Re: itertools.izip brokeness

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Re: Xah's Edu Corner: the bug-reporting attitude

"Tim Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Xah Lee (1) is a write-only poster who pontificates but never reads > replies, and (2) cares not a whit that the rest of us believe him to be a > moron. I find him offensive, and a pontificator as you said, but I don't

Re: Python function with **kwargs Question

You could call it like this: >>> foo(**{"a-special-keyword":5}) but that might defeat the purpose of keyword arguments. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Xah's Edu Corner: the bug-reporting attitude

"Tim Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Xah Lee (1) is a write-only poster who pontificates but never reads > replies, and (2) cares not a whit that the rest of us believe him to be a > moron. I find him offensive, and a pontificator as you said, but I don't think he is a moron. He has comp

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Re: Microsoft IronPython?

"EP" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Luis M. González wrote: > > >Will Microsoft hurt Python? > > > > > I think it is naive to ignore the fact that Microsoft could hurt Python, > though there may be nothing anyone can do. > > >How? > > > - create a more prevalent version of "Python" that is less Pyth

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Re: Xah's Edu Corner: the bug-reporting attitude

"Tim Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Xah Lee (1) is a write-only poster who pontificates but never reads > replies, and (2) cares not a whit that the rest of us believe him to be a > moron. I find him offensive, and a pontificator as you said, but I don't think he is a moron. He has comp

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Hi all, I'm storing number of dictionary values into a file using the 'cPickle' module and then am retrieving it. The following is the code for it - # Code for storing the values in the file import cPickle book = {raw_input("Name: "): [int(raw_input("Phone: ")), raw_input("Address: ")] } file_ob

Re: Encoding sniffer?

Thanks! --On 5. Januar 2006 18:21:39 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://orca.mojam.com/~skip/python/ pgpyF17uM2CTT.pgp Description: PGP signature -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How run web software *locally* easily?

"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there some easy way to somehow perhaps embed a minimal web server in > a Python tar ball Yes, sure, see any of the HTTP server classes in the stdlib. Just listen on a localhost socket and pop a browser to point to that socket. -- http://mail.py

Re: C regex equiv to Python implementation?

> techiepundit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've been writing code in Python to prototype part of an application. > I've used the re regular expression pattern matcher. Now I have to take > what I've written and recode it in C to fit in an existing C app. What platform? Linux includes a reg

Re: How to Retrieve Data from an HTTPS://URL

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Re: Microsoft IronPython?

EP wrote: > Luis M. González wrote: > >> Will Microsoft hurt Python? >> > I think it is naive to ignore the fact that Microsoft could hurt Python, > though there may be nothing anyone can do. > >> How? > > - create a more prevalent version of "Python" that is less Pythonic or > undermines so

Re: csv format to DBase III format

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Re: Python function with **kwargs Question

Eric McGraw wrote: > You could call it like this: foo(**{"a-special-keyword":5}) > but that might defeat the purpose of keyword arguments. > Don't forget you can mix ordinary keyword arguments with the ** call, so only the weird arguments actually need to be passed that way. >>> def f(**ar

Re: Is 'everything' a refrence or isn't it?

Mike Meyer wrote: > Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>Thinking about Python's behaviour ("it always passes references to >>objects") will invoke misleading frames in many programmers' minds. The >>word "reference" is misleading and should be avoided, because what the >>average non-Py

Re: itertools.izip brokeness

On 5 Jan 2006 14:34:39 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Bengt Richter wrote: >> On 5 Jan 2006 15:48:26 GMT, Antoon Pardon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >On 2006-01-04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> But here is my real question... >> >>> Wh

Re: Removing Duplicate entries in a file...

sri2097 wrote: > Hi all, I'm storing number of dictionary values into a file using the > 'cPickle' module and then am retrieving it. The following is the code > for it - > > # Code for storing the values in the file > import cPickle > > book = {raw_input("Name: "): [int(raw_input("Phone: ")), > r

Re: itertools.izip brokeness

On Thu, 05 Jan 2006 23:52:13 -0800, Paul Rubin wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> def izip4(*iterables, **kw): >> """kw:fill. An element that will pad the shorter iterable >> kw:infinite. Number of non-terminating iterators """ > > That's a really kludgy API. I'm not sure what to

Re: Is 'everything' a refrence or isn't it?

