Paul Boddie p...@boddie.org.uk added the comment:
On Wednesday 13 June 2012 23:51:25 Alexander Belopolsky wrote:
Alexander Belopolsky alexander.belopol...@gmail.com added the comment:
I've simplified Paul's patch by removing timegm and mktimetz functions.
Also, platforms that don't support
Paul Boddie p...@boddie.org.uk added the comment:
Note that Python 3 provided a good opportunity for doing the minimal amount of
work here - just stop things from accessing remote DTDs - but I imagine that
even elementary standard library improvements of this kind weren't made (let
alone
Paul Boddie p...@boddie.org.uk added the comment:
I don't understand how this bug and its patches are still active. It's
difficult for me to remember what I was doing in early 2007 when I started
working on issue #1667546, but I can well imagine that it was in response to
this and a number
Paul Boddie p...@boddie.org.uk added the comment:
Speaking for myself, I'm not sure whether I'm really the person to push this
further, at least, although others may see it as a worthy sprinting topic. In
principle, adding the extra fields is the right thing to do, merely because it
exposes
On 15 Mai, 04:20, Lawrence D'Oliveiro l...@geek-
central.gen.new_zealand wrote:
In message
a26e8cac-6561-40f6-ae3f-cfe176ecb...@l31g2000yqm.googlegroups.com, Paul
Boddie wrote:
Although people can argue that usage of the GPL prevents people from
potentially contributing because they would
On 15 Mai, 03:46, Patrick Maupin pmau...@gmail.com wrote:
On May 14, 6:52 pm, Paul Boddie p...@boddie.org.uk wrote:
And suggesting that people have behavioural disorders (Or because
have OCD?) might be a source of amusement to you, or may be a neat
debating trick in certain circles you
On 13 Mai, 22:10, Patrick Maupin pmau...@gmail.com wrote:
[...]
Just to deal with your Ubuntu high horse situation first, you should
take a look at the following for what people regard to be the best
practices around GPL-licensed software distribution:
On 14 Mai, 03:56, a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) wrote:
IMO this only makes sense if one agrees that people should not be allowed
to sell software for money. Absent that agreement, your argument about
freedom seems rather limited.
You'll have to explain this to me because I don't quite follow
On 14 Mai, 05:35, Patrick Maupin pmau...@gmail.com wrote:
I mean, it's in English and very technically precise, but if you
follow all the references, you quickly come to realize that the
license is a patch to the GPL.
It is a set of exceptions applied to version 3 of the GPL, done this
way so
On 14 Mai, 09:08, Carl Banks pavlovevide...@gmail.com wrote:
On May 13, 10:59 pm, Steven D'Aprano st...@remove-this-cybersource.com.au
wrote:
On Thu, 13 May 2010 17:18:47 -0700, Carl Banks wrote:
2. Reimplment the functionality seperately (*cough* PySide)
Yes. So what? In what possible
On 14 Mai, 17:37, Patrick Maupin pmau...@gmail.com wrote:
Before, you were busy pointing me at the GPL FAQ as authoritative.
No, the licence is the authority, although the FAQ would probably be
useful to clarify the licence author's intent in a litigation
environment.
[Fast-forward through the
On 14 Mai, 19:00, Patrick Maupin pmau...@gmail.com wrote:
Would you have agreed had he had said that MatLab's license doesn't
do much good and assigned the same sort of meaning to that statement,
namely that the MatLab license prevented enough motivated people from
freely using MatLab in ways
On 14 Mai, 19:15, Patrick Maupin pmau...@gmail.com wrote:
On May 14, 11:48 am, Paul Boddie p...@boddie.org.uk wrote:
Section 3 of GPLv2 (and section 6(d) of GPLv3 reads similarly): If
distribution of executable or object code is made by offering access
to copy from a designated place
On 14 Mai, 20:36, Patrick Maupin pmau...@gmail.com wrote:
That statement was made in the context of why Carl doesn't use GPL-
licensed *libraries*. He and I have both explained the difference
between libraries and programs multiple times, not that you care.
