Re: How to enter escape character in a positional string argumentfrom the command line?

2022-12-21 Thread gene heskett
have available is one root shell". It's amazing how far you can go when your hard drive has crashed and you desperately need to get one crucial login key that you thought you had saved elsewhere but hadn't. ChrisA Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be us

Re: Python 3.10 Fizzbuzz

2023-03-01 Thread gene heskett
on camera. Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page

Re: Python 3.10 Fizzbuzz

2023-03-01 Thread gene heskett
On 3/1/23 20:28, Greg Ewing via Python-list wrote: On 2/03/23 10:59 am, gene heskett wrote: Human skin always has the same color Um... no? Yes, only the intensity of the color changes, the vector angle remains the same within a degree or so. Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four

Re: Baffled by readline module

2023-03-10 Thread gene heskett
still here (on this mailing list, and a handful of others like it). More echo. And doing things, albeit at a slower pace, that I always wanted to do. Take care and stay well all. Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo

Re: Weak Type Ability for Python

2023-04-13 Thread gene heskett
.. rexxtry.rex on WindowsNT Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law

Re: .title() - annoying mistake

2021-03-22 Thread Gene Heskett
upper case. > > -- > Richard Damon I am as tired of this thread as anybody here. To me, it must be capable to subbing a considerably more caligraphic attention getting font and a bit larger in order for it to be worth its space on the drive. We can do that in openoffice and its ilk w

Re: async watch directory for new files

2021-04-24 Thread Gene Heskett
then takes an action determined by the name that was returned. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law r

Re: async watch directory for new files

2021-04-25 Thread Gene Heskett
No need for a link or URL, it should be available from the repo's of your distro. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we

Re: Unsubscribe/can't login

2021-05-05 Thread Gene Heskett
ch will send you a one time pad access to change the pw, which may update that and allow you to unsub. In extremis, write a procmail recipe to send it to /dev/null. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that

Re: Bloody rubbish

2021-05-06 Thread Gene Heskett
quot;my head" easier than I can make python work when it doesn't. I'm lurking here, trying to learn about python, but TBT, most of you are talking above my pay grade. Way too afraid you are doing some students homework rather than dropping into teacher mode, a fault of this

front end gfx for a redpitaya VNA

2021-10-23 Thread Gene Heskett
e this resource might be found? Thanks all. Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respecta

front end gfx for a redpitaya VNA

2021-10-23 Thread Gene Heskett
e this resource might be found? Never mind, I finally remembered pip3, which found it, and the linux front end now runs. All I need to do now is get the device out of my truck and plug it into my network. Progress, for some definition of the word. :o) Thank you all who might have posted the

Re: All permutations from 2 lists

2022-03-02 Thread gene heskett
lt. > > > > > > > > Alternatively, if you expect an empty list to imply some single > > > > default> > > > > > > the the experession: > > > > the_list or (the_default,) > > > > > > > > might be of use. > >

Re: All permutations from 2 lists

2022-03-02 Thread gene heskett
for > > > me. > > > > I am starting to suspect you didn't think this through. What you are > > telling here contradicts what you told earlier that if either list > > was empty, you just wanted the other list. Because then you wouldn't > > know what item

Re: Behavior of the for-else construct

2022-03-04 Thread gene heskett
'i' is not defined > > > > >>> for i in range(0): > > ... pass > > ... else: i = None > > ... > > > > >>> i > > > > ``` > > > > For this use case, `else` is perfectly named. > > What&#

Re: type lookuperror

2016-08-18 Thread Gene Heskett
the wheel. Re-inventing the wheel is not required when all it needs is a new valve stem. > ChrisA > > [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How to make a foreign function run as fast as possible in Windows?

