Re: Python programming

2014-02-12 Thread Gene Heskett
#x27;ll let you know when I get > there. I started, on an RCA 1802 board in '79. I'm damned sure not there yet. Cheers, Gene -- "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 W

Question on using FP numbers in python 2

2014-02-14 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings; Is there something I can search for and fix in some python code that is giving me bogus answers that get good only when there is a valid digit to the left of the decimal point? Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and

Re: Question on using FP numbers in python 2

2014-02-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 14 February 2014 23:37:53 Chris Angelico did opine: > On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 2:25 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Is there something I can search for and fix in some python code that > > is giving me bogus answers that get good only when there is a valid > > dig

Re: Question on using FP numbers in python 2

2014-02-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 14 February 2014 23:47:26 Steven D'Aprano did opine: > On Fri, 14 Feb 2014 22:25:59 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings; > > > > Is there something I can search for and fix in some python code that > > is giving me bogus answers that get good only

Re: Question on using FP numbers in python 2

2014-02-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 15 February 2014 00:43:53 Chris Angelico did opine: > On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 4:07 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Not extract, but let you get & look at the code, its the top entry on > > this page: > > > > <http://wiki.linuxcnc.org

Re: Question on using FP numbers in python 2

2014-02-15 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 15 February 2014 12:13:42 Steven D'Aprano did opine: > On Sat, 15 Feb 2014 00:07:49 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> Can you extract the float calculations and show us, together with > >> some sample data, expected result, and actual result? > > > &g

Re: posting code snippets

2014-03-01 Thread Gene Heskett
em becomes intimidated and reveals itself and a solution. Chuckle ;-) Is there not a Murphy's Law corollary on that, Grant? I have certainly been there and done that enough times to know its 100% true. Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap,

Re: posting code snippets

2014-03-02 Thread Gene Heskett
tes at a time because of its duties, I am ashamed that it took me 5 years to find it when the fix was half an inch of wire wrapping wire to tie it to the other input pin. There is not a digital logic chip book on the planet that doesn't contain warnings about floating inputs. Yeah, I CAN be one

Re: How security holes happen

2014-03-04 Thread Gene Heskett
0 Color Computer 3 in the basement, running nitros9 right now, I would put 3 calls to F$RegDump in the assembly code, one in the caller as the last thing done before the call, one in the subroutine immediately in front of the return, and one as the first operation done when the return register image

Re: How to create an instance of a python class from C++

2014-03-05 Thread Gene Heskett
is sheet fed press on the SUI campus in the later 1950's. I saw it running once, grading the test score sheets from the Iowa Tests that were being used in lieu of the high price per seat S-B IQ test in the Iowa schools. It was IIRC a somewhat difficult test when they threw it at me in

Re: Python programming

2014-03-07 Thread Gene Heskett
a replacement supply, but I found some Pioneer's with a suitable rating at M.P.Jones in FL and broke their hands putting a check for 2 of them in them, shipped yesterday. That was in about 1997 & they were still in service when we turned analog tv off June 30, 2008. Cheers, Gene --

Re: Explanation of this Python language feature? [x for x in x for x in x] (to flatten a nested list)

2014-03-29 Thread Gene Heskett
tion. You get a error message in Finnish from "make" or > "grep" and then you try to google it. > > So mine is en_US, but I know people who do fi_FI. > > > Marko I don't hate it at all. If, by reporting the error in the persons 1st language, he learns fa

Re: Explanation of this Python language feature? [x for x in x for x in x] (to flatten a nested list)

2014-03-29 Thread Gene Heskett
dle along, somehow managing to survive all those legal warnings on a bottle of aspirin. :) Cheers, Gene -- "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: [OFF-TOPIC] How do I find a mentor when no one I work with knows what they are doing?

2014-04-08 Thread Gene Heskett
. Caught out enough times and the room will be given to someone who can produce. TV broadcasting is a very competitive field. > -People are super patient and helpful and they answer all your > questions and go beyond the call of duty to help you. A utopia very few will ev

Re: Keeping track of things with dictionaries

2014-04-08 Thread Gene Heskett
> > It depends on whether you count 'supercalifragilisticexpialidocious'. > > If you don't, then 'pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism' is still slightly > > longer :) > > 'Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis' has them all beat. Source citation please? Chee

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] How do I find a mentor when no one I work with knows what they are doing?

