On Wed, 2 Dec 2015 15:20:13 + (UTC), Grant Edwards
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>On 2015-12-02, Richard Heathfield <r...@cpax.org.uk> wrote:
>> On 02/12/15 08:57, Juha Nieminen wrote:
>>> In comp.lang.c++ Steve Hayes <hayes...@telkomsa.net> wrote:
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On Thu, 03 Dec 2015 06:21:45 +0200, Steve Hayes
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>On Wed, 2 Dec 2015 15:20:13 + (UTC), Grant Edwards
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>>On 2015-12-02, Richard Heathfield <r...@cpax.org.uk> wrote:
>>> On 02/12/15 08:57
e you don't even know that much about computers, anything else you
say is obviously not worth readin.
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On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 04:58:30 +, ÏÄ»ªÁÖ <hua_...@live.cn> wrote:
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ws Vista, 7, 8.1, or 10.
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> Windows XP is not a supported OS for Python 3.5+
Or revert to an earlier version of Python that does work.
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(from Glary Utilities) that some of my programs
(including Python) need to be updated, but when I've downloaded and
updated them, the update hasn't worked.
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learning Python.
It's much easier, and you don't have to spend hours searching online
for differences between 3.x and 2.x just to find what caused an error
in an example script.
Once you've l;earnt it, then you can start learning the differences,
and maybe by that time there will be a book th
3)
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>http://www.openbookproject.net/thinkcs/python/english3e/
>How to Think Like a Computer Scientist:Learning with Python 3
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>Many of these are updated versions (2 or 3 years old) of well known py2
>books.
That may be so, but I've not seen any of them in any bookshops or
l
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Candidates,
So what does it actually DO?
I'm assuming that it's some kind of enhancement for Python, but why
would anyone actually use it?
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time?
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exactly are you needing to do this for?
To sell addresses to spammers, of course.
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incoming mail to the
Python mail list? Main ingredients beatfilsoup (to textify
And that badly formatted posts like this are corrected for proper line
length.
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Monotheism - One God
There is no God but Monty, and Python is his prophet.
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(or not) about...
Can you hear my accent? I certainly cant hear yours
And if I call a Python list books, is Python going to complain about
my accent? Really?
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is whether odo is something you have to download
somewhere.
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to speak like a BBC newsreader. Your native accent can
be very difficult to understand.
Are things named in Python named with an accent?
Can you tell what my accent is like when I write in this newsgroup?
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the differences
were between SQLite and MySQL, and I got a lot of uninformative
gobbledegook.
This was more informative.
I would summarise it by saying if you want a multiuser database
running on a network, use MySQL. If you want a standalone database on
a single machine, use SQLite.
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that Frank made three major errors of judgement? :)
No, ChrisA did, in answering questions that no one was asking, and
changing the subject of the thread without changing the subject line.
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nothing, absolutely nothing, to do with the OP's
question, which said nothing about number of users, but how the
software handles dates.
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Python to interac t
with the database, but it seems to do a pretty good job of handling
dates, calculating ages etc.
http://www.rootsmagic.com/
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that answer the OP's question?
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to run the Gramps genealogy program, which is quite
complex. I was impressed.
3. When I started to look at it, I found that strings could be any length and
were not limited to swomething arbitrary, like 256 characters.
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into mongo and search from there.
Could ignore XML by just converting to json with something like xml2json and
pushing to many databases from there.
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their
mail program is sending, and do it to let them know that their mesdsage could
not be read.
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awesome.
And my second thought was that it was scary.
I ran it. It worked, and printed Hello world. I was awed.
But what if I had run it and it reformatted my hard disk?
How would I have known that it would or wouldn't do that?
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On Mon, 22 Dec 2014 17:33:10 +1100, Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 5:21 PM, Steve Hayes hayes...@telkomsa.net wrote:
Yes, my initial reaction was that's awesome.
And my second thought was that it was scary.
I ran it. It worked, and printed Hello world. I
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I am in total awe.
Bloody hell! It worked.
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programs to a simple -mm-dd that computer database
programs can understand, so that Abt May 1677 would be rendered as
1677-05-00
Has anyone done something like that in Python?
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On Fri, 21 Nov 2014 19:40:22 +1100, Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 7:35 PM, Steve Hayes hayes...@telkomsa.net wrote:
This Python script does it for me.
year = input(Year: )
age = input(Age: )
born = year-age
print 'Year of birth:', born
One thing
On Fri, 21 Nov 2014 10:20:06 +, Mark Lawrence breamore...@yahoo.co.uk
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On 21/11/2014 08:50, Gary Herron wrote:
On 11/21/2014 12:35 AM, Steve Hayes wrote:
I've finally found a use for Python.
When, in the course of my genealogy research, I look at census or burial
records, I often
On Fri, 21 Nov 2014 17:03:12 +, duncan smith buzzard@invalid.invalid
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On 21/11/14 08:35, Steve Hayes wrote:
I've finally found a use for Python.
