> > > You haven't looked very well though: there are actually quite a lot
> > > of extra spaces. Still, it's nicely done indeed.
> > Hmm. I only saw doubled spaces after commas and periods.
> Doubled spaces after commas are definitely not standard usage.
I guess the fact that *all* comments on
Benji York wrote:
> Roel Schroeven wrote:
> > You haven't looked very well though: there are actually quite a lot
> > of extra spaces. Still, it's nicely done indeed.
>
> Hmm. I only saw doubled spaces after commas and periods. That's
> fairly standard practice, for the periods at least. I do
Roel Schroeven wrote:
> You haven't looked very well though: there are actually quite a lot
> of extra spaces. Still, it's nicely done indeed.
Hmm. I only saw doubled spaces after commas and periods. That's
fairly standard practice, for the periods at least. I don't know
if people regularly p
On Mon, 30 May 2005 14:24:54 -0400, "Terry Reedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
>"D H" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Elliot Temple wrote:
>>> Hi I have two questions. Could someone explain to me why Python is
>>> case sensitive? I find that annoying.
>>
>> I do to
On Mon, 30 May 2005 20:56:22 +, Roel Schroeven wrote:
> You haven't looked very well though: there are actually quite a lot of
> extra spaces. Still, it's nicely done indeed.
C-u M-q ?
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Benji York wrote:
> What I want to know is how Mangus wrote an entire message fully
> justified. I looked for extra spaces and other cheats but only
> found a couple of superfluous exclamation marks. Well done! He
> must be a justification wizard. I wish I could do that too. :)
I hadn't even
What I want to know is how Mangus wrote an entire message fully
justified. I looked for extra spaces and other cheats but only
found a couple of superfluous exclamation marks. Well done! He
must be a justification wizard. I wish I could do that too. :)
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Terry Reedy wrote:
> Difference annoyances for different folks, I guess.
IN MY EXPERIENCE, MANY PEOPLE ON THE INTERNET ARE
ANNOYED BY PEOPLE WHO DON'T USE CASE THE WAY THEY
ARE EXPECTED. IT ALSO SEEMS TO ME THAT LOWER CASE
TEXT IS OFTEN MORE EASY TO READ, AND ALSO THAT IT
IS EASIER TO SCAN TEXTS I
"D H" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Elliot Temple wrote:
>> Hi I have two questions. Could someone explain to me why Python is
>> case sensitive? I find that annoying.
>
> I do too.
I don't.
> As you've found, the only reason is because it is,
False. As someo
Roy Smith wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, D H <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>>Elliot Temple wrote:
>>
>>>Hi I have two questions. Could someone explain to me why Python is
>>>case sensitive? I find that annoying.
>>
>>I do too. As you've found, the only reason is because it is, and
Roy Smith wrote:
> Just wait until the day you're trying to figure out why some C++ function
> is behaving the way it is and you don't notice that a 50-line stretch of
> code is commented out with /* at the top and */ at the bottom.
The same thing's happened to me in Python when I accidentally i
On Thu, 26 May 2005 16:24:39 -0500, Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>"Elliot Temple" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> Hi I have two questions. Could someone explain to me why Python is
>> case sensitive? I find that annoying.
>
>Because it comes from a language background of case sensitive
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, D H <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Elliot Temple wrote:
> > Hi I have two questions. Could someone explain to me why Python is
> > case sensitive? I find that annoying.
>
> I do too. As you've found, the only reason is because it is, and it is
> too late to cha
Elliot Temple wrote:
> Hi I have two questions. Could someone explain to me why Python is
> case sensitive? I find that annoying.
I do too. As you've found, the only reason is because it is, and it is
too late to change (it was even too late back in 1999 when it was
considered by Guido). I
On May 29, 2005, at 11:44 AM, Arthur wrote:
> On 26 May 2005 17:33:33 -0700, "Elliot Temple" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
>
>> Thanks for the link on case sensitivity. I'm curious about the
>> person
>> who found case sensitivity useful though: what is it useful for?
>>
>
> I am curious abou
On 26 May 2005 17:33:33 -0700, "Elliot Temple" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Thanks for the link on case sensitivity. I'm curious about the person
>who found case sensitivity useful though: what is it useful for?