2014-04-08 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 08 April 2014 20:23:05 Chris Angelico did opine: > On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 1:14 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Ditto, but make it 65 years in electronics for me. > > > >> -People make you feel like an idiot when you ask a question and they > >> intimida

Re: Keeping track of things with dictionaries

2014-04-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 09 April 2014 05:47:37 Ian Kelly did opine: > On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 9:31 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> 'Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis' has them all beat. > > > > Source citation please? > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pne

Re: Everything you did not want to know about Unicode in Python 3

2014-05-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 13 May 2014 01:39:06 Mark H Harris did opine And Gene did reply: > On 5/13/14 12:10 AM, Rustom Mody wrote: > > I think the most helpful way forward is to accept two things: > > a. Unicode is a headache > > b. No-unicode is a non-option > > QOTW(so far..

Re: Fortran (Was: The "does Python have variables?" debate)

2014-05-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 13 May 2014 01:48:43 Steven D'Aprano did opine And Gene did reply: > On Tue, 13 May 2014 00:33:47 -0500, Mark H Harris wrote: > > there has to be a value add for scientists to move away from R or > > Matlab, or from FORTRAN. Why go to the trouble? FORTRAN works we

Re: Fortran (Was: The "does Python have variables?" debate)

2014-05-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 13 May 2014 03:22:28 Steven D'Aprano did opine And Gene did reply: > On Tue, 13 May 2014 02:31:14 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > People who write buggy self-modifying code aren't paying attention. > > [...] > > > IMO, people who bad-mouth self-

Re: Python and Math

2014-05-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 19 May 2014 09:24:18 Chris Angelico did opine And Gene did reply: > On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 11:15 PM, Rustom Mody wrote: > > On Monday, May 19, 2014 6:39:49 PM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote: > >> On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 10:46 PM, Rustom Mody wrote: > >

Re: How keep Python 3 moving forward

2014-05-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 25 May 2014 18:22:11 Dennis Lee Bieber did opine And Gene did reply: > On Sun, 25 May 2014 11:34:59 -0700, Ethan Furman > > declaimed the following: > >On 05/25/2014 10:38 AM, Rustom Mody wrote: > >> Your unicode is mojibaked Ethan! Voilï؟½. > >> Yo

Re: Verify JSON Data

2014-05-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 26 May 2014 11:19:53 Roy Smith did opine And Gene did reply: > In article , > > gaurangns...@gmail.com wrote: > > Hi Guys, > > > > Would someone let me know how to verify JSON data in python. There > > are so many modules available to verify XML fi

Re: Verify JSON Data

2014-05-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 26 May 2014 11:55:29 Roy Smith did opine And Gene did reply: > In article , > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > > $ echo '[1, 2, 3]' | json_xs -t null 2>/dev/null; echo $? > > > > 0 > > > > > $ echo '[1; 2, 3]' | json_xs

Re: Verify JSON Data

2014-05-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 26 May 2014 11:58:06 Chris Angelico did opine And Gene did reply: > On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 1:37 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Just for S&G, and without checking the version numbers of anything, > > this may not be all that bulletproof a test: > > > >

Re: .split() Qeustion

2013-08-16 Thread Gene Heskett
cables used for such, with a Propagation Velocity of 0.78*C, only a very short length of cable. I'd have figured how much but I got lost pushing buttons in kcalc just now and came up with something I'd have to use a micrometer to measure. Its been close to 30 years since I had to do such

Re: .split() Qeustion

2013-08-16 Thread Gene Heskett
seconds," pieces of wire about a foot > long. She said that the beaurocrats were always asking how much is a > nanosecond, and couldn't imagine what a billionth was like. So she gave > them something physical. Chuckle. I always figured Grace Hopper had to have been a stan

Need somebody schmardter than me

2013-08-18 Thread Gene Heskett
ist for what, a year or more now? So, where should I start? Heck, maybe I might learn a bit of python while running this one down. ;-) Thanks all. Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Ho

Re: Need somebody schmardter than me

2013-08-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 18 August 2013 16:38:52 Roy Smith did opine: > In article , > Gene Heskett wrote: > > [much that doesn't appear to have anything to do with Python elided] > > > When cheese runs this camera, there is a several second delay while > > cheese is appar

Re: Need somebody schmardter than me

2013-08-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 18 August 2013 19:30:43 Chris Angelico did opine: > On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 9:48 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> import time > > > > That of course goes near the top of the script. > > > >> time.sleep(1.5) > > > > I'll see if I c

