Re: Changing filenames from Greeklish => Greek (subprocess complain)

2013-06-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 02 June 2013 13:10:30 Chris Angelico did opine: > On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 2:21 AM, حéêüëلïٍ تï‎ٌلٍ wrote: > > Paying for someone to just remove a dash to get the script working is > > too much to ask for > > One dash: 1c > Knowing where to remove it: $99.99 > Total bill: $100.00 > > K

Re: RFD: rename comp.lang.python to comp.support.superhost

2013-06-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 14 June 2013 08:33:36 Roy Smith did opine: > In article > <8a333cd0-c1cf-4f41-ac49-65f0b23ed...@ow4g2000pbc.googlegroups.com>, > > alex23 wrote: > > On Jun 14, 2:24 am, حéêüëلïٍ تï‎ٌلٍ wrote: > > > iam researchign a solution to this as we speak. > > > > Spamming endless "ZOMG HELP M

Re: newbie question

2013-06-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 22 June 2013 22:46:51 christheco...@gmail.com did opine: > Writing simple program asking a question with the answer being > "yes"...how do I allow the correct answer if user types Yes, yes, or > YES? > > Thanks AND each character coming in from the keyboard with $DF before adding it

Re: Limit Lines of Output

2013-06-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 25 June 2013 17:47:22 Joshua Landau did opine: > On 25 June 2013 21:22, Bryan Britten wrote: > > Ah, I always forget to mention my OS on these forums. I'm running > > Windows. > > Supposedly, Windows has "more" > [http://superuser.com/questions/426226/less-or-more-in-windows], Yes, b

Re: Homework help requested (not what you think!)

2013-07-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 18 July 2013 09:04:32 Albert van der Horst did opine: > In article , > > Chris Angelico wrote: > >On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 8:43 AM, John Ladasky > > > > wrote: > >> I think that they're disappointed when I show them how much they have > >> to > > > >understand just to write a program

Re: How to safely maintain a status file

2012-07-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 12 July 2012 23:21:16 Steven D'Aprano did opine: > On Fri, 13 Jul 2012 12:12:01 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Rick Johnson > > > > wrote: > >> On Jul 12, 2:39 pm, Christian Heimes wrote: > >>> Windows's file system layer is not POSIX compatible.

Re: Gender, Representativeness and Reputation in StackOverflow

2012-07-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 23 July 2012 19:42:29 Alexander Serebrenik did opine: > 1) The paper referenced contains 4 pages, so it should be available via > IEEXplore. Moreover, you can find a copy on > http://www.win.tue.nl/~aserebre/MSR2012.pdf > > 2) Since the survey is only one of the techniques we intend to

Re: Arithmetic with Boolean values

2012-08-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 12 August 2012 20:27:13 Alister did opine: > On Sun, 12 Aug 2012 19:20:26 +0100, Mark Lawrence wrote: > > On 12/08/2012 17:59, Paul Rubin wrote: > >>> which can be simplified to: > >> > >>> for x in range(len(L)//2 + len(L)%2): > >> for x in range(sum(divmod(len(L), 2))): ... > > > > S

Re: Obnoxious postings from Google Groups (was: datetime issue)

2012-09-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 16 September 2012 12:08:47 pandora.ko...@gmail.com did opine: > Whaen i tried to post just now by hitting sumbit, google groups told me > that the following addresssed has benn found in this thread! i guess is > used them all to notify everything! > > cdf072b2-7359-4417-b1e4-d984e4317..

Re: Obnoxious postings from Google Groups (was: datetime issue)

2012-09-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 16 September 2012 12:29:39 pandora.ko...@gmail.com did opine: > > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > > > > email client to python-list@python.org > > wait a minute! i must use my ISP's news server and then post o > comp.lang.python no? No. > What is python-list@p

Re: subprocess call is not waiting.

