Re: Program to keep track of success percentage

2018-12-10 Thread Cousin Stanley
Musatov wrote: > I am thinking about a program where the only user input is win/loss. > > The program let's you know if you have won > more than 31% of the time or not. > > Any suggestions about how to approach authoring > such a program? Thanks. The following results are from a python to

Re: Program to keep track of success percentage

2018-12-08 Thread Tim Chase
On 2018-12-08 17:54, Avi Gross wrote: > This may be a bit awkward. ICWYDT. "awk"ward. :wide-eyed_gaping_grin_with_finger-guns: You seem to have your knickers in a knot. > Your solution in AWK assumes lots of things. You assume the data > is either on stdin or comes from automatically opening fi

RE: Program to keep track of success percentage

2018-12-08 Thread Avi Gross
: Re: Program to keep track of success percentage On 2018-12-08 10:02, Musatov wrote: > I am thinking about a program where the only user input is win/loss. > The program let's you know if you have won more than 31% of the time > or not. Any suggestions about how to approach au

Re: Program to keep track of success percentage

2018-12-08 Thread Tim Chase
On 2018-12-08 10:02, Musatov wrote: > I am thinking about a program where the only user input is > win/loss. The program let's you know if you have won more than 31% > of the time or not. Any suggestions about how to approach authoring > such a program? Thanks. -- Can be done with an awk one-liner

Re: Program to keep track of success percentage

2018-12-08 Thread Ian Kelly
On Sat, Dec 8, 2018 at 1:22 PM Alister via Python-list wrote: > > On Sat, 08 Dec 2018 10:02:41 -0800, Musatov wrote: > > > I am thinking about a program where the only user input is win/loss. The > > program let's you know if you have won more than 31% of the time or not. > > Any suggestions about

Program to keep track of success percentage

2018-12-08 Thread Musatov
I am thinking about a program where the only user input is win/loss. The program let's you know if you have won more than 31% of the time or not. Any suggestions about how to approach authoring such a program? Thanks. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Program to keep track of success percentage

2018-12-08 Thread Alister via Python-list
On Sat, 08 Dec 2018 10:02:41 -0800, Musatov wrote: > I am thinking about a program where the only user input is win/loss. The > program let's you know if you have won more than 31% of the time or not. > Any suggestions about how to approach authoring such a program? Thanks. To start describe how

Re: Print Failure or success based on the value of the standalone tool

2018-05-10 Thread Chris Angelico
On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 1:38 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: > Returning to system() versus the subprocess module, there are other reasons > to prefer the subprocess module. The biggest is that os.system() runs a > shell command, a string passed to the programme /bin/sh. As such, that > string is subje

Re: Print Failure or success based on the value of the standalone tool

2018-05-10 Thread Cameron Simpson
return 1 if func() == 1: # indicate success as an exit status sys.exit(0) else: # indicate failure as an exit status sys.exit(1) Your script doesn't call sys.exit(), and as such, unless it outright aborts (for example, from an exception) Python itself returns a 0 exit stat

Re: Print Failure or success based on the value of the standalone tool

2018-05-10 Thread Ganesh Pal
On Thu, May 10, 2018, 22:31 Rob Gaddi > > > By not using os.system, it's been superseded for reasons exactly like > yours. https://docs.python.org/3/library/subprocess.html is your friend. > Can someone please help me understand this better for me with a program . Will the returncode of subproc

Re: Print Failure or success based on the value of the standalone tool

2018-05-10 Thread Rob Gaddi
On 05/10/2018 09:48 AM, Ganesh Pal wrote: I have to test a standalone tool from a python script and I am using os.system() to run the tool . I need to take decision based on the return value of the standalone tool . But since os.system merely throws the output value to STDOUT & returns the exit

Print Failure or success based on the value of the standalone tool

2018-05-10 Thread Ganesh Pal
" else: print "The standalone tool returned True. Successful" 1# python test_standalone_tool.py None 0 The standalone tool returned True. Successful True 0 The standalone tool returned True. Successful The above problem is because we are referring to the exit st

