On 16Jul2018 08:33, Thomas Jollans wrote:
On 16/07/18 08:24, Gerlando Falauto wrote:
On Monday, July 16, 2018 at 8:13:46 AM UTC+2, Thomas Jollans wrote:
On 16/07/18 07:39, Gerlando Falauto wrote:
On Monday, July 16, 2018 at 6:56:19 AM UTC+2, dieter wrote:
...
Why is the main thread taking up
HI, I downloaded python 3.7.0 from your python website and it was installed
successfully and I was able to run/open python but when I try to run/open
IDLE python, it just wont open or run, it wont even state the error causing
this... Please help me, how do I fix this?
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On 16 July 2018 at 02:31, Skip Montanaro wrote:
>> What are you actually trying to do? You're talking like you're trying
>> to read an existing RFC822 email-with-headers from a file, but you're
>> showing code that creates a new email with body content set from
>> a file, which is a completely dif
On Sun, 15 Jul 2018 17:39:55 -0700, Jim Lee wrote:
> On 07/15/18 17:18, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> On Sun, 15 Jul 2018 16:08:15 -0700, Jim Lee wrote:
>>
>>> Python3 is intrinsically tied to Unicode for string handling.
>>> Therefore, the Python programmer is forced to deal with it (in all but
>>> t
On 2018-07-16, Skip Montanaro wrote:
>> What are you actually trying to do? You're talking like you're trying
>> to read an existing RFC822 email-with-headers from a file, but you're
>> showing code that creates a new email with body content set from
>> a file, which is a completely different thin
On Sun, 15 Jul 2018 18:02:51 -0700, Jim Lee wrote:
> On 07/15/18 17:17, MRAB wrote:
>> On 2018-07-16 00:10, Jim Lee wrote:
[...]
>>> Have you never heard of programming BEFORE Unicode existed?
>>>
>>> How ever did we get along?
Mostly by not exchanging data with anyone else using a different lang
On 15-07-18 09:33, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> Paul Rubin :
>> Py3's unicode picture is described here and it isn't pretty:
>> http://secure-web.cisco.com/1IcToGhkZqGKNSVqMv5ljEo0GVPh0uuAPgKzSBMCkoNElVbHgu4uHpyfdyIj8PrqISD2JssJJnw1yWSFp13DBGOiCdp_Mk9wI4ph_RJ63PeRB_HErunPFzgNvsDR5SDgVe66MmpAG7A4O1NO-NKK
So, it's early for me---and I'm not sure if these things can be done but
I'd like to know the following:
1. How can Python connect to a running operating system process on a host
operating system to see what part of the execution is like?---ie keep track
of health stats like it's stuck on disk acc
On 13/07/18 20:46, Ethan Furman wrote:
On 07/13/2018 11:52 AM, Rhodri James wrote:
I should point out that the number of people I have killfiled in all my
> Internet dealings can be counted on the fingers of one hand.
Your left one? *
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* Bonus points for getting the reference.
On Monday, July 16, 2018 at 3:52:09 PM UTC+3, iMath wrote:
> I also posted the question here
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51355926/send-pil-image-to-django-server-side-and-get-it-back
>
> I don't know what's under the hood of sending an image from client side to
> server side, so stuck b
On Mon, 16 Jul 2018 10:39:49 +, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> ... people who think that if ISO-8859-7 was good enough for Jesus ...
It may have been good enough for his disciples, but Jesus spoke Aramaic.
Also, ISO-8859-7 doesn't cover ancient polytonic Greek; it only covers
modern monotonic Gree
On 07/16/2018 06:22 AM, Rhodri James wrote:
On 13/07/18 20:46, Ethan Furman wrote:
On 07/13/2018 11:52 AM, Rhodri James wrote:
I should point out that the number of people I have killfiled in all my
> Internet dealings can be counted on the fingers of one hand.
Your left one? *
* Bonus po
Antoon Pardon :
> I really don't understand why the author of that article didn't just
> copy his python2 program but used sys.stdin.buffer and
> sys.sydout.buffer instead of plain sys.stdin and stdout.
