Re: write file to a server

2015-01-28 Thread luca72
thanks for the reply i have resolve with the r'.' i have another question on linux i write cp -Ruv source destination There is one way to do it in python? with shutil there is copythree but if the dest dir exist he give back an error. Can you give me some ideas Thanks Luca -- https://ma

Re: An object is an instance (or not)?

2015-01-28 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Gregory Ewing wrote: > Steven D'Aprano wrote: > >> In fairness, "inherit" is standard terminology for the way instances get >> their behaviour from their class. > > I'm not sure that's true, but even if it is, it's > not the same kind of inheritance relationship as > exists between a class and a

Re: ANN: unpyc3 - a python bytecode decompiler for Python3

2015-01-28 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 28/01/2015 23:12, Chris Kaynor wrote: On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 3:01 PM, Devin Jeanpierre wrote: On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 2:02 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 8:52 AM, Devin Jeanpierre wrote: Git doesn't help if you lose your files in between commits, or if you lose the en

Re: An object is an instance (or not)?

2015-01-28 Thread Gregory Ewing
Steven D'Aprano wrote: In fairness, "inherit" is standard terminology for the way instances get their behaviour from their class. I'm not sure that's true, but even if it is, it's not the same kind of inheritance relationship as exists between a class and a base class, which was my point. Al

Re: unicode question

2015-01-28 Thread Michael Torrie
On 01/28/2015 03:17 PM, Albert-Jan Roskam wrote: >> I do not know how complete the support is, but this is copied from 3.4.2, >> which uses tcl/tk 8.6. t = "الحركات" for c in t: print(c) # Prints rightmost char above first >> ا >> ل >> ح >> ر >> ك >> ا >> ت > > Wow, I never knew this w

Re: An object is an instance (or not)?

2015-01-28 Thread Rustom Mody
On Wednesday, January 28, 2015 at 10:39:34 PM UTC+5:30, rand...@fastmail.us wrote: > On Wed, Jan 28, 2015, at 01:59, Ben Finney wrote: > > You have no justification to claim that, and it's hostile and dismissive > > to claim it so assertively. > > Sorry about that - I was tired and had just read

Re: Python is DOOMED! Again!

2015-01-28 Thread Chris Angelico
On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 11:37 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > They're as > different as cheese and a very slightly different cheese. Do try to keep > up. As different as brie and camembert? ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python is DOOMED! Again!

2015-01-28 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Ian Kelly wrote: > On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 8:04 AM, Mario Figueiredo > wrote: >> In article <54c83ab4$0$12982$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>, >> steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info says... >>> >>> Mario Figueiredo wrote: >>> >>> > Static analysis cannot and should not clutter executable cod

Re: ANN: unpyc3 - a python bytecode decompiler for Python3

2015-01-28 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Devin Jeanpierre wrote: > On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 1:40 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 5:47 AM, Chris Kaynor >> wrote: >>> I use Google Drive for it for all the stuff I do at home, and use SVN >>> for all my personal projects, with the SVN depots also in Drive. The >>> combi

Re: ANN: unpyc3 - a python bytecode decompiler for Python3

2015-01-28 Thread Steven D'Aprano
sohcahto...@gmail.com wrote: > I recently finished my CS degree, and I had more than one professor say > that they won't take "My computer crashed and I lost everything!" as an > excuse for not being able to turn in homework.   How about "My computer crashed and died and now I can't get to Dropbo

Re: ANN: unpyc3 - a python bytecode decompiler for Python3

2015-01-28 Thread sohcahtoa82
On Wednesday, January 28, 2015 at 3:13:36 PM UTC-8, Chris Kaynor wrote: > On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 3:01 PM, Devin Jeanpierre > wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 2:02 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: > >> On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 8:52 AM, Devin Jeanpierre > >> wrote: > >>> Git doesn't help if you lose yo

Re: ANN: unpyc3 - a python bytecode decompiler for Python3

2015-01-28 Thread Chris Kaynor
On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 3:01 PM, Devin Jeanpierre wrote: > On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 2:02 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 8:52 AM, Devin Jeanpierre >> wrote: >>> Git doesn't help if you lose your files in between commits, or if you >>> lose the entire directory between pushes.