2016-09-27 Thread Gene Heskett
have no contol on its performance? Someone in the know would have to elaborate on whether python knows about, or can cooperate with the boot time parameter 'isolcpus ='. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo

Re: Can somebody tell me what's wrong wrong with my code? I don't understand

2016-11-22 Thread Gene Heskett
ous line to see if it's somehow unfinished. > > Have a look at your two blocks of code here. See if you can spot a > difference. There is one, and it's causing your error. > > I'm hinting rather than overtly pointing it out, so you get a chance > to try this for yourself

Re: python 2.7.12 on Linux behaving differently than on Windows

2016-12-05 Thread Gene Heskett
n is to ignore the > pitfalls and forge ahead come what may. > > > Marko I like bash, use it a lot. But the ultimate language (damn the security considerations real or imagined) is still ARexx. The *nixes have not, 20 years later, a do it all language that can play on the same

Re: [OT] multicore/cpu history

2018-03-26 Thread Gene Heskett
x27;t randomly throw away events? > > -- > Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN > wlfr...@ix.netcom.comHTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/ -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and

Re: [OT] multicore/cpu history

2018-03-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 26 March 2018 12:12:46 Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > On Mon, 26 Mar 2018 11:30:54 -0400, Gene Heskett > > > declaimed the following: > >On Monday 26 March 2018 10:06:36 Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > > > > >>As I recall, the bootloader on the Ra

Re: Python Developer Survey: Python 3 usage overtakes Python 2 usage

2018-03-31 Thread Gene Heskett
act that they've actually made several assertions of their own over > the course of this. > > Do I have this right? This is how I understand debate works from > following this thread. I see the same pattern on the Flat-Earth > threads, so I think I have it right. Close enoug

Re: Filtering computer.lang.python

2018-04-10 Thread Gene Heskett
elp: <mailto:python-list-requ...@python.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list>, <mailto:python-list-requ...@python.org?subject=subscribe> Subscribing to this list at the above address will do a lot of filtering for you. Ditc

Re: Leading 0's syntax error in datetime.date module (Python 3.6)

2018-05-10 Thread Gene Heskett
th it. Computers haven't read a single 8 bit byte in years, some reading 128 or 256 bits in a single read cycle today. Bring the language into the 21st century. Its a dirty job, but somebody will have to do it eventually, why not now? -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes t

Re: Leading 0's syntax error in datetime.date module (Python 3.6)

2018-05-10 Thread Gene Heskett
ng if we ever get trinary literals. > > n for binary > t for octal > i for trinary > or should that be r for ternary? > o for duodecimal > > and of course, x for hexadecimal. > > I can just imagine the Stackoverflow posts now... > > > -- > Steve We'

Re: Usenet Gateway (was: Spam levels.)

2018-05-23 Thread Gene Heskett
ger, so I went into rant mode. Take care now. And enjoy the list but be aware that at times the spam is replaced with snarky stuff. Much of it well earned. -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that o

Re: Usenet Gateway

2018-05-23 Thread Gene Heskett
:-) > > -- > Chris Green > · You are stating an opinion, but no facts to back it up, so describe your environment that makes you write that, please. -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that o

Re: Usenet Gateway

2018-05-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 23 May 2018 19:24:52 Alan Bawden wrote: > Gene Heskett writes: > > You are stating an opinion, but no facts to back it up, so describe > > your environment that makes you write that, please. > > If he describes his environment and why he likes it, will that be

Re: Stefan's headers [was:Names and identifiers]

2018-06-08 Thread Gene Heskett
tor at a tv station) of a frivolous patent that attacked every broadcast facility in the US, demanding royalties in the 5 digit range per month for implementing what the FCC edict said we had to do WRT the EAS system. The courts weren't amused. I don't know as any of us ever cut thos

Re: Stefan's headers [was:Names and identifiers]

2018-06-08 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 08 June 2018 13:34:44 Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > Gene Heskett : > > On Friday 08 June 2018 08:18:19 Chris Angelico wrote: > >> Are news servers guaranteed to carry the X-Copyright header in all > >> transmissions? If not, the copyright notice isn't part

Re: Stefan's headers [was:Names and identifiers]

2018-06-08 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 08 June 2018 16:01:06 Larry Martell wrote: > On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 3:16 PM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > > At the moment nobody pays > > the government to enforce copyrights. > > No, everyone pays for what the government does, poorly. There, I fixed it for you Larry.