Saying that GPL-licensed
On 14 Mai, 22:12, Patrick Maupin pmau...@gmail.com wrote:
I *obviously*
was explaining that projects which *aren't* marginal, such as PyQt and
MatLab, are the *only* kinds of projects that would be rewritten for a
simple license change.
As far as your comments about PyQt proving out the
On 14 Mai, 21:14, Patrick Maupin pmau...@gmail.com wrote:
If Joe downloads and burns a CD for his friend, he may not have the
sources and may not have any intention of getting them, and probably
didn't provide a written offer. What you're ignoring for the
moment is my whole point, that
On 14 Mai, 21:18, Ed Keith e_...@yahoo.com wrote:
The GPL is fine when all parties concern understand what source code is
and what to do with it. But when you add people like my father to the loop
if gets very ugly very fast.
Sure, and when I'm not otherwise being accused of pushing one
On 13 Mai, 01:36, Patrick Maupin pmau...@gmail.com wrote:
Once the court reaches that conclusion, it would only be a tiny step
to find that the FSF's attempt to claim that clisp infringes the
readline copyright to be a misuse of that same readline copyright.
See, e.g. LaserComb v Reynolds,
On 13 Mai, 01:58, Patrick Maupin pmau...@gmail.com wrote:
On May 12, 6:15 pm, Paul Boddie p...@boddie.org.uk wrote:
Right. The full cost of software that probably cost them nothing
monetarily and which comes with all the sources, some through a chain
of distribution and improvement which
. Otherwise the following text would be logically inconsistent with
such claims:
[...]
On May 11, 5:24 am, Paul Boddie p...@boddie.org.uk wrote:
Again, you have to consider the intent of the licensing: that some
software which links to readline results in a software system that
should offer
On 11 Mai, 23:02, Patrick Maupin pmau...@gmail.com wrote:
Huh? Permissive licenses offer much better certainty for someone
attempting a creative mash-up. Different versions of the Apache
license don't conflict with each other. If I use an MIT-licensed
component, it doesn't attempt to make
On 11 Mai, 22:50, Patrick Maupin pmau...@gmail.com wrote:
On May 11, 5:34 am, Paul Boddie p...@boddie.org.uk wrote:
Yes, *if* you took it. He isn't forcing you to take it, though, is he?
No, but he said a lot of words that I didn't immediately understand
about what it meant to be free
On 12 Mai, 16:45, Patrick Maupin pmau...@gmail.com wrote:
On May 12, 7:43 am, Paul Boddie p...@boddie.org.uk wrote:
Thus, owned my soul joins holy war and Bin Laden on the list.
That rhetorical toolbox is looking pretty empty at this point.
Not emptier than you analogy toolbox
On 12 Mai, 16:10, Patrick Maupin pmau...@gmail.com wrote:
On May 12, 7:10 am, Paul Boddie p...@boddie.org.uk wrote:
What the licence asks you to do and what the author of the licence
wants you to do are two separate things.
But the whole context was about what RMS wanted me to do and you
On 12 Mai, 21:02, Patrick Maupin pmau...@gmail.com wrote:
On May 12, 1:00 pm, Paul Boddie p...@boddie.org.uk wrote:
[Quoting himself...]
Not least because people are only obliged to make their work
available under a GPL-compatible licence so that people who are using
the combined work may
On 12 Mai, 20:29, Patrick Maupin pmau...@gmail.com wrote:
But nobody's whining about the strings attached to the software. Just
pointing out why they sometimes won't use a particular piece of
software, and pointing out that some other people (e.g. random Ubuntu
users) might not understand
On 11 Mai, 14:12, Ed Keith e_...@yahoo.com wrote:
--- On Mon, 5/10/10, Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au wrote:
So I object to muddying the issue by misrepresenting the source of that
force. Whatever force there is in copyright comes from law, not any free
software license.
You are
On 10 Mai, 17:01, Patrick Maupin pmau...@gmail.com wrote:
I'll be charitable and assume the fact that you can make that
statement without apparent guile merely means that you haven't read
the post I was referring to:
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-not-lgpl.html
Of course I have read it,
On 10 Mai, 20:36, Patrick Maupin pmau...@gmail.com wrote:
I've addressed this before. Aahz used a word in an accurate, but to
you, inflammatory, sense, but it's still accurate -- the man *would*
force you to pay for the chocolate if you took it.
