Re: How ahead are you guys in the (Python) real world?

2006-08-30 Thread Neil Schemenauer
Aahz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My company uses 2.2 and 2.3; we hope to drop 2.2 Real Soon Now. This has been an interesting thread. There has been some discussion on python-dev about doing another 2.3 bugfix release. Based on the number of people still using 2.3, it looks to me like there wou

Re: Spam avoidance

2006-03-21 Thread Neil Schemenauer
Tim Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [Douglas Alan] >>> I've noticed that there is little to no spam in comp.lang.python >>> and am wondering how this is accomplished. > > [Skip Montanaro] >> Most mailing lists which originate on mail.python.org have SpamBayes >> filtering in front of them. > >

Re: Generators vs. Functions?

2006-02-05 Thread Neil Schemenauer
Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Have you actually measured this, or are you just making a wild > guess? I haven't timed it until now but my guess it not so wild. I'm pretty familiar with the generator implementation (having written the initial version of it). In Python 2.3, resuming

Re: Generators vs. Functions?

2006-02-04 Thread Neil Schemenauer
Peter Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > More precisely, the state of the function is *saved* when a yield > occurs, so you certainly don't *recreate* it from scratch, but merely > restore the state, and this should definitely be faster than creating it > from scratch in the first place. Right

Re: Bitching about the documentation...

2005-12-08 Thread Neil Schemenauer
François Pinard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >[AMK] >> You may suggest that I should process my e-mail more promptly. > > No, I'm not suggesting you how to work, no more that I would accept that > you force me into working your way. If any of us wants to force the > other to speak through robots,

Re: reading internet data to generate random numbers.

2005-11-02 Thread Neil Schemenauer
Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Doesn't your OS have an entropy-gathering RN generator built-in? Alternatively, if you want lots of high-quality random numbers, buy a cheap web camera: http://www.lavarnd.org/ . Using data from the Internet is just a bad idea. Neil -- http://mail.

Re: To the python-list moderator

2005-09-02 Thread Neil Schemenauer
Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Terry Hancock wrote: > >> I got one of these too, recently. Maybe somebody is turning up the >> screws to get rid of spam that's been appearing on the list? In the future, sending a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] is suggested rather than posting to only to

Revised PEP 349: Allow str() to return unicode strings

2005-08-22 Thread Neil Schemenauer
applications and report any incompatibilities. PEP: 349 Title: Allow str() to return unicode strings Version: $Revision: 1.3 $ Last-Modified: $Date: 2005/08/22 21:12:08 $ Author: Neil Schemenauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Status: Draft Type: Standards Track Content-Type: text/plain Created: 02-Aug-200

PEP: Generalised String Coercion

2005-08-06 Thread Neil Schemenauer
ision: 1.2 $ Last-Modified: $Date: 2005/08/06 04:05:48 $ Author: Neil Schemenauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Status: Draft Type: Standards Track Content-Type: text/plain Created: 02-Aug-2005 Post-History: 06-Aug-2005 Python-Version: 2.5 Abstract This PEP proposes the introduction of a new built-