Re: When someone from Britain speaks, Americans hear a "British accent"...

2005-07-04 Thread Nick Efford
Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm an American who grew up watching plenty of BBC, and I run > into afew native Londoners whom I have hard time understanding. > I don't ever remember having troubly understanding people > outside the city. But have you encountered regional dialects? - e

Re: Why Python does *SLICING* the way it does??

2005-04-20 Thread Nick Efford
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Many people I know ask why Python does slicing the way it does. > Can anyone /please/ give me a good defense/justification??? > I'm referring to why mystring[:4] gives me > elements 0, 1, 2 and 3 but *NOT* mystring[4] (5th element). mystring[:4]

Re: Thoughts on some stdlib modules

2005-04-08 Thread Nick Efford
vegetax <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And those thoughts comes to mind again, if python is such a great language > why does the stdlib is so bloated with duplication,bad bad library > design,clumsy to use modules,etc. > I mean is this normal? i dont think so.I havent seen such a messy stdlib in >