Re: New VPS Provider needed

2013-08-27 Thread Gene Heskett
imit myself to one snide remark every time he escapes my > killfile. 'Cause I wish he would stop. He hasn't escaped from mine yet, but all this backsplatter is unbecoming. Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in

Missing py2exe, needed 4 a gcode generator to engrave text in fancy ttf fonts in steel

2013-09-19 Thread Gene Heskett
FWIW, cxfreeze is said, by synaptics search function to be the equ of the windows py2exe module. Can someone take a look at <http://www.scorchworks.com/Fengrave/fengrave_setup.html#linux_fengrave> Then this is what I get: gene@coyote:~/src/F-Engrave-1.22_src$ python py2exe_setup.py Traceback (

Re: Missing py2exe, needed 4 a gcode generator to engrave text in fancy ttf fonts in steel

2013-09-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 20 September 2013 08:48:44 Chris Angelico did opine: > On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Can someone take a look at > > > > <http://www.scorchworks.com/Fengrave/fengrave_setup.html#linux_fengrav > > e> > > > > The

Re: What minimum should a person know before saying "I know Python"

2013-09-20 Thread Gene Heskett
language here at the Heskett Ranchette is bash, and there is quite a boatload of that running as background daemons right now. So I lurk, reading what goes by, hoping I'll learn enough python from osmosis to get comfortable with it. From all indications, it is todays "ARexx" of

Re: What minimum should a person know before saying "I know Python"

2013-09-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 22 September 2013 14:49:21 Dennis Lee Bieber did opine: > On Sat, 21 Sep 2013 02:22:59 -0400, Gene Heskett > > declaimed the following: > >I was quite pleased to see that there was a Rexx/Regina for linux, and > >for about 10 minutes thought I could make use of

Re: What minimum should a person know before saying "I know Python"

2013-09-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 22 September 2013 15:46:52 Gene Heskett did opine: > On Sunday 22 September 2013 14:49:21 Dennis Lee Bieber did opine: > > On Sat, 21 Sep 2013 02:22:59 -0400, Gene Heskett > > > > declaimed the following: > > >I was quite pleased to see that there was a R

Re: What minimum should a person know before saying "I know Python"

2013-09-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 22 September 2013 23:41:10 Dennis Lee Bieber did opine: > On Sun, 22 Sep 2013 14:55:24 -0400, Gene Heskett > > declaimed the following: > >Then it seems to me that work in the direction should be an active > >feature request. Unforch, as I've said bef

Re: Handling 3 operands in an expression without raising an exception

2013-09-29 Thread Gene Heskett
k here, hoping I'll learn a bit of python by osmosis. Please, do carry on. The comments, often pithy but just as often over my now ancient head, are certainly worth the admission. Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ball

Re: Complex literals (was Re: I am never going to complain about Python again)

2013-10-11 Thread Gene Heskett
even that wasn't needed often enough to keep my mind fresh about it. But I managed to get the job done anyway, those two tv cameras that were on the Trieste when it went into the Challenger Deep in 1960 had traces of my fingerprints in them. Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be use

Re: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it?

2013-10-17 Thread Gene Heskett
moved some ARexx code to linux & tried to execute it with Regina. Never got past the 2nd line because Regina was in such a small sandbox it couldn't even ask the system for the correct time. Rexx/Regina might have had 5% of the functionality that ARexx had. But commode door never g

Re: Will Python 3.x ever become the actual standard?

2013-10-23 Thread Gene Heskett
part in a smartphone commercial... > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slf3GgxqusI > 22 seconds in... > > > There's always their look-alikes from "Codename: Kids Next Door": Mr. > Wink and Mr. Fibb Just one more question: Did Antony and Luigi, from the amiga day

Re: Obfuscated factorial

2013-10-26 Thread Gene Heskett
evaluate() > > for i in range(16): > print(i, FactorialBuilder(i).build().calculate()) > > > > And the output is: > > 0 1 > 1 1 > 2 2 > 3 6 > 4 24 > 5 120 > 6 720 > 7 5040 > 8 40320 > 9 362880 > 10 3628800 > 11 39916800 > 12 479001

Re: Algorithm that makes maximum compression of completly diffused data.

