Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > When you want local variable in lisp you do :
> >
> > (let ((a 3)) (+ a 1))
>
> Excep that's not a decleration, that's a binding. That's identical to
> the Python fragment:
>
>a = 3
>return a + 1
>
> except for the creation of the new sc
On 2005-10-07, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>In sports (thats "sport" for you Brits):
>>
> OK, so how do you account for the execresence "That will give you a
> savings of 20%", which usage is common in America?
Dunno. Like much else in English (both American and British)
"that's
"Michele Simionato" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> If you google a bit on the newsgroup, you should find a message
> from me asking about the ability to subclass FunctionType, and
> a reply from Tim Peters saying that the only reason why this
> was not done is lack of developer time and the fact tha
> How about Lisp? It seems to do some good there, without getting in
> the way.
I don't know much about lisp. But the thing is that one of the most
important data structures in python (and basically the only one in
LISP), lists, are a big problem to type-checking if they aren't
homogenous. So I g
"Lasse Vågsæther Karlsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks, that looks like Mike's solution except that it uses the
> built-in heapq module.
This make a big difference for the algorithmic complexity; replacing an item in
a heap is much more
efficient than sorting the whole list.
> While this
On 2005-10-07, Roel Schroeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> ... It is unknown how many pythons are competing with the thousands of
>> alligators in the Everglades, but at least 150 have been captured in
>> the past two years ...
>
> When I read the title 'Python vs. Alligator' on Slashdot, I
> tho
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Why is it that a membership test needs to call the __cmp__ method?
because the membership test has to check if the tested item is a member
of the sequence. if it doesn't do that, it's hardly qualifies as a membership
test. from the reference manual:
For the list a
In fact, i want to sort the list based on the 'allocated attribute' and
at the same time, test membership based on the id attribute.
__cmp__ logically implies an ordering test, not an identity test. These
two notions seems to be confounded in python which is unfortunate. Two
objects could have the
I am using SWIG to wrap a C application for use in Python.
C code
==
// returns a pointer to an array of long values in the string, "input"
// MY_DIGIT is a typedef such as, typedef unsigned long MY_DIGIT;
MY_DIGIT *Split(char *input) { ... }
..I build a DLL named, _MyApp.dll
SWIG interface
For this, you can also define the __eq__ method, which will be
preferred to __cmp__ for equallity tests while still using __cmp__ for
searching / comparisons.
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sqlite worked perfectly, thanks.
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On Friday 07 October 2005 08:56, Eric Nieuwland wrote:
> Ever cared to check what committees can do to a language ;-)
*has nasty visions of Java*
Hey! Stop that!
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On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 10:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In fact, i want to sort the list based on the 'allocated attribute' and
> at the same time, test membership based on the id attribute.
> __cmp__ logically implies an ordering test, not an identity test. These
> two notions seems to be confound
On 07/10/05, Eric Nieuwland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ever cared to check what committees can do to a language ;-)
+1 QOTW.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In fact, i want to sort the list based on the 'allocated attribute' and
> at the same time, test membership based on the id attribute.
> __cmp__ logically implies an ordering test, not an identity test. These
> two notions seems to be confounded in python which is unfortu
Test for the existence of one or more matches of the wildcard
expression.
For example:
Are there any files that begin with 2005?
This doesn't work (wish it did):
os.access('2005*',os.F_OK)
However, these work arounds do the job:
glob.glob('2005*')==[]
as does this bash command:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Sorry Fredrik but I don't understand. Just comment out the assert and
> you have different results depending on whether an unrelated sort
> function is defined.
> This seems weird to me !
code snippet:
> from random import choice
> class OBJ:
> def __init__(self,i
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In fact, i want to sort the list based on the 'allocated attribute' and
> at the same time, test membership based on the id attribute.
> __cmp__ logically implies an ordering test
really?
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=compare
com·pare
v. com·pare
Test for the existence of one or more matches of the wildcard
expression.
For example:
Are there any files that begin with 2005?
