On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 3:08 PM, Thomas Heller wrote:
> "All of the surviving members of comedy group Monty Python are to reform for
> a stage show, one of the Pythons, Terry Jones, has confirmed."
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> See: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-24999401
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"All of the surviving members of comedy group Monty Python are to reform
for a stage show, one of the Pythons, Terry Jones, has confirmed."
See: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-24999401
Thomas
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On 24/03/2013 14:25, Stefan Behnel wrote:
Terry Reedy, 22.03.2013 00:05:
I never imagined that there were people who would mix up 'tuner' and
'tuna'. Live and learn.
I assume you know "The Chaos" ?
http://ncf.idallen.com/english.html
Stefan
For many years I've felt it was wrong that peop
On Mar 24, 7:25 pm, Stefan Behnel wrote:
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> I assume you know "The Chaos" ?
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> http://ncf.idallen.com/english.html
Ha! Sweet! (Or should I say suet?)
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Terry Reedy, 22.03.2013 00:05:
> I never imagined that there were people who would mix up 'tuner' and
> 'tuna'. Live and learn.
I assume you know "The Chaos" ?
http://ncf.idallen.com/english.html
Stefan
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On 24/03/2013 13:31, jmfauth wrote:
The problem here is that this PEP 393 should not have been
created.
The first time I read it, I quickly understood, it can
not work!
How come you couldn't pursuade the Python devs that PEP393 was so flawed?
This is illustrated by all the examples I give o
On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 12:31 AM, jmfauth wrote:
> The problem here is that this PEP 393 should not have been
> created.
> The first time I read it, I quickly understood, it can
> not work!
I fail to understand how something can "not work" when it is clearly
working, and very successfully too, in
On 23 mar, 17:17, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> On 23/03/2013 09:24, jmfauth wrote:
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> > On 20 mar, 22:02, Tim Delaney wrote:
> >> On 21 March 2013 06:40, jmfauth wrote:
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> >>> [snip usual rant from jmf]
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> >> It has been acknowledged as a real regression, but he keeps hij
On 23/03/2013 09:24, jmfauth wrote:
On 20 mar, 22:02, Tim Delaney wrote:
On 21 March 2013 06:40, jmfauth wrote:
[snip usual rant from jmf]
It has been acknowledged as a real regression, but he keeps hijacking every
thread where strings are mentioned to harp on about it. He has sh
On 23/03/2013 09:23, jmfauth wrote:
On 21 mar, 04:12, rusi wrote:
On Mar 21, 12:40 am, jmfauth wrote:
Courageous people can try to do something with the unicode
collation algorithm (see unicode.org). Some time ago, for the fun,
I wrote something (not perfect) with a reduced keys tabl
On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 8:45 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 8:23 PM, jmfauth wrote:
>> One aspect of Unicode (note the capitalized "U").
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>> [chomp yet another trivial microbenchmark]
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>> ---
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>> In French, depending of the word, a leading "h", behaves
>> as a vowel or
On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 8:23 PM, jmfauth wrote:
> One aspect of Unicode (note the capitalized "U").
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> [chomp yet another trivial microbenchmark]
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> ---
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> In French, depending of the word, a leading "h", behaves
> as a vowel or as a consonant.
> (From this -> this typical mistake)
Huh? Did jm
On 21 mar, 04:12, rusi wrote:
> On Mar 21, 12:40 am, jmfauth wrote:
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> > Courageous people can try to do something with the unicode
> > collation algorithm (see unicode.org). Some time ago, for the fun,
> > I wrote something (not perfect) with a reduced keys table (see
> > unicode.org
On 20 mar, 22:02, Tim Delaney wrote:
> On 21 March 2013 06:40, jmfauth wrote:
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> It has been acknowledged as a real regression, but he keeps hijacking every
> thread where strings are mentioned to harp on about it. He has shown no
> inclination to at
On 2013-03-21, Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 3/21/2013 1:31 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linking_and_intrusive_R
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>> Is the Python language rhotic or non-rhotic?
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> Python uses American rather that British English, which would make it
> rhotic.