2012-09-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 19 September 2012 11:56:44 Hans Mulder did opine: > On 19/09/12 12:26:30, andrea crotti wrote: > > 2012/9/18 Dennis Lee Bieber : > >> Unless you have a really massive result set from that "ls", > >> that > >> > >> command probably ran so fast that it is blocked waitin

Re: A desperate lunge for on-topic-ness

2012-10-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 18 October 2012 18:40:52 Grant Edwards did opine: > On 2012-10-18, Den wrote: > > On Wednesday, October 17, 2012 11:06:43 PM UTC-7, Zero Piraeus wrote: > >> What are people's preferred strategies for dealing with lines that go > > > >> over 79 characters? A few I can think of off the

Re: A desperate lunge for on-topic-ness

2012-10-21 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 21 October 2012 07:02:26 Steven D'Aprano did opine: > On Sat, 20 Oct 2012 14:18:47 +, Grant Edwards wrote: > > On 2012-10-20, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > >>Strangely, we've gone from 80-character fixed width displays to > >> > >> who-knows-what (if I drop my font size I can prob

Re: Where are documentation for Gnome

2012-10-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 28 October 2012 16:45:12 GangGreene did opine: > On Sun, 28 Oct 2012 16:29:07 +, Mark Lawrence wrote: > > On 13/10/2012 18:49, Santosh Kumar wrote: > > > > > > Try your local garden centre. > > I inquired at the local garden centre, Just got strange looks > > Are you sure tha

Re: Spam source (Re: Horror Horror Horror!!!!!)

2012-11-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 18 November 2012 21:18:16 Robert Miles did opine: > On Sunday, November 18, 2012 1:35:00 PM UTC-6, Terry Reedy wrote: > > The question was raised as to how much spam comes from googlegroups. > > > > Not all, but more that half, I believe. This one does. > > > > > > > > From: MoneyMak

Re: Tcl wasn't installed properly

2012-12-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 07 December 2012 02:25:33 bhargavigosw...@gmail.com did opine: > I faced the same problem during my last installation of ns2.35 in ubuntu > 11.04. After I install ns2.35, got message of successful installation > of ns. Then I set path in /.bashrc. Then I gave ns command which gave > me s

Is there a quick & accurate way to test a python install?

2012-12-15 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings; I had an app that is a heavy user of python crash on exit earlier today, and ever since, the app complains it can't find something in the python tree, and eventually the app exits. The leading few lines of the dmesg report are: Starting LinuxCNC... redis server started as: 'redis-se

Re: Is there a quick & accurate way to test a python install?

2012-12-15 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 15 December 2012 21:19:37 Terry Reedy did opine: > On 12/15/2012 8:38 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > see > 26.11.2. I'm not a python guru, Terry, so you will have to expand on this 26.11.2. Thanks > Running tests using the command-line interface > for your v

Re: Is there a quick & accurate way to test a python install?

2012-12-15 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 15 December 2012 21:52:00 Terry Reedy did opine: > On 12/15/2012 9:21 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Saturday 15 December 2012 21:19:37 Terry Reedy did opine: > >> On 12/15/2012 8:38 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> > >> see > >> 26.11.2.

Re: Is there a quick & accurate way to test a python install?

2012-12-15 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 15 December 2012 22:07:54 Terry Reedy did opine: > On 12/15/2012 9:21 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Saturday 15 December 2012 21:19:37 Terry Reedy did opine: > >> On 12/15/2012 8:38 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> > >> see > >> 26.11.2.

Re: Is there a quick & accurate way to test a python install?

2012-12-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 16 December 2012 01:33:35 Terry Reedy did opine: > On 12/15/2012 9:59 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > This is 2.6, on ubuntu-10.04.4 LTS > > > > gene@lathe:/usr/lib/python2.6/test$ python -m test.regrtest > > That should be the right incantation f

Re: Is there a quick & accurate way to test a python install?

2012-12-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 16 December 2012 14:55:53 Terry Reedy did opine: > On 12/16/2012 6:22 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Sunday 16 December 2012 01:33:35 Terry Reedy did opine: > >> You appear to have some of /Lib/test/ present, including > >> Lib/test/regrtest.py, but not move

License status of pycollada?

