Re: Fwd: Re: Comparisons and sorting of a numeric class....

2015-01-29 Thread Andrew Robinson
On 01/27/2015 02:04 AM, Gregory Ewing wrote: Andrew Robinson wrote: The spelling caveat is great -- and in Python the object named in bool's honor is spelled bool (lowercase too). ;) That doesn't change the fact that the man was called George Boole (not Charles!). If you're going to refer to

Re: Fwd: Re: Comparisons and sorting of a numeric class....

2015-01-27 Thread Gregory Ewing
Andrew Robinson wrote: The spelling caveat is great -- and in Python the object named in bool's honor is spelled bool (lowercase too). ;) That doesn't change the fact that the man was called George Boole (not Charles!). If you're going to refer to him by name, it's only courteous to make some

Re: Fwd: Re: Comparisons and sorting of a numeric class....

2015-01-27 Thread Andrew Robinson
On 01/26/2015 02:22 PM, Ian Kelly wrote: On Jan 26, 2015 6:42 AM, "Andrew Robinson" > wrote: > ... If you're going to descend into insults and name-calling, then I'm not going to waste any more of my time on this thread. I don't believe I've actually, int

Re: Fwd: Re: Comparisons and sorting of a numeric class....

2015-01-26 Thread Ian Kelly
On Jan 26, 2015 6:42 AM, "Andrew Robinson" wrote: > ... If you're going to descend into insults and name-calling, then I'm not going to waste any more of my time on this thread. The restriction on inheriting from bool isn't likely to change. There have been several suggestions as to how you can d

Re: Fwd: Re: Comparisons and sorting of a numeric class....

2015-01-26 Thread Andrew Robinson
Hi Mark ! I hope you are well, and haven't been injured falling out of your chair laughing. There are probably 12 to 14 emails that I haven't been able to read in my inbox from the python list on the subject of this 'drivel', because I have a real life besides the semi-comedy act that goes on h

Re: Fwd: Re: Comparisons and sorting of a numeric class....

2015-01-26 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 26/01/2015 13:38, Andrew Robinson wrote: *plonk* -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Fwd: Re: Comparisons and sorting of a numeric class....

2015-01-26 Thread Andrew Robinson
Original Message Subject:Re: Comparisons and sorting of a numeric class Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 05:38:22 -0800 From: Andrew Robinson To: Steven D'Aprano On 01/24/2015 12:27 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: Andrew Robinson wrote: But let me explain a bit mo