Re: Python 3 success story

2015-03-30 Thread Terry Reedy
On 3/30/2015 8:24 PM, Mario Figueiredo wrote: On Mon, 30 Mar 2015 19:28:16 -0400, Terry Reedy wrote: So I suggested going ahead and testing PyBrain by using it. This appears to have worked out well. I believe the only 2-3 issue she ran into was a '/' that needed to become '//', that either 2

Re: Python 3 success story

2015-03-30 Thread Mario Figueiredo
On Mon, 30 Mar 2015 19:28:16 -0400, Terry Reedy wrote: > >So I suggested going ahead and testing PyBrain by using it. This >appears to have worked out well. I believe the only 2-3 issue she ran >into was a '/' that needed to become '//', that either 2to3 or I missed >in the initial conversion

Python 3 success story

2015-03-30 Thread Terry Reedy
Last summer, a college student, who prefers Python to Java and Racket (her other CS course languages), wanted to do a year-long AI research project using PyBrain (for the ai part), numpy (required for PyBrain), and pygame (for animated displays). We both preferred 3.x. That was not an issue f

Re: Success with subprocess communicate on Windows?

2014-07-03 Thread Wolfgang Maier
On 07/03/2014 10:03 AM, Wolfgang Maier wrote: On 07/03/2014 06:09 AM, Terry Reedy wrote: - what is happening to the stderr output when run in IDLE ? I guess it is caught and suppressed somewhere, but to add to your observations the check_output call doesn't hang on IDLE, but finishes eventually

Re: Success with subprocess communicate on Windows?

2014-07-03 Thread Wolfgang Maier
On 07/03/2014 06:09 AM, Terry Reedy wrote: Yes, but what puzzled me is that running subprocess.check_output(r'pyflakes c:\programs\python34\lib') in the regular interpreter *does* produce output instead of the error message. My guess is that it fills up the pipe, so that check_output starts read

Re: Success with subprocess communicate on Windows?

2014-07-02 Thread Terry Reedy
On 7/2/2014 7:22 PM, Wolfgang Maier wrote: Finally found out what the problem is: When I'm running your command using the cmd console, I get this output: c:\python34\lib\turtle.py:571: local variable 'rgb' is assigned to but never used c:\python34\lib\turtle.py:2936: local variable 'a21' is ass

Re: Success with subprocess communicate on Windows?

2014-07-02 Thread Ethan Furman
On 07/02/2014 04:22 PM, Wolfgang Maier wrote: So, everything's just fine except that it may be more convenient to use Popen().communicate() to avoid raising the error in the first place :) Nice sleuthing! :) -- ~Ethan~ -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Success with subprocess communicate on Windows?

2014-07-02 Thread Wolfgang Maier
Terry Reedy udel.edu> writes: > > On 7/2/2014 12:33 AM, Tim Roberts wrote: > > Terry Reedy udel.edu> wrote: > >> > > You need to use > > s.check_output("pyflakes c:\\programs\\python34\\lib\\turtle.py") > > or > > s.check_output(r"pyflakes c:\programs\python34\lib\turtle.py") > > Now

Re: Success with subprocess communicate on Windows?

2014-07-02 Thread Terry Reedy
On 7/2/2014 1:37 PM, Wolfgang Maier wrote: On 02.07.2014 19:31, Wolfgang Maier wrote: I am not 100% sure whether that is the problem, but from what I gather from the subprocess module docs the args string is passed to the Windows CreateProcess function as a single string. To me this seems to im

Re: Success with subprocess communicate on Windows?

2014-07-02 Thread Wolfgang Maier
On 02.07.2014 19:31, Wolfgang Maier wrote: I am not 100% sure whether that is the problem, but from what I gather from the subprocess module docs the args string is passed to the Windows CreateProcess function as a single string. To me this seems to imply that it is passed as the lpCommandLine p

Re: Success with subprocess communicate on Windows?

2014-07-02 Thread Wolfgang Maier
On 02.07.2014 11:05, Terry Reedy wrote: On 7/2/2014 12:33 AM, Tim Roberts wrote: Terry Reedy wrote: You need to use s.check_output("pyflakes c:\\programs\\python34\\lib\\turtle.py") or s.check_output(r"pyflakes c:\programs\python34\lib\turtle.py") Now I get "Command 'pyflakes c:\pr

Re: Success with subprocess communicate on Windows?

