Re: This newsgroup (comp.lang.python) may soon be blocked by Google Gro

2018-02-09 Thread Tim Golden
On 09/02/2018 05:00, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Thu, 08 Feb 2018 23:40:57 +, Mark Lawrence wrote: I don't see any spam in my inbox as I read on gmane, I'm pointing out the disgraceful state of gg and why it should be dropped as it's less than useless. Who is it that you think should "drop"

Re: This newsgroup (comp.lang.python) may soon be blocked by Google Gro

2018-02-09 Thread John Ladasky
On Friday, February 9, 2018 at 12:50:16 AM UTC-8, Tim Golden wrote: [snip and rearrange] > So dropping GG altogether would probably not add very much, as we're > generally blocking undesirable posts from there and we'd rather not > block genuine posts which happen to be made through the relativ

Re: This newsgroup (comp.lang.python) may soon be blocked by Google Gro

2018-02-09 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 09/02/18 11:23, John Ladasky wrote: I haven't visited GMane in a few years, but I found it difficult to navigate. In particular, I found searching to be cumbersome. Weren't the archives broken into 30-day blocks? I just tried GMane again two minutes ago. I can't confirm my recollections

Re: This newsgroup (comp.lang.python) may soon be blocked by Google Gro

2018-02-09 Thread Wolfgang Maier
On 02/09/2018 12:23 PM, John Ladasky wrote: On Friday, February 9, 2018 at 12:50:16 AM UTC-8, Tim Golden wrote: Gmane offers a newsgroup interface to the mailing list I haven't visited GMane in a few years, but I found it difficult to navigate. In particular, I found searching to be cumberso

Re: This newsgroup (comp.lang.python) may soon be blocked by Google Gro

2018-02-09 Thread Chris Green
Mark Lawrence wrote: > On 09/02/18 11:23, John Ladasky wrote: > > > > I haven't visited GMane in a few years, but I found it difficult to > > navigate. > In particular, I found searching to be cumbersome. Weren't the archives > broken into 30-day blocks? > > > > I just tried GMane again two

Re: This newsgroup (comp.lang.python) may soon be blocked by Google Gro

2018-02-09 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Fri, 09 Feb 2018 12:45:29 +, Chris Green wrote: > Mark Lawrence wrote: [...] >> Please don't waste your time with the gmane website. Just point any >> (semi-)decent mail client like Thunderbird at news.gmane.org and you've > > Surely you mean NNTP/Usenet client. That's what he said :-)

Re: This newsgroup (comp.lang.python) may soon be blocked by Google Gro

2018-02-09 Thread Jim
On 02/09/2018 08:07 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Fri, 09 Feb 2018 12:45:29 +, Chris Green wrote: Mark Lawrence wrote: [...] Please don't waste your time with the gmane website. Just point any (semi-)decent mail client like Thunderbird at news.gmane.org and you've Surely you mean NNTP

Re: This newsgroup (comp.lang.python) may soon be blocked by Google Gro

2018-02-09 Thread Chris Green
Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Fri, 09 Feb 2018 12:45:29 +, Chris Green wrote: > > > Mark Lawrence wrote: > [...] > >> Please don't waste your time with the gmane website. Just point any > >> (semi-)decent mail client like Thunderbird at news.gmane.org and you've > > > > Surely you mean NNTP/

Re: This newsgroup (comp.lang.python) may soon be blocked by Google Gro

2018-02-09 Thread Tim Golden
On 09/02/2018 15:37, Chris Green wrote: Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Fri, 09 Feb 2018 12:45:29 +, Chris Green wrote: Mark Lawrence wrote: [...] Please don't waste your time with the gmane website. Just point any (semi-)decent mail client like Thunderbird at news.gmane.org and you've Su

Re: Extracting data from ython dictionary object

2018-02-09 Thread Stanley Denman
On Friday, February 9, 2018 at 1:08:27 AM UTC-6, dieter wrote: > Stanley Denman writes: > > > I am new to Python. I am trying to extract text from the bookmarks in a PDF > > file that would provide the data for a Word template merge. I have gotten > > down to a string of text pulled out of the

Re: Extracting data from ython dictionary object (Posting On Python-List Prohibited)

2018-02-09 Thread Stanley Denman
On Friday, February 9, 2018 at 12:20:29 AM UTC-6, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote: > On Friday, February 9, 2018 at 6:04:48 PM UTC+13, Stanley Denman wrote: > > {'/Title': '1F: Progress Notes Src.: MILANI, JOHN C Tmt. Dt.: > > 05/12/2014 - 05/28/2014 (9 pages)', '/Page': IndirectObject(465, 0), > >

Re: This newsgroup (comp.lang.python) may soon be blocked by Google Gro

2018-02-09 Thread codewizard
On Saturday, February 3, 2018 at 7:15:16 PM UTC-5, pyotr filipivich wrote: > [snip] > Those of us who do not use google-groups may not notice the loss > of the google groupies. I use GG to read comp.lang.python because of the following combination of factors. I would definitely be happier

