Re: sys.exit(1) vs raise SystemExit vs raise

2016-04-16 Thread Ben Finney
-- \ “Geeks like to think that they can ignore politics. You can | `\leave politics alone, but politics won't leave you alone.” | _o__) —Richard M. Stallman, 2002-07-26 | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Guido sees the light: PEP 8 updated

2016-04-16 Thread Ben Finney
chnology of your terminal. It's about the technology of the brain reading the text. -- \“Fascism is capitalism plus murder.” —Upton Sinclair | `\ | _o__)

Falsehoods People Believe about PEP 8 (was: Guido sees the light: PEP 8 updated)

2016-04-16 Thread Ben Finney
columns, but no other white space. * Oh, come on, no-one would use U+000C FORM FEED in source code. -- \ “The apparent lesson of the Inquisition is that insistence on | `\ uniformity of belief is fatal to intellectual, moral, and | _o__)spiritual health.” —_The Uses Of The Past_, Herbert J. Muller | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: sys.exit(1) vs raise SystemExit vs raise

2016-04-16 Thread Ben Finney
Dennis Lee Bieber writes: > On Sat, 16 Apr 2016 16:56:10 +1000, Ben Finney > declaimed the following: > > >It seems strange that even the constant for “no error” exit status > >should be defined only for Unix :-/ > > VMS had a whole slew of "no error&qu

Re: Guido sees the light: PEP 8 updated

2016-04-17 Thread Ben Finney
make the design as clear and simple and obviously correct as feasible. -- \ “Welchen Teil von ‘Gestalt’ verstehen Sie nicht? [What part of | `\ ‘gestalt’ don't you understand?]” —Karsten M. Self | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Moderation and slight change of (de facto) policy

2016-04-17 Thread Ben Finney
sell, _Free | _o__) Thought and Official Propaganda_, 1928 | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Moderation and slight change of (de facto) policy

2016-04-17 Thread Ben Finney
because they are ignored.” —Aldous | `\Huxley | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Convert input to upper case on screen as it is typed

2016-04-18 Thread Ben Finney
Ben Finney writes: > Ben Finney writes: > > > Okay, ‘termios.tcgetattr’ will let me preserve the attributes, and > > with Dan Sommers's suggestion of which attribute to use, I may have > > a shot at setting the terminal attributes. > > This works! Except, it

Re: Guido sees the light: PEP 8 updated

2016-04-18 Thread Ben Finney
ively easy and easily comparable. -- \ “I think Western civilization is more enlightened precisely | `\ because we have learned how to ignore our religious leaders.” | _o__) —Bill Maher, 2003 | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/ma

Re: Python packages for hydrology and DEM

2016-04-19 Thread Ben Finney
earn a living.” | _o__) —Bertrand Russell, _Free Thought and Official Propaganda_, 1928 | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Guido sees the light: PEP 8 updated

2016-04-19 Thread Ben Finney
ver done | `\for me?” —Groucho Marx | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Guido sees the light: PEP 8 updated

2016-04-19 Thread Ben Finney
e world”. So your claim is false. -- \ “I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I | `\consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no | _o__) superhuman authority behind it.” —Albert Einstein, letter, 1953 | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: def __init__(self):

2016-04-25 Thread Ben Finney
an/listinfo/tutor> which is specially focussed on helping Python beginners. -- \ “Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free | `\ than Christianity has made them good.” —Henry L. Mencken | _o__)

Re: def __init__(self):

2016-04-26 Thread Ben Finney
it today. Sure | `\ enough, I couldn't see any forests.” —Steven Wright | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Immediate Requirement: use the Python Job Board for recruitment (was: !! Immediate Requirement : IBM BPM Technical Lead at Warren, NJ !!)

2016-04-26 Thread Ben Finney
r that purpose https://www.python.org/jobs/>. -- \ “I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me | `\as members.” —Groucho Marx | _o__) | Ben Finney -- h

Re: How to read from serial port?