Re: ANN: unpyc3 - a python bytecode decompiler for Python3

2015-01-28 Thread Devin Jeanpierre
I distrust any backup strategy that requires explicit action by the user. I've seen users fail too often. (Including myself.) -- Devin On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 2:02 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 8:52 AM, Devin Jeanpierre > wrote: >> Git doesn't help if you lose your files i

Re: unicode question

2015-01-28 Thread Albert-Jan Roskam
On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 8:21 AM CET Terry Reedy wrote: >On 1/27/2015 12:17 AM, Rehab Habeeb wrote: >> Hi there python staff >> does python support arabic language for texts ? and what to do if it >> support it? >> i wrote hello in Arabic using codeskulptor and the powers

Re: ANN: unpyc3 - a python bytecode decompiler for Python3

2015-01-28 Thread Chris Angelico
On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 8:52 AM, Devin Jeanpierre wrote: > Git doesn't help if you lose your files in between commits, or if you > lose the entire directory between pushes. So you commit often and push immediately. Solved. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: ANN: unpyc3 - a python bytecode decompiler for Python3

2015-01-28 Thread Devin Jeanpierre
On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 1:40 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 5:47 AM, Chris Kaynor > wrote: >> I use Google Drive for it for all the stuff I do at home, and use SVN >> for all my personal projects, with the SVN depots also in Drive. The >> combination works well for me, I can

Re: why zip64_limit defined as 1<<31 -1?

2015-01-28 Thread Ian Kelly
On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 11:53 AM, jesse wrote: > should not it be 1<<32 -1(4g)? > > normal zip archive format should be able to support 4g file. Bugs can be filed at http://bugs.python.org/ -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: ANN: unpyc3 - a python bytecode decompiler for Python3

2015-01-28 Thread Chris Angelico
On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 5:47 AM, Chris Kaynor wrote: > I use Google Drive for it for all the stuff I do at home, and use SVN > for all my personal projects, with the SVN depots also in Drive. The > combination works well for me, I can transfer between my desktop and > laptop freely, and have full

Re: write file to a server

2015-01-28 Thread Chris Angelico
On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 5:05 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote: > Windows will accept forward slashes in path names. Normally, yes. Does that work for UNC names too? //server/share/pathname ? In any case, that's an alternative solution to the same problem. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listin

Re: why zip64_limit defined as 1<<31 -1?

2015-01-28 Thread Chris Angelico
On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 5:53 AM, jesse wrote: > should not it be 1<<32 -1(4g)? > > normal zip archive format should be able to support 4g file. > > thanks 1<<31-1 is the limit for a signed 32-bit integer. You'd have to look into the details of the zip file format to see whether that's the officia

Re: multiprocessing module backport from 3 to 2.7 - spawn feature

2015-01-28 Thread Devin Jeanpierre
On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 10:06 AM, Skip Montanaro wrote: > On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 7:07 AM, Andres Riancho > wrote: >> The feature I'm specially interested in is the ability to spawn >> processes [1] instead of forking, which is not present in the 2.7 >> version of the module. > > Can you explain

Re: SUBMIT "ACCEPT" button - Python - beautifulsoap

2015-01-28 Thread lazar . michael22
On Wednesday, January 28, 2015 at 8:36:59 AM UTC-8, peter.n...@gmail.com wrote: > I am totally new to Python and please accept my apologies upfront for > potential newbie errors. I am trying to parse a 'simple' web page: > http://flow.gassco.no/ > > When opening the page first time in my browser

Re: ANN: unpyc3 - a python bytecode decompiler for Python3

2015-01-28 Thread Chris Kaynor
On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 10:42 AM, Devin Jeanpierre wrote: > FWIW I put all my source code inside Dropbox so that even things I > haven't yet committed/pushed to Bitbucket/Github are backed up. So far > it's worked really well, despite using Dropbox on both Windows and > Linux. (See also: Google Dr

why zip64_limit defined as 1<<31 -1?

2015-01-28 Thread jesse
should not it be 1<<32 -1(4g)? normal zip archive format should be able to support 4g file. thanks -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: ANN: unpyc3 - a python bytecode decompiler for Python3

2015-01-28 Thread Devin Jeanpierre
FWIW I put all my source code inside Dropbox so that even things I haven't yet committed/pushed to Bitbucket/Github are backed up. So far it's worked really well, despite using Dropbox on both Windows and Linux. (See also: Google Drive, etc.) (Free) Dropbox has a 30 day recovery time limit, and I

Re: Python is DOOMED! Again!

2015-01-28 Thread Skip Montanaro
On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 12:34 PM, Skip Montanaro wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 12:16 PM, Mark Lawrence > wrote: >> >> C and C++ are weakly and statically typed languages. Python is a strongly >> and dynamically typed language. > > > Feel free to edit this Google spreadsheet: Man, somet

Re: Python is DOOMED! Again!

2015-01-28 Thread Skip Montanaro
On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 12:16 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote: > C and C++ are weakly and statically typed languages. Python is a strongly > and dynamically typed language. Feel free to edit this Google spreadsheet: -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python is DOOMED! Again!

