Re: Extend unicodedata with a name/pattern/regex search for character entity references?

2016-09-10 Thread Rustom Mody
On Saturday, September 10, 2016 at 3:56:37 PM UTC+5:30, Veek 'this_is_not_my_name' M wrote: > Veek 'this_is_not_my_name' M wrote: Recursion… Self-Reference…Inversion Heh! On the way to becoming another Gödel/Turing?? You may be interested in this collection of some evidence(s) of recursion bei

Re: Extend unicodedata with a name/pattern/regex search for character entity references?

2016-09-10 Thread Tim Golden
On 10/09/2016 11:26, Veek 'this_is_not_my_name' M wrote: Veek 'this_is_not_my_name' M wrote: /me claps TJG -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Extend unicodedata with a name/pattern/regex search for character entity references?

2016-09-10 Thread Veek 'this_is_not_my_name' M
Veek 'this_is_not_my_name' M wrote: > Rustom Mody wrote: > >> On Saturday, September 3, 2016 at 5:25:48 PM UTC+5:30, Veek. M wrote: >>> https://mail.python.org/pipermail//python-ideas/2014-October/029630.htm >>> >>> Wanted to know if the above link idea, had been implemented and if >>> there's a

Re: Extend unicodedata with a name/pattern/regex search for character

2016-09-06 Thread jladasky
From: jlada...@itu.edu On Saturday, September 3, 2016 at 7:49:14 PM UTC-7, Steve D'Aprano wrote: > On Sun, 4 Sep 2016 12:19 pm, Chris Angelico wrote: > > Killfile him and move on... > > But but but... I couldn't do that. > > https://www.xkcd.com/386/ I strongly suspected it would be that particu

Re: Extend unicodedata with a name/pattern/regex search for character

2016-09-06 Thread jladasky
On Saturday, September 3, 2016 at 7:49:14 PM UTC-7, Steve D'Aprano wrote: > On Sun, 4 Sep 2016 12:19 pm, Chris Angelico wrote: > > Killfile him and move on... > > But but but... I couldn't do that. > > https://www.xkcd.com/386/ I strongly suspected it would be that particular XKCD. :^) -- http

Re: Extend unicodedata with a name/pattern/regex search for character entity references?

2016-09-06 Thread jladasky
On Saturday, September 3, 2016 at 7:49:14 PM UTC-7, Steve D'Aprano wrote: > On Sun, 4 Sep 2016 12:19 pm, Chris Angelico wrote: > > Killfile him and move on... > > But but but... I couldn't do that. > > https://www.xkcd.com/386/ I strongly suspected it would be that particular XKCD. :^) -- htt

Re: Extend unicodedata with a name/pattern/regex search for character entity references?

2016-09-06 Thread Veek 'this_is_not_my_name' M
Rustom Mody wrote: > On Saturday, September 3, 2016 at 5:25:48 PM UTC+5:30, Veek. M wrote: >> https://mail.python.org/pipermail//python-ideas/2014-October/029630.htm >> >> Wanted to know if the above link idea, had been implemented and if >> there's a module that accepts a pattern like 'cap' and

Re: Extend unicodedata with a name/pattern/regex search for character entity references?

2016-09-05 Thread Ned Batchelder
On Monday, September 5, 2016 at 2:15:58 AM UTC-4, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote: > How can I trust a person > who does not even have the decency and the courage to stand by their > statements with their real name? Feel free to ignore people you don't trust. We'll help them. --Ned. -- https

Re: Extend unicodedata with a name/pattern/regex search for character entity references?

2016-09-05 Thread alister
On Mon, 05 Sep 2016 08:15:42 +0200, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote: > >> So Veek should be able to appease P.E. by calling himself 'Veek "David >> Smith" M'. > > That would not help. “Veek” might be (the transcription of) a given > name or a family name, but “Veek M” is not a real name. [Real

Re: Extend unicodedata with a name/pattern/regex search for character entity references?