2014-07-02 Thread Terry Reedy
On 7/2/2014 12:33 AM, Tim Roberts wrote: Terry Reedy wrote: It does not work on Windows. As I reported on http://bugs.python.org/issue8631, msg222053, subprocess.check_output("pyflakes -h") works in the interpreter and Idle shell, while s.check_output("pyflakes c:\programs\python34\lib\turt

Re: Success with subprocess communicate on Windows?

2014-07-01 Thread Tim Roberts
Terry Reedy wrote: > >It does not work on Windows. As I reported on >http://bugs.python.org/issue8631, msg222053, > >>> subprocess.check_output("pyflakes -h") >works in the interpreter and Idle shell, while > >>> s.check_output("pyflakes c:\programs\python34\lib\turtle.py") >gives bizarre output

Success with subprocess communicate on Windows?

2014-07-01 Thread Terry Reedy
t in the interpreter and hangs in the idle shell, as does the code above. My question is whether anyone reading that has had success getting subprocess output capture to work consistently on Windows? -- Terry Jan Reedy -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Some success with the "Plot" problem :D

2010-07-14 Thread Ritchy lelis
Hello guys On Following the development of my ADC (Analog-to-Digital converter Residue function transference) i already got some progress with the plot problem and (much thanks to colleagues who help me in this forum and not only) i would like to show you all the progress that has already got and

FREE & Just ONE Click To Obtain Success With Click2Sell.

2010-06-09 Thread maehca2
WHEN You Make A Sale # FREE & Just ONE Click To Obtain Success With Click2Sell. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Author of a Python Success Story Needs a Job!

2010-01-15 Thread Simon Brunning
2010/1/14 Novocastrian_Nomad : > Why is it so many, so called high tech companies, insist on the 19th > century practice of demanding an employee's physical presence in a > specific geographic location. Pair programming and co-location with your end users both hugely increase real productivity, in

Re: Author of a Python Success Story Needs a Job!

2010-01-14 Thread Steve Holden
Paul Rubin wrote: > Novocastrian_Nomad writes: >> I know whereof I speak, I have been fortunate enough to work remotely >> (across the country) for the last ten years, for two different employers. > > Some like working remotely, others don't. I had to work remotely for my > last couple of jobs.

Re: Author of a Python Success Story Needs a Job!

2010-01-14 Thread Steve Holden
ract, and perhaps there > might be opportunities for you in this regard. Nevertheless, I > obviously wish you success in your employment search. > As encouragement, or at least corroboration: http://pythonide.blogspot.com/2008/10/how-to-make-money-with-free-software.html regards Steve -- Steve

Re: Author of a Python Success Story Needs a Job!

2010-01-14 Thread Steve Holden
Paul Rubin wrote: > a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) writes: >> Incidentally, my company has had a fair amount of difficulty finding >> Python programmers -- anyone in the SF area looking for a job near >> Mountain View? > > I'm surprised there aren't a ton of Python programmers there, given > that's w

Re: Author of a Python Success Story Needs a Job!

2010-01-14 Thread Paul Rubin
Novocastrian_Nomad writes: > I know whereof I speak, I have been fortunate enough to work remotely > (across the country) for the last ten years, for two different employers. Some like working remotely, others don't. I had to work remotely for my last couple of jobs. I hated it. I want to actu

Re: Author of a Python Success Story Needs a Job!

2010-01-14 Thread Phlip
Aahz wrote: In article <6a12ed15-e7f9-43ab-9b90-984525808...@o28g2000yqh.googlegroups.com>, Novocastrian_Nomad wrote: Why is it so many, so called high tech companies, insist on the 19th century practice of demanding an employee's physical presence in a specific geographic location. Because

Re: Author of a Python Success Story Needs a Job!

2010-01-14 Thread Paul Boddie
thing well can be completely oblivious of the ways of another thing. Sometimes, it seems to pay to be knowledgeable in two different kinds of endeavour whose practitioners rarely interact, and perhaps there might be opportunities for you in this regard. Nevertheless, I obviously wish you success i

Re: Author of a Python Success Story Needs a Job!