2015-01-28 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 28/01/2015 15:04, Mario Figueiredo wrote: In article <54c83ab4$0$12982$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>, steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info says... Mario Figueiredo wrote: Static analysis cannot and should not clutter executable code. (1) It isn't clutter. The human reader uses that

Re: ANN: unpyc3 - a python bytecode decompiler for Python3

2015-01-28 Thread n . poppelier
Last night I accidentally deleted a group of *.py files (stupid-stupid-stupid!). Thanks to unpyc3 I have reconstructed all but one of them so far from the *.pyc files that were in the directory __pycache__. Many thanks!!! -- Nico -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: multiprocessing module backport from 3 to 2.7 - spawn feature

2015-01-28 Thread Skip Montanaro
On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 7:07 AM, Andres Riancho wrote: > The feature I'm specially interested in is the ability to spawn > processes [1] instead of forking, which is not present in the 2.7 > version of the module. > Can you explain what you see as the difference between "spawn" and "fork" in thi

Re: write file to a server

2015-01-28 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 28/01/2015 14:12, Chris Angelico wrote: On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 12:38 AM, MRAB wrote: On 2015-01-28 13:22, luca72 wrote: Hello i'm under windows, i have to write a file from my computer to a local server like taht "\\DOCUMENTALE\my_folder\". How i have to proceed ? That's a path to a fol

Python on armv7l router: C++ exceptions issue

2015-01-28 Thread Alex Potapenko
I run Python on an arm-brcm-linux-uclibcgnueabi router. Python was cross-compiled using hndtools-arm-linux-2.6.36-uclibc-4.5.3 toolchain. While trying to use deluge, I realised that there's something wrong with handling C++ exceptions in C++ extension modules: they're not being caught at all. I

multiprocessing module backport from 3 to 2.7 - spawn feature

2015-01-28 Thread Andres Riancho
List, I've been searching around for a multiprocessing module backport from 3 to 2.7.x and the closest thing I've found was celery's billiard [0] which seems to be a work in progress. The feature I'm specially interested in is the ability to spawn processes [1] instead of forking, which is not pr

Re: Python is DOOMED! Again!

2015-01-28 Thread Ian Kelly
On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 8:04 AM, Mario Figueiredo wrote: > In article <54c83ab4$0$12982$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>, > steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info says... >> >> Mario Figueiredo wrote: >> >> > Static analysis cannot and should not clutter executable code. >> >> (1) It isn't clutte

Re: An object is an instance (or not)?

2015-01-28 Thread random832
On Wed, Jan 28, 2015, at 01:59, Ben Finney wrote: > You have no justification to claim that, and it's hostile and dismissive > to claim it so assertively. Sorry about that - I was tired and had just read through the whole thread at once. > I'll freely admit to finding “'Foo' object” ambiguous. It

SUBMIT "ACCEPT" button - Python - beautifulsoap

2015-01-28 Thread peter . neumaier
I am totally new to Python and please accept my apologies upfront for potential newbie errors. I am trying to parse a 'simple' web page: http://flow.gassco.no/ When opening the page first time in my browser I need to confirm T&C with an accept button. After accepting T&C I would like to scrape s

Re: Open file in default app and exit in Windows

2015-01-28 Thread Tim Chase
On 2015-01-28 07:50, stephen.bou...@gmail.com wrote: > I am using the following to open a file in its default application > in Windows 7: > > from subprocess import call > > filename = 'my file.csv' > call('"%s"' % filename, shell=True) You can try import os filename = 'my file.csv' os.st

Re: Open file in default app and exit in Windows

2015-01-28 Thread stephen . boulet
On Wednesday, January 28, 2015 at 10:07:25 AM UTC-6, Tim Golden wrote: > On 28/01/2015 15:50, stephen...@gmail.com wrote wrote: > > I am using the following to open a file in its default application in > > Windows 7: > > > > from subprocess import call > > > > filename = 'my file.csv' call('"%s"'

Re: Open file in default app and exit in Windows

2015-01-28 Thread Tim Golden
On 28/01/2015 15:50, stephen.bou...@gmail.com wrote: > I am using the following to open a file in its default application in > Windows 7: > > from subprocess import call > > filename = 'my file.csv' call('"%s"' % filename, shell=True) > > This still leaves a python process hanging around until t

Open file in default app and exit in Windows

2015-01-28 Thread stephen . boulet
I am using the following to open a file in its default application in Windows 7: from subprocess import call filename = 'my file.csv' call('"%s"' % filename, shell=True) This still leaves a python process hanging around until the launched app is closed. Any idea how to get around? -- https://m

Re: Python is DOOMED! Again!

