Re: Stack Overflow moderator “animuson”

2013-07-20 Thread Joshua Landau
On 19 July 2013 23:35, Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 4:54 AM, wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote: And do not forget memory. The €uro just become expensive. sys.getsizeof(' ) 26 sys.getsizeof('€') 40 I do not know. When an €uro char need 14 bytes more that a

Re: Stack Overflow moderator “animuson”

2013-07-19 Thread Jake Angulo
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 5:55 PM, Mats Peterson matsp...@aim.com wrote: A moderator who calls himself “animuson” on Stack Overflow doesn’t want to face the truth. He has deleted all my postings regarding Python regular expression matching being extremely slow compared to Perl. Additionally my

Re: Stack Overflow moderator “animuson”

2013-07-19 Thread wxjmfauth
Le mercredi 10 juillet 2013 11:00:23 UTC+2, Steven D'Aprano a écrit : On Wed, 10 Jul 2013 07:55:05 +, Mats Peterson wrote: A moderator who calls himself “animuson” on Stack Overflow doesn’t want to face the truth. He has deleted all my postings regarding Python regular

Re: Stack Overflow moderator “animuson”

2013-07-19 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 4:54 AM, wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote: And do not forget memory. The €uro just become expensive. sys.getsizeof(' ) 26 sys.getsizeof('€') 40 I do not know. When an €uro char need 14 bytes more that a dollar, I belong to those who thing there is a problem somewhere.

Re: Stack Overflow moderator “animuson”

2013-07-19 Thread Dave Angel
On 07/19/2013 06:35 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 4:54 AM, wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote: And do not forget memory. The €uro just become expensive. sys.getsizeof(' ) 26 sys.getsizeof('€') 40 I do not know. When an €uro char need 14 bytes more that a dollar, I belong to

Re: Stack Overflow moderator “animuson”

2013-07-19 Thread Kevin Walzer
On 7/10/13 3:55 AM, Mats Peterson wrote: A moderator who calls himself “animuson� on Stack Overflow doesn’t want to face the truth. He has deleted all my postings regarding Python regular expression matching being extremely slow compared to Perl. Additionally my account has been suspended

Re: Stack Overflow moderator “animuson”

2013-07-18 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Joshua Landau joshua at landau.ws writes: The same with Unicode. We hate French people, And for good damn reason too. They're ruining our language, á mon avis. We do! off to buy wine Regards Antoine. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Stack Overflow moderator “animuson”

2013-07-12 Thread Antoon Pardon
Op 10-07-13 13:56, Benedict Verheyen schreef: Op Wed, 10 Jul 2013 12:12:10 +0100, schreef Joshua Landau: snip Do you have any non-trivial, properly benchmarked real-world examples that this affects, remembering to use full Unicode support in Perl (as Python has it by default)? Indeed, as

Re: Stack Overflow moderator “animuson”

2013-07-11 Thread Michael Torrie
On 07/10/2013 02:43 AM, Mats Peterson wrote: I fear you don’t even know what a regular expression is. Then this will of course not affect you. Hmm, and your stack exchange posts had a similar tone, hmm? I for one have never ready any of your posts on this forum before, so it looks like you've

Stack Overflow moderator “animuson”

2013-07-10 Thread Mats Peterson
A moderator who calls himself “animuson” on Stack Overflow doesn’t want to face the truth. He has deleted all my postings regarding Python regular expression matching being extremely slow compared to Perl. Additionally my account has been suspended for 7 days. Such a dickwad. Mats -- Mats

Re: Stack Overflow moderator “animuson”

2013-07-10 Thread Chris Angelico
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 5:55 PM, Mats Peterson matsp...@aim.com wrote: A moderator who calls himself “animuson” on Stack Overflow doesn’t want to face the truth. He has deleted all my postings regarding Python regular expression matching being extremely slow compared to Perl. Additionally my

Re: Stack Overflow moderator “animuson”

2013-07-10 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Wed, 10 Jul 2013 18:26:19 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 5:55 PM, Mats Peterson matsp...@aim.com wrote: A moderator who calls himself “animuson” on Stack Overflow doesn’t want to face the truth. He has deleted all my postings regarding Python regular expression

Re: Stack Overflow moderator “animuson”

2013-07-10 Thread Mats Peterson
Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 5:55 PM, Mats Peterson matsp...@aim.com wrote: A moderator who calls himself “animuson” on Stack Overflow doesn’t want to face the truth. He has deleted all my postings regarding Python regular expression matching being extremely