2013-01-07 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; Trying to collect all the dependencies of FreeCad-0.13, but it appears that pycollada is behind some sort of a login/paywall on github. Is anyone here familiar with how that works? Thanks. Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, j

Re: License status of pycollada?

2013-01-08 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 08 January 2013 14:09:55 Jeff Terrace did opine: Message additions Copyright Tuesday 08 January 2013 by Gene Heskett > Hi Gene, > > I'm the maintainer of pycollada. No such paywall exists, and a login is > not required. I'm not sure how you came across that. &

Re: Algorithm. Tony Gaddis book 2 Starting python3

2013-01-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 27 January 2013 13:05:27 george...@talktalk.net did opine: Message additions Copyright Sunday 27 January 2013 by Gene Heskett > Hi > Question 3 Chp2 Page 76 > Adds2 to a and assigns the result to b. > I have several attemtps,would like to check my answer.help please > A

Re: TEST AN EXECUTABLE PYTHON SCRIPT SPEED UNDER A PYTHON SHELL

2012-02-16 Thread gene heskett
On Thursday, February 16, 2012 08:40:04 PM Arnaud Delobelle did opine: > On 16 February 2012 21:10, Prasad, Ramit wrote: > >>> When you reply to a known bot, please include some indication of the > >>> fact, so we know your message can be ignored as well. > >> > >>Sometimes I wonder about 8.

Re: Questionnaire on motivation analysis of open source and open content

2012-02-23 Thread gene heskett
On Wednesday, February 22, 2012 03:14:51 PM George Tsinarakis did opine: > Dear Sirs, > > We are researchers in Technical University of Crete and our current > research is in the field of motivation analysis of open source and open > content software projects participants. We would like to ask yo

Re: is this foolish?

2012-04-12 Thread gene heskett
On Thursday, April 12, 2012 10:40:47 AM Tim Golden did opine: > On 12/04/2012 10:35, Cameron Simpson wrote: > > I've found myself using a Python gotcha as a feature. > Tim: your setup of using the CC: line for every thing with a blank To: line is landing your posts in my spam folder. Do you ha

Re: Lisp refactoring puzzle

2011-07-12 Thread gene heskett
On Tuesday, July 12, 2011 02:08:02 PM Terry Reedy did opine: > On 7/11/2011 11:37 PM, Xah Lee wrote: > > watch the first episode of Douglas Crockford's talk here: > > http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/theater/video.php?v=crockonjs-1 > > The link includes a transcript of the talk, which I read > >

Re: Lisp refactoring puzzle

2011-07-13 Thread gene heskett
On Wednesday, July 13, 2011 05:34:23 AM Terry Reedy did opine: > On 7/12/2011 2:23 PM, gene heskett wrote: > > Now, I hate to mention it Terry, but your clock seems to be about 126 > > months behind the rest of the world. > > Please do not hate to be helpful. It was a bad ma

Re: Functional style programming in python: what will you talk about if you have an hour on this topic?

2011-07-13 Thread gene heskett
On Wednesday, July 13, 2011 09:38:26 AM Anthony Kong did opine: > (My post did not appear in the mailing list, so this is my second try. > Apology if it ends up posted twice) > Actually, it did, but gmail, in its infinite wisdom, thinks an echo of your post to a mailing list is a duplicate, and

Re: a little parsing challenge ☺

2011-07-17 Thread gene heskett
Ported to OS9 and further tweaked * * Brian Paquette March 91 * * Brackets, single, double quote counters added* * & renamed Cntx 04/09/91* * by Gene Heskett * *

Re: Tabs -vs- Spaces: Tabs should have won.

2011-07-17 Thread gene heskett
On Sunday, July 17, 2011 10:28:16 AM Dotan Cohen did opine: > On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 19:51, rantingrick wrote: > > -- > > Evidence: Tabs ARE superior! > > -- > > I am also a recent spaces-to-tabs co

Re: Tabs -vs- Spaces: Tabs should have won.

2011-07-18 Thread gene heskett
On Sunday, July 17, 2011 08:24:12 PM Dotan Cohen did opine: > On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 17:29, gene heskett wrote: > >> I'm still looking for the perfect programming font. Suggestions > >> welcomed. > > > > When you find it Dotan, let me know, I've been

Re: Tabs -vs- Spaces: Tabs should have won.

