Re: how to determine Operating System in Use?

2006-12-13 Thread James Cunningham
On 2006-12-13 19:28:14 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > > On Dec 13, 6:32 pm, "Ian F. Hood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi >> In typically windows environments I have used: >> if 'Windows' in os.environ['OS']... >> to prove it, but now I need to properly support different environments. >> To

Re: ANN: CherryPy 3.0 RC1

2006-11-29 Thread James Cunningham
On 2006-11-29 08:37:46 -0500, "Christian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> "Christian Wyglendowski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> I'm happy to announce the first release candidate for CherryPy 3.0. > > Ben Finney wrote: >> >> Congratulations, I'm glad to see an announcement for CherryPy. >> >

Re: Python v PHP: fair comparison?

2006-11-16 Thread James Cunningham
On 2006-11-16 12:46:05 -0500, "walterbyrd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > James Cunningham wrote: > >> Nope. It disproves your assertion that "certainly all of the lower >> priced hosters" use Apache 1.3. > > Okay, where can I get Python

Re: Python v PHP: fair comparison?

2006-11-16 Thread James Cunningham
On 2006-11-16 09:08:43 -0500, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > James Cunningham wrote: >> On 2006-11-16 05:46:45 -0500, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> >>> James Cunningham wrote: >>>> On 2006-11-15 20:59:26 -0500, "wa

Re: Python v PHP: fair comparison?

2006-11-16 Thread James Cunningham
On 2006-11-16 05:46:45 -0500, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > James Cunningham wrote: >> On 2006-11-15 20:59:26 -0500, "walterbyrd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> >>> Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: >>>> walterbyrd a écrit : >>

Re: Python v PHP: fair comparison?

2006-11-15 Thread James Cunningham
On 2006-11-15 20:59:26 -0500, "walterbyrd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: >> walterbyrd a écrit : > >> You mean there are web hosting companies that are still using Apache >> 1.3.x ? >> > > Practically all web-hosters still use Apache 1.3.x. Certainly all of > the low

Re: Python v PHP: fair comparison?

2006-11-15 Thread James Cunningham
On 2006-11-15 10:47:07 -0500, "Demel, Jeff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > [...] > That's true, but I was lucky enough to find webfaction.com for python > hosting, including Django. Good prices and they know Python. I think > they used to be python-hosting.com or something. > > -Jeff Dirt-chea

Re: How to choose the right GUI toolkit ?

2006-11-10 Thread James Cunningham
On 2006-11-09 14:06:06 -0500, "Dan Lenski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > [snip] > > My understanding is that wx wraps Windows, OSX, Qt, and GTK+... I guess > some of the wrappers fit the native apps better than others? > > Dan WxWidgets does wrap Windows, OS X (Carbon), and GTK; it does not wrap

Re: Py3K idea: why not drop the colon?

2006-11-10 Thread James Cunningham
On 2006-11-10 15:47:42 -0500, Max Erickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: color='orange' if color=='red' or 'blue' or 'green': > print "Works?" > > > Works? No! No no no. I won't hear of it. Don't you know that with insufficient test cases, everything is right? Sheesh. Best,

Re: Py3K idea: why not drop the colon?

2006-11-10 Thread James Cunningham
On 2006-11-10 15:24:50 -0500, Bjoern Schliessmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote: > >> No it doesn't -- look again at the example given above. It's >> legal syntax in Python but doesn't have the semantics implied by >> the example. > > Sorry, I don't understand -- w