2013-10-30 Thread Gene Heskett
r, but I would wager that the data you're > > testing your > > > > algorithm on is not as truly random as you imply or is not a large > > enough body of test data to draw such conclusions from. It's akin to > > inventing a perpetual > > > > moti

Re: Algorithm that makes maximum compression of completly diffused data.

2013-11-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 03 November 2013 04:40:45 Ethan Furman did opine: > On 10/30/2013 01:32 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Congratulations Jonas. My kill file for this list used to have only > > one name, but now has 2. > > You have more patience than I! Jonas just made mine seven.

Re: how to load test a web app?

2013-11-06 Thread Gene Heskett
eriously doubt it would do much good. I had a wife like her for 17 years. She carried that famous 2 line sign about the boss is always right. When she left, I bought a 6 pack to celebrate. I could finally be right in my own house. Even if I was wrong. Cheers, Gene -- "There are fo

Re: To whoever hacked into my Database

2013-11-06 Thread Gene Heskett
7;t recommend it if you're COWardly :-) > > > > Well, maybe the issue is MOOt. > > Ugh, if only these puns were like CALF-way funny... > Or even MOOving. > *dives for cover* Leave room for me. Please. > ChrisA Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be

Re: datetime question

2013-11-09 Thread Gene Heskett
rced to read, or more usually skip. This list recently has been far more about venting because GG is broken, or Nicks un-teachability than about real code, by a large margin. Then one of you frustrated standup comics comes along, and gives me a VBG, and its suddenly all worth it. Thank You Chr

Re: datetime question

2013-11-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 09 November 2013 19:52:52 Chris Angelico did opine: > On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 2:39 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Ya know, folks like Nick would have me signing off. Fortunately there > > are kill files. But the backscatter he creates I am still forced to > > read,

Re: datetime question

2013-11-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 10 November 2013 04:06:06 Chris Angelico did opine: > On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 11:55 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Saturday 09 November 2013 19:52:52 Chris Angelico did opine: > >> :) Don't just thank me, Grant and Roy were key to it too - and the > >>

Re: Md5 is different in Windows and Linux

2015-03-02 Thread Gene Heskett
> 2f9cc8da53ee89762a34702f745d2956 > > But on this site http://onlinemd5.com/ and on linux it has value > E10D4E3847713472F51BC606852712F1. > > Why is there difference in value of Checksum computed by python in > windows and other system.? Line endings? Cheers, Gene Heskett --

Re: Speeding up permutations generation

2015-03-06 Thread Gene Heskett
itted and accepted to BOINC with its parallelism potential. And Seagate/Western Digital's combined output for about that same time to store the result. I'd choose any other, perhaps less exhaustive method. Or a more practical size of dataset parameters. > ​-Abhiram.R > *~N

Re: Speeding up permutations generation

2015-03-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 06 March 2015 06:22:34 Dave Angel wrote: > On 03/06/2015 05:32 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 06 March 2015 03:24:48 Abhiram R wrote: > >>> A list of 100 elements has approximately 9.33 x 10**157 > >>> permutations. If you could someh

Re: Speeding up permutations generation

2015-03-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 06 March 2015 11:30:08 Dave Angel wrote: > On 03/06/2015 11:14 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 06 March 2015 06:22:34 Dave Angel wrote: > >> Sorry, but 50! is not even close to 50**50. The latter is 85 > >> digits as yo

Re: Code hosting providers

2015-03-13 Thread Gene Heskett
7;t > want to deal with Amazon. Github adds some conveniences but I've > never understood the attraction and mystique around 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: Code hosting providers

2015-03-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 13 March 2015 20:48:36 Mario Figueiredo wrote: > On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 19:38:09 -0400, Gene Heskett > > wrote: > >Running your own server is a piece of cake, and if I, at 80 yo, can > > do it, I don't see a single reason you can't do likewise. The code &g

Re: You must register a new account to report a bug (was: Python 2 to 3 conversion - embrace the pain)

2015-03-16 Thread Gene Heskett
s we seem to have nurtured in the last 15 years, and we can't possibly be allowed to bother them, can we? Thanks for bringing up the subject Ben. > -- > \ “[Entrenched media corporations will] maintain the status quo, > | `\ or die trying. Either is better than actually

Re: To Change A Pdf Ebook To Kindle

2015-03-28 Thread Gene Heskett
spam campaign and has been found > spamming Web Forums such as Malwarebytes. > > All Usenet users and Listserver recipients, please file spam > complaints; ab...@sourceforge.net Done. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot

Re: How To Convert Pdf Files To XML Spreadsheet

2015-04-14 Thread Gene Heskett
lti-AV Scanning Tool - http://multi-av.thespykiller.co.uk > http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp 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: Best search algorithm to find condition within a range

2015-04-19 Thread Gene Heskett
> > > Marko No relationship detectable Marko. 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: What is considered an "advanced" topic in Python?

