Re: Python 3.4 Idle?

2015-07-26 Thread Terry Reedy
On 7/23/2015 9:28 PM, Steve Burrus wrote: Listen I got back the Idle EAditor the other day but I had to install the older, version 2.7, version of Python to get it. So naturally I w onder if I can get Idle for version 3.4.*? Yes, just install 3.4.3. -- Terry Jan Reedy -- https://mail.python.o

Re: Gmail eats Python

2015-07-26 Thread Chris Angelico
On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 3:40 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> So while emacs makes everything else look rather puerile, setting it up >> is such a bitch that last python course I just switched to idle. >> Must admit it was more pleasant than I expected. >> Except that sometimes we need C and C++ and

Re: Python Questions - July 25, 2015

2015-07-26 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 27/07/2015 00:12, Ned Batchelder wrote: On Sunday, July 26, 2015 at 5:15:31 PM UTC-4, mm0fmf wrote: On 26/07/2015 20:17, E.D.G. wrote: [around 90 lines snipped] Am I the only person thinking Troll? Yes. --Ned. Was it really necessary to resend all of the original for the sake of a

Re: Python Questions - July 25, 2015

2015-07-26 Thread E.D.G.
"Ned Batchelder" wrote in message news:b68af3d4-6f12-49d6-8c15-f18a95441...@googlegroups.com... Am I the only person thinking Troll? Yes. Posted by E.D.G. July 26, 2015 With some humor intended, thanks for the supportive note. This is an indirect URL for a potentially importan

Re: Gmail eats Python

2015-07-26 Thread Rick Johnson
On Saturday, July 25, 2015 at 11:35:02 AM UTC-5, Laura Creighton wrote: > How do you teach gmail not to reflow what it thinks of as > 'other people's quoted text'? My simple solution is to bulk replace ">>> " with "py> ". Also has the benefit of differentiating between languages when a proper "tag

Re: Python Questions - July 25, 2015

2015-07-26 Thread Ned Batchelder
On Sunday, July 26, 2015 at 5:15:31 PM UTC-4, mm0fmf wrote: > On 26/07/2015 20:17, E.D.G. wrote: > > "E.D.G." wrote in message > > news:jf6dnqimoz_gxc7inz2dnuu7-s2dn...@earthlink.com... > > > > Posted by E.D.G. July 26, 2015 > > > > These are some additional comments related to my origin

Re: Python Questions - July 25, 2015

2015-07-26 Thread E.D.G.
"E.D.G." wrote in message news:q5sdntejbkkjxyjinz2dnuu7-tedn...@earthlink.com... Posted by E.D.G. July 26, 2015 There is an additional comment for people who are interested in scientific programming efforts. Most people are aware that when the U.S. Government tried to get a We

Re: Python Questions - July 25, 2015

2015-07-26 Thread E.D.G.
"mm0fmf" wrote in message news:J5ctx.20800$IK6.11473@fx46.am4... > Am I the only person thinking Troll? Posted by E.D.G. July 26, 2015 In my opinion, one of the most important aspects in considering the selection of a new programming language is the willingness of people posting note

Re: Gmail eats Python

2015-07-26 Thread Rustom Mody
On Monday, July 27, 2015 at 1:15:29 AM UTC+5:30, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2015-07-26, Rustom Mody wrote: > > On Sunday, July 26, 2015 at 9:17:16 PM UTC+5:30, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> On 2015-07-26, Rustom Mody wrote: > >> > >>> JFTR: Ive been using emacs for 20+ years. And I have the increasin

Re: Gmail eats Python

2015-07-26 Thread Seb
And for those interested in how I received Laura's message (the one I replied to): ------ Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Laura Creighton Newsgroups: gmane.comp.python.general Subject: Re: scalar vs array and program con

Re: Gmail eats Python

2015-07-26 Thread Rustom Mody
On Sunday, July 26, 2015 at 11:11:04 PM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Mon, 27 Jul 2015 01:59 am, Rustom Mody wrote: > > > Its 2015 now and any ½ decent teacher of programming, writes programs in > > front of the class. > > Yeah, but the fully decent teachers prepare before hand, so the s

