Re: no cleanup on TERM signal

On Fri, 02 May 2008 04:36:06 +, Yves Dorfsman wrote: > x.del() gets executed if: > -I del x, then run gc.collect() > -simply exit the script > -get the script to abort on an exception > > But if I kill it with the default signal TERM, the script dies, but I don't > get the message, so I am a

Re: help with list comprehension

On May 1, 10:50 pm, George Sakkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On May 1, 11:46 pm, Carsten Haese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Yves Dorfsman wrote: > > > > In the following script, m1() and m2() work fine. I am assuming m2() is > > > faster although I haven't checked that (loops through the

Re: #!/usr/bin/env python vs. #!/usr/bin/python

"D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, 02 May 2008 13:24:01 +1000 > Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I much prefer "#! /usr/bin/python" because I want my Python > > programs to, by default, be run with the default Python, and > > depend on Python being installed by the o

Re: help with list comprehension

On May 1, 11:46 pm, Carsten Haese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yves Dorfsman wrote: > > > In the following script, m1() and m2() work fine. I am assuming m2() is > > faster although I haven't checked that (loops through the list twice > > instead of once). > > Well, let's check it: > > $ python -m

Re: #!/usr/bin/env python vs. #!/usr/bin/python

Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > -On [20080502 05:26], Ben Finney ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >I've never clearly understood why people want to use "#! > >/usr/bin/env python", which is prone to finding a different Python > >from the one installed by the operating syste

Re: #!/usr/bin/env python vs. #!/usr/bin/python

Yves Dorfsman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On UNIX, some people use >#!/usr/bin/env python > >While other use >#!/usr/bin/python > >Why is one preferred over the other one ? The /usr/bin/env solution finds the Python interpreter anywhere on the PATH, whether it be /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin, or w

Re: portable fork+exec/spawn

On Fri, 02 May 2008 13:25:55 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > URL:http://docs.python.org/lib/module-subprocess.html Awesome. This is exactly what I was hoping existed. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: help with list comprehension

On May 1, 8:01 pm, Yves Dorfsman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the following script, m1() and m2() work fine. I am assuming m2() is > faster although I haven't checked that (loops through the list twice instead > of once). > > Now what I am trying to do is something like m3(). As currently writte

Re: #!/usr/bin/env python vs. #!/usr/bin/python

-On [20080502 05:26], Ben Finney ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >I've never clearly understood why people want to use "#! /usr/bin/env >python", which is prone to finding a different Python from the one >installed by the operating system. I'd be interested to see what >responses are in favour of it, an

Re: Best way to store config or preferences in a multi-platform way.

Hallöchen! Ivan Illarionov writes: > On Fri, 02 May 2008 01:21:38 +0200, Torsten Bronger wrote: > >> [...] >> >> In contrast to many other areas of software, configuration files >> needn't be compatible with anything except the user's brain. So >> even if the rest of the world uses config forma

Re: #!/usr/bin/env python vs. #!/usr/bin/python

On Fri, 02 May 2008 13:24:01 +1000 Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I much prefer "#! /usr/bin/python" because I want my Python programs > to, by default, be run with the default Python, and depend on Python > being installed by the operating system's package manager. On systems > that use s

no cleanup on TERM signal

I did a few tests with this script: class byebye: def __del__(self): print 'Bye, bye...' x = byebye() x.del() gets executed if: -I del x, then run gc.collect() -simply exit the script -get the script to abort on an exception But if I kill it with the default signal TERM, the script di

Re: #!/usr/bin/env python vs. #!/usr/bin/python

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've never clearly understood why people want to use "#! /usr/bin/env > python", which is prone to finding a different Python from the one > installed by the operating system. I'd be interested to see what > responses are in

Re: help with list comprehension

Yves Dorfsman wrote: In the following script, m1() and m2() work fine. I am assuming m2() is faster although I haven't checked that (loops through the list twice instead of once). Well, let's check it: $ python -m timeit -s "import x" "x.m1()" 10 loops, best of 3: 6.43 usec per loop $

