Re: Aggressive language on python-list

2012-10-18 Thread Curt
On 2012-10-17, Dwight Hutto wrote: >> Instead of "diabetic", try inserting the word "black" or "female". >> There's no shame in those either, yet I think that the offensiveness >> of either of those words used in that context should be obvious. > > To take it a little further, what if I said I got

Re: Python Gotcha's?

2012-04-15 Thread Curt
On 2012-04-15, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> >> We disagree. Not surprising in a "gotcha's" thread. > > Yes, but I have reasons for disagreeing, which you trimmed out of your > response. If you have reasons for thinking that a separate file extension > for Python 3 is a good idea, you are keeping i

Re: Academic citation of Python

2012-06-17 Thread Curt
On 2012-06-16, Christian Heimes wrote: > > Actually it's "van Rossum, Guido", not "Rossum, Guido van". The "van" is > part of the family name, not a middle name. It's like "da Vinci, > Leonardo" or "von Sydow, Max". On one occasion Guido complained that > Americans always get his name wrong. I've

Re: Academic citation of Python

2012-06-17 Thread Curt
On 2012-06-18, Ben Finney wrote: >> > >> > Actually it's "van Rossum, Guido", not "Rossum, Guido van". The >> > "van" is part of the family name, not a middle name. It's like "da >> > Vinci, Leonardo" or "von Sydow, Max". On one occasion Guido >> > complained that Americans always get his name wro

Re: Use Chrome's / Firefox's dev-tools in python

2021-05-23 Thread Curt
On 2021-05-21, max pothier wrote: > Hello, Thanks for you answer! Actually my goal is not to > automatically get the file once I open the page, but more to > periodically check the site and get a notification when there's new > homework or, at the morning, know when an hour is cancelled, so I > d

Re: Use Chrome's / Firefox's dev-tools in python

2021-05-23 Thread Curt
On 2021-05-23, max pothier wrote: > @Curt: That is notifications for the ENT app, I want the notifications > for the app named ProNote. ENT is for e-mails and Pronote for > homework, quotes, etc. https://doc.index-education.com/fr-fr/pn/2018/N/Notification.htm Notifications dan

Re: Use Chrome's / Firefox's dev-tools in python

2021-05-23 Thread Curt
On 2021-05-23, max pothier wrote: > Already tried this, only works for messages and not for homework etc. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.androz2091.pronote_notifications&gl=FR Notifications pour Pronote vous permet de recevoir des notifications push lorsqu'une nouvelle note

Re: A great Alan Kay quote

2005-02-11 Thread Curt
On 2005-02-10, Francis Girard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think I've been enthouasistic too fast. While reading the article I grew > more and more uncomfortable with sayings like : Yes, you may have grown uncomfortable because what you "read" has, at best, only the most tenuous of relation

Re: Getting milliseconds in Python

2005-02-17 Thread Curt
On 2005-02-16, Brian Beck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>>seconds * 100 = milliseconds >> >> >> are you sure you know what a millisecond is? >> >> (duck) > > Touché. > > But it was a typo. Oh, you meant 'seconds / 100 = milliseconds'? (canard) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pyt

Re: TKinter

2005-02-28 Thread Curt
On 2005-02-27, James Stroud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I thought the T was silent. Kay-Inner, nasally? >> So, is it pronounced 'Tee-Kinter', or 'Tee-Kay-Inter'? >> I don't want to appear as a dork down the pub. -- There is no intelligence without being. I believe the inverse to be equally t

Re: [OT] Re: Benefit and belief

2011-10-18 Thread Curt
On 2011-10-17, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > That is no more deep and meaningful than the fact that while some people > say "one plus one equals two", others say "eins und eins gleich zwei", > some say "un et un fait deux" and some say "один и один дает два". Most of us

Re: [OT] Re: Benefit and belief

2011-10-19 Thread Curt
On 2011-10-19, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 14:23:49 +0000, Curt wrote: > >> Most of us say "un et un _font_ deux," in fact, because we know how to >> conjugate as well as perform simple arithmetic. >> >> :-) > > > I blame G

Re: ANNOUNCE: xlrd 0.5.2 -- extract data from Excel spreadsheets

2006-03-30 Thread curt
the 2nd url seems to be a dead link? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

online story about python

2005-10-26 Thread Curt Finch
http://software.itmanagersjournal.com/software/05/10/25/1631220.shtml?tid=12 has a good article that talks about why python rocks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Fastest database solution

2009-02-06 Thread Curt Hash
I'm writing a small application for detecting source code plagiarism that currently relies on a database to store lines of code. The application has two primary functions: adding a new file to the database and comparing a file to those that are already stored in the database. I started out using

Re: Fastest database solution

2009-02-06 Thread Curt Hash
On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 2:12 AM, Roger Binns wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Curt Hash wrote: > > I started out using sqlite3, but was not satisfied with the performance > > results. I then tried using psycopg2 with a local postgresql serv

Re: Fastest database solution

2009-02-06 Thread Curt Hash
On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 5:19 AM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > On 2009-02-06 09:10, Curt Hash wrote: >> I'm writing a small application for detecting source code plagiarism that >> currently relies on a database to store lines of code. >> >> The application has two primary

Re: Extract an image from a RTF file

2009-02-14 Thread Curt Hash
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Terry Reedy wrote: > > bryan.fodn...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> I have a large amount of RTF files where the only thing in them is an >> image. I would like to extract them an save them as a png. >> Eventually, I would like to also grab some text that is on the image

Re: Searching Google?

2009-02-17 Thread Curt Hash
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Oltmans wrote: > > Hey all, > > I want to search Google.com using a specific keyword and I just want > to read back the response using Pyhon. After some thorough Googling I > realized that I probably need a Search API key to do that. Is that > correct? Now, I don't

Re: Newby Question for reading a file

2009-02-19 Thread Curt Hash
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 12:07 PM, steven.oldner wrote: > > On Feb 19, 12:40 pm, Mike Driscoll wrote: > > On Feb 19, 12:32 pm, "steven.oldner" wrote: > > > > > Simple question but I haven't found an answer. I program in ABAP, and > > > in ABAP you define the data structure of the file and move t