On Friday, September 20, 2013 8:51:20 PM UTC+5:30, Kasper Guldmann wrote:
> I was playing around with lambda functions, but I cannot seem to fully grasp
> them. I was running the script below in Python 2.7.5, and it doesn't do what
> I want it to. Are lambda functions really supposed to work that w
On Sunday, September 22, 2013 3:13:13 AM UTC+5:30, Peter Cacioppi wrote:
> This is an idea brought over from another post.
>
> When I write Python code I generally have 2 or 3 windows open simultaneously.
>
>
> 1) An editor for the actual code.
> 2) The interactive interpreter.
> 3) An editor fo
On Monday, September 23, 2013 12:27:50 AM UTC+5:30, John Ladasky wrote:
> All right, never mind!
>
>
> I hacked around this morning, making some changes to parts of my program that
> I thought were unrelated to my namespace issues. I was paring it down to a
> minimal example, to post here as N
Combining your two questions -- Recently:
What minimum should a person know before saying "I know Python"
And earlier this
On Sunday, August 4, 2013 10:00:35 PM UTC+5:30, Aseem Bansal wrote:
> If there is an issue in place for improving the lambda forms then that's
> good. I wanted a link about f
Take a look at babel
http://www.cs.unm.edu/~eschulte/data/CISE-13-3-SciProg.pdf
http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/intro.html
Its my impression that babel supports everything and more that pylatex does
...the catch is that its under emacs...!!
--
https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/p
On Monday, September 23, 2013 2:01:00 PM UTC+5:30, Peter Cacioppi wrote:
> One thing re: editors and interactive environments. I'm not a huge emacs fan
> (ducking) and I really like iPython.
Heh! Yeah we are an endangered species
G enerally
N ot
U sed
E ditor for
M iddle
A ged
C omputer
S cientis
On Monday, September 23, 2013 11:54:53 PM UTC+5:30, Vito De Tullio wrote:
> rusi wrote:
>
> > [Not everything said there is correct; eg python supports currying better
> > [than haskell which is surprising considering that Haskell's surname is
> > [Curry!]
>
&g
On Tuesday, September 24, 2013 1:12:51 PM UTC+5:30, Jussi Piitulainen wrote:
> rusi writes:
>
> > Without resorting to lambdas/new-functions:
> > With functools.partial one can freeze any subset of a
> > function(callable's) parameters.
> >
>
> &g
On Tuesday, September 24, 2013 8:21:19 PM UTC+5:30, Jussi Piitulainen wrote:
> Would the type system get in the way of providing some analogous
> function in Haskell? I don't know.
Yes.
The haskell curry
curry f x y = f (x,y)
is really only curry2
curry3 would be
curry3 f x y z = f (x,y,z)
and so
On Tuesday, September 24, 2013 8:56:21 PM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 1:07 AM, rusi wrote:
> > And this is an old conundrum in programming language design:
> >
> > In C printf is easy to write and NOT put into the language but into
> > e
On Thursday, September 26, 2013 4:54:22 AM UTC+5:30, Arturo B wrote:
> So I know what recursion is, but I don't know how is
>
>flatten(i)
>
> evaluated, what value does it returns?
When you are a noob, who do you ask? The gurus.
When you are a guru who do you ask? The co
On Friday, September 27, 2013 12:43:51 AM UTC+5:30, D.YAN ESCOLAR RAMBAL wrote:
> Good morning all
>
> thanks for your help. Now I`ve a question, if I need create a matrix, method
> of thomas, ghost nodes, etc.. for developed one aplicative for the ecuation
> of difusion in 1d, 2d, 3d, 4d. It`s
On Friday, September 27, 2013 4:13:52 PM UTC+5:30, Dave Angel wrote:
> You should study APL. Many functions were written in one line, with
> twenty lines of explanation. The function itself was considered
> unreadable nonsense. And if a function stopped working, general wisdom
> was to throw it o
On Thursday, September 26, 2013 4:54:22 AM UTC+5:30, Arturo B wrote:
> So I know what recursion is, but I don't know how is
>
>flatten(i)
>
> evaluated, what value does it returns?
There is a folklore in CS that recursion is hard
[To iterate is human, to recurse divine
On Tuesday, October 1, 2013 6:11:18 AM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Sep 2013 19:04:32 +0200, Franck Ditter wrote:
> > 2. Lambda-expression body is limited to one expression. Why ?