2016-04-26 Thread Ben Finney
then please do that. -- \ “I have one rule to live by: Don't make it worse.” —Hazel | `\ Woodcock | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Differences between Class(Object) and Class(Dict) for dictionary usage?

2016-04-26 Thread Ben Finney
od pro/con discussion of the use case you're trying to address :-) -- \“I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance | `\ any day.” —Douglas Adams | _o__)

Pythonic style (was: Differences between Class(Object) and Class(Dict) for dictionary usage?)

2016-04-27 Thread Ben Finney
Twain, _Pudd'n'head Wilson_ | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Pythonic style

2016-04-27 Thread Ben Finney
2010-01-12 | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python Madlibs.py code and error message

2016-04-27 Thread Ben Finney
’ described at that URL. -- \ “To have the choice between proprietary software packages, is | `\ being able to choose your master. Freedom means not having a | _o__)master.” —Richard M. Stallman, 2007-05-16 | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python Madlibs.py code and error message

2016-04-27 Thread Ben Finney
Stephen Hansen writes: > On Wed, Apr 27, 2016, at 10:32 PM, Ben Finney wrote: > > Better: when you have many semantically-different values, use named > > (not positional) parameters in the format string. […] > > > > https://docs.python.org/3/library/string.html#fo

Re: Python Madlibs.py code and error message

2016-04-28 Thread Ben Finney
Stephen Hansen writes: > On Wed, Apr 27, 2016, at 11:55 PM, Ben Finney wrote: > > Everything I described above works fine in Python 2. > > This response is completely unhelpful. I'll let the OP be the judge of that. > The OP is using Python 2, and using %-formatting, and

Re: about special characters

2016-04-29 Thread Ben Finney
the behaviour. We will need to be able to run the same program. * The complete error output (the full traceback). -- \ “Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual | `\ profit without individual responsibility.” —Ambrose Bierce, | _o__)

Re: about special characters

2016-04-29 Thread Ben Finney
Steven D'Aprano writes: > On Sat, 30 Apr 2016 09:52 am, Ben Finney wrote: > > > (There has never been a Python 27. I assume Python 2.7 is what you > > meant.) > > I believe that Python X.Y shows up as "PythonXY" under Windows. Then that's a bug wh

Re: manpage writing [rst, asciidoc, pod] was [Re: What should Python apps do when asked to show help?]

2016-04-29 Thread Ben Finney
experiment! -- \ “The process by which banks create money is so simple that the | `\ mind is repelled.” —John Kenneth Galbraith, _Money: Whence It | _o__) Came, Where It Went_, 1975 | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Writing manual pages using Python code (was: manpage writing)

2016-04-29 Thread Ben Finney
mind is repelled.” —John Kenneth Galbraith, _Money: Whence It | _o__) Came, Where It Went_, 1975 | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: about special characters

2016-04-29 Thread Ben Finney
Terry Reedy writes: > On 4/29/2016 9:48 PM, Ben Finney wrote: > > Steven D'Aprano writes: > > > >> On Sat, 30 Apr 2016 09:52 am, Ben Finney wrote: > >> > >>> (There has never been a Python 27. I assume Python 2.7 is what you > >&g

Re: What should Python apps do when asked to show help?

2016-04-29 Thread Ben Finney
real estate is owned.” —Frank Zappa | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: What should Python apps do when asked to show help?

2016-04-29 Thread Ben Finney
misrepresent the position being made :-) -- \“My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. | `\ Unless there are three other people.” —Orson Welles | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.py

Re: Fastest way to retrieve and write html contents to file

2016-05-01 Thread Ben Finney
hen you may have more meaningfully comparable measurements. -- \ “We are no more free to believe whatever we want about God than | `\ we are free to adopt unjustified beliefs about science or | _o__) history […].” —Sam Harris, _The End of Faith_, 2004 | Ben Finney -- ht

Re: Need help understanding list structure

2016-05-02 Thread Ben Finney
“All television is educational television. The question is: | `\ what is it teaching?” —Nicholas Johnson | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Use __repr__ to show the programmer's representation (was: Need help understanding list structure)

2016-05-03 Thread Ben Finney
n for your custom type, if you can. -- \“Intellectual property is to the 21st century what the slave | `\ trade was to the 16th.” —David Mertz | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How to call a Python Class?