2016-09-05 Thread Veek. M
Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote: > Gregory Ewing wrote: > >> Larry Hudson wrote: >>> If you continue to read this forum, you will quickly learn to ignore >>> "Pointy-Ears". He rarely has anything worth while to post, and his >>> unique fetish about Real Names shows him to be a hypocrite as well.

Re: Extend unicodedata with a name/pattern/regex search for character entity references?

2016-09-04 Thread Michael Torrie
On 09/04/2016 04:22 PM, Gregory Ewing wrote: > Larry Hudson wrote: >> If you continue to read this forum, you will quickly learn to ignore >> "Pointy-Ears". He rarely has anything worth while to post, and his >> unique fetish about Real Names shows him to be a hypocrite as well. > > To be fair,

Re: Extend unicodedata with a name/pattern/regex search for character entity references?

2016-09-04 Thread Ned Batchelder
On Sunday, September 4, 2016 at 7:52:44 PM UTC-4, Chris Angelico wrote: > FWIW, hex is much more common for displaying Unicode codepoints than > decimal is. So I'd print it like this (incorporating the 'not CAPITAL' > filter): You are right, I went too quickly, and didn't realize until after I pos

Re: Extend unicodedata with a name/pattern/regex search for character entity references?

2016-09-04 Thread Chris Angelico
On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 9:40 AM, Ned Batchelder wrote: > But, 'CAP' appears in 'CAPITAL', which gives more than 1800 matches: > > >>> for c in range(32, 0x11): > ... try: > ... name = unicodedata.name(chr(c)) > ... except ValueError: > ... continue > ... if

Re: Extend unicodedata with a name/pattern/regex search for character entity references?

2016-09-04 Thread Ned Batchelder
On Saturday, September 3, 2016 at 7:55:48 AM UTC-4, Veek. M wrote: > https://mail.python.org/pipermail//python-ideas/2014-October/029630.htm > > Wanted to know if the above link idea, had been implemented and if > there's a module that accepts a pattern like 'cap' and give you all the > instance

Re: Extend unicodedata with a name/pattern/regex search for character entity references?

2016-09-04 Thread Gregory Ewing
Larry Hudson wrote: If you continue to read this forum, you will quickly learn to ignore "Pointy-Ears". He rarely has anything worth while to post, and his unique fetish about Real Names shows him to be a hypocrite as well. To be fair, it's likely that Thomas Lahn is his real name, and he's n

Re: Extend unicodedata with a name/pattern/regex search for character entity references?

2016-09-04 Thread Larry Hudson via Python-list
On 09/04/2016 09:00 AM, Veek. M wrote: Steve D'Aprano wrote: On Sun, 4 Sep 2016 06:53 pm, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote: Regarding the name (From field), my name *is* Veek.M […] Liar. *plonk* You have crossed a line now Thomas. That is absolutely uncalled for. You have absolutely no l

Re: Extend unicodedata with a name/pattern/regex search for character entity references?

2016-09-04 Thread Veek. M
Steve D'Aprano wrote: > On Sun, 4 Sep 2016 06:53 pm, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote: > >>> Regarding the name (From field), my name *is* Veek.M […] >> >> Liar. *plonk* > > You have crossed a line now Thomas. > > That is absolutely uncalled for. You have absolutely no legitimate > reason to b

Re: Extend unicodedata with a name/pattern/regex search for character entity references?

2016-09-04 Thread Steve D'Aprano
On Sun, 4 Sep 2016 06:53 pm, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote: >> Regarding the name (From field), my name *is* Veek.M […] > > Liar. *plonk* You have crossed a line now Thomas. That is absolutely uncalled for. You have absolutely no legitimate reason to believe that Veek is not his or her real

Re: Extend unicodedata with a name/pattern/regex search for character entity references?

