> From: John Bond
> re.findall('(.a.)+', 'Mary has a lamb')
> > ['Mar', 'lam']
> It's because you're using capturing groups, and because of
> how they work - specifically they only return the LAST match
> if used with repetition (and multiple matches occur).
It seems capturing groups is ass
> From: John Bond
> Subject: Re: Why this result with the re module
> re.findall('(.a.)*', 'Mary has a lamb')
> > ['Mar', '', '', 'lam', '', '']
> So - see if you can explain the first "problematic" result
> now.
Thanks a lot for explaining to me the second "problematic" result!
But the fir
In message , Seebs wrote:
> At least in C, if I see:
>if (foo)
>a;
>else
>b;
>c;
>
> I *know* that something is wrong.
This is why, when I started learning Python, I soon developed the habit of
inserting explicit “#end” markers. To
In message , Robert Kern
wrote:
> On 2010-11-01 22:31 , Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>
>> In message<8j1seqfa1...@mid.individual.net>, Gregory Ewing wrote:
>>
>>> Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>>>
And how does Python know whether some arbitrary default object is
mutable or not?
>>>
>>> It doesn'
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 12:36 AM, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 19:53:53 -0700, John Nagle wrote:
>>> This is a common newbie stumbling-block: Don't use lists (or anything
>>> mutable) as default argument values
>>
>> That really should be an error.
>
> No it shouldn't. Punishi
On 2/11/2010 7:00 AM, Yingjie Lan wrote:
re.findall('(.a.)*',' ') #two spaces
['', '', '']
I must need more details of the matching algorithm to explain this?
Regards,
Yingjie
Sorry - I hit enter prematurely on my last message.
To take the above as an example (all your examples boil dow
On 2010-11-02, brf...@gmail.com wrote:
> How exactly does this relate to python?
1. It doesn't. It's spam. Duh.
2. Don't respond to spam.
3. Don't top-post.
4. If I see even one more post from you where the entire previous post
is quoted under your text, I will plonk you. I warn you now be
SOAP-ISIWoK is a Perl library for assessing Thomson Reuters Web of
Knowledge Web Services. I don't know Perl well enough to use that
library without spending too much time on it.
Is there a Python equivalent available?
Regards
Johann
--
May grace and peace be yours in abundance through the fu
> From: John Bond
> You might wonder why something that can match no input
> text, doesn't return an infinite number of those matches at
> every possible position, but they would be overlapping, and
> findall explicitly says matches have to be non-overlapping.
That scrabbed my itches, though the
In message , Chris
Rebert wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 12:36 AM, Steven D'Aprano
> wrote:
>>
>> Default mutable arguments have their place
>
> But it's a rather obscure one where it is almost never strictly
> necessary to venture.
Mediocre programmers with a hankering towards cleverness la
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On Nov 1, 8:31 pm, Daniel Fetchinson
wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> My niece is interested in programming and python looks like a good
> choice (she already wrote a couple of lines :)) She is 10 and I
> thought it would be good to have a bunch of playful coding problems
> for her, stuff that she could cod
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> 1.1 .as_integer_ratio()
>> (2476979795053773, 2251799813685248)
>
> Handy, but if you need the exact representation, my preference is
> float.hex, which seems to be the same as C99's %a format.
[...]
> Granted, it's not as easy for humans to interpret, but it's useful fo
On 2/11/2010 8:53 AM, Yingjie Lan wrote:
BUT, but.
1. I expected findall to find matches of the whole
regex '(.a.)+', not just the subgroup (.a.) from
re.findall('(.a.)+', 'Mary has a lamb')
Thus it is probably a misunderstanding/bug??
Again, as soon as you put a capturing group in your exp
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Hi,
I've been coding in PHP and Java for years, and their documentation is
concise, well structured and easy to scan.
Others have mentioned this apparently for years (see:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4046166/easy-to-navigate-online-python-reference-manual/4070851
and http://www.russellbeat
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On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 4:42 PM, jk wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been coding in PHP and Java for yea
On Mon, 01 Nov 2010 22:24:03 +, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2010-11-01, Lawrence D'Oliveiro
> wrote:
[...]
>> I'm getting less and less keen on that particular feature of Python...
>
> Why?
>
> Other languages have similar problems if you remove salient bits of
> syntax before comparing two s
On Tue, 02 Nov 2010 11:16:46 +1300, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> In message <4cce6ff6.2050...@v.loewis.de>, Martin v. Loewis wrote:
>
>> (in fact, I can't think any situation where I would use the backslash).