Re: Stefan's headers [was:Names and identifiers]

2018-06-08 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 08 June 2018 23:11:22 Gregory Ewing wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > > The courts weren't amused. I don't know as any of us ever cut those > > patent troll turkey's a check, > > Patent troll turkeys: Don't cut them checks, cut their necks! >

Re: Problem finding my folder via terminal

2018-06-08 Thread Gene Heskett
be that your cut/paste is sending the > > end of line as a CR (carriage return) and a NL (newline), and both > > of those are being "typed" at the paste end, resulting in double > > spaced text. Annoying. > > > > Are you using mail.google.com to read your GMa

Re: Stefan's headers [was:Names and identifiers]

2018-06-09 Thread Gene Heskett
le we may voice our opinions of the current copyright laws, they are to the advantage of companies who would have little or no reticence about silenceing dissenting opinions that might fall on the lawmakers ears. Those of you working for the man ought not to forget that. -- Cheers, Gene Heskett

Re: Stefan's headers [was:Names and identifiers]

2018-06-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 10 June 2018 14:42:02 Rick Johnson wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > > I rather like that idea. Unforch, who would be in charge of keeping > > the books uptodate? The USTPO? Of course that would expand another > > guvmnt agencies payroll x10, and its a waste of taxpa

Re: Python list vs google group

2018-06-16 Thread Gene Heskett
YZ it is a software error, all due > > to a hardware design issue that was just redefined. > > It was a software issue that manifested itself as a hardware failure.  > However, SCSI was such a temperamental beast to begin with that finger > pointing usually took as much time as diagnosin

Re: Python list vs google group

2018-06-18 Thread Gene Heskett
r to the shack and get a shotkey diode, you could make any of them work like a charm. The other choice was to find a higher voltage to run the terms on, 5.75 volts would have been lovely but made of pure unobtainium. But combine the si diode, and a psu fading with age and down to 4.85 volts on

Re: Python list vs google group

2018-06-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 18 June 2018 09:16:10 Peter Otten wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > > This biggest single thing wrong with any of those old scsi > > interfaces is the bus's 5 volt isolation diode, the designer speced > > a shotkey(sp) diode, and some damned bean counter saw the

Re: Python list vs google group

2018-06-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 18 June 2018 11:45:45 Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> writes: > > Gene Heskett wrote: > >> This biggest single thing wrong with any of those old scsi > >> interfaces is the bus's 5 volt isolation diode, the designer speced >

Re: Folk etymology, was Re: Python list vs google group

2018-06-18 Thread Gene Heskett
iode (a 6AL5) that wasn't capable of delivering a volt of video from a monitoring test point into astd 75 ohm load, and soldered one of this new HP diodes in its place. I had to lift it back out of its mount nearly 3/4" just to get it down to one volt. It didn't take me l

I'm getting a spamassassin party here

2018-06-25 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings list; Generally spamassassin only gets picky about this occasionally, but for the past several hours its working overtime on python list messages, with the major problem being the servers time stamp, a day or more in the past. Anyboy ever hear of ntpd? -- Cheers, Gene Heskett

Re: I'm getting a spamassassin party here

2018-06-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 26 June 2018 02:50:01 Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 24Jun2018 17:03, Gene Heskett wrote: > >Greetings list; > > > >Generally spamassassin only gets picky about this occasionally, but > > for the past several hours its working overtime on python list > >

I'm getting a spamassassin party here

2018-06-26 Thread Gene Heskett
From: Gene Heskett Greetings list; Generally spamassassin only gets picky about this occasionally, but for the past several hours its working overtime on python list messages, with the major problem being the servers time stamp, a day or more in the past. Anyboy ever hear of ntpd? -- Cheers

Re: Something new which all programmers world wide will appreciate

2018-06-28 Thread Gene Heskett
gt; > >> Bye, > >>Skybuck. > > > > Or, you know, someone didn't bother putting limit checks in and a > > time out of 20 the thing gets lost and starts putting the sauce > > directly on the customer. > > as a diabetic the bread base puts them

Re: Getting posts to sort chronologically in tree view

2018-07-02 Thread Gene Heskett
in T-bird and kmail. But I've zero experience with slrn. -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> --

