Terry Jones: Monty Python to reunite for stage show

2013-11-19 Thread Thomas Heller
All of the surviving members of comedy group Monty Python are to reform for a stage show, one of the Pythons, Terry Jones, has confirmed. See: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-24999401 Thomas -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Terry Jones: Monty Python to reunite for stage show

2013-11-19 Thread Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick
On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 3:08 PM, Thomas Heller thel...@ctypes.org wrote: All of the surviving members of comedy group Monty Python are to reform for a stage show, one of the Pythons, Terry Jones, has confirmed. See: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-24999401 Thomas -- https

Re: monty python

2013-03-24 Thread jmfauth
On 23 mar, 17:17, Mark Lawrence breamore...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: On 23/03/2013 09:24, jmfauth wrote: On 20 mar, 22:02, Tim Delaney tim.dela...@aptare.com wrote: On 21 March 2013 06:40, jmfauth wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote: [snip usual rant from jmf] It has been acknowledged

Re: monty python

2013-03-24 Thread Chris Angelico
On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 12:31 AM, jmfauth wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote: The problem here is that this PEP 393 should not have been created. The first time I read it, I quickly understood, it can not work! I fail to understand how something can not work when it is clearly working, and very

Re: monty python

2013-03-24 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 24/03/2013 13:31, jmfauth wrote: The problem here is that this PEP 393 should not have been created. The first time I read it, I quickly understood, it can not work! How come you couldn't pursuade the Python devs that PEP393 was so flawed? This is illustrated by all the examples I give

Re: Vowels [was Re: monty python]

2013-03-24 Thread Stefan Behnel
Terry Reedy, 22.03.2013 00:05: I never imagined that there were people who would mix up 'tuner' and 'tuna'. Live and learn. I assume you know The Chaos ? http://ncf.idallen.com/english.html Stefan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Vowels [was Re: monty python]

2013-03-24 Thread rusi
On Mar 24, 7:25 pm, Stefan Behnel stefan...@behnel.de wrote: I assume you know The Chaos ? http://ncf.idallen.com/english.html Ha! Sweet! (Or should I say suet?) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Vowels [was Re: monty python]

2013-03-24 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 24/03/2013 14:25, Stefan Behnel wrote: Terry Reedy, 22.03.2013 00:05: I never imagined that there were people who would mix up 'tuner' and 'tuna'. Live and learn. I assume you know The Chaos ? http://ncf.idallen.com/english.html Stefan For many years I've felt it was wrong that

Re: monty python

2013-03-23 Thread jmfauth
On 20 mar, 22:02, Tim Delaney tim.dela...@aptare.com wrote: On 21 March 2013 06:40, jmfauth wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote: [snip usual rant from jmf] It has been acknowledged as a real regression, but he keeps hijacking every thread where strings are mentioned to harp on about it. He

Re: monty python

2013-03-23 Thread jmfauth
On 21 mar, 04:12, rusi rustompm...@gmail.com wrote: On Mar 21, 12:40 am, jmfauth wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote: Courageous people can try to do something with the unicode collation algorithm (see unicode.org). Some time ago, for the fun, I wrote something (not perfect) with a reduced

Re: monty python

2013-03-23 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 8:23 PM, jmfauth wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote: One aspect of Unicode (note the capitalized U). [chomp yet another trivial microbenchmark] --- In French, depending of the word, a leading h, behaves as a vowel or as a consonant. (From this - this typical mistake) Huh?

Re: monty python

2013-03-23 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 8:45 PM, Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 8:23 PM, jmfauth wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote: One aspect of Unicode (note the capitalized U). [chomp yet another trivial microbenchmark] --- In French, depending of the word, a leading h, behaves

Re: monty python

2013-03-23 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 23/03/2013 09:23, jmfauth wrote: On 21 mar, 04:12, rusi rustompm...@gmail.com wrote: On Mar 21, 12:40 am, jmfauth wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote: Courageous people can try to do something with the unicode collation algorithm (see unicode.org). Some time ago, for the fun, I wrote