Re: how to pass C++ object to another C++ function via Python function

On Apr 22, 7:54 am, "Gabriel Genellina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you have a C function that receives a PyCObject, just include the   > relevant headers (cobject.h) and you can retrieve the original pointer   > using PyCObject_AsVoidPtr: > > void foo(PyObject *pyobj) > { >    TOriginalType

Re: portable fork+exec/spawn

Brendan Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there an actual portable means of asynchronously spawning a > process and getting a handle to it, being able to write stdin and > read stdout, or does everyone just write their own wrapper for fork > and spawn? You're looking for the 'subprocess' mo

Re: #!/usr/bin/env python vs. #!/usr/bin/python

Yves Dorfsman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On UNIX, some people use > #!/usr/bin/env python > > While other use > #!/usr/bin/python You haven't indicated your understanding of what the difference in meaning is, so I'll explain it for those who might not know. The shebang line (the initial line

help with list comprehension

In the following script, m1() and m2() work fine. I am assuming m2() is faster although I haven't checked that (loops through the list twice instead of once). Now what I am trying to do is something like m3(). As currently written it does not work, and I have tried different ways, but I have

Re: #!/usr/bin/env python vs. #!/usr/bin/python

The first method allows python to be installed in an alternate location (i.e. /usr/local/bin). "env" in this case is being used to launch python from whatever location python is installed to. I like to think of it as an "abstraction" of the python location to make it "multiplatform-friendly" sinc

portable fork+exec/spawn

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#!/usr/bin/env python vs. #!/usr/bin/python

On UNIX, some people use #!/usr/bin/env python While other use #!/usr/bin/python Why is one preferred over the other one ? Thanks. -- Yves. http://www.SollerS.ca -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for /: 'NoneType' and 'NoneType'

"Jordan Harry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm trying to write a simple program to calculate permutations. I > created a file called "mod.py" and put the following in it: > > def factorial(n): > a = n > b = n > while a>0 and b>1: > n = (n)*(b-1) > b = b-1 A functio

Re: TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for /: 'NoneType' and 'NoneType'

On May 1, 5:21 pm, "Jordan Harry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to write a simple program to calculate permutations.  I created a > file called "mod.py" and put the following in it: > > def factorial(n): >     a = n >     b = n >     while a>0 and b>1: >         n = (n)*(b-1) >         b

Re: RegEx for matching brackets

On May 1, 7:44 pm, NevilleDNZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Below is a (flawed) one line RegEx that checks curly brackets (from > awk/c/python input) are being matched. Is there a one liner for doing > this in python? There is not even a 1000-liner regular expression for this; it's a context-free

Re: Best way to store config or preferences in a multi-platform way.

On May 1, 7:54 pm, Ivan Illarionov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No, all I want is to give the OP a useful alternative Fair enough, I can't argue with that. Carl Banks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for /: 'NoneType' and 'NoneType'

I'm trying to write a simple program to calculate permutations. I created a file called "mod.py" and put the following in it: def factorial(n): a = n b = n while a>0 and b>1: n = (n)*(b-1) b = b-1 def perm(n, r): a = factorial(n) b = factorial(n-r) q =

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Re: RegEx for matching brackets

On May 2, 9:44 am, NevilleDNZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Below is a (flawed) one line RegEx that checks curly brackets (from > awk/c/python input) are being matched. Is there a one liner for doing > this in python? > > ThanX > N > > re_open_close="(((\{))[^{}]*((?(0)\})))+" > re_open_close=re.co

Re: Best way to store config or preferences in a multi-platform way.

On Fri, 02 May 2008 01:21:38 +0200, Torsten Bronger wrote: > Hallöchen! > > Ivan Illarionov writes: > >> [...] >> >> For me it looks more like an old-school/new-school thing than use-case >> thing. I may be wrong, but I see more and more new projects use things >> like reST and YAML/JSON and it

Re: where do I begin with web programming in python?

jmDesktop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am aware there are various frameworks (Django, Pylons, etc.), > but I would like to know how to create web pages without these. If I > have mod_python or fastcgi on apache, where do I start? I don't have > clue where to begin to create a web page from scr

Re: Best way to store config or preferences in a multi-platform way.