Re: Stack Overflow moderator “animuson”

2013-07-10 Thread Chris Angelico
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 6:32 PM, Mats Peterson matsp...@aim.com wrote: Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 5:55 PM, Mats Peterson matsp...@aim.com wrote: A moderator who calls himself “animuson” on Stack Overflow doesn’t want to face the truth. He has deleted all my

Re: Stack Overflow moderator “animuson”

2013-07-10 Thread Mats Peterson
Steven D'Aprano st...@pearwood.info wrote: On Wed, 10 Jul 2013 18:26:19 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 5:55 PM, Mats Peterson matsp...@aim.com wrote: A moderator who calls himself “animuson” on Stack Overflow doesn’t want to face the truth. He has deleted all my postings

Re: Stack Overflow moderator “animuson”

2013-07-10 Thread Chris Angelico
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 6:33 PM, Mats Peterson matsp...@aim.com wrote: Steven D'Aprano st...@pearwood.info wrote: On Wed, 10 Jul 2013 18:26:19 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 5:55 PM, Mats Peterson matsp...@aim.com wrote: A moderator who calls himself “animuson” on Stack

Re: Stack Overflow moderator “animuson”

2013-07-10 Thread Mats Peterson
Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 5:55 PM, Mats Peterson matsp...@aim.com wrote: A moderator who calls himself “animuson” on Stack Overflow doesn’t want to face the truth. He has deleted all my postings regarding Python regular expression matching being extremely

Re: Stack Overflow moderator “animuson”

2013-07-10 Thread Mats Peterson
Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 6:32 PM, Mats Peterson matsp...@aim.com wrote: Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 5:55 PM, Mats Peterson matsp...@aim.com wrote: A moderator who calls himself “animuson” on Stack Overflow doesn’t want

Re: Stack Overflow moderator “animuson”

2013-07-10 Thread Mats Peterson
Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 6:33 PM, Mats Peterson matsp...@aim.com wrote: Steven D'Aprano st...@pearwood.info wrote: On Wed, 10 Jul 2013 18:26:19 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 5:55 PM, Mats Peterson matsp...@aim.com wrote: A

Re: Stack Overflow moderator “animuson”

2013-07-10 Thread Mats Peterson
Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 6:33 PM, Mats Peterson matsp...@aim.com wrote: Steven D'Aprano st...@pearwood.info wrote: On Wed, 10 Jul 2013 18:26:19 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 5:55 PM, Mats Peterson matsp...@aim.com wrote: A

Re: Stack Overflow moderator “animuson”

2013-07-10 Thread Ian Kelly
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 2:32 AM, Mats Peterson matsp...@aim.com wrote: Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 5:55 PM, Mats Peterson matsp...@aim.com wrote: A moderator who calls himself “animuson” on Stack Overflow doesn’t want to face the truth. He has deleted all my

Re: Stack Overflow moderator “animuson”

2013-07-10 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Wed, 10 Jul 2013 07:55:05 +, Mats Peterson wrote: A moderator who calls himself “animuson” on Stack Overflow doesn’t want to face the truth. He has deleted all my postings regarding Python regular expression matching being extremely slow compared to Perl. That's by design. We don't

Re: Stack Overflow moderator “animuson”

2013-07-10 Thread Chris Angelico
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 6:42 PM, Mats Peterson matsp...@aim.com wrote: Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 5:55 PM, Mats Peterson matsp...@aim.com wrote: A moderator who calls himself “animuson” on Stack Overflow doesn’t want to face the truth. He has deleted all my

Re: Stack Overflow moderator “animuson”

2013-07-10 Thread Ian Kelly
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 2:42 AM, Mats Peterson matsp...@aim.com wrote: Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 5:55 PM, Mats Peterson matsp...@aim.com wrote: A moderator who calls himself “animuson” on Stack Overflow doesn’t want to face the truth. He has deleted all my

Re: Stack Overflow moderator “animuson”

2013-07-10 Thread Mats Peterson
Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 6:42 PM, Mats Peterson matsp...@aim.com wrote: Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 5:55 PM, Mats Peterson matsp...@aim.com wrote: A moderator who calls himself “animuson” on Stack Overflow doesn’t want

Re: Stack Overflow moderator “animuson”

2013-07-10 Thread Mats Peterson
Ian Kelly ian.g.ke...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 2:42 AM, Mats Peterson matsp...@aim.com wrote: Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 5:55 PM, Mats Peterson matsp...@aim.com wrote: A moderator who calls himself “animuson” on Stack Overflow doesn’t want

