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> 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
your requirements.
> On Fri, 03 Apr 2009 08:51:47 +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
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> > keyboards have “Alt”, you see (maybe none, when Emacs first
> > started referring to the Meta modifier?).
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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
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> Ben Finney wrote:
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> >to introduce yourself if you met me for the first time in a similar
> >context but fac
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> On Apr 22, 5:00 am, Ben Finney wrote:
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> > tested from outside the module. If I'm not able to easily introspect
> > the code at an interactive prompt, that's a clear s
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> > I believe you just:
> > pylint --generate-rcfile > ~/.pylintrc
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> This is the part that I'm asking how to do. What documentation is there
> on this configuration fil
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> > argument the files that *are* compiled C extension modules; it
> > remains otherwise unchanged.
>
> But the compiled C extension modules are cal
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Tobias Weber writes:
> In article <87zldmcod8@benfinney.id.au>,
> Ben Finney wrote:
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> > Yes. Both Emacs and Vim will do exactly this when re-wrapping a
>
> Thought so. And editors without a learning curve?
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Which, more precisely, creates a *new* list as the concatenation of the
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> > In such cases, the name 'dummy' is conventionally bound to the items
> > from the iterator, for clarity of purpose::
> >
> > for dumm
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> > John Salerno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> >> num = 33
> >>
> >> for x in xrange(10):
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> > Which is better done by
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> > That is also regrettably common in Python code. It still suffers
> > from being unnecessarily ambiguous, since there are *also* plenty
> > of loops using
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