2011-07-18 Thread gene heskett
On Monday, July 18, 2011 09:32:19 AM Tim Chase did opine: > On 07/17/2011 08:01 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > Roy Smith wrote: > >> We don't have that problem any more. It truly boggles my > >> mind that we're still churning out people with 80 column > >> minds. I'm willing to entertain argumen

Re: List spam

2011-08-18 Thread gene heskett
On Thursday, August 18, 2011 09:51:04 AM Philip Semanchuk did opine: > On Aug 18, 2011, at 8:58 AM, Jason Staudenmayer wrote: > > I really like this list as part of my learning tools but the amount of > > spam that I've been getting from it is CRAZY. Doesn't anything get > > scanned before it sent

Re: List spam

2011-08-18 Thread gene heskett
On Thursday, August 18, 2011 12:08:00 PM Ghodmode did opine: > On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 9:39 PM, Philip Semanchuk wrote: > > On Aug 18, 2011, at 8:58 AM, Jason Staudenmayer wrote: > >> I really like this list as part of my learning tools but the amount > >> of spam that I've been getting from it

Re: List spam

2011-08-18 Thread gene heskett
On Thursday, August 18, 2011 12:08:38 PM Alain Ketterlin did opine: > "Jason Staudenmayer" writes: > > I really like this list as part of my learning tools but the amount of > > spam that I've been getting from it is CRAZY. Doesn't anything get > > scanned before it sent to the list? > > I'm usi

Re: List spam

2011-08-18 Thread gene heskett
On Thursday, August 18, 2011 12:14:39 PM Alain Ketterlin did opine: > Ghodmode writes: > > [...] > > > Make an effort to curb the spam even if it means killing the newsgroup > > availability. Choose mailman or Google Groups, or another single > > solution. Make it members only, but allow anyo

Re: List spam

2011-08-18 Thread gene heskett
On Thursday, August 18, 2011 02:12:58 PM Alain Ketterlin did opine: > gene heskett writes: > >> Or save work and find a public nntp server (or setup one, or ask your > >> provider), and use a news reader to follow the list (even thunderbird > >> can do this). No s

Re: List spam

2011-08-18 Thread gene heskett
On Thursday, August 18, 2011 02:26:24 PM Peter Pearson did opine: > On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 12:15:59 -0400, gene heskett > wrote: [snip] > > > What is wrong with the mailing list only approach? > > In the mailing-list approach, how do I search for prior discussions >

Re: List spam

2011-08-18 Thread gene heskett
On Thursday, August 18, 2011 05:18:42 PM Terry Reedy did opine: > On 8/18/2011 12:14 PM, gene heskett wrote: > > into a REAL mailing list. Subscribers only, or get past a GOOD > > captcha. > > I just had an idea. Ask 'What is python? __" or &

Re: List spam

2011-08-19 Thread gene heskett
On Thursday, August 18, 2011 10:23:49 PM Steven D'Aprano did opine: > gene heskett wrote: > >> But I'd like to return the question. What's wrong with nntp? > > > > The sheer volume of traffic eats 99% of an ISP's bandwidth. > > I doubt that v

Re: List spam

2011-08-19 Thread gene heskett
On Thursday, August 18, 2011 12:16:50 PM Jason Staudenmayer did opine: [...] > I do know it is ironic that I forgot to stop the footer for the one > reply. It's not my choice to add it but I was able to find a way around > that work policy for list emails. I'm a strong opponent of dropping any > e

Re: try... except with unknown error types

2011-08-23 Thread gene heskett
On Tuesday, August 23, 2011 04:42:04 AM Chris Angelico did opine: > On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 8:21 AM, Paul Rubin wrote: > > Chris Angelico writes: > >> Ehh, granted. Definitely a case of "should". But certainly, there > >> won't be an infinite number of new exceptions invented; > > > > Right, t

Re: The Incredible Growth of Python (stackoverflow.blog)

