Re: Correct idiom for determining path when frozen in 3.4

2014-03-17 Thread Ben Finney
to | `\persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.” —Carl | _o__)Sagan | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Correct idiom for determining path when frozen in 3.4

2014-03-17 Thread Ben Finney
Devin Jeanpierre writes: > On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 2:02 AM, Ben Finney > wrote: > > Mark Summerfield writes: > > if getattr(sys, "frozen"):# ‘getattr’ will return None by default > > No it won't. > […] > Sure, but sys.executable always ex

Re: Question about Source Control

2014-03-17 Thread Ben Finney
#x27;re talking about is a “version control system”, or VCS. But some Git users may disagree.) -- \ “If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all | `\others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking | _o__) power called an idea”

Re: help with for loop----python 2.7.2

2014-03-23 Thread Ben Finney
to be” —Aristotle | _o__)“Do be do be do” —Sinatra | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: loop

2014-03-23 Thread Ben Finney
`\ Increase Your Word Power’. That thing is really, really, | _o__) really... good.” —Homer, _The Simpsons_ | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: YADTR (Yet Another DateTime Rant)

2014-03-26 Thread Ben Finney
y it's messy and distasteful to deal with, but that's a big part of the job we take on as programmers. -- \“… Nature … is seen to do all things Herself and through | `\ herself of own accord, rid of all gods.” —Titus Lucretius | _o__)

Re: datetime

2014-03-26 Thread Ben Finney
why should they care about it?” —Thomas Hesse, Sony BMG, 2006 | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: YADTR (Yet Another DateTime Rant)

2014-03-27 Thread Ben Finney
t's why it's not an > implementation bug. It's a design bug :-) One which to some extent violates the defined data model for Python objects, and hence should be fixed. -- \ “I don't know half of you half as well as I should like, and I | `\ like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.” —Bilbo | _o__) Baggins | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Keyboard standards (was: Explanation of this Python language feature? [x for x in x for x in x] (to flatten a nested list))

2014-03-28 Thread Ben Finney
Bus input methods depending on the purpose or language for which I'm writing, and they make it predictable and memorable to get the right characters. -- \ “I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, | `\ when you looked at it in the right way, did not become

Re: unicode as valid naming symbols

2014-03-28 Thread Ben Finney
en Kennedy was shot?’ | `\Well, I don't have an alibi.” —Emo Philips | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: checking if two things do not equal None

2014-03-29 Thread Ben Finney
ome to visit the cemetery where famous Russian and | `\Soviet composers, artists, and writers are buried daily except | _o__) Thursday.” —Russian orthodox monastery, Moscow | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Explanation of this Python language feature? [x for x in x for x in x] (to flatten a nested list)

2014-03-30 Thread Ben Finney
ually make? -- \ “Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.” | `\ —Henry L. Mencken | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Code style query: multiple assignments in if/elif tree

2014-03-31 Thread Ben Finney
“Alternative explanations are always welcome 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 -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Explanation of this Python language feature? [x for x in x for x in x] (to flatten a nested list)

2014-04-04 Thread Ben Finney
rl.’” —Steven Wright | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Explanation of this Python language feature? [x for x in x for x in x] (to flatten a nested list)

2014-04-04 Thread Ben Finney
tated position only a few messages earlier. -- \ “Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?” “I think so, but | `\ where will we find an open tattoo parlor at this time of | _o__) night?” —_Pinky and The Brain_ | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python streaming media server

2014-04-05 Thread Ben Finney
as members.” —Groucho Marx | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How can I parse this correctly?

2014-04-05 Thread Ben Finney
guess. You'll need to handle that specially, and decide what value you want when that's the case. -- \“A free press is one where it's okay to state the conclusion | `\ you're led to by the evidence.” —Bill Moyers | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How can I parse this correctly?

2014-04-06 Thread Ben Finney
Anthony Papillion writes: > On Apr 5, 2014, at 23:21, Ben Finney wrote: > > Alternatively, if you just want to do integer arithmetic on the > > year, you don't need the ‘datetime’ module at all. > > True. But I do actually need to some date based calculations. > Bas

Re: threading

2014-04-06 Thread Ben Finney
sideways.” —detour sign, Kyushu, Japan | `\ | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: threading

2014-04-06 Thread Ben Finney
r problems with the same thinking we used | `\ when we created them.” —Albert Einstein | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Plotting the integer-and-fraction remainder of a function value modulo 360

2014-04-09 Thread Ben Finney
erspective of Python, the standard types handle the requirements you describe without any TypeError. -- \ “If you were going to shoot a mime, would you use a silencer?” | `\—Steven Wright | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: how to make ["a", "b", ["c", "d"], "e"] into ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e'] ?