Re: Stack Overflow moderator “animuson”

2013-07-10 Thread Ian Kelly
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 2:46 AM, Mats Peterson matsp...@aim.com wrote: Then they would have full control of this list and what gets pos Ahhh so this is pos, right? Telling the truth? Interesting. I don't know what you mean by that, but since the joke appears to have flown over your head,

Re: Stack Overflow moderator “animuson”

2013-07-10 Thread Mats Peterson
Ian Kelly ian.g.ke...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 2:46 AM, Mats Peterson matsp...@aim.com wrote: Then they would have full control of this list and what gets pos Ahhh so this is pos, right? Telling the truth? Interesting. I don't know what you mean by that, but since the

Re: Stack Overflow moderator “animuson”

2013-07-10 Thread Chris Angelico
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 7:01 PM, Mats Peterson matsp...@aim.com wrote: Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com wrote: I know what regular expressions are. I've used them in Perl, PHP, JavaScript, Python, C++, Pike, and numerous text editors (which may have been backed by one of the above languages, or

Re: Stack Overflow moderator “animuson”

2013-07-10 Thread Chris Angelico
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 6:50 PM, Mats Peterson matsp...@aim.com wrote: Have you ever compared the regular expression performance between Perl and Python? If not, keep quiet. I think I can see why you were suspended. You and jmf should have a lot of fun together, I think. ChrisA --

Re: Stack Overflow moderator “animuson”

2013-07-10 Thread Joshua Landau
On 10 July 2013 10:12, Ian Kelly ian.g.ke...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 2:46 AM, Mats Peterson matsp...@aim.com wrote: Then they would have full control of this list and what gets pos Ahhh so this is pos, right? Telling the truth? Interesting. I don't know what you mean by

Re: Stack Overflow moderator “animuson”

2013-07-10 Thread Robert Kern
On 2013-07-10 10:52, Joshua Landau wrote: On 10 July 2013 10:12, Ian Kelly ian.g.ke...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 2:46 AM, Mats Peterson matsp...@aim.com wrote: Then they would have full control of this list and what gets pos Ahhh so this is pos, right? Telling the truth?

Re: Stack Overflow moderator “animuson”

2013-07-10 Thread Joshua Landau
On 10 July 2013 08:55, Mats Peterson matsp...@aim.com wrote: Unjustified Insult. [anumuson from Stack Overflow] has deleted all my postings regarding Python regular expression matching being extremely slow compared to Perl. Additionally my account has been suspended for 7 days. Unjustified

Re: Stack Overflow moderator “animuson”

2013-07-10 Thread Antoon Pardon
Op 10-07-13 11:03, Mats Peterson schreef: Not a troll. It's just hard to convince Python users that their beloved language would have inferior regular expression performance to Perl. All right, you have convinced me. Now what? Why should I care? -- Antoon Pardon --

Re: Stack Overflow moderator “animuson”

2013-07-10 Thread Joshua Landau
Google Groups is writing about your recently sent mail to Joshua Landau. Unfortunately this address has been discontinued from usage for the foreseeable future. The sent message is displayed below: On 10 July 2013 12:08, Robert Kern robert.k...@gmail.com wrote: On 2013-07-10 10:52, Joshua

Re: Stack Overflow moderator “animuson”

2013-07-10 Thread Steve Simmons
Steven D'Aprano st...@pearwood.info wrote: On Wed, 10 Jul 2013 07:55:05 +, Mats Peterson wrote: A moderator who calls himself “animuson” on Stack Overflow doesn’t want to face the truth. He has deleted all my postings regarding Python regular expression matching being extremely slow

Re: Stack Overflow moderator “animuson”

2013-07-10 Thread Skip Montanaro
... meant to be the word posted, before his sentence got cut off by the Python Secret Underground. Argh! That which shall not be named! Please, for the sake of all that is right, please only use the initials, PS -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Stack Overflow moderator “animuson”

2013-07-10 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Op Wed, 10 Jul 2013 12:12:10 +0100, schreef Joshua Landau: snip Do you have any non-trivial, properly benchmarked real-world examples that this affects, remembering to use full Unicode support in Perl (as Python has it by default)? Indeed, as Joshua says, instead of going through all the

Re: Stack Overflow moderator “animuson”

2013-07-10 Thread Mats Peterson
Antoon Pardon antoon.par...@rece.vub.ac.be wrote: Op 10-07-13 11:03, Mats Peterson schreef: Not a troll. It's just hard to convince Python users that their beloved language would have inferior regular expression performance to Perl. All right, you have convinced me. Now what? Why should I

Re: Stack Overflow moderator “animuson”

2013-07-10 Thread Joshua Landau
On 10 July 2013 13:01, Mats Peterson matsp...@aim.com wrote: Antoon Pardon antoon.par...@rece.vub.ac.be wrote: Op 10-07-13 11:03, Mats Peterson schreef: Not a troll. It's just hard to convince Python users that their beloved language would have inferior regular expression performance to Perl.