Yes, it would be nice if you could simply restrict yourself to bytes
everywhere when your appl
On Mon, 16 Jul 2018 06:47:53 -0600, John T. Haggerty wrote:
> So, it's early for me---and I'm not sure if these things can be done but
> I'd like to know the following:
>
> 1. How can Python connect to a running operating system process on a
> host operating system to see what part of the executi
On 16/07/18 15:20, Ethan Furman wrote:
On 07/16/2018 06:22 AM, Rhodri James wrote:
On 13/07/18 20:46, Ethan Furman wrote:
On 07/13/2018 11:52 AM, Rhodri James wrote:
I should point out that the number of people I have killfiled in all my
> Internet dealings can be counted on the fingers of
On Mon, 16 Jul 2018 14:17:35 +, Dan Sommers wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Jul 2018 10:39:49 +, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>
>> ... people who think that if ISO-8859-7 was good enough for Jesus ...
>
> It may have been good enough for his disciples, but Jesus spoke Aramaic.
The buzzing noise you just
On 16-07-18 16:24, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> Antoon Pardon :
>
>> I really don't understand why the author of that article didn't just
>> copy his python2 program but used sys.stdin.buffer and
>> sys.sydout.buffer instead of plain sys.stdin and stdout.
> Yes, it would be nice if you could simply rest
On Monday 16 July 2018 10:24:28 Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> Antoon Pardon :
> > I really don't understand why the author of that article didn't just
> > copy his python2 program but used sys.stdin.buffer and
> > sys.sydout.buffer instead of plain sys.stdin and stdout.
>
> Yes, it would be nice if you
On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 12:54 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Monday 16 July 2018 10:24:28 Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
>
>> Antoon Pardon :
>> > I really don't understand why the author of that article didn't just
>> > copy his python2 program but used sys.stdin.buffer and
>> > sys.sydout.buffer instead of
> The buzzing noise you just heard was the joke whizzing past your head
> *wink*
I have twins aged four. They also like to yell "I cheated!", whenever they
are called out.
In general, you need to get rid of tat teenage brat persona you practice.
The "ranting rick" charade was especially toe-
I also posted the question here
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51355926/send-pil-image-to-django-server-side-and-get-it-back
I don't know what's under the hood of sending an image from client side to
server side, so stuck by the following scenario.
I want to send a PIL.Image object to djang
On Sunday 15 July 2018 16:09:21 Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 4:22 AM, James Lee wrote:
> > On 7/15/2018 3:43 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> >> No. The real ten billion dollar question is how people in 2018 can
> >> stick their head in the sand and take seriously the position that
On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 1:48 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Sunday 15 July 2018 16:09:21 Chris Angelico wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 4:22 AM, James Lee wrote:
>> > On 7/15/2018 3:43 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> >> No. The real ten billion dollar question is how people in 2018 can
>> >> stic
I just realized that my subject was backwards. It's 2.7 that can find
the libs and 3.6 than cannot. Just in case that makes a difference.
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On 16/07/18 15:17, Dan Sommers wrote:
On Mon, 16 Jul 2018 10:39:49 +, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
... people who think that if ISO-8859-7 was good enough for Jesus ...
It may have been good enough for his disciples, but Jesus spoke Aramaic.
Also, ISO-8859-7 doesn't cover ancient polytonic Gre
On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 2:05 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> On 16/07/18 15:17, Dan Sommers wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, 16 Jul 2018 10:39:49 +, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>>
>>> ... people who think that if ISO-8859-7 was good enough for Jesus ...
>>
>>
>> It may have been good enough for his disciples, but J
On Monday 16 July 2018 11:57:25 Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 1:48 AM, Gene Heskett
wrote:
> > On Sunday 15 July 2018 16:09:21 Chris Angelico wrote:
> >> On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 4:22 AM, James Lee wrote:
> >> > On 7/15/2018 3:43 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> >> >> No. The real
On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 12:05 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> On 16/07/18 15:17, Dan Sommers wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, 16 Jul 2018 10:39:49 +, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>>
>>> ... people who think that if ISO-8859-7 was good enough for Jesus ...
>>
>>
>> It may have been good enough for his disciples, but
On Sun, 15 Jul 2018 16:38:41 -0700, Jim Lee wrote:
> As I said, there are programming situations where the programmer only
> needs to deal with a single language - his own.