2017-09-09 Thread Gene Heskett
> > > > So, Python's rate of expansion is accelerating, like > > the universe. Does that mean there's some kind of dark > > energy fuelling its growth? > > The Python Secret Underground emphatically does not exist. > > ChrisA Humm. here all this time I tho

Re: The Incredible Growth of Python (stackoverflow.blog)

2017-09-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 10 September 2017 01:06:00 Ben Finney wrote: > Gene Heskett writes: > > On Saturday 09 September 2017 21:48:44 Chris Angelico wrote: > > > The Python Secret Underground emphatically does not exist. > > > > Humm. here all this time I thought you were a c

Re: People choosing Python 3

2017-09-10 Thread Gene Heskett
ry to the usual practice, fixed so that stuff built and installed locally, with identical names to the distro's /usr/bin contents, is found first in /usr/local/bin and the newer version is used. That "usual practice" is going to be a very high hill to climb. I personally would never

Re: Even Older Man Yells at Whippersnappers

2017-09-19 Thread Gene Heskett
e to follow the federal recipes. So who the hell do we sue to put some "education" back into the classroom? The only way we'll fix it is to cost the decision makers their salaries. And we start that by talking to the candidates, and voting them in or out accordingly in those

Re: Even Older Man Yells At Whippersnappers

2017-09-20 Thread Gene Heskett
gs, 2 points in the next book, at a market 162 station. The average General Manager would kill for a 2 point better Nielson book. And I had fun doing it! Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use i

Re: Even Older Man Yells At Whippersnappers

2017-09-20 Thread Gene Heskett
saved 4 or 5 copies on a 2 minute cart. Then did another for backup, and a 3rd cart I took home. Fast fwd to 2017, it and a paper copy of that machine code is on the top shelf here in this room. Yeah, I've had packratitis all my life. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four bo

Re: Thread safety issue (I think) with defaultdict

2017-11-03 Thread Gene Heskett
p event that gets dropped. The machine keeps moving until it crashes into something, often breaking drive parts or cutting tooling, all of which cost real money. My point is that with an interpretor such as hal managing things, threads Just Work(TM). It does of course take a specially built kernel t

Re: we want python software

2017-12-06 Thread Gene Heskett
norms are so > deeply embedded they might even be biological. I can completely > understand KM's apparant anger. > > The bottom line is, I disagree that KM's posts were out of line and > more worthy of chastisement than Jyothiswaroop's post. > > > > > > [1]

Re: Politeness (was: we want python software)

2017-12-06 Thread Gene Heskett
free and good. It's a concept that makes no sense to the teachers, so of course they don't teach it either. Hell of a way to run a train. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in tha

Re: Politeness (was: we want python software)

2017-12-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 06 December 2017 12:14:32 Ian Kelly wrote: > On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 9:42 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Wednesday 06 December 2017 11:28:22 Random832 wrote: > >> The third possibility is that he believes that this list is > >> official in some corporate

Re: Politeness (was: we want python software)

2017-12-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 06 December 2017 15:33:40 Ian Kelly wrote: > On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 10:56 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Wednesday 06 December 2017 12:14:32 Ian Kelly wrote: > >> On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 9:42 AM, Gene Heskett > > > > wrote: > >> > On Wed

Re: repeating posts

2017-12-09 Thread Gene Heskett
For me they are highly spammy, and are winding up in my spam box, scoreing around 8 because the headers are so mucked up. I train Bayes on that folder daily, move it to another folder so I can retrieve it if I want to. Thats a very rare occurrence. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four

Re: [TKinter]How to set LabelFrames font and color from option file

2017-12-14 Thread Gene Heskett
a list of the keywordses to use? > > thanks > > beppe In pyvcp, the xml file can have: ("Helvetica",16) ... It has a default, which I haven't changed, but the above ("Helvetica",12) s/b how you do it. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes t

Re: [TKinter]How to set LabelFrames font and color from option file

2017-12-14 Thread Gene Heskett
t an led underline under it for state. That would save a considerable acreage in screen real estate if it were possible on an already busy linuxcnc gui. IMO the enforced blank space around text is also a huge waster of screen real estate. You can find some tut's on doing all this i

