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> 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
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Ben Finney writes:
> Ben Finney writes:
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> > 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.
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> This works!
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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
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
the
behaviour. We will need to be able to run the same program.
* The complete error output (the full traceback).
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> On Sat, 30 Apr 2016 09:52 am, Ben Finney wrote:
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> > (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.
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> 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
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hen you may have more
meaningfully comparable measurements.
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If we can see the exact code you tried, perhaps.
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> 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
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dering what I'm pondering?” “I think so, |
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> 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:
> >
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Use ‘**kwargs’, and always pass along the remaining ‘**kwargs’
minus-any-parameters-you-already-handled, to protect your existing
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from the next call in the chain.
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ite small.
>>> len(keyword.kwlist)
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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
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Ethan Furman writes:
> On 07/11/2016 01:56 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
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> > 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
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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
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
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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.
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, consider what they say about how
the library is expected to be used now and in the future, and choose
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> 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
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:
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