elderic enlightened us with:
are there other ways than the ones below to check for type
'function' in a python script?
First of all, why would you want to? If you want to call the object
as a function, just do so. Handle the exception that is raised when
it's raised.
Sybren
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Christophe enlightened us with:
I don't think it's a good idea because when you place a try catch
block around a function call, you'll catch any exception thrown by
the function itself and not only the cannot be called exception.
That depends on the exception you're catching, doesn't it?
alf enlightened us with:
I have a command line program which also does some interaction with the
user using stdin and stdout.
My requirement is to print prompt so the user can answer in the same
line. Unfortunately:
print 'enter command:',
does not really work as the comma is carried
John Salerno enlightened us with:
Hmm, looks like this doesn't work anyway if open() doesn't work,
because then f.close() raises an UnboundLocalError for obvious
reasons.
Neither work 100% correct, actually. If the file can be located and
opened, but not read, the message
Could not locate
Fulvio enlightened us with:
I was thinking about use md5 check to se if a file had changes since
last check. Am I correct?
You can do that, but a check on the mtime (os.stat) would be a lot
easier.
Sybren
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Paolo Pantaleo enlightened us with:
is thre something like py2exe for Linux? I don't need to build a
standalone executable (most Linuxes have python instaled), but at
least I need to provide all the needed libraries togheter with my
source code, so users just need to download one file, and not
Kjell Magne Fauske enlightened us with:
I recommend taking a look at Django [1]. It is not a CMS right out
of the box, but writing one using the Django framework is not that
difficult.
Django is my favourite as well. It's very easy to start building a
dynamic website.
Sybren
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ArdPy enlightened us with:
Is it possible to hack through the code written by Guido van Rossum
that makes the python interpreter.
Yes it is.
If yes please let me know how to begin. If its not then pardon me.
Download the source, start hacking.
Sybren
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Kamilche enlightened us with:
DetectUnusedModules.py - Detect modules that were imported but not
used in a file. When run directly, this class will check all files
in the current directory.
Nice as it is, but why not use pylint to check this and many other
coding style issues?
Sybren
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Setash enlightened us with:
class1.py:
class Class1(object):
pass
class2.py:
import class1
This line imports class1.py and places its contents under the name
class1.
classes.py:
class Class1
pass
class Class2(Class1)
pass
That's correct.
or would I
Setash enlightened us with:
1) Classes. How do you extend classes?
I know its as easy as:
class classname(a)
do stuff
But where does the parent class need to lie? In the same file? Can
it lie in another .py file in the root directory?
It doesn't matter at all, as long as 'a' is a
[EMAIL PROTECTED] enlightened us with:
is it possible in python (with/without matplotlib, numpy etc) to
store a whole class with its data into a file
Check out the pickle module.
Sybren
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JW enlightened us with:
Thanks to Michael and Nick, I can now cross-compile my Pyrex
extensions for bog-standard Python 2.5 [...] I can now use Linux to
cross-build my extension for Windows, and my preliminary testing
(under WINE -- See the original post. I must adhere to my
employment
Dave enlightened us with:
How can I translate this:
#103;#105;
to this:
gi
I've tried urllib.unencode and it doesn't work.
As you put so nicely in the subject: it is HTML encoding, not URL
encoding. Those are two very different things! Try a HTML decoder,
you'll have more luck with
[EMAIL PROTECTED] enlightened us with:
Yes, I want to find a way to send email without an external smtp server.
You can't. Use a DNS server to find the MX record of the destination
domain, connect to that SMTP server, then deliver the mail.
Sybren
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à°¶à±à°°à±à°¨à°¿à°µà°¾à°¸ enlightened us with:
Can any one tell me how can i remove a character from a unocode
text. à°à°²à±200cహార is a Telugu word in Unicode. Here i want to
remove '' but not replace with a zero width char. And one more
thing, if any whitespaces are there before
[EMAIL PROTECTED] enlightened us with:
is it possible to convert MSword docs into PDF format?
Yes, it is. check out http://www.stuvel.eu/ooo-python#header3. It's
about converting Excel to PDF, but it equally applies to MSWord.