Re: [TKinter]How to set LabelFrames font and color from option file

2017-12-14 Thread Gene Heskett
t; > > >> *Labelframe*font: Helvetica 14 > > >> *Labelframe*foreground: red > > >> > > >> everything should work as expected. > > > > > > perfect, it works too much well, even my buttons now are helvetica > > > 14 and red ;( &

Re: Python Learning

2017-12-18 Thread Gene Heskett
cation is required to get a business license for an electronics service business in Kalipornia, weeds out the fly by nighters there was a plague of back in the 60's _& 70's. There really ought to be a similar program for coders. I'd probably fail that one, but generall

Re: Python Learning

2017-12-18 Thread Gene Heskett
rena, wrapped in non-disclosure clauses that prevent him from even saying what color he dots the i's with, so he gets work as much by word of mouth as other more conventional paths. To not hire him because he doesn't have a big portfolio could be a mistake, Rob. Its up to you. > -- > Rob G

Re: is comp.lang.python still the pinnacle of the py community ?

2018-01-05 Thread Gene Heskett
ond or two, and deleted the next day. . And your posts are about to be added to that. Say something helpfull to the python knowledge base, or STFU, this is not intended to be your private podium to call the rest of the world un-enlightened or names. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four

Re: [OT] Re: has sourceforge exposed the dirty little secret ?

2018-01-07 Thread Gene Heskett
ked at the > NNTP-List boundary, it should show the same on any recent mail reader. > > Christian Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: [OT] Re: has sourceforge exposed the dirty little secret ?

2018-01-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 07 January 2018 17:37:14 Random832 wrote: > On Sun, Jan 7, 2018, at 17:27, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > 🐍 💻 > > > > But here its broken and I am looking at two pairs of vertical boxes > > because it is not properly mime'd. If you use chars or gliphs

Re: [OT] Re: has sourceforge exposed the dirty little secret ?

2018-01-07 Thread Gene Heskett
he better part of half an hour trying all the fonts available to kmail, without see anything but variable sizes of twin boxes. Looking at the raw message its also marked transfer content encoding = base64, which I'd assume destroys any semblance of an 8 bit encoding. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- &quo

Re: [OT] Re: has sourceforge exposed the dirty little secret ?

2018-01-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 07 January 2018 19:04:12 Chris Angelico wrote: > On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 10:50 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Sunday 07 January 2018 17:37:14 Random832 wrote: > >> On Sun, Jan 7, 2018, at 17:27, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> > > 🐍 💻 > >> > &

Re: [OT] Re: has sourceforge exposed the dirty little secret ?

2018-01-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 07 January 2018 19:04:12 Chris Angelico wrote: > On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 10:50 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Sunday 07 January 2018 17:37:14 Random832 wrote: > >> On Sun, Jan 7, 2018, at 17:27, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> > > 🐍 💻 > >> > &

Re: [OT] Re: has sourceforge exposed the dirty little secret ?

2018-01-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 07 January 2018 19:38:37 Chris Angelico wrote: > On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 11:33 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > And here, unifont showed them as empty boxes. So does that point the > > finger of guilt to kmail? This is the TDE, R14.0.5 version. Hundreds > > of bugs fi

Re: documentation on read.encode

2018-01-16 Thread Gene Heskett
installed? In my copy of the manpage: base64 [OPTION]... [FILE] where option is: -w, --wrap=COLS wrap encoded lines after COLS character (default 76). Use 0 to disable line wrapping. Seems pretty simple. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of

Re: Where has the practice of sending screen shots as source code come from?