This doesn't work (wish it did):
os.access('2005*',os.F_OK)
However, these work arounds do the job:
glob.glob('2005*')==[]
as does this bash command:
I am having a hard time in finding out how to retrieve information
about
the *size* of files I want to download from an FTP site. Should I
send a QUOTE SIZE command to the ftp server or is there an easier way?
TIA,
Michele Simionato
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I have written a python socketServer program and I have a few questions
that I hope the group can answer... here is a simple version of the
server:
class tr_handler(SocketServer.StreamRequestHandler):
def handle(self):
data = self.rfile.readline(300)
data = str.st
How about doing an 'ls -la' once you have connected to the server? That
returns a listing of the files with the size in bytes.
-Original Message-
From: Michele Simionato
I am having a hard time in finding out how to retrieve information about the
*size* of files I want to download from
No doubt you're right but common sense dictates that membership testing
would test identity not equality.
This is one of the rare occasions where Python defeats my common sense
;-(
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"mike" wrote:
> Test for the existence of one or more matches of the wildcard
> expression.
why are you reposting variations of your question (in duplicates)
instead of reading the replies? that's not a good way to pass the
turing test.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> No doubt you're right but common sense dictates that membership testing
> would test identity not equality.
> This is one of the rare occasions where Python defeats my common sense
But object identity is almost always a fairly ill-defined concept.
Consider this (Python
Terry Hancock wrote:
> GvR's syntax has the advantage of making grammatical sense in English (i.e.
> reading it as written pretty much makes sense).
as a native Python speaker, I find that argument being remarkably weak. things
I write in Python should make sense in Python, not in some other lan
Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2005-10-07, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...]
>>Then again, what can you expect from a country whose leader
>>pronounces "nuclear" as though it were spelled "nucular"?
>
>
> Don't get me started on _that_ one. I found it particularly
> horrifying that Jimmy
Michele Simionato wrote:
> I am having a hard time in finding out how to retrieve information
> about the *size* of files I want to download from an FTP site. Should I
> send a QUOTE SIZE command to the ftp server or is there an easier way?
SIZE isn't a standard FTP command, so that only works fo
dude, you are the sap that wrote "it's not clear". get a life.
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Hm, you didn't include a link and my google did not find the final
results.
The results are fluctuating very much. This suggests a small number of
votes. Linux Journal may be a big magazine, but i don't think language
opinions change that fast.
The vote is all done by email this year, which is an
What are you developing for?
You could write another small python scripts, which calls your script.
os.system("python yours.py --param Ünicöde")
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> No doubt you're right but common sense dictates that membership testing
> would test identity not equality.
what does "common sense" have to say about this case:
>>> L = ("aa", "bb", "cc", "dd")
>>> S = "a" + "a"
>>> L
('aa', 'bb', 'cc', 'dd')
>>> S
'aa'
>>> S in L
# T
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I understand this, Steve.
> I thought the _cmp_ method was a helper for sorting purposes. Why is it
> that a membership test needs to call the __cmp__ method?
Can you suggest another way to test for set membership, given that
instances aren't singletons? The only way to
rbt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 1. Do I need to use threads to handle requests, if so, how would I
> incorporate them? The clients are light and fast never sending more
> than 270 bytes of data and never connecting for more than 10 seconds
> at a time. There are currently 500 clients and potenti
"mike" wrote:
> dude, you are the sap that wrote "it's not clear".
followed by three possible solutions to the stated problem, one
of which was marked as "most likely".
> get a life.
oh, sorry for wasting my time. can I *plonk* you now?
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I'm not sure how to do this, or where to start looking for the right
information, so any advice would be appreciated.
I want to implement a class with two (or more) different ways of looking
at its attributes.
One example of this might be complex numbers, which can be written in
Cartesian form (x
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> It is important that there are no privileged attributes, e.g. in the
> above example, I can set any of x, y, z, r, theta or phi and all the
> others will automatically reflect the changes.
http://users.rcn.com/python/download/Descriptor.htm#properties
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Lasse Vågsæther Karlsen wrote:
>Ok, that one looks more sleak than what I came up with.