2014-04-09 Thread Ben Finney
eral operation you want to do? Please describe what input you will get, and what the output should be in the same terms. -- \“Ubi dubium, ibi libertas.” (“Where there is doubt, there is | `\freedom.”) | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Plotting the integer-and-fraction remainder of a function value modulo 360

2014-04-10 Thread Ben Finney
| _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Language summit notes

2014-04-10 Thread Ben Finney
mine.’” —Spike | _o__) Milligan | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: python obfuscate

2014-04-10 Thread Ben Finney
Aabye Kierkegaard (1813–1855) | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: python obfuscate

2014-04-10 Thread Ben Finney
ibute the code at all. -- \ “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little | `\temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” | _o__) —Benjamin Franklin, 1775-02-17 | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Ostracising bad actors (was: Teaching python to non-programmers)

2014-04-10 Thread Ben Finney
mangle the messages. -- \ “You know what would make a good story? Something about a clown | `\who makes people happy, but inside he's real sad. Also, he has | _o__) severe diarrhea.” —Jack Handey | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: python obfuscate

2014-04-11 Thread Ben Finney
yright.org/> -- \ “By instructing students how to learn, unlearn, and relearn, a | `\ powerful new dimension can be added to education.” —Alvin | _o__)Toffler, _Future Shock_, 1970 | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Job Opportunity - Senior Python Developer

2014-04-13 Thread Ben Finney
available, but that doesn't make this forum any more appropriate.) -- \ “I am too firm in my consciousness of the marvelous to be ever | `\ fascinated by the mere supernatural …” —Joseph Conrad, _The | _o__) Shadow-Line_ | Be

Re: Learner looking for assistance

2014-04-14 Thread Ben Finney
es you confused. -- \ “Nothing worth saying is inoffensive to everyone. Nothing worth | `\saying will fail to make you enemies. And nothing worth saying | _o__)will not produce a confrontation.” —Johann Hari, 2011 | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Martijn Faassen: The Call of Python 2.8

2014-04-14 Thread Ben Finney
there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence. | `\ There's a knob called ‘brightness’ but it doesn't work.” | _o__) —Eugene P. Gallagher | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Martijn Faassen: The Call of Python 2.8

2014-04-15 Thread Ben Finney
rom another in order to figure out which rules | _o__) apply.” —Eben Moglen, _Anarchism Triumphant_, 1999 | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Why Python 3?

2014-04-19 Thread Ben Finney
t done. If you can do exactly what you want with Python 3.x, great! -- \“Spam will be a thing of the past in two years' time.” —Bill | `\ Gates, 2004-01-24 | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Why Python 3?

2014-04-20 Thread Ben Finney
That money | `\must be worth a fortune!” —The Goon Show, _The Sale of | _o__) Manhattan_ | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: object().__dict__

2014-04-22 Thread Ben Finney
ou need it https://docs.python.org/3/reference/datamodel.html#slots>. I consider it a wart of Python that its ‘object’ instances lack the ability to gain arbitrary attributes in the way you expect. -- \ “Every man would like to be God, if it were possible; some few | `\ find it difficult to admit the impossibility.” —Bertrand | _o__)Russell, _Power: A New Social Analysis_, 1938 | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Unicode in Python

2014-04-22 Thread Ben Finney
ow they have some number of problems but they're not | _o__) sure whether it's a string or an integer.” —Benno Rice, 2011 | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: soap library for python-3.x

2014-04-25 Thread Ben Finney
sed to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in | `\ my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.” —Emo Philips | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Play back and record sound *at the same time* for n seconds

2014-04-25 Thread Ben Finney
intrusion.” —U.S. District Court Judge Dalzell | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Unicode in Python

2014-04-26 Thread Ben Finney
is incessant complaints about Unicode in Python. He is best ignored, IMO. -- \ “As the evening sky faded from a salmon color to a sort of | `\ flint gray, I thought back to the salmon I caught that morning, | _o__)and how gray he was, and how I named him Flint.” —Jack H

Re: Significant digits in a float?

2014-04-28 Thread Ben Finney
r do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do | `\it from religious conviction.” —Blaise Pascal (1623–1662), | _o__) Pensées, #894. | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Significant digits in a float?

2014-04-29 Thread Ben Finney
Is that an acceptable error rate? -- \ “If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not | `\aiming high enough.” —Alan Kay | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Significant digits in a float?

