Re: HELP!! How to ask a girl out with a simple witty Python code??

2015-03-04 Thread Marcos Almeida Azevedo
Why does it need to be nerdy. Why not just buy her a good book on Python? On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 9:34 AM, Xrrific wrote: > Guys, please Help!!! > > I am trying to impress a girl who is learning python and want ask her out > at the same time. > > Could you please come up with something witty inco

Re: tarfile vs zipfile

2015-03-03 Thread Marcos Almeida Azevedo
On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 6:39 PM, Gregory Ewing wrote: > Mark Lawrence wrote: > >> On 03/03/2015 02:29, Terry Reedy wrote: >> >> Plus tartfiles come from unix world, whereas zip was used instead in >>> Windows world. >>> >>> Is the tart bit the thing that you can eat, a loose woman or something >

Re: Are threads bad? - was: Future of Pypy?

2015-02-24 Thread Marcos Almeida Azevedo
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 1:46 PM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > Marcos Almeida Azevedo : > > > Synchronized methods in Java really makes programming life simpler. > > But I think it is standard practice to avoid this if there is a > > lighter alternative as synchronized method

Re: Newbie question about text encoding

2015-02-24 Thread Marcos Almeida Azevedo
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 9:19 AM, Steven D'Aprano < steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > Laura Creighton wrote: > > > Dave Angel > > are you another Native English speaker living in a world where ASCII > > is enough? > > ASCII was never enough. Not even for Americans, who couldn't write t