2010-01-14 Thread Aahz
In article <6a12ed15-e7f9-43ab-9b90-984525808...@o28g2000yqh.googlegroups.com>, Novocastrian_Nomad wrote: > >Why is it so many, so called high tech companies, insist on the 19th >century practice of demanding an employee's physical presence in a >specific geographic location. Because it works be

Re: Author of a Python Success Story Needs a Job!

2010-01-14 Thread Novocastrian_Nomad
Why is it so many, so called high tech companies, insist on the 19th century practice of demanding an employee's physical presence in a specific geographic location. This is the 21st century with climate change, carbon footprints, broadband internet, telecommuting, tele-presence, telephones, fax m

Re: Author of a Python Success Story Needs a Job!

2010-01-14 Thread Aahz
In article <7x4omosdly@ruckus.brouhaha.com>, Paul Rubin wrote: >a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) writes: >> >> Incidentally, my company has had a fair amount of difficulty finding >> Python programmers -- anyone in the SF area looking for a job near >> Mountain View? > >I'm surprised there aren't

Re: Author of a Python Success Story Needs a Job!

2010-01-14 Thread Aahz
In article , Robert Kern wrote: >On 2010-01-14 13:14 PM, Paul Rubin wrote: >> a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) writes: >>> >>> Incidentally, my company has had a fair amount of difficulty finding >>> Python programmers -- anyone in the SF area looking for a job near >>> Mountain View? >> >> I'm surpri

Re: Author of a Python Success Story Needs a Job!

2010-01-14 Thread Jean-Michel Pichavant
Paul Rubin wrote: a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) writes: Incidentally, my company has had a fair amount of difficulty finding Python programmers -- anyone in the SF area looking for a job near Mountain View? I'm surprised there aren't a ton of Python programmers there, given that's where

Re: Author of a Python Success Story Needs a Job!

2010-01-14 Thread Robert Kern
On 2010-01-14 13:14 PM, Paul Rubin wrote: a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) writes: Incidentally, my company has had a fair amount of difficulty finding Python programmers -- anyone in the SF area looking for a job near Mountain View? I'm surprised there aren't a ton of Python programmers there, giv

Re: Author of a Python Success Story Needs a Job!

2010-01-14 Thread Paul Rubin
a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) writes: > Incidentally, my company has had a fair amount of difficulty finding > Python programmers -- anyone in the SF area looking for a job near > Mountain View? I'm surprised there aren't a ton of Python programmers there, given that's where Brand G is and so forth.

Re: Author of a Python Success Story Needs a Job!

2010-01-13 Thread Phlip
Andrew Jonathan Fine wrote: I was laid off by Honeywell several months after I had made my presentation in the 2005 Python Conference. Since then I have been unable to find work either as a software engineer or in any other capacity, even at service jobs. I've sent resumes and have been consi

Re: Author of a Python Success Story Needs a Job!

2010-01-13 Thread Aahz
In article , Andrew Jonathan Fine wrote: > >I was laid off by Honeywell several months after I had made my >presentation in the 2005 Python Conference. > >Since then I have been unable to find work either as a software >engineer or in any other capacity, even at service jobs. I've sent >resumes

Re: Author of a Python Success Story Needs a Job!

2009-12-29 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Please, if there is anyone out there who needs a highly creative and highly skilled software designer for new and completely original work, then for the love of God I implore you to contact me. You don't write if you are willing to relocate, and if yes, if outside the USA is an option. We hir

Re: Author of a Python Success Story Needs a Job!

2009-12-28 Thread John Bokma
Andrew Jonathan Fine writes: > On Dec 28, 9:20 am, webtourist wrote: >> Andrew I'm very sorry to hear your situation. >> This is, I don't know how else to put it, so hard to believe - that >> someone like you has been jobless since 2005, >> well over 2 years before the "big bust". >> Good luck t

Re: Author of a Python Success Story Needs a Job!

2009-12-28 Thread Rodrick Brown
Move to NYC, Chicago, or Boston and try to land a job working in the financial industry they're always hiring and Python is getting very popular amongst the quantitative and computation finance sectors. You may need to use head hunters two I recommended are Connections NY, Open Systems, and Tek Sy

Re: Author of a Python Success Story Needs a Job!