Re: Stack Overflow moderator “animuson”

2013-07-10 Thread Mats Peterson
Joshua Landau jos...@landau.ws wrote: On 10 July 2013 08:55, Mats Peterson matsp...@aim.com wrote: Unjustified Insult. [anumuson from Stack Overflow] has deleted all my postings regarding Python regular expression matching being extremely slow compared to Perl. Additionally my account has been

Re: Stack Overflow moderator “animuson”

2013-07-10 Thread Mats Peterson
Steven D'Aprano st...@pearwood.info wrote: On Wed, 10 Jul 2013 07:55:05 +, Mats Peterson wrote: A moderator who calls himself “animuson” on Stack Overflow doesn’t want to face the truth. He has deleted all my postings regarding Python regular expression matching being extremely slow

Re: Stack Overflow moderator “animuson”

2013-07-10 Thread Chris Angelico
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 10:13 PM, Mats Peterson matsp...@aim.com wrote: Steven D'Aprano st...@pearwood.info wrote: On Wed, 10 Jul 2013 07:55:05 +, Mats Peterson wrote: A moderator who calls himself “animuson” on Stack Overflow doesn’t want to face the truth. He has deleted all my postings

Re: Stack Overflow moderator “animuson”

2013-07-10 Thread Joshua Landau
On 10 July 2013 12:14, Antoon Pardon antoon.par...@rece.vub.ac.be wrote: Op 10-07-13 11:03, Mats Peterson schreef: Not a troll. It's just hard to convince Python users that their beloved language would have inferior regular expression performance to Perl. All right, you have convinced me. Now

Re: Stack Overflow moderator “animuson”

2013-07-10 Thread Mats Peterson
Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 7:01 PM, Mats Peterson matsp...@aim.com wrote: Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com wrote: I know what regular expressions are. I've used them in Perl, PHP, JavaScript, Python, C++, Pike, and numerous text editors (which may have been

Re: Stack Overflow moderator “animuson”

2013-07-10 Thread Skip Montanaro
Either that or it's funny only to other Australians. Or the Dutch. S -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Stack Overflow moderator “animuson”

2013-07-10 Thread Paul Scott
On 10/07/2013 14:22, Chris Angelico wrote: Either that or it's funny only to other Australians. ChrisA As a South African, I found it funny too, but then again, we often get confused. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Stack Overflow moderator “animuson”

2013-07-10 Thread Joshua Landau
On 10 July 2013 13:35, Skip Montanaro s...@pobox.com wrote: Either that or it's funny only to other Australians. Or the Dutch. Or us Brits. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Stack Overflow moderator “animuson”

2013-07-10 Thread Skip Montanaro
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 7:39 AM, Joshua Landau jos...@landau.ws wrote: On 10 July 2013 13:35, Skip Montanaro s...@pobox.com wrote: Either that or it's funny only to other Australians. Or the Dutch. Or us Brits. Hells bells... It appears everyone found it funny except the trolls. S --

Re: Stack Overflow moderator “animuson”

2013-07-10 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Op Wed, 10 Jul 2013 12:06:06 +, schreef Mats Peterson: I haven't provided a real-world example, since I expect you Python Einsteins to be able do an A/B test between Python and Perl yourselves (provided you know Perl, of course, which I'm afraid is not always the case). I don't know

Re: Stack Overflow moderator “animuson”

2013-07-10 Thread memilanuk
On 07/10/2013 05:39 AM, Joshua Landau wrote: On 10 July 2013 13:35, Skip Montanaro s...@pobox.com wrote: Either that or it's funny only to other Australians. Or the Dutch. Or us Brits. Or the Yanks... Normally I kill-file threads like this pretty early on, but I have to admit - I'm

Re: Stack Overflow moderator “animuson”

2013-07-10 Thread Joshua Landau
On 10 July 2013 10:00, Steven D'Aprano st...@pearwood.info wrote: On Wed, 10 Jul 2013 07:55:05 +, Mats Peterson wrote: A moderator who calls himself “animuson” on Stack Overflow doesn’t want to face the truth. He has deleted all my postings regarding Python regular expression matching