Yes, *if* you took it. He isn't forcing you to
On 11 Mai, 15:00, Lie Ryan lie.1...@gmail.com wrote:
Come on, 99% of the projects released under GPL did so because they
don't want to learn much about the law; they just need to release it
under a certain license so their users have some legal certainty.
Yes, this is frequently the case.
On 10 Mai, 03:09, Patrick Maupin pmau...@gmail.com wrote:
On May 9, 6:39 pm, Paul Boddie p...@boddie.org.uk wrote:
but if they aren't pitching it directly at you, why would you believe
that they are trying to change your behaviour?
Because I've seen people specifically state
On 10 Mai, 08:31, Carl Banks pavlovevide...@gmail.com wrote:
On May 9, 10:08 am, Paul Boddie p...@boddie.org.uk wrote:
Oh sure: the GPL hurts everyone, like all the companies who have made
quite a lot of money out of effectively making Linux the new
enterprise successor to Unix, plus all
On 10 Mai, 17:06, a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) wrote:
In article
074b412a-c2f4-4090-a52c-4d69edb29...@d39g2000yqa.googlegroups.com,
Paul Boddie p...@boddie.org.uk wrote:
Actually, the copyleft licences don't force anyone to give back
changes: they oblige people to pass on changes.
IMO
On 9 Mai, 09:05, Carl Banks pavlovevide...@gmail.com wrote:
Bottom line is, GPL hurts everyone: the companies and open source
community. Unless you're one of a handful of projects with sufficient
leverage, or are indeed a petty jealous person fighting a holy war,
the GPL is a bad idea and
On 9 Mai, 07:09, Patrick Maupin pmau...@gmail.com wrote:
See, for example, Apple's
support of BSD, Webkit, and LLVM. Apple is not a do no evil
corporation, and their contributions back to these packages are driven
far more by hard-nosed business
On 8 Mai, 22:05, Patrick Maupin pmau...@gmail.com wrote:
On May 8, 2:38 pm, Steven D'Aprano st...@remove-this-
No, you don't *owe* them anything, but this brings us back to Ben's
original post. If you care about the freedoms of Cisco's customers as
much as you care about the freedoms of
On 9 Mai, 19:55, Steven D'Aprano st...@remove-this-
cybersource.com.au wrote:
Patrick said that Apple is NOT a do no evil company.
Yes, apologies to Patrick for reading something other than what he
wrote. I suppose I've been reading too many Apple apologist
commentaries of late and probably
On 9 Mai, 21:07, Patrick Maupin pmau...@gmail.com wrote:
On May 9, 1:02 pm, Paul Boddie p...@boddie.org.uk wrote:
People often argue
that the GPL only cares about the software's freedom, not the
recipient's freedom, which I find to be a laughable claim because if
one wanted to point
On 9 Mai, 21:55, Patrick Maupin pmau...@gmail.com wrote:
On May 9, 12:08 pm, Paul Boddie p...@boddie.org.uk wrote:
Oh sure: the GPL hurts everyone, like all the companies who have made
quite a lot of money out of effectively making Linux the new
enterprise successor to Unix, plus all
On 10 Mai, 00:02, Patrick Maupin pmau...@gmail.com wrote:
You just answered your own question. It's pathetic to try to change
people's behavior by offering them something worthless if they change
their license to match yours. (I'm not at all saying that all GPL
code is worthless, but I have
Paul Boddie p...@boddie.org.uk added the comment:
Well, this still doesn't work for me. I'm running Kubuntu 8.04 (libc6 package
version 2.7-10ubuntu5) and reside in the CEST time zone, yet attempting to
display the time zone always seems to give +. Here are the failing tests,
too
On 21 Feb, 17:32, Mensanator mensana...@aol.com wrote:
On Feb 21, 10:30 am, Mensanator mensana...@aol.com wrote:
What versions of Python does it suuport?
What OS are supported?
From the Web site referenced in the announcement (http://
dreampie.sourceforge.net/):
# Supports Python 2.5,
On 21 Feb, 03:00, sjdevn...@yahoo.com sjdevn...@yahoo.com wrote:
On Feb 18, 2:58 pm, John Nagle na...@animats.com wrote:
Multiple processes are not the answer. That means loading multiple
copies of the same code into different areas of memory. The cache
miss rate goes up accordingly.