Re: Python Questions - July 25, 2015

2015-07-26 Thread mm0fmf via Python-list
On 26/07/2015 20:17, E.D.G. wrote: "E.D.G." wrote in message news:jf6dnqimoz_gxc7inz2dnuu7-s2dn...@earthlink.com... Posted by E.D.G. July 26, 2015 These are some additional comments related to my original post. The effort I have been discussing actually involves developing a

Re: Gmail eats Python

2015-07-26 Thread Ian Kelly
On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 12:20 AM, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 25Jul2015 22:43, Ian Kelly wrote: >> >> On Jul 25, 2015 4:51 PM, "Ben Finney" wrote: >>> >>> Laura Creighton writes: >>> > So it was my fault by sending him a reply with >>> to the far left. >>> >>> No, it was Google Mail's failt for

Re: Gmail eats Python

2015-07-26 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2015-07-26, Rustom Mody wrote: > On Sunday, July 26, 2015 at 9:17:16 PM UTC+5:30, Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2015-07-26, Rustom Mody wrote: >> >>> JFTR: Ive been using emacs for 20+ years. And I have the increasing >>> feeling that my students are getting fedup with it (and me). [...] >> Why

Re: Python Questions - July 25, 2015

2015-07-26 Thread E.D.G.
"E.D.G." wrote in message news:jf6dnqimoz_gxc7inz2dnuu7-s2dn...@earthlink.com... Posted by E.D.G. July 26, 2015 These are some additional comments related to my original post. The effort I have been discussing actually involves developing a totally free version of some languag

Re: Python Questions - July 25, 2015

2015-07-26 Thread E.D.G.
"Laura Creighton" wrote in message news:mailman.1018.1437935917.3674.python-l...@python.org... Yes. That is actually the usual way to do things for quite a few years now. What you are talking about is what we call a Python virtual environment. see: http://iamzed.com/2009/05/07/a-primer-on-virt

Re: Python Questions - July 25, 2015

2015-07-26 Thread Laura Creighton
> It can take a considerable amount of time and effort to get a >programming language installed and running with all of the features that are >needed. It probably took me 5 to 10 years to get Perl organized on my >computer like that. > So, that is what I was asking about Python.

Re: Gmail eats Python

2015-07-26 Thread Sebastian P . Luque
On Sat, 25 Jul 2015 18:34:30 +0200, Laura Creighton wrote: > Gmail eats Python. We just saw this mail back from Sebastian Luque > which says in part: try: all_your_code_which_is_happy_with_non_scalars except WhateverErrorPythonGivesYouWhenYouTryThisWithScalars: whatever_you_want_

Re: Gmail eats Python

2015-07-26 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Mon, 27 Jul 2015 01:59 am, Rustom Mody wrote: > Its 2015 now and any ½ decent teacher of programming, writes programs in > front of the class. Yeah, but the fully decent teachers prepare before hand, so the students don't have to wait while they type out the (buggy) program in front of them.

Re: Python Questions - July 25, 2015

2015-07-26 Thread E.D.G.
"Laura Creighton" wrote in message news:mailman.980.1437832769.3674.python-l...@python.org... The most common way to do things is to tell your users to install whatever python distribution you pick and then optionally install these extra packages (if you need any) and then give them a python pro

Re: Gmail eats Python

2015-07-26 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 26/07/2015 16:59, Rustom Mody wrote: So while emacs makes everything else look rather puerile, setting it up is such a bitch that last python course I just switched to idle. Must admit it was more pleasant than I expected. Except that sometimes we need C and C++ and assembly and haskell and m

Re: Which GUI?