I am curious about why you find case sensitivity annoying. But just
mildly curious.
Dennis Lee Bieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 26 May 2005 17:33:33 -0700, "Elliot Temple" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> declaimed the following in comp.lang.python:
>
>> Thanks for the link on case sensitivity. I'm curious about the person
>> who found case sensitivity useful though: what is it usef
John Roth wrote:
> "Elliot Temple" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>> One other interesting thing about case sensitivity I don't think
>> anyone has mentioned: in Python keywords are all lowercase already
>> (the way I want to type them). In some other languages,
"Elliot Temple" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> One other interesting thing about case sensitivity I don't think anyone
> has mentioned: in Python keywords are all lowercase already (the way I
> want to type them). In some other languages, they aren't...
Not qui
One other interesting thing about case sensitivity I don't think
anyone has mentioned: in Python keywords are all lowercase already
(the way I want to type them). In some other languages, they aren't...
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John Roth wrote:
> Doing case translations in Unicode following all of
> the rules for all of the world's languages is, for want of a better
> world, a real bitch.
>
Fair point, although that is true for anything, not just case translations.
Fortunately, unlike Ecmascript, Python doesn't allow
"Duncan Booth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
>
>> On 26 May 2005 17:33:33 -0700, "Elliot Temple" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> declaimed the following in comp.lang.python:
>>
>>> Thanks for the link on case sensitivity. I'm curious about the perso
Duncan Booth said unto the world upon 2005-05-27 04:24:
> There are arguments that, especially for beginners, case sensitivity
> introduces an extra level of complexity, but the cost of losing this
> complexity would be to make Python a poor relation amongst programming
> languages.
Well, t
i found case sensitivity very useful
1. variables can be stored in a dict (think about __dict__, globals())
and dict type should be case sensitive
2. It's necessary when i write short scripts and i use one letter
names. (eg. when i playing with linear algebra i always use a,b,c for
vectors and A
Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On 26 May 2005 17:33:33 -0700, "Elliot Temple" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> declaimed the following in comp.lang.python:
>
>> Thanks for the link on case sensitivity. I'm curious about the person
>> who found case sensitivity useful though: what is it useful for?
>>
> M
Elliot Temple wrote:
> Thanks for the link on case sensitivity. I'm curious about the person
> who found case sensitivity useful though: what is it useful for?
I wasn't that person, but I do find case sensitivity very useful.
Mainly it's useful in that it allows me not to spend any time at all
"Elliot Temple" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Hi I have two questions.
...
> Also, why aren't there
> multiline comments? Would adding them cause a problem of some sort?
As a matter of fact, yes. First, consider that as soon as you have
multi-line comments, som
Thanks for the link on case sensitivity. I'm curious about the person
who found case sensitivity useful though: what is it useful for?
The way I find multi-line comments useful is to quickly comment out a
block of code while debugging. A good development environment can
(mostly) solve that one t
Mike Meyer wrote:
> Personally, I think anyone who has two variables whose names differ
> only in case should be shot. No, let me extend that - anyone who has
> two variables whose names would be pronounced the same should be
> shot. I've had to debug such code, and it ain't fun.
Here's a pair of
Mike Meyer wrote:
> "Elliot Temple" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Also, why aren't there
>>multiline comments? Would adding them cause a problem of some sort?
>
> Because no one every really asked for them. After all, there are two
> formats for multi-line strings, which the interpreter will bui
"Elliot Temple" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi I have two questions. Could someone explain to me why Python is
> case sensitive? I find that annoying.
Because it comes from a language background of case sensitive
languages (C, shell, etc.). But read what the BDFL has to say about
it: http://ma
Hi,
A1: because some people find it very useful ? I know I do
A2: they exist: """
Regards,
Philippe
Elliot Temple wrote:
> Hi I have two questions. Could someone explain to me why Python is
> case sensitive? I find that annoying. Also, why aren't there
> multiline comments? Would adding
Hi I have two questions. Could someone explain to me why Python is
case sensitive? I find that annoying. Also, why aren't there
multiline comments? Would adding them cause a problem of some sort?
Thanks,
Elliot
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