Re: Experiences/guidance on teaching Python as a first programming language

2013-12-18 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 19/12/2013 01:49, Roy Smith wrote: In article , Mark Lawrence wrote: I've never contemplated writing a compiler, let alone actually written one. It's like the comments along the lines of "you can't call yourself a programmer until you've mastered regular

Re: Experiences/guidance on teaching Python as a first programming language

2013-12-18 Thread Mark Lawrence
never got anywhere? Or did C simply have a far larger sales and marketing budget? :) -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Experiences/guidance on teaching Python as a first programming language

2013-12-18 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 19/12/2013 05:09, rusi wrote: On Thursday, December 19, 2013 10:20:54 AM UTC+5:30, Mark Lawrence wrote: On 19/12/2013 04:29, rusi wrote: On Thursday, December 19, 2013 6:19:04 AM UTC+5:30, Rhodri James wrote: On Tue, 17 Dec 2013 15:51:44 -, Wolfgang Keller wrote: The only issue for me

Re: how to develop code using a mix of an existing python-program and console-commands

2013-12-18 Thread Mark Lawrence
Christian execfile is Python 2 only. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: GUI:-please answer want to learn GUI programming in python , how should i proceed.

2013-12-19 Thread Mark Lawrence
do for our language. Mark Lawrence -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: GUI:-please answer want to learn GUI programming in python , how should i proceed.

2013-12-19 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 19/12/2013 09:10, wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote: Le jeudi 19 décembre 2013 09:25:14 UTC+1, Mark Lawrence a écrit : On 19/12/2013 08:10, wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote: Same experience with PyQt4. Py 3.2 : PyQt4.QtCore.PYQT_VERSION_STR -> 4.8.6 Py 3.3 : PyQt4.QtCore.PYQT_VERSION_

wxPython latest

2013-12-20 Thread Mark Lawrence
our language. Mark Lawrence -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Newbie question. Are those different objects ?

2013-12-20 Thread Mark Lawrence
nput('Enter a number:')) 4. print type y Now read that 1 as first, 2 as second etc and read the '!' as 'MAKE'. (It may help to shout it) Now what was your question? -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Newbie question. Are those different objects ?

2013-12-20 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 20/12/2013 17:10, rusi wrote: On Friday, December 20, 2013 9:30:22 PM UTC+5:30, Mark Lawrence wrote: On 20/12/2013 15:34, rusi wrote: On Friday, December 20, 2013 8:46:31 PM UTC+5:30, dec...@msn.com wrote: y = raw_input('Enter a number:') print type y y = float(raw_input('

Re: GUI:-please answer want to learn GUI programming in python , how should i proceed.

2013-12-20 Thread Mark Lawrence
for our language. Mark Lawrence -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

bytearray inconsistencies?

2013-12-20 Thread Mark Lawrence
to (say) the split method. If I can call find to look for a zero, why can't I split on it? -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: bytearray inconsistencies?

2013-12-20 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 21/12/2013 01:58, Ned Batchelder wrote: On 12/20/13 8:06 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote: Quoting from http://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#bytearray "The bytearray type is a mutable sequence of integers in the range 0 <= x < 256." Quoting from http://docs.pyth

Re: Why Python is like C++

2013-12-20 Thread Mark Lawrence
caught all potential errors. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

sort(*, key=None, reverse=None)

2013-12-20 Thread Mark Lawrence
y fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: sort(*, key=None, reverse=None)

2013-12-20 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 21/12/2013 07:20, Devin Jeanpierre wrote: On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 11:16 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote: The subject refers to the list sort method given here http://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#list. I believe that the "*," bit is simply a typo, given that the docs also s

Re: sort(*, key=None, reverse=None)

2013-12-21 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 21/12/2013 07:35, Chris Angelico wrote: On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 6:24 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote: On 21/12/2013 07:20, Devin Jeanpierre wrote: On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 11:16 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote: The subject refers to the list sort method given here http://docs.python.org/3/library

Re: Why Python is like C++

2013-12-21 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 21/12/2013 08:09, Gregory Ewing wrote: Mark Lawrence wrote: On 20/12/2013 14:19, Roy Smith wrote: http://xkcd.com/1306/ I believe that to be a very superficial like. They're unlike in that once C++ people have compiled their code they can head down to the pub, but Python people ha

Re: Why Python is like C++

2013-12-21 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 21/12/2013 08:18, Dan Stromberg wrote: On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 9:34 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote: On 20/12/2013 14:19, Roy Smith wrote: http://xkcd.com/1306/ I believe that to be a very superficial like. They're unlike in that once C++ people have compiled their code they can head do

Re: @property simultaneous setter and getter

2013-12-21 Thread Mark Lawrence
Nail struck firmly on head I reckon. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Why Python is like C++

2013-12-21 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 21/12/2013 11:37, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Sat, 21 Dec 2013 05:34:51 +0000, Mark Lawrence wrote: On 20/12/2013 14:19, Roy Smith wrote: http://xkcd.com/1306/ I believe that to be a very superficial like. They're unlike in that once C++ people have compiled their code they can

Re: bytearray inconsistencies?

