Re: Eureka moments in Python

2007-03-20 Thread Sion Arrowsmith
Sion Arrowsmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >This is more a "batteries included" eureka moment than a Python one, >but writing a fetchmail substitute in 6 lines was an eye-opener. On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 01:23:14PM -0500, someone emailed: [This is a newsgroup/mailing list -- potentially useful inf

Re: Eureka moments in Python

2007-03-20 Thread Doug Gray
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 18:16:15 +1100, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > I'd be interested in hearing people's stories of Eureka moments in Python, > moments where you suddenly realise that some task which seemed like it > would be hard work was easy with Python. Mine was the discovery of the pybluez module.

Re: Eureka moments in Python

2007-03-18 Thread Mohammad Tayseer
> I'd be interested in hearing people's stories of Eureka moments > in Python, moments where you suddenly realise that some task > which seemed like it would be hard work was easy with Python. I had a project in the faculty where we were supposed to implement a compiler for a very simple lang

Re: Eureka moments in Python

2007-03-16 Thread Sion Arrowsmith
Paul McGuire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mar 13, 2:16 am, Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: >> I'd be interested in hearing people's stories of Eureka moments in Python, >> moments where you suddenly realise that some task which seemed like it >> would be hard work was easy with Python

Re: Eureka moments in Python

2007-03-16 Thread Jarek Zgoda
Ben Finney napisaƂ(a): >> I'd be interested in hearing people's stories of Eureka moments in >> Python, moments where you suddenly realise that some task which >> seemed like it would be hard work was easy with Python. > > I don't recall the exact context, but Python was the language that > intro

Re: Eureka moments in Python

2007-03-16 Thread Paul McGuire
On Mar 13, 2:16 am, Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd be interested in hearing people's stories of Eureka moments in Python, > moments where you suddenly realise that some task which seemed like it > would be hard work was easy with Python. > The day I wrote a CORBA method intercept

Re: Eureka moments in Python

2007-03-15 Thread Alex Martelli
Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd be interested in hearing people's stories of Eureka moments in Python, > moments where you suddenly realise that some task which seemed like it > would be hard work was easy with Python. As a part of my process to decide whether Python was the righ

Re: Eureka moments in Python

2007-03-13 Thread Jeff McNeil
Bit of a newbie on this list, but here goes... Web Services. The company I'm working for has been pretty big into the WS-* specifications and the Microsoft .Net WCF components for our business systems. I'm one of three Unix guys that code the products while we've a larger team of Windows develop

Re: Eureka moments in Python

2007-03-13 Thread Ben Finney
"Steven D'Aprano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'd be interested in hearing people's stories of Eureka moments in > Python, moments where you suddenly realise that some task which > seemed like it would be hard work was easy with Python. I don't recall the exact context, but Python was the langu

Re: Eureka moments in Python

2007-03-13 Thread Brett g Porter
Dustan wrote: > On Mar 13, 10:05 am, Brett g Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Steven D'Aprano wrote: >>> I'd be interested in hearing people's stories of Eureka moments in Python, >>> moments where you suddenly realise that some task which seemed like it >>> would be hard work was easy with Pyt

Re: Eureka moments in Python

2007-03-13 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mar 13, 2:16 am, Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd be interested in hearing people's stories of Eureka moments in Python, > moments where you suddenly realise that some task which seemed like it > would be hard work was easy with Python. > ##I have this problem where, given a

Re: Eureka moments in Python

2007-03-13 Thread Dustan
On Mar 13, 10:05 am, Brett g Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > I'd be interested in hearing people's stories of Eureka moments in Python, > > moments where you suddenly realise that some task which seemed like it > > would be hard work was easy with Python. > > Mine was

Re: Eureka moments in Python

2007-03-13 Thread Brett g Porter
Steven D'Aprano wrote: > I'd be interested in hearing people's stories of Eureka moments in Python, > moments where you suddenly realise that some task which seemed like it > would be hard work was easy with Python. Mine was definitely when I was first working with the xmlrpc module, and I was pu