Re: List spam

2011-08-19 Thread Ben Finney
Man_, 1871 | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Looking for python/pyramid developers for a project

2011-08-23 Thread Ben Finney
else when birds died | `\ they'd just stay right up there. Hunters would be all | _o__)confused.” —Steven Wright | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Announcing a new podcast: Radio Free Python

2011-08-24 Thread Ben Finney
messy RSS. -- \ “Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not | `\ happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these | _o__) defects.” —Mark Twain, _A Horse's Tale_ | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: how to format long if conditions

2011-08-27 Thread Ben Finney
ndentation :-) -- \ “I am too firm in my consciousness of the marvelous to be ever | `\ fascinated by the mere supernatural …” —Joseph Conrad, _The | _o__) Shadow-Line_ | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: UnicodeEncodeError -- 'character maps to '

2011-08-27 Thread Ben Finney
hers of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking | _o__) power called an idea” —Thomas Jefferson, 1813-08-13 | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: is there any principle when writing python function

2011-08-27 Thread Ben Finney
\ “If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten.” —George | `\Carlin | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Why I need the parameter when the call doesn't use it?

2011-08-28 Thread Ben Finney
ee also: http://docs.python.org/faq/programming.html#what-is-self> http://docs.python.org/faq/design.html#why-self> -- \ “Nullius in verba” (“Take no-one's word for it”) —motto of the | `\ Royal Society, since 1663-06-30 | _o__)

Re: [Python] Why I need the parameter when the call doesn't use it?

2011-08-28 Thread Ben Finney
hild of five could understand this. Fetch me a child of | `\ five.” —Groucho Marx | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Why I need the parameter when the call doesn't use it?

2011-08-28 Thread Ben Finney
ome in science, if | `\ they are better and explain more. Alternative explanations that | _o__) explain nothing are not welcome.” —Victor J. Stenger, 2001-11-05 | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

For some value of “sing” (was: is there any principle when writing python function)

2011-08-29 Thread Ben Finney
s to do” —Plato | `\ “To do is to be” —Aristotle | _o__)“Do be do be do” —Sinatra | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: slightly OT -- LaTeX

2011-09-01 Thread Ben Finney
eating tornadoes or not existing.” —Homer, _The Simpsons_ | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Optparse buggy?

2011-09-01 Thread Ben Finney
it is opt-in. -- \ “We are no more free to believe whatever we want about God than | `\ we are free to adopt unjustified beliefs about science or | _o__) history […].” —Sam Harris, _The End of Faith_, 2004 | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Functions vs OOP

2011-09-03 Thread Ben Finney
's? > > Python. Can you show exactly where in the Python documentation you found the passage which confused you? -- \ “If you're a cowboy and you're dragging a guy behind your | `\ horse, I bet it would really make you mad if you looked back | _o__)

Re: Need help with simple OOP Python question

2011-09-05 Thread Ben Finney
ing, it is that | `\ passion and desire are not the same as truth.” —E. O. Wilson, | _o__) _Consilience_, 1998 | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: PEP 20 - Silly Question?

2011-09-06 Thread Ben Finney
-- \“When in doubt tell the truth. It will confound your enemies | `\ and astound your friends.” —Mark Twain, _Following the Equator_ | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: issue on internal import in a package

2011-02-27 Thread Ben Finney
re like us, we will squander | `\ the great opportunity before us: To live together peacefully in | _o__)a world of unresolved differences.” —David Weinberger | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Problem with python 3.2 and circular imports

2011-02-27 Thread Ben Finney
If you think you have a practical reason to do so, it would be best to make it explicit when asking for help about this. -- \ “The long-term solution to mountains of waste is not more | `\ landfill sites but fewer shopping centres.” —Clive Hamilton, | _o__)

Re: Grabbing user's agent and OS type

2011-03-13 Thread Ben Finney
used to want.” —Mignon McLaughlin | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: PEP for module naming conventions

2011-03-13 Thread Ben Finney
“Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?” “I think so, | `\ Brain, but if we have nothing to fear but fear itself, why does | _o__) Elanore Roosevelt wear that spooky mask?” —_Pinky and The Brain_ | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Do you monitor your Python packages in inux distributions?

