On 2018-05-24, Michael Torrie wrote:
> On 05/23/2018 12:03 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> But IMO email pales in comparison to NNTP when there are more than a
>> few messages per day per group.
>
> This is not my experience at all. I used to use Usenet back in the day,
>
On 2018-05-25, asa32s...@gmail.com wrote:
> here is the code, i keep getting an error, "break outside loop".
You get the "break outside loop" error because you're using the break
statement when you are not inside a loop.
> if it is false just exit function
You use the 'return' statement to exi
name.
You might as well have passed a floating point number or a dict.
> Although I wouldn't consider this as anything even remotely like a
> significant issue...
Agreed, but the thread will continue for months and generate hundreds
of followup.
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elevant.
Python allows floating point numbers, so it is possible to express
this question in python: os.path.exists(3.14159). Is the fact that
the underlying OS/filesystem can't identify files via a floating point
number relevent? Should it return False or raise ValueError?
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On 2018-06-01, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> But since "\0" is the correct type (a string), and the fact that it
> happens to be illegal on POSIX is a platform-dependent detail of no more
> importance than the fact that "?" is illegal on Windows, it should be
> treated as any other platform-depende
On 2018-06-01, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Thu, 31 May 2018 17:43:28 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> Except on the platform in quetion filenames _don't_ contain an embedded
>> \0. What was passed was _not_ a path/filename.
>
> "/wibble/rubbish/nobo
On 2018-06-02, S Srihari wrote:
> I AM UNABLE TO INSTALL PYTHON.
> KINDLY HELP ME.
You're not doing it wrong.
To fix this, do it right instead.
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I've never heard of anybody actually
_using_ it, but it allowed some US government purchasing droid to
check the "Posix Compliant" box on an acquisition checklist back in
the 90's.
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our home directory?
https://docs.python.org/3/library/http.server.html
If the request was mapped to a directory, the directory is checked
for a file named index.html or index.htm (in that order). If found,
the file’s contents are returned;
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I expected was a directory listing of my current directory.
>
> What I got was Livejournal's front page.
That's very odd. What I get is the message below:
$ python3.5 -m http.server 8000
Serving HTTP on 0.0.0.0 port 8000 ...
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er.
That depends.
If you're posting via NNTP, and your NNTP server supports CANCEL
messages, and the posting hasn't been passed on to any peers yet, then
you _can_ delete it.
But, I'd bet cash money those conditions are not true for T Berger.
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On 2018-06-12, pyotr filipivich wrote:
> It is Google. They will decide what is evil. and not do that.
They've found it simpler to just declare than anything they do is, by
definition, therefore not evil.
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On 2018-06-16, ip.b...@gmail.com wrote:
> I'm intrigued by the output of the following code, which was totally
> contrary to my expectations. Can someone tell me what is happening?
>
myName = "Kevin"
id(myName)
> 47406848
id(myName[0])
> 36308576
id(myName[1])
> 2476000
What'
'TkDefaultFont')
>
> >>>
>
> The "address" of the Font object 'TkDefaultFont' changes, why?
What makes you think it's the same object the second time and not a
new object?
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ment changed the spec on a diode
> from Schottky to conventional would be folk etymology? Or why Gene
> being unsure of his spelling would? What does any of this have to do
> with etymology, folk or genuine?
I was wondering the same thing...
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magining that Rick has a point, really, no.
Many of us plonked Rick ages ago. Now we only see his posts when
people followup and quote him.
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with those two ways, Tim invented his own.
>
> https://bugs.python.org/issue3364
Brilliant!
I don't know how I missed that. I'm not sure which would be more
impressive: that Tim thought up the joke as described, or that it was
made up ex post facto. Either one is brilliant.
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Binding a name to a
function is no different than binding it to an integer, list, string,
or dict. Don't the global vs. local cost vs. benefit calculations
apply equally well to function objects as they do to those other sorts
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d input as text.
What language are you bashing now?
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From: Grant Edwards
On 2018-06-25, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> And the specific line you reference is *especially* a joke, one which
> flies past nearly everyone's head:
>
> There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.
>
> Notice the dashes?
Using configparser is far, far safer.
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I would agree that
> configparser is, if not safer, easier.
And it doesn't require that the end user have any knowlege of Python
syntax or sematics.
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red among multiple users, or has tricked
somebody into including something from an untrusted source in an
include file.
Or there could be users who don't know what they're doing and
unwittingly type something harmful into a config file:
bad_command = os.system("rm -rf ~/*"
0 has a built-in POTS modem, but it's never been used.]
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On 2018-06-28, Jim Lee wrote:
>
>
> On 06/28/18 07:34, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> OK, I've got to ask...
>>
>> Why are there still BBSes?
