Re: Maintaining a backported module

2013-10-23 Thread Ethan Furman
On 10/23/2013 09:54 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: I'm looking for advice on best practices for doing so. Any suggestions for managing bug fixes and enhancements to two separate code-bases without them diverging too much? Confining your code to the intersection of 2.7 and 3.x is probably going to

Re: Will Python 3.x ever become the actual standard?

2013-10-23 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Wed, 23 Oct 2013 22:12:57 -0700, Peter Cacioppi wrote: > I said > > "Even Bill F*ng Gates was reluctant to break back compatibility," Don't be fooled though, Python is *extremely* reluctant to break backwards compatibility too. That's why Python has the "__future__" directive, and why some

Re: Python Front-end to GCC

2013-10-23 Thread Stefan Behnel
Antoine Pitrou, 22.10.2013 10:55: > Philip Herron writes: >> Its interesting a few things come up what about: >> exec and eval. I didn't really have a good answer for this at my talk at >> PYCon IE 2013 but i am going to say no. I am >> not going to implement these. Partly because eval and exec at

Re: Will Python 3.x ever become the actual standard?

2013-10-23 Thread Chris Angelico
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 3:57 PM, Peter Cacioppi wrote: > Moreover, you get a lot of the good stuff with 2.7. Along with more library > support. So the smart decision is to code your project 2.7, even though the > best thing for Pythonistan would be for us all to voluntarily migrate to 3.x. I wo

Re: Maintaining a backported module

2013-10-23 Thread Metallicow
On Thursday, October 24, 2013 12:09:55 AM UTC-5, Ben Finney wrote: > A useful library for this purpose is ‘six’ (as in “3 × 2”) > http://pythonhosted.org/six/>. You can use its features to do > things that are useful or better in Python 3, but which need special > implementation to work on Python 2

Re: Python was designed (was Re: Multi-threading in Python vs Java)

2013-10-23 Thread Metallicow
On Monday, October 21, 2013 9:29:34 PM UTC-5, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Mon, 21 Oct 2013 01:43:52 -0700, Peter Cacioppi wrote: > > Challenge: give some examples of things which you can do in Python, but > cannot do *at all* in C, C++, C#, Java? Ummm... hmmm let me try here... string = 'Py

Re: Maintaining a backported module

2013-10-23 Thread Paul Rubin
Steven D'Aprano writes: > As some of you are aware, I have a module accepted into the standard > library: > http://docs.python.org/3.4/library/statistics.html Wow, neat, I had seen something about the module and thought it looked great, but I didn't realize you were the author. Awesome! > Any

pycrypto: what am I doing wrong?

2013-10-23 Thread Paul Pittlerson
I seem to have misunderstood something about the way Crypto.Cipher is supposed to work, because I'm getting unexpected results, here is my code.. import hashlib from Crypto.Cipher import AES from Crypto import Random h = hashlib.new('sha256') h.update('my key') key = h.digest() iv = Random.new(

Re: Will Python 3.x ever become the actual standard?

2013-10-23 Thread Peter Cacioppi
I said "Even Bill F*ng Gates was reluctant to break back compatibility," Reluctant to do so with his own stuff. Obviously he "embraced and extended" other peoples work. Don't get me started, Gates is Bizarro Guido. Good work with vaccines though. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/py

Re: Maintaining a backported module

2013-10-23 Thread Ben Finney
Steven D'Aprano writes: > I'm now at the point where I wish to backport this module to support > versions of Python back to 3.1 at least and possibly 2.7, and put it > up on PyPI. > > I'm looking for advice on best practices for doing so. Any suggestions > for managing bug fixes and enhancements

Re: Will Python 3.x ever become the actual standard?

2013-10-23 Thread Peter Cacioppi
It's an interesting issue. Back compatibility was broken with 3.x, which is always a risky move. Even Bill F*ng Gates was reluctant to break back compatibility, and he basically ruled the world (for about 20 minutes or so, but still). Moreover, you get a lot of the good stuff with 2.7. Along w

Maintaining a backported module

2013-10-23 Thread Steven D'Aprano
As some of you are aware, I have a module accepted into the standard library: http://docs.python.org/3.4/library/statistics.html I'm now at the point where I wish to backport this module to support versions of Python back to 3.1 at least and possibly 2.7, and put it up on PyPI. I'm looking fo

Re: Reading From stdin After Command Line Redirection

2013-10-23 Thread Ben Finney
Tim Daneliuk writes: > On 10/23/2013 10:53 PM, Ben Finney wrote: > > Right. Congratulations for learning more about the design of the OS and > > making a program that fits in well:-) > > It's only possible because, after some 30 years of doing this, I feel > very abelist ... You may be unaware,

Re: Re-raising a RuntimeError - good practice?