Paul Boddie p...@boddie.org.uk added the comment:
Actually, in the issue reported, the initial problem occurs in the evaluation
of an object in a boolean context (and the subsequent problem occurs with an
explicit len invocation):
http://www.selenic.com/pipermail/mercurial/2010-February
Paul Boddie p...@boddie.org.uk added the comment:
I don't disagree that OverflowError describes what's happening, but the need to
convert to an int in the first place is a detail of the machine - you'd have to
know that this is a limitation of whatever internal protocol CPython
implements
On 14 Feb, 19:41, Steve Howell showel...@yahoo.com wrote:
I ditto the profiling recommendation.
http://docs.python.org/library/profile.html
(To the original inquirer...) Try this, too:
http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonSpeed/Profiling
If you have the tools, it's a lot easier than scanning
New submission from Paul Boddie p...@boddie.org.uk:
As noted here:
http://www.selenic.com/pipermail/mercurial/2010-February/030068.html
This is probably documented somewhere, and there may even be a good reason for
the difference, but old-style classes raise TypeError when __len__ returns
Paul Boddie p...@boddie.org.uk added the comment:
I would have expected a more accurate error message for the new-style class. In
the original message which brought this to my attention, the cause was not
particularly obvious:
http://www.selenic.com/pipermail/mercurial/2010-February/030066
On 29 Jan, 06:56, Terry Reedy tjre...@udel.edu wrote:
On 1/28/2010 6:47 PM, Paul Boddie wrote:
What would annoy me if I used Python 3.x would be the apparent lack of
the __cmp__ method for conveniently defining comparisons between
instances of my own classes. Having to define all the rich
On 27 Jan, 13:26, Xah Lee xah...@gmail.com wrote:
So, for practical reasons, i think a “key” parameter is fine. But
chopping off “cmp” is damaging. When your data structure is complex,
its order is not embedded in some “key”. Taking out “cmp” makes it
impossible to sort your data structure.
On 27 Jan, 23:00, Mitchell L Model mlm...@comcast.net wrote:
I suppose that since a file: URL is not, strictly speaking, on the
web, that it shouldn't be opened with a web browser.
But anything with a URL is (or should be regarded as being) on the
Web. It may not be anything more than a
On 15 Jan, 21:14, Timur Tabi ti...@freescale.com wrote:
After reading several web pages and mailing list threads, I've learned
that the webbrowser module does not really support opening local
files, even if I use a file:// URL designator. In most cases,
webbrowser.open() will indeed open the
On 28 Des 2009, 08:32, Andrew Jonathan Fine
eternalsqu...@hotmail.com wrote:
As a hobby to keep me sane, I am attempting to retrain
part time at home as a jeweler and silversmith, and I sometimes used
Python for generating and manipulating code for CNC machines.
It occurs to me
On 16 Des, 17:03, eric_dex...@msn.com eric_dex...@msn.com wrote:
#this should be a cross platform example of os.startfile ( startfile )
#for windows and linux. this is the first version and
#linux, mac, other os's commands for exceptions to the
#rule would be appreciated. at some point this
On 22 Nov, 05:10, exar...@twistedmatrix.com wrote:
tail -f is implemented by sleeping a little bit and then reading to
see if there's anything new.
This was the apparent assertion behind the 99 Bottles concurrency
example:
http://wiki.python.org/moin/Concurrency/99Bottles
However, as I
On 30 Nov, 18:14, inhahe inh...@gmail.com wrote:
i don't think structs technically exist in Python (though they exist
in C/C++), but you could always use a plain class like a struct, like
this, for a simple example:
class Blah:
pass
b = blah()
b.eyecolor = brown
[...]
Yes, a bare
On 25 Nov, 13:11, Antoine Pitrou solip...@pitrou.net wrote:
When you say executing each kind of bytecode instruction, are you
talking about the overhead of bytecode dispatch and operand gathering, or
the total cost including doing the useful work?