2016-09-04 Thread Rustom Mody
On Sunday, September 4, 2016 at 11:18:07 AM UTC+5:30, Rustom Mody wrote: > On Sunday, September 4, 2016 at 9:32:28 AM UTC+5:30, Veek. M wrote: > > Regarding the name (From field), my name *is* Veek.M though I tend to > > shorten it to Vek.M on Google (i think Veek was taken or some such > > thing

Re: Extend unicodedata with a name/pattern/regex search for character entity references?

2016-09-03 Thread Jussi Piitulainen
Chris Angelico writes: > On Sun, Sep 4, 2016 at 12:49 PM, Steve D'Aprano > wrote: >> On Sun, 4 Sep 2016 12:19 pm, Chris Angelico wrote: >> >> [...] Please either comply, or give up your stupid and pointless obsession with trying to be the Internet Police for something that isn't even a

Re: Extend unicodedata with a name/pattern/regex search for character entity references?

2016-09-03 Thread Rustom Mody
On Sunday, September 4, 2016 at 9:32:28 AM UTC+5:30, Veek. M wrote: > Regarding the name (From field), my name *is* Veek.M though I tend to > shorten it to Vek.M on Google (i think Veek was taken or some such > thing). Just to be clear, my parents call me something closely related > to Veek that

Re: Extend unicodedata with a name/pattern/regex search for character entity references?

2016-09-03 Thread Rustom Mody
On Saturday, September 3, 2016 at 5:25:48 PM UTC+5:30, Veek. M wrote: > https://mail.python.org/pipermail//python-ideas/2014-October/029630.htm > > Wanted to know if the above link idea, had been implemented and if > there's a module that accepts a pattern like 'cap' and give you all the > insta

Re: Extend unicodedata with a name/pattern/regex search for character entity references?

2016-09-03 Thread Veek. M
Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote: > Veek. M wrote: > >> https://mail.python.org/pipermail//python-ideas/2014-October/029630.htm >> >> Wanted to know if the above link idea, > > … which is 404-compliant; the Internet Archive does not have it either > … > >> had been implemented > > Probably not

Re: Extend unicodedata with a name/pattern/regex search for character entity references?

2016-09-03 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sun, Sep 4, 2016 at 12:49 PM, Steve D'Aprano wrote: > On Sun, 4 Sep 2016 12:19 pm, Chris Angelico wrote: > > [...] >>> Please either comply, or give up your stupid and pointless obsession with >>> trying to be the Internet Police for something that isn't even a real >>> rule. >> >> His posts ar

Re: Extend unicodedata with a name/pattern/regex search for character entity references?

2016-09-03 Thread Steve D'Aprano
On Sun, 4 Sep 2016 12:19 pm, Chris Angelico wrote: [...] >> Please either comply, or give up your stupid and pointless obsession with >> trying to be the Internet Police for something that isn't even a real >> rule. > > His posts aren't making it across the news->list gateway any more. > Killfile

Re: Extend unicodedata with a name/pattern/regex search for character entity references?

2016-09-03 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sun, Sep 4, 2016 at 11:51 AM, Steve D'Aprano wrote: > On Sun, 4 Sep 2016 06:47 am, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote: > >> Your posting is lacking a real name in the “From” header field. > > > Thomas, if that is really your name, how do we know that: > > Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn > > is a rea

Re: Extend unicodedata with a name/pattern/regex search for character entity references?

2016-09-03 Thread Steve D'Aprano
On Sun, 4 Sep 2016 06:47 am, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote: > Your posting is lacking a real name in the “From” header field. Thomas, if that is really your name, how do we know that: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn is a real name? Is sounds made up to me. I'm afraid that we're going to have

Extend unicodedata with a name/pattern/regex search for character entity references?

2016-09-03 Thread Veek. M
https://mail.python.org/pipermail//python-ideas/2014-October/029630.htm Wanted to know if the above link idea, had been implemented and if there's a module that accepts a pattern like 'cap' and give you all the instances of unicode 'CAP' characters. ⋂ \bigcap ⊓ \sqcap ∩ \cap ♑ \capricornus