Re: suid/sudo in python

2009-03-30 Thread Ben Finney
ich it needs root privilege. -- \ “We tend to scoff at the beliefs of the ancients. But we can't | `\scoff at them personally, to their faces, and this is what | _o__) annoys me.” —Jack Handey | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: python for loop

2009-03-31 Thread Ben Finney
engineered for security.” —Brian | `\ Valentine, senior vice-president of Microsoft Windows | _o__) development | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Tab completion

2009-04-02 Thread Ben Finney
-- \ “No matter how far down the wrong road you've gone, turn back.” | `\ —Turkish proverb | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: PEP 382: Namespace Packages

2009-04-02 Thread Ben Finney
. I should have asked for a jury.” | `\ —Groucho Marx | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: PEP 382: Namespace Packages

2009-04-02 Thread Ben Finney
"drobi...@gmail.com" writes: > On Apr 2, 5:59 pm, Ben Finney wrote: > > Thanks for your constructive criticism, and your considerate quote > > trimming. > Ben, you should use google groups. No, I really shouldn't. > No trimming necessary. It's

Re: Tab completion

2009-04-02 Thread Ben Finney
your requirements. > On Fri, 03 Apr 2009 08:51:47 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > > “M-tab” is Emacs-speak for “ plus ”. Not all > > keyboards have “Alt”, you see (maybe none, when Emacs first > > started referring to the Meta modifier?). > > But on my keyboard, I have no Me

Re: python needs leaning stuff from other language

2009-04-02 Thread Ben Finney
g> -- \ “Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; | `\those in philosophy only ridiculous.” —David Hume, _A Treatise | _o__) of Human Nature_, 1739 | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: python needs leaning stuff from other language

2009-04-03 Thread Ben Finney
bidden. -- \ “It ain't so much the things we don't know that get us in | `\trouble. It's the things we know that ain't so.” —Artemus Ward | _o__) (1834-67), U.S. journalist | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python Goes Mercurial

2009-04-03 Thread Ben Finney
sion forums; please use those. -- \ Eccles: “I just saw the Earth through the clouds!” Lew: “Did | `\ it look round?” Eccles: “Yes, but I don't think it saw me.” | _o__) —The Goon Show, _Wings Over Dagenham_ | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python Goes Mercurial

2009-04-05 Thread Ben Finney
and see “push one solution over all others without regard to what the current situation demands” you're not looking very hard. -- \ “I am amazed, O Wall, that you have not collapsed and fallen, | `\since you must bear the tedious stupidities of so many | _o__)

Re: building release - assert-free python library

2009-04-07 Thread Ben Finney
and nobody got scared.” —Jack Handey | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Why does Python show the whole array?

2009-04-08 Thread Ben Finney
omain) for domain in known_domains) True >>> test_address = "tin...@example.net" >>> any(test_address.endswith("@" + domain) for domain in known_domains) False -- \ “For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier. I put | `\ them in the same room and let them fight it out.” —Steven Wright | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: completly unrelated to python but i had to post it

2009-04-09 Thread Ben Finney
can *say* about | _o__) nature…” —Niels Bohr | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: PEP 3143 and daemon process

2009-04-13 Thread Ben Finney
asis for implementing the Unix platform specifics of a service API. -- \ “One of the most important things you learn from the internet | `\ is that there is no ‘them’ out there. It's just an awful lot of | _o__)‘us’.” —Douglas Adams | B

Re: Can I import from a directory that starts with a dot (.) ?

2009-04-13 Thread Ben Finney
ct him to hold | `\ in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think | _o__) differently.” —Friedrich Nietzsche | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Modifying the value of a float-like object

2009-04-14 Thread Ben Finney
>>> (bar, baz) (3.14, 1.41) >>> foo[1].changevalue(1.62) >>> foo [3.14, 1.62] >>> (bar, baz) (3.14, 1.62) and is asking how to get such a ‘floatref’. -- \“If you go parachuting, and your parachute doesn't open, and | `\

Re: What IDE support python 3.0.1 ?

2009-04-15 Thread Ben Finney
“Self-respect: The secure feeling that no one, as yet, is | `\suspicious.” —Henry L. Mencken | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Developing modules with ‘pkgutil’

2009-04-15 Thread Ben Finney
be doing instead? -- \ “Smoking cures weight problems. Eventually.” —Steven Wright | `\ | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Developing modules with ‘pkgutil’

2009-04-16 Thread Ben Finney
ank you! -- \ “Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?” “I think so, | `\ Brain, but isn't a cucumber that small called a gherkin?” | _o__) —_Pinky and The Brain_ | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: when can i expect libraries and third party tools to be updated for python 3 ?