>
> for \
> Description, Attr, ColorList \
> in \
> (
>
On Mon, 01 Nov 2010 22:48:16 +, Peter Pearson wrote:
> I must concede that some awkwardness results from assigning significance
> to something (whitespace) that many tools are inclined to treat as
> insignificant.
Then the tools are broken.
Or perhaps I should say:
Th enth etool sarebroke n
This (http://epydoc.sourceforge.net/stdlib/) is what I'm talking
about.
Why aren't the official docs like this, and why has it taken me 2 days
of searching? All this needs is a search engine behind it and it'd be
perfect.
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>> Hi folks,
>>
>> My niece is interested in programming and python looks like a good
>> choice (she already wrote a couple of lines :)) She is 10 and I
>> thought it would be good to have a bunch of playful coding problems
>> for her, stuff that she could code herself maybe after some initial
>> h
On Tue, 02 Nov 2010 04:16:28 +, Seebs wrote:
> e.g., any email sent
> to my work account is being magically transformed into HTML (no one
> knows why) on the server, so I can't get correct indentation except
> in attachments.
I suppose then you're going to insist that Python should stop using
On 02/11/2010 11:23, jk wrote:
This (http://epydoc.sourceforge.net/stdlib/) is what I'm talking
about.
Why aren't the official docs like this, and why has it taken me 2 days
of searching? All this needs is a search engine behind it and it'd be
perfect.
I'm glad you find the epydoc format usefu
In article ,
Chris Rebert wrote:
> I find the level of deviation from PEP 8 in that file rather disturbing.
> In any case, the backslashes are easily avoided, and readability
> improved IMHO, via refactoring:
>
> desc_attr_colors_triples = (("normal", "image", MainWindow.ColorsNormalList),
>
On 11/02/10 10:42, jk wrote:
Is there much chance that the Python maintainers will change their
documentation system to make it more like Java or PHP? How would I go
about trying to make that happen?
I am by no means an authority however since you ask it here I feel
compelled to give you my opi
On Tue, 02 Nov 2010 22:06:40 +1300, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> In message , Chris
> Rebert wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 12:36 AM, Steven D'Aprano
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Default mutable arguments have their place
>>
>> But it's a rather obscure one where it is almost never strictly
>> necess
A tutorial type book can also be great for reference and documentation (as long
as its current). I would recommend a non-programmers tutorial to python even if
you have started programming in other languages before. Also its a wiki book
and is free.
-Braden Faulkner
Sent wirelessly from my Bla
On Tue, 02 Nov 2010 20:12:49 +1300, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote about
mutable defaults:
> Which is what we’re talking about
> here: a language construct which is probably one of the top 3 sources of
> grief to Python newbies. And not-so-newbies.
I call bullshit. Maybe you should spend some time o
On Tue, 2010-11-02 at 04:23 -0700, jk wrote:
> This (http://epydoc.sourceforge.net/stdlib/) is what I'm talking
> about.
Aaaarrr
> Why aren't the official docs like this,
Because not everyone likes documentation like that. Personally I far
prefer the existing documentation to the JavaDoc-s
> From: John Bond
> Subject: Re: Why this result with the re module
Firstly, thanks a lot for your patient explanation.
this time I have understood all your points perfectly.
Secondly, I'd like to clarify some of my points, which
did not get through because of my poor presentation.
I suggested
On Tue, 2 Nov 2010 04:23:49 -0700 (PDT)
jk wrote:
> This (http://epydoc.sourceforge.net/stdlib/) is what I'm talking
> about.
>
> Why aren't the official docs like this, and why has it taken me 2 days
> of searching?
What's wrong with this:
http://docs.python.org/library/
?
If you have specific
On Tue, 02 Nov 2010 00:40:17 -0700, Chris Rebert wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 12:36 AM, Steven D'Aprano
> wrote:
>> On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 19:53:53 -0700, John Nagle wrote:
This is a common newbie stumbling-block: Don't use lists (or anything
mutable) as default argument values
>>>
>>>
2010/11/2 Yingjie Lan :
>> From: John Bond
>> Subject: Re: Why this result with the re module
> ...
> I suggested findall return a tuple of re.MatchObject(s),
> with each MatchObject instance representing a match.
> This is consistent with the re.match() function anyway.
