Re: [OT(?)] Ubuntu 18 vim now defaults to 4-space tabs

2019-09-10 Thread Eli the Bearded
In comp.lang.python, Tobiah wrote: >> Your subject missed a critical word: vim. > It's there! I added it. > > Run vim. Then ':set' to see what's set different than default. Then, > > if it is tabstop you want to know about, ':verbose set tabstop?' will > > tell you where that setting was last a

Re: Unicode UCS2, UCS4 and ... UCS1

2019-09-17 Thread Eli the Bearded
In comp.lang.python, moi wrote: > I hope, one day, for those who are interested in Unicode, > they find a book, publication, ... which will explain > what is UCS1. There isn't anything called UCS1. There is a UTF-1, but don't use it. UTF-8 is better in every way. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U

Re: python3 subprocess run sudo cmd in remote failed

2019-09-17 Thread Eli the Bearded
In comp.lang.python, lampahome wrote: > what I tried many times like enter password, but it failed. > I just want to use ps.stdin.write(password) to send password, but it always > jump password prompt immediately. Passwords are frequently read from stderr, not stdin, so that tools can get a huma

Re: Generate simple image on a standalone Raspberrry Pi

2019-09-27 Thread Eli the Bearded
In comp.lang.python, Roy Hann wrote: > I am designing a mobile application to run on a Raspberry Pi 3 model B. > It will not have any Internet access. I need to generate a static image > consisting of a simple arc representing (say) a speedometer or a > pressure gauge. The image will need to be r

Re: question about making an App for Android

2019-10-11 Thread Eli the Bearded
In comp.lang.python, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > pyotr filipivich declaimed the following: >> "A simple program" to divide the amount of "today's" daylight into 12 >> even '"hours", so that Dawn begins the First hour, the third hour is >> mid-morning, noon is the middle of the day, the ninth hour

Re: How to decode UTF strings?

2019-10-26 Thread Eli the Bearded
In comp.lang.python, DFS wrote: > On 10/25/2019 10:57 PM, MRAB wrote: >> Here's a simple example, based in your code: >> >> from email.header import decode_header >> >> def test(header, default_encoding='utf-8'): >> parts = [] >> >> for data, encoding in decode_header(header): >>

Re: Artifact repository?

2019-10-31 Thread Eli the Bearded
In comp.lang.python, Paul Rubin wrote: > Dan Stromberg writes: >> By an Artifact Repository, I mean something that can version largish >> binaries that are mostly produced by a build process. > I'm not familiar with the term "artifact repository" and hadn't heard of > the ones you mentioned, but

on sorting things

2019-12-18 Thread Eli the Bearded
I recently saw a link to an old post on a blog and then started looking at the newer posts. This one: https://leancrew.com/all-this/2019/11/the-key-to-sorting-in-python/ discusses ways to deal with useful sorting of movie / television show titles. Some initial words should be re-ordered for sorti

Re: on sorting things

2019-12-19 Thread Eli the Bearded
In comp.lang.python, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote: > Eli the Bearded wrote: >> But what caught my eye most, as someone relatively new to Python but >> with long experience in C in Perl, is sorting doesn't take a s/C in /C and/ Ugh. >> *comparison* fun

Re: Getting a 401 from requests.get, but not when logging in via the browser.

2020-04-20 Thread Eli the Bearded
In comp.lang.python, wrote: > However, one of them immediately returns a 401. I'm using the exact > same credentials to check this site, as when loggin in. > > Also, interestingly, it returns the 401 right away. I tried setting the > timeout value for a ridiculously long time, but it passes th

Re: Getting a 401 from requests.get, but not when logging in via the browser.

2020-04-20 Thread Eli the Bearded
In comp.lang.python, wrote, in reply to me: > "What do you think it is doing?" > I thought the timeout was waiting for a successful connection. A successful *connection* and a successful *authentication* are different things. $ telnet example.com 80 Trying 255.11.22.123... Connected to example

Re: Getting a 401 from requests.get, but not when logging in via the browser.