>
>Couple of things I learn from your solution, please correct me if I
>misunderstood something:
>
>1. list containing other lists will sort itself based on first element
>on lists inside ?
>
>
Correct, compa
I'm trying to run a Python program on Unix and I'm encountering some
behavior I don't understand. I'm a Unix newbie, and I'm wondering if
someone can help.
I have a simple program:
#! /home/fergs/python/bin/python
import sys, os
import cx_Oracle
_
Alex Willmer wrote:
> I'm trying to track down the name of a file format and python module,
> that was featured in the Daily Python URL some time in the last month or
> two.
http://www.netpromi.com/kirbybase.html ?
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Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Anyone have any good ideas for how I should implement this?
These days you can use properties. Before, you'd have had to do it
manually with __setattr__ / __getattr__ methods. Here's how I'd do it
with properties, if I have the math right. You're us
dear all,
i'm an astronomer working with 2d images -- 2d numarrays. i have a
script which basically does some operations on some images, and one of
the first steps is to find a galaxy on an image (at, say, a known x,y
coord), and create a sub-image by slicing out part of the larger array
to create
Steve wrote:
> I'm trying to run a Python program on Unix and I'm encountering some
> behavior I don't understand. I'm a Unix newbie, and I'm wondering if
> someone can help.
>
> I have a simple program:
>
>
> #! /home/fergs/python/bin/python
> import
On Oct 07, Steve wrote:
> I have a simple program:
>
>
> #! /home/fergs/python/bin/python
> import sys, os
> import cx_Oracle
>
>
> If I run it through the Python interpreter, this way:
>
> >> python test.
"Steve" wrote:
> I'm trying to run a Python program on Unix and I'm encountering some
> behavior I don't understand. I'm a Unix newbie, and I'm wondering if
> someone can help.
> If I run it through the Python interpreter, this way:
>
> >> python test.py
>
> it runs fine.
>
> But if I try to ru
Eric Nieuwland wrote:
>
>
> Ever cared to check what committees can do to a language ;-)
>
well there goes democracy :(
-the happy slaves eat and are contented-ly yrs-
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Hi!!
I am working on a school project and I decided to use PythonCard and
wxPython for my GUI development. I need a password window that will
block unwanted users from the system. I got the pop-up password
question to work...
def on_openBackground(self, event):
result = dialog.textEnt
No need to apologize for continuing to waste your
time, self.plonk. Get a life, though, and you'll be happier.
As to your question, well, not before you apologize for
thread crapping.
As for your possible solutions, if you consider any
of yours to be "readable", then i have no interest in
coding
Hi,
I've looked at a lot of pages on the net and still can't seem to nail
this. Would someone more knowledgeable in regular expressions please
provide some help to point out what I'm doing wrong?
I am trying to see if a web page contains the exact text:
You have found 0 matches
But instead I see
Perhaps it would be nice if they could include in the python documents
a link to download a sample code, the one that they were building in
the whole program, or at least a page that puts it all together? I get
a much better idea of how thing work when they are all put together
personally, and then
"mike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Test for the existence of one or more matches of the wildcard
> expression.
>
> For example:
>
> Are there any files that begin with 2005?
>
> This doesn't work (wish it did):
> os.access('2005*',os.F_OK)
I would considering it suprising if it worked.
On 7 Oct 2005 10:35:22 -0700, GregM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've looked at a lot of pages on the net and still can't seem to nail
> this. Would someone more knowledgeable in regular expressions please
> provide some help to point out what I'm doing wrong?
>
> I am trying to see if a we
GregM wrote:
> I am trying to see if a web page contains the exact text:
> You have found 0 matches
It is unclear to me why you're using a regex at all. If you want to
find the *exact* text "You have found 0 matches" perhaps you should do
something like this:
if "You have found 0 matches" in p
"GregM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've looked at a lot of pages on the net and still can't seem to nail
> this. Would someone more knowledgeable in regular expressions please
> provide some help to point out what I'm doing wrong?