Sybren
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Russell Warren enlightened us with:
On first pass I would think that both of those calls are single step
operations (removing/changing an entry in the FAT, or FAT-like
thing, on the HDD) and wouldn't result in an intermediate,
null-populated, step, but the evidence seems to indicate I'm
Gregory Piñero enlightened us with:
So I keep hearing more and more about this WSGI stuff, and honestly I
still don't understand what it is exactly
AFAIK it's a standard for web frameworks. In such a framework, you
receive a 'request' object, and return a 'response' object. If I'm
correct, the
Theerasak Photha enlightened us with:
3. Using IIS [...]
Why would you want to use that monstrosity?
Two words: contractual obligation
That doesn't answer the question. It only makes me ask it to someone
else, namely the parties involved in creating the contract.
Sybren
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aum enlightened us with:
I've built a module called SimpleJSONRPCServer, which is essentially
the same as the familiar python library module SimpleXMLRPCServer,
except that it uses the JSON-RPC protocol.
Thanks a lot! I've used XML-RPC on a low-speed device, and it was way
too slow.
Sybren
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SpreadTooThin enlightened us with:
Can these operators be overloaded?
Yes.
If so. How?
Implement __add__, __sub__ etc. in the class that you want to be able
to add, subtract, etc.
Sybren
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Tim Chase enlightened us with:
With the caveat of the = mentioned in the subject-line (being
different from ==)...I haven't found any way to override
assignment in the general case.
Why would you want to do that?
Sybren
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Jia,Lu enlightened us with:
I want to deal keyboard event in Linux console.
Example: I Create a deamon at background and when I press F1 key
then print Hello at Console.
Type who and see which PTY you're connected to:
sybren pts/02006-10-04 07:55 (klappie.stuvel.eu)
So I'm
Bill Williams enlightened us with:
I don't know enough about Python internals, but the suggested
solutions all seem to involve scanning bigList. Can this presumably
linear operation be avoided by using dict or similar to find all
occurrences of smallist items in biglist and then deleting those
John Machin enlightened us with:
Many thanks for all that, olive; I made the minimal hacks to make it
open an XLS ffile, and it worked!
I'll try to see why that worked and my previous experiment crashed
inside a DLL.
Thanks, keep us posted!
Sybren
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Simon Willison enlightened us with:
try:
do_something()
except HttpError:
# An HTTP error occurred
except ApplicationError:
# An application error occurred
else:
# It worked!
This does the job fine, but has a couple of problems.
I anticipate that most people using my function
John Machin enlightened us with:
Hi, Sybren. I tried folloing your recipe on Windows with OOo 2.0 ...
Minor problem: the executable is called soffice, not ooffice.
Major problem: it crashed right at the start, somewhere in the maze
of dlls.
That's not nice.
Has anyone managed to get
[EMAIL PROTECTED] enlightened us with:
Are then any currently active and reasonably mature Python plugins/
apis/whatever for programming/scripting OpenOffice? The page I've
found is http://udk.openoffice.org/python/python-bridge.html, but it
was last updated more than a year ago.
Aside from
Paul Rubin enlightened us with:
height = 0
for block in stack:
if block.is_marked():
print Lowest marked block is at height, height
break
height += block.height
else:
raise SomeError(No marked block)
all_heights = [block.height for block in stack if
Antoine De Groote enlightened us with:
Can anybody tell me the reason(s) why regular expressions are not built
into Python like it is the case with Ruby and I believe Perl?
They _are_ built into Python. Python ships with the 're' module.
Python Culture says: 'Explicit is better than
Kay Schluehr enlightened us with:
Usually I struggle a short while with \ and either succeed or give up.
Today I'm in a different mood and don't give up. So here is my
question:
You have an unknown character string c such as '\n' , '\a' , '\7' etc.
How do you echo them using print?
Antoine De Groote enlightened us with:
I hope I don't upset anybody by comparing Python to Ruby (again). Is
there something like Ruby's retry keyword in Python?
Please don't assume that everybody knows Ruby through and through...