2015-07-26 Thread Paulo da Silva
On 26-07-2015 05:47, blue wrote: > Hi . > I tested all. Now I think the PySide can more. No python3! Besides ... any differences to pyqt4? Thanks -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Gmail eats Python

2015-07-26 Thread Rustom Mody
On Sunday, July 26, 2015 at 9:17:16 PM UTC+5:30, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2015-07-26, Rustom Mody wrote: > > > JFTR: Ive been using emacs for 20+ years. And I have the increasing > > feeling that my students are getting fedup with it (and me). > > I don't understand. > > Why do your students e

Re: Gmail eats Python

2015-07-26 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2015-07-26, Laura Creighton wrote: > In a message of Sun, 26 Jul 2015 00:58:08 -, Grant Edwards writes: > >>You use mutt or something else decent as your MUA. >> > > I do -- the problem is all the gmail users out there. So am I, and I use mutt as my MUA pretty much exclusively. [I sometime

Re: Gmail eats Python

2015-07-26 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2015-07-26, Rustom Mody wrote: > JFTR: Ive been using emacs for 20+ years. And I have the increasing > feeling that my students are getting fedup with it (and me). I don't understand. Why do your students even _know_ (let alone care!) what editor you use? I admit it was years ago, but afte

Re: Gmail eats Python

2015-07-26 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2015-07-26, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 4:15 PM, Rustom Mody wrote: >> Well Almost. >> >> Emacs used to stand for "Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping" >> At a time when 8 MB was large. Is it today? >> So let me ask you: [...] >> If you have one app to do them all, I'd

Re: Python Questions - July 25, 2015

2015-07-26 Thread BartC
On 26/07/2015 15:22, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Sun, 26 Jul 2015 10:49 pm, BartC wrote: How do you actually install Numpy in Windows? Are you installing from source, or a pre-built binary? To install from source, you need a C or Fortran compiler, and a bunch of extra libraries (I think BLAS i

Re: [Python-Dev] [RELEASED] Python 3.5.0b4 is now available

2015-07-26 Thread Stephane Wirtel
\o/ > On 26 juil. 2015, at 4:37 PM, Larry Hastings wrote: > > > On behalf of the Python development community and the Python 3.5 release > team, I'm delighted to announce the availability of Python 3.5.0b4. Python > 3.5.0b4 is scheduled to be the last beta release; the next release will be

[RELEASED] Python 3.5.0b4 is now available

2015-07-26 Thread Larry Hastings
On behalf of the Python development community and the Python 3.5 release team, I'm delighted to announce the availability of Python 3.5.0b4. Python 3.5.0b4 is scheduled to be the last beta release; the next release will be Python 3.5.0rc1, or Release Candidate 1. Python 3.5 has now entered "featu

Re: Python Questions - July 25, 2015

2015-07-26 Thread BartC
On 26/07/2015 14:07, Chris Angelico wrote: On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 10:49 PM, BartC wrote: And is there anything I've done wrong above? (Apart from trying to use Windows.) Not sure about done *wrong*, per se, but there's something that you didn't mention doing: search the web for "numpy windo

Re: Python Questions - July 25, 2015

2015-07-26 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sun, 26 Jul 2015 10:49 pm, BartC wrote: > How do you actually install Numpy in Windows? Are you installing from source, or a pre-built binary? To install from source, you need a C or Fortran compiler, and a bunch of extra libraries (I think BLAS is one of them?). > I had a go a month or two

Re: Gmail eats Python

2015-07-26 Thread Rustom Mody
On Sunday, July 26, 2015 at 4:13:17 PM UTC+5:30, Jussi Piitulainen wrote: > Rustom Mody writes: > > On Sunday, July 26, 2015 at 2:06:00 PM UTC+5:30, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > > >> What would you like to achieve, exactly? > > > > Some attitude correction? > > With all respect, take your own advice.