Re: Extracting data from ython dictionary object

2018-02-09 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 09/02/18 18:35, Stanley Denman wrote: On Friday, February 9, 2018 at 1:08:27 AM UTC-6, dieter wrote: Stanley Denman writes: I am new to Python. I am trying to extract text from the bookmarks in a PDF file that would provide the data for a Word template merge. I have gotten down to a stri

Re: This newsgroup (comp.lang.python) may soon be blocked by Google Gro

2018-02-09 Thread Chris Green
codewiz...@gmail.com wrote: > On Saturday, February 3, 2018 at 7:15:16 PM UTC-5, pyotr filipivich wrote: > > [snip] > > Those of us who do not use google-groups may not notice the loss > > of the google groupies. > > I use GG to read comp.lang.python because of the following combination >

Re: This newsgroup (comp.lang.python) may soon be blocked by Google Gro

2018-02-09 Thread codewizard
On Friday, February 9, 2018 at 2:48:17 PM UTC-5, Chris Green wrote: > codew...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Saturday, February 3, 2018 at 7:15:16 PM UTC-5, pyotr filipivich wrote: > > > [snip] > > > Those of us who do not use google-groups may not notice the loss > > > of the google groupies. >

Re: This newsgroup (comp.lang.python) may soon be blocked by Google Gro

2018-02-09 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 8:05 AM, wrote: > On Friday, February 9, 2018 at 2:48:17 PM UTC-5, Chris Green wrote: >> codew...@gmail.com wrote: >> > On Saturday, February 3, 2018 at 7:15:16 PM UTC-5, pyotr filipivich wrote: >> > > [snip] >> > > Those of us who do not use google-groups may not

Re: This newsgroup (comp.lang.python) may soon be blocked by Google Gro

2018-02-09 Thread Richard Damon
On 2/9/18 4:12 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 8:05 AM, wrote: On Friday, February 9, 2018 at 2:48:17 PM UTC-5, Chris Green wrote: codew...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday, February 3, 2018 at 7:15:16 PM UTC-5, pyotr filipivich wrote: [snip] Those of us who do not us

Re: This newsgroup (comp.lang.python) may soon be blocked by Google Gro

2018-02-09 Thread codewizard
On Friday, February 9, 2018 at 5:03:45 PM UTC-5, Richard Damon wrote: > On 2/9/18 4:12 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 8:05 AM, wrote: > >> On Friday, February 9, 2018 at 2:48:17 PM UTC-5, Chris Green wrote: > >>> codew...@gmail.com wrote: > On Saturday, February 3, 201

Re: This newsgroup (comp.lang.python) may soon be blocked by Google Gro

2018-02-09 Thread Richard Damon
On 2/9/18 6:19 PM, codewiz...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday, February 9, 2018 at 5:03:45 PM UTC-5, Richard Damon wrote: On 2/9/18 4:12 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 8:05 AM, wrote: On Friday, February 9, 2018 at 2:48:17 PM UTC-5, Chris Green wrote: codew...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: This newsgroup (comp.lang.python) may soon be blocked by Google Gro

2018-02-09 Thread codewizard
On Friday, February 9, 2018 at 6:45:18 PM UTC-5, Richard Damon wrote: > On 2/9/18 6:19 PM, codew...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Friday, February 9, 2018 at 5:03:45 PM UTC-5, Richard Damon wrote: > >> On 2/9/18 4:12 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: > >>> On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 8:05 AM, wrote: > On Frid

Incremental compression

2018-02-09 Thread Steven D'Aprano
I want to compress a sequence of bytes one byte at a time. (I am already processing the bytes one byte at a time, for other reasons.) I don't particularly care *which* compression method is used, and in fact I'm not even interested in the compressed data itself, only its length. So I'm looking

Re: Incremental compression

2018-02-09 Thread Dan Stromberg
Perhaps: import lzma lzc = lzma.LZMACompressor() out1 = lzc.compress(b"Some data\n") out2 = lzc.compress(b"Another piece of data\n") out3 = lzc.compress(b"Even more data\n") out4 = lzc.flush() # Concatenate all the partial results: result = b"".join([out1, out2, out3, out4]) ? lzma compresses ha

Re: This newsgroup (comp.lang.python) may soon be blocked by Google Gro

2018-02-09 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Fri, 09 Feb 2018 17:30:57 -0800, codewizard wrote: > Regardless of what the policies are and how well they're enforced, if > the mailing list is cut off from GG, I will stop reading it. There is *absolutely nothing* we can do about that. Google doesn't listen to us, and the suggestion that we

Re: Incremental compression

2018-02-09 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Fri, 09 Feb 2018 17:52:33 -0800, Dan Stromberg wrote: > Perhaps: > > import lzma > lzc = lzma.LZMACompressor() Ah, thanks for the suggestion! -- Steve -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list