Re: Getting posts to sort chronologically in tree view

2018-07-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 02 July 2018 18:29:17 Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2018-07-02, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Monday 02 July 2018 17:17:21 Grant Edwards wrote: > >> On 2018-07-02, T Berger wrote: > >> > Is there any way to set posts to appear chronologically in tr

Re: PEP 526 - var annotations and the spirit of python

2018-07-03 Thread Gene Heskett
at the implementation of the week performed... > Thats horrible, you never know what the true target is. And realizing it makes you a member of the club. > -- > Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN > wlfr...@ix.netcom.comHTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom

Re: File names with slashes [was Re: error in os.chdir]

2018-07-05 Thread Gene Heskett
\ spaces.txt > > ick. what I see is escaping of the most frequent Latin character. ick is a very weak adjective. For a change, why can't windows do it right? Oh wait, its windows so the question is moot. Sigh, and just one of the reasons there are zero windows mach

Re: about main()

2018-07-05 Thread Gene Heskett
ng in strong tea, and doesn't name the brand or genus of the tea, the important part was the tannic acid content.> > > > -- > Steven D'Aprano > "Ever since I learned about confirmation bias, I've been seeing > it everywhere." -- Jon Ronson -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: about main()

2018-07-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 06 July 2018 14:27:16 Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2018-07-06, Gene Heskett wrote: > > In that case, I hate to say it, but your education is sorely lacking > > in the fundamentals. Smelting for instance was discussed at length > > in the high school physics books I wa

Re: [SUSPICIOUS MESSAGE] Re: Cult-like behaviour [was Re: Kindness]

2018-07-16 Thread Gene Heskett
("\0{}\0{}".format(USERNAME, > PASSWORD)).encode("latin1")).decode( "latin1") > > versus (Python2): > >AUTH_REQ = "\0{}\0{}".format(USERNAME, PASSWORD).encode("base64") > > > Marko -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are

Re: Cult-like behaviour [was Re: Kindness]

2018-07-16 Thread Gene Heskett
; English. If "all I18N features" are disabled, would this title be > disallowed? Several of those characters are not in Latin-1; one of > them (occurring twice) isn't even in the BMP. > > ChrisA -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in d

Re: Cult-like behaviour [was Re: Kindness]

2018-07-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 16 July 2018 11:57:25 Chris Angelico wrote: > On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 1:48 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Sunday 15 July 2018 16:09:21 Chris Angelico wrote: > >> On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 4:22 AM, James Lee wrote: > >> > On 7/15/2018 3:43 AM, Steven D'

Re: Cult-like behaviour [was Re: Kindness]

2018-07-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 16 July 2018 14:01:54 Chris Angelico wrote: > On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 2:24 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Monday 16 July 2018 11:57:25 Chris Angelico wrote: > >> On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 1:48 AM, Gene Heskett > >> > > > > wrote: > >>

Re: [SUSPICIOUS MESSAGE] Re: Cult-like behaviour [was Re: Kindness]

2018-07-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 16 July 2018 15:04:53 Terry Reedy wrote: > On 7/16/2018 10:54 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Monday 16 July 2018 10:24:28 Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > >> Plus the bytes syntax is really ugly. I wish Python3 had reserved > >> '...' for byte strings and &qu

Re: can't install/run pip (Latest version of Python)

2018-07-16 Thread Gene Heskett
thing else? Hopefully not in the > >> interactive Python interpreter or IDLE! > >> 4) What Python version are you using? > >> 5) Did you try searching for the exact error message and see what > >> answers might already be out there? > >> > >> If

Re: can't install/run pip (Latest version of Python)

2018-07-17 Thread Gene Heskett
e I try very hard to stay away from. So I'll bow out and let someone more knowledgable step in. > > On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 8:47 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Monday 16 July 2018 23:06:19 S Lea wrote: > > > 'pip' not recognized as internal or external command, opera

Re: New books by O’Reilly

2018-08-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 18 August 2018 21:40:25 Larry Martell wrote: > https://imgur.com/gallery/tW1lwEl Larry; Here, it loaded very slow and the central window is empty. Was there supposed to be content? Or is my firefox busted? -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in de