>>
>> Who even has a modem these days? [OK, I'll admit my 11 year old
>> Thinkpad T500 has a built-in POT
On 2018-06-30, Gregory Ewing wrote:
> Dan Stromberg wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 10:30 PM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
>>
>>>Well, the same security issue can be demonstrated without SO_REUSEADDR:
>>>
>>>The security issue can be real but is not directly related with
>>>SO_REUSEADDR.
>>
>> Yes, i
On 2018-07-02, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> In the long run, why do we always fear people coming from other
> languages?
Tribalism and fear of outsiders was bred into H. sapiens (and
ancestors) millions of years ago?
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On 2018-07-02, T Berger wrote:
> Is there any way to set posts to appear chronologically in tree
> view?
http://slrn.sourceforge.net/docs/slrn-manual.html
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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 tree
>> > view?
>>
>> http://slrn.sourceforge.net/docs/sl
On 2018-07-03, Dan Stromberg wrote:
> I used to write useful programs that ran in 256 bytes of RAM.
Me too.
Less than 10 years ago.
In a real product.
That's still shipping.
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ertheless, the later socket object cannot unilaterally take over a
> socket using SO_REUSEADDR. The earlier socket object must have set the
> same option previously.
On what OS? In my experience, that's not true on Linux or BSD Unix.
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On 2018-07-03, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2018-07-01, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
>> Gregory Ewing :
>>
>>> I don't see how the address-reuse timeout can be a security measure,
>>> because the process trying to take over the address can easily
>
On 2018-07-03, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2018-07-03, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> On 2018-07-01, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
>>> Gregory Ewing :
>>>
>>>> I don't see how the address-reuse timeout can be a security measure,
>>>> because the process tr
On 2018-07-03, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Tue, 03 Jul 2018 14:24:26 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> On 2018-07-03, Dan Stromberg wrote:
>>
>>> I used to write useful programs that ran in 256 bytes of RAM.
>>
>> Me too.
>>
>> Less than
On 2018-07-05, Jim Lee wrote:
> Take a village of people. They live mostly on wild berries.
It's completely orthogonal to your point of course, but I thought
villages happened precisely because people had stopped living off wild
stuff and had adopted organized agriculture...
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teach anything in school anymore? Tanning leather for
> instance involves a long soaking in strong tea, and doesn't name the
> brand or genus of the tea, the important part was the tannic acid
> content.
IIRC, oack leaves/chips work well also.
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On 2018-07-06, Jim Lee wrote:
>
> Pedantics again. Didn't even get the point before tearing apart the
> *analogy* rather than the *point itself*.
Jim Lee, this is the Internet.
Intenet, this is Jim Lee.
:)
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On 2018-07-06, Jim Lee wrote:
> On 07/06/18 11:25, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> On 2018-07-06, Jim Lee wrote:
>>
>>> Pedantics again. Didn't even get the point before tearing apart the
>>> *analogy* rather than the *point itself*.
>> Jim Lee, this is
e way or another.
I'm sure many of us have been guilty of one or both at some time or
another. I think the level of "persistence" is the key.
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common use where an ADD is faster than
an OR unless somebody shows me the processor spec sheet.
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On 2018-07-20, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 21, 2018 at 1:14 AM, Grant Edwards
> wrote:
>> On 2018-07-20, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
>>
>>> While I suspect Python isn't micro-optimizing, take into account
>>> that most processors do have an "
On 2018-08-20, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> When I write bytes to stdout, why are they reversed?
>
> [steve@ando ~]$ python2.7 -c "print('\xfd\x84\x04\x08')" | hexdump
> 000 84fd 0804 000a
> 005
They aren't. You're being fooled by the default output format of
hexdump. By default, it displa
On 2018-08-20, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Aug 2018 00:31:35 +, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>
>> When I write bytes to stdout, why are they reversed?
>
> Answer: they aren't, use hexdump -C.
One might think that dumping out bytes in the correct order ought to
be the default format for hexd
On 2018-08-20, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 11:12 AM, Grant Edwards
> wrote:
>> On 2018-08-20, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>>> On Mon, 20 Aug 2018 00:31:35 +, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>>>
>>>> When I write bytes to stdout, why
On 2018-08-20, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
> Grant Edwards writes:
>
>> On 2018-08-20, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>>> On Mon, 20 Aug 2018 00:31:35 +, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>>>
>>>> When I write bytes to stdout, why are they reversed?
>>>
&
On 2018-08-20, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 12:01 PM, Grant Edwards
>> What do you mean "run it as hd"?
>>
[... Calling via 'hd' alias makes no difference ...]
> Your system is different from mine, then.
No doubt. :)
> rosuav@sikorsky
etween what you see in base-10 and the real values in base-2
_is_always_exact_.