> And it will eliminate th
On 2010-11-01, Martin v. Loewis wrote:
>> My niece is interested in programming and python looks like a good
>> choice (she already wrote a couple of lines :)) She is 10 and I
>> thought it would be good to have a bunch of playful coding problems
>> for her, stuff that she could code herself maybe
On 11/1/2010 4:22 PM Lawrence D'Oliveiro said...
In message, Emile van
Sebille wrote:
At least you can look at python code and _know_ that spurious placement of
required line noise don't have the ability to impact what the code does.
But it does. What is spurious whitespace if not noise, afte
On Nov 2, 11:49 am, Tim Golden wrote:
> But why do you imagine that the core
> Python documentation -- developed and maintained by a group of people
> who clearly have some idea what they're doing -- should change to a
> format which happens to suit you?
It's not just me who's found the current d
Hey Everyone!
I'm looking for a Python book to start really learning the language since
I've been using it more and more. Something similar to what you'd see in a
computer science class - a few pages of theory and explanation of
commands/syntax/constructs/data structures and then some exercises to
On Tue, 02 Nov 2010 03:42:22 -0700, jk wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been coding in PHP and Java for years, and their documentation is
> concise, well structured and easy to scan.
Well, that's one opinion.
> Others have mentioned this apparently for years (see:
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/40
Hey there,
I would reccomend a non-programmers tutorial to python by Josh coglatti and its
a free wiki book. Also I would recommend byte into python. Both are great for
beginers. Best of luck!
-- Braden Faulkner
Sent wirelessly from my BlackBerry device on the Bell network.
Envoyé sans fil par
On 2010-11-01, Peter Pearson wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Nov 2010 22:24:03 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:
>> On 2010-11-01, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>> In message <8j8am4fk2...@mid.individual.net>, Peter Pearson wrote:
> diff -b oldfile newfile
Warning: "diff -b" won't detect
On 2010-11-02, Seebs wrote:
> On 2010-11-01, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> On 2010-11-01, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>> I'm getting less and less keen on that particular feature of
>>> Python...
>
>> Why?
>
>> Other languages have similar problems if you remove salient bits of
>> syntax before compa
On 2010-11-02, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Ah, but other languages don't make the guarantee that you can add or
> remove random whitespace in arbitrary places and still have code that
> works correctly!
>
> Of course, neither does Python, but there's a certain type of
> personality that is never ha
On 2010-11-02, brf...@gmail.com wrote:
> A tutorial type book can also be great for reference and
> documentation (as long as its current). I would recommend a
> non-programmers tutorial to python even if you have started
> programming in other languages before. Also its a wiki book and is
> free
> From: Vlastimil Brom
> Subject: Re: Why this result with the re module
> in that case you may use re.finditer(...)
Thanks for pointing this out.
Still I'd love to see re.findall never
discards the whole match, even if
a tuple is returned.
Yingjie
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On Nov 2, 1:42 pm, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> It's always difficult to know how much information is too much. The PHP
> docs seem to take an "everything including the kitchen sink" approach.
> Given that approach, it makes sense to divide everything into
> subsections, one page per function. But wit
Steven D'Aprano writes:
> A fair point -- the built-in open comes up as hit #30, whereas searching
> for open in the PHP page brings up fopen as hit #1. But the PHP search
> also brings up many, many hits -- ten pages worth.
>
OTOH googling for "python open" gives you the correct (for 2.7) pag
> >> You might be interested by the story of how AstraZeneca tackled that
> >> kind of problem in PyDrone:http://www.python.org/about/success/astra/
that is interesting! So it seems they store the values in a
dictionary.
For each value they associate a function that gets called when the
value is n
jk a écrit :
Hi,
I've been coding in PHP and Java for years, and their documentation is
concise, well structured and easy to scan.
Others have mentioned this apparently for years (see:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4046166/easy-to-navigate-online-python-reference-manual/4070851
and http://
On 2/11/2010 12:19 PM, Yingjie Lan wrote:
From: John Bond
Subject: Re: Why this result with the re module
Firstly, thanks a lot for your patient explanation.
this time I have understood all your points perfectly.
Secondly, I'd like to clarify some of my points, which
did not get through because
On 11/2/2010 6:11 AM, Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
1.1 .hex()
'0x1.1999ap+0'
Here it is immediately obvious that the final digit of the infinite
sequence "1.1999..." is rounded from 9 to a. Printing the number with
any more digits would just reveal zeros, as expected.
Does anyone know why Py
On 11/2/2010 3:12 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
"Immutable objects" are just those without an obvious API for modifying
them.