2015-06-01 Thread Gene Heskett
seed value of the variables we use to 8 or more digits to the right of the decimal point. Typically the machine can do, if calibrated correctly, cuts to .00025 inch accuracy, and to have to specify to fractions of an angstrom in order to make a while statement function as desired can be a gotch

Re: What is considered an "advanced" topic in Python?

2015-06-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 01 June 2015 20:33:50 Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > On Mon, 1 Jun 2015 09:49:35 -0400, Gene Heskett > > declaimed the following: > >But IMO, any language that does not have the ability to set an fp > > number to a fixed number of digits to the right of the separa

Re: Is it a newsgroup or a list?

2015-06-07 Thread Gene Heskett
list, nor what that is, > because they're coming via Google Groups -- which uses the Usenet > gateway -- or through gmane -- which comes in through the mailing list > -- or some other web mirror. You mentioned GoogleGroups, now go warsh yur mouth out with some of Grandma's Lye soap. Thi

Re: Pure Python Data Mangling or Encrypting

2015-06-29 Thread Gene Heskett
fficiently. Many times they weren't ever aware of why they were being moved. Telling them depresses them, so its usually best to just let it work itself out. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in

Re: Can I copy/paste Python code?

2015-07-21 Thread Gene Heskett
d something that is both friendlier and more useful for your usage needs. 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: AttributeError

2015-08-12 Thread Gene Heskett
ffled as to why you now have a nested 'for' loop 3 levels > > deep! > > > > -- > > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list After following this thread to late afternoon today, I would say that Denis's response was a bit strong and less than he

Re: Please don't make unfounded legalistic demands (was: [a, b, c, d] = 1, 2, 3, 4)

2015-08-26 Thread Gene Heskett
out instead you augment your signature with "Please ignore the > boilerplate below. > > > JM > > > > > > -- IMPORTANT NOTICE: > > > > The contents of this email and any attachments are confidential and > > may also be privileged. If you are not the

Re: Python handles globals badly.

2015-09-10 Thread Gene Heskett
and because they are a scarce commodity, writing their own paycheck? I don't know, other than no one is publically bragging about it. > -- > Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN > wlfr...@ix.netcom.comHTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/ Cheers, G

Re: Python handles globals badly.

2015-09-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 11 September 2015 22:35:00 Mark Lawrence wrote: > On 11/09/2015 03:19, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Thursday 10 September 2015 20:33:03 Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > >> On Thu, 10 Sep 2015 12:04:05 -0700 (PDT), rurpy--- via Python-list > >> > >> declaim

Re: Trouble running

2015-10-07 Thread Gene Heskett
se help? > > Based on the comprehensive problem description I have waved my magic > wand. It should work now. If it still doesn't work, please provide > more details about the problem. > > -- > Denis McMahon, denismfmcma...@gmail.com You are a piece of work Dennis, love it

Re: Idle subprocess error

2015-10-16 Thread Gene Heskett
> Sent from a person who's unable to make something out of nothing. > > ChrisA Not even a molehill? 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 (Aut

Re: how to get python socket to use a specific interface

2015-10-25 Thread Gene Heskett
f my printers has a cat5 socket, which turns out to be its fastest interface, and I had to setup an eth0:0 in 192.168.0.## block for a day or so until I had wandered thru its menus and found I could put it on my local networks class D block and did, so eth0:0 was no longer required. Cheers, Gene H

Re: Puzzled

2015-11-06 Thread Gene Heskett
; or "license" for more > information. > > >>> myprogram.py > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "", line 1, in > NameError: name 'myprogram' is not defined >>> > > If this is what happened then your python is

Re: OT: This Swift thing

2014-06-08 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 08 June 2014 10:51:24 Roy Smith did opine And Gene did reply: > In article <5393dd6a$0$29988$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>, > > Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > On Sat, 07 Jun 2014 20:09:37 -0400, Roy Smith wrote: > > > We've also got ma

