Re: Guido at Google

2005-12-22 Thread Ilias Lazaridis
Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Gary Herron wrote: > > >>So how about it... What's your complaint, what's your solution, and why >>should we listen? > > Nobody will ever know. simply review this explanations: http://lazaridis.com/core/index.html some people have already understood this in the past.

Re: Guido at Google

2005-12-22 Thread Ilias Lazaridis
Thomas Wouters wrote: [...] thank you for your comments. - TAG.python.evolution.negate . -- http://lazaridis.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Guido at Google

2005-12-22 Thread Alex Martelli
Nicola Musatti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alex Martelli wrote: > > Renato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > all of the native administration tools of RedHat (all versions) and > > > Fedora Core are written in python (system-config-* and/or > > > redhat-config-* ). And even more importantly, y

Re: Guido at Google

2005-12-22 Thread Ilias Lazaridis
Greg Stein wrote: > Guido would acknowledge a query, but never announce it. That's not his > style. > > This should have a positive impact on Python. His job description has a > *very* significant portion of his time dedicated specifically to > working on Python. (much more than his previous "one

Re: Guido at Google

2005-12-22 Thread Alex Martelli
Bengt Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 09:07:26 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) > wrote: > > >Renato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> all of the native administration tools of RedHat (all versions) and > >> Fedora Core are written in python (system-config-* and

Re: Guido at Google

2005-12-22 Thread Alex Martelli
rbt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > > His founder, Mark Shuttleworth, is a python fan. > > Aren't most all intelligent people Python fans? No: I know many intelligent people who are not Python fans, ranging from the Perl crowd (lot of great, bright people who however prefer Perl to Python) to

Re: Guido at Google

2005-12-22 Thread Alex Martelli
Bugs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So when *is* someone (either Guido himself or Google) going to > officially announce that Guido has moved to Google? If at all? I don't think any official announcement is planned. > Also, it would be nice to know from Guido's perspective what, if any at > all,

Re: Wingide is a beautiful application

2005-12-22 Thread jussij
> I gave Zeus a try and it passed loading of a large (100 MByte) > text file (many other text editors fail here). Zeus is not designed as a large file editor :( It will try to load the entire file into memory so when you open these very large files the RAM is quickly used up. > It looks at the f

Re: Providing 'default' value with raw_input()?

2005-12-22 Thread Roger Upole
If you have Pywin32 build 205 installed, you can use the win32console module to add the data to the typeahead buffer before you call raw_input. import win32console stdin=win32console.GetStdHandle(win32console.STD_INPUT_HANDLE) def raw_input_with_default(prompt, default_val): keypresses=[]

Re: Providing 'default' value with raw_input()?

2005-12-22 Thread Bengt Richter
On 22 Dec 2005 12:42:36 -0800, "planetthoughtful" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Bengt Richter wrote: >> On 22 Dec 2005 08:55:17 -0800, "planetthoughtful" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >> >I would like to include the ability to edit an existing value (drawn >> >from an SQLite table) using a DOS c

Re: print UTF-8 file with BOM

2005-12-22 Thread Kevin Yuan
import codecsdef read_utf8_txt_file (filename):    fileObj = codecs.open( filename, "r", "utf-8" )    content = fileObj.read()    content = content[1:] #exclude BOM     print content     fileObj.close()    read_utf8_txt_file("e:\\u.txt")22 Dec 2005 18:12:28 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] < [EMAIL PROTECT

call static function from extension module - syntaxerror

2005-12-22 Thread Todd
Hi, I'm working right from the example here to make a basic extenstion module. http://docs.python.org/ext/intro.html http://www.dalkescientific.com/writings/diary/archive/2005/04/26/extending_python.html I can load my module into python and dir shows my function. But I get a syntax error if I tr

Re: Which Python web framework is most like Ruby on Rails?

2005-12-22 Thread Jeff Rush
Kent Johnson wrote: >Luis M. Gonzalez wrote: > > >>The only problem with KARRIGELL, I guess, is that its creator is very >>humble and doesn't like to advertise his creature. He is not very fond >>of "marketing" ... >> >> >From my point of view the biggest problem with Karrigell is that it is

Re: Providing 'default' value with raw_input()?

2005-12-22 Thread Alex Martelli
Bengt Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > If you want to edit text, maybe the best thing is a text editor? > Why not write it into a temp file and start the user's favorite editor Agreed. There's a recipe for that in the online Python Cookbook, and we edited and enhanced that into the 2nd

Re: Which Python web framework is most like Ruby on Rails?

2005-12-22 Thread Paul Rubin
Jeff Rush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Your only solution would be a proprietary license that states you > purchased this program and don't have the right to pass it on to > others, similar to ActiveState or somesuch. It sounds like that's what Kent wants to do with the apps that he's building.

Re: call static function from extension module - syntaxerror

2005-12-22 Thread Erik Max Francis
Todd wrote: > I'm working right from the example here to make a basic extenstion > module. > http://docs.python.org/ext/intro.html > http://www.dalkescientific.com/writings/diary/archive/2005/04/26/extending_python.html > > I can load my module into python and dir shows my function. But I get >

Re: Guido at Google

2005-12-22 Thread Anand
> It's like having James Bond as your very own personal body guard ;) That is such a nice quote that I am going to put it in my email signature ! :) -Anand -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Which Python web framework is most like Ruby on Rails?

2005-12-22 Thread Robert Kern
Paul Rubin wrote: > Jeff Rush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>Your only solution would be a proprietary license that states you >>purchased this program and don't have the right to pass it on to >>others, similar to ActiveState or somesuch. > > It sounds like that's what Kent wants to do with the

Re: Which Python web framework is most like Ruby on Rails?

2005-12-22 Thread Robert Kern
Paul Rubin wrote: > Hmmm. I seem to remember RMS saying that the GPL didn't extend to > Emacs Lisp functions that the user writes, even though those call > various built-in Emacs functions, as long as they use the documented > API. Those certainly run in the same address space as Emacs. This is

Re: A simple list question.

2005-12-22 Thread Tomasz Lisowski
KraftDiner wrote: > I am trying to implement a two dimensional array. > mylist = [[a,b,c],[d,e,f,c],[g,h,i]] > > So the array is of length 3 here... > So how do I initialize this array and then set each object? > At some point in my code I know there will be 3 lists in the list. > So how do I init

Re: newbie: concatenate literals (using jython)

2005-12-22 Thread Tomasz Lisowski
Fredrik Lundh wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >>I'm using Jython (actually WebLogic WLST), and trying to do something >>really simple. I want to create a string from two function calls and a >>literal, like: >> >> serverport = server.getListenAddress() + ':' + server.getListenPort() >> >>

Re: problem adding list values

2005-12-22 Thread Tomasz Lisowski
Dave Hansen wrote: > I think what you want is > >for cr in credlist: > credits += cr > > Which could also be implemented as > >credits = reduce(lambda x,y: x+y, credlist) or even: credits = sum(credlist) Tomasz Lisowski -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

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