On 2017-03-16 09:45 AM, Robin Becker wrote:
On 15/03/2017 13:53, Steve D'Aprano wrote:
You probably can't make a whale fly just by changing the class to
bird. It
will need wings, and feathers, at the very least.
the whale in the Hitchhiker's Guide found itself flying without feathers
or wings
On 2017-03-17 10:09 PM, Joel Goldstick wrote:
This is not a useful conversation. It has been had over and over in
the past. Some people like tabs, some like spaces. In python you can
use either, but you must stick to one or the other
s/must/should/
Technically you can use both if you are ca
On 2017-03-18 09:46 AM, Mikhail V wrote:
Not to judge, but usually such opinions come from determined
And he probably wasn't being facetious.
Butyouareprobablyright.Spaceisawasteofspace.
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On 2017-03-18 11:18 AM, Mikhail V wrote:
On 18 March 2017 at 05:02, Ben Finney wrote:
Feel free to start your own discussion forum for your new programming
language that forbids spaces for indentation. That language will never
be Python, so please don't ask us to discuss it here.
Slight note
On 06/25/17 12:10, Steve D'Aprano wrote:
py> isinstance(KeyboardInterrupt(), Exception)
False
py> isinstance(ValueError, Exception)
False
That's because KeyboardInterrupt is not a subclass of Exception. If you
want to catch that as well you need to check against BaseException.
https://docs.
On 06/28/17 17:59, Steve D'Aprano wrote:
On Thu, 29 Jun 2017 01:56 am, Peter Pearson wrote:
(Blushing) Thanks. Life is getting difficult for us JavaScript paranoids.
Its not paranoia if they're really out to get you.
https://www.cnet.com/news/javascript-opens-doors-to-browser-based-attacks/
On 07/27/2017 02:31 AM, Gregory Ewing wrote:
I'd like to add that what you should really be looking for is
not a Python programmer as such, but simply a good, competent
programmer.
Any decent programmer will be able to quickly pick up what
they need to know about Python on the job. If they can't
On 07/27/2017 09:34 AM, Rhodri James wrote:
On 27/07/17 13:24, D'Arcy Cain wrote:
Lesson: Look for programmers, not Python (or Perl or C or C++ or Java
or...) programmers.
This isn't universally true, I'm afraid. A friend of mine who is a very
good C/assembler programmer si
On 07/27/2017 09:59 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
If they have only ever used a single language, that may be a warning
sign.
Or if they list every language that they have ever smelled.
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On 08/22/2017 10:14 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
Please don't. It wastes space which is better used on the subject. If
you want the mailing list prepended, then configure procmail (or
whatever) to do it for you.
Better yet, put it in its own folder.
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Vybe Networks Inc.
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On 6/14/25 23:53, jmhannon.ucdavis--- via Python-list wrote:
Greetings. We (the group that I work with) have "inherited" some Python
scripts that were written years ago, using Python 2.
We're trying to upgrade the scripts so that they work in our current
environment:
https://www.scoutapm.com/
On 2023-11-01 17:17, Chris Angelico via Python-list wrote:
On Thu, 2 Nov 2023 at 08:09, Grant Edwards via Python-list
wrote:
Make sure it has an '@' in it. Possibly require at least one '.'
after the '@'.
No guarantee that there'll be a dot after the at. (Technically there's
no guarantee of
On 2023-11-02 02:04, Chris Angelico via Python-list wrote:
On Thu, 2 Nov 2023 at 15:20, AVI GROSS via Python-list
wrote:
Yes, it would be nice if there was a syntax for sending a test message sort
of like an ACK that is not delivered to the recipient but merely results in
some status being sen
On 2023-11-02 00:18, AVI GROSS via Python-list wrote:
Yes, it would be nice if there was a syntax for sending a test message sort
of like an ACK that is not delivered to the recipient but merely results in
some status being sent back such as DELIVERABLE or NO SUCH USER or even
MAILBOX FULL.
It
On 2023-11-05 00:39, Grant Edwards via Python-list wrote:
Definitely. Syntactic e-mail address "validation" is one of the most
useless and widely broken things on the Interwebs. People who do
anything other than require an '@' (and optionally make you enter the
same @-containing string twice) ar
On 2023-11-05 06:48, Jon Ribbens via Python-list wrote:
Sometimes I think that these sorts of stupid, wrong, validation are the
fault of idiot managers. When it's apostrophes though I'm suspicious
that it may be idiot programmers who don't know how to prevent SQL
injection attacks without just sa
On 2023-11-07 08:40, Grant Edwards via Python-list wrote:
If you, as a web developer, want the user to enter a text-message
capable phone number, then ASK FOR THAT!
And you may as well ask if they even want you to send texts whether they
can technically receive them or not.
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On 2024-04-01 12:35, Joel Goldstick via Python-list wrote:
On Mon, Apr 1, 2024 at 1:26 PM Piergiorgio Sartor via Python-list
^^^
from math import *
a = 2
b = 3
print( a * b )
I guess the operator "*" can be imported from any module... :-)
No import is necessary.
Of cour
On 11/13/24 02:12, Roel Schroeven via Python-list wrote:
What I most often do is use one logfile per day, with the date in the
filename. Then simply delete all files older than 7 days, or 30 days, or
whatever is useful for the task at hand. Not only does that sidestep any
issues with rotating l
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