Re: stackoverflow quote on Python

2012-11-14 Thread wxjmfauth
Le mardi 13 novembre 2012 16:53:30 UTC+1, Mark Lawrence a écrit : On 13/11/2012 13:21, wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote: Le mardi 13 novembre 2012 06:42:19 UTC+1, Steven D'Aprano a écrit : On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 03:08:54 +, Mark Lawrence wrote: * strings are now proper text strings

Re: stackoverflow quote on Python

2012-11-14 Thread Chris Angelico
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 7:56 PM, wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote: I'am still fascinated by the mathematically absurd negative logic used in and by the flexible string representation (algorithm). I am still fascinated that you persist in comparing a buggy old Python against a bug-free new Python and

Re: stackoverflow quote on Python

2012-11-13 Thread Alister
On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 03:08:54 +, Mark Lawrence wrote: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/python Python has two major versions (2 and 3) in use which have significant differences. I believe that this is incorrect. The warts have been removed, but significant differences, not in

Re: stackoverflow quote on Python

2012-11-13 Thread wxjmfauth
Le mardi 13 novembre 2012 06:42:19 UTC+1, Steven D'Aprano a écrit : On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 03:08:54 +, Mark Lawrence wrote: * strings are now proper text strings (Unicode), not byte strings; Let me laugh. jmf -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: stackoverflow quote on Python

2012-11-13 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 13/11/2012 13:21, wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote: Le mardi 13 novembre 2012 06:42:19 UTC+1, Steven D'Aprano a écrit : On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 03:08:54 +, Mark Lawrence wrote: * strings are now proper text strings (Unicode), not byte strings; Let me laugh. jmf Presumably because

Re: stackoverflow quote on Python

2012-11-13 Thread Ethan Furman
wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote: Le mardi 13 novembre 2012 06:42:19 UTC+1, Steven D'Aprano a écrit : On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 03:08:54 +, Mark Lawrence wrote: * strings are now proper text strings (Unicode), not byte strings; Let me laugh. *plonk* --

Re: stackoverflow quote on Python

2012-11-13 Thread Thomas Rachel
Am 13.11.2012 14:21 schrieb wxjmfa...@gmail.com: * strings are now proper text strings (Unicode), not byte strings; Let me laugh. Do so. Thomas -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

stackoverflow quote on Python

2012-11-12 Thread Mark Lawrence
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/python Python has two major versions (2 and 3) in use which have significant differences. I believe that this is incorrect. The warts have been removed, but significant differences, not in my book. If there is agreement about there not being

Re: stackoverflow quote on Python

2012-11-12 Thread Rodrick Brown
I believe this statement is correct given key differences do exist in underlying implementations even though such differences may be highly transparent to end users (developers). On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 10:08 PM, Mark Lawrence breamore...@yahoo.co.ukwrote:

Re: stackoverflow quote on Python

2012-11-12 Thread Ian Kelly
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 8:08 PM, Mark Lawrence breamore...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/python Python has two major versions (2 and 3) in use which have significant differences. I believe that this is incorrect. The warts have been removed, but significant

Re: stackoverflow quote on Python

2012-11-12 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 03:08:54 +, Mark Lawrence wrote: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/python Python has two major versions (2 and 3) in use which have significant differences. I believe that this is incorrect. The warts have been removed, but significant differences, not in