This might come as a shock to you, but just because Python's native
string type supports (for example) the Devanagari alpha
On 16/07/18 17:22, Chris Angelico wrote:
What characters does it use? Mostly Latin letters?
Basic Latin plus U+0174 (LATIN CAPITAL LETTER W WITH CIRCUMFLEX) through
to U+0177 (LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH CIRCUMFLEX) I think.
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On 16/07/18 17:05, Mark Lawrence wrote:
On 16/07/18 15:17, Dan Sommers wrote:
On Mon, 16 Jul 2018 10:39:49 +, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
... people who think that if ISO-8859-7 was good enough for Jesus ...
It may have been good enough for his disciples, but Jesus spoke Aramaic.
Also, ISO-8
On Sun, 15 Jul 2018 17:28:15 -0700, Jim Lee wrote:
> Unicode is an attempt to solve at least one I18N issue
If you're going to insist on digging your heels in and using definitions
which nobody else does, this discussion is going to go nowhere fast.
Unicode is (ideally) a universal character se
On 16/07/18 17:26, Larry Martell wrote:
On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 12:05 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote:
On 16/07/18 15:17, Dan Sommers wrote:
On Mon, 16 Jul 2018 10:39:49 +, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
... people who think that if ISO-8859-7 was good enough for Jesus ...
It may have been good enou
On 16/07/18 17:22, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 2:05 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote:
On 16/07/18 15:17, Dan Sommers wrote:
On Mon, 16 Jul 2018 10:39:49 +, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
... people who think that if ISO-8859-7 was good enough for Jesus ...
It may have been good enou
On Mon, 16 Jul 2018 00:28:39 +0300, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> if your new system used Python3's UTF-32 strings as a foundation, that
> would be an equally naïve misstep. You'd need to reach a notch higher
> and use glyphs or other "semiotic atoms" as building blocks. UTF-32,
> after all, is a variab
> On Jul 16, 2018, at 12:51 PM, Steven D'Aprano
> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 16 Jul 2018 00:28:39 +0300, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
>>
>> if your new system used Python3's UTF-32 strings as a foundation, that
>> would be an equally naïve misstep. You'd need to reach a notch higher
>> and use glyphs or othe
On Tue, 17 Jul 2018 02:22:59 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 2:05 AM, Mark Lawrence
> wrote:
>> Out of curiosity where does my mum's Welsh come into the equation as I
>> believe that it is not recognised by the EU as a language?
>>
>>
> What characters does it use? Mostly L
On 07/16/18 03:26, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
But the thing is, that complexity is *inherent in the domain*. You can
try to deal with it without Unicode, and as soon as you have users
expecting to use more than one code page, you're doomed.
No, I'm not doomed, because there *are* no other users
On 07/16/18 03:39, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Good for you.
But Python is not a programming language written to satisfy the needs of
people like you, and ONLY people like you.
It is a language written to satisfy the needs of people from Uzbekistan,
and China, and Japan, and India, and Brazil, and
On 2018-07-16 17:31, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Sun, 15 Jul 2018 16:38:41 -0700, Jim Lee wrote:
As I said, there are programming situations where the programmer only
needs to deal with a single language - his own.
This might come as a shock to you, but just because Python's native
string type
On 7/16/2018 5:22 AM, Clarence Chanda wrote:
HI, I downloaded python 3.7.0 from your python website
Which installer for what OS?
and it was installed successfully and I was able to run/open python
How did you run it?
but when I try to run/open IDLE python,
How?
it just wont open or ru
On Mon, 16 Jul 2018 13:11:23 -0400, Richard Damon wrote:
>> On Jul 16, 2018, at 12:51 PM, Steven D'Aprano
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, 16 Jul 2018 00:28:39 +0300, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
>>>
>>> if your new system used Python3's UTF-32 strings as a foundation, that
>>> would be an equally naïve misst
On 16/07/18 18:27, Jim Lee wrote:
Obviously, the most vocal representatives of the Python community are
too sensitive about their language to enable rational discussion.
Please moderators ban this person as he's going down the same line as
bartc and similar, it is completely unacceptable, he's
On 16/07/18 18:13, Jim Lee wrote:
I just think that a language should allow one to bypass Unicode handling
easily *when it's not needed*.
