ion) with irritating persistence. Wonder
how many of the non-banned members have been guilty of the same thing in
one way or another.
Steve Simmons
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On 17/08/2016 17:49, Jon Ribbens wrote:
On 2016-08-17, Steve Simmons wrote:
I'm trying to write a small utility to find the closest railway station
to a given (UK) postcode but the result is in JSON and I'm not familiar
with it. I've got as far as extracting the JSON object
I'm trying to write a small utility to find the closest railway station
to a given (UK) postcode but the result is in JSON and I'm not familiar
with it. I've got as far as extracting the JSON object and I can print
the first level elements ("success" and "result") but I've totally
confused myse
On 01/05/2014 02:50, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Thu, 01 May 2014 01:49:25 +0100, Steve Simmons wrote:
On 30/04/2014 23:49, Fabio Zadrozny
wrote:
And that's about where I stopped reading.
I'm sorry Steve, but you're writi
On 30/04/2014 23:49, Fabio Zadrozny
wrote:
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 8:39 AM,
Steve Simmons <square.st...@gmail.com>
wrote:
I'm trying to set up a
new dev environment using Windows
Driver
SystemError: Parent module '' not loaded, cannot perform relative import
I tried this on Qt4 a week or so ago and it worked OK but Qt5 is giving
me an error message, so I guess I've either mis-transcribed or there's a
difference in the directory structur
On 11/12/2013 13:02, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 10:33 PM, Steve Simmons wrote:
On 11/12/2013 11:45, Chris Angelico wrote:
And then, shortly after the beginning of the story, you need to
introduce the villain. Thanks, jmf, for taking that position in our
role-play
On 11/12/2013 11:37, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
When did this forum become so intolerant of even the tiniest, most
minor breaches of old-school tech etiquette?
[... Giant Snip...]
Well said Steven. I've only been member of this list for (maybe) a
year, mainly lurking to learn about Python and I
On 11/12/2013 11:45, Chris Angelico wrote:
And then, shortly after the beginning of the story, you need to
introduce the villain. Thanks, jmf, for taking that position in our
role-play storytelling scenario! A round of applause for jmf, folks,
for doing a brilliant impression of the uninformed-y
On 23/11/2013 17:35, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 3:35 AM, Tim Chase
wrote:
Mice/Mouse <> Rice/*Rouse
Wordplay is one of my worst vouse. ;-)
Yeah, some people can come up with bad puns in a trouse.
ChrisA
Well! That wasn't very nouse!
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https://mail.python.org/ma
By the same logic
the plural of spouse is spice and most men that have had more
than one wife will tell you that, whilst it may be the
expectation, it ain't necessarily so ;-)
On 23/11/2013 16:44, Dennis Lee Bieber
wrote:
On Fr
On 13/11/2013 19:27, superchromix wrote:
hi all,
I've been thinking about learning Python for scientific programming.. but all
of these flame war type posts make the user community look pretty lame. How
did all of these nice packages get written when most of the user interaction is
th
Ian Kelly wrote:
>On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Denis McMahon
> wrote:
>> I think the hacker is a figment of Nick's imagination, or rather a
>> consequence of his broken python code corrupting his data.
>
>Unless the Python installation on Nikos' system has become self-aware
>and is actively obj
Ferrous Cranus wrote:
>Τη Πέμπτη, 7 Νοεμβρίου 2013 12:11:20 π.μ. UTC+2, ο χρήστης Mark
>Lawrence έγραψε:
>> On 06/11/2013 21:26, Νίκος Γκρ33κ wrote:
>>
>> > Στις 6/11/2013 5:25 μμ, ο/η Νίκος Γκρ33κ έγραψε:
>>
>> >> Okey let the hacker try again to mess with my database!!!
>>
>> >>
>>
>> >> He
On 06/11/2013 16:40, Alister wrote:
On Wed, 06 Nov 2013 17:25:04 +0200, Νίκος Γκρ33κ wrote:
Okey let the hacker try again to mess with my database!!!
He is done it twice, lets see if he will make it again!
I'am waiting!
(sorry every one I tried not to reply to Nicos but finally lost it)
On 25/10/2013 16:34, Chris Angelico wrote:
Do you understand: 1) what cookies are? 2) how the browser receives
them? 3) how the server gets them back? 4) when #3 happens and when it
does not? If not, go to Wikipedia and start reading. If you get to the
end of Wikipedia without comprehending th
Chris Angelico wrote:
>On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 5:48 PM, wrote:
>> And if we were actually trying then that filename should just be
>"/w". Would get rid of another 19 chars.