2013-10-23 Thread Andrew Berg
On 2013.10.23 22:23, Victor Hooi wrote: > For example: > > def run_all(self): > self.logger.debug('Running loading job for %s' % self.friendly_name) > try: > self.export_to_csv() > self.gzip_csv_file() > self.upload_to_foo() > sel

Re: Reading From stdin After Command Line Redirection

2013-10-23 Thread Tim Daneliuk
On 10/23/2013 10:53 PM, Ben Finney wrote: Congratulations for learning more about the design of the OS and making a program that fits in well It's only because of some 30 years of doing this that I now feel quite abelist ... -- --

Re: Reading From stdin After Command Line Redirection

2013-10-23 Thread Tim Daneliuk
On 10/23/2013 10:53 PM, Ben Finney wrote: Right. Congratulations for learning more about the design of the OS and making a program that fits in well:-) It's only possible because, after some 30 years of doing this, I feel very abelist ... --

Re: Re-raising a RuntimeError - good practice?

2013-10-23 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Wed, 23 Oct 2013 20:23:21 -0700, Victor Hooi wrote: > Hi, > > I have a Python class that represents a loading job. > > Each job has a run_all() method that calls a number of other class > methods. > > I'm calling run_all() on a bunch of jobs. > > Some of methods called by run_all() can rais

Re: Screenshots in Mac OS X

2013-10-23 Thread Metallicow
Well, I'm not going to post my whole module as I get little testing on mac, but I will let you in on a little secret: Use a GUI, such as wxPython or QT or other, then create a basic fullscreen frame that is invisible and copy its DC to the clipboard. Not exactly a hack(might be edgy), but it wo

Re: Reading From stdin After Command Line Redirection

2013-10-23 Thread Ben Finney
Tim Daneliuk writes: > 'Easy there Rainman I'll thank you not to use mental deficiency as some kind of insult. Calling someone “Rainman” is to use autistic people as the punchline of a joke. We're a community that doesn't welcome such ableist slurs. > The goal of the exercise was: > > - Read a

Re: Global Variable In Multiprocessing

2013-10-23 Thread John Nagle
On 10/22/2013 11:22 PM, Chandru Rajendran wrote: > CAUTION - Disclaimer * > This e-mail contains PRIVILEGED AND CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION intended solely > for the use of the addressee(s). If you are not the intended recipient, > please > notify the sender by e-ma

Re-raising a RuntimeError - good practice?

2013-10-23 Thread Victor Hooi
Hi, I have a Python class that represents a loading job. Each job has a run_all() method that calls a number of other class methods. I'm calling run_all() on a bunch of jobs. Some of methods called by run_all() can raise exceptions (e.g. missing files, DB connection failures) which I'm catchin

Re: Will Python 3.x ever become the actual standard?

2013-10-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 23 October 2013 19:53:20 Dennis Lee Bieber did opine: > On 23 Oct 2013 12:36:09 GMT, Neil Cerutti declaimed > the > > following: > >On 2013-10-23, David wrote: > >> On 23 October 2013 22:57, wrote: > >>> a LARGE number of Python programmers has not even bothered learning > >>> ve

Re: Will Python 3.x ever become the actual standard?

2013-10-23 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Wed, 23 Oct 2013 14:27:29 +0100, Mark Lawrence wrote: > I confess I don't understand how *nix people endure having to compile > code instead of having a binary install. Because it's trivially easy under Unix? Three commands: ./configure make make install will generally do the job. Unless it

Re: Will Python 3.x ever become the actual standard?