>
> I am trying to see if a web page contains the exact text:
> Y
Nicholas,
Have you looked at Octave? It is not Python, but I believe it can talk
to Python.
Octave is comparable to Matlab for many things, including having ODE
solvers. I have successfully used it to model and simulate simple
systems. Complex system would be easy to model as well, provided that
y
I did "which python" and the two paths were different. Once I fixed
the path in the script, it worked fine.
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Paul Rubin wrote:
> rbt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>>1. Do I need to use threads to handle requests, if so, how would I
>>incorporate them? The clients are light and fast never sending more
>>than 270 bytes of data and never connecting for more than 10 seconds
>>at a time. There are currently
On Fri, 07 Oct 2005 14:24:42 -, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>On 2005-10-07, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...]
>>
>> "Some village in Texas are missing their idiot"
>
>At least that one is consistent, though it sounds "wrong" to US
>ears.
The Germans have a word for it
Paul Rubin wrote:
> Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> class Parrot(object):
> x = property(getx, setx)
> y = property(gety, sety)
>
> def getx(self):
> return self.a + self.b
> def setx(self, x):
> y = self.y # calls gety
> self.a, self.b = 2*x - y, y-x
>
>
jeg wrote:
> dear all,
>
> i'm an astronomer working with 2d images -- 2d numarrays. i have a
> script which basically does some operations on some images, and one of
> the first steps is to find a galaxy on an image (at, say, a known x,y
> coord), and create a sub-image by slicing out part of the
It is available as PDF from the editor ... Manning. In my recollection
for 25 USD
projecktzero wrote:
> striker wrote:
>
>>Does anyone who has this book willing to sell it. Please e-mail me the
>>condition and any other details if you are interested.
>>Thanks,
>>Kevin
>
>
> half.com has a cou
Do you have a simple program that demonstrates the problem?
I have an x86 machine with Python 2.3, and an x86_64 machine with Python 2.4
available. I wrote a simple test program which performs a slice operation,
but it behaves the same on both platforms.
Here's the program:
#
This may be a simple question to answer, but is there any module that
will let you authenticate against a SMB server? An equivalent
package in perl would be the Authen::SMB. That is the realms of
what I am looking for, but in Python.
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> Steve Holden wrote:
>Consider:
>>> a = {1:'one'}
>>> b = {2:'two'}
>>> c = {1:'one'}
>>> a is c
False
>>> a in [b, c]
True
>>>
>What would you have Python do differently in these circumstances?
You mean: What i would do i if i was the benevolent dictator ?
I would make a distinction bet
Yeah, that's what I meant. Thanks.
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After exploring the bug database I discovered that this bug has been
reported since March, and appears to derive from a bug in Python
itself.
http://bugs.activestate.com/show_bug.cgi?id=38052
It apparently only happens when the code generated by Makepy is really
big (which it is for Word or Excel
Hi
thanks to all of you. Mike I like your committee idea. where can I
join? lol
Greg.
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Hi,
I want to have two loggers that logs to two different files. Here is
what I have:
import logging
import logging.handlers
project1Handler = logging.handlers.RotatingFileHandler( 'project1.log',
maxBytes=1024)
project1Handler.setLevel(logging.INFO)
formatter1 = logging.Formatter('%(name)-12s:
I just threw this together because I find myself needing it now and
then. Requires PIL and optionally ImageMagick to convert to png, since
I think PIL is not able yet to convert a bmp to a png. You can of
course use the os.path module instead of the path module. I keep it in
my windows start menu f
I need to write an extension for a C function so that I can call it
from python.
