Re: [Tutor] How to post: Was Re: The Charms of Gmail

2013-12-23 Thread Andy McKenzie
life. Good luck to all of you, and I hope your lives are pleasant. And I hope those of you who don't currently know learn how to treat people politely. Andy McKenzie On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 10:11 AM, Steven D'Aprano st...@pearwood.infowrote: On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 12:59:15PM +, Mark

Re: [Tutor] Beginner Question

2013-10-22 Thread Andy McKenzie
On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 10:25 AM, Sven Hennig shenni...@googlemail.comwrote: Hello, I would like to learn a programming language and have decided to use Python. I have some programming experience and doing well in Python. What really causes me problems is OOP. I'm just dont get it... I'm

Re: [Tutor] global variables

2013-08-22 Thread Andy McKenzie
On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Matthew Ngaha chigga...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 2:52 PM, Chris Down ch...@chrisdown.name wrote: I would doubt that anyone has told you don't ever use classes, because that's nonsense; you've probably misread a dissuasion from that path in a

Re: [Tutor] [OT] Replies go to individuals, not the list?

2013-08-20 Thread Andy McKenzie
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 8:18 PM, Leam Hall leamh...@gmail.com wrote: All, Am I more confused than normal or if I click Reply should it go just to the sender instead of the list? Yep. Someone decided it didn't make sense for reply to go to the list that sent the message and should be

Re: [Tutor] [OT] Replies go to individuals, not the list?

2013-08-20 Thread Andy McKenzie
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Alan Gauld alan.ga...@btinternet.comwrote: On 20/08/13 13:15, Andy McKenzie wrote: Yep. Someone decided it didn't make sense for reply to go to the list that sent the message Lists never send messages. People do. So reply goes to the *person* who sent

Re: [Tutor] [OT] Replies go to individuals, not the list?

2013-08-20 Thread Andy McKenzie
leam hall wrote: The only question I have is what is compelling about being different than other lists? Far as I can tell, most reply to the list if you click reply. It's not something to get religious over; if I reply and don't have time to make sure it goes to those who might be

[Tutor] Multiple search and replace?

2013-05-02 Thread Andy McKenzie
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Re: [Tutor] multiple versions of python on windows?

2013-04-22 Thread Andy McKenzie
I have no idea on Wing, but I'm using Eclipse with the PyDev plugin, and I'm able to associate projects with either Python 2.7 or 3.2 in Windows. It checks for correct grammar in each, and if I tell it to run as a Python script, it uses the correct executable. So if you're not tied to Wing, you

[Tutor] Hello, and a newbie question

2013-04-16 Thread Andy McKenzie
to follow standards. Should I just start out with the tutorial from docs.python.org? I would assume that that would start putting me in the right habits from the beginning... is that accurate, or is there a better way to go? Thanks in advance, Andy McKenzie

Re: [Tutor] Hello, and a newbie question

2013-04-16 Thread Andy McKenzie
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 4:18 PM, Dave Angel da...@davea.name wrote: On 04/16/2013 11:58 AM, Andy McKenzie wrote: Hey folks. I'm just starting to pick up Python, and I'd like to avoid some of the mistakes I made in the past. To elaborate on that, my primary programming/scripting experience

Re: [Tutor] Hello, and a newbie question

2013-04-16 Thread Andy McKenzie
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 5:31 PM, Dave Angel da...@davea.name wrote: On 04/16/2013 05:20 PM, Andy McKenzie wrote: SNIP Thanks for the advice, folks. Given that it looks like the biggest changes are unicode handling (which I'm not going to need any time soon) and the way

Re: [Tutor] Hello, and a newbie question

2013-04-16 Thread Andy McKenzie
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 7:39 PM, Alan Gauld alan.ga...@btinternet.comwrote: On 16/04/13 22:20, Andy McKenzie wrote: For instance: output of running print_r on a very short dictionary from PHP: Array ( [key3] = thing3 [key2] = thing2 [key1] = thing1 ) And running