2009-04-20 Thread Ben Finney
emselves? -- \ “If we have to give up either religion or education, we should | `\ give up education.” —William Jennings Bryan, 1923-01 | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: What is a real name, round 668

2009-04-20 Thread Ben Finney
a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) writes: > In article <87tz4jl66c@benfinney.id.au>, > Ben Finney wrote: > > > >(Is there hope that you could set your From field using your real > >name so we can discuss with a real person instead of a pseudonym?) > > Co

Re: What is a real name, round 668

2009-04-20 Thread Ben Finney
a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) writes: > In article <87hc0iltal@benfinney.id.au>, > Ben Finney wrote: > >A rough working definition [of “real name”]: The name you would use > >to introduce yourself if you met me for the first time in a similar > >context but fac

Essential tools for Python development (was: pyflakes, pylint, pychecker - and other tools)

2009-04-21 Thread Ben Finney
r http://www.blueskyonmars.com/projects/paver/>. -- \ “For fast acting relief, try slowing down.” —Jane Wagner, via | `\ Lily Tomlin | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Essential tools for Python development

2009-04-21 Thread Ben Finney
inguishable from a | `\ feature.” —Rich Kulawiec | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: python command not working

2009-04-22 Thread Ben Finney
precipitate.” —Steven Wright | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Configuring pylint for local conventions (was: pyflakes, pylint, pychecker - and other tools)

2009-04-23 Thread Ben Finney
from our own.” —Charles | _o__) Issawi | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: value error

2009-04-23 Thread Ben Finney
ain. -- \ “A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of | `\ widths.” —Steven Wright | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Essential tools for Python development

2009-04-23 Thread Ben Finney
Phillip B Oldham writes: > On Apr 22, 5:00 am, Ben Finney wrote: > > code each module so that the behaviour is easily introspected and > > tested from outside the module. If I'm not able to easily introspect > > the code at an interactive prompt, that's a clear s

Re: Configuring pylint for local conventions

2009-04-23 Thread Ben Finney
tions on how to modify it? -- \“Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?” “Wuh, I think | `\ so, Brain, but wouldn't anything lose its flavor on the bedpost | _o__) overnight?” —_Pinky and The Brain_ | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Configuring pylint for local conventions

2009-04-23 Thread Ben Finney
Ben Finney writes: > David Stanek writes: > > > I believe you just: > > pylint --generate-rcfile > ~/.pylintrc > > and then customize that file. > > This is the part that I'm asking how to do. What documentation is there > on this configuration fil

Re: Configuring pylint for local conventions

2009-04-23 Thread Ben Finney
itself”. Thanks. -- \ “Dvorak users of the world flgkd!” —Kirsten Chevalier, | `\rec.humor.oracle.d | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: confused with so many python package locations for imports

2009-04-24 Thread Ben Finney
compose a new message addressed to this forum. -- \ “I got up the other day, and everything in my apartment has | `\ been stolen and replaced with an exact replica.” —Steven Wright | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.py

Re: confused with so many python package locations for imports

2009-04-25 Thread Ben Finney
`\since you must bear the tedious stupidities of so many | _o__) scrawlers.” —anonymous graffiti, Pompeii, 79 CE | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Lisp mentality vs. Python mentality

2009-04-25 Thread Ben Finney
- \ “The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. | `\ The pessimist fears it is true.” —J. Robert Oppenheimer | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Lisp mentality vs. Python mentality

2009-04-25 Thread Ben Finney
n different ways, just define your new type so that the comparison methods do what you want them to do. -- \ “It is the fundamental duty of the citizen to resist and to | `\ restrain the violence of the state.” —Noam Chomsky, 1971 | _o__)

Re: confused with so many python package locations for imports

2009-04-25 Thread Ben Finney
has confidence in their future | `\ 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: confused with so many python package locations for imports

2009-04-25 Thread Ben Finney
erwise unchanged. -- \“If you ever drop your keys into a river of molten lava, let | `\ 'em go, because, man, they're gone.” —Jack Handey | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: confused with so many python package locations for imports

2009-04-26 Thread Ben Finney
Scott David Daniels writes: > Ben Finney wrote: > > Thank you for the correction. Please mentally substitute into my > > argument the files that *are* compiled C extension modules; it > > remains otherwise unchanged. > > But the compiled C extension modules are cal

Re: What do you think of ShowMeDo

2009-04-28 Thread Ben Finney
't take any of this as an attack though; I'd love to be able to get past these hurdles and experience the good things too! -- \ “In general my children refuse to eat anything that hasn't | `\ danced on television.” —Erma Bombeck | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: What do you think of ShowMeDo

2009-05-01 Thread Ben Finney
—David Hume | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: debian apt somehow created python hell! - help

2009-05-01 Thread Ben Finney
ce Roberts in 319 U.S. 624 (1943) | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: for with decimal values?

