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There are countless such uses for the functions in the ‘operator’
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the rest will run fine inside the daemon.
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> Am 22.09.2011 12:16 schrieb Ben Finney:
> > --
> > \ “As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are |
> >`\not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer |
> > _o__) to
hem as human shields against attacking those ideas.
Any idea is and must be open to attack in any forum; those that can't
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> You can use the third-party ‘testscenarios’ library
The URL got a bit mangled. The proper PyPI URL for that library is
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/testscenarios>.
> to generate test cases at run time, one for each combination of
> scenarios with test cases
Roy Smith writes:
> In article <87k48szqo1@benfinney.id.au>,
> Ben Finney wrote:
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> > Worse, if one of the scenarios causes the test to fail, the loop will
> > end and you won't get the results for the remaining scenarios.
>
> Which, depending o
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> On 29/09/2011 04:05, Ben Finney wrote:
> > But the topic of keeping this forum safe for technical discussion
> > entails that it must be safe for *any* idea to be the butt of a
> > joke, be it a religious text or the Zen of Python, and that is very
> >
censorious and unreasonable. If they then castigate the
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> On Oct 18, 6:52 am, Ben Finney wrote:
> > A belief that doesn't match reality is a delusion. That doesn't change
> > when someone thinks it's an epiphany: it's still a delusion.
>
> Apparently there was some talk about removing delusion
ception is commonly an
inaccurate representation of what's real, and we delude ourselves if we
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Hrvoje Niksic writes:
> Ben Finney writes:
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> > Tim Chase writes:
> >> Does this "never trust it" hold even for two consecutive iterations
> >> over an unchanged dict? I didn't see anything in the docs[1] to make
> >> such a claim,
> &g
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> On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 4:09 PM, Ben Finney
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> > I don't know about MS Windows, but the Python interactive shell can be
> > linked with the GNU Readline library for managing its command line
> > http://docs.python.org/library/readli
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Do bear in mind what I said above, though, about “variable” being a
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Cameron Simpson writes:
> On 23Dec2011 17:12, Ben Finney wrote:
> | That doesn't address the concern Tim raised: did the user actually do
> | anything, did the file change?
>
> I'm not sure it matters.
I know of numerous applications where it matters, spcifically one
and over again, for the truth to sink in; to kinda |
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Ben Finney writes:
> Alexander Kapps writes:
>
> > Absolutely not funny. I hope that someday people will understand
> > that sexism is just another form of racism.
>
> That's not right. Racism and sexism are not forms of each other.
>
> Instead, racism and sex
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> a lot, and I'm eager to learn new stuff.
Good hunting to you.
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Steven D'Aprano writes:
> On Wed, 04 Jan 2012 08:57:59 +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
>
> > Steven D'Aprano writes:
> >
> >> The joke cuts both ways.
> >
> > The fallacy is to ignore the fact that the playing field is not
> > level.
>
>
Steven D'Aprano writes:
> On Wed, 04 Jan 2012 12:54:09 +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
> > It objectifies women.
>
> So you claim.
I'm sure you have a hundred ready rationalisations for why a joke that
has “girlfriend” as a fungible object, together with “car” and “house”
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> * Cross-platform, so that you're not denied the use of any popular
> workstation OS.
>
> For my purposes, either { GNU Screen + Bash + Emacs } or { GNU Screen +
> Bash + Vim } are good choices satisfying all the above criteria. There
> may be othe
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