Strip away any overhead (dispatch, operand
On 24 Nov, 16:11, Antoine Pitrou solip...@pitrou.net wrote:
[JUMP_IF_FALSE]
It tries to evaluate the op of the stack (here nonevar) in a boolean
context (which theoretically involves calling __nonzero__ on the type)
and then jumps if the result is False (rather than True).
[...]
As
On 24 Nov, 19:25, Antoine Pitrou solip...@pitrou.net wrote:
Sorry, I have trouble parsing your sentence. Do you mean bytecode
interpretation overhead is minimal compared to the cost of actual useful
work, or the contrary?
(IMO both are wrong by the way)
I'm referring to what you're talking
On 17 Nov, 14:48, Aaron Watters aaron.watt...@gmail.com wrote:
... and I still have an issue with the whole Python is slow
meme. The reason NASA doesn't build a faster Python is because
Python *when augmented with FORTRAN libraries that have been
tested and optimized for decades and are
On 16 Nov, 05:51, sturlamolden sturlamol...@yahoo.no wrote:
NASA can find money to build a space telescope and put it in orbit.
They don't find money to create a faster Python, which they use for
analyzing the data.
Is the analysis in Python really what slows it all down?
Google is a
On 15 Nov, 09:30, Terry Reedy tjre...@udel.edu wrote:
greg wrote:
[Shed Skin]
These restrictions mean that it isn't really quite
Python, though.
Python code that only uses a subset of features very much *is* Python
code. The author of ShedSkin makes no claim that is compiles all Python
On 27 Okt, 18:26, Aaron Watters aaron.watt...@gmail.com wrote:
Alex sent me the traceback (thanks!) and after consulting
the logs and the pages I figured out that the version of
Firefox in question was not ignoring my javascript links like
it should. Instead FF was interpreting them as HTTP
On 27 Okt, 03:49, Aaron Watters aaron.watt...@gmail.com wrote:
WHIFF now includes components for
implementing tree views for web navigation panes
or other purposes, either using AJAX or frame
reloads. Try the GenBank demo at
http://aaron.oirt.rutgers.edu/myapp/GenBankTree/index
This looks
On 16 Okt, 01:49, Benjamin Kaplan benjamin.kap...@case.edu wrote:
Unicode is an abstract concept, and as such can't actually be written
to a file. To write Unicode to a file, you have to specify an encoding
so Python has actual bytes to write. If Python doesn't know what
encoding it should
On 1 Okt, 16:08, John j...@nospam.net wrote:
I downloaded the cx_freeze source code
fromhttp://cx-freeze.sourceforge.net/into a directory.
[...]
From
here:http://linux.softpedia.com/get/Programming/Assembler-Tools/cx-Freeze-...
the directions state:
What about the documentation
On 25 Sep, 08:15, Olof Bjarnason olof.bjarna...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi!
I write small games in Python/PyGame. I want to find a way to make a
downloadable package/installer/script to put on my webpage, especially
for Ubuntu users.
I've skimmed a couple of tutorials on how to generate
On 25 Sep, 09:26, Donn donn.in...@gmail.com wrote:
You could use distutils (setup.py) and include a readme that explains what
apt-get commands to use to install pygame, etc. Generally it's better to *not*
include the kitchen-sink with your apps; rather expect the user to have those
libraries
On 25 Sep, 13:21, Olof Bjarnason olof.bjarna...@gmail.com wrote:
I am thinking of two target audiences:
1. Early adopters/beta-testers. This would include:
- my non-computer-geek brother on a windows-machine. I'll go for py2exe.
- any non-geek visiting my blog using windows (py2exe)
I'd
On 25 Sep, 23:14, Olof Bjarnason olof.bjarna...@gmail.com wrote:
So what approach do you suggest? I've gotten as far as understanding
how to add menu-items to the Ubuntu menus, simple .desktop file format
to do that.
Yes, xdg-desktop-menu will probably do the trick.
One could cheat and
On 21 Sep, 02:52, s...@pobox.com wrote:
I've noticed over the past few weeks a huge increase in the frequency of
edits in the Python wiki. Many of those are due to Carl Trachte's work on
non-English pages about Python. There are plenty of other pages going under
the knife as well though. Is
On 19 Sep, 21:19, MacRules macru...@none.com wrote:
Is there a python profiler just like for C program?