Re: monty python

2013-03-23 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 23/03/2013 09:24, jmfauth wrote: On 20 mar, 22:02, Tim Delaney tim.dela...@aptare.com wrote: On 21 March 2013 06:40, jmfauth wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote: [snip usual rant from jmf] It has been acknowledged as a real regression, but he keeps hijacking every thread where strings

Re: Vowels [was Re: monty python]

2013-03-22 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2013-03-21, Terry Reedy tjre...@udel.edu wrote: On 3/21/2013 1:31 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linking_and_intrusive_R Is the Python language rhotic or non-rhotic? Python uses American rather that British English, which would make it rhotic. Well, there are

Re: Vowels [was Re: monty python]

2013-03-21 Thread Larry Hudson
On 03/20/2013 09:28 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Wed, 20 Mar 2013 20:12:13 -0700, rusi wrote: I did an horrible mistake [...] is 'h' a vowel in french? big snip... This-language-lesson-was-brought-to-you-by-the-letters-thorn-wynn-and-ash- ly y'rs, As a point of totally irrelevant

Re: monty python

2013-03-21 Thread Terry Reedy
On 3/20/2013 10:03 AM, franzferdinand wrote: Ok, thanks everybody! Threads are like the Sorcerer's Apprentice. You can start 'em, but you cannot stop 'em ;-) -- Terry Jan Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Vowels [was Re: monty python]

2013-03-21 Thread David H Wild
In article mnydnwm7b9i5ndfmnz2dnuvz_s6dn...@giganews.com, Larry Hudson org...@yahoo.com wrote: The word apron was originally napron, and over the years the phrase a napron mutated to an apron. So that became the accepted word. Similarly, the snake was a nadder - congruent with the natterjack

Re: Vowels [was Re: monty python]

2013-03-21 Thread Chris Angelico
On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 8:36 PM, David H Wild dhw...@talktalk.net wrote: In article mnydnwm7b9i5ndfmnz2dnuvz_s6dn...@giganews.com, Larry Hudson org...@yahoo.com wrote: The word apron was originally napron, and over the years the phrase a napron mutated to an apron. So that became the accepted

Re: monty python

2013-03-21 Thread Roy Smith
In article mailman.3582.1363853304.2939.python-l...@python.org, Terry Reedy tjre...@udel.edu wrote: On 3/20/2013 10:03 AM, franzferdinand wrote: Ok, thanks everybody! Threads are like the Sorcerer's Apprentice. You can start 'em, but you cannot stop 'em ;-) Of course you can stop

Re: monty python

2013-03-21 Thread Chris Angelico
On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 11:45 PM, Roy Smith r...@panix.com wrote: In article mailman.3582.1363853304.2939.python-l...@python.org, Terry Reedy tjre...@udel.edu wrote: On 3/20/2013 10:03 AM, franzferdinand wrote: Ok, thanks everybody! Threads are like the Sorcerer's Apprentice. You can

Re: monty python

2013-03-21 Thread Wayne Werner
On Thu, 21 Mar 2013, Roy Smith wrote: In article mailman.3582.1363853304.2939.python-l...@python.org, Terry Reedy tjre...@udel.edu wrote: On 3/20/2013 10:03 AM, franzferdinand wrote: Ok, thanks everybody! Threads are like the Sorcerer's Apprentice. You can start 'em, but you cannot stop

Re: monty python

2013-03-21 Thread Dave Angel
On 03/21/2013 08:55 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 11:45 PM, Roy Smith r...@panix.com wrote: In article mailman.3582.1363853304.2939.python-l...@python.org, Terry Reedy tjre...@udel.edu wrote: On 3/20/2013 10:03 AM, franzferdinand wrote: Ok, thanks everybody! Threads

Re: Vowels [was Re: monty python]

2013-03-21 Thread istjanichtzufassen
Am Donnerstag, 21. März 2013 10:36:20 UTC+1 schrieb David H Wild: In article mnydnwm7b9i5ndfmnz2dnuvz_s6dn...@giganews.com, Larry Hudson org...@yahoo.com wrote: The word apron was originally napron, and over the years the phrase a napron mutated to an apron. So that became the

Re: Vowels [was Re: monty python]

