QOTW! (was: NLTK)

2018-08-08 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 08Aug2018 21:03, ma...@mail.com wrote: [...] It seems that I do not really need NLTK. split() will do me. [...] +1 QOTW Cheers, Cameron Simpson -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

+1 QOTW...

2009-03-13 Thread skip
>From the PSF board candidates statements: Tim Peters == While my efforts to get the PSF recognized as a bank holding company (and so qualify for billions of dollars in US TARP aid) haven't yet succeeded, I'm apparently the only director who even thought about it --

Re: QOTW [was Re: Attack a sacred Python Cow]

2008-07-28 Thread Russ P.
On Jul 28, 7:07 am, Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED] cybersource.com.au> wrote: > On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 21:42:37 -0700, Russ P. wrote: > >> +1 QOTW > > > Do you realize what an insult that is to everyone else who has posted > > here in the past week? > &

Re: QOTW [was Re: Attack a sacred Python Cow]

2008-07-28 Thread castironpi
On Jul 28, 9:07 am, Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED] cybersource.com.au> wrote: > On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 21:42:37 -0700, Russ P. wrote: > >> +1 QOTW > > > Do you realize what an insult that is to everyone else who has posted > > here in the past week? > &

Re: QOTW [was Re: Attack a sacred Python Cow]

2008-07-28 Thread member thudfoo
On 28 Jul 2008 14:07:44 GMT, Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 21:42:37 -0700, Russ P. wrote: > > >> +1 QOTW > > > > Do you realize what an insult that is to everyone else who has posted > > here in the past week? &

QOTW [was Re: Attack a sacred Python Cow]

2008-07-28 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 21:42:37 -0700, Russ P. wrote: >> +1 QOTW > > Do you realize what an insult that is to everyone else who has posted > here in the past week? Actually I don't. I hadn't realised that when a person believes that somebody has made an especially clever,

QOTW

2008-05-25 Thread Scott David Daniels
D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote: Yes! One of the biggest advantages to unit testing is that you never ever deliver the same bug to the client twice. Delivering software with a bug is bad but delivering it with the same bug after it was reported and fixed is calamitous. QOTW for sure. --Scott

Re: QOTW: Re: dream hardware

2008-02-17 Thread castironpi
On Feb 16, 2:59 pm, Jeff Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Carl Banks wrote: > > On Feb 16, 1:39 pm, Jeff Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Aahz wrote: > >>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > >>> Jeff Schwab  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Feb 14, 10:50

Re: QOTW: Re: dream hardware

2008-02-16 Thread Jeff Schwab
Carl Banks wrote: > On Feb 16, 1:39 pm, Jeff Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Aahz wrote: >>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >>> Jeff Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Feb 14, 10:50 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aahz) wrote: >> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: QOTW: Re: dream hardware

2008-02-16 Thread Carl Banks
On Feb 16, 1:39 pm, Jeff Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Aahz wrote: > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > Jeff Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>> On Feb 14, 10:50 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aahz) wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Steven D'Ap

Re: QOTW: Re: dream hardware

2008-02-16 Thread Jeff Schwab
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> IHNTA, IJWTSA >> Thanks, but... That defines IHNTA, but not IJWTSA or IJWTW. "I just >> want to say...?" "I just want to watch?"- Hide quoted text - > > I just want to what? Exactly! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: QOTW: Re: dream hardware

2008-02-16 Thread castironpi
> IHNTA, IJWTSA > > Thanks, but... That defines IHNTA, but not IJWTSA or IJWTW.  "I just > want to say...?"  "I just want to watch?"- Hide quoted text - I just want to what? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: QOTW: Re: dream hardware

2008-02-16 Thread Jeff Schwab
Aahz wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Jeff Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> On Feb 14, 10:50 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aahz) wrote: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:05:59

Re: QOTW: Re: dream hardware

2008-02-16 Thread Aahz
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jeff Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> On Feb 14, 10:50 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aahz) wrote: >>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >>> Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:05:59 -0800, castironpi wrote

Re: QOTW: Re: dream hardware

2008-02-15 Thread Jeff Schwab
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Feb 14, 10:50 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aahz) wrote: >> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >> Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:05:59 -0800, castironpi wrote: What is dream hardware for the Python interpreter? >>> I'm not sure tha

Re: QOTW: Re: dream hardware

2008-02-15 Thread castironpi
On Feb 14, 10:50 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aahz) wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Steven D'Aprano  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:05:59 -0800, castironpi wrote: > > >> What is dream hardware for the Python interpreter? > > >I'm not sure that the Python interpreter act

QOTW: Re: dream hardware

2008-02-14 Thread Aahz
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:05:59 -0800, castironpi wrote: >> >> What is dream hardware for the Python interpreter? > >I'm not sure that the Python interpreter actually does dream, but if it's >anything like me, it's probably

Contender for QOTW - Was : Re: AN Intorduction to Tkinter

2006-09-26 Thread Hendrik van Rooyen
"John Machin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In that case, don't burn bandwith by banal banter, post the examples! +1 here - Hendrik -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: QOTW (was Re: does anybody earn a living programming in python?)

2006-09-26 Thread Felipe Almeida Lessa
untry singers, blues musicians, > >>British hard rock bands, or melodic death metal acts. > > > > Any other votes for this being QOTW? > > +1 here > +1 here, too -- Felipe. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

QOTW (was Re: does anybody earn a living programming in python?)

2006-09-26 Thread Aahz
l acts. Any other votes for this being QOTW? -- Aahz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "LL YR VWL R BLNG T S" -- www.nancybuttons.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: QOTW (was Re: does anybody earn a living programming in python?)