C code (myapp.c)
==
typedef unsigned long MY_LONG;
char *DoStuff(char *input, MY_LONG *x) { ... }
so you pass in a string and an array of MY_LONGS...such as
MY_LONGS vals[10] = {};
char *input = "this is my
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I just threw this together because I find myself needing it now and
> then. Requires PIL and optionally ImageMagick to convert to png, since
> I think PIL is not able yet to convert a bmp to a png.
well, not in one step, but it can load BMP images and save PNG
images.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>Steve Holden wrote:
>>Consider:
>
>
> >>> a = {1:'one'}
> >>> b = {2:'two'}
> >>> c = {1:'one'}
> >>> a is c
> False
> >>> a in [b, c]
> True
> >>>
>
>
>>What would you have Python do differently in these circumstances?
>
>
> You mean: What i would do i if i w
Lasse Vågsæther Karlsen wrote:
> I need to merge several sources of values into one stream of values. All
> of the sources are sorted already and I need to retrieve the values from
Ok, after working through the various sources and solutions, here's what
I finally ended up with:
def merge_sort
Just replace
logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG)
with
logging.getLogger().setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
and you will no longer get messages written to the console. The
basicConfig() method is meant for really basic use of logging - it
allows one call to set level, and to add either a console han
Thanks -- works as advertised.
Stephen
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Hi,
I have png file with mode "I", 16 bit,
And I tried to open it with im=Image.open("output.png"), im.show()
I got all white image.
Don't why?
Can Image only support 'RGB' or 'RGBA' png files?
Thanks
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On Friday 07 October 2005 03:01 am, Steve Holden wrote:
> OK, so how do you account for the execresence "That will give you a
> savings of 20%", which usage is common in America?
In America, anyway, "savings" is a collective abstract noun
(like "physics" or "mechanics"), there's no such
noun as
Terry Hancock wrote:
> By the way, dict.org doesn't think "execresence" is a word,
> although I interpret the neologism as meaning something like
> "execrable utterance":
>
> dict.org said:
> > No definitions found for 'execresence'!
however, 'excrescence' appears to be a perfectly cromulent word
Rocco Moretti wrote:
> Steve Holden wrote:
>
>>> On Fri, 07 Oct 2005 00:33:43 -, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>> wrote:
>
>
For example: In British English one uses a plural verb when the
subject consists of more than one person. Sports teams,
government departments, st
I am using Python 2.3.3 on an Mac OS9 system. I am looking for a build
of Python 2.3.3+ with a built in GUI, since Tk is missing. One day I
hope to upgrade to a new Mac with OSX on it, so a GUI that is available
on OS9 and OSX is preferable. I don't want to write my GUI code from
scratch if I ev
thanks, i ran it -- the only difference i got was the numarray version:
1.1.1 on the 686, and 1.3.3 on the 64bit... but i wouldn't have thought
that would make too much difference.
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Terry Hancock wrote:
> On Friday 07 October 2005 03:01 am, Steve Holden wrote:
>
>>OK, so how do you account for the execresence "That will give you a
>>savings of 20%", which usage is common in America?
>
>
> In America, anyway, "savings" is a collective abstract noun
> (like "physics" or "me
On Friday 07 October 2005 06:24 am, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>
> [snip]
> > "Some village in Texas is missing their idiot".
> >
> > I personally found it odd (and essentially
> > non-grammatical) not because either the singular or plural forms should
> > be mandated but because this one manages
Hello Phil,
Yes I have considered Octave. In fact I'm already using Matlab and
decided to 'reject' it for Python + Numeric/numarray + SciPy because I
think you could do more in Python and in more simple ways.
Problem is that neither Octave, Matlab and Python offer today a
framework to build conti
On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 22:30:00 -0700, Robert Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote :
> Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> > On Fri, 7 Oct 2005 01:12:22 +0200, Nicolas Pernetty
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> declaimed the following in
> > comp.lang.python:
> >
> > > I'm aware of SimPy for discrete event simulation, but I
Thanks, but what is really difficult is not to understand how to design
the program which solve a specific problem but to design a generic
framework for solving all these kinds of problem. And in a simple enough
way for basic programmers (but good scientists !) to handle it.