And tell me which functions or modules take a long time.
Can you show me URL or link on doing this task?
Having already looked at combining Python profilers with KCachegrind
(as suggested
On 18 Sep, 23:17, lkcl luke.leigh...@googlemail.com wrote:
the pyjamas project is taking a slightly different approach to achieve
this same goal: beat the stuffing out of the pyjamas compiler, rather
than hand-write such large sections of code in pure javascript, and
double-run regression
On 17 Sep, 23:24, kj no.em...@please.post wrote:
In Dive Into Python, Mark Pilgrim offers the function openAnything
that can open for reading anything (i.e. local files or URLs).
I was wondering if there was already in the standard Python library
an official version of this, that could not
On 16 Sep, 18:31, lkcl luke.leigh...@googlemail.com wrote:
http://pyjs.org/examples/timesheet/output/TimeSheet.html
I get this error dialogue message when visiting the above page:
TimeSheet undefined list assignment index out of range
Along with the following in-page error, once the data has
On 14 Sep, 04:46, alex23 wuwe...@gmail.com wrote:
joy99 subhakolkata1...@gmail.com wrote:
What is the problem I am doing?
Following the wrong installation instructions?
The wrong instructions appear to come from this page:
http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/install/
Those
On 30 Aug, 18:00, r rt8...@gmail.com wrote:
Hold the phone Paul you are calling me a retarded bigot and i don't
much appreciate that. I think you are completely misinterpreting my
post. i and i ask you read it again especially this part...
I didn't call you a retarded bigot, and yet I did
On 31 Aug, 00:28, r rt8...@gmail.com wrote:
I said it before and i will say it again. I DONT CARE WHAT LANGUAGE
WE USE AS LONG AS IT IS A MODERN LANGUAGE FOUNDED ON IDEALS OF
SIMPLICITY
[Esperanto]
English is by far already the de-facto lingua franca throughout the
world.
You don't
On 30 Aug, 14:49, r rt8...@gmail.com wrote:
It can be made better and if that means add/removing letters or
redefining what a letter represents i am fine with that. I know first
hand the hypocrisy of the English language. I am thinking more on the
lines of English redux!
Elsewhere in this
On 27 Aug, 15:27, Diez B. Roggisch de...@nospam.web.de wrote:
You mean it's the problem of the python packaging that it can't deal with
RPMs, debs, tgzs, OSX bundles, MSIs and
put-in-the-next-big-packaging-thing-here?
No, it's the problem of the Pythonic packaging brigade that package
On 26 Aug, 17:48, Jorgen Grahn grahn+n...@snipabacken.se wrote:
Well, if you are thinking about Debian Linux, it's not as much
ripping out as splitting into a separate package with a non-obvious
name. Annoying at times, but hardly an atrocity.
Indeed. Having seen two packages today which
On 19 Aug, 13:55, Nuno Santos nuno.hespan...@gmail.com wrote:
I have just started using libxml2dom to read html files and I have some
questions I hope you guys can answer me.
[...]
table = body.firstChild
table.nodeName
u'text' #?! Why!? Shouldn't it be a table? (1)
You answer this
On 18 Aug, 05:19, ru...@yahoo.com wrote:
Yes, I agree. I should have mentioned this as an exception
in my wikis suck diatribe. Although it far better than
most wiki's I've seen, it is still pretty easy to find signs
of typical wiki-ness. On the Documentation page my first
click was on
On 17 Aug, 19:23, Jean-Michel Pichavant jeanmic...@sequans.com
wrote:
Are you suggesting this list reject part of the community regarding its
sexual orientation, ethnicity, size, culture? If that was the case I'd
like to know about it.
Careful: you probably meant to write rejects, not reject.
On 13 Aug, 16:05, ru...@yahoo.com wrote:
All the above not withstanding, I too think a wiki is worth
trying. But without doing a lot more than just setting up
a wiki, I sadly believe even a python.org supported wiki
is doomed to failure.