On Thu, 05 Jan 2006 22:18:39 -0600, Terry Hancock wrote: >> Consider this: >> >> def do_nothing(x): >> pass >> >> huge_tuple = (None,) * 1**4 >> do_nothing(huge_tuple) >> >> If Python made a copy of huge_tuple before passing it to >> the function, you would notice. > > Which succinctly

Re: itertools.izip brokeness

Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > def izip5(*iterables, fill=None): > Doesn't work: keyword arguments must be listed before * and ** arguments. Eh, ok, gotta use **kw. > def function(*iterators, **kwargs): > if kwargs.keys() != ["fill"]: > raise ValueError > ...

Re: How run web software *locally* easily?

for example like that: python -m CGIHTTPServer -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: OT: Degrees as barriers to entry [was Re: - E04 - Leadership! Google, Guido van Rossum, PSF]

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Re: Is 'everything' a refrence or isn't it?

Steven D'Aprano wrote: > I'll tell you what I say: Python passes objects to functions or > assignments. > Which in C sense, is a reference(or pointer) to some opaque "table" maintain by the system, identified by id(). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Is 'everything' a refrence or isn't it?

On Fri, 06 Jan 2006 02:19:29 -0800, bonono wrote: > > Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> I'll tell you what I say: Python passes objects to functions or >> assignments. >> > Which in C sense, is a reference(or pointer) to some opaque "table" > maintain by the system, identified by id(). And that C sense

Re: How run web software *locally* easily?

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Re: Is 'everything' a refrence or isn't it?

Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Fri, 06 Jan 2006 02:19:29 -0800, bonono wrote: > > > > > Steven D'Aprano wrote: > >> I'll tell you what I say: Python passes objects to functions or > >> assignments. > >> > > Which in C sense, is a reference(or pointer) to some opaque "table" > > maintain by the system

Re: advice required re migrating php app to python and most likely zope

On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 10:10:39PM +0100, Diez B. Roggisch wrote: > Ken Guest schrieb: > > Hi, > > I've two relatively small web applications that are currently implemented in > > PHP and needed to be migrated to python and most likely zope afterwards as > > we're getting a third-party Zope powered

Re: Is 'everything' a refrence or isn't it?

Steven D'Aprano wrote: > But in programming, things do work that way. If my class Book contains a > reference to Smith's classic work, I can modify it. (Unless the language > deliberately restricts my ability to modify certain objects, as Python > does with immutable objects.) > > That's what prog

Re: Inheritance problem?

Don't use self.__class__, use the name of the class. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Inheritance problem?

Well, I would even add : don't use super ! Just call the superclass method : MyClass.__init__(self) Simon Percivall a écrit : > Don't use self.__class__, use the name of the class. > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Does Python allow access to some of the implementation details?

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Re: Does Python allow access to some of the implementation details?

> The test code below shows, that extracting bits from an integer value n > is faster when using n&0x01 than when using n%2 and I suppose it is > because %2 tries to handle the entire integer, where &0x01 processes > only the last two bytes of it (I come to this because the speed > difference betwe

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Re: [FW] Microsoft embraces open-source scripting language

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Re: Try Python update

Mike Meyer wrote: > After spending time I should have been sleeping working on it, the try > python site is much more functional. It now allows statements, > including multi-line statements and expressions. You can't create code > objects yet, so it's still more a programmable calculator than > any

Re: [OT] - Requesting Comments for Process Definition and Presentation

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Re: Python or Java or maybe PHP?

Mike Meyer wrote: > That doesn't sounds like "hates" to me. More like "doesn't like the > baggage." > > >> # Current behavior >>> def foo(*args, **kwargs): pass >>> print foo >>> # Extended behavior >>> # returns a reference to the function >>> def foo(*args, **kwarg

Re: One-step multiples list generation?

Damien Wyart wrote: > Thanks for these important and useful additions, they are very welcome ! > > In writing my answer I had immutables in mind, but mutables are a bit > more dangerous, here... > Not *that* much though. The first construct can't be used, but he can use >>> [copy.copy(Foo) fo

Re: Translate this to python?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > For some reason, ocassionally when I see xrange, I think "But wasn't > that deprecated since range is now a . . oh wait that's xreadlines". > xrange is a cool thing the few times where you really need it. > > john > >> Not sure what i is really for, but j seems to be

Re: Inheritance problem?