2009-12-28 Thread Andrew Jonathan Fine
On Dec 28, 6:21 am, Steve Holden wrote: > Andrew Jonathan Fine wrote: > > To whom it may concern, > > > I am the author of "Honeywell Avoids Documentation Costs with Python > > and other Open Standards!" > > > I was laid off by Honeywell several months after I had made my > > presentation in the 2

Re: Author of a Python Success Story Needs a Job!

2009-12-28 Thread eric_dex...@msn.com
On Dec 28, 1:32 am, Andrew Jonathan Fine wrote: > To whom it may concern, > > I am the author of "Honeywell Avoids Documentation Costs with Python > and other Open Standards!" > > I was laid off by Honeywell several months after I had made my > presentation in the 2005 Python Conference. > > Since

Re: Author of a Python Success Story Needs a Job!

2009-12-28 Thread Propad
d on age/race/area of residence/an out-of-the-norm CV. So just in case you want to consider the part shown in the book, here's the link: http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore/rl.htm Much of Mr. Litt-s job-searching-philosophy is also presented in several articles on his website, but in you

Re: Author of a Python Success Story Needs a Job!

2009-12-28 Thread Mohammad Tayseer
er.com/blogs/tayseer From: Steve Holden To: python-list@python.org Sent: Mon, December 28, 2009 3:21:38 PM Subject: Re: Author of a Python Success Story Needs a Job! Andrew Jonathan Fine wrote: > To whom it may concern, > > I am the author of "Honeywell Avoids Documentation Costs with

Re: Author of a Python Success Story Needs a Job!

2009-12-28 Thread Steve Holden
Andrew Jonathan Fine wrote: > To whom it may concern, > > I am the author of "Honeywell Avoids Documentation Costs with Python > and other Open Standards!" > > I was laid off by Honeywell several months after I had made my > presentation in the 2005 Python Conference. > > Since then I have been

Re: Author of a Python Success Story Needs a Job!

2009-12-28 Thread joy99
On Dec 28, 12:32 pm, Andrew Jonathan Fine wrote: > To whom it may concern, > > I am the author of "Honeywell Avoids Documentation Costs with Python > and other Open Standards!" > > I was laid off by Honeywell several months after I had made my > presentation in the 2005 Python Conference. > > Sinc

Author of a Python Success Story Needs a Job!

2009-12-27 Thread Andrew Jonathan Fine
To whom it may concern, I am the author of "Honeywell Avoids Documentation Costs with Python and other Open Standards!" I was laid off by Honeywell several months after I had made my presentation in the 2005 Python Conference. Since then I have been unable to find work either as a software engin

Re: YASS (Yet Another Success Story)

2009-06-27 Thread Gabriel Genellina
nocent" may have a significant cost (e.g. resolving obj.name), and what looks complicated may be fairly fast (e.g. a list comprehension). It is then I decided to write up here this as a success story, as I am very newcomer to Python but come up with a nearly commercial product in a ve

YASS (Yet Another Success Story)

2009-06-20 Thread k3xji
efore. Just one note about optimizing Python code: do not optimize Python code based on your assumptions, just go and test if it really runs faster. I don't want to go to details of this hint, but believe me making Python code optimized may be very very tricky. It is then I decided to write

Re: [cairo] Rendering SVG with libRSVG,Python ... CTYPES SUCCESS AT LAST!!!

2008-09-02 Thread Tim Grove
Thanks for your advice Gerdus, but I have tried your suggestion with no success. It has at least been beneficial to discover a tool which I did not know about in 'Dependency Walker'; all dependencies appear okay. HOWEVER (!!!) I HAVE JUST HAD SUCCESS IN LOADING THE DLL !!! In

any success in compiling mod_python3.3 on cygwin for apache2.2

2008-08-16 Thread Edwin . Madari
has any one out there succeeded in compiling/installing mod_python for apache2 and python 2.5. I am using python 2.5 on cygwin. thanks in advance Edwin The information contained in this message and any attachment may be proprietary, confidential, and privileged or subject to the work produc

Re: Code/test ratio wrt static vs dynamic typing [was: Re: Python Success stories]