When, in the course of my genealogy research, I look at census or burial
records, I often want to work out a person's date of birth from
On Fri, 21 Nov 2014 14:50:36 -0500, Dennis Lee Bieber wlfr...@ix.netcom.com
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On Fri, 21 Nov 2014 12:15:03 +0200, Steve Hayes hayes...@telkomsa.net
declaimed the following:
On Fri, 21 Nov 2014 19:40:22 +1100, Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 7:35 PM, Steve
On Sat, 22 Nov 2014 06:51:15 +1100, Paul Blair p.bl...@internode.on.net
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On 22-Nov-2014 6:35 am, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
On Fri, 21 Nov 2014 10:35:19 +0200, Steve Hayes hayes...@telkomsa.net
declaimed the following:
This Python script does it for me.
year = input(Year: )
age
On Fri, 21 Nov 2014 15:07:39 -0500, Denis Beauregard
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On Fri, 21 Nov 2014 14:35:14 -0500, Dennis Lee Bieber
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On Fri, 21 Nov 2014 10:35:19 +0200, Steve Hayes hayes...@telkomsa.net
declaimed
understand that Python is an interpreted language, and If I wrote a
program in Python like that, and wanted to run it on another computer, how
would it find all the modules to import at run-time, unless I copied the whole
directory structure over to the other computer?
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On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 16:12:07 +1100, Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au
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Steve Hayes hayes...@telkomsa.net writes:
I have a book on Python that advocates dividing programs into modules,
and importing them when needed.
Which book is this? (This is not essential to your question
that installs Python onto the device,
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Python 3. I
would recommend instead getting a Python 3 tutorial:
Or do as I did, and install Python 2.
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On Sun, 3 Aug 2014 15:12:02 +1000, Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 3:11 PM, Steve Hayes hayes...@telkomsa.net wrote:
You're looking at a Python 2 book, and you're running Python 3. I
would recommend instead getting a Python 3 tutorial:
Or do as I did, and install
On Sun, 27 Jul 2014 10:10:44 +0200, Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick
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On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 6:49 AM, Steve Hayes hayes...@telkomsa.net wrote:
The one thing that isn't available with LibreOffice is OneNote, which you
don't seem to be able to get separately, and doesn't seem
On Sun, 27 Jul 2014 14:42:49 +0200, Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick
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On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 2:24 PM, Steve Hayes hayes...@telkomsa.net wrote:
The main reason I use Evernote is that I found a book for it, and couln't
find
one for OneNote.
Both are actually self-explanatory
with LibreOffice is OneNote, which you
don't seem to be able to get separately, and doesn't seem to have any
documentation (ie 3rd party books on it). But there is Evernote.
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to gate the comp.lang.python newsgroup to an Sqlite
mailing list without the list owner's permission?
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people using this list. I
for one can't even see them.
And for those reading it as a newsgroup they don't work at all.
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Yes.
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On Sun, 01 Jun 2014 07:01:46 BST, Bob Martin bob.mar...@excite.com wrote:
in 722929 20140601 035727 Steve Hayes hayes...@telkomsa.net wrote:
No, it's a bit like flying in a Boeing 747 rather than a Concorde. The latyer
may be later and more technically advanced and flew faster, but no one uses
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For Python 2.7.5
I'll leave Python 3.2 on my computer, but 2.7.5 will be the one I'm installing
now. Even if I could *find* a book that deals with Python 3.x, couldn't afford
to but yet another Python book.
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On Sat, 31 May 2014 13:09:45 +0200, Johannes Bauer dfnsonfsdu...@gmx.de
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On 31.05.2014 12:07, Steve Hayes wrote:
So I bought this book, and decided that whatever version of Python it deals
with, that's the one I will download and use.
This sounds like remarkably bad advice. That's like
On 31 May 2014 12:30:11 GMT, Steven D'Aprano
steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote:
On Sat, 31 May 2014 12:07:59 +0200, Steve Hayes wrote:
I'll leave Python 3.2 on my computer, but 2.7.5 will be the one I'm
installing now. Even if I could *find* a book that deals with Python
3.x
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Steve Hayes hayes...@telkomsa.net:
I'll leave Python 3.2 on my computer, but 2.7.5 will be the one I'm
installing now. Even if I could *find* a book that deals with Python
3.x, couldn't afford to but yet another Python
of those freebie discs you get with
magazines, I think) and my son had a book on it, so I thought with the program
and the instructions I should be able to learn something.
It took me a week, with some help from this forum, to get the Print statement
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On Wed, 9 Apr 2014 01:07:20 -0700 (PDT), wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote:
Well, there is a (serious) problem somewhere...
As there is with pandas and infertility.
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. From what I've heard
and read, it seems to be a fairly good general-purpose language, and it seems
to be most used for writing web applications (though that is not something I
am particularly interested in).
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between the versions are not trivial.
So perhaps I should just try to install 2.x in Windows, and learn that.
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On Wed, 01 Jan 2014 22:37:45 +1100, Steven D'Aprano
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Steve Hayes wrote:
I borrowed a book called Learning Python by Lutz and Asher, which is
geared for 2.2/2.3.
But the version I have in Windows is 3.2, and it seems that even Hello
World presents
On Thu, 2 Jan 2014 01:07:54 +1100, David bouncingc...@gmail.com wrote:
On 1 January 2014 23:38, Steve Hayes hayes...@telkomsa.net wrote:
I was thinking or of this:
python g:\work\module1.py
File stdin, line 1
python g:\work\module1.py
^
Which gave a different error
back to 1990!!
Not everything that's changed since 1990 has been an improvement.
And vice versa.
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a portmanteau word to cover it -- how about grammatarian for authoritarian
grammarian.
No, don't tell me.
The libertarians will object.
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On Wed, 4 Sep 2013 14:03:09 + (UTC), Grant Edwards
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On 2013-09-04, Steve Hayes hayes...@telkomsa.net wrote:
Can anyone recommend a web site that gives a good beginner's guide to Python?
http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/
-- what kind of projects
syntax
I've read about Python, and installed it on my computer when I found it on a
DVD that came with a magazine, but I haven't got a clue about how to use it.
So any advice on the best web sites for absolute novices would be welcome.
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