Re: Emacs vs. Eclipse vs. Vim

2008-11-29 Thread Ben Finney
Stef Mientki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Mario Testinori wrote: > > First, you must understand that this is an extremelly dangerous > > question to ask on a public newsgroup (expecially regarding the > > first and the third in the series). Wars have began over this. > > Many people were harmed i

Re: Emacs vs. Eclipse vs. Vim

2008-11-29 Thread J.T. Hurley
> If you were a beginning programmer and willing to make an investment in > steep learning curve for best returns down the road, which would you pick? I'd actually recommend starting with IDLE. It's pretty python-centric, and should give you a good idea if you want an IDE or an editor. If the form

Re: Pyhon (with wxPython) on Windows' cygwin: can it be done fully ?

2008-11-29 Thread alex23
On Nov 30, 7:31 am, Lie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Python's learning > curve shouldn't raise with time, it should get lower so more people > can join in the board. I understand the altruistic urge present in such a desire. At the risk of being considered an elitist, as a professional programmer

Re: unicode and hashlib

2008-11-29 Thread Jeff H
On Nov 29, 12:23 pm, Scott David Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Scott David Daniels wrote: > > ... > > > If you now, and for all time, decide that the only source you will take > > is cp1252, perhaps you should decode to cp1252 before hashing. > > Of course my dyslexia sticks out here as I ge

Re: Exhaustive Unit Testing

2008-11-29 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 17:13:00 +0100, Roel Schroeven wrote: > Except that I'm always told that the goal of unit tests, at least > partly, is to protect us agains mistakes when we make changes to the > tested functions. They should tell me wether I can still trust spam() > after refactoring it. Doesn

how can I open an excel sheet with specified name

2008-11-29 Thread Zuo, Changchun
Dear Sir, Could you please send me an example script example of * Opening an excel workbook with specified name * Read or write number in a specified spreadsheet Thanks, Zuo, Changchun, P.Eng System Performance Planning and Assessment, BCTC 604-699-7361 (7-7361) Suite 11

Re: newbie question: if var1 == var2:

2008-11-29 Thread Andrew Robert
Two issues regarding script. You have a typo on the file you are trying to open. It is listed with a file extension of .in when it should be .ini . The next issue is that you are comparing what was read from the file versus the variable. The item read from file also contains and end-of-line

About Anshu's Designer Studio ( www.anshusdesigns.com)

2008-11-29 Thread anshusdesigns
Anshu's Designer Studio, opened on August 27th, 2005 has gained a reputation among all fashion aware generation in this short span of time. Nevertheless to say it will reach more heights in coming time as we can predict from the fame Anshu's is gaining at the moment. Anshu's was started as a dr

Re: Exhaustive Unit Testing

2008-11-29 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sun, 30 Nov 2008 03:42:50 +, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > def lcm(a, b): > return a/gcd(a, b)*b > > (By the way: there's a subtle bug in lcm() that will hit you in Python 3. Can you spot it? Er, ignore this. Division in Python 3 only returns a float if the remainder is non-zero, and whe

Re: HELP!...Google SketchUp needs a Python API

2008-11-29 Thread greg
I for one would love to see a Python scripting interface for Sketchup. I carried out a fairly major Sketchup scripting exercise recently [1], and while it was fun, I would have enjoyed it more if I'd been able to use Python. However, I think it's going to be a fairly tall order to persuade the Sk

Re: Is there any project whose patches are all available?

2008-11-29 Thread ZelluX
That's exactly what i want, thanks for all your replies On Nov 28, 8:48 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >     zellux> I want to write a version-tracking tool for Python projects, and >     zellux> need some sample projects whose even smallest modifications can >     zellux> be downloaded from the inte

Re: HELP!...Google SketchUp needs a Python API

2008-11-29 Thread r
Greg, You have made my week friend! I had given up hope that anybody cared about Python! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Is there any library that can convert RGB colors to ANSI colors?

2008-11-29 Thread ZelluX
Convert RGB colors to the closest ANSI colors. For example, given RGB color FF, it should print [31m. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Exhaustive Unit Testing

2008-11-29 Thread Terry Reedy
Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Sun, 30 Nov 2008 03:42:50 +, Steven D'Aprano wrote: def lcm(a, b): return a/gcd(a, b)*b (By the way: there's a subtle bug in lcm() that will hit you in Python 3. Can you spot it? Er, ignore this. Division in Python 3 only returns a float if the remainder i

Re: Python surpasses Perl in popularity?

2008-11-29 Thread Tam Ha
Stephane CHAZELAS wrote: > There's a common confusion in this in the nature of /bin/sh. > There's no standard (neither POSIX nor Unix) that specifies that > /bin/sh should be any variant of the Bourne shell. Sure there is, POSIX. Or rather their Austin Group. And while they done an extremely poor

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2008-11-29 Thread Rapid Share
http://enormusjugs.blogspot.com/ - Download some of the hottest videos and pics on the net totally free! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Emacs vs. Eclipse vs. Vim

2008-11-29 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Nov 29, 12:44 pm, Josh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you were a beginning programmer and willing to make an investment in > steep learning curve for best returns down the road, which would you pick? > > I know this topic has been smashed around a bit already, but 'learning > curve' always seem

Re: Emacs vs. Eclipse vs. Vim

2008-11-29 Thread Joe Riopel
On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 3:44 PM, Josh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks in advance, There is no right, or wrong, answer to this question. Try one for a few weeks, force yourself to use it as exclusively as possible for all your text editing needs. After that, repeat that process with the other e

Re: Emacs vs. Eclipse vs. Vim

2008-11-29 Thread Arnaud Delobelle
Josh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you were a beginning programmer and willing to make an investment > in steep learning curve for best returns down the road, which would > you pick? > > I know this topic has been smashed around a bit already, but 'learning > curve' always seems to be an arguem

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