Re: the meaning of r?.......ï¾

2012-08-28 Thread Robert Miles
On 7/23/2012 1:10 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 16:42:51 +0200, Henrik Faber hfa...@invalid.net declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general: If that was written by my coworkers, I'd strangle them. My first real assignment, 31 years ago, was porting an

Re: the meaning of rユ.......�¾

2012-07-24 Thread Larry Hudson
On 07/23/2012 06:22 AM, Dave Angel wrote: On 07/23/2012 09:06 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 10:55 PM, Roy Smith r...@panix.com wrote: Some day, we're going to have programming languages that take advantage of the full unicode character set. Right now, we're working in

Re: the meaning of r`.......`

2012-07-24 Thread Thomas Rachel
Am 23.07.2012 17:59 schrieb Steven D'Aprano: Before you get a language that uses full Unicode, you'll need to have fairly generally available keyboards that have those keys. Or at least keys or key combinations for the stuff you need, which might differ e. g. with the country you live in.

Re: the meaning of r’.......‘

2012-07-23 Thread Chris Angelico
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 5:56 PM, levi nie levinie...@gmail.com wrote: the meaning of r’...‘? It's a raw string. http://docs.python.org/py3k/tutorial/introduction.html#strings Chris Angelico -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: the meaning of r’.......‘

2012-07-23 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 17:59:42 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 5:56 PM, levi nie levinie...@gmail.com wrote: the meaning of r’...‘? It's a raw string. Technically, no, it's a SyntaxError, because the Original Poster has used some sort of Smart Quotes characters r

Re: the meaning of rユ.......��

2012-07-23 Thread Roy Smith
In article 500d0632$0$1504$c3e8da3$76491...@news.astraweb.com, Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote: Technically, no, it's a SyntaxError, because the Original Poster has used some sort of Smart Quotes characters r’‘ instead of good old fashioned typewriter-style

Re: the meaning of rユ.......�¾

2012-07-23 Thread Chris Angelico
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 10:55 PM, Roy Smith r...@panix.com wrote: Some day, we're going to have programming languages that take advantage of the full unicode character set. Right now, we're working in ASCII and creating silly digrams/trigrams like r'' for raw strings (and triple-quotes for

Re: the meaning of rユ.......�¾

2012-07-23 Thread Dave Angel
On 07/23/2012 09:06 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 10:55 PM, Roy Smith r...@panix.com wrote: Some day, we're going to have programming languages that take advantage of the full unicode character set. Right now, we're working in ASCII and creating silly digrams/trigrams like

Re: the meaning of r�.......?3�4

2012-07-23 Thread Roy Smith
In article mailman.2463.1343048808.4697.python-l...@python.org, Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com wrote: But personally, I've always used backslash. It's nothing to do with ASCII and everything to do with having it on the keyboard. Before you get a language that uses full Unicode, you'll need

Re: the meaning of r?.......ï¾

2012-07-23 Thread MRAB
On 23/07/2012 14:24, Henrik Faber wrote: [snip] And if I think of PHP's latest fiasco that happened with unicode characters, it makes me shudder to think you'd want that stuff in Python. If I remember correctly, it was the Turkish locale that they stuggled with: Turkey apparently does not have a

Re: the meaning of rユ.......�¾

2012-07-23 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 23:06:45 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 10:55 PM, Roy Smith r...@panix.com wrote: Some day, we're going to have programming languages that take advantage of the full unicode character set. Right now, we're working in ASCII and creating silly

Re: the meaning of rユ.......�¾

2012-07-23 Thread Chris Angelico
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 1:59 AM, Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote: http://www.rexswain.com/rexx.html#operators Only one? Pfft. What's the difference between Strictly greater than and Greater than? The non-strict forms strip trailing spaces off strings before

Re: the meaning of rユ.......��

2012-07-23 Thread Ross Ridge
Roy Smith r...@panix.com wrote: When I first started writing C code, it was on ASR-33s which did not support curly baces. We wrote ¥( for { and ¥) for } (although I think the translation was handled entirely in the TTY driver and the compiler was never in on the joke). 20 or 30 years from

Re: the meaning of r’.......‘

2012-07-23 Thread Terry Reedy
On 7/23/2012 3:59 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 5:56 PM, levi nie levinie...@gmail.com wrote: the meaning of r’...‘? It's a raw string. http://docs.python.org/py3k/tutorial/introduction.html#strings Strictly speaking, it is a raw string literal, which should

Re: the meaning of r’.......‘

2012-07-23 Thread Chris Angelico
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 7:07 AM, Terry Reedy tjre...@udel.edu wrote: On 7/23/2012 3:59 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 5:56 PM, levi nie levinie...@gmail.com wrote: the meaning of r’...‘? It's a raw string. http://docs.python.org/py3k/tutorial/introduction.html

Re: the meaning of r’.......‘

2012-07-23 Thread John Roth
On Monday, July 23, 2012 1:59:42 AM UTC-6, Chris Angelico wrote: On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 5:56 PM, levi nie lt;levinie...@gmail.comgt; wrote: gt; the meaning of r’...‘? It#39;s a raw string. http://docs.python.org/py3k/tutorial/introduction.html#strings Chris Angelico Since