Pierre Barbier de Reuille wrote: > Well, I would even add : don't use super ! > Just call the superclass method : > > MyClass.__init__(self) > > > > Simon Percivall a écrit : >> Don't use self.__class__, use the name of the class. >> Bad idea if you're using new-style classes with a complex inh

Re: [FW] Microsoft embraces open-source scripting language

Sorry, left out 2 links: IronPython 1.0 Beta 1 , which was released at the end of las

Re: inline function call

Peter Hansen wrote: > Riko, any chance you could post the final code and a bit more detail on > exactly how much Psyco contributed to the speedup? The former would be > educational for all of us, while I'm personally very curious about the > latter because my limited attempts to use Psyco in th

Re: - E04 - Leadership! Google, Guido van Rossum, PSF

Ilias Lazaridis wrote: > I estimate that there is a "unfreeze" operation, too - which would lead > to flexibity. > There is none, you have to make a copy of the object via the "dup" (duplicate) method to get an unfrozen copy (note: clone yields an exact copy, which means that it's still frozen)

Spelling mistakes!

I've spent hours trying to find a bug that was a simple spelling mistake. in an init method I declare a variable self.someLongName later in a different method of the class I use self.sumLongName Now I really meant self.someLongName. In fact I don't want a variable called sumLongName. Frankly how

Re: Spelling mistakes!

KraftDiner wrote: > Frankly how are you ever to know if this type of error is occuring? By the traceback: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ python Python 2.4.2 (#1, Dec 22 2005, 17:27:39) [GCC 4.0.2 (Gentoo 4.0.2-r2, pie-8.7.8)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

Re: Spelling mistakes!

VBScript allows you to specify that variable names be declared. I used to think this was good - until I realised that Python allows you to dynamically assign attributes in namespaces using all sorts of tricks. (Setattr, using __dict__ etc). It's just not possible with Python. Rarely happens to me

Re: Spelling mistakes!

try this: class x(object): def __init__(self): self.someName = "hello" def someMethod(self): self.sumName = "bye" find that bug. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Translate this to python?

Xavier Morel wrote: > I think that xrange is also soon-to-be deprecated (xrange eats a little > less memory and is slightly faster to _create_, but much slower to > _iterate over_ than range) It might be slower to iterate using xrange, but xrange certainly has its place in Python... Try the follow

Re: Python or Java or maybe PHP?

Xavier Morel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > Wouldn't it be possible to change the `def` statement to return a > reference to the function, and allow omitting the function name thereby > bypassing the default binding (current behavior)? It's _possible_ (doesn't introduce syntax ambiguities)

Re: Spelling mistakes!

KraftDiner wrote: > I've spent hours trying to find a bug that was a simple spelling > mistake. > > in an init method I declare a variable self.someLongName > > later in a different method of the class I use > self.sumLongName > Now I really meant self.someLongName. > In fact I don't want a vari

Re: Does Python allow access to some of the implementation details?

I don't know of a way to directly access the internal structure of a long, but you can speed up your example. First, is the order of the commands > i=i>>1 > lstBitsBitwiseAnd.append(i&0x01) what you intend? The first low order bit is discarded because you've done the shift first. And an extr

Re: Spelling mistakes!

On 6 Jan 2006 07:57:04 -0800, KraftDiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >try this: > >class x(object): > def __init__(self): > self.someName = "hello" > def someMethod(self): > self.sumName = "bye" > >find that bug. > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat > xobj.py class x(object): def __init

Re: Spelling mistakes!

KraftDiner wrote: > try this: > > class x(object): >def __init__(self): > self.someName = "hello" >def someMethod(self): > self.sumName = "bye" > > find that bug. Write a test for each method before writing the method. Write the code once; read it critically (at least) twice.

Re: Spelling mistakes!

KraftDiner wrote: > try this: > > class x(object): >def __init__(self): > self.someName = "hello" >def someMethod(self): > self.sumName = "bye" > > find that bug. You forgot to include unit tests for someMethod(). Those would have caught the bug. The reality is that if you

Re: Translate this to python?

Heiko Wundram wrote: > Xavier Morel wrote: >> I think that xrange is also soon-to-be deprecated (xrange eats a little >> less memory and is slightly faster to _create_, but much slower to >> _iterate over_ than range) > > It might be slower to iterate using xrange, but xrange certainly has its > p

Re: Python or Java or maybe PHP?