2008-05-20 Thread greg
Someone wrote: I'm just curious whether this argument against dynamic typing - that you end up doing the job of a static compiler in test code - holds in practice. I suspect that, although some of the things caught by the tests would be caught by static typing, the very *same* tests are also ca

Threader Earrings -- A Fashion Jewelry Success Story

2008-05-13 Thread aztnat
New jewelry fashions need several factors going for them if they are to succeed. These include aesthetics, price, timing, and maybe even just sheer, plain luck. Threader earrings seem to have all these qualities in abundance. Also known as earthreads or ear strings, threader earrings have a very la

Re: Code/test ratio wrt static vs dynamic typing [was: Re: Python Success stories]

2008-04-30 Thread MRAB
On Apr 30, 10:47 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > A rather off-topic and perhaps naive question, but isn't a 1:4 > > production/test ratio a bit too much ? Is there a guesstimate of what > > percentage of this test code tests for things that you would get for > > free in a statically typed language

Re: Code/test ratio wrt static vs dynamic typing [was: Re: Python Success stories]

2008-04-30 Thread cokofreedom
> > A rather off-topic and perhaps naive question, but isn't a 1:4 > production/test ratio a bit too much ? Is there a guesstimate of what > percentage of this test code tests for things that you would get for > free in a statically typed language ? I'm just curious whether this > argument against

Code/test ratio wrt static vs dynamic typing [was: Re: Python Success stories]

2008-04-29 Thread George Sakkis
On Apr 29, 2:25 pm, Fuzzyman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There are around 30 000 lines of Python in the production code and > about 120 000 lines of Python code in the test framework. A rather off-topic and perhaps naive question, but isn't a 1:4 production/test ratio a bit too much ? Is there a

Re: Python Success stories

2008-04-29 Thread Fuzzyman
On Apr 22, 11:25 am, azrael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hy guys, > A friend of mine i a proud PERL developer which always keeps making > jokes on python's cost. > > Please give me any arguments to cut him down about his commnets > like :"keep programing i python. maybe, one day, you will be able t

Re: Python Success stories

2008-04-25 Thread Aahz
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, azrael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Which big aplications are written in python. YouTube -- Aahz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ Why is this newsgroup different from all other newsgroups? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman

Re: Python Success stories

2008-04-25 Thread Bob Woodham
On 2008-04-24, Istvan Albert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Apr 23, 2:08 pm, Bob Woodham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> x = x++; >> >> has unspecified behaviour in C. That is, it is not specified >> whether the value of x after execution of the statement is the >> old value of x or one plus the

Re: Python Success stories

2008-04-25 Thread Bob Woodham
On 2008-04-24, AlFire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bob Woodham wrote: > >> >> x = x++; >> >> has unspecified behaviour in C. > > what about C++ To the extent that (historically) C++ was a superset of C, it was true of C++ as well. However, I haven't kept pace with the C++ standardization proces

Re: Python Success stories

2008-04-23 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:43:56 -0300, Paul Boddie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: On 23 Apr, 11:12, Mark Wooding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Gabriel Genellina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Because Python doesn't follow the "boxed variables" model. Be careful here. `Boxed types' or `boxed objects'

Re: Python Success stories

2008-04-23 Thread Istvan Albert
On Apr 23, 2:08 pm, Bob Woodham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > x = x++; > > has unspecified behaviour in C. That is, it is not specified > whether the value of x after execution of the statement is the > old value of x or one plus the old value of x. unspecified means that the result could be anyt

Re: Python Success stories

2008-04-23 Thread AlFire
Bob Woodham wrote: x = x++; has unspecified behaviour in C. what about C++ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python Success stories

2008-04-23 Thread Jon Ribbens
On 2008-04-23, Mark Wooding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Python is actually one of the few to define one but not the other. (The > other one I can think of is Acorn's BBC BASIC, for whatever that's > worth; it too lacks `++'.) You should've added it in Termite Basic then :-p -- http://mail.python

Re: Python Success stories

2008-04-23 Thread AlFire
Cristina Yenyxe González García wrote: 2008/4/23, Reedick, Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: IIRC, Python is used in games like Eve Online (SciFi MMO) and Vampire: Bloodlines (RPG.) Years later, a dedicated fan is still fixing/updating the Bloodlines python scripts that control the dialogue and scr

