On 2015-05-05 14:25, Skip Montanaro wrote:
> More likely, viewing the CSV file in Excel, Gnumeric, or some other
> spreadsheet which interprets some inputs as dates and formats them
> according to its default rules. Skip
This is depressingly common, and I've even received CSV and plain text
data
On 2015-03-31 10:50, Ervin Hegedüs wrote:
> there is an app, written in Python, which stores few bytes of
> datas in a single file. The application uses threads. Every
> thread can modify the file, but only one at a time. I'm using a
> lock file to prevent the multiple access.
>
> ...
>
> How can I
On 02/09/2015 12:30 PM, Skip Montanaro wrote:
> Thanks, Chris. Are you telling me I should have defined the input file
> encoding for my CSV file as CP-1252, or that something got hosed on
> the export from XLSX to CSV? Or something else?
>
> Skip
Hi Skip-
I think it's most likely that the encodi
On 01/21/2015 04:26 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 8:20 AM, Matthew Ruffalo wrote:
>> Yes, length-unlimited strings are *extremely* useful in some
>> applications. I remember bitterly cursing Java's string length limit of
>> 2 ** 31 (maybe - 1) on mu
On 01/21/2015 02:06 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 5:20 AM, Irmen de Jong wrote:
>> On 21-1-2015 18:59, Steve Hayes wrote:
>>
>>> 3. When I started to look at it, I found that strings could be any length
>>> and
>>> were not limited to swomething arbitrary, like 256 character
On 12/11/2014 09:48 PM, Terry Reedy wrote:
> A possible reason: one is developing an app expected to be released
> fall 2015 after the 3.5 release and the app depends on something new
> in 3.5. I must admit though that I cannot think of any such thing now
> for 3.5. For 3.3 there was the new unic
Hi-
Questions like this appear so often in various places (mailing lists,
forums, sites like Stack Overflow) that I think a very blunt/candid
answer is appropriate. This is especially true since there's always
someone who responds to the question as-is with some monstrosity of
exec() and string fo
On 10/22/2014 12:40 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> That's true when it's fundamentally arithmetic. But part of that
> readability difference is the redundancy in the second one. What if it
> weren't so redundant?
>
> 'Negative' if x < 0 else 'Low' if x < 10 else 'Mid' if x < 20 else 'High'
>
> You can
On 10/21/2014 05:44 PM, ryguy7272 wrote:
> Hey everyone, I'm trying to run this code.
>
> ...
>
> I commented out the import pylab as pl because I couldn't get the
> matplotlib.pylab import working. So, anyway, I hit F5, and it seems to run,
> but it doesn't really do anything. Isn't this eithe