Well, there are parts of Ne
In article ,
Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 3/21/2013 1:31 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linking_and_intrusive_R
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> > Is the Python language rhotic or non-rhotic?
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> Python uses American rather that British English, which would make it
> rhotic.
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> I never imagine
On 3/21/2013 1:31 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linking_and_intrusive_R
Is the Python language rhotic or non-rhotic?
Python uses American rather that British English, which would make it
rhotic.
I never imagined that there were people who would mix up 'tuner' and
On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 8:52 AM, Peter Pearson wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Mar 2013 21:09:52 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 8:36 PM, David H Wild wrote:
>>> In article , Larry Hudson
>>> wrote:
The word "apron" was originally "napron", and over the years the phrase
"a
On Thu, 21 Mar 2013 21:09:52 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 8:36 PM, David H Wild wrote:
>> In article , Larry Hudson
>> wrote:
>>> The word "apron" was originally "napron", and over the years the phrase
>>> "a napron" mutated to "an apron". So that became the accepted w
On 2013-03-21, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> By the way, the "n" in "an" is not the only such "bridging" sound. In
> Shakespearean times, it was usual to use "mine" in the same fashion:
In many (most?) modern, non-rhotic, dialects of English one inserts an
"intrusive" bridging "R" sound after a word
On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 12:26 AM, wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 21. März 2013 10:36:20 UTC+1 schrieb David H Wild:
>> In article , Larry Hudson
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>> wrote:
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>> > The word "apron" was originally "napron", and over the years the phrase
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>> > "a napron" mutated to "an apron". So that became the acc
Am Donnerstag, 21. März 2013 10:36:20 UTC+1 schrieb David H Wild:
> In article , Larry Hudson
>
> wrote:
>
> > The word "apron" was originally "napron", and over the years the phrase
>
> > "a napron" mutated to "an apron". So that became the accepted word.
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> Similarly, the snake was a
On 03/21/2013 08:55 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 11:45 PM, Roy Smith wrote:
In article ,
Terry Reedy wrote:
On 3/20/2013 10:03 AM, franzferdinand wrote:
Ok, thanks everybody!
Threads are like the Sorcerer's Apprentice. You can start 'em, but you
cannot stop 'em ;-)
On Thu, 21 Mar 2013, Roy Smith wrote:
In article ,
Terry Reedy wrote:
On 3/20/2013 10:03 AM, franzferdinand wrote:
Ok, thanks everybody!
Threads are like the Sorcerer's Apprentice. You can start 'em, but you
cannot stop 'em ;-)
Of course you can stop threads. Just call _exit(). No more
On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 11:45 PM, Roy Smith wrote:
> In article ,
> Terry Reedy wrote:
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>> On 3/20/2013 10:03 AM, franzferdinand wrote:
>> > Ok, thanks everybody!
>>
>> Threads are like the Sorcerer's Apprentice. You can start 'em, but you
>> cannot stop 'em ;-)
>
> Of course you can stop threa
In article ,
Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 3/20/2013 10:03 AM, franzferdinand wrote:
> > Ok, thanks everybody!
>
> Threads are like the Sorcerer's Apprentice. You can start 'em, but you
> cannot stop 'em ;-)
Of course you can stop threads. Just call _exit(). No more threads!
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On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 8:36 PM, David H Wild wrote:
> In article , Larry Hudson
> wrote:
>> The word "apron" was originally "napron", and over the years the phrase
>> "a napron" mutated to "an apron". So that became the accepted word.
>
> Similarly, the snake was a nadder - congruent with the n
In article , Larry Hudson
wrote:
> The word "apron" was originally "napron", and over the years the phrase
> "a napron" mutated to "an apron". So that became the accepted word.
Similarly, the snake was a nadder - congruent with the natterjack toad.
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On 3/20/2013 10:03 AM, franzferdinand wrote:
Ok, thanks everybody!
Threads are like the Sorcerer's Apprentice. You can start 'em, but you
cannot stop 'em ;-)
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On 03/20/2013 09:28 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Wed, 20 Mar 2013 20:12:13 -0700, rusi wrote:
"I did an horrible mistake" [...] is 'h' a vowel in french?