I have no idea what this is meant to mean. I've written loads of code
for my own purposes and I've never had to think about Unicode, so why
should an
On 7/15/2018 5:28 PM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
if your new system used Python3's UTF-32 strings as a foundation,
Since 3.3, Python's strings are not (always) UFT-32 strings. Nor are
they always UCS-2 (or partly UTF-16) strings. Nor are the always
Latin-1 or Ascii strings. Python's Flexible S
On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 2:24 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Monday 16 July 2018 11:57:25 Chris Angelico wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 1:48 AM, Gene Heskett
> wrote:
>> > On Sunday 15 July 2018 16:09:21 Chris Angelico wrote:
>> >> On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 4:22 AM, James Lee wrote:
>> >> > On 7
On 16/07/18 18:27, Jim Lee wrote:
90% of the world *is* "beneath my notice" when it comes to programming
for myself. I really don't care if that's not PC enough for you.
Had you actually read my words with *intent* rather than *reaction*, you
would notice that I suggested the *option* of tur
On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 12:02 PM Terry Reedy wrote:
>
> On 7/15/2018 5:28 PM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
>
> > if your new system used Python3's UTF-32 strings as a foundation,
>
> Since 3.3, Python's strings are not (always) UFT-32 strings. Nor are
> they always UCS-2 (or partly UTF-16) strings. Nor
> On Jul 16, 2018, at 1:36 PM, Steven D'Aprano
> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 16 Jul 2018 13:11:23 -0400, Richard Damon wrote:
>
>>> On Jul 16, 2018, at 12:51 PM, Steven D'Aprano
>>> wrote:
>>>
On Mon, 16 Jul 2018 00:28:39 +0300, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
if your new system used Python3's
I had some code that did this:
meas_regex = '_M\d+_'
meas_re = re.compile(meas_regex)
if meas_re.search(filename):
stuff1()
else:
stuff2()
I then had to change it to this:
if meas_re.search(filename):
if 'MeasDisplay' in filename:
stuff1a()
else:
stuff1()
else:
On Mon, 16 Jul 2018 10:27:18 -0700, Jim Lee wrote:
> Had you actually read my words with *intent* rather than *reaction*, you
> would notice that I suggested the *option* of turning off Unicode.
Yes, I know what you wrote, and I read it with intent.
Jim, you seem to be labouring under the misapp
Op 2018-07-16, Larry Martell schreef :
> I had some code that did this:
>
> meas_regex = '_M\d+_'
> meas_re = re.compile(meas_regex)
>
> if meas_re.search(filename):
> stuff1()
> else:
> stuff2()
>
> I then had to change it to this:
>
> if meas_re.search(filename):
> if 'MeasDisplay' in
On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 4:15 AM, Ian Kelly wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 12:02 PM Terry Reedy wrote:
>>
>> On 7/15/2018 5:28 PM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
>>
>> > if your new system used Python3's UTF-32 strings as a foundation,
>>
>> Since 3.3, Python's strings are not (always) UFT-32 strings. N
On 7/15/2018 4:09 PM, Jim Lee wrote:
On 07/15/18 12:37, MRAB wrote:
To me, Unicode and UTF-8 aren't things to be reserved for I18N. I use
them as a matter of course because I find it a lot easier to stick
with just one encoding, one that will work with _any_ text I have.
Which is exactly th
On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 4:22 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
>
> But I am not talking about those sort of characters or ligatures, but
> ‘characters’ that are built up of a combining diacritical marks (like
> accents) and a base character. Unicode define many code points for the more
> common of these
On Mon, 16 Jul 2018 14:22:27 -0400, Richard Damon wrote:
[...]
> But I am not talking about those sort of characters or ligatures,
So what? I am.
You don't get to say "only non-standard definitions I approve of count".
There is the industry standard definition of what it means to be a fixed-
On 16/07/2018 03:13, Devin Jeanpierre wrote:
On Sun, Jul 15, 2018 at 5:09 PM Jim Lee wrote:
That is, of course, the decision of the moderators - but I happen to
agree with both Christian and Ethan. Banning for the simple reason of a
dissenting opinion is censorship, pure and simple. While Bar
On 7/16/2018 10:54 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Monday 16 July 2018 10:24:28 Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
Plus the bytes syntax is really ugly. I wish Python3 had reserved
'...' for byte strings and "..." for UTF-32 strings.