Re: Python Success stories

2008-04-23 Thread Bob Woodham
On 2008-04-22, Paul Hankin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Apr 22, 5:50 pm, Jérémy Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Sure. Python is more readable than Perl, though I have found Python >> to have a weird behavior regarding this little issue : >> >> How can you explain that Python doesn't support

Re: Python Success stories

2008-04-23 Thread cokofreedom
Civilisation 4 uses Python everywhere and is the main tool used by Modders of the game. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python Success stories

2008-04-23 Thread Cristina Yenyxe González García
2008/4/23, Reedick, Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > IIRC, Python is used in games like Eve Online (SciFi MMO) and Vampire: > Bloodlines (RPG.) Years later, a dedicated fan is still fixing/updating > the Bloodlines python scripts that control the dialogue and scripted > events. > Now that you m

RE: Python Success stories

2008-04-23 Thread Reedick, Andrew
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:python- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of azrael > Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 6:26 AM > To: python-list@python.org > Subject: Python Success stories > > Hy guys, > A friend of mine i a proud PERL develope

Re: Python Success stories

2008-04-23 Thread Paul Boddie
On 23 Apr, 11:12, Mark Wooding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gabriel Genellina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Because Python doesn't follow the "boxed variables" model. > > Be careful here. `Boxed types' or `boxed objects' is a technical term > essentially meaning `heap-allocated objects, probably

Re: Python Success stories

2008-04-23 Thread Philipp Pagel
azrael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A friend of mine i a proud PERL developer which always keeps making > jokes on python's cost. There is only one sane way to deal with this situation: You need a common enemy. Java comes to mind ;-) cu Philipp -- Dr. Philipp Pagel Lehrstuhl f. Genomori

Re: Python Success stories

2008-04-23 Thread Mark Wooding
Gabriel Genellina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Because Python doesn't follow the "boxed variables" model. Be careful here. `Boxed types' or `boxed objects' is a technical term essentially meaning `heap-allocated objects, probably with reference semantics', which Python most definitely does use

Re: Python Success stories

2008-04-22 Thread Steve Holden
Roy Smith wrote: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Challenge him to a dual with dead kippers at twenty paces. You gotta be careful about stuff like this. You might slap him with a dead kipper only to discover he's got a dead camel in his pocket. Of c

Re: Python Success stories

2008-04-22 Thread Roy Smith
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Challenge him to a dual with dead kippers at twenty paces. You gotta be careful about stuff like this. You might slap him with a dead kipper only to discover he's got a dead camel in his pocket. Of course, there's alway

Re: Python Success stories

2008-04-22 Thread Steve Holden
Ben Finney wrote: Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Challenge him to a dual with dead kippers at twenty paces. Please, have some dignity! Challenge him to a duel with live kippers. Live, *rabid* kippers. With frickin' laser beams on their heads. I like your style. Though considerin

Re: Python Success stories

2008-04-22 Thread Ben Finney
Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Challenge him to a dual with dead kippers at twenty paces. Please, have some dignity! Challenge him to a duel with live kippers. Live, *rabid* kippers. With frickin' laser beams on their heads. -- \ "A man's only as old as the woman he feels."

Re: Python Success stories

2008-04-22 Thread Steve Holden
Nikita the Spider wrote: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, azrael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Which big aplications are written in python. I see its development, But i can't come up with a big name. I know that there are a lot of companys using python, but is there anythong big written only in p

Re: Python Success stories

2008-04-22 Thread Steve Holden
azrael wrote: Hy guys, A friend of mine i a proud PERL developer which always keeps making jokes on python's cost. Please give me any arguments to cut him down about his commnets like :"keep programing i python. maybe, one day, you will be able to program in VisualBasic" This hurts. Please give

Re: Python Success stories

2008-04-22 Thread dimitri pater
http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/whatisgoogleappengine.html 2008/4/22 Ivan Illarionov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 22 апр, 14:25, azrael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [] > > > This hurts. Please give me informations about realy famous > > aplications. > > What do you mean by "really famous