Re: Python Questions - July 25, 2015

2015-07-26 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 26/07/2015 13:49, BartC wrote: On 25/07/2015 12:36, tandrewjohn...@outlook.com wrote: For intensive numerical calculations, I'd recommend using the NumPy module, as well as the 64-bit version of Python is possible. How do you actually install Numpy in Windows? http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~go

Re: Python Questions - July 25, 2015

2015-07-26 Thread Adam Bartoš
> How do you actually install Numpy in Windows? In theory, `pip install numpy` should work, but there are currently no wheels for Windows, see https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/5479. Try `pip install -i https://pypi.binstar.org/carlkl/simple numpy` (see last posts in the issue). Adam Bartoš -

Re: Python Questions - July 25, 2015

2015-07-26 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 10:49 PM, BartC wrote: > > And is there anything I've done wrong above? (Apart from trying to use > Windows.) Not sure about done *wrong*, per se, but there's something that you didn't mention doing: search the web for "numpy windows", which brought me to this page: http:

Re: Python Questions - July 25, 2015

2015-07-26 Thread BartC
On 25/07/2015 12:36, tandrewjohn...@outlook.com wrote: For intensive numerical calculations, I'd recommend using the NumPy module, as well as the 64-bit version of Python is possible. How do you actually install Numpy in Windows? I had a go a month or two ago and couldn't get anywhere. I re

Re: Gmail eats Python

2015-07-26 Thread Marko Rauhamaa
Jussi Piitulainen : > I suppose early hackers were also incredibly tolerant of obscure names > in general. At first, there was only the machine language. Assembly languages introduced "mnemonics" for the weaklings who couldn't remember the opcodes by heart. (Playing cards went through a somewhat

Re: Gmail eats Python

2015-07-26 Thread Jussi Piitulainen
Chris Angelico writes: > On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 7:51 PM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: >>> - What everyone calls head (of a list) emacs calls Car (Toyota?) >> >> Now you're inventing things. > > No, but it's LISP rather than Emacs that calls it that. And it dates > back to an assembly language opcode. Wh

Re: Gmail eats Python

2015-07-26 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 26/07/2015 10:21, alister wrote: emacs is a great operating system - the only thing it lacks is a good text editor ;-) notepad -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listi

Re: Gmail eats Python

2015-07-26 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 26/07/2015 07:15, Rustom Mody wrote: On Sunday, July 26, 2015 at 11:05:14 AM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote: On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 3:28 PM, Rustom Mody wrote: JFTR: Ive been using emacs for 20+ years. And I have the increasing feeling that my students are getting fedup with it (and me).

Re: Gmail eats Python

2015-07-26 Thread Jussi Piitulainen
Rustom Mody writes: > On Sunday, July 26, 2015 at 2:06:00 PM UTC+5:30, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: >> What would you like to achieve, exactly? > > Some attitude correction? With all respect, take your own advice. And use an editor that works for you. > That emacs starts its tutorial showing how to use

Capturing stdin and stdout using ctypes

2015-07-26 Thread Adam Bartoš
Hello, how can I capture C stdin and stdout file pointers using ctypes in Python 3? I want them to be able to call PyOS_Readline via ctypes. Thank you, Adam Bartoš -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: scalar vs array and program control

2015-07-26 Thread Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn
Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote: > Laura Creighton wrote: >> and to create a class where none was before to make it more object- >> oriented. > > I did not need to, but, again, it was more obvious that way. I could also > have used an existing class, and its existing or newly added method. > AI

Re: scalar vs array and program control

2015-07-26 Thread Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn
Laura Creighton wrote: > […] "Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn" writes: >> Laura Creighton wrote: >>> […] "Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn" [writes]: Laura Creighton wrote: > […] You really cannot make your code 'more functional' and 'more > object-oriented' at the same time -- more in one style

Re: Gmail eats Python

2015-07-26 Thread Marko Rauhamaa
Chris Angelico : > On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 7:51 PM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: >>> - What everyone calls head (of a list) emacs calls Car (Toyota?) >> >> Now you're inventing things. > > No, but it's LISP rather than Emacs that calls it that. You'd have to get into programming lisp before you encount

Re: Gmail eats Python

2015-07-26 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 7:51 PM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: >> - What everyone calls head (of a list) emacs calls Car (Toyota?) > > Now you're inventing things. No, but it's LISP rather than Emacs that calls it that. And it dates back to an assembly language opcode. Why that got perpetuated in a high