Aside from the fact that Python3 strings are not UTF-32 strings,
this would
On 7/16/2018 11:50 AM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
For Python 4000 maybe
Please don't give people the idea that there is any current intention to
have a 'Python 4000' similar to 'Python 3000'. Call it 'a mythical
Python 4000', if you must use such a term.
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On Monday 16 July 2018 14:01:54 Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 2:24 AM, Gene Heskett
wrote:
> > On Monday 16 July 2018 11:57:25 Chris Angelico wrote:
> >> On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 1:48 AM, Gene Heskett
> >>
> >
> > wrote:
> >> > On Sunday 15 July 2018 16:09:21 Chris Angelico wro
On Monday 16 July 2018 15:04:53 Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 7/16/2018 10:54 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Monday 16 July 2018 10:24:28 Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> >> Plus the bytes syntax is really ugly. I wish Python3 had reserved
> >> '...' for byte strings and "..." for UTF-32 strings.
>
> Aside from
On 7/16/2018 1:11 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
Many consider that UTF-32 is a variable-width encoding because of the combining
characters. It can take multiple ‘codepoints’ to define what should be a single
‘character’ for display.
I hope you realize that this is not the standard meaning of
'va
On 2018-07-16, Steve Simmons wrote:
> +1 Seems to me Bart is being banned for "being a dick" and "talking
> rubbish" (my words/interpretation) with irritating persistence. Wonder
> how many of the non-banned members have been guilty of the same thing in
> one way or another.
I'm sure many of
On 16/07/18 19:31, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
I'm simply not seeing the advantage of:
from __future__ import no_unicode
print("Hello World!") # stand in for any string handling on ASCII
Sure this should be "from __past__ import no_unicode"?
gd&r
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On 07/16/18 10:40, Mark Lawrence wrote:
On 16/07/18 18:27, Jim Lee wrote:
Obviously, the most vocal representatives of the Python community are
too sensitive about their language to enable rational discussion.
Please moderators ban this person as he's going down the same line as
bartc and s
Terry Reedy :
> On 7/15/2018 5:28 PM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
>> if your new system used Python3's UTF-32 strings as a foundation,
>
> Since 3.3, Python's strings are not (always) UFT-32 strings.
You are right. Python's strings are a superset of UTF-32. More
accurately, Python's strings are UTF-32
On 07/16/18 11:31, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Mon, 16 Jul 2018 10:27:18 -0700, Jim Lee wrote:
Had you actually read my words with *intent* rather than *reaction*, you
would notice that I suggested the *option* of turning off Unicode.
Yes, I know what you wrote, and I read it with intent.
Ji
On 16/07/18 18:38, Rhodri James wrote:
Actually having an option of turning off Unicode *does* make it harder
to use, because you end up coming across programs that have Unicode and
surprise you when they misbehave. And yes I saw that 90% of your
programs aren't intended to get out into the wo
On 7/16/2018 1:13 PM, Jim Lee wrote:
I just think that a language should allow one to bypass Unicode handling
easily *when it's not needed*.
Both for patching IDLE and for my currently private work, I usually only
use Ascii, and no unicode escapes. When I do, it does not matter
whether edit
Steven D'Aprano :
> Under that standard definition, UTF-8 and UTF-16 are variable-width,
> and UTF-32 is fixed-width.
>
> But I'll accept that UTF-32 is variable-width if Marko accepts that
> ASCII is too.
If that makes you happy, fine. The point is, UTF-32 has no advantages
over UTF-8. And I'm re
On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 5:16 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Monday 16 July 2018 14:01:54 Chris Angelico wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 2:24 AM, Gene Heskett
> wrote:
>> > On Monday 16 July 2018 11:57:25 Chris Angelico wrote:
>> >> On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 1:48 AM, Gene Heskett
>> >>
>> >
>> >
On 16/07/18 20:40, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
Terry Reedy:
On 7/15/2018 5:28 PM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
if your new system used Python3's UTF-32 strings as a foundation,
Since 3.3, Python's strings are not (always) UFT-32 strings.