2013-03-21 Thread Chris Angelico
On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 12:26 AM, istjanichtzufas...@gmail.com wrote: Am Donnerstag, 21. März 2013 10:36:20 UTC+1 schrieb David H Wild: In article mnydnwm7b9i5ndfmnz2dnuvz_s6dn...@giganews.com, Larry Hudson org...@yahoo.com wrote: The word apron was originally napron, and over the years

Re: Vowels [was Re: monty python]

2013-03-21 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2013-03-21, Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote: By the way, the n in an is not the only such bridging sound. In Shakespearean times, it was usual to use mine in the same fashion: In many (most?) modern, non-rhotic, dialects of English one inserts an intrusive

Re: Vowels [was Re: monty python]

2013-03-21 Thread Peter Pearson
On Thu, 21 Mar 2013 21:09:52 +1100, Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 8:36 PM, David H Wild dhw...@talktalk.net wrote: In article mnydnwm7b9i5ndfmnz2dnuvz_s6dn...@giganews.com, Larry Hudson org...@yahoo.com wrote: The word apron was originally napron, and over the

Re: Vowels [was Re: monty python]

2013-03-21 Thread Chris Angelico
On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 8:52 AM, Peter Pearson ppearson@nowhere.invalid wrote: On Thu, 21 Mar 2013 21:09:52 +1100, Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 8:36 PM, David H Wild dhw...@talktalk.net wrote: In article mnydnwm7b9i5ndfmnz2dnuvz_s6dn...@giganews.com, Larry

Re: Vowels [was Re: monty python]

2013-03-21 Thread Terry Reedy
On 3/21/2013 1:31 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linking_and_intrusive_R Is the Python language rhotic or non-rhotic? Python uses American rather that British English, which would make it rhotic. I never imagined that there were people who would mix up 'tuner' and

Re: Vowels [was Re: monty python]

2013-03-21 Thread Roy Smith
In article mailman.3606.1363907158.2939.python-l...@python.org, Terry Reedy tjre...@udel.edu wrote: On 3/21/2013 1:31 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linking_and_intrusive_R Is the Python language rhotic or non-rhotic? Python uses American rather that British

monty python

2013-03-20 Thread franzferdinand
Monty Python True Z a True Monty Montague False What's the rule about that? Is it the number of letters or what? thanks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: monty python

2013-03-20 Thread Jan Oelze
#not-in On 20.03.2013, at 14:33, franzferdinand melo.dumou...@hotmail.com wrote: Monty Python True Z a True Monty Montague False What's the rule about that? Is it the number of letters or what? thanks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: monty python

2013-03-20 Thread R. Michael Weylandt
the upper case values appear before the lower case values. (And there are some other 'characters' like newline before that but you won't see them) Cheers, Michael On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 1:33 PM, franzferdinand melo.dumou...@hotmail.com wrote: Monty Python True Z a True Monty Montague False

Re: monty python

2013-03-20 Thread Roy Smith
In article mailman.3561.1363786737.2939.python-l...@python.org, Jan Oelze j...@codein.is wrote: From the docs[0]: Strings are compared lexicographically using the numeric equivalents (the result of the built-in function ord()) of their characters. Unicode and 8-bit strings are fully

Re: monty python

2013-03-20 Thread franzferdinand
Ok, thanks everybody! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: monty python

2013-03-20 Thread Ian Foote
On 20/03/13 13:38, Jan Oelze wrote: Strings are compared lexicographically using the numeric equivalents (the result of the built-in function ord()) of their characters. Unicode and 8-bit strings are fully interoperable in this behavior. This isn't true in python 3: Python 3.2.3 (default,

Re: monty python

2013-03-20 Thread Jan Oelze
Interesting. Thanks! On 20.03.2013, at 15:17, Ian Foote i...@feete.org wrote: On 20/03/13 13:38, Jan Oelze wrote: Strings are compared lexicographically using the numeric equivalents (the result of the built-in function ord()) of their characters. Unicode and 8-bit strings are fully