Re: Python Success stories

2008-04-22 Thread Ivan Illarionov
On 22 апр, 14:25, azrael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [] > This hurts. Please give me informations about realy famous > aplications. What do you mean by "really famous"? Information is here: http://www.python.org/about/quotes/ Are YouTube and Google famous enough? -- Ivan -- http://mail.pytho

Re: Python Success stories

2008-04-22 Thread Mike Hansen
On Apr 22, 3:25 am, azrael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hy guys, > A friend of mine i a proud PERL developer which always keeps making > jokes on python's cost. > > Please give me any arguments to cut him down about his commnets > like :"keep programing i python. maybe, one day, you will be able to

Re: Python Success stories

2008-04-22 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:50:54 -0300, Jérémy Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Sure. Python is more readable than Perl, though I have found Python > to have a weird behavior regarding this little issue : > > How can you explain that Python doesn't support the ++ opeator, > whereas at the same t

Re: Python Success stories

2008-04-22 Thread Carl Banks
On Apr 22, 12:50 pm, Jérémy Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sure. Python is more readable than Perl, though I have found Python > to have a weird behavior regarding this little issue : > > How can you explain that Python doesn't support the ++ opeator, > whereas at the same time it does support

Re: Python Success stories

2008-04-22 Thread Paul Hankin
On Apr 22, 5:50 pm, Jérémy Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sure. Python is more readable than Perl, though I have found Python > to have a weird behavior regarding this little issue : > > How can you explain that Python doesn't support the ++ opeator, > whereas at the same time it does support

Re: Python Success stories

2008-04-22 Thread Jérémy Wagner
Sure. Python is more readable than Perl, though I have found Python to have a weird behavior regarding this little issue : How can you explain that Python doesn't support the ++ opeator, whereas at the same time it does support the += operator ??? No python developer I know has been able to answ

Re: Witty retorts (was: Python Success stories)

2008-04-22 Thread Paul Boddie
On 22 Apr, 16:02, Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What lesson is it intended to teach, other than that "Fuck you" is > somehow a "retort"? I can't see that improving too many situations. It isn't supposed to teach anything: it's a joke! It'd be more relevant (yet somewhat surreal if deta

Re: Python Success stories

2008-04-22 Thread s0suk3
On Apr 22, 5:25 am, azrael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hy guys, > A friend of mine i a proud PERL developer which always keeps making > jokes on python's cost. > > Please give me any arguments to cut him down about his commnets > like :"keep programing i python. maybe, one day, you will be able to

Re: Python Success stories

2008-04-22 Thread D'Arcy J.M. Cain
cy > programming systems. > > If you programm in Python, your applications become quite small. Only > frameworks in Python are big. So the fact that there are no big applications written in Python IS the success story. -- D'Arcy J.M. Cain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Democ

Re: Python Success stories

2008-04-22 Thread Gabriel Genellina
ttp://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html Also, you can enter the Python main site, on the right and very prominently you have a link to many successful stories: http://www.python.org/about/success/ > But the real problem is not your friend - it's you. He hurts

Re: Python Success stories

2008-04-22 Thread GHUM
> Which big aplications are written in python. I see its development, There are no big applications written in Python. Big applications are written in JAVA or COBOL or C# or other legacy programming systems. If you programm in Python, your applications become quite small. Only frameworks in Pyth

Re: Witty retorts (was: Python Success stories)

2008-04-22 Thread Banibrata Dutta
"F**k you" -- is generally an indication of "creativity blackout" followed by "frustration". Not exactly a clever retort. On 4/22/08, Max Erickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Carl Banks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> Let me tell you a little stor

Re: Python Success stories

2008-04-22 Thread Istvan Albert
On Apr 22, 6:25 am, azrael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A friend of mine i a proud PERL developer which always keeps making > jokes on python's cost. > This hurts. Please give me informations about realy famous > aplications. you could show him what Master Yoda said when he compared Python to Pe

Re: Python Success stories

2008-04-22 Thread Paul Melis
azrael wrote: Which big aplications are written in python. I see its development, But i can't come up with a big name. I know that there are a lot of companys using python, but is there anythong big written only in python. I want him to fuck of with his perl once and for all time Not really "bi

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