After initial creation ;-)/
They are ones with NO legal language constructs for modifying them.
Suppose I write an nasty C extension that mutates tuples. What then
On 11/2/10 2:12 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
In message, Robert Kern
wrote:
On 2010-11-01 22:31 , Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
In message<8j1seqfa1...@mid.individual.net>, Gregory Ewing wrote:
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
And how does Python know whether some arbitrary default object is
mutable
On Nov 2, 5:59 am, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Certainly it's the mediocre programmers who seem to be incapable of
> understanding that Python has no way of telling whether arbitrary objects
> are mutable or not.
>
> def foo(x, y=list()):
> pass
>
> Is y a mutabledefaultor not?
>
> For the benefi
On 11/2/2010 6:42 AM, jk wrote:
Compare for instance the differences in ease of use, and speed of use,
of these:
http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html#open
http://uk.php.net/manual/en/function.fopen.php
The former is difficult to find (try searching for 'open' in the
search box and see
Terry Reedy writes:
> Suppose I write an nasty C extension that mutates tuples. What then
> would be illegal about...
Depends on exactly what we mean by legal. If immutability is part of the
language spec (rather than an artifact of a particular implementation)
then a compiler could assume immut
On 11/2/2010 1:58 AM, Johann Spies wrote:
SOAP-ISIWoK is a Perl library for assessing Thomson Reuters Web of
Knowledge Web Services. I don't know Perl well enough to use that
library without spending too much time on it.
Is there a Python equivalent available?
The "Suds" library can call S
On 2010-11-02, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
> You have problems. Indentation as syntax isn't one of them.
In the absence of indentation as syntax, they haven't bugged me.
> "No one
> knows why" email is being "magically" transformed?
Yay for a large company IT department with both MS and Blackberry
On 2010-11-02, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> I've lost more time to reading people's bitching about indentation than I
> have dealing with indentation problems.
Doesn't totally surprise me. :)
> But then, I don't insist on using tools which are broken by design.
Neither do I.
> If your email serv
On 11/2/2010 10:58 AM Seebs said...
No, they aren't. See... That would work *if I knew for sure what the intent
was*.
if foo:
bar
else:
baz
quux
Does it look right? We have *no idea*, because we don't actually know
whether quux was *intended
On 2010-11-02, Seebs wrote:
> On 2010-11-02, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
>> You have problems. Indentation as syntax isn't one of them.
>
> In the absence of indentation as syntax, they haven't bugged me.
>
>> "No one
>> knows why" email is being "magically" transformed?
>
> Yay for a large company
On 2010-11-02, Emile van Sebille wrote:
> On 11/2/2010 10:58 AM Seebs said...
>> No, they aren't. See... That would work *if I knew for sure what the intent
>> was*.
>>
>> if foo:
>> bar
>> else:
>> baz
>> quux
>>
>> Does it look right? We have *no idea*, bec
On 02/11/2010 14:47, jk wrote:
I think the key difference is that I don't want to have to*read* the
python docs - I want to be able to scan for what I'm looking for and
find it easily. That makes me productive.
Hi jk,
I totally agree. But you will get nowhere.
A few weeks back I complained th
On 02 Nov 2010 17:58:06 GMT
Seebs wrote:
> On 2010-11-02, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
> > "No one
> > knows why" email is being "magically" transformed?
>
> Yay for a large company IT department with both MS and Blackberry
> stuff involved.
"Large" is no excuse for incompetency.
> > Your editor ha
On Tue, 2 Nov 2010 18:15:03 + (UTC)
Grant Edwards wrote:
> You can add redundant, semantically empty structure info to Python
> programs just as easily as you can to C programs:
>
> if foo:
> bar
> else:
> baz
> quux
> #endif
"Redundant" is right. However
On 2010-11-02, jk wrote:
> As for the 9 paragraphs statement, there's a usability book that
> applies here - it's called "Don't make me think". I shouldn't have to
Anything that promotes a lack of thinking sends up red flags in my head.
We want to recruit smart people who think, not idiots.
> go
On Nov 2, 8:47 am, jk wrote:
> You're right in that the python docs in this case are less lines, but
> that's one of the problems. It doesn't mention anywhere the extra
> detail you've added regarding exceptions thrown. That's the kind of
> thing that probably comes through experience or some kind
* 2010-11-02 18:43 (UTC), Tim Harig wrote:
> The manual format contains all of the information on one page that can
> be easily searched whereas the info pages are split into sections that
> must be viewed individually. With the man pages, you can almost always
> find what you want with a quick se
On 11/2/2010 7:53 AM, Paul Rudin wrote:
Steven D'Aprano writes:
A fair point -- the built-in open comes up as hit #30, whereas searching
for open in the PHP page brings up fopen as hit #1. But the PHP search
also brings up many, many hits -- ten pages worth.
