Re: Obnoxious postings from Google Groups

2012-11-06 Thread GangGreene
On Tue, 06 Nov 2012 23:14:40 +, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Tue, 06 Nov 2012 11:51:03 -0500, GangGreene wrote: > >> I have just finished a 251 line bash shell script that builds my linux >> distro from scratch. > > "From scratch"? So if you run it on b

Re: Obnoxious postings from Google Groups

2012-11-06 Thread GangGreene
On Tue, 06 Nov 2012 08:52:36 -0500, Roy Smith wrote: [putolin] > Programming languages are designed to write programs. Not only will the > code be {used, read, maintained} for a much longer period of time, it > will be used by people other than the original author, and on inputs > other than ori

Re: How to generate account number?

2012-11-02 Thread GangGreene
On Sat, 03 Nov 2012 00:13:19 +0300, Andriy Kornatskyy wrote: > Requirements for `account number` generator: > > 1. Issue pseudo random consistent number (must be unique for dozen > millions of records) > 2. Easy check validity (without a need to make a database call) > > Interested? Read more he

Re: Where are documentation for Gnome

2012-10-28 Thread GangGreene
On Sun, 28 Oct 2012 16:29:07 +, Mark Lawrence wrote: > On 13/10/2012 18:49, Santosh Kumar wrote: >> >> > Try your local garden centre. I inquired at the local garden centre, Just got strange looks Are you sure that is the correct place? ;) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pyth

Re: Is there a clever way to pass arguments

2012-08-09 Thread GangGreene
Alister wrote: [putolin] > some people read these threads to learn general concepts & not to find > answers to a single explicit case. Some people (me) don't know the first thing about python and are in the learning/exploratory phase. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list