2013-10-23 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Wed, 23 Oct 2013 04:57:25 -0700, dufriz wrote: > I am starting to have doubts as to whether Python 3.x will ever be > actually adopted by the Python community at large as their standard. Of course it will. Python 2.7 is the last of the 2 series. It will be given extended support, but eventual

Re: Reading From stdin After Command Line Redirection

2013-10-23 Thread Tim Daneliuk
On 10/23/2013 05:20 PM, Ben Finney wrote: random...@fastmail.us writes: On Wed, Oct 23, 2013, at 16:52, Chris Angelico wrote: There are times when this is correct behaviour - like asking for passwords (SSH and sudo work like this). Less (or pagers generally, or an interactive text editor tha

Re: Reading From stdin After Command Line Redirection

2013-10-23 Thread Chris Angelico
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 9:20 AM, Ben Finney wrote: > random...@fastmail.us writes: > >> On Wed, Oct 23, 2013, at 16:52, Chris Angelico wrote: >> > There are times when this is correct behaviour - like asking for >> > passwords (SSH and sudo work like this). >> >> Less (or pagers generally, or an i

Re: Reading From stdin After Command Line Redirection

2013-10-23 Thread Ben Finney
random...@fastmail.us writes: > On Wed, Oct 23, 2013, at 16:52, Chris Angelico wrote: > > There are times when this is correct behaviour - like asking for > > passwords (SSH and sudo work like this). > > Less (or pagers generally, or an interactive text editor that allows > creating a file from st

Re: Confused about timezones

2013-10-23 Thread Ethan Furman
On 10/23/2013 12:00 PM, Skip Montanaro wrote: > --> LOCAL_TZ.localize(dt1).utcoffset() datetime.timedelta(-1, 68400) --> LOCAL_TZ.localize(dt2).utcoffset() datetime.timedelta(-1, 64800) Why is the UTC offset the same for both datetime objects despite the presence/absence of Daylight Savings?

Re: Reading From stdin After Command Line Redirection

2013-10-23 Thread random832
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013, at 16:52, Chris Angelico wrote: > There are times when this is correct behaviour - like asking for > passwords (SSH and sudo work like this). Less (or pagers generally, or an interactive text editor that allows creating a file from standard input) would be another example of

Re: Python Front-end to GCC

2013-10-23 Thread John Nagle
On 10/23/2013 12:25 AM, Philip Herron wrote: > On Wednesday, 23 October 2013 07:48:41 UTC+1, John Nagle wrote: >> On 10/20/2013 3:10 PM, victorgarcia...@gmail.com wrote: >> >>> On Sunday, October 20, 2013 3:56:46 PM UTC-2, Philip Herron >>> wrote: > Nagle replies: >> Documentation can be fo

Re: Reading From stdin After Command Line Redirection

2013-10-23 Thread Chris Angelico
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 7:46 AM, Ben Finney wrote: > Can you speak more about how you intend your program to be used? The > above request is incoherent, and I suspect you've made a design mistake. There are times when this is correct behaviour - like asking for passwords (SSH and sudo work like t

Re: Reading From stdin After Command Line Redirection

2013-10-23 Thread Ben Finney
Tim Daneliuk writes: > I have a program that runs like this: > > foo.py I want to reconnect stdin to the tty as usual after 'inputfile' > has been read so that things like raw_input and getpass > will work as expected. Why? That's at odds with how the user has already chosen to run the progra

Re: question

2013-10-23 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 23/10/2013 21:24, Cesar Campana wrote: Hi! Im installing the python library for the version 2.7 but Im getting the error unable to find vcvarsall.bat I was looking on line but it says is related to Visual Studio...? Can you guys please help me to fix this... Cesar That error occurs whe

Re: Reading From stdin After Command Line Redirection

2013-10-23 Thread Chris Angelico
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 4:25 AM, Tim Daneliuk wrote: > I have a program that runs like this: > > foo.py > I want to reconnect stdin to the tty as usual after 'inputfile' > has been read so that things like raw_input and getpass > will work as expected. > > So, after I do = sys.stdin.readli

Re: question

2013-10-23 Thread Chris Angelico
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 7:24 AM, Cesar Campana wrote: > Hi! > > Im installing the python library for the version 2.7 but Im getting the > error unable to find vcvarsall.bat > > I was looking on line but it says is related to Visual Studio...? > > Can you guys please help me to fix this... Based o

question

2013-10-23 Thread Cesar Campana
Hi! Im installing the python library for the version 2.7 but Im getting the error unable to find vcvarsall.bat I was looking on line but it says is related to Visual Studio...? Can you guys please help me to fix this... Cesar -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Will Python 3.x ever become the actual standard?