>
> Nobody has come up with syntax that is unambiguous, would allow multiple
> statements in an expr
On Monday, September 30, 2013 11:20:16 PM UTC+5:30, vignesh.h...@gmail.com
wrote:
> Thank you both so much! I'll be sure to make more pertinent subject lines now
> :) Thanks for the detailed explanations! Clearly, I've just started learning
> this language ~20 minutes before I made this post, an
On Wednesday, October 2, 2013 3:00:41 AM UTC+5:30, Terry Reedy wrote:
> Part of the reason that Python does not do tail call optimization is
> that turning tail recursion into while iteration is almost trivial, once
> you know the secret of the two easy steps. Here it is.
What happens for mutual
On Wednesday, October 2, 2013 1:53:46 PM UTC+5:30, Alain Ketterlin wrote:
> rusi writes:
>
>
>
> > On Wednesday, October 2, 2013 3:00:41 AM UTC+5:30, Terry Reedy wrote:
> >> Part of the reason that Python does not do tail call optimization is
> >> th
On Thursday, October 3, 2013 10:57:48 PM UTC+5:30, Ravi Sahni wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 10:46 AM, rusi wrote:
> > 4. There is a whole spectrum of such optimizaitons --
> > 4a eg a single-call structural recursion example, does not need to push
> > return address on the
On Sunday, October 6, 2013 2:35:24 PM UTC+5:30, Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick wrote:
> So, instead of this, maybe we should work on getting psycopg2 to the
> top result on Googling “python sql”, or even “python mysql” with an
> anti-MySQL ad? (like vim was doing some time ago on Googling “emacs”)
Do yo
On Tuesday, October 8, 2013 5:54:10 AM UTC+5:30, zipher wrote:
> Now, one can easily argue that I've gone too far to say "no one has
> understood it" (obviously), so it's very little tongue-in-cheek, but
> really, when one tries to pretend that one model of computation can be
> substituted for anot
On Tuesday, October 8, 2013 10:46:50 AM UTC+5:30, Ravi Sahni wrote:
> With due respect Sir, you saying that Turing machine not a machine?
> Very confusion Sir!!!
Thanks Ravi for the 'due respect' though it is a bit out of place on a list
like this :-)
Thanks even more for the 'very confusion'.
On Tuesday, October 8, 2013 10:49:11 AM UTC+5:30, zipher wrote:
> I don't have an infinite stack to implement
> lambda calculus, but...
And then
> But this is not a useful formalism. Any particular Program implements
> a DFA, even as it runs on a TM. The issue of whether than TM is
> finite or
On Tuesday, October 8, 2013 6:31:21 PM UTC+5:30, Ravi Sahni wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 11:14 AM, rusi wrote:
> > To explain at length will be too long and OT (off-topic) for this list.
> > I'll just give you a link and you tell me what you make of it:
> > http://sl
On Thursday, October 10, 2013 6:40:19 AM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>
> I have no objection to encouraging people to read the fine manual, and I
> don't intend to be Nikos' (or anyone else's) unpaid full-time help desk
> and troubleshooter. But I do think it is simply unfair to treat him m
On Thursday, October 10, 2013 8:04:00 PM UTC+5:30, David wrote:
> I have never heard the term "hypercomplex" numbers. I guess you
> are referring to vectors with more dimensions than two. A three
A generalization of quaternions :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypercomplex_number
http://en.wikipedia
On Sunday, October 13, 2013 6:34:56 PM UTC+5:30, Roy Smith wrote:
> To be fair to Larry, there were different design drivers working there.
One more thing to be said for perl:
I remember when some colleague first told me about perl (I guess early 90s) I
was incredulous that the *same* language
On Tuesday, October 15, 2013 7:01:37 AM UTC+5:30, zipher wrote:
> Yes, and all of that is because, the world has not settled on some
> simple facts. It needs an understanding of type system. It's been
> throwing terms around, some of which are well-defined, but others,
> not: there has been enor
On Tuesday, October 15, 2013 8:48:25 AM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Oct 2013 12:18:59 -0700, John Nagle wrote:
>
> > No, Python went through the usual design screwups. Look at how
> > painful the slow transition to Unicode was, from just "str" to Unicode
> > strings, ASCII s
On Tuesday, October 15, 2013 2:20:10 PM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> If you read the whole python-history blog on blogspot, you'll see that
> Python's had it's share of mistakes, design failures and other "oops!"
