Re: Thought of the day

2013-01-16 Thread John Ladasky
On Sunday, January 13, 2013 8:16:29 PM UTC-8, Steven D'Aprano wrote: A programmer had a problem, and thought Now he has I know, I'll solve two it with threads! problems. Very nice! :^) This problem isn't exclusive to Python, however. Other multi-threaded applications can produce jumbled

Re: Thought of the day

2013-01-15 Thread Dave Angel
On 01/14/2013 09:18 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 1:15 AM, Tim Chase python.l...@tim.thechases.com wrote: A newbie programmer had a problem and thought I'll solve it by posting on python-list@python.org and on Google Groups. And now we have the problem of two

Re: Thought of the day

2013-01-15 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info writes: A programmer had a problem, and thought Now he has I know, I'll solve two it with threads! problems. Host: Last week the Royal Festival Hall saw the first performance of a new logfile by one of the world's leading modern

Re: Thought of the day

2013-01-15 Thread Tim Golden
On 15/01/2013 16:48, Antoine Pitrou wrote: Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info writes: A programmer had a problem, and thought Now he has I know, I'll solve two it with threads! problems. Host: Last week the Royal Festival Hall saw the first performance of a new

Re: Thought of the day

2013-01-15 Thread Chris Angelico
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 3:48 AM, Antoine Pitrou solip...@pitrou.net wrote: D'Aprano: No, no. Look. This thread business -- it doesn't really matter. The threads aren't important. A few friends call me Two Threads and that's all there is to it. I wish you'd ask me about the logfile. Everybody

Re: Thought of the day

2013-01-15 Thread DJC
On 15/01/13 16:48, Antoine Pitrou wrote: Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info writes: A programmer had a problem, and thought Now he has I know, I'll solve two it with threads! problems. Host: Last week the Royal Festival Hall saw the first performance of a new logfile by

Re: Thought of the day

2013-01-14 Thread Dave Angel
On 01/13/2013 11:16 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: A programmer had a problem, and thought Now he has I know, I'll solve two it with threads! problems. ++10 I've been thinking about threads lately, and have come to the tentative conclusion that they're a solution which has outlived its

Re: Thought of the day

2013-01-14 Thread alex23
On Jan 14, 2:16 pm, Steven D'Aprano steve +comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote: A programmer had a problem, and thought Now he has I know, I'll solve two it with threads! problems. I laughed far far longer than I should have, cheers :) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Thought of the day

2013-01-14 Thread Tim Chase
On 01/13/13 22:16, Steven D'Aprano wrote: A programmer had a problem, and thought Now he has I know, I'll solve two it with threads! problems. A newbie programmer had a problem and thought I'll solve it by posting on python-list@python.org and on Google Groups. And now we have the problem

Re: Thought of the day

2013-01-14 Thread Chris Angelico
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 1:15 AM, Tim Chase python.l...@tim.thechases.com wrote: A newbie programmer had a problem and thought I'll solve it by posting on python-list@python.org and on Google Groups. And now we have the problem of two threads... And, when faced with problems of having

Re: Thought of the day

2013-01-14 Thread Dan Sommers
On Mon, 14 Jan 2013 00:31:59 -0500, Dave Angel wrote: On 01/13/2013 11:16 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: A programmer had a problem, and thought Now he has I know, I'll solve two it with threads! problems. ++10 It took me a moment to figure it out, but in the end I smiled and I agree: +1.

Re: Thought of the day

2013-01-14 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2013-01-14, Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote: A programmer had a problem, and thought Now he has I know, I'll solve two it with threads! problems. :) That took a few seconds -- must be the cold. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I hope

Re: Thought of the day

2013-01-14 Thread Dave Angel
On 01/14/2013 09:44 AM, Dan Sommers wrote: On Mon, 14 Jan 2013 00:31:59 -0500, Dave Angel wrote: On 01/13/2013 11:16 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: A programmer had a problem, and thought Now he has I know, I'll solve two it with threads! problems. ++10 It took me a moment to figure it out, but

Re: Thought of the day

2013-01-14 Thread Demian Brecht
I love getting that what's up with this guy when I start chuckling so hard that I nearly spit out my coffee first thing Monday morning. Thank you sir, this has given my week a bright start :) Demian Brecht http://demianbrecht.github.com On 2013-01-13 8:16 PM, Steven D'Aprano

Re: Thought of the day

2013-01-14 Thread Demian Brecht
Š And I hope you don't mindŠ I may very well borrow this as my e-mail sig. Comedic gold imo. Demian Brecht http://demianbrecht.github.com On 2013-01-13 8:16 PM, Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote: A programmer had a problem, and thought Now he has I know, I'll solve

Re: Thought of the day

2013-01-14 Thread Michael Torrie
On 01/13/2013 09:16 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: A programmer had a problem, and thought Now he has I know, I'll solve two it with threads! problems. The same applies to regular expressions, which is actually what the expression was first used with years ago. Probably applies to just about any

Re: Thought of the day

2013-01-14 Thread John Gordon
In mailman.508.1358185089.2939.python-l...@python.org Michael Torrie torr...@gmail.com writes: On 01/13/2013 09:16 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: A programmer had a problem, and thought Now he has I know, I'll solve two it with threads! problems. The same applies to regular expressions,

Re: Thought of the day

2013-01-14 Thread Michael Torrie
On 01/14/2013 11:09 AM, John Gordon wrote: In mailman.508.1358185089.2939.python-l...@python.org Michael Torrie torr...@gmail.com writes: On 01/13/2013 09:16 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: A programmer had a problem, and thought Now he has I know, I'll solve two it with threads! problems.