2013-10-23 Thread Dan Stromberg
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 4:57 AM, wrote: > I am starting to have doubts as to whether Python 3.x will ever be > actually adopted by the Python community at large as their standard. Years > have passed, and a LARGE number of Python programmers has not even bothered > learning version 3.x. Why am I

Re: Confused about timezones

2013-10-23 Thread Skip Montanaro
LOCAL_TZ.localize(dt1).utcoffset() > datetime.timedelta(-1, 68400) LOCAL_TZ.localize(dt2).utcoffset() > datetime.timedelta(-1, 64800) > > Why is the UTC offset the same for both datetime objects despite the > presence/absence of Daylight Savings? Brain freeze! A quick glance told me they

Re: functools and objective usage

2013-10-23 Thread Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh
Another Note: class of caller and myfunc to being differed. On Wed, 2013-10-23 at 21:56 +0330, Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh wrote: > Oh , i changed my code to: > > partial(self.myinstance.myfunc,[arg1,arg2,arg3,arg4,arg5],self.myinstance) > > But i got the following traceback: > TypeError: myfunc() takes

Re: functools and objective usage

2013-10-23 Thread Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh
Oh , i changed my code to: partial(self.myinstance.myfunc,[arg1,arg2,arg3,arg4,arg5],self.myinstance) But i got the following traceback: TypeError: myfunc() takes at least 5 arguments (4 given) ##3 myfunc() prototype is: # def myfunc(self,widget

Re: functools and objective usage

2013-10-23 Thread MRAB
On 23/10/2013 17:48, Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh wrote: Dear all, I have the following code in each steps of loop: obj = partial(self.myinstance.myfunc) obj.func = self.myinstance.myfunc obj.arg = ["TWCH",self,k

Re: functools and objective usage

2013-10-23 Thread Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh
Dear all, I have the following code in each steps of loop: obj = partial(self.myinstance.myfunc) obj.func = self.myinstance.myfunc obj.arg = ["TWCH",self,key,val.checkState(),val] obj.keywords = se

Reading From stdin After Command Line Redirection

2013-10-23 Thread Tim Daneliuk
I have a program that runs like this: foo.py https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Confused about timezones

2013-10-23 Thread Skip Montanaro
This isn't really a Python issue, though my problem solution will be implemented in Python. If I have a naive datetime object for some time in the past, it's not clear to me how the offset gets set correctly. Consider this sequence: >>> import datetime, pytz >>> LOCAL_TZ = pytz.timezone(os.environ

Re: Python was designed (was Re: Multi-threading in Python vs Java)

2013-10-23 Thread Lele Gaifax
Gregory Ewing writes: > Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> On Tue, 22 Oct 2013 09:38:16 +0200, Lele Gaifax wrote: >> >>>The actual syntax would be >>> >>> [object method: arg1 withSomething: arg2 withSomethingElse: arg3] >> >> I don't get how to map that to Python's syntax. > > It's roughly morally equiv

Re: Will Python 3.x ever become the actual standard?

2013-10-23 Thread Neil Cerutti
On 2013-10-23, Mark Lawrence wrote: > On 23/10/2013 14:13, Tim Golden wrote: >> On 23/10/2013 14:05, Colin J. Williams wrote: >>> It would be good if more of the packages were available, for Python 3.3, >>> in binary for the Windows user. >>> >>> I am currently wrestling with Pandas, lxml etc

Re: Will Python 3.x ever become the actual standard?

2013-10-23 Thread Kevin Walzer
On 10/23/13 7:57 AM, duf...@gmail.com wrote: Years have passed, and a LARGE number of Python programmers has not even bothered learning version 3.x. That's true for me. My own projects run just fine with 2.7. I have no specific issue with 3.x, nor phobia of it, but my time as a developer is

Re: Will Python 3.x ever become the actual standard?

2013-10-23 Thread Tim Golden
On 23/10/2013 15:34, Skip Montanaro wrote: > Tim: > >> Disregarding Mark's tongue-in-cheek rhetoric for now... perhaps you >> didn't realise that, on Windows, you can't pip install a binary > > Mark: > >> Which on Windows often ends up telling you that it can't find vcvarsall.bat > > I am well

Re: Will Python 3.x ever become the actual standard?

