Re: "Data blocks" syntax specification draft

2018-05-20 Thread Mikhail V
On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 5:20 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 8:28 AM, Mikhail V wrote: >>> > >>> > Comments, suggestions are welcome. >>> > >>> >>> One comment. >>> >>> I'm not interested in downloading a PDF. Can you rework your document >>> to be in a more textual format lik

Re: "Data blocks" syntax specification draft

2018-05-20 Thread Chris Angelico
On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 2:00 PM, Mikhail V wrote: >> The second best way is to have a simple link that anyone can click on >> to read your proposal. It's an external dependency, but you're >> depending on a web browser and a basic internet connection, and >> nothing more. >> >> Forcing us to downl

Re: "Data blocks" syntax specification draft

2018-05-20 Thread Mikhail V
On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 3:02 AM, Ian Kelly wrote: > On Sun, May 20, 2018 at 4:28 PM, Mikhail V wrote: >> "Markdown" is too vague - there dozens of markdown styles and >> also they include subsets of HTML. It is just plain text with tags > > The whole point of Markdown is that it's readable as pla

Poor corporate communication culture - was Re: syntax oddities

2018-05-20 Thread Michael Torrie
On 05/18/2018 06:25 AM, Paul Moore wrote: > There are two completely independent cultures here. In "Corporate" > cultures like where I work (where IT and business functions interact a > lot, and business users typically use tools like Outlook) top-posting > is common, conventional, and frankly, eff

Re: "Data blocks" syntax specification draft

2018-05-20 Thread Chris Angelico
On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 8:28 AM, Mikhail V wrote: >> > >> > Comments, suggestions are welcome. >> > >> >> One comment. >> >> I'm not interested in downloading a PDF. Can you rework your document >> to be in a more textual format like Markdown or reStructuredText? >> Since you're hosting on GitHub

Re: "Data blocks" syntax specification draft

2018-05-20 Thread Ian Kelly
On Sun, May 20, 2018 at 4:28 PM, Mikhail V wrote: > "Markdown" is too vague - there dozens of markdown styles and > also they include subsets of HTML. It is just plain text with tags The whole point of Markdown is that it's readable as plain text precisely because it *doesn't* use obvious tags li

Re: best way to remove leading zeros from a tuple like string

2018-05-20 Thread Peter Otten
bruceg113...@gmail.com wrote: > Lets say I have the following tuple like string. > (128, 020, 008, 255) > > What is the best way to to remove leading zeroes and end up with the > following. > (128, 20, 8, 255)-- I do not care about spaces > > This is the solution I came up with >

"Data blocks" syntax specification draft

2018-05-20 Thread Mikhail V
> > > > Comments, suggestions are welcome. > > > > One comment. > > I'm not interested in downloading a PDF. Can you rework your document > to be in a more textual format like Markdown or reStructuredText? > Since you're hosting on GitHub anyway, the rendering can be done > automatically. > > Chris

Re: best way to remove leading zeros from a tuple like string

2018-05-20 Thread bruceg113355
On Sunday, May 20, 2018 at 5:32:32 PM UTC-4, Paul wrote: > > > > > > This works for me: mytuplestring.replace("0","") > > > > Your regex will also eliminate non-leading zeros. Your right, what was I thinking? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: best way to remove leading zeros from a tuple like string

2018-05-20 Thread Paul
On Sun, May 20, 2018, 5:53 PM Paul wrote: > This works for me: mytuplestring.replace("0","") > >> >>> Your regex will also eliminate non-leading zeros. >> >> > If you Google > > regex tester > > you will find several useful sites where you can test regexes. Regex > errors are very common, even

Re: best way to remove leading zeros from a tuple like string

2018-05-20 Thread Paul
> > > This works for me: mytuplestring.replace("0","") > > Your regex will also eliminate non-leading zeros. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: best way to remove leading zeros from a tuple like string

2018-05-20 Thread bruceg113355
On Sunday, May 20, 2018 at 5:01:08 PM UTC-4, Michael F. Stemper wrote: > On 2018-05-20 14:54, bruceg113...@gmail.com wrote: > > Lets say I have the following tuple like string. > >(128, 020, 008, 255) > > > > What is the best way to to remove leading zeroes and end up with the > > following.

Re: best way to remove leading zeros from a tuple like string

2018-05-20 Thread Michael F. Stemper
On 2018-05-20 14:54, bruceg113...@gmail.com wrote: Lets say I have the following tuple like string. (128, 020, 008, 255) What is the best way to to remove leading zeroes and end up with the following. (128, 20, 8, 255)-- I do not care about spaces I'd use a few regular expressio

Re: what does := means simply?

2018-05-20 Thread Richard Damon
On 5/20/18 11:52 AM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > On Sun, 20 May 2018 12:11:34 +0100, bartc declaimed the > following: > >> I think that's the wrong approach. You need to work to the lowest common >> denominator, not the highest. (Within reason anyway.) >> > If a reader can not handle permitt

best way to remove leading zeros from a tuple like string

2018-05-20 Thread bruceg113355
Lets say I have the following tuple like string. (128, 020, 008, 255) What is the best way to to remove leading zeroes and end up with the following. (128, 20, 8, 255)-- I do not care about spaces This is the solution I came up with s = "(128, 020, 008, 255)" v = s.replace ("(

Python 3.6 causes error, python 3.5 does not.