You are right. Python's strings are a superset of UTF-32. More
accu
On 7/16/2018 1:27 PM, Jim Lee wrote:
90% of the world *is* "beneath my notice" when it comes to programming
for myself. I really don't care if that's not PC enough for you.
Had you actually read my words with *intent* rather than *reaction*, you
would notice that I suggested the *option* of
På Mon, 16 Jul 2018 11:33:46 -0700
Jim Lee skrev:
> Go right ahead. I find it surprising that Stephen isn't banned,
> considering the fact that he ridicules anyone he doesn't agree with.
> But I guess he's one of the 'good 'ol boys', and so exempt from the code
> of conduct.
Well said!
--
On 16/07/18 20:58, Terry Reedy wrote:
On 7/16/2018 1:27 PM, Jim Lee wrote:
90% of the world *is* "beneath my notice" when it comes to programming
for myself. I really don't care if that's not PC enough for you.
Had you actually read my words with *intent* rather than *reaction*,
you would
On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 5:40 AM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> Terry Reedy :
>
>> On 7/15/2018 5:28 PM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
>>> if your new system used Python3's UTF-32 strings as a foundation,
>>
>> Since 3.3, Python's strings are not (always) UFT-32 strings.
>
> You are right. Python's strings are a
On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 6:16 AM, Rhodri James wrote:
> On 16/07/18 20:58, Terry Reedy wrote:
>>
>> On 7/16/2018 1:27 PM, Jim Lee wrote:
>>
>>> 90% of the world *is* "beneath my notice" when it comes to programming
>>> for myself. I really don't care if that's not PC enough for you.
>>>
>>> Had y
On 16/07/18 20:51, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
I use UTF-8 in my C programs and sense no disadvantage. I have never
felt a need for wchar_t.
That's not a good comparison, though, because wchar_t in C really
doesn't give you much (if any) advantage over rolling your own UTF-8
support, even when that
On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 5:51 AM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> Steven D'Aprano :
>> Under that standard definition, UTF-8 and UTF-16 are variable-width,
>> and UTF-32 is fixed-width.
>>
>> But I'll accept that UTF-32 is variable-width if Marko accepts that
>> ASCII is too.
>
> If that makes you happy, f
Rhodri James :
> On 16/07/18 20:40, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
>> You mean each code point is one code point wide. But that's rather an
>> irrelevant thing to state. The main point is that UTF-32 (aka Unicode)
>> uses one or more code points to represent what people would consider an
>> individual char
On 7/16/2018 2:01 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
🌱【 Stardew Valley Fanart 】🌱*:･ﾟ✧【 800 Subpoints = NEW EMOTE
】#devicat #anime #stardewvalley #fantasy
Just to be clear, 🌱【 】🌱･ﾟ✧【 】,
\U0001f331, \u3010, \u3011, \uff65, \uff9f, \u2727 are the non-ascii
chars in the above.
for c in """🌱【 Stardew Val
On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 4:55 AM, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
> There is nothing special about diacritics such that we ought to treat
> some combinations like "Ch" (two code points = one character) as "fixed
> width" while others like "â" (two code points = one character) as
> "variable width".
When yo
Chris Angelico :
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 5:40 AM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
>> You mean each code point is one code point wide. But that's rather an
>> irrelevant thing to state. The main point is that UTF-32 (aka
>> Unicode) uses one or more code points to represent what people would
>> consider a
On 2018-07-16 18:31, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> You say that all you want is a switch to turn off Unicode (and
> replace it with what? Kanji strings? Cyrillic? Shift_JS? no of
> course not, I'm being absurd -- replace it with ASCII, what else
> could any right-thinking person want, right?).
But we a
Chris Angelico :
> Challenge: Reverse a string in UTF-8.
Counter-challenge: Reverse a Unicode string:
>>> s = "a\u0304e"
>>> s
'āe'
>>> L = list(s)
>>> L.reverse()
>>> "".join(L)
'ēa'
> Challenge: Center text in UTF-8.
Counter-challenge: Center a Unicode string:
>>> t
Tim Chase :
> While the python world has moved its efforts into improving Python3,
> Python2 hasn't suddenly stopped working.