Sybren
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Tim Williams enlightened us with:
def check_lock():
import os, sys
try:
os.remove({filename})
except:
if Permission denied in sys.exc_info()[1]:
print 'This program is already running'
sys.exit()
f_lock = open({filename},'w')
Steve Holden enlightened us with:
Otherwise you might as well say that any costs associated with using
a piece of software (including purchase pricing) are hostile to the
wants of the user.
It's true. People pay because they have to, but they'd rather not.
Sybren
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Mike Playle enlightened us with:
Imagine you're an IT manager for a medium-to-large company who wants
to use some expensive piece of software. You talk to the vendor and
buy a licence to use the software on up to 5 machines at once, but
you don't know who in the company will want to use it, so
Steve Holden enlightened us with:
And you guarantee that the contents of the smartcard is only used by
one user at a time by building a licensing system for the
smartcards?
We can never, ever make a 100% guarantee that people won't copy what
you supply them. The only way to do that is to
Erik Johnson enlightened us with:
When I run this and view the email I receive in MS Outlook Express,
what I see is the HTML rendered in the body of the message, my body
is not seen anywhere and there is no attachment.
If the HTML document should really be attached, give it a
Erik Johnson enlightened us with:
# Ah! Yes, that works! Thank you! ;)
You're welcome!
Sybren
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Aahz enlightened us with:
Fredrik Lundh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
well, if you're only watching mtv, it's easy to think that there's
obviously not much demand for country singers, blues musicians,
British hard rock bands, or melodic death metal acts.
Any other votes for this being QOTW?
+1
abcd enlightened us with:
Any suggestions on how to find out? I did try adding to MyFile
def __call__(self, *args):
print calling:, args
return file.__call__(self, *args)
but I never see that either.
I don't know the answer to your problem, but I can explain why this
doesn't
Lawrence D'Oliveiro enlightened us with:
The trouble with this is that, instead of offering extra functionality, it
leaves the door open to making two stupid mistakes:
2) quoting of wildcards BEFORE quoting of non-wildcards
Why is this a stupid mistake in your view? Please explain this in
[EMAIL PROTECTED] enlightened us with:
hi
what is the python way to concat 2 lines eg
concated = line1 + line2
Sybren
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codefire enlightened us with:
I'm using the isinstance built-in function. I've found the docs for
it, but there are no docs on the supported types.
All types/classes are supported.
For example isinstance(a, int) works fine but isinstance(s, string)
doesn't - because 'string is not known'.
Lawrence D'Oliveiro enlightened us with:
You're proposing two separate functions:
1) quoting of non-wildcard specials
2) quoting of wildcard specials
I'm suggesting functions based on the role of the string they need to
escape, not the characters in that string.
1) Quoting of
Lawrence D'Oliveiro enlightened us with:
Because quoting the wildcards introduces backslash specials before
each wildcard. Quoting non-wildcards then causes those backslashes
to be doubled, which means they escape themselves instead of the
wildcards.
I don't know about other DBMSes, but in
walterbyrd enlightened us with:
If so, I doubt there are many.
I wonder why that is?
www.uwklantprofiel.nl and www.uwpensioenanalyse.nl, both systems are
written in Python, although the website of the former is still in PHP.
It'll be Python soon, too. I've created both systems.
Sybren
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Tim Chase enlightened us with:
cur.execute(select * from people where last_name in (%s) %
','.join('%s' for i in xrange(len(t))),
t)
But since the value of 'i' isn't used at all, it can be abbreviated
to:
cur.execute(select * from people where last_name in (%s) %
Fredrik Lundh enlightened us with:
and now we're waiting for the ['%s']*len(t) vs. '%s' for i in t
benchmarks (and the consistency is more important than efficiency
and creating extra objects is conceptually wrong followups, and
the it depends on what you mean by followups to the followups)
I
Roy Smith enlightened us with:
I'm working on a product which for a long time has had a Perl
binding for our remote access API. A while ago, I wrote a Python
binding on my own, chatted it up a bit internally, and recently had
a (large) customer enquire about getting access to it.