2018-01-28 Thread Gene Heskett
t; soon get audio-clips as signatures. Thank god he was wrong about that. > > hp > > [1] 280 now. But by mentioning it, somebody will now do it. The problem will be what the hell do you play it with... -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: This newsgroup (comp.lang.python) may soon be blocked by Google Gro

2018-02-10 Thread Gene Heskett
lather that comes out of googlegroups. If google is unhappy and cuts it off, methinks they should run a broom through their own real estate first. > > -- > Steve -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. P

Problem: Need galileo running on debian wheezy

2018-03-01 Thread Gene Heskett
I know its supposed to be in the debian stretch repo's. I've been told to get a fitbit, but they don't support linux of any flavor, and that leaves galileo as the possible solution? So how should I proceed since the only stretch machine I have ATM is an arm64, aka a rock64. -

Problem: Need galileo running on debian wheezy

2018-03-01 Thread Gene Heskett
I know its supposed to be in the debian stretch repo's. I've been told to get a fitbit, but they don't support linux of any flavor, and that leaves galileo as the possible solution? So how should I proceed since the only stretch machine I have ATM is an arm64, aka a rock64. -

Re: Problem: Need galileo running on debian wheezy

2018-03-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 01 March 2018 15:31:32 Cousin Stanley wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > > I know its supposed to be in the debian stretch repo's. > > > > I've been told to get a fitbit, but they don't support linux > > of any flavor, and that leaves galile

Re: Problem: Need galileo running on debian wheezy

2018-03-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 01 March 2018 17:29:27 Wildman via Python-list wrote: > On Thu, 01 Mar 2018 13:44:27 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > I know its supposed to be in the debian stretch repo's. > > > > I've been told to get a fitbit, but they don't support linux of any

Re: Problem: Need galileo running on debian wheezy

2018-03-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 02 March 2018 10:27:57 Cousin Stanley wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > And the rock64 doesn't have wifi hardware > > that I know of. > > > > I did manage to get wifi working on my rock64 > using a usb wifi dongle ordered fr

python 3.10 vs breakage

2022-08-26 Thread gene heskett
a fixed version for bookworm? Or even a bugs fixed release for bullseye? Thanks all. Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the la

Re: python 3.10 vs breakage

2022-08-26 Thread gene heskett
2022-08-26 at 16:37 -0400, gene heskett wrote: Greetings all; Its now become obvious that 3.10 has broken some things. I can't build linuxcnc with it. And Octoprint has quit talking to 3d printers, now pronterface won't buy it, can't find a 4.0.7 version of wxPython with it sitting

Re: python 3.10 vs breakage

2022-08-26 Thread gene heskett
On 8/26/22 21:35, Michael Torrie wrote: On 8/26/22 14:37, gene heskett wrote: Greetings all; Its now become obvious that 3.10 has broken some things. I can't build linuxcnc with it. And Octoprint has quit talking to 3d printers, now pronterface won't buy it, can't find a 4

What can I do about this?

2022-08-28 Thread gene heskett
this? It supposedly works on a rpi4b, but this is a rock64, V2, older stuff with 4 gigs of dram. Thank you for any help you can toss my way. Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed

Re: What can I do about this?

2022-08-28 Thread gene heskett
On 8/28/22 19:36, Chris Angelico wrote: On Mon, 29 Aug 2022 at 08:41, gene heskett wrote: Greatings all; Persuant to my claim the py3.10 is busted, here is a sample. This is me, trying to make pronterface, inside a venv: When the package manager version will only run the gui-less "pro

Re: What can I do about this?

2022-08-28 Thread gene heskett
On 8/28/22 19:39, Peter J. Holzer wrote: On 2022-08-28 18:40:17 -0400, gene heskett wrote: Persuant to my claim the py3.10 is busted, here is a sample. This is me, trying to make pronterface, inside a venv: When the package manager version will only run the gui-less "pronsole" but no

Re: What can I do about this?

2022-08-29 Thread gene heskett
On 8/28/22 20:51, gene heskett wrote: On 8/28/22 19:36, Chris Angelico wrote: On Mon, 29 Aug 2022 at 08:41, gene heskett wrote: Greatings all; Persuant to my claim the py3.10 is busted, here is a sample. This is me, trying to make pronterface, inside a venv: When the package manager

Re: What can I do about this?