Alex Martelli wrote: > Xavier Morel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >... >> Wouldn't it be possible to change the `def` statement to return a >> reference to the function, and allow omitting the function name thereby >> bypassing the default binding (current behavior)? > > It's _possible_ (doesn't

Re: Inheritance problem?

Xavier Morel a écrit : > Pierre Barbier de Reuille wrote: > >> Well, I would even add : don't use super ! >> Just call the superclass method : >> >> MyClass.__init__(self) >> >> >> >> Simon Percivall a écrit : >> >>> Don't use self.__class__, use the name of the class. >>> > Bad idea if you're usi

Copy an Object (Again?)

I'm having trouble getting a copy of and object... (a deep copy) I'm writing a method that creates a mirror image of an object (on screen) In order to do this i need to get a copy of the object and then modify some of its attributes. I tried: objs = myListOfObjects for obj in objs: if obj.flag

Re: Inheritance problem?

Pierre Barbier de Reuille wrote: > Xavier Morel a écrit : >> Pierre Barbier de Reuille wrote: >> >>> Well, I would even add : don't use super ! >>> Just call the superclass method : >>> >>> MyClass.__init__(self) >>> >>> >>> >>> Simon Percivall a écrit : >>> Don't use self.__class__, use the n

Re: Is 'everything' a refrence or isn't it?

Ernst Noch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Maybe next time showing something like the following trivial snippet > might help demonstrate that the core of the matter doesn't is not the > way python treats parameters? Did you insert an extra "doesn't" in that? If so, then I agree about what isn't the

Re: pdb.py - why is this debugger different from all other debuggers?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (R. Bernstein) writes: > Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I don't use pdb a lot either - and I write a *lot* of Python. > Some of us may have to *read* a lot of python. (For example I know > many people including myself who have had to deal with code written by > consult

Re: Is 'everything' a refrence or isn't it?

Mike Meyer wrote: > Ernst Noch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>Maybe next time showing something like the following trivial snippet >>might help demonstrate that the core of the matter doesn't is not the >>way python treats parameters? > > > Did you insert an extra "doesn't" in that? If so, then

Re: Inheritance problem?

Xavier Morel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Pierre Barbier de Reuille wrote: >> Well, I would even add : don't use super ! >> Just call the superclass method : >> MyClass.__init__(self) >> Simon Percivall a écrit : >>> Don't use self.__class__, use the name of the class. > Bad idea if you're using n

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Re: Is 'everything' a refrence or isn't it?

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'll tell you what I say: Python passes objects to functions or > assignments. > > Does this mean that the object is copied? No, I didn't say it copies > objects. I left the nature of the passing mechanism unspoken, whi

Re: Copy an Object (Again?)

KraftDiner wrote: > I'm having trouble getting a copy of and object... (a deep copy) > > I'm writing a method that creates a mirror image of an object (on > screen) > In order to do this i need to get a copy of the object and then modify > some > of its attributes. > > I tried: > objs = myListOfO

Re: Filename case-insensitivity on OS X

On Jan 3, 2006, at 9:50 PM, Tom Anderson wrote: > On Tue, 3 Jan 2006, Dan Sommers wrote: > >> On Tue, 03 Jan 2006 15:21:19 GMT, >> Doug Schwarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Strictly speaking, it's not OS X, but the HFS file system that is >>> case >>> insensitive. > > Aaah, of course. Why

Re: PythonWin: logging module not showing messages from imported modules

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Having the following code: > > Module1.py > import logging > def X(): > logging.error('test') > > If I import it into PythonWin console and call X(), the error message > is not printed. If I do the same in Python console the message is > printed. Do I need to

Re: Filename case-insensitivity on OS X

Dan Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Think about it - how many things used by average people are case > sensitive? Passwords? That's about it. (And judging by most user > passwords I have seen, they're almost all lowercase anyway.) Email > addresses, URLs, the search box in Google, your AO

Re: Copy an Object (Again?)

KraftDiner wrote: > I'm having trouble getting a copy of and object... (a deep copy) > > I'm writing a method that creates a mirror image of an object (on > screen) > In order to do this i need to get a copy of the object and then modify > some > of its attributes. > > I tried: > objs = myListOfO

Re: Copy an Object (Again?)

I was not very clear about it > or even if you "could" copy instances > > class X: > def __init__(self, filename = "/path/file") > self.file = file(filename, "w+") > def modifyByteAt(offset): > self.file.tell(offset) > self.file.write("X") > > this is untested pse

Re: Translate this to python?

