Re: (Modular-)Application Framework / Rich-Client-Platform in Python

2007-05-18 Thread Kirk Job Sluder
uot;foo" text. You might customize other "view" objects to display documentation, compilation, and debugging information. (The fact that Eclipse and emacs are both rather lean programs is obsucred by the sheer quantity of plug-ins that have become a part of the standard installation

Re: Trying to choose between python and java

2007-05-15 Thread Kirk Job Sluder
x27;ve found it useful to use a mix of pure java and jython, although I'm still working through some gotchas in regards to compiling jython code that's acessible from java. > -- > Kind Regards, > Anthony Irwin > > http://www.irwinresources.com > http://www.makeh

Re: Basic question

2007-05-12 Thread Kirk Job Sluder
w ArrayList; //Java 1.5 addition I think. for(int x=0,x > Am I missing something? > > []'s > Cesar > -- Kirk Job Sluder -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: SQLite problems

2007-04-12 Thread Kirk Job Sluder
ny ideas? miss-match of versions between the fink and the Apple-supplied sqlite3? > > Regards, > -Justin > -- Kirk Job Sluder -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: encryption with python

2005-09-10 Thread Kirk Job Sluder
Ron Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Kirk Job Sluder wrote: > > > They want to be able to get their information by > > calling a phone number and saying a few words/phrases they memorized in > > childhood. Given the current market, it seems to be cheaper to deal

Re: encryption with python

2005-09-10 Thread Kirk Job Sluder
Paul Rubin <http://[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Kirk Job Sluder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Likewise, credit companies are currently making money hand-over-fist. > > If an identity is compromised, it's cheaper for them to just close the > > account, re

Re: encryption with python

2005-09-10 Thread Kirk Job Sluder
Paul Rubin <http://[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Kirk Job Sluder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We're told there is already a secure database in the picture > somewhere, or at least one that unescapeably contains cleartext SSN's, > so that's the system that

Re: encryption with python

2005-09-10 Thread Kirk Job Sluder
Paul Rubin <http://[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Kirk Job Sluder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Well, there is a form of security design that involves one-way > > encryption of confidential information. You might want to be able to > > search on SSN, but not

Re: encryption with python

2005-09-10 Thread Kirk Job Sluder
eal with the inevetable, "I lost my password/student ID, can you still look up my records?" Don't think it applies in this case, but might in some other cases. > > -- > Steven. > -- Kirk Job-Sluder "The square-jawed homunculi of Tommy Hilfinger ads make every day an existential holocaust." --Scary Go Round -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Lisp development with macros faster than Python development?..

2005-07-09 Thread Kirk Job Sluder
"Kay Schluehr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Kirk Job Sluder schrieb: > > In what way do lisp macros prevent the creation of modular libraries? > > Common Lisp does does have mechanisms for library namespaces, and in > > practice a macro contained within

Re: Lisp development with macros faster than Python development?..

2005-07-08 Thread Kirk Job Sluder
s contained in a library. Macros just provide another mechanism for creating useful domain-specific abstractions. The primary advantage to macros is that you can create abstractions with functionality that is not easily described as either a function or a class definition. > Kay -- Kirk Job-Sl

Re: Lisp development with macros faster than Python development?..

2005-07-05 Thread Kirk Job Sluder
nefits from a much richer standard library, so some of the things you take for granted in python such as string.split(None,3) need to be found or created. > thanks! > > Chris > -- Kirk Job-Sluder "The square-jawed homunculi of Tommy Hilfinger ads make every day an exi

Re: Is pyton for me?

2005-06-10 Thread Kirk Job Sluder
le. There is nothing wrong with sh as a glue language when all you need is something like: grep text file | filter | filter > output_file. > -- > Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ > Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/U

Re: Changing a line in a text file

2005-04-25 Thread Kirk Job Sluder
4237 +1 800 494 3119 > Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ > Python Web Programming http://pydish.holdenweb.com/ > -- Kirk Job-Sluder "The square-jawed homunculi of Tommy Hilfinger ads make every day an existential holocaust." --Scary Go Round -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Variables

2005-04-24 Thread Kirk Job Sluder
ymous object to symbol foo > > >Even in math notation, ISTM important to distinguish between > >a finger and what it may for the moment be pointing at. > > > >Regards, > >Bengt Richter > > > -- Kirk Job-Sluder "The square-jawed homunculi of

Re: Variables

2005-04-24 Thread Kirk Job Sluder
ython does not have a mechanism for distinguishing varibles from constants, so settle on some syntactic sugar to make the differences clear in your code. -- Kirk Job-Sluder "The square-jawed homunculi of Tommy Hilfinger ads make every day an existential holocaust." --Scary Go Roun

Re: Variables

2005-04-24 Thread Kirk Job Sluder
ources I might direct him to...he maintains that the notion of > foo being a variable where it's value is known (versus unknown) is > illogical. The ways in which language is used between domains is rarely logical. -- Kirk Job-Sluder "The square-jawed homunculi of Tommy Hilfinger

Re: Variables

2005-04-24 Thread Kirk Job Sluder
ed about the numeric sum of foo + 'b'. But the argument at stake here is not technical, but linguistic. If he insists on imposing a definition from the domain of math onto the domain of computer programming, then there is no point in continuing the discussion about how the term "var

Re: Python or PHP?

2005-04-23 Thread Kirk Job Sluder
"Lad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is anyone capable of providing Python advantages over PHP if there are > any? > Cheers, > L. PHP is strongly wedded to providing web-based content, while Python can be used to build a large number of different types of applications.