Re: Gmail eats Python

2015-07-26 Thread Marko Rauhamaa
Rustom Mody : > You are being obtuse Marko! > > Yeah that 'M-' is what everyone calls Alt can be conveyed in a few > seconds Often Alt doesn't work. For example, the stupid GUI thinks it can intercept some Alt key combinations. Then, it's good to know the ESC prefix functions as Alt. Also, in so

Re: Gmail eats Python

2015-07-26 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sun, 26 Jul 2015 04:43 pm, Ian Kelly wrote: > I'm also skeptical that this was caused by Gmail, which I've never > seen do this and did not do this when I tried to repro it just now. > Also, unless I'm misinterpreting the headers of the message in > question, it appears to have been sent via Gm

Re: Gmail eats Python

2015-07-26 Thread alister
On Sun, 26 Jul 2015 01:50:21 -0700, Rustom Mody wrote: > On Sunday, July 26, 2015 at 2:06:00 PM UTC+5:30, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: >> Rustom Mody : >> >> > Emacs 'tries to be everything' in exactly the same way that a >> > 'general purpose programming language' is too general and by >> > pretending

Re: Gmail eats Python

2015-07-26 Thread Rustom Mody
On Sunday, July 26, 2015 at 2:06:00 PM UTC+5:30, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > Rustom Mody : > > > Emacs 'tries to be everything' in exactly the same way that a 'general > > purpose programming language' is too general and by pretending to > > solve all problems actually solves none (until you hire a pr

Re: Gmail eats Python

2015-07-26 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 26Jul2015 09:02, Laura Creighton wrote: In a message of Sun, 26 Jul 2015 00:58:08 -, Grant Edwards writes: You use mutt or something else decent as your MUA. I do -- the problem is all the gmail users out there. Take heart - gmail used to do much worse than this:-) Cheers, Cameron S

Re: Gmail eats Python

2015-07-26 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 25Jul2015 22:43, Ian Kelly wrote: On Jul 25, 2015 4:51 PM, "Ben Finney" wrote: Laura Creighton writes: > So it was my fault by sending him a reply with >>> to the far left. No, it was Google Mail's failt for messing with the content of the message. Specificly, by manking the text withou

Re: Gmail eats Python

2015-07-26 Thread Marko Rauhamaa
Rustom Mody : > Emacs 'tries to be everything' in exactly the same way that a 'general > purpose programming language' is too general and by pretending to > solve all problems actually solves none (until you hire a programmer). Emacs isn't too general. It's just right. > Problem with emacs (cult

Re: Gmail eats Python

2015-07-26 Thread Rustom Mody
On Sunday, July 26, 2015 at 12:25:42 PM UTC+5:30, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > Chris Angelico: > > > Emacs tries to be absolutely everything, not just editing text files; > > that's why it's big. > > I use emacs for most of my text inputting needs. Sometimes I even use it > to type in web forms (prepa

Re: Hi

2015-07-26 Thread Joseph Wayodi
On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 8:30 AM, 김지훈 wrote: > Hi. > I recently changed my path to be a programmer so I decided to learn python. > I downloaded files(Python 2.7.10 - 2015-05-23) to setup on your website. > (also got the version of x64 because of my cpu) > But when I try to install it, there is an e

Re: O'Reilly Python Certification

2015-07-26 Thread mircaviar
On Wednesday, September 10, 2014 at 9:19:05 PM UTC+3, mjkan...@gmail.com wrote: > I just completed all four modules and Kirby was my instructor. I really > enjoyed the class and got a lot out of it. I am not a developer, so common > concepts like objects were new to me, whereas standard data st

Re: Gmail eats Python

2015-07-26 Thread Laura Creighton
In a message of Sun, 26 Jul 2015 00:58:08 -, Grant Edwards writes: >You use mutt or something else decent as your MUA. > I do -- the problem is all the gmail users out there. Laura -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Gmail eats Python

2015-07-26 Thread Marko Rauhamaa
Chris Angelico : > Emacs tries to be absolutely everything, not just editing text files; > that's why it's big. I use emacs for most of my text inputting needs. Sometimes I even use it to type in web forms (prepare it in emacs and copy the text over into the form). I'm typing now. Hence, I'm usi