Re: monty python

2013-03-20 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2013-03-20, franzferdinand melo.dumou...@hotmail.com wrote: Monty Python True Z a True Monty Montague False What's the rule about that? I don't know what that refers to in your question, but 'a' comes before 'y' if that's what you're asking. Is it the number of letters or what

Re: monty python

2013-03-20 Thread jmfauth
Courageous people can try to do something with the unicode collation algorithm (see unicode.org). Some time ago, for the fun, I wrote something (not perfect) with a reduced keys table (see unicode.org), only a keys subset for some scripts hold in memory. It works with Py32 and Py33. In an

Re: monty python

2013-03-20 Thread Tim Delaney
On 21 March 2013 06:40, jmfauth wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote: [snip usual rant from jmf] Franz, please pay no attention to jmf. He has become obsessed with a single small regression in Python 3.3 in performance with how strings perform in a very small domain that rarely shows up in practice

Re: monty python

2013-03-20 Thread Michael Torrie
On 03/20/2013 01:40 PM, jmfauth wrote: I forgot Py33 is now optimized for ascii user, it is no more unicode compliant and I stupidely tested/sorted lists of French words... Just because you keep saying it does not make it true. How is Py33 not unicode compliant anymore? And maybe you ought

Re: monty python

2013-03-20 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Wed, 20 Mar 2013 12:40:57 -0700, jmfauth wrote: it [Python3.3] is no more unicode compliant I don't often call people a liar. I prefer to think that they are merely confused, or honestly hold a mistaken belief. But in this case, I will make an exception. JMF, I believe you are

Re: monty python

2013-03-20 Thread rusi
On Mar 21, 12:40 am, jmfauth wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote: Courageous people can try to do something with the unicode collation algorithm (see unicode.org). Some time ago, for the fun, I wrote something (not perfect) with a reduced keys table (see unicode.org), only a keys subset for some

Vowels [was Re: monty python]

2013-03-20 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Wed, 20 Mar 2013 20:12:13 -0700, rusi wrote: I did an horrible mistake [...] is 'h' a vowel in french? No it is not, and writing an horrible is a trivial typo which can easily happen if you start thinking an awful ... (for example) and then change to horrible. Been there, done that. But

Re: OT: Monty Python in Syria

2012-08-16 Thread PythonAB
shout, please don't top post agreed. and what gives you the right to determine what is or is not on topic here? The same right as anyone. The subject is also clearly marked OT or did that escape your attention? But it has nothing to do with Monty Python either, that I can see

Re: OT: Monty Python in Syria

2012-08-16 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 3:01 AM, Terry Reedy tjre...@udel.edu wrote: But it has nothing to do with Monty Python either, that I can see. Nor is there a video to see the context of (OP said For context, start the video at 1:00.) Perhaps link is erroneous. At 1:00 the captor asks the pilot

OT: Monty Python in Syria

2012-08-15 Thread Dotan Cohen
And now for something completely different. Not programming related, but at 1:20 I was expecting a different question: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2012/08/2012813103922872697.html I figured if anybody could appreciate that, it would be the folks here. Enjoy! -- Dotan Cohen

Re: OT: Monty Python in Syria

2012-08-15 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 5:41 PM, Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com wrote: And now for something completely different. Not programming related, but at 1:20 I was expecting a different question: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2012/08/2012813103922872697.html I figured if anybody could

Re: OT: Monty Python in Syria

2012-08-15 Thread Tamer Higazi
Exactly! NOT PROGRAMMING related has NOTHING TODO HERE! Tamer Am 15.08.2012 16:42, schrieb Dotan Cohen: On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 5:41 PM, Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com wrote: And now for something completely different. Not programming related, but at 1:20 I was expecting a different

Re: OT: Monty Python in Syria

2012-08-15 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 15/08/2012 20:15, Tamer Higazi wrote: Exactly! NOT PROGRAMMING related has NOTHING TODO HERE! Please don't shout, please don't top post and what gives you the right to determine what is or is not on topic here? The subject is also clearly marked OT or did that escape your attention?

