On 11/14/2012 09:21 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> wrote: >> In article <mailman.3707.1352945064.27098.python-l...@python.org>, >> Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Indeed. But Python boasts that the batteries are included, and given >>> the wealth of other networking facilities that are available, it is a >>> bit of a hole that you can't run DNS queries in this way. >> Think of the socket and struct modules as a pile of carbon rods and gobs >> of zinc paste, from which you can assemble your own batteries, and make >> them in exactly the shape and size you need. > Then assembly language is a pile of protons, neutrons, and electrons...
And real machine language (microcode) is a pile of quarks; fermions versus bosons. But in recent years, you pretty much have to work at Intel to see that part of the processor. -- DaveA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