On Thu, 01 May 2008 16:32:00 -0700, Carl Banks wrote: > On May 1, 4:50 pm, Ivan Illarionov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Thu, 01 May 2008 11:56:20 -0700, Carl Banks wrote: >> > On May 1, 1:30 pm, Ivan Illarionov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On Thu, 01 May 2008 09:45:28 -0700, Carl Banks wro

Re: where do I begin with web programming in python?

On May 1, 7:13 pm, Graham Dumpleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On May 2, 7:45 am, Christian Heimes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > jmDesktop schrieb: > > > > I have been to the main python site, but am still confused.  I have > > > been using .net, so it may be obvious how to do this to ever

RegEx for matching brackets

Below is a (flawed) one line RegEx that checks curly brackets (from awk/c/python input) are being matched. Is there a one liner for doing this in python? ThanX N re_open_close="(((\{))[^{}]*((?(0)\})))+" re_open_close=re.compile(re_open_close) tests=""" { this is a test BAD { this is a test

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Re: Best way to store config or preferences in a multi-platform way.

On May 1, 4:50 pm, Ivan Illarionov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 01 May 2008 11:56:20 -0700, Carl Banks wrote: > > On May 1, 1:30 pm, Ivan Illarionov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Thu, 01 May 2008 09:45:28 -0700, Carl Banks wrote: > >> > On May 1, 12:11 pm, Jon Ribbens <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Best way to store config or preferences in a multi-platform way.

Hallöchen! Ivan Illarionov writes: > [...] > > For me it looks more like an old-school/new-school thing than > use-case thing. I may be wrong, but I see more and more new > projects use things like reST and YAML/JSON and it feels like they > are gradually replacing traditional old-school solution

Re: where do I begin with web programming in python?

On May 2, 7:45 am, Christian Heimes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > jmDesktop schrieb: > > > I have been to the main python site, but am still confused. I have > > been using .net, so it may be obvious how to do this to everyone > > else. I am aware there are various frameworks (Django, Pylons, etc.

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Re: Best way to store config or preferences in a multi-platform way.

On Thu, 01 May 2008 23:03:38 +0200, Torsten Bronger wrote: > Hallöchen! > > Ivan Illarionov writes: > >> [...] >> >> I took the example from >> http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/10/29/14225/062 I haven't use my own >> example only because I don't have one at hand right now. YAML, in its >> simp

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Re: dropping win98 support?

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Re: where do I begin with web programming in python?

jmDesktop schrieb: > I have been to the main python site, but am still confused. I have > been using .net, so it may be obvious how to do this to everyone > else. I am aware there are various frameworks (Django, Pylons, etc.), > but I would like to know how to create web pages without these. If

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dropping win98 support? was Re: Python 2.6 and wrapping C libraries on Windows

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Re: where do I begin with web programming in python?

On May 1, 4:25 pm, jmDesktop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been to the main python site, but am still confused.  I have > been using .net, so it may be obvious how to do this to everyone > else.  I am aware there are various frameworks (Django, Pylons, etc.), > but I would like to know how to

where do I begin with web programming in python?

I have been to the main python site, but am still confused. I have been using .net, so it may be obvious how to do this to everyone else. I am aware there are various frameworks (Django, Pylons, etc.), but I would like to know how to create web pages without these. If I have mod_python or fastcg

Re: Best way to store config or preferences in a multi-platform way.

Hallöchen! Ivan Illarionov writes: > [...] > > I took the example from > http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/10/29/14225/062 I haven't use > my own example only because I don't have one at hand right > now. YAML, in its simple form, definetely makes me more > productive. I wasted too much time wit

Re: Getting started with pyvtk

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Getting started with pyvtk

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Re: Best way to store config or preferences in a multi-platform way.

On Thu, 01 May 2008 11:56:20 -0700, Carl Banks wrote: > On May 1, 1:30 pm, Ivan Illarionov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Thu, 01 May 2008 09:45:28 -0700, Carl Banks wrote: >> > On May 1, 12:11 pm, Jon Ribbens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On 2008-05-01, Ivan Illarionov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wr

Re: send gpg encrypted emails (properly mime formatted)

On May 1, 12:57 pm, Neal Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any ideas on python packages that could help with sending gpg encrypted > (properly mime formatted) emails? > > My idea is to forward all my emails to a remote imap server, but gpg encrypt > them to myself in the process. Take a look at

Re: Best way to store config or preferences in a multi-platform way.