2013-10-23 Thread Skip Montanaro
Tim: > Disregarding Mark's tongue-in-cheek rhetoric for now... perhaps you > didn't realise that, on Windows, you can't pip install a binary Mark: > Which on Windows often ends up telling you that it can't find vcvarsall.bat I am well aware that Windows users rarely have compilers available. Pe

Re: Will Python 3.x ever become the actual standard?

2013-10-23 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 23/10/2013 15:01, Tim Golden wrote: On 23/10/2013 14:52, Skip Montanaro wrote: Thankfully I am. I confess I don't understand how *nix people endure having to compile code instead of having a binary install. To me it's like going to the garage to buy a new car, being shown the parts and the

Re: Python was designed (was Re: Multi-threading in Python vs Java)

2013-10-23 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2013-10-23, Ned Batchelder wrote: > On 10/23/13 4:16 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> On Tue, 22 Oct 2013 09:38:16 +0200, Lele Gaifax wrote: >> >>> Roy Smith writes: >>> You missed the ever-so-special Objective C syntax: >> [...] >>> The actual syntax would be >>> >>>[object method: arg1

Re: Will Python 3.x ever become the actual standard?

2013-10-23 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 23/10/2013 14:52, Skip Montanaro wrote: Thankfully I am. I confess I don't understand how *nix people endure having to compile code instead of having a binary install. To me it's like going to the garage to buy a new car, being shown the parts and the tool kit and being told to get on with i

Re: Will Python 3.x ever become the actual standard?

2013-10-23 Thread Skip Montanaro
> Thankfully I am. I confess I don't understand how *nix people endure having > to compile code instead of having a binary install. To me it's like going > to the garage to buy a new car, being shown the parts and the tool kit and > being told to get on with it. Perhaps it's a case of second cla

Re: Will Python 3.x ever become the actual standard?

2013-10-23 Thread Tim Golden
On 23/10/2013 14:52, Skip Montanaro wrote: >> Thankfully I am. I confess I don't understand how *nix people endure having >> to compile code instead of having a binary install. To me it's like going >> to the garage to buy a new car, being shown the parts and the tool kit and >> being told to get

Re: Will Python 3.x ever become the actual standard?

2013-10-23 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 23/10/2013 14:13, Tim Golden wrote: On 23/10/2013 14:05, Colin J. Williams wrote: It would be good if more of the packages were available, for Python 3.3, in binary for the Windows user. I am currently wrestling with Pandas, lxml etc. Can I assume you're aware of the industrious Christop

Re: Possibly better loop construct, also labels+goto important and on the fly compiler idea.

2013-10-23 Thread Bernhard Schornak
Skybuck Flying schrieb: This hereby indicates problems with the while loop: it makes little sense to put the exiting conditions at the top. Why? ... dec rcx jbe 1f 0:some code to perform ... jmp 0b p2align 5,,31 1:continue

Re: Will Python 3.x ever become the actual standard?

2013-10-23 Thread Tim Golden
On 23/10/2013 14:05, Colin J. Williams wrote: > On 23/10/2013 8:35 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote: >> On 23/10/2013 12:57, duf...@gmail.com wrote: >>> Years have passed, and a LARGE number of Python programmers has not >>> even bothered learning version 3.x. >> >> The changes aren't large enough to worry

Re: Will Python 3.x ever become the actual standard?

2013-10-23 Thread Colin J. Williams
On 23/10/2013 8:35 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote: On 23/10/2013 12:57, duf...@gmail.com wrote: Years have passed, and a LARGE number of Python programmers has not even bothered learning version 3.x. The changes aren't large enough to worry a Python programmer so effectively there's nothing to learn,

Re: Will Python 3.x ever become the actual standard?

2013-10-23 Thread Roy Smith
In article <6e0bbc6b-9435-4a4b-8840-8a46cc4e0...@googlegroups.com>, duf...@gmail.com wrote: > I am starting to have doubts as to whether Python 3.x will ever be actually > adopted by the Python community at large as their standard. Years have > passed, and a LARGE number of Python programmers h

Re: Will Python 3.x ever become the actual standard?