Re: OT: This Swift thing

2014-06-08 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 08 June 2014 12:09:41 Roy Smith did opine And Gene did reply: > In article , > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > You may want to reconsider that statement after the first fan failure > > in your mini. We've had quite a few Mac's in the tv station, as > &

Re: OT: This Swift thing

2014-06-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 09 June 2014 02:32:33 Rustom Mody did opine And Gene did reply: > On Monday, June 9, 2014 9:50:38 AM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > On Sun, 08 Jun 2014 19:24:52 -0700, Rustom Mody wrote: > > > On Monday, June 9, 2014 7:14:24 AM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano

Re: OT: This Swift thing

2014-06-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 11 June 2014 22:11:53 Gregory Ewing did opine And Gene did reply: > Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > Automotive cooling fluid in modern sealed radiators is typically a > > mixture of 50% anti-freeze and 50% water. > > Sometimes it's even more than 50%, at w

Re: OT: This Swift thing

2014-06-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 12 June 2014 13:18:00 Chris Angelico did opine And Gene did reply: > On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 3:04 AM, Steven D'Aprano > > > I'm saying that, whatever the practical engineering limits turn out > > to be, we're unlikely to be close to them, and therefor

Re: Global indent

2014-08-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 23 August 2014 06:17:24 alister did opine And Gene did reply: > On Sat, 23 Aug 2014 18:19:21 +1000, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > Rob Gaddi wrote: > >> Emacs and vim both have huge learning curves that I've decided > >> aren't worth climbing. >

Re: This formating is really tricky

2014-08-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 26 August 2014 12:13:37 Chris Angelico did opine And Gene did reply: > On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 2:09 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote: > > On 26/08/2014 12:24, MRAB wrote: > >> On 2014-08-26 06:57, Mark Lawrence wrote: > >>> On 26/08/2014 02:10, Joel Goldstic

Re: Raspberry pi, python and robotics

2014-09-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 02 September 2014 12:30:58 Rob Gaddi did opine And Gene did reply: > On Sat, 30 Aug 2014 23:39:01 -0700 (PDT) > > Nicholas Cannon wrote: > > I really enjoy engineering at school and we make like fighting robots > > and stuff(simple stuff of course) and i really

Re: "We made from water every living thing"...

2014-09-08 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 08 September 2014 09:06:46 Chris Angelico did opine And Gene did reply: > On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 10:41 PM, Joshua Landau wrote: > > I don't think allowing people to be disrespectful because they > > accessed the forum in a different way is a good idea. I'd rathe

Re: Leap year

2014-09-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 26 September 2014 23:49:43 Seymore4Head did opine And Gene did reply: > Still practicing. Since this is listed as a Pseudocode, I assume this > is a good way to explain something. That means I can also assume my > logic is fading with age. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wi

Python lesson please

2011-11-06 Thread gene heskett
pect to me: rootdir = sys.argv[1] And I have a suspicion it is null on a linux box. How can I fix that best? Thanks. Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <

Re: Python lesson please

2011-11-06 Thread gene heskett
On Sunday, November 06, 2011 06:07:36 PM Dave Angel did opine: > On 11/06/2011 01:14 PM, gene heskett wrote: > > Greetings experts: > > > > I just dl'd the duqu driver finder script from a link to NSS on /., > > and fixed enough of the tabs in it to make it run

Re: Python lesson please

2011-11-07 Thread gene heskett
On Monday, November 07, 2011 05:35:15 AM Peter Otten did opine: > gene heskett wrote: > > Greetings experts: > > > > I just dl'd the duqu driver finder script from a link to NSS on /., > > and fixed enough of the tabs in it to make it run error-free. At > >

Re: Python lesson please

2011-11-07 Thread gene heskett
On Monday, November 07, 2011 10:38:32 AM Andreas Perstinger did opine: > On 2011-11-07 12:22, gene heskett wrote: > > On Monday, November 07, 2011 05:35:15 AM Peter Otten did opine: > >> Are you talking about this one? > >> > >> https://github.co

Re: Python lesson please

2011-11-07 Thread gene heskett
On Monday, November 07, 2011 11:30:45 AM Dave Angel did opine: Back on the list.. > On 11/07/2011 06:22 AM, gene heskett wrote: > > On Monday, November 07, 2011 05:35:15 AM Peter Otten did opine: > > > > > >> Are you talking about this one? > >> > &g