>
>I'm working this on the assumption that the dictionary file already
>exists (that's where it is on my Debian Linux system
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>On Wed, 10 Jul 2013 07:55:05 +, Mats Peterson wrote:
>
>> A moderator who calls himself “animuson” on Stack Overflow doesn’t
>want
>> to face the truth. He has deleted all my postings regarding Python
>> regular expression matching being extremely slow compared to Perl
To Rurpy and cutems93,
My apologies too. I reacted before I thought about creating a new thread.
To your question: One thing that I don't use daily but find very useful to
have in an editor is 'Hex View' (or better yet a 'Hex Editor').
Whilst it has been 'dissed' recently on this list, I like
rusi wrote:
>On Thursday, July 4, 2013 7:03:19 PM UTC+5:30, Steve Simmons wrote:
>> Boy oh boy! You really are a slow learner Nicos. You have just
>offered to
>> commit a crime and to include dozens of others in that crime ON A
>PUBLIC
>> FORUM. Please think before y
"Νίκος" wrote:
>Στις 4/7/2013 11:34 πμ, ο/η Dave Angel έγραψε:
>> On 07/04/2013 03:59 AM, Νίκος wrote:
>>> Στις 4/7/2013 10:32 πμ, ο/η cutems93 έγραψε:
I am researching on editors for my own reference. I found that each
>of
them has some features that other don't, but I am not sure whic
On 03/07/2013 16:44, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 1:36 AM, Νίκος wrote:
I will *not* give away my root pass to anyone for any reason but i will open
a norla user account for someone if i feel like trusting him and copy my
python file to his homr dir to take alook from within.
On 03/07/2013 15:12, feedthetr...@gmx.de wrote:
Am Mittwoch, 3. Juli 2013 12:00:14 UTC+2 schrieb Νίκος:
Στις 3/7/2013 12:45 μμ, ο/η Chris Angelico έγραψε:
] You have betrayed the trust of all your customers.
...
I just received a call form on of my customers asking me to explain your
mail ...
.
Thanks Ben for that.
Lets not stymie Steve Simmons original suggestion for a CoC by making it into a
formal CoC and then saying its impossible.
There is a good deal of informal enforcement already. Consider eg:
- Mark's footnote reminding about GG problems and their solutions
- Steven'
e are enthusiasts who
choose to discuss Python and *voluntarily* help solve problems with Python for
the less experienced members.
[Runs for cover]
Steve Simmons
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"Νίκος" wrote:
>Στις 1/7/2013 12:31 μμ, ο/η Steve Simmons έγραψε:
>
>> I don't know about the other members of this list but I am becoming
>> increasingly disturbed by the rudeness and especially the foul
>language
>> that is being perpetrated on this
"Νίκος" wrote:
>Στις 1/7/2013 11:54 πμ, ο/η Antoon Pardon έγραψε:
>>> So shut your piehole and start proving yourself useful in this list.
>>> Or sod off.
>>> Preferably do the latter.
>> Oh we do have illusions of grandeur, don't we? You are in no position
>> to judge who is useful on this list
Giorgos Tzampanakis wrote:
>On 2013-06-13, dieter wrote:
>
>>> ... Anyway, my real question is how to go about debugging memory
>leak
>>> problems in Python, particularly for a long running server process
>>> written with Twisted. I'm not sure how to use heapy or guppy, and
>>> objgraph doesn't
"Fábio Santos" wrote:
>>
>>
>> -
>>
>>
>> 1) The memory gain for many of us (usually non ascii users)
>> just become irrelevant.
>>
>> >>> sys.getsizeof('maçã')
>> 41
>> >>> sys.getsizeof('abcd')
>> 29
>>
>> 2) More critical, Py 3.3, just becomes non unicode compliant,
>> (eg European languag
llanitedave wrote:
>On Thursday, April 25, 2013 11:31:04 AM UTC-7, Steve Simmons wrote:
>> Chris Angelico wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> With the sort of thinking you're demonstrating here, you
>>
>> should consider a job working with Spike Milligna (
Chris Angelico wrote:
With the sort of thinking you're demonstrating here, you
should consider a job working with Spike Milligna (the well known typing error).
Errr , I think you'll find that he's joined the choir invisibule. Mind you,
he did say he was ill!
Sent from a Galaxy far far away
On 02/04/2013 15:12, Mark Lawrence wrote:
I've already raised an issue about performance and Neil Hodgson has
raised a new one.
Recognised in a separate post
To balance this out perhaps we should have counter issues asking for
the amount of memory being used to be increased to old levels and
On 02/04/2013 15:03, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Tue, 02 Apr 2013 11:58:11 +0100, Steve Simmons wrote:
It seems to me that jmf *might* be moving towards a vindicated position.
