Re: [ANNC] pybotwar-0.8

2012-08-21 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
[ Ramchandra Apte wrote on Sat 18.Aug'12 at 19:21:03 +0530 ] > I'll be using Google Groups (hopefully it won't top-post by default) to > post stuff. You are encouraged to get used to it i'm afraid as any mailing list you use, its users will prefer you to use the correct formatting of responses.

Re: Books?

2012-08-22 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
[ Mark Lawrence wrote on Wed 22.Aug'12 at 8:43:58 +0100 ] > On 22/08/2012 02:36, Anonymous Group wrote: > > What books do you recomend for learning python? Preferably free and/or > > online. > > > > Search for the Alan Gauld tutorial. I've never used it myself, but OTOH > I've never heard anyb

Re: Books?

2012-08-23 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
[ Virgil Stokes wrote on Wed 22.Aug'12 at 16:34:40 +0200 ] > On 22-Aug-2012 16:04, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 18:36:50 -0700, Anonymous Group wrote: > > > >> What books do you recomend for learning python? Preferably free and/or > >> online. > > Completely by coincidence, I hav

Re: Which Version of Python?

2012-09-12 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
[ Ramchandra Apte wrote on Tue 11.Sep'12 at 19:58:29 -0700 ] > On Tuesday, 11 September 2012 22:19:08 UTC+5:30, Charles Hottel wrote: > > I have a lot of programming experience in many different languages and now > > > > I want to learn Python. Which version do you suggest I download, Python

Re: Obnoxious postings from Google Groups (was: datetime issue)

2012-09-17 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
[ Joel Goldstick wrote on Sun 16.Sep'12 at 11:57:56 -0400 ] > email client to python-list@python.org If using Windows I would certainly use Thunderbird or even slrn news reader - I believe there is a version for Windows. Or you could install Interix subsystem which provides UNIX tools for Wind

Re: Functional way to compare things inside a list

2012-09-22 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
[ Ian Kelly wrote on Sat 22.Sep'12 at 0:22:43 -0600 ] > On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 7:25 PM, Steven D'Aprano > wrote: > > On Fri, 21 Sep 2012 14:49:55 -0600, Ian Kelly wrote: > > > >> On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 1:54 PM, 8 Dihedral > >> wrote: > >>> I don't think functional aspects are only marked

Re: Obnoxious postings from Google Groups

2012-11-01 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
/ Robert Miles wrote on Wed 31.Oct'12 at 0:39:02 -0500 / > For those of you running Linux: You may want to look into whether > NoCeM is compatible with your newsreader and your version of Linux. > It checks newsgroups news.lists.filters and alt.nocem.misc for lists > of spam posts, and will auto

Re: Obnoxious postings from Google Groups

2012-11-01 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
/ Steven D'Aprano wrote on Wed 31.Oct'12 at 22:33:16 + / > On Wed, 31 Oct 2012 12:32:57 -0700, rurpy wrote: > I don't killfile merely for posting from Gmail or Google Groups, but > regarding your second point, it has seemed to me for some years now that > Gmail is the new Hotmail, which wa

Re: Obnoxious postings from Google Groups

2012-11-02 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
/ ru...@yahoo.com wrote on Thu 1.Nov'12 at 15:08:26 -0700 / > On 11/01/2012 03:55 AM, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: > > Anybody serious about programming should be using a form of > > UNIX/Linux if you ask me. It's inconceivable that these systems > > should be

Re: datetime issue

2012-11-02 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
/ ru...@yahoo.com wrote on Thu 1.Nov'12 at 15:00:48 -0700 / > > * In Search dialog clicked on the Search in folder dropdown after > an earlier search and TB crashed (disappeared along with the > new message I was editing.) [3.0.1] > > * Search for japanese text in body no longer works (

Re: Obnoxious postings from Google Groups

2012-11-04 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
/ ru...@yahoo.com wrote on Fri 2.Nov'12 at 11:39:10 -0700 / > (I also hope I haven't just been suckered by a troll > attempt, windows/unix is better then unix/windows being > an age-old means of trolling.) No, i'm not a "troll". I was just adding my opinion to the thread, I assumed that was al

Re: Brython - Python in the browser

2012-12-20 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
* Ian Kelly [2012-12-19 17:54:44 -0700]: > On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Terry Reedy wrote: > > That says that my browser, Firefox 17, does not support HTML5. Golly gee. I > > don't think any browser support5 all of that moving target, and Gecko > > apparently supports about as large a subset

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-27 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
* mogul [2012-12-27 12:01:16 -0800]: > 'Aloha! > > I'm new to python, got 10-20 years perl and C experience, all gained on unix > alike machines hacking happily in vi, and later on in vim. > > Now it's python, and currently mainly on my kubuntu desktop. > > Do I really need a real IDE, as the

Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

2012-12-30 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
* Yuvraj Sharma [2012-12-28 01:37:23 -0800]: > Use IDLE > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > The OP is already a proficient C, C++, perl, ... hacker using console based tools and hardcore UNIX editors like vi(1) - I doubt he'll stay with IDLE for very long - once you'