On Thu, 01 May 2008 14:13:08 -0500, Jon Ribbens wrote: > On 2008-05-01, Ivan Illarionov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I used XML files before for this purpose and found YAML much easier and >> better suitable for the task. >> >> Please explain why don't like YANL so much? > > Because even the exa

Re: Best way to store config or preferences in a multi-platform way.

Carl Banks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On May 1, 12:11 pm, Jon Ribbens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 2008-05-01, Ivan Illarionov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > IMO .ini-like config files are from the stone age. The modern approach is > > > to use YAML (http://www.yaml.org). > > > > You m

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Re: Best way to store config or preferences in a multi-platform way.

On 2008-05-01 Carl Banks wrote: > If you don't intend to write a GUI to do that, write a simple > text file parser (if the options are simple), use ConfigParser, > or use a Python file that you exec. INI is great for so many things. It is also extremely commonplace, regardless of platform. The

Re: Best way to store config or preferences in a multi-platform way.

On 2008-05-01, Ivan Illarionov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I used XML files before for this purpose and found YAML much easier and > better suitable for the task. > > Please explain why don't like YANL so much? Because even the examples in the spec itself are unreadable gibberish. The PyYAML lib

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Re: Best way to store config or preferences in a multi-platform way.

On May 1, 1:30 pm, Ivan Illarionov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 01 May 2008 09:45:28 -0700, Carl Banks wrote: > > On May 1, 12:11 pm, Jon Ribbens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On 2008-05-01, Ivan Illarionov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> > IMO .ini-like config files are from the stone

Re: Best way to store config or preferences in a multi-platform way.

On May 1, 4:37 am, Lance Gamet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, python beginner starting a new project here. > > This project will store most of its actual data in a shared-database, but > I have a small amount of user specific data that I need to be stored like > configuration or preferences for e

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Python application distribution

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Re: Best way to store config or preferences in a multi-platform way.

YAML is a joke if you expect a windows user to be able to hand edit the data. Windows users typically expect a .ini file in the application's directory. (Usually not the users home directory, even if that may be a better location). XML is ok, but .ini is much preferred. If you have a configurat

Re: Best way to store config or preferences in a multi-platform way.

On Thu, 01 May 2008 09:45:28 -0700, Carl Banks wrote: > On May 1, 12:11 pm, Jon Ribbens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 2008-05-01, Ivan Illarionov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > IMO .ini-like config files are from the stone age. The modern >> > approach is to use YAML (http://www.yaml.org).

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Re: Best way to store config or preferences in a multi-platform way.

On Thu, 01 May 2008 11:11:29 -0500, Jon Ribbens wrote: > On 2008-05-01, Ivan Illarionov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> IMO .ini-like config files are from the stone age. The modern approach >> is to use YAML (http://www.yaml.org). > > You mean YAML isn't a joke!? It's so ludicrously overcomplicate

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"jmDesktop" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | This program: | | s = 'abcde' | i = -1 | for i in range (-1, -len(s), -1): |print s[:i], i | | gives | | abcd -1 | abc -2 | ab -3 | a -4 | | Why doesn't the first one have the e if -1 is the end of the list? In | Dive

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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Alexa's data is more reliable than quantcast. Alexa claim to have accurate data on lots of sites but I just tried to correlate their data with the exact data on our web server and the discrepancies are huge. For example, combining our number of absolute visitors with the

Re: Photo gallery software

On Thu, 1 May 2008 16:59:33 +0200, Scott Sandeman-Allen wrote (in article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>): > I've been working with Photologue for a while with some nice results. > Looks like it's time to start reading that Django book. Thanks, JA

Re: Zope/DTML Infuriating...

Michael Torrie wrote: > The second example, x = Integer.fromString('5') demonstrates a huge > weakness in Java. Ahem. Javascript. Sorry. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

my module and unittest contend over commandline options...

using the unittest module in Python 2.3.5, I've written some test code that ends up with if __name__ == "__main__": unittest.main() Since I want to run this code in various environments, I'd initially added some commandline options, e.g. to specify a configuration file like so test.py -

Re: Best way to store config or preferences in a multi-platform way.