2. The _operations_ (multiplicaton/division/addition/subtraction)
_are_not_always_exact_. Even if you start with values that map
exactly from base-10 to base-2 (some do) doing operations on them
may not produce an exact result.
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he set of people who write software without intending to
use it is pretty small...
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On 2018-09-19, Singamaneni Saikiran wrote:
> It was showing some error please help me with a reply to solve this.
You need to make changes to it.
HTH...
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en you run the .exe from that arbitrary location, is it guaranteed
that it won't try to find/use python modules or libraries from outside
that installed build directory tree?
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, and frankly the statement
Agreed.
> "Continued considerate posts will be discarded" is outrageous.
Agreed.
> I have been unimpressed with the moderation team for some weeks now, but
> this is just not acceptable.
Agreed.
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On 2018-10-02, John Doe wrote:
> Hello World
>
> Is it possible to create on Linux win .exe file from *.py file?
Yes... if you run on Linux a VM instance that's running Windows?
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aces (or vice versa) or - worse
> - just some of them. It is safer to disallow tabs completely and
> mandate a certain number of spaces per indentation level.
Indeed. That's the only thing that actually works.
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On 2018-10-13, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> However -- my point was that those formats were supported natively at
> the OS level, not some language utility library working on top of the basic
> streams.
>
> A more recent (my age shows) example would be the features in DEC VMS
> Record M
On 2018-10-13, Peter J. Holzer wrote:
>
>> For "just use tabs" to work, all of those tools would have to
>> magically recognize that they're looking at Python source and adjust
>> the tab size accordingly. That isn't going to happen.
>
> Well, no. The idea of "just use tabs" isn't have a differen
On 2018-10-14, Christian Gollwitzer wrote:
> Am 14.10.18 um 02:45 schrieb Grant Edwards:
>> On 2018-10-13, Peter J. Holzer wrote:
>>>
>>>> For "just use tabs" to work, all of those tools would have to
>>>> magically recognize that they'
mean that the source code is easy to
understand and reason about.
I don't worry about "efficiency" unless testing shows that the simple,
clear solution isn't efficient enough to meet requirements.
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s pretty nice to work with:
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/IMAPClient
https://bitbucket.org/mjs0/imapclient
http://freshfoo.com/presentations/imapclient-intro/#/
Perhaps it (or something like it) could be added to the std library
alongside the current imaplib.
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mouse buttons or shift/ctrl/alt modifiers?
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On 2016-03-30, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 2:36 AM, Grant Edwards
> wrote:
>> I'm trying to figure out how to get a pygtk button respond to
>> somehting other than just a simple "left click". With a standard
>> 3-button mouse, X11 prov
missing the clues required to use those
two pieces.
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On 2016-03-30, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2016-03-30, Wildman wrote:
>
>>> Is the gtk button widget really incapable of handling left or middle
>>> mouse buttons or shift/ctrl/alt modifiers?
>>
>> This might help...
>>
>> http://faq.pygtk.org/index
new opinionated style, will require everyone to
>> follow a single timezone: Europe/Amsterdam.
>
> Not bad but it would have to be Zulu (GMT)
Nope, my vote is for TAI. It's even more opinionated. That whole
making the time agree with the changing rotation of the Earth thing is
just too wishy-washy.
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xpect instead? That's still unclear.
I must admit this is one of the best trolls I've seen in a while...
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And you problably shouldn't think of parsing Python data with eval()
either -- but for different reasons: It's very difficult to use eval()
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On 2016-04-11, Fillmore wrote:
> On 04/11/2016 10:10 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>>> What behaviour did you expect instead? That's still unclear.
>>
>> I must admit this is one of the best trolls I've seen in a while...
>
> shall I take it as a compliment
ch includes gmane). I had read most of the
thread on that change, but was still confused about exactly what was
getting fixed.
Thanks for clarifying it.
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On 2016-04-11, Grant Edwards wrote:
I just finished checking a very recent thread containing 67 articles
by pointing slrn at news.panix.com for the Usenet version and at
news.gmane.com for the mailing-list version.
Both servers appeared to show the same set of 67 articles (that alone
is pretty
On 2016-04-11, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2016-04-11, Grant Edwards wrote:
>
> I just finished checking a very recent thread containing 67 articles
> by pointing slrn at news.panix.com for the Usenet version and at
> news.gmane.com for the mailing-list version.
[...]
> On the
simply for storage rather than meaning.
FWIW, as an old Pascal programmer, I too would have been surprised
that an "enum" is not ordinal and doesn't support a next/prev and
iteration.
As an old C programmer, not so much. :)
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On 2016-04-16, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> I still miss the Amiga -- in which one could /push/ a window to the
> back of the stack while still retaining input focus! Made it nice for
> transcribing stuff from a visible window to a text input region while it
> was obscured.