2014-04-29 Thread Ben Finney
Ben Finney writes: > The problem is you won't know *which* 90% is accurate, and which 10% is > inaccurate. This is very different from the glass, where it's evident > which part is good. Hmm. Re-reading the suggestion, I see that it is fairly predictable which estimates o

Re: pyodbc connect string

2014-04-29 Thread Ben Finney
"DRIVER=%(DRIVER)s;SERVER=%(SERVER)s;PORT=%(PORT)s;" "DATABASE=%(DATABASE)s;UID=%(USER)s;PWD=%(PASSWORD)s;" ) % RECIPE_DB since the named placeholders will be looked up by key in the ‘RECIPE_DB’ mapping. There are other improvements to suggest, but I don't want to distract from the main point of the post. -- \ “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 -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: freeze.py

2014-04-30 Thread Ben Finney
tallation of that tool? What exact command do you issue in order to run it? -- \“I fly Air Bizarre. You buy a combination one-way round-trip | `\ticket. Leave any Monday, and they bring you back the previous | _o__) Friday. That way you still have the weekend.” —Steven Wr

Re: Unicode 7

2014-05-01 Thread Ben Finney
perfect? Are people | `\ just supposed to “know” this, magically?” —Mitya Sirenef, | _o__) comp.lang.python, 2012-12-27 | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Unicode 7

2014-05-02 Thread Ben Finney
GN), for instance. -- \ “I got some new underwear the other day. Well, new to me.” —Emo | `\ Philips | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Unicode 7

2014-05-02 Thread Ben Finney
e years | _o__) telling them to sit down and shut up.” —Phyllis Diller | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

The “does Python have variables?” debate (was: Pass variable by reference)

2014-05-06 Thread Ben Finney
does the var keyword mean? Exactly; JavaScript *does* have variables, in the ways Python does not. -- \“If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts. If you | `\ have the law on your side, pound the law. If you have neither | _o__) on your side, poun

Re: [OT] Silde rules

2014-05-06 Thread Ben Finney
ents. -- \“I was once walking through the forest alone and a tree fell | `\ right in front of me, and I didn't hear it.” —Steven Wright | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: python-daemon interaction with multiprocessing (secure-smtpd)

2014-05-07 Thread Ben Finney
but if we give peas a chance, won't the lima beans feel | _o__) left out?” —_Pinky and The Brain_ | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: The “does Python have variables?” debate

2014-05-07 Thread Ben Finney
in the receiver's brain. One must necessarily use negative language to achieve that. -- \ “Religious faith is the one species of human ignorance that | `\ will not admit of even the *possibility* of correction.” —Sam | _o__) Harris, _The End of

Re: The “does Python have variables?” debate

2014-05-07 Thread Ben Finney
Marko Rauhamaa writes: > Ben Finney : > > > That's why I always try to say “Python doesn't have variables the way > > you might know from many other languages”, > > Please elaborate. To me, Python variables are like variables in all > programming language

Re: The “does Python have variables?” debate

2014-05-07 Thread Ben Finney
sion trying to learn, but rather to score points. I refuse to play. -- \ “Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least | `\ studied.” —John Kenneth Galbraith, _The Age of Uncertainty_, | _o__) 1977 | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: The “does Python have variables?” debate

2014-05-08 Thread Ben Finney
xisting baggage encourages significantly fewer false inferences. (good sigmonster, have a cookie) -- \ “We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but | `\from our illusions.” —Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, 1914–2004 | _o__)

Re: The “does Python have variables?” debate

2014-05-08 Thread Ben Finney
\“Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it | `\ has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has | _o__)been playful, rebellious, and immature.” —Tom Robbins | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: The “does Python have variables?” debate

2014-05-08 Thread Ben Finney
Marko Rauhamaa writes: > Ben Finney : > > > Who does that? I haven't seen anyone raising this topic with a > > beginner in a hostile manner (“flogging”? why the hyperbole?), and > > it's certainly not characteristic of how the topic is raised here. > > F

Re: The � debate

2014-05-08 Thread Ben Finney
`\ at kick boxing.” —Emo Philips | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Values and objects

2014-05-09 Thread Ben Finney
and to the extent that Python has “variables”, they always refer to a typed and structured object. -- \ “Do unto others twenty-five percent better than you expect them | `\ to do unto you. (The twenty-five percent is [to correct] for | _o__)error.)” —Linus

Re: SQLAlchemy - web framework ?

