Re: Extend unicodedata with a name/pattern/regex search for character entity references?

2016-09-03 Thread Jussi Piitulainen
Chris Angelico writes: > On Sun, Sep 4, 2016 at 12:49 PM, Steve D'Aprano > wrote: >> On Sun, 4 Sep 2016 12:19 pm, Chris Angelico wrote: >> >> [...] Please either comply, or give up your stupid and pointless obsession with trying to be the Internet Police for something that isn't even a

Re: Extend unicodedata with a name/pattern/regex search for character entity references?

2016-09-03 Thread Rustom Mody
On Sunday, September 4, 2016 at 9:32:28 AM UTC+5:30, Veek. M wrote: > Regarding the name (From field), my name *is* Veek.M though I tend to > shorten it to Vek.M on Google (i think Veek was taken or some such > thing). Just to be clear, my parents call me something closely related > to Veek that

Re: Extend unicodedata with a name/pattern/regex search for character entity references?

2016-09-03 Thread Rustom Mody
On Saturday, September 3, 2016 at 5:25:48 PM UTC+5:30, Veek. M wrote: > https://mail.python.org/pipermail//python-ideas/2014-October/029630.htm > > Wanted to know if the above link idea, had been implemented and if > there's a module that accepts a pattern like 'cap' and give you all the > insta

Re: Extend unicodedata with a name/pattern/regex search for character entity references?

2016-09-03 Thread Veek. M
Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote: > Veek. M wrote: > >> https://mail.python.org/pipermail//python-ideas/2014-October/029630.htm >> >> Wanted to know if the above link idea, > > … which is 404-compliant; the Internet Archive does not have it either > … > >> had been implemented > > Probably not

Re: Extend unicodedata with a name/pattern/regex search for character entity references?

2016-09-03 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sun, Sep 4, 2016 at 12:49 PM, Steve D'Aprano wrote: > On Sun, 4 Sep 2016 12:19 pm, Chris Angelico wrote: > > [...] >>> Please either comply, or give up your stupid and pointless obsession with >>> trying to be the Internet Police for something that isn't even a real >>> rule. >> >> His posts ar

Re: Extend unicodedata with a name/pattern/regex search for character entity references?

2016-09-03 Thread Steve D'Aprano
On Sun, 4 Sep 2016 12:19 pm, Chris Angelico wrote: [...] >> Please either comply, or give up your stupid and pointless obsession with >> trying to be the Internet Police for something that isn't even a real >> rule. > > His posts aren't making it across the news->list gateway any more. > Killfile

Re: Extend unicodedata with a name/pattern/regex search for character entity references?

2016-09-03 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sun, Sep 4, 2016 at 11:51 AM, Steve D'Aprano wrote: > On Sun, 4 Sep 2016 06:47 am, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote: > >> Your posting is lacking a real name in the “From” header field. > > > Thomas, if that is really your name, how do we know that: > > Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn > > is a rea

Re: Pythons for .Net

2016-09-03 Thread Steve D'Aprano
On Sat, 3 Sep 2016 12:34 pm, Denis Akhiyarov wrote: > Finally if anyone can contact Christian Heimes (Python Core Developer), > then please ask him to reply on request to update the license to MIT: > > https://github.com/pythonnet/pythonnet/issues/234 > > He is the only contributor that prevents

Re: Extend unicodedata with a name/pattern/regex search for character entity references?

2016-09-03 Thread Steve D'Aprano
On Sun, 4 Sep 2016 06:47 am, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote: > Your posting is lacking a real name in the “From” header field. Thomas, if that is really your name, how do we know that: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn is a real name? Is sounds made up to me. I'm afraid that we're going to have

Extend unicodedata with a name/pattern/regex search for character entity references?

2016-09-03 Thread Veek. M
https://mail.python.org/pipermail//python-ideas/2014-October/029630.htm Wanted to know if the above link idea, had been implemented and if there's a module that accepts a pattern like 'cap' and give you all the instances of unicode 'CAP' characters. ⋂ \bigcap ⊓ \sqcap ∩ \cap ♑ \capricornus