*** REPLY SEPA
On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 09:17 -0700, Paul Rubinhttp: wrote:
> > 3. How do I keep people from tampering with the server? The clients
> > send strings of data to the server. All the strings start with x and
> > end with y and have z in the middle. Is requiring x at the front and
> > y at the back and z
I am trying to modify some of the tools to automate telugu wikipedia
maintainence tasks and I have realised that i cannot used cmd.exe as it
wont display unicode(atleast telugu). I will try the above and see if
it works. can I use the above command in IDLE??
Thanks for the prompt reply
Ravi
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Terry Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Friday 30 September 2005 04:37 pm, John J. Lee wrote:
> > "Tor Erik Sønvisen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > Thanks for the answers... And yes, I have searched google!
> >
> > How odd -- the most useful link (the viewcvs page for this source
> >
On Friday 07 October 2005 10:52 am, Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> Terry Hancock wrote:
> > GvR's syntax has the advantage of making grammatical sense in English (i.e.
> > reading it as written pretty much makes sense).
>
> as a native Python speaker, I find that argument being remarkably weak.
> things
On Friday 07 October 2005 01:31 pm, Dave Hansen wrote:
> >Don't get me started on _that_ one. I found it particularly
> >horrifying that Jimmy Carter pronounced it "nucular" -- he had
> >studied nuclear engineering at the naval acadamy, and should at
> >least be able pronounce the word.
Well, the
On 2005-10-07, Terry Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Of course, just to keep y'all on your toes, we Texans have not only
> construed "their" to singular, but also "you", and added a new
> plural "y'all".
AFAICT, in many parts of "The South", y'all is now used in the
singular (e.g. "y'all" is
On 2005-10-07, Terry Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well, there's your problem. He learned from engineers. Engineers
> can't speak English. I was instructed in my "Engineering Statics"
> class that a three-dimensional structure connecting non-coplanar
> points in space was called a "tetrahe
I dont know how to do this and can't think of a simple way to.
All I want is a dictionary where two keys point to the same object.
(to steal the ascii art from
http://starship.python.net/crew/mwh/hacks/objectthink.html)
I want sometihng like this:
,--. +---+
| dict |-->|+-+|
Rob Conner wrote:
> I dont know how to do this and can't think of a simple way to.
>
> All I want is a dictionary where two keys point to the same object.
> (to steal the ascii art from
> http://starship.python.net/crew/mwh/hacks/objectthink.html)
> I want sometihng like this:
>
> ,--.
On Fri, 07 Oct 2005 21:44:29 +0100, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Terry Hancock wrote:
>> On Friday 07 October 2005 03:01 am, Steve Holden wrote:
>>
>>>OK, so how do you account for the execresence "That will give you a
>>>savings of 20%", which usage is common in America?
>>
>>
>>
On Fri, 7 Oct 2005 16:18:57 -0500, Terry Hancock
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Friday 07 October 2005 01:31 pm, Dave Hansen wrote:
Actually, I didn't, though I did respond to it. Please watch your
attributions.
Thanks,
-=Dave
--
Change is inevitable, progress i
On Friday 07 October 2005 03:44 pm, Steve Holden wrote:
> Precisely because there *is* such a thing as a saving. If I buy a $100
> gumball for $80 I have achieved a saving of 20%.
Nope, that's incorrect American. ;-)
You can say "I bought a $100 gumball for $80, saving 20%," or
"If I buy a $100
On 7 Oct 2005 14:23:49 -0700, "Rob Conner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I dont know how to do this and can't think of a simple way to.
>
>All I want is a dictionary where two keys point to the same object.
>(to steal the ascii art from
>http://starship.python.net/crew/mwh/hacks/objectthink.html)
>I
On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 09:14:51PM -, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2005-10-07, Terry Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Of course, just to keep y'all on your toes, we Texans have not only
> > construed "their" to singular, but also "you", and added a new
> > plural "y'all".
>
> AFAICT, in
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