> moments. I think that it is a testament to GvR's over-all design that the
>
On Wednesday, October 16, 2013 1:56:27 AM UTC+5:30, zipher wrote:
> > Objects in programming languages (or 'values' if one is more functional
> > programming oriented) correspond to things in the world.
>
>
> One of the things you're saying there is that "values correspond to
> things in the wor
On Wednesday, October 16, 2013 3:31:06 AM UTC+5:30, Rhodri James wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 21:26:27 +0100, Mark Janssen
> wrote:
>
> >> = Rusi, attribution missing from original.
Yes. It would help to keep your quotes bound (firstclassly?) to their
respective quoters --
On Wednesday, October 16, 2013 12:35:42 PM UTC+5:30, Stéphane Wirtel wrote:
> Keep it in memory
Thats a strange answer given that the OP says his file is huge.
Of course 'huge' may not really be huge -- that really depends on the h/w he's
using.
--
https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pytho
On Wednesday, October 16, 2013 11:27:03 PM UTC+5:30, zipher wrote:
> >>> Types on the other hand correspond to our classifications and so are
> >>> things in our minds.
> >>
> >> That is not how a C programmer views it. They have explicit
> >> "typedef"s that make it a thing for the computer.
> >
On Thursday, October 17, 2013 6:17:57 AM UTC+5:30, Ned Batchelder wrote:
> On 10/16/13 8:13 PM, Mark Janssen wrote:
>
> > Who uses "object abstraction" in C? No one. That's why C++ was
> > invented.
Examples from
1. Linux Kernel
2. Python
3. OS/2
> > But, here it is significant that
On Thursday, October 17, 2013 12:19:02 PM UTC+5:30, Peter Cacioppi wrote:
> Object oriented programming takes things further, most significantly by
> introducing the idea that the object reference you are referencing might be a
> run time dependent sub-class. Even Python, which isn't strongly typ
On Thursday, October 17, 2013 6:09:59 PM UTC+5:30, rusi wrote:
> On Thursday, October 17, 2013 12:19:02 PM UTC+5:30, Peter Cacioppi wrote:
>
> > Object oriented programming takes things further, most significantly by
> introducing the idea that the object reference you are referen
On Thursday, October 17, 2013 5:18:25 PM UTC+5:30, Zero Piraeus wrote:
> :
>
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 09:20:39AM +, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>
> > Oh well. There's only so much I can do at once. I've got bigger
> > troubles than trying to solve Ruby's problems with yahoos, and
> > frankl
On Wednesday, October 16, 2013 1:56:27 AM UTC+5:30, zipher wrote:
> Yes, well clearly we are not "having the same thoughts", yet the
> purpose of the academic establishment is to pin down such terminology
> and not have these sloppy understandings everywhere. You dig?
Heh Mark I am really sorry.
On Thursday, October 17, 2013 11:14:29 PM UTC+5:30, MRAB wrote:
> On 17/10/2013 18:32, rusi wrote:
> > On Wednesday, October 16, 2013 1:56:27 AM UTC+5:30, zipher wrote:
> >> Yes, well clearly we are not "having the same thoughts", yet the
> >> purpose of the
On Friday, October 18, 2013 7:38:30 AM UTC+5:30, zipher wrote:
> >> It's like this. No matter how you cut it, you're going to get back to
> >> the computers where you load instructions with switches. At that point,
> >> I'll be very much looking in anticipation to your binary-digit lexer.
> >
> >
On Saturday, October 19, 2013 2:02:24 AM UTC+5:30, Peter Cacioppi wrote:
>
> I still say that object-based is a distinct and meaningful subset of
> object-oriented programming.
Yes that is what is asserted by
http://www-public.int-evry.fr/~gibson/Teaching/CSC7322/ReadingMaterial/Wegner87.pdf
--
On Saturday, October 19, 2013 8:40:37 PM UTC+5:30, Roy Smith wrote:
> Zero Piraeus wrote:
>
> > For example, a miscreant may create the username 'míguel' in order to
> > pose as another user 'miguel', relying on other users inattentiveness.
> > Asciifying is one way of reducing the risk of that.