On May 1, 12:11 pm, Jon Ribbens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2008-05-01, Ivan Illarionov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > IMO .ini-like config files are from the stone age. The modern approach is > > to use YAML (http://www.yaml.org). > > You mean YAML isn't a joke!? It's so ludicrously overcomp

Re: Zope/DTML Infuriating...

Jens wrote: > - Why is it, when primitive data types seem to be objects (similar to > javascript), that type casting is done through build-in functions > rather than methods, e.g. String.toInt('5') or '5'.toInt() or x = > Integer.fromString('5'). Mainly because it's much cleaner to do it the pytho

Re: Is vs Equality Operator

"Good Z" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Hello, | I am having problem in using is. Here is what i am doing. | | x='' | if x is None or x is '': |return 1 x is not the singleton value None, nor is it the newly created null string object. It is up to the imp

Re: PyGame, window is not closing, tut not helping

On May 1, 10:55 am, globalrev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > im doing this > :http://www.learningpython.com/2006/03/12/creating-a-game-in-python-us... > > and when closing the program the window stays up and doesnt respond. i > tried adding this:http://www.pygame.org/wiki/FrequentlyAskedQuestions >

Re: Best way to store config or preferences in a multi-platform way.

On 2008-05-01, Ivan Illarionov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > IMO .ini-like config files are from the stone age. The modern approach is > to use YAML (http://www.yaml.org). You mean YAML isn't a joke!? It's so ludicrously overcomplicated, and so comprehensively and completely fails to achieve its

Re: PyGame, window is not closing, tut not helping

another program that has the same problem: import sys, pygame pygame.init() size = width, height = 320, 240 speed = [2, 2] black = 0, 0, 0 screen = pygame.display.set_mode(size) ball = pygame.image.load("snake.png") ballrect = ball.get_rect() while 1: for event in pygame.event.get():

PyGame, window is not closing, tut not helping

im doing this : http://www.learningpython.com/2006/03/12/creating-a-game-in-python-using-pygame-part-one/ and when closing the program the window stays up and doesnt respond. i tried adding this: http://www.pygame.org/wiki/FrequentlyAskedQuestions bu it doesnt work, or maybe im doing it wrong. h

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Re: Please help me with linking libraries on Solaris 10 sparc

On May 1, 11:41 am, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Martin, could you please tell me how to do this, I am pretty new in > > Solaris. > > It's fairly complicated, so I'm not sure I can give you the full > tutorial in a Usenet message. > > In essence, you need to spot the linker line

Re: Please help me with linking libraries on Solaris 10 sparc

> Martin, could you please tell me how to do this, I am pretty new in > Solaris. It's fairly complicated, so I'm not sure I can give you the full tutorial in a Usenet message. In essence, you need to spot the linker line in the build process, (e.g. by the -o option to the compiler), and add -lm t

Re: is +=1 thread safe

AlFire wrote: Hi, all is very simple and by the end of the program life I expect the counter to zero out. however I am getting values -1, -2, 1 ,2 ,3 and quite often 0 as expected. I guarded those statement with Lock.{acquire,release} and now it always returns 0. But I still can not belie

Re: is +=1 thread safe

AlFire schrieb: Hi, I have a piece of software which uses threads in very massive way - like hundreds of them generated every second. there is also a piece of code which maintains the number of outstanding threads, simply counter+=1 is executed when before starting the thread and counter-

Re: is +=1 thread safe

AlFire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But I still can not believe that +=1 is not a thread safe operation. > > > Any clue? The statement: x+=1 is equivalent to: x = x.__iadd__(1) i.e. a function call followed by an assignment. If the object is mutable then this *may* be safe so

Re: computing with characters

On May 1, 3:36 am, Duncan Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > George Sakkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Apr 30, 5:06 am, Torsten Bronger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > >> Hallöchen! > > >> SL writes: > >> > "Gabriel Genellina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schreef in bericht > >> >news:[EMAIL PROTECT

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