2016-05-03 Thread Ben Finney
p? If we can see the exact code you tried, perhaps. -- \ “Holy hole in a donut, Batman!” —Robin | `\ | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: redirecting stdout and stderr to /dev/null

2016-05-07 Thread Ben Finney
am into a well-behaved Unix daemon. -- \ “I wish 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.pyt

Re: redirecting stdout and stderr to /dev/null

2016-05-07 Thread Ben Finney
rmation | `\ technology as a McDonalds Certified Food Specialist is to the | _o__) culinary arts.” —Michael Bacarella | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: TypeError: unorderable types: function() < int()

2016-05-10 Thread Ben Finney
it, so use the return value:: if totaltime() < 10: # … -- \ “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 |

Why online forums have bad behaviour (was: Steve D'Aprano, you're the "master". What's wrong with this concatenation statement?)

2016-05-12 Thread Ben Finney
ullying and other schoolyard reflexes. We have to be consistent in rejecting such behaviour from our community. -- \ “Writing a book is like washing an elephant: there no good | `\place to begin or end, and it's hard to keep track of what | _o__)

Re: Average calculation Program *need help*

2016-05-12 Thread Ben Finney
eaching of the fundamentals of Python. -- \ “If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we | `\ despise, we don't believe in it at all.” —Noam Chomsky, | _o__) 1992-11-25 | Ben Finney -- https://mail.pyt

Distinction between “class” and “type”

2016-05-12 Thread Ben Finney
onsibility of intellectuals to tell the truth | `\and to expose lies.” —Noam Chomsky, 1967-02-23 | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Why online forums have bad behaviour

2016-05-14 Thread Ben Finney
Ben Finney writes: > TL;DR: because we're all human, and human behaviour needs either > immediate face-to-face feedback or social enforcement to correct > selfishness and abrasiveness. Some people rightly regret this universal human tendency. I have been contacted privately

Re: sqlite 3 attribute error __exit__

2016-05-15 Thread Ben Finney
dering what I'm pondering?” “I think so, | `\Brain, but if we get Sam Spade, we'll never have any puppies.” | _o__) —_Pinky and The Brain_ | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Resources/pointers for writing maintable, testable Python

2016-05-18 Thread Ben Finney
_Chicago Brothers of the Book_, | _o__) 1917 | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: for / while else doesn't make sense

2016-05-20 Thread Ben Finney
| _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: for / while else doesn't make sense

2016-05-22 Thread Ben Finney
o think that the task of physics is to find out | `\ how nature *is*. Physics concerns what we can *say* about | _o__) nature…” —Niels Bohr | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Question about imports and packages

2016-05-24 Thread Ben Finney
“I cannot be angry at God, in whom I do not believe.” —Simone | `\ De Beauvoir | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Handling exceptions with Py2 and Py3

2016-05-27 Thread Ben Finney
bout new things, as long as | `\ they're exactly like the old ones.” —Charles F. Kettering | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Handling exceptions with Py2 and Py3

2016-05-27 Thread Ben Finney
Random832 writes: > On Fri, May 27, 2016, at 09:18, Ben Finney wrote: > > try: > > short_routine() > > except ConnectionRefusedError as exc: > > handle_connection_refused(exc) > > except OSError as exc: > >

Re: Best way to inplace alter a list going into postgres

2016-05-30 Thread Ben Finney
“Firmness in decision is often merely a form of stupidity. It | `\indicates an inability to think the same thing out twice.” | _o__) —Henry L. Mencken | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Best way to inplace alter a list going into postgres

2016-05-30 Thread Ben Finney
cs,” respond those who don't want | _o__) to learn.” —Richard M. Stallman, 2002 | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Multiple inheritance, super() and changing signature

