Re: usenet reading

2012-05-25 Thread Jason Earl
On Fri, May 25 2012, Jon Clements wrote: > Hi All, > > Normally use Google Groups but it's becoming absolutely frustrating - > not only has the interface changed to be frankly impractical, the > posts are somewhat random of what appears, is posted and > whatnot. (Ironically posted from GG) > > Is

Re: Learn Technical Writing from Unix Man in 10 Days

2012-04-29 Thread Jason Earl
On Sat, Apr 28 2012, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Sat, 28 Apr 2012 14:55:42 -0700, Xah Lee wrote: > >> Learn Technical Writing from Unix Man in 10 Days >> >> Quote from man apt-get: >> >> remove >> remove is identical to install except that packages are >> removed >> instead o

Re: a little parsing challenge ☺

2011-07-20 Thread Jason Earl
On Wed, Jul 20 2011, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: >> "Uri" == Uri Guttman writes: > > Uri> a better parsing challenge. how can you parse usenet to keep this troll > Uri> from posting on the wrong groups on usenet? first one to do so, wins the > Uri> praise of his peers. 2nd one to do it makes su

Re: Code hosting services

2011-07-16 Thread Jason Earl
On Sat, Jul 16 2011, Thomas Jollans wrote: > On 07/16/2011 10:32 AM, Andrew Berg wrote: >> Does anyone know if there are any services that have cross-project >> integration? I can see myself closing a ton of bug reports just because >> they are issues with the library part of the program, which wi

Re: Development tools and practices for Pythonistas

2011-05-01 Thread Jason Earl
On Sun, May 01 2011, Dietmar Schwertberger wrote: > Am 01.05.2011 02:47, schrieb Shawn Milochik: >> Look at the big two sites for open-source repositories -- github and >> bitbucket. One's git, the other Mercurial. I don't think you can go >> wrong picking either one. > > Can any of those be used

Re: opinion: comp lang docs style

2011-01-04 Thread Jason Earl
On Tue, Jan 04 2011, Xah Lee wrote: > a opinion piece. > > 〈The Idiocy of Computer Language Docs〉 > http://xahlee.org/comp/idiocy_of_comp_lang.html > > -- > The Idiocy of Computer Language Docs > > Xah Lee, 2011-01-03 > > Worked with Mathematica for

Re: Google AI challenge: planet war. Lisp won.

2010-12-20 Thread Jason Earl
On Mon, Dec 20 2010, Jon Harrop wrote: > Wasn't that the "challenge" where they wouldn't even accept solutions > written in many other languages (including both OCaml and F#)? > > Cheers, > Jon. http://ai-contest.com/faq.php Question: There is no starter package for my favorite language. What

Re: Man pages and info pages

2010-11-03 Thread Jason Earl
On Wed, Nov 03 2010, rustom wrote: > On Nov 3, 3:11 pm, Daniel da Silva wrote: >> Guys, this really has nothing to do with python. > > ?? python docs have nothing to do with python?? python docs by > default on linux are read with info and many seem to find info > unpleasant to use. Actually, t

Re: Hide DOS console for .pyc file

2010-09-10 Thread Jason Earl
On Fri, Sep 10 2010, Muddy Coder wrote: > Hi Folks, > > For a quick testing purpose, I deliver .pyc files to my customer. I > don't want the black DOS console appearing behind my GUI, but I have > no idea how to do it. Somebody can help? Thanks! > > > Cosmo I don't really use Windows any more, so

Re: Microsoft lessening commitment to IronPython and IronRuby

2010-08-11 Thread Jason Earl
On Tue, Aug 10 2010, Ben Finney wrote: > Steven D'Aprano writes: > >> On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 20:07:06 +1200, Gregory Ewing wrote: >> > Is there any way for a non-.NET program to access a .NET library? Or >> > is it necessary to drink the entire bottle of .NET kool-aid? >> >> http://www.mono-project.

Re: A Exhibition Of Tech Geekers Incompetence: Emacs whitespace-mode

2009-08-17 Thread Jason Earl
Xah Lee writes: > Fresh out of the oven: > > • How to use and setup Emacs's whitespace-mode > http://xahlee.org/emacs/whitespace-mode.html > > Xah > ∑ http://xahlee.org/ Xah, I disagree with you about the usefulness of whitespace-mode's defaults, and I certainly disagree with the need to us

Re: standalone python web server

2007-12-27 Thread Jason Earl
eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all, > > I want to setup simple python web server and I want it to just unzip > and run, without any installation steps (have no right to do it). > > I've tried to write by myself, however, I find I am getting into more > details like processing image file, di

Re: Tried Ruby (or, "what Python *really* needs" or "perldoc!")

2006-03-15 Thread Jason Earl
"msoulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I have found the Python sidebar VERY helpful: > > Personally, I can't use local docs on my desktop as they may not be > the same version of the docs for the Python distro running on the > server that I'm deploying on. I usually go to python.org and use the

Re: spell check code

2006-02-09 Thread Jason Earl
rtilley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What is the most common way to spell check comments in code? Are > there any idle plugins or modules that do this? In Emacs you can use "flyspell-prog-mode" to check strings and comments automagically. Just a bit of editor elitism... Jason -- http://mail.p

Re: HTML page into a string

2006-02-07 Thread Jason Earl
"Tempo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In my last post I received some advice to use urllib.read() to get a > whole html page as a string, which will then allow me to use > BeautifulSoup to do what I want with the string. But when I was > researching the 'urllib' module I couldn't find anything abo

Re: Extract contents of html cells

2006-02-04 Thread Jason Earl
Robot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dear all, > I need to create a script which will extract the contents of 2 cells > of an html that contains a specified number of cells.Then I need to > put that contents in another cells of my own html page.How can i do > that?Any samples, tutorials, advice?