Re: The devolution of English language and slothful c.l.p behaviors exposed!

2012-01-29 Thread Dominic Binks
snipped lots of mindless nonsense, nothing at all to do with Python On 25-Jan-12 3:23 PM, Rick Johnson wrote: ... In my world ... Rick, I may be overstepping the mark here but I believe all participants on this list would probably like it if that's precisely where you stayed. -- Dominic

Re: socket.gethostbyaddr( os.environ['REMOTE_ADDR'] error

2012-01-09 Thread Dominic Binks
have multiple names for the same IP address so gethostbyaddr returns a list - [0] being the first item in the list (and usually considered the canonical name) -- Dominic Binks: dbi...@codeaurora.org Employee of Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of Code

Re: Python education survey

2012-01-02 Thread Dominic Binks
On 1/2/2012 9:27 PM, Rick Johnson wrote: On Dec 31 2011, 11:12 pm, Dominic Binksdbi...@codeaurora.org wrote: I doubt you could validate or invalidate a word. A word is, there is no ... taken off list -- Dominic Binks: dbi...@codeaurora.org Employee of Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc

Re: Python education survey

2011-12-31 Thread Dominic Binks
arguments over tedious detail of words when it is perfectly clear what people mean. -- Dominic Binks: dbi...@codeaurora.org Employee of Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of Code Aurora Forum -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Py-dea: Streamline string literals now!

2011-12-28 Thread Dominic Binks
very little benefit at huge cost. And I'm not going to contribute to this thread any further cause it's a pointless waste of my time to write it and others time to read it. -- Dominic Binks: dbi...@codeaurora.org Employee of Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc

Re: Does py2app improves speed?

2011-11-24 Thread Dominic Binks
substantially. So I need to know; is This a myth or it is a fact? Thanks in advance for your time. Depending on the code you have pypy may be faster - I've seen it both significantly faster and about the same as CPython. -- Dominic Binks: dbi...@codeaurora.org Employee of Qualcomm Innovation Center

Re: What exactly is pass? What should it be?

2011-11-17 Thread Dominic Binks
they are) try: european swallows except: pass Correct: http://docs.python.org/reference/simple_stmts.html#pass http://docs.python.org/reference/lexical_analysis.html#keywords Cheers, Chris -- Dominic Binks: dbi...@codeaurora.org Employee of Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. Qualcomm

Re: Opportunity missed by Python ?

2011-11-14 Thread Dominic Binks
were unaware of Python's structural style, so the choice to not use such was most likely conscious. (It may have been as simple as let's keep the syntax mostly JS-like, to make it easier for JS developers to grok though, rather than a major language-design choice.) ChrisA -- Dominic Binks: dbi