2016-05-31 Thread Ben Finney
manually anyway. Use ‘**kwargs’, and always pass along the remaining ‘**kwargs’ minus-any-parameters-you-already-handled, to protect your existing classes from unnecessary signature changes. -- \ “Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far as | `\ society is free to use the results.” —Richard M. Stallman | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Best way to inplace alter a list going into postgres

2016-05-31 Thread Ben Finney
, _The Case | _o__) For God_, 2009 | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Storing data in mysql

2016-06-02 Thread Ben Finney
I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. | `\ But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take | _o__)it seriously.” —Douglas Adams | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Multiple inheritance, super() and changing signature

2016-06-03 Thread Ben Finney
s in favor of atheism upset you, explain why | `\they’re wrong. If you can’t do that, that’s your problem.” | _o__) —Amanda Marcotte, 2015-02-13 | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Multiple inheritance, super() and changing signature

2016-06-03 Thread Ben Finney
s’, from the next call in the chain. -- \“The difference between religions and cults is determined by | `\ how much real estate is owned.” —Frank Zappa | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Multiple inheritance, super() and changing signature

2016-06-03 Thread Ben Finney
;m glad you discovered them :-) -- \ “Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is | `\ obliged to stick to possibilities, truth isn't.” —Mark Twain, | _o__) _Following the Equator_ | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Multiple inheritance, super() and changing signature

2016-06-03 Thread Ben Finney
that's yet another reason to advocate Python 3 for all new code. -- \ “One time a cop pulled me over for running a stop sign. He | `\said, ‘Didn't you see the stop sign?’ I said, ‘Yeah, but I | _o__)don't believe everything I read.’” —Steven Wright | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Catch exception with message?

2016-06-03 Thread Ben Finney
tion hierarchy for a good example. -- \“The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the | `\ hijacking of morality by religion.” —Arthur C. Clarke, 1991 | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.py

Re: Is there any way to use the logging module adding nothing to a message

2016-06-04 Thread Ben Finney
ascinated by the mere supernatural …” —Joseph Conrad, _The | _o__) Shadow-Line_ | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Anyone know a donation app codebase?

2016-06-04 Thread Ben Finney
re, they're, it's.” —anonymous, alt.sysadmin.recovery | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Anyone know a donation app codebase?

2016-06-05 Thread Ben Finney
gestion please? I hope that helps. -- \ “It seems intuitively obvious to me, which means that it might | `\ be wrong.” —Chris Torek | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

MAthematical formula terms make for terrible names in a program (was: What's good for mathematical formulas can be bad for program code (was: how to extract a variable as parameter which has index usi

2016-06-08 Thread Ben Finney
le of science, the definition almost, | `\ is this: the sole test of the validity of any idea is | _o__) experiment.” —Richard P. Feynman | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: how to extract a variable as parameter which has index using by a for loop?

2016-06-08 Thread Ben Finney
r responses interleaved https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style>.) -- \ “The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is | `\ able to think things out for himself, without regard to the | _o__) prevailing superstitions and taboos.” —Henry L.

Re: run code error with numpy and scipy

2016-06-08 Thread Ben Finney
one* statement to make it happen, and present that example. -- \ “I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.” | `\ —Groucho Marx | _o__) | Ben Finney -

Please use the Python Job Board for recruiting (was: [recruitment message])

2016-06-13 Thread Ben Finney
ll 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: Marking a subtest as an expected failure

2016-06-21 Thread Ben Finney
report a bug that this interaction of useful features should really be easier to access. -- \ “Try adding “as long as you don't breach the terms of service – | `\ according to our sole judgement” to the end of any cloud | _o__) computing pitch.”