2011-03-13 Thread Ben Finney
e responsive to whomever reports bugs using those channels. Track the bug reports effectively and reliably. -- \ “I'm beginning to think that life is just one long Yoko Ono | `\ album; no rhyme or reason, just a lot of incoherent shrieks and | _o__)

Re: alphanumeric list

2011-03-15 Thread Ben Finney
_Life on the Mississippi_ | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: PostgreSQL vs MySQL

2011-03-16 Thread Ben Finney
y until all these things [the end of the world] have | _o__) happened.” —Jesus, c. 30 CE, as quoted in Matthew 24:34 | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: May I discuss here issues on Machine Learning?

2011-03-22 Thread Ben Finney
in two years' time.” —Bill | `\ Gates, 2004-01-24 | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Alias for an attribute defined in a superclass

2011-03-31 Thread Ben Finney
| `\ ability to innovate, the importance they place on protecting | _o__) their past innovations really should decline.” —Gary Barnett | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Alias for an attribute defined in a superclass

2011-03-31 Thread Ben Finney
o__)worthy of me.” —Jesus, as quoted in Matthew 10:37 | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Alias for an attribute defined in a superclass

2011-03-31 Thread Ben Finney
Steven D'Aprano writes: > On Fri, 01 Apr 2011 09:14:03 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > > > I want to inherit from a class, and define aliases for many of its > > attributes. > > Are these aliases of arbitrary aliases, or only of methods, as in your > example below? I

Re: Fun python 3.2 one-liner

2011-04-05 Thread Ben Finney
sive than uncommunicative variable names. -- \ “I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much | `\ as a week sometimes to make it up.” —Mark Twain, _The Innocents | _o__) Abroad_ | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

[OT] Free software versus software idea patents (was: Python benefits over Cobra)

2011-04-06 Thread Ben Finney
w.fsf.org/news/dont-depend-on-mono> -- \ “Our products just aren't engineered for security.” —Brian | `\ Valentine, senior vice-president of Microsoft Windows | _o__) development | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Argument of the bool function

2011-04-08 Thread Ben Finney
lain what the parens mean, it should not spend any space to explain how to pass keyword arguments. -- \ “When [science] permits us to see the far side of some new | `\ horizon, we remember those who prepared the way – seeing for | _o__) them also.” —Carl Sa

Re: Creating unit tests on the fly

2011-04-08 Thread Ben Finney
stinfo/testing-in-python> useful for this topic. -- \ “Never use a long word when there's a commensurate diminutive | `\available.” —Stan Kelly-Bootle | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http:

Re: Creating unit tests on the fly

2011-04-08 Thread Ben Finney
Roy Smith writes: > In article <87fwpse4zt@benfinney.id.au>, > Ben Finney wrote: > > > I have found the ‘testscenarios’ library very useful for this: > > bind a sequence of (name, dict) tuples to the test case class, and > > each tuple represents a sc

Re: [OT] Free software versus software idea patents

2011-04-09 Thread Ben Finney
Steven D'Aprano writes: > On Thu, 07 Apr 2011 07:50:56 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > > > Steven D'Aprano writes: > > > >> Mono is free, open source software that is compatible with .NET > > […] > > > > It's difficult to take a claim of

Re: Argument of the bool function

2011-04-10 Thread Ben Finney
o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: [OT] Free software versus software idea patents

2011-04-11 Thread Ben Finney
death while praying for a fish.” | _o__) —Anonymous | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: automated pep8 reformatter ?

2011-04-13 Thread Ben Finney
s of | _o__) others.” —Thomas Jefferson, 1819 | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Egos, heartlessness, and limitations

2011-04-13 Thread Ben Finney
o spend their life without being offended.” —Philip | _o__) Pullman, 2010-03-28 | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: automated pep8 reformatter ?

2011-04-13 Thread Ben Finney
they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom.” —Jesus, | _o__) c. 30 CE, as quoted in Matthew 16:28 | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Egos, heartlessness, and limitations

2011-04-14 Thread Ben Finney
g flies.” —Kermit the Frog | `\ | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python IDE/text-editor

2011-04-15 Thread Ben Finney
u won't have to keep switching to different editing tools for different programming tasks. -- \ “Geeks like to think that they can ignore politics. You can | `\leave politics alone, but politics won't leave you alone.” | _o__)—Richard Sta

Re: Python IDE/text-editor

2011-04-16 Thread Ben Finney
vironment again throughout your career. -- \ “Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity | `\of the graveyard.” —Justice Roberts in 319 U.S. 624 (1943) | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python IDE/text-editor

2011-04-16 Thread Ben Finney
is owned.” —Frank Zappa | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Equivalent code to the bool() built-in function

