Re: Reinforced Concrete: Mechanics and Design (5th Ed., James G. MacGregor & James K. Wight)

2013-01-18 Thread Robert Miles
On 1/18/2013 7:32 PM, Roy Smith wrote: Can whoever manages the mailing list block this bozo? In article , kalvinmanual1 wrote: I have solutions manuals to all problems and exercises in these textbooks. To get one in an electronic format contact me at: kalvinmanual(at)gmail(dot)com and let m

Re: Spam source (Re: Horror Horror Horror!!!!!)

2012-11-22 Thread Robert Miles
On Sunday, November 18, 2012 8:18:53 PM UTC-6, Mark Lawrence wrote: > On 18/11/2012 19:31, Terry Reedy wrote: > > > The question was raised as to how much spam comes from googlegroups. > > I don't know the answer but I take the greatest pleasure in hurtling > onto the dread googlegroups and gman

Re: Spam source (Re: Horror Horror Horror!!!!!)

2012-11-18 Thread Robert Miles
On Sunday, November 18, 2012 1:35:00 PM UTC-6, Terry Reedy wrote: > The question was raised as to how much spam comes from googlegroups. > > Not all, but more that half, I believe. This one does. > > > > From: MoneyMaker > > ... > > Message-ID: <2d2a0b98-c587-4459-9489-680b1ddc4...@googlegro

Re: Unpaking Tuple

2012-11-18 Thread Robert Miles
On 10/9/2012 1:07 AM, Bob Martin wrote: in 682592 20121008 232126 "Prasad, Ramit" wrote: Thomas Bach wrote:=0D=0A> Hi there,=0D=0A> =0D=0A> On Sat, Oct 06, 2012 at = 03:08:38PM +, Steven D'Aprano wrote:=0D=0A> >=0D=0A> > my_tuple =3D my_= tuple[:4]=0D=0A> > a,b,c,d =3D my_tuple if len(my_tu

Re: Python garbage collector/memory manager behaving strangely

2012-10-31 Thread Robert Miles
On 9/16/2012 9:12 PM, Dave Angel wrote: On 09/16/2012 09:07 PM, Jadhav, Alok wrote: Hi Everyone, I have a simple program which reads a large file containing few million rows, parses each row (`numpy array`) and converts into an array of doubles (`python array`) and later writes into an `hdf5

Re: datetime issue

2012-10-31 Thread Robert Miles
On 10/31/2012 4:38 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote: On 31/10/2012 19:35, ru...@yahoo.com wrote: On 10/31/2012 09:11 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:> On 2012-09-16, ?? wrote:. "Broken"? Yes. But so is every piece of software in one way or another. Thunderbird is one of the most perpetually bug

Re: datetime issue

2012-10-31 Thread Robert Miles
On 10/31/2012 2:35 PM, ru...@yahoo.com wrote: On 10/31/2012 09:11 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:> On 2012-09-16, ?? wrote: Iam positng via google groups using chrome, thats all i know. Learn something else. Google Groups is seriously and permanently broken, and all posts from Googl

Re: Obnoxious postings from Google Groups

2012-10-30 Thread Robert Miles
On 9/16/2012 8:14 PM, alex23 wrote: On Sep 17, 10:55 am, Roy Smith wrote: They didn't buy the service. They bought the data. Well, they really bought both, but the data is all they wanted. I thought they'd taken most of the historical data offline now too? Some of it, but they still had m

Re: Obnoxious postings from Google Groups

2012-10-30 Thread Robert Miles
On 9/16/2012 10:44 AM, pandora.ko...@gmail.com wrote: Whaen i tried to post just now by hitting sumbit, google groups told me that the following addresssed has benn found in this thread! i guess is used them all to notify everything! cdf072b2-7359-4417-b1e4-d984e4317...@googlegroups.com mailma

Re: Obnoxious postings from Google Groups

2012-10-30 Thread Robert Miles
ple levels of quoting. The incompatibility tends to insert a blank line after every line. With multiple levels of quoting, this gives blank line groups that often roughly double in size for every level of quoting. Robert Miles -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Obnoxious postings from Google Groups

2012-09-20 Thread Robert Miles
, not something you have much control over, except to stop using Google Groups. Could this mean that Google wants all the spam posted through Google Groups to look obnoxious to the rest of Usenet that the spammers will go elsewhere? Robert Miles -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: OT: Text editors

2012-08-30 Thread Robert Miles
uperminis. I'm not sure whether I still could, though. Robert Miles -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Dumping all the sql statements as backup

2012-08-29 Thread Robert Miles
On 7/25/2012 8:56 AM, andrea crotti wrote: I have some long running processes that do very long simulations which at the end need to write things on a database. At the moment sometimes there are network problems and we end up with half the data on the database. The half-data problem is probably

Re: catch UnicodeDecodeError

2012-08-29 Thread Robert Miles
On 7/26/2012 5:51 AM, Jaroslav Dobrek wrote: And the cool thing is: you can! :) In Python 2.6 and later, the new Py3 open() function is a bit more hidden, but it's still available: from io import open filename = "somefile.txt" try: with open(filename, encoding="utf-8")

Re: the meaning of r?.......ï¾

2012-08-28 Thread Robert Miles
On 7/23/2012 1:10 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 16:42:51 +0200, Henrik Faber declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general: If that was written by my coworkers, I'd strangle them. My first real assignment, 31 years ago, was porting an application to CDC MP-

Re: Encapsulation, inheritance and polymorphism

2012-08-18 Thread Robert Miles
On 7/23/2012 11:18 AM, Albert van der Horst wrote: In article <5006b48a$0$29978$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>, Steven D'Aprano wrote: Even with a break, why bother continuing through the body of the function when you already have the result? When your calculation is done, it's done, just

Re: lambda in list comprehension acting funny

2012-08-15 Thread Robert Miles
n has a version of Python available, in case you're interested. Robert Miles -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python Interview Questions

2012-08-14 Thread Robert Miles
On 7/10/2012 1:08 PM, Demian Brecht wrote: I also judge candidates on their beards (http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/06/beard-gallery/). If the beard's awesome enough, no questions needed. They're pro. You should hire me quickly, then, since I have a beard, already turning partly gr

Re: Create directories and modify files with Python

2012-06-08 Thread Robert Miles
ery slowly - as in 5 minutes after I tell it to post. Robert Miles -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Some posts do not show up in Google Groups

2012-06-08 Thread Robert Miles
they get that contains any HTML. This may be because Google Groups often adds HTML even if you don't ask for it, and those servers want to avoid the poor signal to noise ratio from Google Groups. Robert Miles -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Some posts do not show up in Google Groups

2012-06-08 Thread Robert Miles
s are moving toward newsgroups where no one reports the spam. Robert Miles -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list