2013-10-23 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 23/10/2013 13:16, David wrote: On 23 October 2013 22:57, wrote: a LARGE number of Python programmers has not even bothered learning version 3.x. OMG. Please provide their names. We'll send Doug & Dinsdale. Please ensure that they're accompanied by the chief constable carrying the tac

Re: Will Python 3.x ever become the actual standard?

2013-10-23 Thread Chris Angelico
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 11:16 PM, David wrote: > On 23 October 2013 22:57, wrote: >> >> a LARGE number of Python programmers has not even bothered learning version >> 3.x. > > OMG. Please provide their names. We'll send Doug & Dinsdale. Who and who? Re the subject line: As far as I'm concerne

Re: Will Python 3.x ever become the actual standard?

2013-10-23 Thread Neil Cerutti
On 2013-10-23, David wrote: > On 23 October 2013 22:57, wrote: >> >> a LARGE number of Python programmers has not even bothered learning version >> 3.x. > > OMG. Please provide their names. We'll send Doug & Dinsdale. I can send Mr. Wendt and Mr. Kidd. Or are those guys dead? -- Neil Cerutti

Re: Will Python 3.x ever become the actual standard?

2013-10-23 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 23/10/2013 12:57, duf...@gmail.com wrote: Years have passed, and a LARGE number of Python programmers has not even bothered learning version 3.x. The changes aren't large enough to worry a Python programmer so effectively there's nothing to learn, other than how to run 2to3. ...there is

Re: Will Python 3.x ever become the actual standard?

2013-10-23 Thread David
On 23 October 2013 22:57, wrote: > > a LARGE number of Python programmers has not even bothered learning version > 3.x. OMG. Please provide their names. We'll send Doug & Dinsdale. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Changing the terminal title bar with Python

2013-10-23 Thread Anssi Saari
dic...@his.com writes: > On Friday, October 18, 2013 12:46:19 PM UTC-4, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > >> xterms used to have a feature where they would write the title back to >> standard input. Unfortunately, it has been disabled for security reasons, >> so I haven't been able to get this to work (n

Will Python 3.x ever become the actual standard?

2013-10-23 Thread dufriz
I am starting to have doubts as to whether Python 3.x will ever be actually adopted by the Python community at large as their standard. Years have passed, and a LARGE number of Python programmers has not even bothered learning version 3.x. Why am I bothered by this? Because of lot of good librar

Re: Python was designed (was Re: Multi-threading in Python vs Java)

2013-10-23 Thread Gregory Ewing
Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Tue, 22 Oct 2013 09:38:16 +0200, Lele Gaifax wrote: The actual syntax would be [object method: arg1 withSomething: arg2 withSomethingElse: arg3] I don't get how to map that to Python's syntax. It's roughly morally equivalent to object.method(arg1, withSomethi

Re: Python was designed (was Re: Multi-threading in Python vs Java)

2013-10-23 Thread Ned Batchelder
On 10/23/13 4:16 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Tue, 22 Oct 2013 09:38:16 +0200, Lele Gaifax wrote: Roy Smith writes: You missed the ever-so-special Objective C syntax: [...] The actual syntax would be [object method: arg1 withSomething: arg2 withSomethingElse: arg3] I don't get how to

Re: Python Front-end to GCC

2013-10-23 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 23/10/2013 08:25, Philip Herron wrote: Personally I have no interest in your project but do wish you the best of luck with your endeavours. However I do have a personnal interest in my eyesite, which gets strained by reading posts such as yours. In order to assist me in looking after my

Re: Python was designed (was Re: Multi-threading in Python vs Java)

2013-10-23 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Tue, 22 Oct 2013 09:38:16 +0200, Lele Gaifax wrote: > Roy Smith writes: > >> You missed the ever-so-special Objective C syntax: [...] > The actual syntax would be > > [object method: arg1 withSomething: arg2 withSomethingElse: arg3] I don't get how to map that to Python's syntax. object.

Re: Python Front-end to GCC

2013-10-23 Thread Philip Herron
On Wednesday, 23 October 2013 07:48:41 UTC+1, John Nagle wrote: > On 10/20/2013 3:10 PM, victorgarcia...@gmail.com wrote: > > > On Sunday, October 20, 2013 3:56:46 PM UTC-2, Philip Herron wrote: > > >> I've been working on GCCPY since roughly november 2009 at least in its > > >> concept. It was