2015-01-28 Thread Mario Figueiredo
In article <54c83ab4$0$12982$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>, steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info says... > > Mario Figueiredo wrote: > > > Static analysis cannot and should not clutter executable code. > > (1) It isn't clutter. The human reader uses that information as well as the > compi

Re: parsing tree from excel sheet

2015-01-28 Thread Tim Chase
On 2015-01-28 10:12, alb wrote: > I've a document structure which is extremely simple and represented > on a spreadsheet in the following way (a made up example): > > subsystem | chapter | section | subsection | subsubsec | > A | | || | > | f

Re: parsing tree from excel sheet

2015-01-28 Thread alb
Hi Peter, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote: [] > You can save the excel sheet as csv so that you an use the csv module which > may be easier to use than xlrd. The rest should be doable by hand. Here's > what I hacked together: > > $ cat parse_column_tree.py > import csv > > def column_inde

Re: write file to a server

2015-01-28 Thread Chris Angelico
On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 12:38 AM, MRAB wrote: > On 2015-01-28 13:22, luca72 wrote: >> >> Hello i'm under windows, i have to write a file from my computer to a >> local server like taht "\\DOCUMENTALE\my_folder\". >> How i have to proceed ? >> > That's a path to a folder that just happens to be on

Re: Python is DOOMED! Again!

2015-01-28 Thread Skip Montanaro
On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 7:26 PM, Steven D'Aprano < steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > (2) Algol, Ada, Boo, C, C#, C++, Cobol, Cobra, D, F#, Fantom, Fortran, Go, > Haskell, Java, Julia, Kotlin, Oberon, Pascal, Rust, Scala and dozens > (hundreds?) of other languages disagree with you. >

Re: parsing tree from excel sheet

2015-01-28 Thread Peter Otten
alb wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I've a document structure which is extremely simple and represented on a > spreadsheet in the following way (a made up example): > > subsystem | chapter | section | subsection | subsubsec | > A | | || | > | fun

Re: Beginner question - class definition error

2015-01-28 Thread Cousin Stanley
> from kivy.app import App > from kivy.uix.label import Label > > class MyApp(App): > def build(self): > return Label(text='Hello World') > > if __name__ == '__main__': > MyApp().run() > > > > I get this error when I run it: > > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File

Re: write file to a server

2015-01-28 Thread MRAB
On 2015-01-28 13:22, luca72 wrote: Hello i'm under windows, i have to write a file from my computer to a local server like taht "\\DOCUMENTALE\my_folder\". How i have to proceed ? That's a path to a folder that just happens to be on another computer on your network. Treat it the same way you wo

write file to a server

2015-01-28 Thread luca72
Hello i'm under windows, i have to write a file from my computer to a local server like taht "\\DOCUMENTALE\my_folder\". How i have to proceed ? Thanks -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

RE: Beginner question - class definition error

2015-01-28 Thread David Aldrich
> Unindent the 'if' statement. Currently, it's indented inside the class > definition, so MyApp isn't defined yet. Thanks very much. That fixed it. Best regards David -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Beginner question - class definition error

2015-01-28 Thread MRAB
On 2015-01-28 11:10, David Aldrich wrote: Hi I am just getting started with Python 3.3.3 and Kivy 1.8. I am using the Kivy development environment on Windows (open a command prompt and call kivy.bat). With this minimal code: import kivy kivy.require('1.8.0') from kivy.app import App from k

Beginner question - class definition error

2015-01-28 Thread David Aldrich
Hi I am just getting started with Python 3.3.3 and Kivy 1.8. I am using the Kivy development environment on Windows (open a command prompt and call kivy.bat). With this minimal code: import kivy kivy.require('1.8.0') from kivy.app import App from kivy.uix.label import Label class MyApp(App)

Re: An object is an instance (or not)?

2015-01-28 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Gregory Ewing wrote: > Mario Figueiredo wrote: >> I couldn't think of a way to >> demonstrate that a class object does not participate in its own >> inheritance rules. Only instances of it can. > > I think I may see where your reasoning is going astray. > You think that an instance "inherits" met

Re: An object is an instance (or not)?

2015-01-28 Thread Ben Finney
Steven D'Aprano writes: > Ben Finney wrote: > > > * In the distant past of Python, some objects were not instances of any > > class; the terminology in the documentation and messages shows some > > confusing legacies from that ancient time. > > > I presume you are referring to the type/class dist

Re: An object is an instance (or not)?

