Re: Defamation

2015-04-03 Thread Paul Arrington
On Fri, 03 Apr 2015 18:37:33 +0200, silvagni wrote: > Please remove the page: > https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2014-September/691616.html > > Thank You Gabriele Silvagni This is a primarily a "Usenet" group, (Google that term), and is hosted by a distributed network of servers, a

Re: Strategy/ Advice for How to Best Attack this Problem?

2015-04-03 Thread Rustom Mody
On Saturday, April 4, 2015 at 1:52:20 AM UTC+5:30, Dave Angel wrote: > On 04/03/2015 08:50 AM, Saran A wrote: > > On Friday, April 3, 2015 at 8:05:14 AM UTC-4, Dave Angel wrote: > >> On 04/02/2015 07:43 PM, Saran A wrote: > > > > I addressed most of the issues. I do admit that, as a novice, I feel

Re: Strategy/ Advice for How to Best Attack this Problem?

2015-04-03 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 03Apr2015 16:21, Dave Angel wrote: On 04/03/2015 08:50 AM, Saran A wrote: On Friday, April 3, 2015 at 8:05:14 AM UTC-4, Dave Angel wrote: On 04/02/2015 07:43 PM, Saran A wrote: os.mkdir('Success') As you correctly stated: What do you do the second time through this function, when

Re: Defamation

2015-04-03 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 03/04/2015 17:37, silvagni wrote: Please remove the page: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2014-September/691616.html Thank You Gabriele Silvagni I mark all of these as offensive on google groups. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what yo

Re: Defamation

2015-04-03 Thread Ben Finney
silvagni writes: > Please remove the page: > https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2014-September/691616.html > > Thank You > Gabriele Silvagni You have given no motivation for us to do so. A bald request to remove a message is unlikely to be actioned. Also, you are addressing the wrong

Re: Defamation

2015-04-03 Thread Terry Reedy
On 4/3/2015 12:37 PM, silvagni wrote: Please remove the page: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2014-September/691616.html Thank You Gabriele Silvagni You can try sending mail to python-list-ow...@python.org, but it will not do much good. Even if a post could be removed from pyth

Re: Strategy/ Advice for How to Best Attack this Problem?

2015-04-03 Thread Dave Angel
On 04/03/2015 08:50 AM, Saran A wrote: On Friday, April 3, 2015 at 8:05:14 AM UTC-4, Dave Angel wrote: On 04/02/2015 07:43 PM, Saran A wrote: I addressed most of the issues. I do admit that, as a novice, I feel beholden to the computer - hence the over-engineering. Should be quite the oppo

Re: New to Programming: Adding custom functions with ipynotify classes

2015-04-03 Thread Saran A
On Friday, April 3, 2015 at 12:40:11 PM UTC-4, Denis McMahon wrote: > On Thu, 02 Apr 2015 18:30:42 -0700, Saran A wrote: > > > Here is the program that I am trying to write (with specs): > > Saran, please stop prefacing every subject with "New to programming:" - > it does not give an clue whatso

Re: New to Programming: Adding custom functions with ipynotify classes

2015-04-03 Thread Denis McMahon
On Thu, 02 Apr 2015 18:30:42 -0700, Saran A wrote: > Here is the program that I am trying to write (with specs): Saran, please stop prefacing every subject with "New to programming:" - it does not give an clue whatsoever as to what your post is about. -- Denis McMahon, denismfmcma...@gmail.com

Defamation

2015-04-03 Thread silvagni
Please remove the page: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2014-September/691616.html Thank You Gabriele Silvagni -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: A simple single line, triple-quoted comment is giving syntax error. Why?

2015-04-03 Thread Ian Kelly
On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 1:13 AM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > 2. The counterexample "abc" "def" *does* demonstrate that expressions > can at times follow each other immediately. It is a nice point even > if not all that consequential. > > Somewhat analogously: > * ord is an expression

Re: r"\"" ??? (was A simple single line, triple-quoted comment)

2015-04-03 Thread Rustom Mody
On Friday, April 3, 2015 at 8:10:54 PM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 11:52 PM, Rustom Mody wrote: > > Speaking about silliness of definitions, I was knocked out in class by this > > today: > > > r"\"" > > '\\"' > > > > Seeing the docs > > https://docs.python.org/3.

Re: r"\"" ??? (was A simple single line, triple-quoted comment)

2015-04-03 Thread Chris Angelico
On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 11:52 PM, Rustom Mody wrote: > Speaking about silliness of definitions, I was knocked out in class by this > today: > r"\"" > '\\"' > > Seeing the docs > https://docs.python.org/3.4/reference/lexical_analysis.html#string-and-bytes-literals > it talks of this explicitly

Re: Strategy/ Advice for How to Best Attack this Problem?

2015-04-03 Thread Saran A
On Friday, April 3, 2015 at 6:46:21 AM UTC-4, Peter Otten wrote: > Saran A wrote: > > > I debugged and rewrote everything. Here is the full version. Feel free to > > tear this apart. The homework assignment is not due until tomorrow, so I > > am currently also experimenting with pyinotify as well.

r"\"" ??? (was A simple single line, triple-quoted comment)

2015-04-03 Thread Rustom Mody
On Friday, April 3, 2015 at 12:43:32 PM UTC+5:30, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > 3. Arguing about definitions is silly. Is 0 a natural number? Is 1 a > prime number? Speaking about silliness of definitions, I was knocked out in class by this today: >>> r"\"" '\\"' Seeing the docs https://docs.pyt

Re: Strategy/ Advice for How to Best Attack this Problem?

2015-04-03 Thread Saran A
On Friday, April 3, 2015 at 8:05:14 AM UTC-4, Dave Angel wrote: > On 04/02/2015 07:43 PM, Saran A wrote: > > > > > I debugged and rewrote everything. Here is the full version. Feel free to > > tear this apart. The homework assignment is not due until tomorrow, so I am > > currently also expe

Re: New to Programming: Adding custom functions with ipynotify classes

2015-04-03 Thread Dave Angel
On 04/03/2015 07:37 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Fri, 3 Apr 2015 12:30 pm, Saran A wrote: #This helper function returns the length of the file def file_len(f): with open(f) as f: for i, l in enumerate(f): pass return i + 1 Not as given it doesn't. It w

Re: Strategy/ Advice for How to Best Attack this Problem?

2015-04-03 Thread Dave Angel
On 04/02/2015 07:43 PM, Saran A wrote: I debugged and rewrote everything. Here is the full version. Feel free to tear this apart. The homework assignment is not due until tomorrow, so I am currently also experimenting with pyinotify as well. I do have questions regarding how to make this

Re: New to Programming: Adding custom functions with ipynotify classes

2015-04-03 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Fri, 3 Apr 2015 12:30 pm, Saran A wrote: > Hello All: > > Here is the program that I am trying to write (with specs): [...] Do you have an actual question? If you want a code review of your entire application, the polite thing to do is to ask for volunteers first, before dropping 200+ lines

Re: Strategy/ Advice for How to Best Attack this Problem?

2015-04-03 Thread Peter Otten
Saran A wrote: > I debugged and rewrote everything. Here is the full version. Feel free to > tear this apart. The homework assignment is not due until tomorrow, so I > am currently also experimenting with pyinotify as well. Saran, try to make a realistic assessment of your capability. Your "debu

Re: A simple single line, triple-quoted comment is giving syntax error. Why?

2015-04-03 Thread Marko Rauhamaa
Chris Angelico : > I know that it started in response to my statement that string literal > concatenation wasn't an expression as such, but I have no idea what > either side of the current debate is, nor how it affects my > statement's validity. This is what I have gathered: - A Python expressi