On Saturday, October 19, 2013 7:04:30 PM UTC+5:30, Scott Novinger wrote:
>
> My plan is to create several different programs that perform specific
> Algebraic
> operations. My boys are learning Algebra 2 and I thought it might be a fun
> way
> to help us all learn Algebra and programming toge
On Monday, October 14, 2013 10:32:36 AM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Oct 2013 20:13:32 -0700, Tim Roberts wrote:
>
> > def add(c1, c2):
> > % Decode
> > c1 = ord(c1) - 65
> > c2 = ord(c2) - 65
> > % Process
> > i1 = (c1 + c2) % 26
> > % Encode
> >
On Monday, October 21, 2013 7:51:12 AM UTC+5:30, Roy Smith wrote:
> In article
> Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>
> > According to
> > some, Java, which has many low-level machine primitive types, is an
> > object-oriented language, while Python, which has no machine primitives
> > and where every v
On Monday, October 21, 2013 2:13:52 PM UTC+5:30, Peter Cacioppi wrote:
> Specifically the following seems so misguided as to be deliberate trolling.
The same could be said for this below… but…
>
> "One of the reasons multiple languages exist is because people find that
> useful programming idio
On Tuesday, October 22, 2013 8:25:58 AM UTC+5:30, Peter Cacioppi wrote:
Guess-who said:
> "but it's "ugly", by which I mean it is hard to use, error prone, and not
> easily maintained."
>
> OK, I see the problem. What you call "ugly" is really just objectively bad.
You continue to not attribute
On Tuesday, October 22, 2013 1:59:36 AM UTC+5:30, Ned Batchelder wrote:
> On 10/21/13 4:14 PM, Mark Janssen wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 12:46 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> >> An optimizing JIT compiler can
> >> often produce much more efficient, heavily optimized code than a static
> >> AO
Mark Janssen said:
> Unattributed
> > No its not like those 'compilers' i dont really agree with a compiler
> > generating C/C++ and saying its producing native code. I dont really
> > believe
> > its truely within the statement. Compilers that do that tend to put in alot
> > of type saftey cod
On Tuesday, October 22, 2013 11:53:22 PM UTC+5:30, Ned Batchelder wrote:
> A BNF doesn't provide enough information to compile a program to C.
> That's all I'm trying to help you understand. If you don't agree, then
> we have to talk about the meaning of the words BNF, compile, program, and C.
On Wednesday, October 23, 2013 7:06:40 AM UTC+5:30, alex23 wrote:
> On 23/10/2013 4:40 AM, Ned Batchelder wrote:
>
> > I've tried to be polite, and I've tried to be helpful, but I'm sorry:
> > either you don't understand a lot of the terms you are throwing around,
> > or you aren't disciplined eno
On Thursday, October 24, 2013 5:16:58 PM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Oct 2013 06:36:04 -0400, Ned Batchelder wrote:
>
> > coverage.py currently runs on 2.3 through 3.4
>
> You support all the way back to 2.3???
>
> I don't know whether to admire your dedication, or back away sl
On Saturday, October 26, 2013 12:15:43 AM UTC+5:30, zipher wrote:
> Clearly the python list has been taken over by TheKooks. Notice he
> did not respond to the request. Since we are talking about digital
> computers (with digital memory), I'm really curious what the hex value
> for NaN is to init
On Saturday, October 26, 2013 12:39:09 AM UTC+5:30, zipher wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 11:59 AM, rusi wrote:
> >
> > I dont see how thats any more relevant than:
> > Whats the hex value of the add instruction?
>
>
> You "don't see". That is cor
On Saturday, October 26, 2013 8:10:16 AM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Your personal attacks are not appreciated. Why can you not accept that
> people who post using GG's defaults cause pain and difficulty to many --
> probably the great majority -- of readers who use either the mailing list
On Saturday, October 26, 2013 9:20:40 PM UTC+5:30, Mark Lawrence wrote:
>
> I could almost feel sorry for you. But the more of your time I waste
> the longer it'll take you to get your website working. Did you ever
> stop to think about that? Or are you too busy trolling hundreds of
> other
On Sunday, October 27, 2013 2:07:53 AM UTC+5:30, Peter Cacioppi wrote:
> Rusi said:
>
> "Users of GG are requested to read and follow these instructions
> https://wiki.python.org/moin/GoogleGroupsPython "
>
>
> Seriously, it's not exactly clear what protoco
On Sunday, October 27, 2013 10:34:11 AM UTC+5:30, ru...@yahoo.com wrote:
> On 10/26/2013 07:45 PM, rusi wrote:
>
> > On Sunday, October 27, 2013 2:07:53 AM UTC+5:30, Peter Cacioppi wrote:
> >> Rusi said:
> >>
> >> "Users of GG are requested to r
On Sunday, October 27, 2013 12:07:29 PM UTC+5:30, Zero Piraeus wrote:
> The results:
>
>
> Senders: 1701
> GG users: 879
>
> ... so just over 50%.