2009-05-02 Thread Ben Finney
-10.1 -10 -9.9 … 9.6 9.7 9.8 9.9 10 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 -- \ “I have a large seashell collection, which I keep scattered on | `\the beaches all over the world. Maybe you've seen it.” —Steven | _o__)

Re: python docs for beginner programmer?

2009-05-03 Thread Ben Finney
—Chris Torek | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How to walk up parent directories?

2009-05-03 Thread Ben Finney
ngs in the standard library :-) -- \“Ubi dubium, ibi libertas.” (“Where there is doubt, there is | `\ freedom.”) | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: for with decimal values?

2009-05-03 Thread Ben Finney
type, if that's what you mean. -- \ “I spent all my money on a FAX machine. Now I can only FAX | `\ collect.” —Steven Wright | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/ma

Re: IDE for python 2.6 (auto complete)

2009-05-04 Thread Ben Finney
on-ide/>. -- \ “People are very open-minded about new things, as long as | `\ they're exactly like the old ones.” —Charles F. Kettering | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Wrapping comments

2009-05-09 Thread Ben Finney
comment syntax (which, for Python, they do). -- \“Only the educated are free.” —Epictetus | `\ | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python

Re: Wrapping comments

2009-05-09 Thread Ben Finney
Tobias Weber writes: > In article <87zldmcod8@benfinney.id.au>, > Ben Finney wrote: > > > Yes. Both Emacs and Vim will do exactly this when re-wrapping a > > Thought so. And editors without a learning curve? A text editor that will be useful in all of your c

Context manager, atexit processing, and PEP 3143 DaemonContext.close

2009-05-16 Thread Ben Finney
3143? -- \ “For fast acting relief, try slowing down.” —Jane Wagner, via | `\ Lily Tomlin | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Context manager, atexit processing, and PEP 3143 DaemonContext.close

2009-05-16 Thread Ben Finney
daemon context. -- \ “We reserve the right to serve refuse to anyone. ” —restaurant, | `\ Japan | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Context manager, atexit processing, and PEP 3143 DaemonContext.close

2009-05-16 Thread Ben Finney
n | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How to convert a list of strings to a tuple of floats?

2009-05-18 Thread Ben Finney
2002, 3.2998) -- \“Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.” —Mark | `\ Twain, _Pudd'n'head Wilson_ | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Context manager, atexit processing, and PEP 3143 DaemonContext.close

2009-05-18 Thread Ben Finney
’ query, but that makes for more awkward English than ‘closed’.) -- \ “Are you thinking what I'm thinking, Pinky?” “Uh... yeah, | `\ Brain, but where are we going to find rubber pants our size?” | _o__) —_Pinky and The Brain_ | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Context manager, atexit processing, and PEP 3143 DaemonContext.close

2009-05-19 Thread Ben Finney
oes such a thing exist? -- \ “If consumers even know there's a DRM, what it is, and how it | `\ works, we've already failed.” —Peter Lee, Disney corporation, | _o__) 2005 | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: optparse options

2009-05-19 Thread Ben Finney
- \ “There's a certain part of the contented majority who love | `\anybody who is worth a billion dollars.” —John Kenneth | _o__)Galbraith, 1992-05-23 | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: package with executable

2009-05-19 Thread Ben Finney
on for the project. -- \ “A thorough reading and understanding of the Bible is the | `\ surest path to atheism.” —Donald Morgan | _o__) | Ben Finney pgp5Hj9SeiRA9.pgp Description: PGP signature -

Re: Is there a better way to chose a slice of a list?