2011-04-16 Thread Ben Finney
only ridiculous.” —David Hume, _A Treatise | _o__) of Human Nature_, 1739 | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Equivalent code to the bool() built-in function

2011-04-16 Thread Ben Finney
ce you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear | `\ than I who receive it.” —Giordano Bruno, burned at the stake by | _o__) the Catholic church for the heresy of heliocentrism, 1600-02-16 | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Equivalent code to the bool() built-in function

2011-04-16 Thread Ben Finney
candide writes: > Le 16/04/2011 23:13, Ben Finney a écrit : > > > The ‘bool’ built-in is not a function. > > Oops, unfortunate confusion!! but built-in types and built-in > functions are sometimes so similar from the user's point of view ;) Yes, intentionally so, bec

Re: Equivalent code to the bool() built-in function

2011-04-17 Thread Ben Finney
saw me.” | _o__) —The Goon Show, _Wings Over Dagenham_ | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python IDE/text-editor

2011-04-17 Thread Ben Finney
ists. -- \“I got fired from my job the other day. They said my | `\ personality was weird. … That's okay, I have four more.” | _o__) —Bug-Eyed Earl, _Red Meat_ | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python IDE/text-editor

2011-04-17 Thread Ben Finney
1977 | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Equivalent code to the bool() built-in function

2011-04-17 Thread Ben Finney
candide writes: > Le 17/04/2011 11:46, Ben Finney a écrit : > > What is the “shortcut” you refer to? > > bool(x) is nothing more than a shortcut for the following expression : > True if x else False. We're going around in circles. I've already pointed out that ‘boo

Re: Equivalent code to the bool() built-in function

2011-04-17 Thread Ben Finney
rown and attached to the skull by common | _o__)wood screws, can make a child look like a deer.” —Jack Handey | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python IDE/text-editor

2011-04-18 Thread Ben Finney
hosen an editor and moved on with the work you need to do in it? -- \ “One bad programmer can easily create two new jobs a year. | `\ Hiring more bad programmers will just increase our perceived | _o__) need for them.” —David Lorge Parnas, 1999-03 | Ben Finney

[OT] Piling of prepositions (was: Namespaces in functions vs classes)

2011-04-19 Thread Ben Finney
ity.” —Bertrand Russell | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Teaching Python

2011-04-19 Thread Ben Finney
y forests.” —Steven Wright | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Development tools and practices for Pythonistas

2011-04-26 Thread Ben Finney
are so useful and so inexpensive that I think anyone aspiring to become a good programmer is foolish if they omit them on any project. -- \ “If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; | `\ but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.” —Dona

Re: Case study: debugging failed assertRaises bug

2011-04-26 Thread Ben Finney
loops in > my tests. But now I know to unroll those suckers into individual tests > on the first sign of trouble. Use ‘testscenarios’ to do that without repeated code. -- \“But it is permissible to make a judgment after you have | `\examined the evidence. In some circles

Re: [OT] Comparing VCS tools

2011-04-26 Thread Ben Finney
older > machines. If bzr has come up to comparable speed, I'd be game to probe > it again. I recommend doing so. -- \ “If I haven't seen as far as others, it is because giants were | `\ standing on my shoulders.” —Hal Abelson | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Terrible FPU performance

2011-04-26 Thread Ben Finney
n most computers. -- \“Without cultural sanction, most or all of our religious | `\ beliefs and rituals would fall into the domain of mental | _o__) disturbance.” —John F. Schumaker | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: [OT] Comparing VCS tools

2011-04-27 Thread Ben Finney
Ben Finney writes: > Tim Chase writes: > > Mercurial (hg) > > == […] > > Cons: > > - no biggies that I've found > > - (Anecdotal) Merge algorithm sometimes fails catastrophically. I'm going to retract this one point. Merging is not as

Re: Development tools and practices for Pythonistas

2011-04-27 Thread Ben Finney
Jean-Michel Pichavant writes: > Ben Finney wrote: > > Mercurial – are the ones to choose from. Anoyone recommending a VCS tool > > that has poor merging support (such as Subversion or, heaven help us, > > CVS) is doing the newcomer a disservice. > > True enough. B

Re: Have you read the Python docs lately?