>
>
> If anyone wants the complete output, just let me know and I'll email it
> privately.
If you have a GG account just go to the 'aboutgroup' in
On Sunday, October 27, 2013 4:47:16 AM UTC+5:30, theel...@gmail.com wrote:
> I apologize but I do not understand what you mean by "lack of context." I
> have
> taken Chris' words into consideration, for my previous post was supposed to
> be
> my last (I just had to say thank you). This is my fi
On Sunday, October 27, 2013 2:07:53 AM UTC+5:30, Peter Cacioppi wrote:
> Rusi said:
>
> > Users of GG are requested to read and follow these instructions
> > https://wiki.python.org/moin/GoogleGroupsPython
>
> Yes, I read those instructions and found them fairl
On Sunday, October 27, 2013 6:44:35 AM UTC+5:30, Gary Roach wrote:
> Hi
>
> In the process of trying to learn python, django, mysql and
> virtualenvwrapper, I have created two projects and a mess. How can I
> strip everything from a Debian, Wheezy, linux system. The files are all
> over the pla
On Saturday, October 26, 2013 11:50:33 PM UTC+5:30, MRAB wrote:
> On 26/10/2013 18:36, HC wrote:
> > I'm doing my first year in university and I need help with this basic
> > assignment.
> >
> > Assignment: Write Python script that prints sum of cubes of numbers between
> > 0-200 that are multipl
On Sunday, October 27, 2013 1:02:38 AM UTC+5:30, Stephan Vladimir Bugaj wrote:
> I rarely ever post here.
>
> But I wanted to say that people responding to this Nikos troll makes reading
> this list a nuisance.
> You've never ever been successful in convincing him to behave, and it's been
> goin
On Monday, October 28, 2013 3:44:14 AM UTC+5:30, zipher wrote:
> Otherwise, most of this, while sloppy, still stands.
Yes
All your quotes are unattributed
So your discussion is both sloppy and meaningless
--
https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
On Monday, October 28, 2013 4:56:38 AM UTC+5:30, Ben Finney wrote:
> I'm not in any special position of power here; I'm not beholden to
> address every instance of bad behaviour or none at all. Any member of
> this community can apply the same social pressure, and together we can
> cover as many of
On Monday, October 28, 2013 11:10:21 AM UTC+5:30, ru...@yahoo.com wrote:
> I updated the page, hopefully it's an improvement?
Most people who top-post have no idea that they are top-posting and that there
are alternatives and they are preferred (out here)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_styl
On Monday, October 28, 2013 11:26:21 AM UTC+5:30, rusi wrote:
> On Monday, October 28, 2013 11:10:21 AM UTC+5:30, ru...@yahoo.com wrote:
> > I updated the page, hopefully it's an improvement?
>
>
> Otherwise ok I think
Just looked at the general netiquette link -- its lo
On Monday, October 28, 2013 1:14:50 PM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Here's an analogy:
>
> Person A: "Clean my room for me!"
> Person B: "No. Clean it yourself. Here's the vacuum cleaner."
> Person A: "CLEAN MY ROOM!!!"
> Person B: "No. You made the mess, you're old enough to clean it yourse
On Monday, October 28, 2013 10:38:45 PM UTC+5:30, Ned Batchelder wrote:
>
> We've already seen a few new people explicitly asking, "is this what
> usually happens on this list?" and they weren't referring to the
> Chris-style response, they were referring to the Mark-style
> respon
On Sunday, October 27, 2013 12:37:40 AM UTC+5:30, John Ladasky wrote:
> So, what other free and lightweight editing options do I have for a Mac? I
> have found a few (fairly old) discussions on comp.lang.python which suggest
> Eric (http://eric-ide.python-projects.org/) and Editra (http://editra
On Tuesday, October 29, 2013 1:16:07 AM UTC+5:30, Gary Roach wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have been trying to set up a python, django, mysql, virtualenvwrapper
> and git development project and am really confused. All of the
> documentation seems to ignore the apt-get installation methods used by
> D
On Tuesday, October 29, 2013 7:14:51 PM UTC+5:30, Neil Cerutti wrote:
> On 2013-10-28, Nobody wrote:
> > If you're sufficiently concerned about performance that you're
> > willing to trade clarity for it, you shouldn't be using Python
> > in the first place.