OTOH googling for "python open"
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Personally, I'm more disturbed by the default prompt in the interactive
interpreter. >>> clashes with the symbol used for quoting text in email
and news. That causes me far more distress than indentation.
Here here!
I finally did "sys.ps1 = '--> '" in my interactive sta
On Nov 2, 2010, at 11:07 AM, Ian wrote:
> On 02/11/2010 14:47, jk wrote:
>> I think the key difference is that I don't want to have to *read*
>> the
>> python docs - I want to be able to scan for what I'm looking for and
>> find it easily. That makes me productive.
>>
> Hi jk,
>
> I totally a
On 2010-11-02, Seebs wrote:
> On 2010-11-02, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> If your
>> editor changes spaces to tabs, or visa versa, without being told to do so
>> (either by an explicit command or an obvious setting), then your editor
>> is broken.
>
> Yes. But that's the thing -- I *want* that b
>> PyQt is available under the GPL and a commercial license.
>
> Surely you mean “proprietary” rather than “commercial”. There is
> nothing about the GPL that prevents “commercial” use.
I think he means a license that *he* sells comercially :)
--
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On 2010-11-02, Grant Edwards wrote:
> True, but the fact that diff has an option that for Python sources
> will produces useless results doesn't seem like a valid indictment of
> Python's syntax and semantics.
The question is *why* diff has that option.
The answer is because whitespace changes (
On 2010-11-02, Grant Edwards wrote:
> And you think compatibility with your broken e-mail server is a good
> reason to change the syntax of a programming language?
No. I never said that.
>> Many editors helpfully convert spaces to tabs by default some or all
>> of the time. And so on.
> Such
On 2010-11-02, Teemu Likonen wrote:
> * 2010-11-02 18:43 (UTC), Tim Harig wrote:
>
>> The manual format contains all of the information on one page that can
>> be easily searched whereas the info pages are split into sections that
>> must be viewed individually. With the man pages, you can almost
Sigh! How flame-wars tend to lose the original question:
On Oct 31, 5:02 pm, jf wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've a project with tabs and spaces mixed (yes I know it's bad).
Do python aficionados want to suggest that mixing spaces and tabs is a
'good thing'?
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On 2010-11-02, Tim Harig wrote:
> On 2010-11-02, Teemu Likonen wrote:
>> With the text terminal info browser called "info" as well as Emacs' info
>> browser you can use command "s" (stands for "search"). It prompts for a
>> regexp pattern to search in the whole document, including subsections
>>
On 2010-11-02, Ethan Furman wrote:
> Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> Personally, I'm more disturbed by the default prompt in the interactive
>> interpreter. >>> clashes with the symbol used for quoting text in email
>> and news. That causes me far more distress than indentation.
>
> Here here!
>
> I f
If you want to act like a NETCOP then you must identify yourself and
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Unless you ACTIVELY apply the same PURSUIT to ALL OTHER IRRELEVANT
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Hello all,
What I want to do: launch seperate python programs from one main
program (multi-threading will not achieve this because the mechanize
library uses one shared global opener object which will not suit my
needs) I want the scripts launched to be in seperate windows that i
can see the out
On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Ben Ahrens wrote:
> Jerry, thanks for the reply, I was swamped with other things for the
> better part of a week.. Anyway, I tried using the verbose flag when
> attempting the import. I didn't see anything that meant anything to
> me, but here's the bit surrounding
Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2010-11-02, Ethan Furman wrote:
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Personally, I'm more disturbed by the default prompt in the interactive
interpreter. >>> clashes with the symbol used for quoting text in email
and news. That causes me far more distress than indentation.
I final
In article <47e0b3a3-54fb-4489-95a8-b5ec6015c...@j25g2000yqa.googlegroups.com>,
small Pox wrote:
[...]
Some WD40 on your keyboard might help keep the Caps Lock key from sticking so
often.
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On Tue, 02 Nov 2010 22:13:40 GMT, david.bostw...@chemistry.gatech.edu
(David Bostwick) wrote:
>In article
><47e0b3a3-54fb-4489-95a8-b5ec6015c...@j25g2000yqa.googlegroups.com>, small Pox
> wrote:
>[...]