Re: Operator Precedence/Boolean Logic

2016-06-21 Thread Ben Finney
> False == (False or True) … >>> (False == False) or True … > Thank you for your help! I hope that helps. -- \ “[W]e are still the first generation of users, and for all that | `\ we may have invented the net, we still don't really get it.” | _o__)

Re: while Loops

2016-06-21 Thread Ben Finney
erence between a moral man and a man of honor is that | `\ the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked | _o__) and he has not been caught.” —Henry L. Mencken | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Meta decorator with parameters, defined in explicit functions

2016-06-27 Thread Ben Finney
eed, how true can it be — if it | `\ is not built from facts?” —Kathryn Schulz, 2015-10-19 | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Were is a great place to Share your finished projects?

2016-06-30 Thread Ben Finney
re of “best”. -- \ “For myself, I am an optimist — it does not seem to be much use | `\ being anything else.” —Winston Churchill, 1954-11-09 | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Fear and suspicion of lambdas, was Re: Meta decorator with parameters, defined in explicit functions

2016-07-01 Thread Ben Finney
Kowloon, Hong Kong | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: problem using pickle

2016-07-01 Thread Ben Finney
ite small. >>> len(keyword.kwlist) 33 -- \ “The best in us does not require the worst in us: Our love of | `\ other human beings does not need to be nurtured by delusion.” | _o__) —Sam Harris, at _Beyond Belief 2006_ | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Descriptor: class name precedence over instance name

2016-07-01 Thread Ben Finney
to say? -- \ “[I]t is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he | `\thinks he already knows.” —Epictetus, _Discourses_ | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Meta decorator with parameters, defined in explicit functions

2016-07-01 Thread Ben Finney
at, so I can be sure of where you expect that to go? -- \ “I knew things were changing when my Fraternity Brothers threw | `\ a guy out of the house for mocking me because I'm gay.” | _o__) —postsecret.com, 2010-01-19 | Ben Finney

Re: Fear and suspicion of lambdas, was Re: Meta decorator with parameters, defined in explicit functions

2016-07-02 Thread Ben Finney
dieter writes: > Ben Finney writes: > > ... Rather, the motivation was that a complex thing, with many > > moving parts, has an unexplained implementation: a nested set of > > functions without names to explain their part in the pattern. > > In a previous rep

Re: one command on backslash and space for review

2016-07-10 Thread Ben Finney
ecification and put it inside the ‘{’ and ‘}’ characters. -- \ “I know when I'm going to die, because my birth certificate has | `\ an expiration date.” —Steven Wright | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

What is precision of a number representation? (was: Curious Omission In New-Style Formats)

2016-07-11 Thread Ben Finney
on the evidence of our senses.” —Percy Bysshe | _o__)Shelley, _The Necessity of Atheism_, 1811 | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: What is precision of a number representation?

2016-07-11 Thread Ben Finney
Ethan Furman writes: > On 07/11/2016 01:56 PM, Ben Finney wrote: > > > Precision is not a property of the number. It is a property of the > > *representation* of that number. > > > > The representation “1×10²” has a precision of one digit. > > The represent

Re: How do you guys tackle a package with poorish documentation?

2016-07-12 Thread Ben Finney
led to by the evidence.” —Bill Moyers | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Were is a great place to Share your finished projects?

2016-07-12 Thread Ben Finney
Christian Gollwitzer writes: > Am 01.07.16 um 03:38 schrieb Ben Finney: > > If one wants to avoid vendor lock-in, Github is not best: the > > workflow tools (other than Git itself) are completely closed and not > > available for implementation on another vendor's ser

Re: Were is a great place to Share your finished projects?

2016-07-12 Thread Ben Finney
Chris Angelico writes: > On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 11:28 AM, Ben Finney > wrote: > > Pull requests. Code review. Issues. Integration with other services. > > All the social information around all of those interactions, and > > more. > > > > If *any* of that

Re: Were is a great place to Share your finished projects?

