starts with the conspiracy of silence at the interactive prompt:
Python 2.4.3 (#69, Mar 29 2006, 17:35:34) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
Type copyright, credits or license() for more information.
IDLE 1.1.3 No Subprocess
help(exec)
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
Its
Stephen Hansen wrote:
Hendrik van Rooyen wrote:
IDLE 1.1.3 No Subprocess
help(exec)
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
Its the same under Linux SuSe, Python 2.5.1.
I think this is a BUG.
Exec is a statement, not a function nor an object: even though you can enclose
parens around its
Paul Rubin http://phr...@nospam.invalid wrote:
Steven D'Aprano st...@remove-this-cybersource.com.au writes:
We're not talking specifically about Python standard library changes,
we're talking about any project which may have more entertaining *cough*
policies regarding API changes.
Martin P. Hellwig martin.hell...@dcuktec.org wrote:
Or you can argue that even when an argument is repeated indefinitely it
doesn't make it suddenly right.
This is no good.
It's a well known fact that anything I tell you three times is true.
To demonstrate:
Tim Rowe's post earlier in this
James Mills prolo...tcircuit.net.au wrote:
At the most basic level do you really think a machine
really cares about whether -you- the programmer
has illegally accessed something you shouldn't have ?
Yes it does - this is exactly why some chips have supervisor
and user modes - to keep the
Aaron Brady cas@gmail.com wrote:
On Jan 15, 6:41 pm, Steven D'Aprano st...@remove-this-
cybersource.com.au wrote:
On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 10:24:19 +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
Steven D'Aprano st...@remove-this-cybersource.com.au writes:
On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 07:58:49 +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
Terry Reedy tjre...@udel.edu wrote:
James Mills wrote:
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 1:30 PM, s...@pobox.com wrote:
We've been running SpamBayes on the news-to-mail gateway on mail.python.org
for a couple weeks now. To me it seems like the level of spam leaking onto
the list has dropped way
Steven D'Aprano st...@remove-thisurce.com.au wrote:
And... skull socks? Cool. Where can I get some?
Don't you remember? - Google the group - there was some
dust raised about them some time ago. I think he got them
from KDW - Kaufhaus Der Welt aka Klau Dir Was
:-)
- Hendrik
--
Chris Rebert c...@rebertia.com wrote:
It's not quite clear to me what you mean, but here are 2 guesses:
- If you want to convert an ASCII character to its ASCII integer
value, use ord()
- If you want to convert an integer into a string of its base-2
representation, use bin() [requires
Steve Holden stevenweb.com wrote:
Unknown wrote:
On 2009-01-12, John Machin sjmac...@lexicon.net wrote:
I believe that feature was inherited by CP/M from DEC OSes
(RSX-11 or RSTS-11). AFAICT, all of CP/M's file I/O API
(including the FCB) was lifted almost directly from DEC's
Steve Holden st...@de...nweb.com wrote:
r wrote: (about another Steven)
WOW Steven, i am very impressed. That's the first thing you have said
in a very long time that i totally agree with! Keep this up and i may
put you back on my Python Brethren list :)
What can one do to get *off*
Philip Semanchuk ph...@nchuk.com wrote:
8 nice explanation
Change the and to an or and you'll get the result you expected.
Also google for De Morgan, or De Morgan's laws
Almost everybody stumbles over this or one of it's
corollaries at least once in their
Mark Wooding m.@distorted.org.uk wrote:
A better analogy. The objects are scattered across the floor. No
object is contained in another. However, we have a plentiful supply of
bits of string, each of which is tied to a Teflon-covered paperweight at
one end and has a blob of Blu-Tack on
Li Han liha@gmail.comwrote:
Hi! I know little about the computer image processing, and now I have
a fancy problem which is how to read the time from the picture of a
clock by programming ? Is there anyone who can give me some
suggestions?
When the big hand is on the twelve, and the
Aaron Brady ca...@gmail.com wrote:
No; tuples are composite. If I flip one bit in a byte somewhere, is
it the same byte?