>
>Some WD40 on your keyboard might help keep the Caps Lock key from sticking so
>often.
The
I did indeed use the particular revision compiled with the addons. I
discovered that if I log in as root or make myself a user with full
privileges I can successfully import the rfid module, just not using
sudo. Of course neither of those options are particularly good ones,
but that's the only wa
On Tue, 02 Nov 2010 14:17:29 -0700, Gunner Asch wrote:
>
> But...shrug..there will be far less after the Great Cull
I think some people might be surprised as to exactly _who_ gets "culled".
Good Luck!
Rich
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On 03/11/10 05:04, John Nagle wrote:
>Right. Google does a far better job of organizing Python's
> documentation than the Python community does. I don't even try
> looking up anything starting at Python.org; I always start
> with a Google search. Even though Python.org's search is
> powered
On Nov 2, 11:03 am, t...@sevak.isi.edu (Thomas A. Russ) wrote:
> silver light writes:
> > *** FBI gets a warm welcome in Chicago for their EXCELLENT performance
> > - cheers to NEW CONS ***
>
> Oh geez. Just when we've beaten back the infix hordes, someone comes up
> and suggests replacing CONS w
On Nov 2, 1:58 pm, Rich Grise wrote:
> On Tue, 02 Nov 2010 14:17:29 -0700, Gunner Asch wrote:
>
> > But...shrug..there will be far less after the Great Cull
>
> I think some people might be surprised as to exactly _who_ gets "culled".
>
> Good Luck!
> Rich
On Nov 2, 11:03 am, t...@sevak.i
In message , Emile van
Sebille wrote:
> On 11/1/2010 4:22 PM Lawrence D'Oliveiro said...
>
>> In message, Emile van
>> Sebille wrote:
>>
>>> At least you can look at python code and _know_ that spurious placement
>>> of required line noise don't have the ability to impact what the code
>>> does.
On 11/2/2010 2:43 PM, Tim Harig wrote:
The real question is what do you want to gain by your posts here. You
should already know that most groups are, by their very nature, slow to
make changes to the status quo. The problem tends to be exasperated in
open source projects where any changes mea
In message , Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2010-11-01, Lawrence D'Oliveiro
> wrote:
>
>> In message <8j8am4fk2...@mid.individual.net>, Peter Pearson wrote:
>>>
diff -b oldfile newfile
>>>
>>> Warning: "diff -b" won't detect changes in indentation. Changes in
>>> indentation can change a Py
On 2010-11-02 10:42:22 +, jk said:
Hi,
I've been coding in PHP and Java for years, and their documentation is
concise, well structured and easy to scan.
Are you mad? Javadoc is one of the worst examples of source code
documentation I can possibly imagine. I would go as far to say that th
In message
, jk
wrote:
> This (http://epydoc.sourceforge.net/stdlib/) is what I'm talking
> about.
Framesets? Is that really your idea of well-laid-out documentation? Using a
feature which has been derided (and dropped in HTML5) because of its effect
on usability and accessibility?
--
http:/
In message , Roy Smith wrote:
> In this case, I think I would do:
>
> styles = [("normal", "image", MainWindow.ColorsNormalList),
> ("highlighted", "highlight", MainWindow.ColorsHighlightedList),
> ("selected","select",MainWindow.ColorsSelectedList)]
>
> for
Python 2.6.4 on Ubuntu. I'm not sure if this is a bug or if I'm just
doing this wrong...
I'm trying to include two cookies when I use urllib2 to view a page.
#Code Start
import urllib2
opener = urllib2.build_opener(urllib2.HTTPCookieProcessor())
opener.addheaders.append(("Cookie", "user=abcd"))
Gunner Asch wrote:
>
> On Tue, 02 Nov 2010 22:13:40 GMT, david.bostw...@chemistry.gatech.edu
> (David Bostwick) wrote:
>
> ?In article
> ?47e0b3a3-54fb-4489-95a8-b5ec6015c...@j25g2000yqa.googlegroups.com?, small
> Pox ?smallpox...@gmail.com? wrote:
> ?[...]
> ?
> ?Some WD40 on your keyboard mi
On Nov 3, 7:43 am, Tim Harig wrote:
> On 2010-11-02, jk wrote:
>
> > As for the 9 paragraphs statement, there's a usability book that
> > applies here - it's called "Don't make me think". I shouldn't have to
>
> Anything that promotes a lack of thinking sends up red flags in my head.
> We want to
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