Re: don't quite understand mailing list

2018-09-06 Thread Gene Heskett
vertising that they are > a rocket scientist viz. "Software Contractor, Missiles and Fire > Control" and yet doesn't know what a language runtime is or how > mailing lists work then they are asking for that kind of reply. > > Just saying. +1 -- Cheers, Gene Hesk

Re: Object-oriented philosophy

2018-09-09 Thread Gene Heskett
as a > > "Python engineer" with a straight face? I merely ask... > > We're all tinker bells. > > -- > Gilmeh And some of us are just senior citizen tinkerers, like me :) I lurk here, hoping some of it will rub into me. -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There

Re: missing- api-ms-win-crt-runtime-|1-1-0.dll

2018-09-18 Thread Gene Heskett
ttps://www.techadvisor.co.uk/how-to/windows/how-fix-api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0dll-error-3676874/> So apparently the | is a legal filename component, to a windows box. Windows never ceases to amaze me. 7 machines running here right now, but not a single windows install. -- Cheers, Gene Hes

Re: missing- api-ms-win-crt-runtime-|1-1-0.dll

2018-09-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 18 September 2018 15:59:52 MRAB wrote: > On 2018-09-18 19:43, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Tuesday 18 September 2018 12:45:38 Chandan Kumar Abhimanyu wrote: > >> how I download and install api-ms-win-crt-runtime-|1-1-0.dll > >> when I am downloading by goo

Need to find the centroid of a circular camera image

2018-09-23 Thread Gene Heskett
a bash script which I'm fair at? Thanks everybody. -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> --

Re: Need to find the centroid of a circular camera image

2018-09-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 23 September 2018 16:24:23 Oscar Benjamin wrote: > On Sun, 23 Sep 2018 at 20:45, Gene Heskett wrote: > > save the image and locate the centroid of that saved image. > > > > Is there code to do that centroid math in somebodies "bottom desk > > drawer&

Re: Need to find the centroid of a circular camera image

2018-09-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 23 September 2018 16:24:23 Oscar Benjamin wrote: > On Sun, 23 Sep 2018 at 20:45, Gene Heskett wrote: > > save the image and locate the centroid of that saved image. > > > > Is there code to do that centroid math in somebodies "bottom desk > > drawer&

Re: Need to find the centroid of a circular camera image

2018-09-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 24 September 2018 10:55:23 Chris Angelico wrote: > On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 12:54 AM Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Sunday 23 September 2018 16:24:23 Oscar Benjamin wrote: > > > On Sun, 23 Sep 2018 at 20:45, Gene Heskett > > > > wrote: > > > >

Re: [OT] master/slave debate in Python

2018-09-24 Thread Gene Heskett
decades ago, the only thing really changed is the names we use to describe it. Each generation seems to be bent on makeing a bigger stink than their parents made. It isn't pretty, and is best handled by turning down ones hearing aid. Sometimes they are smart enough to realize they are being ignor

Re: Need to find the centroid of a circular camera image

2018-09-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 24 September 2018 18:47:08 Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > On Mon, 24 Sep 2018 12:06:19 -0400, Gene Heskett > > > declaimed the following: > >On Monday 24 September 2018 10:55:23 Chris Angelico wrote: > >> On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 12:54 AM Gene Heskett > >>

Re: Python indentation (3 spaces)

2018-10-07 Thread Gene Heskett
if it will call my attention to bad coding. I'll be most appreciative if it can find something that will make this code Just Work(TM). Thank you for mentioning it, Terry. > -- > Terry Jan Reedy -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python indentation (3 spaces)

2018-10-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 07 October 2018 14:30:04 Chris Angelico wrote: > On Mon, Oct 8, 2018 at 5:20 AM Gene Heskett wrote: > > This poster is 200% correct. Somewhere, someplace, there should be > > easily found rule that dictates where one can use a tab, and where > > spaces only are

Re: Python indentation (3 spaces)

2018-10-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 07 October 2018 14:30:07 Bev in TX wrote: > > On Oct 7, 2018, at 1:19 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > >>> That > >>> said, there is an easy fix for tab misuse: in Visual Studio Code, > >>> you can replace all Tabs with Spaces by highlighting the ent

Re: Python indentation (3 spaces)