2011-04-27 Thread Ben Finney
he domain of mental | _o__) disturbance.” —John F. Schumaker | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Development tools and practices for Pythonistas

2011-04-27 Thread Ben Finney
rba” (“Take no-one's word for it”) —motto of the | `\ Royal Society, since 1663-06-30 | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Read-write lock for Python

2011-04-28 Thread Ben Finney
Carlin | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Composition instead of inheritance

2011-04-28 Thread Ben Finney
a-mole with an infinite supply of tokens.” —kennon, | _o__) http://kuro5hin.org/ | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: [OT] VCS tools

2011-04-28 Thread Ben Finney
“I'm a born-again atheist.” —Gore Vidal | `\ | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Composition instead of inheritance

2011-04-28 Thread Ben Finney
? -- \ “If sharing a thing in no way diminishes it, it is not rightly | `\ owned if it is not shared.” —Augustine of Hippo (354–430 CE) | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Composition instead of inheritance

2011-04-28 Thread Ben Finney
ountry music, | _o__) denigrate means ‘put down’.” —Bob Newhart | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Composition instead of inheritance

2011-04-28 Thread Ben Finney
d finding that object composition is better in most cases :-) -- \ “There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore | `\looking like an idiot.” —Steven Wright | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: [OT] From svn to something else?

2011-04-29 Thread Ben Finney
dmund Burke, 1774 | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Development tools and practices for Pythonistas

2011-04-29 Thread Ben Finney
led.” —Peter Lee, Disney corporation, | _o__) 2005 | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Development tools and practices for Pythonistas

2011-04-30 Thread Ben Finney
in the room talking to you, which is why I don't like to | _o__) read good books.” —Jack Handey | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: skipping one unittest assertion?

2011-05-01 Thread Ben Finney
have absolute knowledge, with no | `\ test in reality, this [the Auschwitz crematorium] is how they | _o__) behave.” —Jacob Bronowski, _The Ascent of Man_, 1973 | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: skipping one unittest assertion?

2011-05-01 Thread Ben Finney
Roy Smith writes: > Ben Finney wrote: > > > Each test case should be testing one thing: if it fails, it should be > > for exactly one reason. > > Well, yeah, that's certainly the XP/unit-test doctrine. In practice > however, tests often get written as "do

Re: Development tools and practices for Pythonistas

2011-05-01 Thread Ben Finney
eminently programmable with a good API, by all accounts. -- \“It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.” | `\ —David Hume | _o__) | Ben Finney -- h

Re: Development tools and practices for Pythonistas

2011-05-01 Thread Ben Finney
never be questioned.” —anonymous | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: vertical ordering of functions

2011-05-03 Thread Ben Finney
e for the people who believe in it.” | `\ —Donald Robert Perry Marquis | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: What other languages use the same data model as Python?

2011-05-04 Thread Ben Finney
be them well at all. -- \ “I like to fill my bathtub up with water, then turn the shower | `\ on and pretend I'm in a submarine that's been hit.” —Steven | _o__) Wright | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python Developers with 5 years of experience

2011-05-04 Thread Ben Finney
gt; is intended for that purpose. -- \“The right to search for truth implies also a duty; one must | `\ not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be true.” | _o__) —Albert Einstein | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mail

Re: Today's fun and educational Python recipe

2011-05-04 Thread Ben Finney
disturbance.” —John F. Schumaker | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: What other languages use the same data model as Python?

2011-05-07 Thread Ben Finney
Gregory Ewing writes: > > On Thu, 05 May 2011 07:43:59 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > > > >>‘x’ is a name. Names are bound to values. Talk of “variable” only > >>confuses the issue because of the baggage carried with that term. > > But to use 'name' as a

Re: What other languages use the same data model as Python?

2011-05-07 Thread Ben Finney
Gregory Ewing writes: > Ben Finney wrote: > > > No, I think not. The term “variable” usually comes with a strong > > expectation that every variable has exactly one name. > > I would say that many variables don't have names *at all*, unless you > consider an expre

Re: checking if a list is empty

2011-05-09 Thread Ben Finney
be able to draw the obvious connection without me > insulting you by stating the obvious. +1 QOTW -- \ “Never use a long word when there's a commensurate diminutive | `\available.” —Stan Kelly-Bootle | _o__)

Re: unicode by default

2011-05-11 Thread Ben Finney
r sale.’” —Steven Wright | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: checking if a list is empty

2011-05-12 Thread Ben Finney
ed apps'. Those people, outnumbered by the masses as you say, are thereby not themselves “the masses”. -- \ “Hey Homer! You're late for English!” “Pff! English, who needs | `\ that? I'm never going to England!” —Barney & Homer, _The | _o__)