I asked
Lawrence D'Oliveiro enlightened us with:
select * from details where person_name like
concat(\%%\, %s, \%%\) \
% \
QuoteSQL(name, True)
Wouldn't this be a whole lot better?
cursor.execute(
select * from details where person_name like ?,
'%' + name + '%'
)
Lawrence D'Oliveiro enlightened us with:
Wouldn't this be a whole lot better?
cursor.execute(
select * from details where person_name like ?,
'%' + name + '%'
)
No. Can you figure out why?
Ok, should have tested it better. This works fine on my machine,
though:
curs.execute(
Duncan Booth enlightened us with:
I think his point was that any '%' characters inside name act like
wildcards whereas his version looked for literal percents.
But of course.
This could be an argument for having a utility function to escape
the wildcards for this sort of situation, but
Lawrence D'Oliveiro enlightened us with:
An escaping function should be small and not do all kinds of
escaping for different situations at once.
Even when the two situations are related?
Yup, even then. Different situations need different escaping
functions.
Sybren
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Paddy enlightened us with:
All this keyboarding has finally caught up with me and I'm getting
aches in my fingers.
Use more force with your fingers, and take regular typing breaks.
Often RSI is caused by subtle movements without applying a lot of
force.
Another good way to beat RSI is to
Lawrence D'Oliveiro enlightened us with:
Why doesn't MySQLdb provide a function like this:
Because generally you're able to pass newlines and the like just fine.
You can even store binary data into a BLOB column.
Sybren
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T enlightened us with:
We all know that there are many softwares that require some license
key or registration key to enable them. How does one implement
something like this in python?
Why do you want to? I've never seen software successfully protected by
such schemes. If you really want to
Connelly Barnes enlightened us with:
I wrote the 'autoimp' module [1], which allows you to import lazy modules:
The main point of autoimp is to make usage of the interactive Python
prompt more productive by including from autoimp import * in the
PYTHONSTARTUP file.
Sounds like a great idea.
Lawrence D'Oliveiro enlightened us with:
Yes, I have done blobs. Still need a quoting function for the
specials, though.
Why? What makes your data so different from mine? I can store newlines
and the likes just fine in a regular text field.
Sybren
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Lex Hider enlightened us with:
Any tips on the code quality and use of python would be appreciated.
I've got a feeling the overall structure is up the creek.
I'll post some remarks about the code ;-)
HOME = os.path.expanduser(~)
I wouldn't use this. Just use os.environ['HOME']. In most cases
sridhar enlightened us with:
iam having user account on an exchangeserver.
with that can i send an email using python?
if iam using the following code iam getting error
fromAddress = '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
toAddress = '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
msg = Subject: Hello\n\nThis is the body of the
Steve Holden enlightened us with:
This is untrue for the Python smtplib, though correct according to
the RFCs. The SMTP.data() method uses a locally-declared function
called quotedata() to ensure the correct line endings, so using \n
will result in the same message as using \r\n.
Ah,
Tim Williams enlightened us with:
Can you send email via it using outlook express or a similar
POP3/IMAP mail client?
Wouldn't you use a SMTP client to send email?
Sybren
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Kevin D Smith enlightened us with:
I've written a simple Python extension for UNIX, but I need to get
it working on Windows now. I'm having some difficulties figuring
out how to do this.
I had to do the same, and I didn't get much result. My solution:
install Cygwin, use the Python that
MC enlightened us with:
Thanks!
You're welcome!
- and Python 2.4.x?
I've used Python 2.4.3 to write the article.
- I have Python 2.4 and then embbed Python 2.3 of OOo ; how
install some things in this last Python? I dream to call Pywin32
from OOo...
Please rephrase that
olive enlightened us with:
you did not understand Michel question because Ubuntu seems to be
the only distribution coming with OpenOffice and Python 2.4 compiled
together.
Ah, okay. I have no other distributions here, so I rely on others to
give me more information about them.
Others
Hi folks!
The two small snippets I wrote two days ago were well received. With
the danger of being called a hero I proceded and wrote a proper
article about OpenOffice.org and Python.