2015-01-28 Thread Mario Figueiredo
In article , breamore...@yahoo.co.uk says... > > The thing that bothers me is that many people, some of them with maybe > 20 years of Python experience, have repeatedly stated Python concepts > with respect to the terms class, instance and object. Instead of > accepting their knowledge of the

Re: An object is an instance (or not)?

2015-01-28 Thread Gregory Ewing
Mario Figueiredo wrote: An instance of an object is capable of doing so, per its class definitions. Whereas a Python class object is not. >>> class Master: def func(self): pass >>> class Sub(Master): pass >>> Sub.func() TypeError: func()

Re: An object is an instance (or not)?

2015-01-28 Thread Gregory Ewing
Mario Figueiredo wrote: I couldn't think of a way to demonstrate that a class object does not participate in its own inheritance rules. Only instances of it can. I think I may see where your reasoning is going astray. You think that an instance "inherits" methods from its class in the same way

parsing tree from excel sheet

2015-01-28 Thread alb
Hi everyone, I've a document structure which is extremely simple and represented on a spreadsheet in the following way (a made up example): subsystem | chapter | section | subsection | subsubsec | A | | || | | func0 | |

Re: An object is an instance (or not)?

2015-01-28 Thread Chris Angelico
On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 8:16 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Or perhaps that should be a sad face smiley :-( How much time we would all > save if academics and language designers would only stick to a single > consistent terminology across all languages. That's like wishing that every human spoke th

Re: An object is an instance (or not)?

2015-01-28 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Mario Figueiredo wrote: > In article , > n...@nedbatchelder.com says... >> >> A common mistake is to believe that "OOP" is a well-defined term. It's >> not it's a collection of ideas that are expressed slightly differently >> in each language. > > A common mistake is thinking just because OOP h

Re: An object is an instance (or not)?

2015-01-28 Thread Steven D'Aprano
random...@fastmail.us wrote: > I think his objection is to the use of the phrase "'Sub' object" to > refer only to instances of the Sub type, when 'Sub' is the name of the > type object itself and therefore (he thinks) "'Sub' object" should refer > to it instead. (I can only assume he wants "'x' o

Re: An object is an instance (or not)?

2015-01-28 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Mario Figueiredo wrote: > In other words, the object know as "Sub class" is not an instance > object. True, it is an instance of the object 'type'. Can you not see the contradiction there? The object known as 42 is not an instance object. True, it is an instance of the object "int". Er, then

Re: An object is an instance (or not)?

2015-01-28 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Ned Batchelder wrote: > Do you have a reference that defines these terms? *A* reference is not sufficient. It has to be a reference which all other references agree with. I'll be kind, and lower the requirement to one where *the majority* of other references agree. The OP still won't find one

Re: An object is an instance (or not)?

2015-01-28 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Ben Finney wrote: > Ned Batchelder writes: > >> On 1/27/15 3:12 PM, Mario Figueiredo wrote: >> > This is a follow up from a previous discussion in which it is argued >> > that the following code produces the correct error message terminology, >> > considering that in Python an object is also an

Re: An object is an instance (or not)?

2015-01-28 Thread Steven D'Aprano
random...@fastmail.us wrote: > On Wed, Jan 28, 2015, at 00:43, Devin Jeanpierre wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 9:37 PM, wrote: >> > Sub itself is not a Sub object, it is a type object. "instance" is >> > implicit in the phrase "foo object". >> >> Yes. Unfortunately, it's still not really com

Re: An object is an instance (or not)?

2015-01-28 Thread Steven D'Aprano
random...@fastmail.us wrote: > On Tue, Jan 27, 2015, at 16:06, Mario Figueiredo wrote: >> That error message has me start that thread arguing that the error is >> misleading because the Sub object does have the __bases__ attribute. >> It's the Sub instance object that does not have it. > > What d

Re: Is there a more elegant way to spell this?

2015-01-28 Thread Mario Figueiredo
In article , ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au says... > > More accurately (and as acknowledged in that guide), a single underscore > *is* a common name for a ?don't care? name, but is better avoided for > that purpose because it's also commonly used for other purposes. > > In other words: That guide i

python on mobile mailing list

2015-01-28 Thread Fetchinson .
Hi all, the mobile-sig mailing list is alive: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mobile-sig/2015-January/thread.html If you are interested in python on smart phones that's the place to go! Cheers, Daniel -- Psss, psss, put it down! - http://www.cafepress.com/putitdown -- https://mail.python.o

Re: An object is an instance (or not)?

2015-01-28 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Ben Finney wrote: > * In the distant past of Python, some objects were not instances of any > class; the terminology in the documentation and messages shows some > confusing legacies from that ancient time. I presume you are referring to the type/class distinction? That is, in Python 1.5 (for e