2009-05-19 Thread Ben Finney
ther word for Thesaurus?” —Steven Wright | `\ | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Replacing module with a stub for unit testing

2009-05-23 Thread Ben Finney
object. -- \ “When I turned two I was really anxious, because I'd doubled my | `\ age in a year. I thought, if this keeps up, by the time I'm six | _o__) I'll be ninety.” —Steven Wright | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: What text editor is everyone using for Python

2009-05-26 Thread Ben Finney
n fire, try to avoid seeing yourself in the | `\mirror, because I bet that's what REALLY throws you into a | _o__) panic.” —Jack Handey | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: What text editor is everyone using for Python

2009-05-26 Thread Ben Finney
ktail lounge, Norway | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How to ask smart questions question

2009-05-27 Thread Ben Finney
stions. -- \ “When I wake up in the morning, I just can't get started until | `\ I've had that first, piping hot pot of coffee. Oh, I've tried | _o__)other enemas...” —Emo Philips | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: What text editor is everyone using for Python

2009-05-29 Thread Ben Finney
of fear. —Mark Twain, _Pudd'n'head Wilson_ | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Safe to import __builtin__ ?

2009-06-02 Thread Ben Finney
f its scientists, the | _o__) hopes of its children.” —Dwight Eisenhower, 1953-04-16 | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python reimport

2009-06-03 Thread Ben Finney
h an English accent?” —_Pinky | _o__) and The Brain_ | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Access from a class attribute

2009-06-04 Thread Ben Finney
Philips | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: What text editor is everyone using for Python

2009-06-04 Thread Ben Finney
#x27;re doing that, I'll be | `\ over here, looking through your stuff.” —Jack Handey | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Yet another unicode WTF

2009-06-04 Thread Ben Finney
window.” —instructions in case of fire, hotel, Finland | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How do I continue after the error?

2009-06-04 Thread Ben Finney
g you. Once you have that, post it here with your question. -- \“Good morning, Pooh Bear”, said Eeyore gloomily. “If it is a | `\ good morning”, he said. “Which I doubt”, said he. —A. A. Milne, | _o__) _Winnie-the-Pooh_ | Ben Finney -- ht

Re: Yet another unicode WTF

2009-06-04 Thread Ben Finney
ion 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 Wright | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How do I continue after the error?

2009-06-04 Thread Ben Finney
Ben Finney writes: > You achieve this by one of two methods: Failed to update this statement after an edit. That should be “by following this method”. -- \ “I used to be a proofreader for a skywriting company.” —Ste

Re: Yet another unicode WTF

2009-06-04 Thread Ben Finney
d case also detect UTF-8? The filesystem knows it's UTF-8, the shell knows it too. Why doesn't Python know it? -- \ “When I was born I was so surprised I couldn't talk for a year | `\and a half.” —Gracie Allen | _o__)

Re: how to iterate over several lists?

2009-06-04 Thread Ben Finney
> foo(x) Which, more precisely, creates a *new* list as the concatenation of the two existing lists. -- \ “A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest | `\ burglar.” —Henry L. Mencken | _o__)

Re: Yet another unicode WTF

2009-06-04 Thread Ben Finney
| _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: how to create a big list of list

2009-06-05 Thread Ben Finney
/reference/routines.array-creation.html>. -- \ “Prediction is very difficult, especially of the future.” | `\ —Niels Bohr | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Yet another unicode WTF

2009-06-05 Thread Ben Finney
"\u03bb\n".encode("utf-8"))' > foo ; cat foo λ = -- \ “Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than | `\ it ceases to be serious when people laugh.” —George Bernard Shaw | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Uppercase/Lowercase on unicode

2009-06-05 Thread Ben Finney
r()) ÁÈÏÖÚÑ -- \ “I was sad because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no | `\ feet. So I said, ‘Got any shoes you're not using?’” —Steven | _o__) Wright | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Is using range() in for loops really Pythonic?

2008-05-11 Thread Ben Finney
3100/#built-in-namespace>. -- \ “Isn’t it enough to 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

Convention for name indicating "don't care about the value" (was: Is using range() in for loops really Pythonic?)

2008-05-11 Thread Ben Finney
Carl Banks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On May 11, 6:44 pm, Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > In such cases, the name 'dummy' is conventionally bound to the items > > from the iterator, for clarity of purpose:: > > > > for dumm

Re: anonymous assignment

2008-05-11 Thread Ben Finney
lier today. (good sigmonster, have a cookie) -- \"Choose mnemonic identifiers. If you can't remember what | `\mnemonic means, you've got a problem." —Larry Wall | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Is using range() in for loops really Pythonic?

2008-05-11 Thread Ben Finney
John Salerno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ben Finney wrote: > > > John Salerno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> num = 33 > >> > >> for x in xrange(10): > >> print num += 1 > > > > Which is better done by 

Re: Is using range() in for loops really Pythonic?