Re: checking if a list is empty

2011-05-12 Thread Ben Finney
Hans Georg Schaathun writes: > On Thu, 12 May 2011 16:46:38 +1000, Ben Finney >wrote: > : Hans Georg Schaathun writes: > : > : > On Wed, 11 May 2011 20:31:45 -0700 (PDT), alex23 > : >wrote: > : > : On May 12, 7:24 am, harrismh777 wrote: > : > :

Re: Proper way to handle errors in a module

2011-05-12 Thread Ben Finney
mposers, artists, and writers are buried daily except | _o__) Thursday.” —Russian orthodox monastery, Moscow | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Converting a set into list

2011-05-14 Thread Ben Finney
; all the other statements create objects which are never bound to anything.) But what is it you actually want to do? -- \ “The fact that I have no remedy for all the sorrows of the | `\ world is no reason for my accepting yours. It simply supports | _o__) the strong probability that yours is a fake.” —Henry L. Mencken | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Converting a set into list

2011-05-14 Thread Ben Finney
y are you doing that? What are you trying to achieve? -- \ “We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question that | `\ divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of | _o__)being correct.” —Niels Bohr (to Wolfgang Pauli), 1958 | Ben Finney -- http://

Re: checking if a list is empty

2011-05-14 Thread Ben Finney
is True is the True singleton. But there are many objects that are true. -- \ “I got up the other day, and everything in my apartment has | `\ been stolen and replaced with an exact replica.” —Steven Wright | _o__) | Be

Re: unicode by default

2011-05-14 Thread Ben Finney
i.org/emacs/IBusMode> :-). -- \ 己所不欲、勿施于人。| `\(What is undesirable to you, do not do to others.) | _o__) —孔夫子 Confucius, 551 BCE – 479 BCE | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: obviscating python code for distribution

2011-05-15 Thread Ben Finney
chance. Overlook nothing. Combine | `\ contradictory observations. Allow yourself enough time.” | _o__) —Hippocrates | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: obviscating python code for distribution

2011-05-15 Thread Ben Finney
ses out there? -- \ “Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in | `\ these.” —Ovid (43 BCE–18 CE) | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: obviscating python code for distribution

2011-05-16 Thread Ben Finney
own computers, they can hack it. You can't stop that, so you have to consider other ways of making it ineffective. -- \ “The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more | `\ to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a | _o__)

Re: obviscating python code for distribution

2011-05-16 Thread Ben Finney
Grant Edwards writes: > On 2011-05-16, Ben Finney wrote: > > "Littlefield, Tyler" writes: > > > >> I'm putting lots of work into this. I would rather not have some > >> script kiddy dig through it, yank out chunks and do whatever he > >>

Re: obviscating python code for distribution

2011-05-16 Thread Ben Finney
lient will IMO promote exactly that. -- \ “I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I | `\consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no | _o__) superhuman authority behind it.” —Albert Einstein, letter, 1953 | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Converting a set into list

2011-05-16 Thread Ben Finney
ately good is not so good as it ought to be. | `\Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in | _o__) principle is always a vice.” —Thomas Paine | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Deleting a file?

2011-05-16 Thread Ben Finney
ge the subject field for the thread. -- \ “Unix is an operating system, OS/2 is half an operating system, | `\Windows is a shell, and DOS is a boot partition virus.” —Peter | _o__) H. Coffin | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org

Re: indirect assignment question

2011-05-16 Thread Ben Finney
lity should be dismantled | _o__) once and for all.” —Daniel Dennett, 2010-01-12 | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Why did Quora choose Python for its development?

2011-05-25 Thread Ben Finney
embers so difficult to deal with, please don't respond at all. -- \ “We have met the enemy and he is us.” —Walt Kelly, _Pogo_ | `\1971-04-22 | _o__) | Ben F

Parse config file and command-line arguments, to get a single collection of options

2011-05-25 Thread Ben Finney
for a future offense.” | `\ —Ambrose Bierce, _The Devil's Dictionary_, 1906 | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Puzzled by list-appending behavior

2011-05-25 Thread Ben Finney
ned types also. -- \ “[I]t is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he | `\thinks he already knows.” —Epictetus, _Discourses_ | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pyt

Re: Why did Quora choose Python for its development?

2011-05-26 Thread Ben Finney
t the right time, and the rest do not | `\ happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these | _o__) defects.” —Mark Twain, _A Horse's Tale_ | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

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