This-language-lesson-was-brought-to-you-by-the-letters-thorn-wynn-and-ash-
ly y'rs,
As a point of totally irrelevant trivia...
(And
On Wed, 20 Mar 2013 20:12:13 -0700, rusi wrote:
> "I did an horrible mistake" [...] is 'h' a vowel in french?
No it is not, and writing "an horrible" is a trivial typo which can
easily happen if you start thinking "an awful ..." (for example) and then
change to "horrible". Been there, done that
On Mar 21, 12:40 am, jmfauth wrote:
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> Courageous people can try to do something with the unicode
> collation algorithm (see unicode.org). Some time ago, for the fun,
> I wrote something (not perfect) with a reduced keys table (see
> unicode.org), only a keys subset for some scripts hold i
On Wed, 20 Mar 2013 12:40:57 -0700, jmfauth wrote:
> it [Python3.3] is no more unicode compliant
I don't often call people a liar. I prefer to think that they are merely
confused, or honestly hold a mistaken belief. But in this case, I will
make an exception.
JMF, I believe you are deliberatel
On 03/20/2013 01:40 PM, jmfauth wrote:
> I forgot Py33 is now optimized for ascii user, it is no more
> unicode compliant and I stupidely tested/sorted lists of French
> words...
Just because you keep saying it does not make it true. How is Py33 not
unicode compliant anymore? And maybe you ought
On 21 March 2013 06:40, jmfauth wrote:
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> [snip usual rant from jmf]
Franz, please pay no attention to jmf. He has become obsessed with a single
small regression in Python 3.3 in performance with how strings perform in a
very small domain that rarely shows up in practice (although as he h
Courageous people can try to do something with the unicode
collation algorithm (see unicode.org). Some time ago, for the fun,
I wrote something (not perfect) with a reduced keys table (see
unicode.org), only a keys subset for some scripts hold in memory.
It works with Py32 and Py33. In an at
On 2013-03-20, franzferdinand wrote:
>>>> "Monty" < "Python"
> True
>>>> "Z" < "a"
> True
>>>> "Monty" < "Montague"
>
> False
> What's the rule about that?
I don't
Interesting. Thanks!
On 20.03.2013, at 15:17, Ian Foote wrote:
> On 20/03/13 13:38, Jan Oelze wrote:
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>> "Strings are compared lexicographically using the numeric equivalents
>> (the result of the built-in function ord()) of their characters. Unicode
>> and 8-bit strings are fully interoperabl
On 20/03/13 13:38, Jan Oelze wrote:
"Strings are compared lexicographically using the numeric equivalents
(the result of the built-in function ord()) of their characters. Unicode
and 8-bit strings are fully interoperable in this behavior."
This isn't true in python 3:
Python 3.2.3 (default, O
Ok, thanks everybody!
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In article ,
Jan Oelze wrote:
> From the docs[0]:
>
> "Strings are compared lexicographically using the numeric equivalents (the
> result of the built-in function ord()) of their characters. Unicode and 8-bit
> strings are fully interoperable in this behavior."
Note, however, that sorting or
e.com/
Note that all the upper case values appear before the lower case
values. (And there are some other 'characters' like newline before
that but you won't see them)
Cheers,
Michael
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 1:33 PM, franzferdinand
wrote:
>>>> "Monty" &l
not-in
On 20.03.2013, at 14:33, franzferdinand wrote:
>>>> "Monty" < "Python"
> True
>>>> "Z" < "a"
> True
>>>> "Monty" < "Montague"
>
> False
> What's the rule about that
>>> "Monty" < "Python"
True
>>> "Z" < "a"
True
>>> "Monty" < "Montague"
False
What's the rule about that? Is it the number of letters or what?
thanks
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On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 3:01 AM, Terry Reedy wrote:
> But it has nothing to do with Monty Python either, that I can see.
> Nor is there a video to see the context of (OP said "For context, start the
> video at 1:00.") Perhaps link is erroneous.