Re: Stack Overflow moderator “animuson”

2013-07-10 Thread Ian Kelly
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 6:06 AM, Mats Peterson matsp...@aim.com wrote: Joshua Landau jos...@landau.ws wrote: If you actually can satisfy these basic standards for a comparison (as I'm sure any competent person with so much bravo could) I'd be willing to converse with you. I'd like to see these

Re: Stack Overflow moderator “animuson”

2013-07-10 Thread Ethan Furman
On 07/10/2013 08:54 AM, Joshua Landau wrote: On 10 July 2013 10:00, Steven D'Aprano st...@pearwood.info wrote: On Wed, 10 Jul 2013 07:55:05 +, Mats Peterson wrote: A moderator who calls himself “animuson” on Stack Overflow doesn’t want to face the truth. He has deleted all my postings

Re: Stack Overflow moderator “animuson”

2013-07-10 Thread Joel Goldstick
call your mom On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 12:18 PM, Ethan Furman et...@stoneleaf.us wrote: On 07/10/2013 08:54 AM, Joshua Landau wrote: On 10 July 2013 10:00, Steven D'Aprano st...@pearwood.info wrote: On Wed, 10 Jul 2013 07:55:05 +, Mats Peterson wrote: A moderator who calls himself

Re: Stack Overflow moderator “animuson”

2013-07-10 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Wed, 10 Jul 2013 16:54:02 +0100, Joshua Landau wrote: On 10 July 2013 10:00, Steven D'Aprano st...@pearwood.info wrote: On Wed, 10 Jul 2013 07:55:05 +, Mats Peterson wrote: A moderator who calls himself “animuson” on Stack Overflow doesn’t want to face the truth. He has deleted all my

Re: Stack Overflow moderator “animuson”

2013-07-10 Thread Joshua Landau
On 10 July 2013 18:15, Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote: On Wed, 10 Jul 2013 16:54:02 +0100, Joshua Landau wrote: On 10 July 2013 10:00, Steven D'Aprano st...@pearwood.info wrote: On Wed, 10 Jul 2013 07:55:05 +, Mats Peterson wrote: A moderator who calls himself

Re: Stack Overflow moderator “animuson”

2013-07-10 Thread Joshua Landau
On 10 July 2013 17:18, Ethan Furman et...@stoneleaf.us wrote: On 07/10/2013 08:54 AM, Joshua Landau wrote: On 10 July 2013 10:00, Steven D'Aprano st...@pearwood.info wrote: On Wed, 10 Jul 2013 07:55:05 +, Mats Peterson wrote: A moderator who calls himself “animuson” on Stack Overflow

Re: Stack Overflow moderator “animuson”

2013-07-10 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Wed, 10 Jul 2013 18:53:34 +0100, Joshua Landau wrote: I might be misattributing posts then. Or... YOU'RE IN DENIAL! Ranting Rick? Is that you? :-) Who wins? You decide! Ah, definitely not RR :-) -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Stack Overflow moderator “animuson”

2013-07-10 Thread alex23
On 10/07/2013 10:13 PM, Mats Peterson wrote: You're obviously trying hard to be funny. It fails miserably. It's obvious that you are quite familiar with miserableness. Also obvious is that animuson did the world of StackOverflow quite the favour. If only e moderated this list... --

Re: Stack Overflow moderator “animuson”

2013-07-10 Thread alex23
On 10/07/2013 11:53 PM, Benedict Verheyen wrote: Op Wed, 10 Jul 2013 12:06:06 +, schreef Mats Peterson: And why would I use any custom version of Python, when I don't have to do that with Perl? If you're able to do that with Perl, and Perl is faster that Python, why would you want to

Re: Stack Overflow moderator “animuson”

2013-07-10 Thread Michael Torrie
On 07/10/2013 06:22 AM, Mats Peterson wrote: You're showing by these examples what regular expressions mean to you. Chris is showing no such thing. And you are simply trolling. What do you want us to do, fall down and worship you and admit that Python is a horrible language and we should all

Re: Stack Overflow bans Mats Peterson (was Re: Stack Overflow moderator “animuson”)

2013-07-10 Thread Michael Torrie
On 07/10/2013 06:06 AM, Mats Peterson wrote: I haven't provided a real-world example, since I expect you Python Einsteins to be able do an A/B test between Python and Perl yourselves (provided you know Perl, of course, which I'm afraid is not always the case). And why would I use any custom