>
>
> When you detect a code small, a
On Tuesday, October 29, 2013 8:10:20 PM UTC+5:30, Robert Gonda wrote:
> Unfortunately I'm not that sort of person, the way my brain learns is by
> experimenting, but first I need to know exactly what to write. Then I will
> play
> around with it and customize it to my needs, sorry to be such a
On Tuesday, October 29, 2013 10:01:38 PM UTC+5:30, Robert Gonda wrote:
> > > I honestly don't get it? this any better? ;D
In google groups you will see a small 'show quoted text'
Click it you will see what a cascading avalanche of mess is produced.
Yes GG is stupid, not you. But if you use it (
On Tuesday, October 29, 2013 10:35:52 PM UTC+5:30, Robert Gonda wrote:
> > Is this better then?
By a bit. For most here not enough
Open the 'show quoted text' in your last post it shows like so
[Ive replaced '>' by '&' so GG will show it
& On Tuesday, October 29, 2013 10:01:38 PM UTC+5:30, Robert
On Tuesday, October 29, 2013 10:52:04 PM UTC+5:30, Neil Cerutti wrote:
> I just want to add that this programming exercise, while pretty
> common, stinks.
>
> A new programmer shouldn't be embroiled in the morass of
> interactive programming.
Cheers to that!
If the 'print' statement were called a
On Tuesday, October 29, 2013 10:54:08 PM UTC+5:30, ru...@yahoo.com wrote:
> Also, what Mark and Rusi were trying to say (not very clearly)
> is that when you post from Google Groups, Google Groups insert
> a lot of empty lines in the ">" the at the top of the message.
So fro
On Tuesday, October 29, 2013 11:56:28 PM UTC+5:30, ru...@yahoo.com wrote:
> On Tuesday, October 29, 2013 11:52:15 AM UTC-6, rusi wrote:
> > On Tuesday, October 29, 2013 10:54:08 PM UTC+5:30, ru...@yahoo.com wrote:
> > > Also, what Mark and Rusi were trying to say (not very clea
On Wednesday, October 30, 2013 3:43:03 PM UTC+5:30, jonas.t...@gmail.com wrote:
> Den onsdagen den 30:e oktober 2013 kl. 11:00:30 UTC+1 skrev Mark Lawrence:
* * Please stop sending us double spaced crap.
* * Mark Lawrence
* I am not sure what you want.
And then again
* You want me to remove the
On Wednesday, October 30, 2013 6:43:33 PM UTC+5:30, rusi wrote:
> For the double spacing rubbish produced by GG, I hacked up a bit of
> emacs lisp code
> --
> To try
> 1. Eval the following in emacs*
Tsk! It should be eval the preceding elisp!
--
https://mail.pyt
On Wednesday, October 30, 2013 9:05:29 PM UTC+5:30, Jonas Thornval wrote:
> Den onsdagen den 30:e oktober 2013 kl. 16:09:25 UTC+1 skrev Mark Lawrence:
> > On 30/10/2013 14:31, Jonas Thornval wrote:
> > Would you please be kind enough to read, digest and action this
> > https://wiki.python.org/moin
On Wednesday, October 30, 2013 9:27:08 PM UTC+5:30, jonas.t...@gmail.com wrote:
> Den onsdagen den 30:e oktober 2013 kl. 16:54:19 UTC+1 skrev Mark Lawrence:
> > The simplest solution is that you stop posting, as you've been spewing
> > this double spaced crap all day and show no inclination to do
Super Kushal!
Below is the result of that
First the original
Then emacs' cleaned up version!
-Original --
On Wednesday, October 30, 2013 10:00:47 PM UTC+5:30, Kushal Kumaran wrote:
> rusi writes:
>
>
>
> > On Wednesday, Octo
Well it seems that we are considerably closer to a solution to the GG
double-spaced crap problem.