>
At 1:00 the captor asks
rmine what is or is not on topic here?
>>>
>>> The same right as anyone.
>>>
>>>> The subject is also
>>>> clearly marked OT or did that escape your attention?
>>>
>>> But it has nothing to do with Monty Python either, that I can see.
>&g
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>>>
>>> Please don't shout, please don't top post
>>
>> agreed.
>>
>>> and what gives you the right
>>> to determine what is or is not on topic here?
>>
>> The same right as anyone.
>>
>>> The subject is a
post
>
> agreed.
>
>> and what gives you the right
>> to determine what is or is not on topic here?
>
> The same right as anyone.
>
>> The subject is also
>> clearly marked OT or did that escape your attention?
>
> But it has nothing to do with M
e right as anyone.
The subject is also
clearly marked OT or did that escape your attention?
But it has nothing to do with Monty Python either, that I can see.
Nor is there a video to see the context of (OP said "For context, start
the video at 1:00.") Perhaps link is erroneous.
Marki
On 15/08/2012 20:15, Tamer Higazi wrote:
Exactly!
NOT PROGRAMMING related has NOTHING TODO HERE!
Please don't shout, please don't top post and what gives you the right
to determine what is or is not on topic here? The subject is also
clearly marked OT or did that escape your attention?
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Exactly!
NOT PROGRAMMING related has NOTHING TODO HERE!
Tamer
Am 15.08.2012 16:42, schrieb Dotan Cohen:
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 5:41 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>> And now for something completely different.
>>
>> Not programming related, but at 1:20 I was expecting a different question:
>> http:
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 5:41 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> And now for something completely different.
>
> Not programming related, but at 1:20 I was expecting a different question:
> http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2012/08/2012813103922872697.html
>
> I figured if anybody could appreciate tha
And now for something completely different.
Not programming related, but at 1:20 I was expecting a different question:
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2012/08/2012813103922872697.html
I figured if anybody could appreciate that, it would be the folks here. Enjoy!
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"John Machin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ah yes, exposure to Blackadder helps enormously ... after some hours
> spent trying to understand things like metaclasses, it's helpful to
> know what to do: put a pencil or chopstick up each nostril, wear your
> underpants on your head, and sit there m
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> I'm semi-seriously wondering if snake jokes are valid in the Python
> community since technically, Python came from Monty Python, not
> slithery animals.
>
> Problem is I don't know that anyone born after Elvis died gets any of
> these Mo
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Problem is I don't know that anyone born after Elvis died gets any of
> these Monty Python jokes.
But hey - Elvis is not dead! - that is just a conspiracy theory that was
originated by the Cliff Richard's fan club...
- Hendrik
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In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>Problem is I don't know that anyone born after Elvis died gets any of
>these Monty Python jokes.
Who is Elvis?
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Tim Chase wrote:
> > I'm semi-seriously wondering if snake jokes are valid in the Python
> > community since technically, Python came from Monty Python, not
> > slithery animals.
> >
> > Problem is I don't know that anyone born after Elvis died gets an
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm semi-seriously wondering if snake jokes are valid in the Python
> community since technically, Python came from Monty Python, not
> slithery animals.
>
> Problem is I don't know that anyone born after Elvis died gets any of
> these M
On 2006-12-08, Roy Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I'm semi-seriously wondering if snake jokes are valid in the
>> Python community since technically, Pyt
> I'm semi-seriously wondering if snake jokes are valid in the Python
> community since technically, Python came from Monty Python, not
> slithery animals.
>
> Problem is I don't know that anyone born after Elvis died gets any of
> these Monty Python jokes.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm semi-seriously wondering if snake jokes are valid in the Python
> community since technically, Python came from Monty Python, not
> slithery animals.
>
> Problem is
I'm semi-seriously wondering if snake jokes are valid in the Python
community since technically, Python came from Monty Python, not
slithery animals.
Problem is I don't know that anyone born after Elvis died gets any of
these Monty Python jokes.
Is it kosher to make snake jokes/refer
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