Re: Python lesson please

2011-11-07 Thread gene heskett
On Monday, November 07, 2011 02:43:11 PM Dave Angel did opine: > On 11/07/2011 11:40 AM, gene heskett wrote: > > On Monday, November 07, 2011 11:30:45 AM Dave Angel did opine: > > Back on the list.. > > > >> On 11/07/2011 06:22 AM, gene heskett wrote: > >>

Re: Python lesson please

2011-11-07 Thread gene heskett
On Monday, November 07, 2011 07:34:05 PM Terry Reedy did opine: > On 11/7/2011 11:30 AM, gene heskett wrote: > > Perhaps winderz does not have 'pipe' files so the authors never got > > caught out on this? > > Last I know, Windows not only had no pipe files but

Re: Python lesson please

2011-11-07 Thread gene heskett
On Tuesday, November 08, 2011 12:53:20 AM Cameron Simpson did opine: > On 07Nov2011 15:00, gene heskett wrote: > | On Monday, November 07, 2011 02:43:11 PM Dave Angel did opine: > | > On 11/07/2011 11:40 AM, gene heskett wrote: > | > > Down toward the bottom of the file,

Re: all() is slow?

2011-11-10 Thread gene heskett
the > >> heck certain things are in the code). The issue is that what's going > >> on is otherworldly: this is not a Python pattern, this is not a > >> normal approach. To me, that means it does not read fine. > > > > There's nothing inside the template b

Re: Non-POSIX parity (mark/space) with Python-Serial on Linux.

2011-11-21 Thread gene heskett
Ascii is normally 7 bit and will have a low 8th bit if fed normal ascii data, so how is the 8th bit getting set other than purposely setting 7M1 on the other end of the cable? > "Space" parity, on the other hand, should look normal under Minicom > because the high bit will always

Re: Non-POSIX parity (mark/space) with Python-Serial on Linux.

2011-11-21 Thread gene heskett
On Monday, November 21, 2011 01:28:16 PM David Riley did opine: > On Nov 21, 2011, at 12:25 PM, gene heskett wrote: > > And that is 9600 baud 8n1 on both ends. Ascii is normally 7 bit and > > will have a low 8th bit if fed normal ascii data, so how is the 8th > > bit g

Re: Verbose and flexible args and kwargs syntax

2011-12-12 Thread gene heskett
> (Technically the sum of the digits of a base-10 number is not the same > as that number mod 9, but if you accept that 0 == 9, it works fine.) > > ChrisA And that is precisely the reason I have failed to understand why the 1-10 decimal system seems to have hung on for several hundre

Re: MOST COMMON QUESTIONS ASKED BY NON-MUSLIMS ?????????

2012-01-03 Thread gene heskett
omatically fed to SA as spam, daily. Shrug. Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> I'm changing the CH

Re: MOST COMMON QUESTIONS ASKED BY NON-MUSLIMS ?????????

2012-01-03 Thread gene heskett
On Tuesday, January 03, 2012 07:27:32 PM D'Arcy Cain did opine: > On 12-01-03 01:24 PM, gene heskett wrote: > > The solution is to chop the link between google.groups and this list. > > But that subject has been declared verboten. Too much inconvenience > > to ask th

Re: Is Python "venerable"?

2013-02-21 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 20 February 2013 10:32:14 Albert Hopkins did opine: > On Tue, Feb 19, 2013, at 11:10 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > [...] > > > And even us old (78) farts are calling things Kewl now. > > 78??? Is that the year you were born or the years since you were born? >

Re: Python Newbie

2013-02-23 Thread Gene Heskett
_ come home with me though. But I have too many hobbies too, I have a BP rifle that needs a trip to the range this afternoon for some exercise. :) Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that o

Re: Python Newbie

2013-02-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 23 February 2013 17:44:21 Steve Simmons did opine: > On 23/02/2013 18:32, Gene Heskett wrote: > > I am here because I was hoping some knowledge leakage would help me to > > understand python, but at my age I am beginning to have to admit the > > level of abstracti

Re: [Python-ideas] string.format() default variable assignment

2013-03-04 Thread Gene Heskett
s problem is solved. > > Sounds like someone got Steven's goat. > > *dives for cover* > > ChrisA Thats why this list is worth staying on. :) FWIW, I'd pulled the cover down tight and hide for a while. Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of

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