2018-05-20 Thread Jim
Mint 18 Libreoffice 5.1.6.2 Python 3.6.5 in one virtual environment Python 3.5.2 in another I am writing a script that uses pyautogui to get some data and paste it into a Libreoffice calc file, there by bypassing the complexity of uno. The problem is it runs fine if I use python 3.5. If I use

Re: what does := means simply?

2018-05-20 Thread bartc
On 20/05/2018 16:37, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: On Sun, 20 May 2018 12:38:59 +0100, bartc declaimed the Just for giggles, I decided to write the start of a PPM reader (it only handles P6 binary, doesn't have the code for the other styles, and doesn't incorporate PPM writer functions but

Re: Numpy array

2018-05-20 Thread Gary Herron
The "indexing" page of the documentation might help you with this: https://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy-1.14.0/reference/arrays.indexing.html On 05/18/2018 09:50 PM, sharan.basa...@gmail.com wrote: This is regarding numpy array. I am a bit confused how parts of the array are being accessed in the

Proper email etiquette

2018-05-20 Thread D'Arcy Cain
On 2018-05-18 06:24 PM, José María Mateos wrote: > And another one I learned recently on a similar conversation on another > mailing list (that of the e-mail client I'm using right now): it is very > useful for searches. Every e-mail contains just the right amount of text > necessary to be prope

Re: UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x9d in position 10442: character maps to

2018-05-20 Thread bellcanadardp
On Sunday, 20 May 2018 08:58:32 UTC-4, Richard Damon wrote: > On 5/20/18 7:59 AM, bellcanada...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Saturday, 19 May 2018 19:03:09 UTC-4, Chris Angelico wrote: > >> On Sun, May 20, 2018 at 8:58 AM, wrote: > >>> On Thursday, 29 January 2009 12:09:29 UTC-5, Anjanesh Lekshminar

Re: UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x9d in position 10442: character maps to

2018-05-20 Thread Karsten Hilbert
On Sun, May 20, 2018 at 04:59:12AM -0700, bellcanada...@gmail.com wrote: > On Saturday, 19 May 2018 19:48:20 UTC-4, Skip Montanaro wrote: > > As Chris indicated, you'll have to figure out the correct encoding. You > > might want to check out the chardet module (available on PyPI, I believe) > > a

Re: UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x9d in position 10442: character maps to

2018-05-20 Thread Skip Montanaro
> how exactly am i supposed to find oout what is the correct encodeing? It seems you are a Python beginner. Rather than just tell you how to use this one module, I'll point you at some of the ways to get help through Python. * On pypi.org, search for "chardet" and see if the author provided onlin

Re: UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x9d in position 10442: character maps to

2018-05-20 Thread Richard Damon
On 5/20/18 7:59 AM, bellcanada...@gmail.com wrote: > On Saturday, 19 May 2018 19:03:09 UTC-4, Chris Angelico wrote: >> On Sun, May 20, 2018 at 8:58 AM, wrote: >>> On Thursday, 29 January 2009 12:09:29 UTC-5, Anjanesh Lekshminarayanan >>> wrote: > It does auto-detect it as cp1252- look at t

Re: UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x9d in position 10442: character maps to

2018-05-20 Thread bellcanadardp
On Saturday, 19 May 2018 19:03:09 UTC-4, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Sun, May 20, 2018 at 8:58 AM, wrote: > > On Thursday, 29 January 2009 12:09:29 UTC-5, Anjanesh Lekshminarayanan > > wrote: > >> > It does auto-detect it as cp1252- look at the files in the traceback and > >> > you'll see lib\e

Re: UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x9d in position 10442: character maps to

2018-05-20 Thread bellcanadardp
On Saturday, 19 May 2018 19:48:20 UTC-4, Skip Montanaro wrote: > As Chris indicated, you'll have to figure out the correct encoding. You > might want to check out the chardet module (available on PyPI, I believe) > and see if it can come up with a better guess. I imagine there are other > encoding

Re: what does := means simply?

2018-05-20 Thread bartc
On 20/05/2018 10:19, Peter J. Holzer wrote: On 2018-05-19 13:43:14 +0100, bartc wrote: Text files, yes. Not 'text mode' which is something inflicted on us by the C library. I very much enjoy the fact that the programming languages I've used to process text files in the last 15 years (i.e. Pe

Re: what does := means simply?

2018-05-20 Thread bartc
On 20/05/2018 02:58, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: On Sun, 20 May 2018 02:13:01 +0100, bartc declaimed the following: I think if you are going to be generating ppm, then the best choice of format, for the widest acceptance, is to separate the header groups with a newline. (As I mentioned my downloa

Re: what does := means simply?

2018-05-20 Thread Peter J. Holzer
On 2018-05-19 13:43:14 +0100, bartc wrote: > On 19/05/2018 12:33, Peter J. Holzer wrote: > > On 2018-05-19 11:33:26 +0100, bartc wrote: > > > > Not you understand why some of us don't bother with 'text mode' files. > > > > "Not" or "Now"? > > Now. > > > Yesterday you claimed that you worked wit

Re: UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x9d in position 10442: character maps to

2018-05-20 Thread Peter Otten
bellcanada...@gmail.com wrote: > On Thursday, 29 January 2009 12:09:29 UTC-5, Anjanesh Lekshminarayanan > wrote: >> > It does auto-detect it as cp1252- look at the files in the traceback >> > and you'll see lib\encodings\cp1252.py. Since cp1252 seems to be the >> > wrong encoding, try opening it