There is some interest now in duplicating, understanding and
(hopefully!) extending his test results, which can
On 02/04/2013 10:43, Mark Lawrence wrote:
On 02/04/2013 10:24, jmfauth wrote:
On 2 avr, 10:35, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Tue, 02 Apr 2013 19:03:17 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote:
So what? Who cares if it takes 0.2 second to insert a character
instead of 0.1 second? That's still a hundre
It's in recognition of the gap between English and French - it helps you to
bridge it.
Mark Lawrence wrote:
>On 01/04/2013 16:30, Pierre O'Dee wrote:
>>
>> Some features have already been hinted at for the new language.
>> No Unicode -- BAUDOT is expected to be the new character
>> encoding.
>
On 23/02/2013 18:32, Gene Heskett wrote:
I am here because I was hoping some knowledge leakage would help me to
understand python, but at my age I am beginning to have to admit the
level of abstraction is something I may never fully grok. If I ever
find a python book that literally starts at s
On 23/02/2013 16:51, Chris Angelico wrote:
Steve, why do you say you're not a developer? A score of languages
under your belt, choosing to write code in your spare time, and
speaking competently on the comparative merits of different languages
and why you made the decision you made - sounds li
On 22/02/2013 22:37, piterrr.dolin...@gmail.com wrote:
So far I am getting the impression that Python is a toy language of some kind
(similar to Basic of the early 80's), not really suitable for serious work. The
only difference between these languages (admittedly, a serious one) is the
exist
On 22/02/2013 15:26, Duncan Booth wrote:
Rui Maciel wrote:
Chris Angelico wrote:
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 10:58 PM, Rui Maciel
wrote:
Mitya Sirenef wrote:
Looks very unclear and confusing to me. Whether it's C# or ruby or
anything else, most devs don't indent like that;
The Go programmi
Dear Mr D'Aprano,
I thank you for your post but I must complain in the strongest possible
terms that it was not enclosed in the correct delimeters. It should
have been enclosed in a ... pair (or
... if you are American).
I was drinking coffee at the time I started reading your post and,
On 21/02/2013 11:08, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 8:20 PM, PythonAB wrote:
On 21 feb 2013, at 04:45, Michael Torrie wrote:
On 02/20/2013 12:44 AM, Steve Simmons wrote:
2. Qt isn't 'free' (depending on what you are going to be doing with it)
- read the licens
On 20/02/2013 12:03, Albert Hopkins wrote:
On Tue, Feb 19, 2013, at 11:10 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
[...]
And even us old (78) farts are calling things Kewl now.
78??? Is that the year you were born or the years since you were born?
-a
Yeah, 2078 - Marty McFly, Back From the Future. Kewl !!
ode after generating it, it isn't easy to get it
back into QtDesigner.
Steve Simmons
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I'm relatively new to OO (and Python and QT ) and I am learning as I go
along. As I slowly come up to speed, I have some questions about the
best approach to program/module structure so I'm looking for some
pointers (URL's or replies).
I have copied some code from 'Rapid GUI Programming with
Duncan, Mike, MRAB,
Thank you. New technology set, same forgotten lesson - RTFM (all of it!).
Thanks also for the clarification on discarding objects and Garbage
Collection. Looks like I'll have to turn a large chunk of my previous
understanding of (mainframe) languages 'inside out'.
I'm j
Mike,
Thanks for your response - I was puzzled by one part of it though...
On 21/01/2013 15:14, Mike C. Fletcher wrote:
That's because you've just discarded the object you created
I (mis?)understood from the ctypes documentation that '>>> initResult =
c_short(0)' would result in the c
PY33, Win7, Python Newbie, Not homework:-)
I'm trying to use some 'C' DLLs from Python using ctypes and I have a
minor issue with the return valuesbut I am new to Python; ctypes and
using DLLs so I am at the bottom of so many learning curves, I'm not
sure where or how to find my mistake.
When
I read the question as "I've got this function and it does what I expect
but I don't understand the code".
On that basis...
The function creates a factorialfor the input number 'n' (i.e.
1*2*3*4.*n)
The first 2 lines checks to see that the input is less than 2 and, if
so, returns a value
Gunther - Sorry about that, hoping this response comes through as plain
text.
Chris - Thanks for the translation and the response. Unfortunately, I
don't speak 'C', and I think the learning curve for Python + COM should
be slightly less steep.
The scanner is supplied by Card Scanning Soluti
First time post -
be gentle with me :-)
I am trying to write a Python script to
access a scanning device. I
have an SDK for the scanner but the documentation is a bit limited and the supplier doesn't support
Python (bu
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