I do that all the time
client at news.gmane.org). If a mailing list doesn't allow to to
disable delivery, then it's usually pretty trivial to set up a filter
to toss all messages received from that list into /dev/null.
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On 2016-04-19, Random832 wrote:
> It does look like some attention may need to be given to gmane
> (either to allow posts to continue to be submitted, or to notify
> gmane that the list should be put in "Non-public (posting through
> Gmane allowed for list members)" mode.
While there is such a m
On 2016-04-19, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 6:50 AM, Ben Finney
> wrote:
>>> > On Tue, 19 Apr 2016 01:04 pm, Rustom Mody wrote:
>>> > > And more generally that programmers sticking to text when rest of world
>>> > > has moved on is rather backward:
>>
>> You haven't supported
parse it and get out the relevant information.
Warning: don't use the basic imaplib. IMAP is a miserable protocol,
and imap lib is too thin a wrapper. It'll make you bleed from the ears
and wish you were dead. Use imapclient or imaplib2. I've used both
(with Gmail's IMAP serve
. Append data to each as desired and then write them
out to a file when you're done.
If that's not workable, explain why, and we can tell you what to try
next (probably a stringio for each section, or a list of strings or
byte-strings for each section, or temporary files).
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On 2016-04-25, Michael Torrie wrote:
> On 04/25/2016 08:39 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> Your normal gmail password is used for IMAP.
>
> Actually, no, unless you explicitly tell Google to allow "less-secure"
> authentication. Otherwise you are required to set up a spe
y/stdtypes.html
http://www.diveintopython3.net/strings.html
http://pythoncentral.io/encoding-and-decoding-strings-in-python-3-x/
https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/fluent-python/9781491946237/ch04.html
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Or just do os.access("directory/where/you/want/to/open/a/file",os.W_OK)
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stuff to stdout you can add
whatever other options you like that run pagers, start up web
browsers, or show mp4 movies on the wall without annoying grouchy old
Unix users like me. ;)
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On 2016-04-28, Random832 wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2016, at 13:33, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> As long as -? -h --help just write stuff to stdout you can add
>> whatever other options you like that run pagers, start up web
>> browsers, or show mp4 movies on the wall w
s approach fairly easy. It might be faster to write something
special-purpose from scratch than to figure out the internals of
PySvn and modify it to add the operations/options I want.
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On 2016-04-28, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> Grant Edwards :
>
>> On 2016-04-28, Random832 wrote:
>>> One disadvantage is that you have to compose two forms of
>>> documentation.
>>
>> Only if you want two forms of documentation.
>>
>> If you add a
On 2016-04-28, Random832 wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2016, at 15:39, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> That's fine. If you want two or three forms of documentation then you
>> prepare two or three forms of documentation.
>>
>> Adding an option to run the default 'help&
On 2016-04-29, eryk sun wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 6:51 AM, Jussi Piitulainen
> wrote:
>> Adam Funk writes:
>>> On 2016-04-28, Grant Edwards wrote:
>>
>>>> Or just do os.access("directory/where/you/want/to/open/a/file",os.W_OK)
>>&g
On 2016-05-01, Random832 wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 30, 2016, at 19:51, c...@zip.com.au wrote:
>> _When_ they want a pager.
>
> Why would they need an environment variable at all in that case, rather
> than explicitly invoking the pager by name?
We don't want to use a PAGER variable to specify when we
On 2016-05-01, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Sun, May 1, 2016 at 3:24 PM, wrote:
>> Yes, PAGER=cat would make "man" also not page, and likely almost everything.
>> And yet I am unwilling to do so. Why?
>>
>> On reflection, my personal problems with this approach are twofold:
>>
>> - I want $PAGER t
On 2016-05-01, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> Grant Edwards :
>
>> On 2016-05-01, Chris Angelico wrote:
>>> Okay. How is an app supposed to know whether or not to use a pager?
>> Command line option.
>>
>>> How do you expect them to mindread?
>> Nope, jus
On 2016-05-01, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Mon, 2 May 2016 02:30 am, Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>>> In discussions like these, it would be important to draw from
>>> precedents. Are there commands that have such an option?
>>
>> It's pretty rare.
on this Mac in terminals. It is a
> very nice to use UNIX in many regards.
I include what you're doing under the category "Unix". When I talk
about "OS X", I mean what my 84 year old mother is using. I assumed
everybody thought that way. ;)
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Grant Edw
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Expecting upper/lower operations to be 100% invertible is probably a
ASCII-centric mindset that will falls over as soon as you start
dealing with non-ASCII encodings.
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Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Xerox your lunc
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[Regarding Python]
Its stood the test of time, has some great standards, libraries,
its easy to debug and performs very well. Sure it has its worts.
It even makes Beer!
Talk about "batteries included"...
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