2018-10-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 07 October 2018 17:36:34 Chris Angelico wrote: > On Mon, Oct 8, 2018 at 8:27 AM Gene Heskett wrote: [...]> > Okay, but I'm trying to understand why you're referencing this in this > thread about indentation. That would imply that you at least have > reason to

Re: Python indentation (3 spaces)

2018-10-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 07 October 2018 18:29:21 Chris Angelico wrote: > On Mon, Oct 8, 2018 at 9:26 AM Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Sunday 07 October 2018 17:36:34 Chris Angelico wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 8, 2018 at 8:27 AM Gene Heskett > > > > wrote: > > [...]> >

Re: Python indentation (3 spaces)

2018-10-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 07 October 2018 18:47:45 Chris Angelico wrote: > On Mon, Oct 8, 2018 at 9:46 AM Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Sunday 07 October 2018 18:29:21 Chris Angelico wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 8, 2018 at 9:26 AM Gene Heskett > > > > wrote: > > > > On Sund

Re: Python indentation (3 spaces)

2018-10-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 07 October 2018 19:20:57 Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > On Sun, 7 Oct 2018 14:19:15 -0400, Gene Heskett > > declaimed the following: > >But that automatically assumes one is running in a windows > > environment. I don't allow it on the premises if I own the m

Re: Observations on the List - "Be More Kind"

2018-10-10 Thread Gene Heskett
that you are powerless if this happens ... > it's all public information, and information is our stock and trade. > > 16) No one thinks you are as cool as you think you are. > > 17) You aren't going to win any argument that you start. > > 18) If you're on AOL, don&

Re: The next major Python version will be Python 8

2016-04-01 Thread Gene Heskett
be first" even when they are last, they chose to do it a full 2 days early. Me? I'm from Missouri. And I don't know of anyone in my neck of the woods who is running winderz-10 so I could go ask them. Shrug. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in def

Re: Fraud

2016-04-16 Thread Gene Heskett
t makes you think all this trouble was caused by > python, etc. Did they leave a note? > > -- > Joel Goldstick > http://joelgoldstick.com/blog > http://cc-baseballstats.info/stats/birthdays Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Fraud

2016-04-17 Thread Gene Heskett
id of the scourge of "Python and Linux > > and GitHub and json" once and for all. > > Steven you make me laugh very loud. > > hahaha. I stick around this list, lurking I think its called, to see what happens next, even to learn something when you folks are serious, and I d

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

2016-05-01 Thread Gene Heskett
tty rare.  It is assumed that Unix uses can type " | less" > > Is nobody except me questioning the assumption that we're only talking > about Unix users? > linux, unix, mauche nichs. Are there others?> > > -- > Steven Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are fo

Re: OT: limit number of connections from browser to my server?

2016-05-16 Thread Gene Heskett
walking them across the room in 15 seconds. Maybe 30. > > Don't forget to encrypt them by hand. > > ChrisA Yes, rot13, twice for good measure... Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use i

Re: [spam] Re: look what I've found [ignore]

2016-05-29 Thread Gene Heskett
ly behind too. And I sure don't trust it enough to click on it. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Efficient handling of fast, real-time hex data

2016-06-02 Thread Gene Heskett
ledge of the internals of a system may become less > accessible. > We may be able to dig deeper holes, but unless we know how to build > taller ladders, we had best hope that it does not rain much. > -- Paul Licker Paul is absolutely correct. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- &

Re: Assignment Versus Equality

2016-06-27 Thread Gene Heskett
uld default to UTF-8. > Both of you mentioned 2 bad words, now go and warsh yer fungers with some of grandma's lye soap. > > -- > Steven > “Cheer up,” they said, “things could be worse.” So I cheered up, and > sure enough, things got worse. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "

Re: Assignment Versus Equality

2016-06-28 Thread Gene Heskett
e the event horizon is also subject to the infinite limitation, and because its "stuck" the surplus matter over and above that which creates the event horizon, is ejected from the poles of its spin axis. We have millions of examples of that in the visible universe. Just be glad as ca

Re: Quick poll: gmean or geometric_mean

2016-07-12 Thread Gene Heskett
td definition for a foot, mile or gallon. Been there, checked it out personally. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinux

