Hendrik van Rooyen writes:
> 2) Is about as useful as stating that any Turing complete language and
> processor pair is capable of solving any computable problem, given enough
> time. So why are we not all programming in brainfuck?
Except the amount of circumlocution one language might happen t
Robin Becker writes:
> well allegedly, "the medium is the message" so we also need to take
> account of language in addition to the meaning of communications. I
> don't believe all languages are equivalent in the meanings that they
> can encode or convey. Our mathematics is heavily biassed towards
ru...@yahoo.com writes:
> Fashion changes in science as well as clothes. :-)
A favourite line of crackpots who think that their ridiculous position
is not held by others merely because of "fashion".
> I wouldn't count
> Sapir-Whorf out yet...
> http://edge.org/3rd_culture/boroditsky09/boroditsky
Hyuga writes:
> I just wanted to add, in defense of the Chinese written language
> ... that I think it would make a fairly good candidate for use at
> least as a universal *written* language. Particularly simplified
> Chinese since, well, it's simpler.
>
> The advantages are that the grammar is r
A script that I'm writing pulls the system time off of an iPod
connected to the computer. The iPod's time is represented as a Unix
timestamp (seconds since the epoch), but this timestamp does not
represent UTC time, but rather the local timezone of the owner. I need
to convert this local time times
Tino Wildenhain writes:
> so instead you would use archive = zipfile.ZipFile(remotedata)
That produces the following error if I try that in the Python
interpreter (URL edited for privacy):
>>> import zipfile
>>> import urllib2
>>> remotedata = urllib2.urlopen("http://...file.zip";)
>>> archive =
Returning to Python after several years away, I'm working on a little
script that will download a ZIP archive from a website and unzip it to
a mounted filesystem. The code is below, and it works so far, but I'm
unsure of a couple of things.
The first is, is there a way to read the .zip into memory
"placid" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I was just wondering about good books that teach python (either with
> programming or no programming experience at all) ? Or some online
> tutorial?
Did you even bother doing a web search? "Learn Python" or "Python
tutorial" would be enough.
Christopher
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