Yes and No and No and Others:
Yes it is the byte at the same somewhere in memory.
No it is not the same as it was a moment ago,
because the bit has flipped.
No it is one of
bearophile wrote:
Fuzzyman:
for i in l:
u = None
if len(i) == 2:
k, v = i
else:
k, u, v = i
That's the best solution I have seen in this thread so far (but I
suggest to improve indents and use better variable names). In
programming it's generally better to follow the KISS
Francesco Bochicchio b...@virgilio.it wrote:
but then, IIRC TCP guarantees that the packet is fully received by
hand-shaking at transport level between sender and receiver. Ad once the
packet is fully in the receiver buffer, why should recv choose to give
back to the application only a
Sibtey Mehdi wrote:
Hi
I have a GUI application (wxpython) that calls another GUI
Application. I m using os.system (cmd) to launch
The second GUI, in the second GUI I m trying to open the html file using the
os.startfile (filename) function but
It takes lots of time to open the html
Gabriel Genellina gagsl-...@yahoo.com.ar wrote:
Hmmm, I don't think posting a potentially harmful example is actually a
good idea...
True - its my only example though, and nobody else was
bothering to reply, so I kicked off and flushed out some
response.
Who was it that said that the way to
Red Rackham wrote:
I would like to pass a string into a dll function. I notice that to pass using
ctypes, it has to be a ctypes type. Looking at the ctypes doc page I don't see
a c_string class.
The following seems to work for me:
In the c programme:
/*
This routine outputs and inputs
Carl Banks pav...@gmail.com wrote:
If you have to followup, at least keep your reply to something short
and witty, like, Go away, troll.
OK will do see next post.
- Hendrik
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r rt8...@gmail.com wrote:
I think you missed my point Steven, I was in no way proud of the fact
of my 9th place rating. It just proves my point to the small following
of this group. And frankly makes me feel bad.
This spurt of high frequency posts is something that seems to happen
to most
r rt8...@gmail.com wrote:
Now thats the kind of friendly banter this group could use. Instead of
people acting as if their bowel-movements smell like bakery fresh
cinnamon rolls!
What an amazing thing to say!
Doesn't yours?
- Hendrik
--
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
r rt8...@gmail.com wrote::
The writing is on the Wall!
Yes it is, and as always, it says :
Mene, mene, tekel epharsim.
If my protestant upbringing hasn't failed me,
it means:
Weighed, and found wanting.
- Hendrik
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http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Bruno Desthuilliers bru.@websiteburo.invalid wrote:
ipyt...@gmail.com a écrit :
x.validate_output(x.find_text(x.match_filename
(x.determine_filename_pattern(datetime.datetime.now()
Is it even good programming form?
functional programming addicts might say yes. But as far as I'm
Ferdinand Sousa wrote:
==
.# file receiver
# work in progress
import socket
s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
HOST = '192.168.1.17'
PORT = 31400
s.bind((HOST, PORT))
s.listen(3)
conn, addr = s.accept()
print 'conn at
Dennis Lee Bieber w@ix.netcom.com wrote:
8- stuff blaming Davy for aluminum --
Isn't Davy a Brit?
No, he was a Brit.
He's dead now.
His safety lamp lives on.
It's a good thing its got that heat-sink sieve-
it's enabled countless miners
to flee when they see its change of
Aaron Brady castiro...@gmail.com wrote:
There's an 'I' in Python.
No!
It's supposed to be :
There's a T in python.
an is only used when the next
word starts with a vowel, as in:
It's been an hour now...
All this is because English speakers are
genetically incapable of moving their
James Stroud jst...bi.ucla.edu wrote:
Consider the maverick who insists on
8example with me instead of self
What's the interpreter going to do with our maverick's code?
Took me a while, but after I remembered that a maverick
is an unmarked, wild member of the bovine species
Ben Finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I hereby recommend “pish and tosh” for use by anyone who wants to
counter someone's point. It beats by a country furlong the invective
that has become regrettably common here in recent months.
I second the motion to use pish and tosh for a first level of
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