The sword of Damocles is hanging on its head. Unless a consortium is
erected to support Python2, no vendor will be able to use it in the
medium term.
Given the recent even
On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 6:36 AM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> Chris Angelico :
>
>> On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 5:40 AM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
>>> You mean each code point is one code point wide. But that's rather an
>>> irrelevant thing to state. The main point is that UTF-32 (aka
>>> Unicode) uses one o
On 07/16/2018 01:15 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 4:55 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
There is nothing special about diacritics such that we ought to treat
some combinations like "Ch" (two code points = one character) as "fixed
width" while others like "â" (two code points = on
On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 6:27 AM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> Rhodri James :
>
>> On 16/07/18 20:40, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
>>> You mean each code point is one code point wide. But that's rather an
>>> irrelevant thing to state. The main point is that UTF-32 (aka Unicode)
>>> uses one or more code point
On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 6:54 AM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> Chris Angelico :
>> Challenge: Reverse a string in UTF-8.
>
> Counter-challenge: Reverse a Unicode string:
>
>>>> s = "a\u0304e"
>>>> s
>'āe'
>>>> L = list(s)
>>>> L.reverse()
>>>> "".join(L)
>'ēa'
>
>> Challeng
On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 6:32 AM, Tim Chase
wrote:
> On 2018-07-16 18:31, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> You say that all you want is a switch to turn off Unicode (and
>> replace it with what? Kanji strings? Cyrillic? Shift_JS? no of
>> course not, I'm being absurd -- replace it with ASCII, what else
>>
Ethan Furman :
> Depends on the language: in Spanish, "ch" is it's own letter (at least
> it was when I grew up), so any word containing it should still contain
> it when reversed: "chica" would be "acich".
The Royal Academy broke "ch" and "ll" up into separate letters a decade
or so back. It had
Steven D'Aprano schreef op 16/07/2018 2:18:
On Sun, 15 Jul 2018 16:08:15 -0700, Jim Lee wrote:
Python3 is intrinsically tied to Unicode for string handling. Therefore,
the Python programmer is forced to deal with it (in all but trivial
cases), rather than given a choice. So I don't understand
On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 7:50 AM, Roel Schroeven wrote:
> Steven D'Aprano schreef op 16/07/2018 2:18:
>>
>> On Sun, 15 Jul 2018 16:08:15 -0700, Jim Lee wrote:
>>
>>> Python3 is intrinsically tied to Unicode for string handling. Therefore,
>>> the Python programmer is forced to deal with it (in all
On 7/16/2018 3:27 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2018-07-16, Steve Simmons wrote:
+1 Seems to me Bart is being banned for "being a dick" and "talking
rubbish" (my words/interpretation) with irritating persistence. Wonder
how many of the non-banned members have been guilty of the same thing in
on
On 2018-07-16, Roel Schroeven wrote:
> There are times (encoding/decoding network protocols and other data
> formats) when I have a byte string and I want/need to process it like
> Python 2 does, and that is the one area where I feel Python 3 make
> things a bit more difficult.
I use Python t
Skip Montanaro schreef op 16/07/2018 3:31:
So, problem solved. The example I originally referred to clearly
requires the caller know the encoding of the input file. When you
don't know the encoding, you need bytes. The BytesParser gave me that.
Also, I must admit to having not completely read th
On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 7:02 AM, Ethan Furman wrote:
> On 07/16/2018 01:15 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 4:55 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>
>
>>> There is nothing special about diacritics such that we ought to treat
>>> some combinations like "Ch" (two code points = one ch
On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 6:01 PM, Gilmeh Serda
wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Jul 2018 14:17:57 -0400, Larry Martell wrote:
>
>> This code needs to process many tens of 1000's of files, and it runs
>> often, so it needs to run very fast. Needless to say, my change has made
>> it take 2x as long. Can anyone se
Chris Angelico schreef op 16/07/2018 23:57:
On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 7:50 AM, Roel Schroeven wrote:
Steven D'Aprano schreef op 16/07/2018 2:18:
On Sun, 15 Jul 2018 16:08:15 -0700, Jim Lee wrote:
Python3 is intrinsically tied to Unicode for string handling. Therefore,
the Python programmer is
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