Re: OT: Monty Python in Syria

2012-08-15 Thread Terry Reedy
as anyone. The subject is also clearly marked OT or did that escape your attention? But it has nothing to do with Monty Python either, that I can see. Nor is there a video to see the context of (OP said For context, start the video at 1:00.) Perhaps link is erroneous. Marking something OT does

Re: OT: Monty Python in Syria

2012-08-15 Thread Andrew Cooper
is or is not on topic here? The same right as anyone. The subject is also clearly marked OT or did that escape your attention? But it has nothing to do with Monty Python either, that I can see. Then I humbly suggest you re-watch The Holy Grail. ~Andrew Nor is there a video to see the context

Re: OT: Monty Python in Syria

2012-08-15 Thread Andrew Cooper
you the right to determine what is or is not on topic here? The same right as anyone. The subject is also clearly marked OT or did that escape your attention? But it has nothing to do with Monty Python either, that I can see. Then I humbly suggest you re-watch The Holy Grail. ~Andrew

Re: Snake references just as ok as Monty Python jokes/references inpython community? :)

2006-12-14 Thread Hendrik van Rooyen
John Machin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah yes, exposure to Blackadder helps enormously ... after some hours spent trying to understand things like metaclasses, it's helpful to know what to do: put a pencil or chopstick up each nostril, wear your underpants on your head, and sit there

Re: Snake references just as ok as Monty Python jokes/references in python community? :)

2006-12-12 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : I'm semi-seriously wondering if snake jokes are valid in the Python community since technically, Python came from Monty Python, not slithery animals. Problem is I don't know that anyone born after Elvis died gets any of these Monty Python jokes. Is it kosher

Re: Snake references just as ok as Monty Python jokes/references inpython community? :)

2006-12-09 Thread Hendrik van Rooyen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Problem is I don't know that anyone born after Elvis died gets any of these Monty Python jokes. But hey - Elvis is not dead! - that is just a conspiracy theory that was originated by the Cliff Richard's fan club... - Hendrik -- http://mail.python.org/mailman

Snake references just as ok as Monty Python jokes/references in python community? :)

2006-12-08 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm semi-seriously wondering if snake jokes are valid in the Python community since technically, Python came from Monty Python, not slithery animals. Problem is I don't know that anyone born after Elvis died gets any of these Monty Python jokes. Is it kosher to make snake jokes/references even

Re: Snake references just as ok as Monty Python jokes/references in python community? :)

2006-12-08 Thread Roy Smith
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm semi-seriously wondering if snake jokes are valid in the Python community since technically, Python came from Monty Python, not slithery animals. Problem is I don't know that anyone born after Elvis died gets any

Re: Snake references just as ok as Monty Python jokes/references in python community? :)

2006-12-08 Thread Tim Chase
I'm semi-seriously wondering if snake jokes are valid in the Python community since technically, Python came from Monty Python, not slithery animals. Problem is I don't know that anyone born after Elvis died gets any of these Monty Python jokes. I protest...Elvis isn't dead... ;-) Every

Re: Snake references just as ok as Monty Python jokes/references in python community? :)

2006-12-08 Thread Neil Cerutti
On 2006-12-08, Roy Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm semi-seriously wondering if snake jokes are valid in the Python community since technically, Python came from Monty Python, not slithery animals. Problem is I

Re: Snake references just as ok as Monty Python jokes/references in python community? :)

2006-12-08 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm semi-seriously wondering if snake jokes are valid in the Python community since technically, Python came from Monty Python, not slithery animals. Problem is I don't know that anyone born after Elvis died gets any of these Monty Python jokes. Is it kosher

Re: Snake references just as ok as Monty Python jokes/references in python community? :)

2006-12-08 Thread John Machin
Tim Chase wrote: I'm semi-seriously wondering if snake jokes are valid in the Python community since technically, Python came from Monty Python, not slithery animals. Problem is I don't know that anyone born after Elvis died gets any of these Monty Python jokes. I protest...Elvis

Re: Snake references just as ok as Monty Python jokes/references in python community? :)

2006-12-08 Thread Aahz
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Problem is I don't know that anyone born after Elvis died gets any of these Monty Python jokes. Who is Elvis? -- Aahz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) * http://www.pythoncraft.com/ Member of the Groucho Marx Fan Club