Just wondering if someone can suggest a cleanup of the regexp part
Currently I have (elisp)
(defun clean-gg ()
(interactive)
1 (replace-regexp "^> *\n> *\n> *$" "-=\=-" nil 0 (point-max))
2 (f
On Thursday, October 31, 2013 2:37:31 AM UTC+5:30, Antoon Pardon wrote:
> Op 30-10-13 21:52, Ned Batchelder schreef:
> > On 10/30/13 3:59 PM, Antoon Pardon wrote:
> >> Op 30-10-13 20:13, Jonas schreef:
> >>> No it isn't...
> >>> The programmers of the tools on either of side will have to adapt.
> >
On Thursday, October 31, 2013 3:41:41 PM UTC+5:30, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> On 31/10/2013 07:37, rusi wrote:
> > If Mark had not been rude to Jonas and explained to him at a little more
> > length, maybe he would not be assholing in full-blast.
> What rubbish. The OP was asked re
On Thursday, October 31, 2013 4:42:15 PM UTC+5:30, Antoon Pardon wrote:
> Op 31-10-13 08:37, rusi schreef:
> > 2. Antoon: I was a bit surprised at your siding with the indentation
> > business.
> > As an old-geezer programmer I can think of a number of reasons why,
> >
On Thursday, October 31, 2013 3:00:24 AM UTC+5:30, Joshua Landau wrote:
> What I'm confounded about is this list's inability to recognise a
> troll when it slaps it vocally in the face.
> This isn't like Nikos. There's no "troll vs. incompetent" debate to be
> had.
Its usually called "entertain
On Thursday, October 31, 2013 7:31:14 PM UTC+5:30, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> On 31/10/2013 11:40, rusi wrote:
> > Please treat python as a given -- like the sun, moon and taxes."
> You missed the most obvious one, trolls :)
:D
Only that's not an element but a set
On Thursday, October 31, 2013 4:08:48 PM UTC+5:30, E.D.G. wrote:
> Posted by E.D.G. October 31, 2013
> Hi Chris,
>Thanks for the responses. Several of my questions were answered.
>The calculation speed question just involves relatively
> simple math such as multiplications and di
On Thursday, October 31, 2013 8:50:27 PM UTC+5:30, Neil Cerutti wrote:
> wrote:
> > This suggests that Pascal went against established practice.
> > This is false. FORTRAN used = and that was a mistake caused by
> > the language being hacked together haphazardly.
> Respectfully, the designers of FO
On Thursday, October 31, 2013 11:20:52 PM UTC+5:30, Denis McMahon wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Oct 2013 09:05:04 -0700, rusi wrote:
> > If I say: "My uncle knows more about flying planes than
> > the Wright brothers" am I disrespecting the Wright brothers??
> No, but that'
On Wednesday, October 30, 2013 10:18:20 AM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 3:33 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
> > Chris Angelico writes:
> >> *Definitely* use source control.
> > +1, but prefer to call it a “version control system” which is (a) more
> > easily searched on the in
On Friday, November 1, 2013 8:55:03 AM UTC+5:30, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> On 01/11/2013 02:27, William Ray Wing wrote:
> > supper computers
> Somebody must have tough teeth, though thinking about it I recall people
> eating bicycles :)
You just have to be sufficiently non-vegetarian
http://en.wik
here is some hamming distance between the strings
"Albert van der Horst" and "Rusi Mody". But you were objecting not to the
state-er but to the statement...
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On Friday, November 1, 2013 4:47:40 PM UTC+5:30, Alister wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Oct 2013 04:07:14 -0700, rusi wrote:
> > Also others (Alister?) were double-space-reply-posting as well. When
> > you mean to point out a behavior without getting personal, it helps to
> > point
On Saturday, November 2, 2013 6:01:12 AM UTC+5:30, flebber wrote:
> What I know and have learnt.
> - Use lxml to open view and find info from nodes of an XML file
> My main roadblock is the XML process, I am finding it unclear to understand
> what tools and how to manage this process.
> Most e
On Saturday, November 2, 2013 7:31:20 AM UTC+5:30, flebber wrote:
> Yes I have done the lxml search and learnt how to open view and query the
> file.
> But what is the next step in the process? To get it so that I can reliably
> push XML files to my database repeatedly.
> Looking for a basic stru
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