2022-08-29 Thread gene heskett
On 8/29/22 05:25, Roel Schroeven wrote: Op 29/08/2022 om 2:55 schreef gene heskett: On 8/28/22 19:39, Peter J. Holzer wrote: On 2022-08-28 18:40:17 -0400, gene heskett wrote: Persuant to my claim the py3.10 is busted, here is a sample. This is me, trying to make pronterface, inside a venv

Re: What can I do about this?

2022-08-29 Thread gene heskett
On 8/29/22 12:50, Mark Bourne wrote: Roel Schroeven wrote: Op 29/08/2022 om 2:55 schreef gene heskett: On 8/28/22 19:39, Peter J. Holzer wrote: On 2022-08-28 18:40:17 -0400, gene heskett wrote: Persuant to my claim the py3.10 is busted, here is a sample. This is me, trying to make

Re: What can I do about this?

2022-08-29 Thread gene heskett
On 8/29/22 15:12, Peter J. Holzer wrote: On 2022-08-29 13:43:18 -0400, gene heskett wrote: On 8/29/22 12:50, Mark Bourne wrote: Roel Schroeven wrote: $ pip3 install -r requirements.txt  # finally invoke pip3 or: $ {path_to_venv}/bin/pip3 install -r requirements.txt That got me to

venv questions

2022-08-29 Thread gene heskett
gested solutions? Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."  -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web

Re: Running two separate servers (was Re: venv questions)

2022-08-30 Thread gene heskett
On 8/29/22 23:22, Chris Angelico wrote: On Tue, 30 Aug 2022 at 12:59, gene heskett wrote: But that might create another problem. how to differentiate the servers, both of which will want to use localhost:5000 to serve up their web pages we run things with. Suggested solutions? This is

Re: Running two separate servers (was Re: venv questions)

2022-08-30 Thread gene heskett
On 8/30/22 06:52, Chris Angelico wrote: On Tue, 30 Aug 2022 at 19:51, gene heskett wrote: So I'm thinking of venv's named rock64prusa, and rock64ender5+, each with "port#" on my local net. So chromium could have two tabs open, one to localhost:5000 and one to loc

Re: NEO6 GPS with Py PICO with micropython

2022-11-29 Thread gene heskett
the cable as a transmission line, Which if done right can go as much as ten meters at usb2 speeds. Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire res

Re: How to enter escape character in a positional string argumentfrom the command line?

2022-12-21 Thread gene heskett
have available is one root shell". It's amazing how far you can go when your hard drive has crashed and you desperately need to get one crucial login key that you thought you had saved elsewhere but hadn't. ChrisA Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be us

Re: Python 3.10 Fizzbuzz

2023-03-01 Thread gene heskett
on camera. Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page

Re: Python 3.10 Fizzbuzz

2023-03-01 Thread gene heskett
On 3/1/23 20:28, Greg Ewing via Python-list wrote: On 2/03/23 10:59 am, gene heskett wrote: Human skin always has the same color Um... no? Yes, only the intensity of the color changes, the vector angle remains the same within a degree or so. Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four

Re: Baffled by readline module

2023-03-10 Thread gene heskett
still here (on this mailing list, and a handful of others like it). More echo. And doing things, albeit at a slower pace, that I always wanted to do. Take care and stay well all. Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo

Re: Weak Type Ability for Python

2023-04-13 Thread gene heskett
.. rexxtry.rex on WindowsNT Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law

Re: .title() - annoying mistake

2021-03-22 Thread Gene Heskett
upper case. > > -- > Richard Damon I am as tired of this thread as anybody here. To me, it must be capable to subbing a considerably more caligraphic attention getting font and a bit larger in order for it to be worth its space on the drive. We can do that in openoffice and its ilk w

Re: async watch directory for new files

2021-04-24 Thread Gene Heskett
then takes an action determined by the name that was returned. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law r

Re: async watch directory for new files

2021-04-25 Thread Gene Heskett
No need for a link or URL, it should be available from the repo's of your distro. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we

Re: Unsubscribe/can't login

2021-05-05 Thread Gene Heskett
ch will send you a one time pad access to change the pw, which may update that and allow you to unsub. In extremis, write a procmail recipe to send it to /dev/null. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that

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