2016-07-14 Thread Ben Finney
traveller reach his starting point in the first place?” —Louise | _o__) Bogan, _Journey Around My Room_ | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: What exactly is "exact" (was Clean Singleton Docstrings)

2016-07-17 Thread Ben Finney
meant.” —Robert J. McCloskey | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: What exactly is "exact" (was Clean Singleton Docstrings)

2016-07-18 Thread Ben Finney
Random832 writes: > On Mon, Jul 18, 2016, at 00:46, Ben Finney wrote: > > What is “those”? The measurement is imprecise, the observations are > > inexact. > > > > It makes no sense to say that a number is inexact. Exactness is not > > a property of a number. &

Re: Python packages listed in PyPI

2016-07-20 Thread Ben Finney
Bohr | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python packages listed in PyPI

2016-07-20 Thread Ben Finney
“Wuh, I think | `\ so, Brain, but burlap chafes me so.” —_Pinky and The Brain_ | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Depending on enum34 from a library

2016-07-24 Thread Ben Finney
, consider what they say about how the library is expected to be used now and in the future, and choose which risk to take. -- \“If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be | `\ found out.” —Oscar Wilde, _Phrases and Philosophies for the Use | _o__)

Re: Why not allow empty code blocks?

2016-07-24 Thread Ben Finney
ime. No-one uses Emacs *as it was 25 years ago* and expects to be as proficient as someone using Emacs as it is today. -- \“Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it | `\ correct, not tried it.” —Donald Knuth, 1977-03-29 | _o__)

Re: Unittest

2016-07-25 Thread Ben Finney
t I'm pondering?” “Umm, I think so, Don | `\ Cerebro, but, umm, why would Sophia Loren do a musical?” | _o__) —_Pinky and The Brain_ | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Float

2016-07-29 Thread Ben Finney
, no matter from whom they came, if they are | `\ in opposition to human rights, are nothing but dead letters.” | _o__) —Ernestine Rose | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: gmane sending

2016-08-02 Thread Ben Finney
lairvaux, 1090–1153 CE | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Specify the database for a Django ModelForm instance

2016-08-08 Thread Ben Finney
lean, ModelForm.save, etc.)? -- \ “The sun never sets on the British Empire. But it rises every | `\morning. The sky must get awfully crowded.” —Steven Wright | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: question on the 'calendar' function

2018-11-20 Thread Ben Finney
ied with the | `\best.” —Oscar Wilde, quoted in _Chicago Brothers of the Book_, | _o__) 1917 | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: question on the 'calendar' function

2018-11-20 Thread Ben Finney
o1bigtenor writes: > On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 12:09 PM Ben Finney > wrote: > > o1bigtenor writes: > > > It could be useful to see the longer time spans as weeks rather > > > than as days but seeing the larger time frames only as months > > > woul

Re: setup.py and licensing questions

2018-12-12 Thread Ben Finney
license is a statement, preferably brief, that says exactly what the work is, who holds copyright, who receives a grant of license, and what that grants the recipient to do, under what explicit conditions. For example: Copyright © 2018 Ben Finney Purple Drachma is free software: you a

Re: Help - Python REST API

2018-12-12 Thread Ben Finney
. They can only give you answers.” —Pablo | `\ Picasso | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: When to Use Django & Flask frame work

2018-12-12 Thread Ben Finney
without needing to diverge from the default. -- \ “If I ever get real rich, I hope I'm not real mean to poor | `\ people, like I am now.” —Jack Handey | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://

Re: Loop with else clause

2019-02-05 Thread Ben Finney
assumes some other code has decided which items to handle; it becomes correspondingly simpler. -- \ “Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe | `\ or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” —Arthur C. Clarke, | _o__)

Re: Can't run setup.py offline due to setup_requires - setup.py calls home

2019-02-11 Thread Ben Finney
eve that they own culture, they are so | _o__) self-righteous about it …” —Nina Paley, 2011 | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Problem : Generator

2019-02-14 Thread Ben Finney
to information. They are the tool of choice for the internet | _o__) highwayman.” —Anthony Taylor | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: The NaNny State

2019-02-18 Thread Ben Finney
n't know what it | `\is. Every once in a while I'll be listening to the radio and I | _o__)say, ‘I think I might have written that.’” —Steven Wright | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

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