It contains the following sections:
* Preparation
* Gaining access to a document
* Getting to the
Jim Hugunin enlightened us with:
I'm extremely happy to announce that we have released IronPython 1.0
today! http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython
Congratulations!
We were also able to release IronPython publicly from Microsoft with
a BSD-style license. [...] Without the drive and input of our
Dennis Lee Bieber enlightened us with:
The above is windows, I believe Linux uses ctrl-d instead of
ctrl-z
That's correct. And so do all unix systems including MacOS X.
Sybren
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km enlightened us with:
Is there any PEP to introduce true threading features into python's
next version as in java? i mean without having GIL.
What is GIL? Except for the Dutch word for SCREAM that is...
when compared to other languages, python is fun to code but i feel
its is lacking
Hi folks,
I just noticed I still had the no archive header on, which is rather
stupid. If I want to make life easier for people, the information I
posted in this thread should be archived! Here is a small summary:
Get data from an OpenOffice.org spreadsheet with a Python script. It
works on the
John Machin enlightened us with:
Suppose one has over a hundred spreadsheets (real-life example:
budgets from an organisation's reporting centres) ... manually
opening each in OOo Calc is less than appealing, and not very
robust.
True. There are functions that can load files as well. Combined
John Machin enlightened us with:
Firstly, let me say that you are highly commended for wading so far
into the OOo docs and producing two pieces of code that actually do
something. I've opened up the docs two or three times, said Waaahht
the and closed them rapidly.
Thanks. I had the same
Erik Max Francis enlightened us with:
The other zilion persons who were not interested (other than the four I
mentioned above) silently and peacefully ignored the question on went
on with their happy lifes.
That's because many of them have killfiled you.
I can say that I didn't killfile him.
jj_frap enlightened us with:
When I try to print the winner (I've not coded for kicker strength
and ties yet) via the max function, it returns the maximum value in
the list rather than the index associated with that value.
How do I return the index?
You can't even be sure it exists - there
Arthur Pemberton enlightened us with:
What is the best way to do data source abtraction?
That depends on your data source. For files, file-like objects are an
abstraction. For databases there is PEP 249.
I was thinking of almost having classA as my main class, and have
classA dynamically
Bo Yang enlightened us with:
I have writen a python program to slove a problem described as
below:
Please post again, but then leaving indentation intact, since this is
unreadable.
Sybren
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capital punishment for
Manoj Kumar P enlightened us with:
Can anyone tell me a good python editor/IDE?
It would be great if you can provide the download link also.
VIM 7 is great, http://www.vim.org/
Sybren
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The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a
capital punishment for stupidity,
David C Ullrich enlightened us with:
I thought that the fact that you could use the same trick for
_shuffling_ a list was my idea, gonna make me rich and famous. I
guess I'm not the only one who thought of it. Anyway, you can use
DSU to _shuffle_ a list by decorating the list with random
k.i.n.g. enlightened us with:
Now I have to write a script to generate random password in the
password field for each user. A simple algorithm is sufficient for
passwords
Check out the source of pwsafe, it has a great password generator. It
can generate with different lengths, based on amount
Dale Strickland-Clark enlightened us with:
So it encodes the entity reference to ⬠(Euro sign).  I need it to
remain as #8364; so that the resulting HTML can render properly in
a browser.
If you want proper display, why not use UTF-8?
Sybren
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The problem with the world is stupidity. Not
SamFeltus enlightened us with:
I do find it interesting that Flash folks readily will acknowledge
that Flash has shortcomings yet anti-Flash folks seem to have great
difficulty acknowledging Flash's positive features over HTML.
I must say I've never seen a pro-Flash person acknowledging that
SamFeltus enlightened us with:
1. Loss of back button
Isn't this really a myth?
No, it isn't a myth. Pressing the back button is the action second
most performed in a browser, clicking a link being the first. People
want to go back from where they came.
A page with a time dimension, be it
[EMAIL PROTECTED] enlightened us with:
None of you seem to know what you are talking about.
That's not a way to make friends. I very well know what I'm talking
about. None of the issues I've raised are negated by what you say, so
every single one still stands.
