Re: ANN: dbf.py 0.94

2012-07-21 Thread Alex Strickland
Hi Getting closer to a stable release. Latest version has a simpler, cleaner API, and works on PyPy (and hopefully the other implementations as well ;), as well as CPython. Get your copy at http://python.org/pypi/dbf. Bug reports, comments, and kudos welcome! ;) "Not supported: index files

Re: the meaning of rユ.......ï¾

2012-07-23 Thread Alex Strickland
On 2012/07/23 02:55 PM, Roy Smith wrote: Some day, we're going to have programming languages that take advantage of the full unicode character set. Right now, we're working in ASCII and creating silly digrams/trigrams like r'' for raw strings (and triple-quotes for multi-line strings). Not to

Re: ANN: dbf.py 0.94

2012-08-03 Thread Alex Strickland
On 2012/07/21 11:49 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote: and PS is spelt p.s. :) Ahem, the absolutely authoritative reference on the subject: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postscript says PS or P.S. -- Regards Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: pylagiarism -- Need help now! Please provide code...

2012-08-14 Thread Alex Strickland
cn tell itz a fraud - sp 2 gd! lolz On 2012/08/14 08:34 AM, Simon Cropper wrote: Hi Everyone, I just had a great idea for a new python module. I haven't bothered googling it or doing any research. I need help putting together some code; today preferably, my boss is on my back. Can someone plea

Re: [OT] Posting under ones full name

2012-08-16 Thread Alex Strickland
On 2012/08/16 07:01 AM, Dan Sommers wrote: When I've got these antlers on I am dictating and when I take them off I am not dictating. Very good. -- Regards Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Top-posting &c. (was Re: [ANNC] pybotwar-0.8)

2012-08-20 Thread Alex Strickland
On 2012/08/17 12:42 AM, Madison May wrote: As a lurker, I agree completely with Chris's sentiments. I too, but I'd prefer something top-posted than have to skip through 38 pages of quoted e-mail to get to a (generally) 1 liner at the bottom. -- Regards Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-27 Thread Alex Strickland
Hi Sorry guys, I'm "only" able to see this (with the Python versions an end user can download): [snip timeit results] While you have been all doom and gloom and negativity that Python has "destroyed" Unicode, I thought that jmf's concerns were solely concerned with the selection of latin1

Re: portable unicode literals

2012-10-15 Thread Alex Strickland
On 2012/10/15 03:05 PM, Ulrich Eckhardt wrote: This actually came as a surprise to me, I assumed that using b'' I could portably create a byte string (which is true) and using u'' I could portably create a unicode string (which is not true). This feature would help porting code between both vers

Re: Lazy Attribute

2012-11-16 Thread Alex Strickland
On 2012/11/16 09:49 AM, Andriy Kornatskyy wrote: The name "attribute" is not very descriptive. Why not "lazy_attribute" instead? It just shorter and still descriptive. Shorter, but not descriptive. -- Regards Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list