2006-09-26 Thread Sybren Stuvel
h metal acts. > > Any other votes for this being QOTW? +1 here Sybren -- Sybren Stüvel Stüvel IT - http://www.stuvel.eu/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: +1 QOTW

2006-09-24 Thread Kay Schluehr
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Did anyone else crack up when Larry Wall described python with the > statement: > > Python, as the "anti-Perl," is heavily invested in maintaining Order. > > In the state of the onion address? > > http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2006/09/21/onion.html Think he's just too charmi

Re: +1 QOTW

2006-09-24 Thread Georg Brandl
; There is also this: >> 'But I think the basic Perl paradigm is "Whatever-oriented programming."' > > But what this really means, in practise, is "dis-oriented programming." I think now we got our QOTW. Georg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: +1 QOTW

2006-09-24 Thread Michael J. Fromberger
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Terry Reedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Did anyone else crack up when Larry Wall described python with the > > statement: > > > > Python, as the "anti-Perl," is heavily invested in maintaining Or

Re: +1 QOTW

2006-09-22 Thread Ray
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Did anyone else crack up when Larry Wall described python with the > statement: > > Python, as the "anti-Perl," is heavily invested in maintaining Order. Perl? Larry who? (I've been going to a hypnotherapist who specializes in erasing bad memories of the past, sorry.)

Re: +1 QOTW

2006-09-22 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
James Stroud wrote: > Terry Reedy wrote: > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >>Did anyone else crack up when Larry Wall described python with the > >>statement: > >> > >>Python, as the "anti-Perl," is heavily invested in maintaining Order. > >> > >>In the stat

Re: +1 QOTW

2006-09-22 Thread Paddy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Did anyone else crack up when Larry Wall described python with the > statement: > > Python, as the "anti-Perl," is heavily invested in maintaining Order. > > In the state of the onion address? > > http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2006/09/21/

Re: +1 QOTW

2006-09-22 Thread James Stroud
Terry Reedy wrote: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>Did anyone else crack up when Larry Wall described python with the >>statement: >> >>Python, as the "anti-Perl," is heavily invested in maintaining Order. >> >>In the state of the onion address? >> >>http://www

Re: +1 QOTW

2006-09-22 Thread Terry Reedy
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Did anyone else crack up when Larry Wall described python with the > statement: > > Python, as the "anti-Perl," is heavily invested in maintaining Order. > > In the state of the onion address? > > http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2006/09/21/o

+1 QOTW

2006-09-22 Thread olsongt
Did anyone else crack up when Larry Wall described python with the statement: Python, as the "anti-Perl," is heavily invested in maintaining Order. In the state of the onion address? http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2006/09/21/onion.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: QOTW... (was: Doc suggestions (was: Why "class exceptions" are not deprecated?))

2006-03-31 Thread rurpy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>>>> "Ed" == Ed Singleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Ed> Go to the wiki, make the changes you want, and feel good about > Ed> yourself for once. > > +1 QOTW. I suggest leaving off the "for onc

QOTW... (was: Doc suggestions (was: Why "class exceptions" are not deprecated?))

2006-03-31 Thread skip
>>>>> "Ed" == Ed Singleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ed> Go to the wiki, make the changes you want, and feel good about Ed> yourself for once. +1 QOTW. Skip -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

QOTW candidate...

2006-02-07 Thread skip
>>>>> "Roy" == Roy Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Roy> There is much about traditional OO which translates well to Python, Roy> but sometimes it is difficult to read a treatise on OO and tell Roy> which bits are "traditional OO"

Re: My personal candidate for QOTW (was: Python interpreter in Basic or a Python-2-Basic translator.)

2005-05-01 Thread Lee Cullens
From: Leif Biberg Kristensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: May 1, 2005 2:13:43 PM EDT To: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: My personal candidate for QOTW (was: Python interpreter in Basic or a Python-2-Basic translator.) Cameron Laird skrev: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Engi

Re: My personal candidate for QOTW (was: Python interpreter in Basic or a Python-2-Basic translator.)

2005-05-01 Thread Leif Biberg Kristensen
must be >>"safe." Any other development environments (such as Java, Perl, > . > . > . This is clear evidence supporting the theory that being in charge of security and being able to think have no significant correlation. And, yes: +1 QOTW from me, too. -- Leif Biberg Kristensen -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: My personal candidate for QOTW (was: Python interpreter in Basic or a Python-2-Basic translator.)

2005-05-01 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cameron Laird wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Engineer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > . > . > . > >The security 'droids have decided that since the MS Office Suite is a > >"standard" application then software written in MS

My personal candidate for QOTW (was: Python interpreter in Basic or a Python-2-Basic translator.)

2005-05-01 Thread Cameron Laird
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Engineer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: . . . >The security 'droids have decided that since the MS Office Suite is a >"standard" application then software written in MS Office VBA must be >"safe." A

Re: QOTW from Ryan Tomayko

2005-01-20 Thread John Roth
"Robert Brewer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://naeblis.cx/rtomayko/2005/01/20/getters-setters-fuxors "...Many people coming to Python can't believe no one uses IDEs. The automatic assumption is that Python is for old grey beards who are comfortable with vi and

QOTW from Ryan Tomayko

2005-01-20 Thread Robert Brewer
http://naeblis.cx/rtomayko/2005/01/20/getters-setters-fuxors "...Many people coming to Python can't believe no one uses IDEs. The automatic assumption is that Python is for old grey beards who are comfortable with vi and Emacs and refuse to accept breakthroughs in programming productivity like IDE