Flash also behaves consistently
Duncan Booth enlightened us with:
Can you point at any significant body of publically visible Python
code which uses tabs exclusively?
Everything Python at http://www.stuvel.eu/software
Also, in the open source universe you are quite likely to pull in
bits of code from other projects, and
Ben Finney enlightened us with:
Please don't spam here to ask for discussion on another forum, on a
tangentially related topic.
Hey, it's at least better than asking for a discussion on a
tangentially related topic _here_ ;-)
Sybren
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Brian Blazer enlightened us with:
def getCurrentClasses():
classes = []
print 'Please enter the class name. When finished enter D.'
while (c != D):
No need for the parentheses, and 'c' doesn't have a value yet. If you
add 'c=' before the while-loop, it should be
Harlin Seritt enlightened us with:
I have some code here:
groups = {'IRISH' : 'green', 'AMERICAN' : 'blue'}
I want to add another key: 'ITALIAN' : 'orange'
How do I append this to 'groups'?
groups['ITALIAN'] = 'orange'
Sybren
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Brian Blazer enlightened us with:
I'm still not sure why it was grabbing the prompt string though.
Me neither. Try it in a standalone script instead of an interactive
session.
Sybren
--
The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a
capital punishment for stupidity, but
Florian Diesch enlightened us with:
- Flash is a proprietary technology requiring a proprietary plugin.
There seem to be at least two free implementations:
But the website of OP together with the websites of many other people
are incompatible with those, since they require the latest and
Dave Kuhlman enlightened us with:
For those who are beginners to using Python to process XML, I've
recently updated my Python XML FAQ (PyXMLFaq). It has a number of
code samples that may help you get started.
You might want to include a list of things you assume the reader
already knows,
Heiko Wundram enlightened us with:
And: the web is a platform to offer _information_. Not to offer
shiny graphics/sound [...]
Many would disagree...
Not me, but I know a lot of people that would.
Sybren
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capital
SamFeltus enlightened us with:
I am trying to figure out why so little web development in Python
uses Flash as a display technology.
There are a couple of reasons:
- Flash is bad for websites that are 100% done inside the Flash
movie. In such a case the back-button doesn't work
SamFeltus enlightened us with:
I guess there isn't much to understand. If you are satisfied with a
text based, static image web, that is light on artistic
possabilities, all that HTML stuff is acceptable.
You don't need Flash to be artistic.
Perhaps the HTML/JS group will even get off their
Alex Pavluck enlightened us with:
SPE is amazing with the intellisense but maybe there is a better
choice out there.
Check VIM. The newly released VIM 7.0 has smart completion too
(intellisense is a trademark of Microsoft)
Sybren
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The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there
Duncan Booth enlightened us with:
In particular a common convention is to have indentations at 4
spaces and tabs expanding to 8 spaces.
Aaaw that is SO ugly! Sure, it displays correctly on systems that have
tab stops every 8 spaces given a monospaced font, but that is about
all that is positive
Duncan Booth enlightened us with:
It is strange. You use many of the same words as me, but they don't make
any sense.
You forgot to add to me to the end of that sentence. Personally,
Achates' words made perfect sense to me.
The point is about separating the presentation of the source file
achates enlightened us with:
True! but normally if I'm editing someone else's code then I'm only
making small changes and so can't be bothered to temporarily cripple my
editor. If I'm merging my code with someone else's space-indented code
then piping through sed 's/TAB/SPACES' does the trick.
Andy Sy enlightened us with:
Now... if you say you SHOULDN'T mix tabs and spaces (indeed this is
generally regarded as a BAD idea esp. in Python code)
I indeed say so.
then WHAT THE HECK do you need to use tab characters in the source
code for anyway (besides saving a measly few bytes) ??!?
Andy Sy enlightened us with:
Like I said, you'll *NEVER* get that fancy shmancy 'semantic
indentation' idea to work properly in the most basic utilities which
have the 8-space tabs assumption hardcoded in them.
Fair enough. How much code is viewed with less and cat, and how much
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