Re: complaints about no replies last week

2009-04-02 Thread Aaron Brady
On Mar 31, 4:34 pm, Arnaud Delobelle arno...@googlemail.com wrote: a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) writes: Arnaud Delobelle  arno...@googlemail.com wrote: There are no comments - I don't have the time to add any, sorry! The margin is too small to contain the proof? I wish I could come up

Re: complaints about no replies last week

2009-04-01 Thread pruebauno
On Mar 31, 4:07 pm, Arnaud Delobelle arno...@googlemail.com wrote: prueba...@latinmail.com writes: [...] Well since I attracted a couple people's attention I will describe the problem in more detail. Describing the problem properly is probably as hard as solving it, so excuse me if I

Re: complaints about no replies last week

2009-03-31 Thread Arnaud Delobelle
Arnaud Delobelle wrote: prueba...@latinmail.com writes: [...] I myself asked about how to write a library to efficiently do union and intersection of sets containing time intervals some time ago on this list and got little to no answers. It is a tricky problem. Since I was getting

Re: complaints about no replies last week

2009-03-31 Thread pruebauno
On Mar 31, 2:56 am, Arnaud Delobelle arno...@googlemail.com wrote: Arnaud Delobelle wrote: prueba...@latinmail.com writes: [...] I myself asked about how to write a library to efficiently do union and intersection of sets containing time intervals some time ago on this list and got

Re: complaints about no replies last week

2009-03-31 Thread Arnaud Delobelle
prueba...@latinmail.com writes: [...] Well since I attracted a couple people's attention I will describe the problem in more detail. Describing the problem properly is probably as hard as solving it, so excuse me if I struggle a bit. The problem is for a health insurance company and involves

Re: complaints about no replies last week

2009-03-31 Thread Aahz
In article m263hpa21u@googlemail.com, Arnaud Delobelle arno...@googlemail.com wrote: There are no comments - I don't have the time to add any, sorry! The margin is too small to contain the proof? -- Aahz (a...@pythoncraft.com) * http://www.pythoncraft.com/ Debugging is

Re: complaints about no replies last week

2009-03-31 Thread Arnaud Delobelle
a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) writes: Arnaud Delobelle arno...@googlemail.com wrote: There are no comments - I don't have the time to add any, sorry! The margin is too small to contain the proof? I wish I could come up with such a resilient conjecture! Ah but in this case, the proof is in

Re: complaints about no replies last week

2009-03-30 Thread pruebauno
On Mar 28, 11:07 am, Aaron Brady castiro...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, A week ago, I posted a question and an idea about Python's garbage collector.  I got a few replies.  Some days later, I posted a mock-up implementation of it, and got *NO* replies.  Does this mean: a) It works b) It doesn't

Re: complaints about no replies last week

2009-03-30 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Mon, 30 Mar 2009 07:50:49 -0700, pruebauno wrote: I myself asked about how to write a library to efficiently do union and intersection of sets containing time intervals some time ago on this list and got little to no answers. It is a tricky problem. With all the confidence of somebody who

Re: complaints about no replies last week

2009-03-30 Thread Arnaud Delobelle
prueba...@latinmail.com writes: [...] I myself asked about how to write a library to efficiently do union and intersection of sets containing time intervals some time ago on this list and got little to no answers. It is a tricky problem. Since I was getting paid I got an O(n*n) solution

Re: complaints about no replies last week

2009-03-29 Thread Aaron Brady
On Mar 28, 7:31 pm, ajaksu aja...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! Aaron Brady wrote: A week ago, I posted a question and an idea about Python's garbage collector.  I got a few replies. Some very nice, too :) Yes.  Some days later, I posted a mock-up implementation of it, and got *NO* replies.  

Re: complaints about no replies last week

2009-03-28 Thread Benjamin Kaplan
On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Aaron Brady castiro...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, A week ago, I posted a question and an idea about Python's garbage collector. I got a few replies. Some days later, I posted a mock-up implementation of it, and got *NO* replies. Does this mean: a) It works

Re: complaints about no replies last week

2009-03-28 Thread r
On Mar 28, 10:07 am, Aaron Brady castiro...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, A week ago, I posted a question and an idea about Python's garbage collector.  I got a few replies.  Some days later, I posted a mock-up implementation of it, and got *NO* replies.  Does this mean: a) It works b) It doesn't

Re: complaints about no replies last week

2009-03-28 Thread Aahz
In article 2d80ec1b-5eb5-4e82-9a4a-36934dd53...@z9g2000yqi.googlegroups.com, Aaron Brady castiro...@gmail.com wrote: A week ago, I posted a question and an idea about Python's garbage collector. I got a few replies. Some days later, I posted a mock-up implementation of it, and got *NO*

Re: complaints about no replies last week

2009-03-28 Thread Aaron Brady
On Mar 28, 11:41 am, a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) wrote: In article 2d80ec1b-5eb5-4e82-9a4a-36934dd53...@z9g2000yqi.googlegroups.com, Aaron Brady  castiro...@gmail.com wrote: A week ago, I posted a question and an idea about Python's garbage collector.  I got a few replies.  Some days later,

Re: complaints about no replies last week

2009-03-28 Thread ajaksu
Hi! Aaron Brady wrote: A week ago, I posted a question and an idea about Python's garbage collector.  I got a few replies. Some very nice, too :)  Some days later, I posted a mock-up implementation of it, and got *NO* replies.  Does this mean: It's not particularly clear to me what your

Re: complaints about no replies last week

2009-03-28 Thread ajaksu
Aaron Brady wrote: Hi, c) It's not particularly applicable to Python at that point (particularly) BTW, here's some interesting read: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000/2006-September/003855.html http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000/2007-May/007129.html