Re: Call to Update All Tutorials to Python3.x Standards.

2011-02-14 Thread flebber
On Feb 14, 11:35 am, Cameron Simpson c...@zip.com.au wrote: On 13Feb2011 14:47, rantingrick rantingr...@gmail.com wrote: | On Feb 13, 4:30 pm, Steven D'Aprano steve| +comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote: | The official stance of the Python development team is that 2.7 and 3.x | will

Call to Update All Tutorials to Python3.x Standards.

2011-02-13 Thread rantingrick
We need to start demanding that folks move towards 3.0 compliance with their tutorials. Most of the functionality in Python3000 is available from the __future__ module, especially in Python2.6 and up. There is no reason to continue supporting deprecated tutorials. If someone is still using an

Re: Call to Update All Tutorials to Python3.x Standards.

2011-02-13 Thread rantingrick
PS: -- Open Invitation: -- I am more than willing to help out those who need to bring Python2.x tutorials into 3.x compliance (and i invite others to get involved!). I would prefer to convert all to 3.x tutorials and not engage in monkey patching by annotating

Re: Call to Update All Tutorials to Python3.x Standards.

2011-02-13 Thread Littlefield, Tyler
Hahaha. You've got a new one every week, don't you. What happened to the demand to evolve idol into the future or whatever the BS you were parroting was? So we're on TKInter being fixed/replaced, (which you haven't worked with the steps people gave you), Idol being forked and redone, (again

Re: Call to Update All Tutorials to Python3.x Standards.

2011-02-13 Thread Thomas L. Shinnick
At 01:18 PM 2/13/2011, rantingrick wrote: If any tutorial owners refuse to cooperate we need to remove their tutorials (and/or links to their tutorials) from the official Python website forever. How many tutorials have you written? In a city I used to live in, a long while ago, ... You

Re: Call to Update All Tutorials to Python3.x Standards.

2011-02-13 Thread rantingrick
On Feb 13, 3:03 pm, Thomas L. Shinnick tshin...@io.com wrote: In a city I used to live in, a long while ago, ... You would stop at a red light at a downtown corner and some unkempt fellow would lurch out of nowhere, stagger onto your hood, smear his dirty rag over a part of your windshield

Re: Call to Update All Tutorials to Python3.x Standards.

2011-02-13 Thread Littlefield, Tyler
However *we* are going to move forward with or without you. In other words: We in RR's book means RR and this silent majority that has pitched in so much work to back his last call to move forward, that we're now boggling in awe at a new Idol. And moving forward means posting lots of trash,

Re: Call to Update All Tutorials to Python3.x Standards.

2011-02-13 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sun, 13 Feb 2011 15:03:18 -0600, Thomas L. Shinnick wrote: At 01:18 PM 2/13/2011, rantingrick wrote: If any tutorial owners refuse to cooperate we need to remove their tutorials (and/or links to their tutorials) from the official Python website forever. How many tutorials have you written?

Re: Call to Update All Tutorials to Python3.x Standards.

2011-02-13 Thread rantingrick
On Feb 13, 4:30 pm, Steven D'Aprano steve +comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote: The official stance of the Python development team is that 2.7 and 3.x will co-exist for a long, long time. Removing 2.x tutorials would be cutting off our nose to spite our face. That is BS Steven and you know

Re: Call to Update All Tutorials to Python3.x Standards.

2011-02-13 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 13Feb2011 14:47, rantingrick rantingr...@gmail.com wrote: | On Feb 13, 4:30 pm, Steven D'Aprano steve | +comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote: | The official stance of the Python development team is that 2.7 and 3.x | will co-exist for a long, long time. Removing 2.x tutorials would be |