2014-05-12 Thread Ben Finney
history […].” —Sam Harris, _The End of Faith_, 2004 | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Everything you did not want to know about Unicode in Python 3

2014-05-12 Thread Ben Finney
ple that the rest of the world exists.) -- \ “Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature | `\ cannot be fooled.” —Richard P. Feynman, _Rogers' Commission | _o__) Report into the Challenger Crash_, 1986-06 | Ben Finney -- https://mail.pytho

Re: PEP 8 : Maximum line Length :

2014-05-13 Thread Ben Finney
et it would really make you mad if you looked back | _o__) and the guy was reading a magazine.” —Jack Handey | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: PEP 8 : Maximum line Length :

2014-05-13 Thread Ben Finney
s. -- \ “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 -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: PEP 8 : Maximum line Length :

2014-05-13 Thread Ben Finney
n, and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish.” | _o__) —Anonymous | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

[OT] Copyright statements and why they can be useful (was: Everything you did not want to know about Unicode in Python 3)

2014-05-13 Thread Ben Finney
need for explicit copyright statements saying the date of publication. http://questioncopyright.org/> -- \“[T]he great menace to progress is not ignorance but the | `\ illusion of knowledge.” —Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, | _o__)

Re: New to Python. For in loops curiosity

2014-05-13 Thread Ben Finney
ocs.python.org/3/library/io.html>. -- \ “Our products just aren't engineered for security.” —Brian | `\ Valentine, senior vice-president of Microsoft Windows | _o__)development, 2002 | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: SQLAlchemy - web framework ?

2014-05-14 Thread Ben Finney
ay to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.” | `\—Benjamin Franklin | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: problems decoding json objects

2014-05-14 Thread Ben Finney
e, and the rest of the string is trailing garbage, which is an error. > How do I solve this problem ?! Fix the document. Where did it come from? Best, don't put it directly in the Python source code as a string. Ideally, have it as a distinct file, which you can examine in a text editor with JSO

Re: problems decoding json objects

2014-05-14 Thread Ben Finney
Ben Finney writes: > Tamer Higazi writes: > > How do I solve this problem ?! > > Fix the document. Where did it come from? If you're the one typing raw JSON into your program: Fix that. Don't type raw JSON. JSON is an object serialisation format; it's foolish t

Re: PEP 8 : Maximum line Length :

2014-05-14 Thread Ben Finney
e as though humans are the ones who will be reading it. -- \“Stop — Drive sideways.” —detour sign, Kyushu, Japan | `\ | _o__) | Ben

Re: PEP 8 : Maximum line Length :

2014-05-15 Thread Ben Finney
Johannes Bauer writes: > On 15.05.2014 04:43, Ben Finney wrote: > > Rustom Mody writes: > > > >> Until then may we relegate '79' to quaint historical curiosities > > > > Not until the general capacity of human cognition advances to make

Re: PEP 8 : Maximum line Length :

2014-05-15 Thread Ben Finney
n cognitive limits and read what people write for comprehension. -- \ “As soon as we abandon our own reason, and are content to rely | `\ upon authority, there is no end to our troubles.” —Bertrand | _o__)Russell, _Unpopular Essays_, 1950 | Ben Finney

Re: PEP 8 : Maximum line Length :

2014-05-15 Thread Ben Finney
eople's positions. -- \ “Dyslexia means never having to say that you're ysror.” | `\ —anonymous | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: PEP 8 : Maximum line Length :

2014-05-15 Thread Ben Finney
difficulty by the same compiler algorithm, still does not constitute the source for the program. -- \ “Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex… | `\It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage – to move in | _o__)the opposite direction.

Re: Everything you did not want to know about Unicode in Python 3

2014-05-17 Thread Ben Finney
on Moore's Law: Human effort becomes | `\ twice as expensive roughly every two years.” —anonymous | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Pip requirements: Machine-readable configuration versus human-audience documentation (was: using a new computer and bringing needed libraries to it)

2014-05-17 Thread Ben Finney
lready recommending the more general name, but I'd like that to change. -- \ “I believe our future depends powerfully on how well we | `\ understand this cosmos, in which we float like a mote of dust | _o__) in the morning sky.” —Carl Sagan, _Cosmos_,

Re: using a new computer and bringing needed libraries to it

2014-05-18 Thread Ben Finney
and madder.” —Homer, _The Simpsons_ | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: 转发: hi,How much time can transition to python3

2014-05-22 Thread Ben Finney
things in rationality.” —Bertrand Russell | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Python 3 support for Fabric (was: How keep Python 3 moving forward)

2014-05-23 Thread Ben Finney
e whether it's a string or an integer.” —Benno Rice, 2011 | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Build tools, and Python 3 dependencies (was: How keep Python 3 moving forward)

2014-05-25 Thread Ben Finney
the serious pursuit of knowledge of reality is incompatible | _o__) with bullshit.” —Paul Z. Myers, 2010-03-14 | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Make Python Compilable, convert to Python source to Go