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

2016-07-19 Thread Gene Heskett
he distortion was absolutely in lock step and totally inaudible to the tv's. With both tubes running normally, that buzz was only down about 53db at best. So relativity applies, even to the baseball being thrown by a little leager. We just do not have the precision to measure it when

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

2016-07-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 19 July 2016 13:46:37 Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote: > On Wednesday, July 20, 2016 at 12:07:25 AM UTC+12, Gene Heskett wrote: > > This klystron amplifier, a new one of which was north of $125,000 in > > the 1970's when I learned about them, is a long tube, around

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

2016-07-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 19 July 2016 18:27:10 Ian Kelly wrote: > On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 2:35 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > And I am not familiar with this foot-poundals per second that you > > question about, but just from the wording I'd say it is a fifty > > dollar way to

Re: Why not allow empty code blocks?

2016-07-31 Thread Gene Heskett
Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN > wlfr...@ix.netcom.comHTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/ Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author)

Re: the python name

2019-01-03 Thread Gene Heskett
Message- > From: Larry Martell > Sent: Wednesday, January 2, 2019 8:08 PM > To: Avi Gross > Cc: Python > Subject: Re: the python name > > On Wed, Jan 2, 2019 at 8:04 PM Avi Gross wrote: > > Challenge: Can we name any computer language whose name really would >

Re: the python name

2019-01-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 03 January 2019 15:28:49 Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2019-01-03, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Do I miss-remember that there was an anaconda language at sometime > > in the past? Not long after python made its debute? I've not see it > > mentioned in a decade so ma

Re: the python name

2019-01-04 Thread Gene Heskett
or? (I recall using the What For > > > version). > > > > WATFOR => WATerloo FORtran > > And then there was WATFIV, which stands for WATerloo Fortran IV. > Because 5 == IV. Not what I was taught 75 years ago. Thats a brand new definition of fuzzy logic. :( Cheers, Gene He

Re: the python name

2019-01-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 04 January 2019 16:37:49 Chris Angelico wrote: > On Sat, Jan 5, 2019 at 8:31 AM Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 04 January 2019 13:22:03 Ian Kelly wrote: > > > And then there was WATFIV, which stands for WATerloo Fortran IV. > > > Because 5 == IV. >

Re: the python name

2019-01-04 Thread Gene Heskett
list > On Behalf Of Avi > Gross > Sent: Friday, January 4, 2019 6:55 PM > To: python-list@python.org > Subject: RE: the python name > > Gene, > > It is simple in Python: > > if "IV" in "FIVE": > print("Roman 4 is 5!") > > prin

Re: the python name

2019-01-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 04 January 2019 20:27:44 Michael Torrie wrote: > On 01/03/2019 06:35 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Thursday 03 January 2019 15:28:49 Grant Edwards wrote: > >> About 20 years ago, the RedHat Linux (way before RHEL) installer > >> (which was written in

Re: Pythonic Y2K

2019-01-18 Thread Gene Heskett
cket to watch and hear your reply, Larry. Or better yet, silently reached into your briefcase and brought out an invoice, listing what and where you patched, and what you would normally charge to find and fix each one individually when the gun went off for real 36 hours back and his fund was los

Re: Your IDE's?

2019-03-25 Thread Gene Heskett
t; -- > Regards =dn your email agent is inventing links? There were none in the single msg I got from a john doe. Unless they were buried in the headers that kmail doesn't show me.. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury,

Re: Your IDE's?

2019-03-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 25 March 2019 22:14:48 Spencer Graves wrote: > On 2019-03-25 18:55, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Monday 25 March 2019 18:20:29 DL Neil wrote: > >> On 26/03/19 10:38 AM, John Doe wrote: > >>> What is your favorite Python IDE? > >> > >> In ca

Re: Your IDE's?

2019-03-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 25 March 2019 22:24:14 DL Neil wrote: > On 26/03/19 12:55 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Monday 25 March 2019 18:20:29 DL Neil wrote: > >> On 26/03/19 10:38 AM, John Doe wrote: > >>> What is your favorite Python IDE? > >> > >> In ca

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