2008-05-11 Thread Ben Finney
is, IMO, worth the effort of choosing a meaningful name. -- \ "Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does | `\ knowledge." —Charles Darwin, _The Descent of Man_, 1871 | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: anonymous assignment

2008-05-11 Thread Ben Finney
bove statement is executed. Name binding doesn't copy the values, it merely binds a name to them. There's no "variable" in the above statement. -- \ “Holy human pressure cookers, Batman!” —Robin | `\ | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Is using range() in for loops really Pythonic?

2008-05-12 Thread Ben Finney
Ivan Illarionov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 12 May 2008 16:24:23 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > [...] > > That is also regrettably common in Python code. It still suffers > > from being unnecessarily ambiguous, since there are *also* plenty > > of loops using

Re: Is using range() in for loops really Pythonic?

2008-05-12 Thread Ben Finney
he code a few times. It's implicit rather than explicit. -- \ "As I bit into the nectarine, it had a crisp juiciness about it | `\ that was very pleasurable - until I realized it wasn't a | _o__)nectarine at all, but A HUMAN HEAD!!" -- Jack Handey |

Re: Is using range() in for loops really Pythonic?

2008-05-12 Thread Ben Finney
s. -- \ "Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to | `\ another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one!'" -- | _o__) C.S. Lewis | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Is using range() in for loops really Pythonic?

2008-05-13 Thread Ben Finney
' behaviour making 'range' obsolete. Which, as I pointed out earlier in the thread, it is in Python 3.0. -- \ "Yesterday I parked my car in a tow-away zone. When I came back | `\ the entire area was missing." -- Steven Wright | _o__)

Re: [off-topic] Usenet

2008-05-13 Thread Ben Finney
y of fear — not absence | `\ of fear. -- Mark Twain, _Pudd'n'head Wilson_ | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Why can't I import this?

2008-05-13 Thread Ben Finney
all. Thanks for the aphorism. You're still no closer to actually getting a useful answer, until you can provide the information Diez explained that we need. -- \ "I used to be a proofreader for a skywriting company." -- | `\

Re: built in list generator?

2008-05-13 Thread Ben Finney
ht | `\be wrong." -- Chris Torek | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: named tuple mutability

2008-05-14 Thread Ben Finney
t is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at | `\once.” —David Hume | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: [off-topic] Usenet

2008-05-15 Thread Ben Finney
essages, and are effectively the same forum, has nothing to do with Gmane. That situation predates, and is unaffected by, the introduction of Gmane. -- \“Good morning, Pooh Bear,” said Eeyore gloomily. “If it is a | `\ good morning,” he said. “Which I doubt,” sai

Re: Sanitised Newsgroup Feeds?

2008-05-15 Thread Ben Finney
-- \ "Are you pondering what I'm pondering?" "I think so, Brain, but | `\pants with horizontal stripes make me look chubby." -- _Pinky | _o__) and The Brain_ | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: named tuple mutability

2008-05-15 Thread Ben Finney
c." -- Lily Tomlin | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Instance of class "object"

2008-05-16 Thread Ben Finney
rom it. I'm interested to know the answer to your question; thanks for asking it. -- \ "Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure | `\ is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed." -- Jane | _o__) Wagner, via Lily Tomlin | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Get all the instances of one class

2008-05-16 Thread Ben Finney
ubt and uncertainty!” | `\—Vroomfondel, _The Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy_, | _o__) Douglas Adams | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Separate output for log file and stdout

2008-05-16 Thread Ben Finney
.python.org/doc/lib/module-logging>? It appears to meet your listed requirements, without need of external dependencies. -- \"I went to the hardware store and bought some used paint. It | `\ was in the shape of a house." -- Steven Wright | _o__)

Re: New to Python, Discussion Groups.

2008-05-18 Thread Ben Finney
cussion forums. -- \ "I bet one legend that keeps recurring throughout history, in | `\ every culture, is the story of Popeye." -- Jack Handey | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: unittest, how to recursively run tests?

2008-05-19 Thread Ben Finney
hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be | _o__)appreciated." —Edsger W. Dijkstra | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: scaling problems

2008-05-19 Thread Ben Finney
is one for others to speak to; I don't have experience with large web applications. -- \ "I was gratified to be able to answer promptly and I did. I | `\said I didn't know." -- Mark Twain, _Life on the Mississippi_ | _o__)

Re: Code/test ratio wrt static vs dynamic typing

2008-05-20 Thread Ben Finney
tellite | `\ picture of the entire Earth. On the back he wrote, 'Wish you | _o__) were here'." -- Steven Wright | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

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