2014-05-25 Thread Ben Finney
\“… it's best to confuse only one issue at a time.” —Brian W. | `\Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie, _The C programming language_, | _o__) 1988 | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: os.stat and time zones

2014-05-25 Thread Ben Finney
rating systems and filesystems relevant to you, and what meanings are assigned by each specific filesystem to those timestamps. -- \ Moriarty: “Forty thousand million billion dollars? That money | `\must be worth a fortune!” —The Goon Show, _The Sale of | _o__)

Re: IDE for python

2014-05-28 Thread Ben Finney
-- \“A free press is one where it's okay to state the conclusion | `\ you're led to by the evidence.” —Bill Moyers | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python 3 is killing Python

2014-05-28 Thread Ben Finney
ut dead letters.” | _o__) —Ernestine Rose | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: passing Python assignment value to shell

2014-05-28 Thread Ben Finney
process = subprocess.call( command_args, stdout=devnull, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT) > Many thanks in advance I hope that helps. -- \ “Homer, where are your clothes?” “Uh... dunno.” “You mean Mom | `\ dresses you every day?!” “I guess; or one of her friends.” | _

Re: Python alternative to Google Groups

2014-05-28 Thread Ben Finney
contribution to civilization.” —Steven Weinberg | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Programmer's text editor, for Python and everything else (was: IDE for python)

2014-05-28 Thread Ben Finney
its speaker a raving lunatic.” —Dresden James | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: IDE for python

2014-05-29 Thread Ben Finney
ying. Either is better than actually WORKING for a | _o__) living.” —ringsnake.livejournal.com, 2007-11-12 | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Choosing good names for things is difficult (was: Strange Behavior)

2014-06-02 Thread Ben Finney
dation. http://www.jefftk.com/p/cache-invalidation> -- \ “In the long run, the utility of all non-Free software | `\ approaches zero. All non-Free software is a dead end.” —Mark | _o__) Pilgrim, 2006 | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: can someone explain the concept of "strings (or whatever) being immutable"

2014-06-02 Thread Ben Finney
bet there are some | _o__) Chihuahuas with some good ideas.” —Jack Handey | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: can someone explain the concept of "strings (or whatever) being immutable"

2014-06-02 Thread Ben Finney
ensible question, I > guess. I hope that helps. You're welcome to ask more questions in this forum. You may also be interested to join the “tutor” forum https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor>, where patient tutors will discuss any beginner's Python questions. -- \ “I am as agnostic about God as I am about fairies and the | `\ Flying Spaghetti Monster.” —Richard Dawkins, 2006-10-13 | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Please turn off “digest mode” to participate (was: Python-list Digest, Vol 129, Issue 4)

2014-06-03 Thread Ben Finney
ut it.” | _o__)—John Kenneth Galbraith, _The New Industrial State_, 1967 | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Editing tabular data

2013-08-01 Thread Ben Finney
o see that a garden is beautiful without | `\ having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it | _o__) too?” —Douglas Adams | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

LibreOffice (was: Editing tabular data)

2013-08-02 Thread Ben Finney
coerce others to do what you | _o__) want.” —Larry Wall | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Newbie: static typing?

2013-08-05 Thread Ben Finney
the | _o__) Lincoln Bedroom?” —_Pinky and The Brain_ | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Easier to Ask Forgiveness than Permission (was: Newbie: static typing?)

2013-08-06 Thread Ben Finney
really make them think, they'll hate you.” —Donald | _o__) Robert Perry Marquis | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Newbie: static typing?

2013-08-06 Thread Ben Finney
means of controlling access | `\ to information. They are the tool of choice for the internet | _o__) highwayman.” —Anthony Taylor | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Enum vs OrderedEnum

2013-08-06 Thread Ben Finney
g that anal sex is nice because it works on all genders” | _o__)—http://bash.org/ | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Class hierarchy problem

2013-08-06 Thread Ben Finney
or a taxonomic grouping of life, if you want to avoid specifying some specific level of the taxonomy, is “clade” https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/clade>. -- \ “First they came for the verbs, and I said nothing, for verbing | `\weirds language. Then, they arrival for the nouns and I sp

Re: PEP 450 Adding a statistics module to Python

2013-08-09 Thread Ben Finney
losis.” —Jack Handey | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Writing a “social network” in Python (was: Open-source vs. closed-source for centralised social-networks?)

2013-08-13 Thread Ben Finney
e Your Word Power’. That thing is really, really, | _o__) really... good.” —Homer, _The Simpsons_ | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

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