The ones on python.org seem to function reasonably
On 12 Aug, 09:58, Steven D'Aprano
ste...@remove.this.cybersource.com.au wrote:
We know that there are problems. We've said repeatedly that corrections
and patches are welcome. We've repeatedly told you how to communicate
your answer to the question of what should be done. None of this is good
On 12 Aug, 14:08, Steven D'Aprano st...@remove-this-
cybersource.com.au wrote:
With tens of millions of web users, it's no surprise that Wikipedia can
attract thousands of editors. But this does not apply to Python, which
starts from a comparatively tiny population, primarily those interested
On 12 Aug, 17:08, Steven D'Aprano st...@remove-this-
cybersource.com.au wrote:
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 06:24:18 -0700, Paul Boddie wrote:
What does the Python entry on Wikipedia have to do with editing the
Python documentation in a Wiki?
Good question. I was responding to you mentioning
On 11 Aug, 23:50, ru...@yahoo.com wrote:
However, were the Python docs site to provide a wiki, along
with a mechanism to migrate suggestions developed on the wiki
into the docs, it might well be a viable (and easier because of
the wysiwyg effect) way of improving the docs. As other have
On 23 Jul, 05:55, a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) wrote:
In article
1c994086-8c58-488f-b3b3-6161c4b2b...@k30g2000yqf.googlegroups.com,
Paul Boddie p...@boddie.org.uk wrote:
http://www.boddie.org.uk/python/XSLTools.html
Thanks! I'll take a look after OSCON.
The JavaScript parts
On 20 Jul, 18:00, a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) wrote:
Out of curiosity, are there any JavaScript toolkits that generate code
that degrades gracefully when JavaScript is disabled?
You mean Web toolkits which use JavaScript, I presume. I have
written (and use myself) a toolkit/framework called
On 10 Jul, 04:54, Zac Burns zac...@gmail.com wrote:
Where do you get this beta? I heard that Psyco V2 is coming out but
can't find anything on their site to support this.
I found the Subversion repository from the Psyco site:
http://psyco.sourceforge.net/
-
On 8 Jul, 16:04, kj no.em...@please.post wrote:
identifier = expression
and not to those like, for example,
identifier[expression] = expression
or
identifier.identifier = expression
The former are syntatic sugar for certain namespace modifications
that leave objects unchanged.
On 24 Jun, 15:22, Pegasus non...@nowhere.com wrote:
I need help with an implementation of your
interpreter under PSPE/PSP.
There doesn't seem to be much of an intersection between the PSP and
mainstream Python communities, so some more context may have been
desirable here.
[...]
We believe
On 19 Jun, 21:41, Carl Banks pavlovevide...@gmail.com wrote:
(Note: I'm not talking about releasing the GIL for I/O operations,
it's not the same thing. I'm talking about the ability to run
computations on multiple cores at the same time, not to block in 50
threads at the same time.
On 16 Jun, 14:48, Lucas P Melo lukepada...@gmail.com wrote:
Is there any tool for browsing python code? (I'm having a hard time
trying to figure this out)
Anything like cscope with vim would be great.
Are you limiting your inquiry to text editors or IDEs, or are Web-
based solutions also
On 15 Jun, 14:58, willgun will...@live.cn wrote:
How to get the total size of a local hard disk?
I mean total size,not free space.
Which platform are you using? On a Linux-based system you might look
at the contents of /proc/partitions and then, presumably with Python,
parse the contents to
On 8 Jun, 12:13, bearophileh...@lycos.com wrote:
The C code produced by ShedSkin is a bit hairy but it's 50 times more
readable than the C jungle produced by Pyrex, where I have lost lot of
time looking for the missing reference counts, etc.
The C++ code produced by Shed Skin can actually
On 5 Jun, 03:18, Ron Garret rnospa...@flownet.com wrote:
According to what I thought I knew about unix (and I had fancied myself
a bit of an expert until just now) this is impossible. Python is
obviously picking up a different default encoding when its output is
being piped to a file, but I
On 5 Jun, 11:51, Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au wrote:
Actually strings in Python 2.4 or later have the ‘encode’ method, with
no need for importing extra modules:
=
$ python -c 'import sys; sys.stdout.write(u\u03bb\n.encode(utf-8))'
λ
$ python -c 'import sys;
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