Xavier Morel wrote: > While the deprecation of xrange is not that "soon", it is part of the > Python 3000 PEP (http://www.python.org/peps/pep-3000.html#id38) along > with the deprecation of most FP-facilities of Python (filter, map, > reduce). I know this, and that's one of the reasons I'm a littl

Re: Removing Duplicate entries in a file...

"sri2097" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all, I'm storing number of dictionary values into a file using the > 'cPickle' module and then am retrieving it. The following is the code > for it - > > # Code for storing the values in the file > import cPickle > > book = {raw_input("Name: "): [int(raw_

Re: Microsoft IronPython?

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Re: Inheritance problem?

So ok I've written a piece of code that demonstrates the problem. Can you suggest how I change the Square class init? class Shape(object): def __init__(self): print 'MyBaseClass __init__' class Rectangle(Shape): def __init__(self): super(self.__clas

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Re: Python or Java or maybe PHP?

Xavier Morel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Mike Meyer wrote: >> That doesn't sounds like "hates" to me. More like "doesn't like the >> baggage." >> Yet anonymous functions are nice. > > Wouldn't it be possible to change the `def` statement to return a > reference to the function, and allow

Re: Encoding sniffer?

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Re: Try Python update

Xavier Morel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Mike Meyer wrote: >> The url is http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/try_python/. Reports of >> problems would appreciated. >> If you want to try an online P{ython tool that lets you save code, >> try >> Devan L's at http://www.datamech.com/devan/trypython/trypyt

Re: - E04 - Leadership! Google, Guido van Rossum, PSF

Xavier Morel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ilias Lazaridis wrote: > > thus if I make a typo, I create a new attribute? > Why yes of course, what were you expecting? Actually, it's not quite that way. If you make a typo reading an attribute, you'll create an exception. There are languages where ma

Re: Spelling mistakes!

>> try this: >> class x(object): >>def __init__(self): >> self.someName = "hello" >>def someMethod(self): >> self.sumName = "bye" >> find that bug. Aside from the other responses (unittests, pychecker/pylint), you might also consider using __slots_

Re: Translate this to python?

Heiko Wundram wrote: > Xavier Morel wrote: > >>While the deprecation of xrange is not that "soon", it is part of the >>Python 3000 PEP (http://www.python.org/peps/pep-3000.html#id38) along >>with the deprecation of most FP-facilities of Python (filter, map, >>reduce). > > I know this, and that's

Re: Converting milliseconds to human time

Harlin Seritt wrote: > I would like to take milliseconds and convert it to a more > human-readable format like: > > 4 days 20 hours 10 minutes 35 seconds > > Is there something in the time module that can do this? I havent been > able to find anything that would do it. The datetime module has some

Re: Filename case-insensitivity on OS X

On Jan 6, 2006, at 1:13 PM, Mark Jackson wrote: > Dan Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Think about it - how many things used by average people are case >> sensitive? Passwords? That's about it. (And judging by most user >> passwords I have seen, they're almost all lowercase anyway.) Email >>

Re: Inheritance problem?

KraftDiner a écrit : > So ok I've written a piece of code that demonstrates the problem. > Can you suggest how I change the Square class init? > > class Shape(object): > def __init__(self): > print 'MyBaseClass __init__' > > class Rectangle(Shape): > def __init__(self):

psexec and os.popen help

I'm trying to wrap a psexec command in a python script so I can capture the results and generate an exception report. The problem I'm having is that when I use x = os.popen("command") to do it, it runs, but the content of x is empty. I know there should be output sent to it, because when I run the

Re: Inheritance problem?

KraftDiner wrote: > So ok I've written a piece of code that demonstrates the problem. > Can you suggest how I change the Square class init? > > class Shape(object): > def __init__(self): > print 'MyBaseClass __init__' > > class Rectangle(Shape): > def __init__(self): > #

Re: Converting milliseconds to human time

the hard way(in that you have to do it yourself): def prntime(ms): s=ms/1000 m,s=divmod(s,60) h,m=divmod(m,60) d,h=divmod(h,24) return d,h,m,s >>> print '%d days %d hours %d minutes %d seconds' % prntime(100) 0 days 0 hours 16 minutes 40 seconds >>> pri

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