Re: the python name

2019-01-02 Thread Chris Angelico
On Thu, Jan 3, 2019 at 5:26 PM songbird wrote: > > Rick Johnson wrote: > > [ a bunch of irrelevant drivel ] > > if FORTRAN and COBOL aren't dead i don't see Python > going away any time soon. > > if you want to know the perspective of a new person > to the language and to help out make it bett

Re: the python name

2019-01-02 Thread songbird
Rick Johnson wrote: ... > Of course, no one can predict the consequences of every action. Not even GvR, > in is almost infinite wisdom, and his access to a semi-dependable time > machine, could predict such a tragedy of epic proportions. > > To say i'm saddened by the whole experience, would be a

Re: the python name

2019-01-02 Thread songbird
Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > On Wed, 2 Jan 2019 19:41:36 +, "Schachner, Joseph" > declaimed the following: > > >>The name "Python" may not make sense, but what sense does the name Java make, >>or even C (unless you know that it was the successor to B), or Haskell or >>Pascal or even BASIC? Or

Re: the python name

2019-01-02 Thread Larry Martell
On Wed, Jan 2, 2019 at 8:04 PM Avi Gross wrote: > > Challenge: Can we name any computer language whose name really would suggest > it was a computer language? COBOL (Common Business-Oriented Language) FORTRAN (Formula Translation) PL/1 (Programming Language 1) ALGOL (Algorithmic Language) -- ht

RE: the python name

2019-01-02 Thread Avi Gross
Challenge: Can we name any computer language whose name really would suggest it was a computer language? Oh, if you say C is named as being the successor to some form of B, then R (as you mentioned) is the successor by some form of backwards reasoning to S as it started as not quite S or at lea

Re: the python name

2019-01-02 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 2 Jan 2019, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: Which was a derivative of BCPL (so one could claim a successor of C should be named P), ?, mathematician, beginners all-purpose symbolic instruction code. R? maybe a subtle implication to be better/in-front-of S. SNOBOL is the ugly one, since

Re: the python name

2019-01-02 Thread MRAB
On 2019-01-02 19:41, Schachner, Joseph wrote: Python was started in the late 1980s by Guido Van Rossum, who (until quite recently) was the Benevolent Dictator for Life of Python. His recent strong support of Type Annotation was what got it passed - and having to fight for it was what convince

Re: conda/anaconda and pip3 (pip)

2019-01-02 Thread Hartmut Goebel
Am 03.12.18 um 18:39 schrieb Paulo da Silva: > This also has a bad side effect! It reinstalls there some depedencies > already installed in the conda created environment! > > Is there a way to avoid this situation? Try whether  `pyvenv --system-site-packages` suites you. -- Schönen Gruß Hartmut

RE: the python name

2019-01-02 Thread Schachner, Joseph
Python was started in the late 1980s by Guido Van Rossum, who (until quite recently) was the Benevolent Dictator for Life of Python. His recent strong support of Type Annotation was what got it passed - and having to fight for it was what convinced him retire from the role of BDFL. Anyway, at

Re: Recommendations for a novice user.

2019-01-02 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 2 Jan 2019, Hüseyin Ertuğrul wrote: I don't know the software language at all. What do you recommend to beginners to learn Python. What should be the working systematic? How much time should I spend every day or how much time should I spend on a daily basis. Hüseyin, First, there's

Recommendations for a novice user.

2019-01-02 Thread Hüseyin Ertuğrul
I don't know the software language at all. What do you recommend to beginners to learn Python. What should be the working systematic? How much time should I spend every day or how much time should I spend on a daily basis. Is there any such systematic implementation and success? İyi Çalışmala

Re: How to display video files (mkv, wav, mp4 etc) within a TKinter widget?

2019-01-02 Thread Vincent Vande Vyvre
Le 2/01/19 à 15:17, Arie van Wingerden a écrit : I found (mostly fairly old stuff) some questions and a lot of (apparently often not working) Python code. 1. does TKinter offer such thing out of the box? 2. or is there another way using TKinter? 3. or do I need another GUI tool (e.g. QT) for th

Re: the python name

2019-01-02 Thread Ben Oliver
On 18-12-31 22:39:04, pritanshsahs...@gmail.com wrote: why did you kept this name? i want to know the history behind this and the name of this snake python. It's named after Monty Python [0]. [0] https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/appetite.html signature.asc Description: PGP signature -- ht

How to display video files (mkv, wav, mp4 etc) within a TKinter widget?

2019-01-02 Thread Arie van Wingerden
I found (mostly fairly old stuff) some questions and a lot of (apparently often not working) Python code. 1. does TKinter offer such thing out of the box? 2. or is there another way using TKinter? 3. or do I need another GUI tool (e.g. QT) for this? TIA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listin

Re: the python name

2019-01-02 Thread Frank Millman
wrote in message news:05ff6fbc-69d5-4d3c-9073-67e774bd3...@googlegroups.com... why did you kept this name? i want to know the history behind this and the name of this snake python. I asked google the same question, and this is what it found - https://docs.python.org/3/faq/general.html#why

Re: From Ben Dean about C++

2019-01-02 Thread mm0fmf
On 02/01/2019 04:29, Stefan Ram wrote: A slide from Ben Deane's talk about C++: ---. | | | ODD THING #1: ASSIGNMENTS ARE EXPRESSIONS | |

the python name

2019-01-02 Thread pritanshsahsani
why did you kept this name? i want to know the history behind this and the name of this snake python. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list