2020-04-20 Thread Eli the Bearded
In comp.lang.python, wrote: > On Monday, April 20, 2020 at 5:02:23 PM UTC-4, Eli the Bearded wrote: > > For an example, back to telnet again. > > > > $ telnet example.com 80 > > Trying 255.11.22.123... > > Connected to example.com > > Escape character is &

news.bbs.nz is spewing duplicates to comp.lang.python

2020-04-21 Thread Eli the Bearded
This just arrived at my newserver: Path: reader2.panix.com!panix!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!news.unit0.net!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!4.us.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!xmission!csiph.com!news.bbs.nz!.POSTED.agency.bbs.nz!not-for-mail From: Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> (E

Re: why no camelCase in PEP 8?

2020-05-18 Thread Eli the Bearded
In comp.lang.python, Paul Rubin wrote: > I don't know if this was the explicit motivation for PEP 8, but it > has always seemed valid to me: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_case#Readability_studies There are three things cited there. One is a NYTimes story from 2009 "Against Camel Case"

Re: why no camelCase in PEP 8?

2020-05-18 Thread Eli the Bearded
In comp.lang.python, Paul Rubin wrote: > Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> writes: >> One of those is easier to "grep" for than the other. > grep -i might help. Or might not, if I want case sensitivity in the rest of my RE. Elijah -- can, but doesn&#

Re: Changing strings in files

2020-11-10 Thread Eli the Bearded
In comp.lang.python, Loris Bennett wrote: > Manfred Lotz writes: > > My idea was to do > > > > - os.scandir and for each file > >- check if a file is a text file ^^ > >- if it is not a text file skip that file > >- change the string as often as it

Re: Changing strings in files

2020-11-10 Thread Eli the Bearded
In comp.lang.python, Chris Angelico wrote: > Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> wrote: >> Read first N lines of a file. If all parse as valid UTF-8, consider it text. >> That's probably the rough method file(1) and Perl's -T use. (In >> particular a

Re: dayofyear is not great when going into a new year

2021-01-05 Thread Eli the Bearded
In comp.lang.python, Chris Angelico wrote: > There are multiple definitions for "day of year", depending on how you > want to handle certain oddities. The simplest is to identify Jan 1st > as 1, Jan 2nd as 2, etc, to Dec 31st as either 365 or 366; but some > libraries will define the year as star

Re: dayofyear is not great when going into a new year

2021-01-05 Thread Eli the Bearded
In comp.lang.python, Mats Wichmann wrote: > "workweeks" has always been fun, ISO standard or not, there's been a > variation for ages since people don't seem to always follow ISO for > that. I spent over a decade at a place that lived and died by their > WorkWeek references ("due WW22" or the

Inline::Python, pyperl, etc.

2005-08-23 Thread Eli Stevens (WG.c)
about this on inline@perl.org, but things seem pretty dead over there). Is anyone actually using any of this stuff? Thanks for any feedback, Eli [*] Obviously this is a golden ideal. We're willing to make compromises to get things to work. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Inline::Python, pyperl, etc.

2005-08-24 Thread Eli Stevens (WG.c)
Sybren Stuvel wrote: > Eli Stevens (WG.c) enlightened us with: > >>I've bumped into some snags with pyperl (can't import perl2.so? But >>it's right there in site-packages/ !), and I'm wondering if it's bitrot >>or a config error on my end. &

Re: question about speed of sequential string replacement vs regex or

2011-09-28 Thread Eli the Bearded
In comp.lang.perl.misc, Willem wrote: > In Perl, it would be applicable. You see, in Perl, you can call a function > in the replacement of the regex substitution, which can then look up the > html entity and return the wanted unicode literal. A function? I'd use a hash. > I think you can do th

Re: Printing UTF-8 mail to terminal

2024-11-02 Thread Eli the Bearded via Python-list
In comp.lang.python, Gilmeh Serda wrote: > Python 3.12.6 (main, Sep 8 2024, 13:18:56) [GCC 14.2.1 20240805] on linux > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. > >>> help('modules') > > Please wait a moment while I gather a list of all available modules... > > Ass

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