2013-12-21 Thread Mark Lawrence
low Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Newbie question. Are those different objects ?

2013-12-21 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 21/12/2013 16:54, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: On 21 Dec 2013 12:58:41 GMT, Steven D'Aprano declaimed the following: On Fri, 20 Dec 2013 16:00:22 +0000, Mark Lawrence wrote: On 20/12/2013 15:34, rusi wrote: You are also assuming that the two horizontal lines sometimes called 'eq

Re: bytearray inconsistencies?

2013-12-21 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 21/12/2013 13:20, Peter Otten wrote: Mark Lawrence wrote: On 21/12/2013 01:58, Ned Batchelder wrote: If you have a zero, you can split on it with: bytestring.split(bytes([0])), but that doesn't explain why find can take a simple zero, and split has to take a bytestring with a zero

Re: Datetime string reformatting

2013-12-22 Thread Mark Lawrence
ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: BLANK PAGE when i try Filtering Adsense with abpy

2013-12-22 Thread Mark Lawrence
uot;Content-type: text/html") print() print (html) -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: cascading python executions only if return code is 0

2013-12-22 Thread Mark Lawrence
, if the first operand is true, it doesn't evaluate the second operand. Just make sure that a(), b(), and c() all return something which is true if they succeed and false otherwise. Really? :) -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for

Re: cascading python executions only if return code is 0

2013-12-22 Thread Mark Lawrence
Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: cascading python executions only if return code is 0

2013-12-22 Thread Mark Lawrence
ilure in this case. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: cascading python executions only if return code is 0

2013-12-22 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 23/12/2013 03:45, Chris Angelico wrote: On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 2:43 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote: Another C thing to complain about, with functions like malloc the status code and value returned are one and the same thing, except that NULL is failure in this case. How's that a problem? P

Re: Airplane mode control using Python?

2013-12-22 Thread Mark Lawrence
ings. We *DON'T* as a rule of thumb get this problem from any source except GG. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Airplane mode control using Python?

2013-12-23 Thread Mark Lawrence
w Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Airplane mode control using Python?

2013-12-23 Thread Mark Lawrence
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: cascading python executions only if return code is 0

2013-12-23 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 22/12/2013 23:57, Rick Johnson wrote: On Sunday, December 22, 2013 5:02:51 PM UTC-6, Mark Lawrence wrote: On 22/12/2013 22:51, Chris Angelico wrote: if a() == 0: if b() == 0: c() I can only see one way that you can possibly intepret it. [snip molehill turned into

Re: cascading python executions only if return code is 0

2013-12-23 Thread Mark Lawrence
t our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: cascading python executions only if return code is 0

2013-12-23 Thread Mark Lawrence
statement itself vanishes, leaving one with an empty else clause... Try debugging that problem! I'll pass on that one :) -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: GUI:-please answer want to learn GUI programming in python , how should i proceed.

2013-12-23 Thread Mark Lawrence
Python wiki so that everyone can send double line feeds from any technology, that way everybody would feel at home as we'd all be in the same boat. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence --

Re: Please stop the trolling

2013-12-23 Thread Mark Lawrence
control of myself. Now I'll be keeping quiet and let Jim speak for himself. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

[OT]Royal pardon for codebreaker Turing

2013-12-23 Thread Mark Lawrence
Maybe of interest to some of you http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25495315 -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How to check the date validity?

2013-12-23 Thread Mark Lawrence
of format characters in the C standard (but implemented separately in datetime objects, and therefore always available)" -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Please stop the trolling

2013-12-24 Thread Mark Lawrence
widget of a gui toolkit. jmf -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Please stop the trolling

2013-12-24 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 24/12/2013 15:28, Ned Batchelder wrote: On 12/24/13 9:58 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote: On 24/12/2013 10:22, wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote: [once again snip double spaced google crap] This is gui related. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pull_the_other_one,_it%27s_got_bells_on This isn&#

Re: [OT]Royal pardon for codebreaker Turing

2013-12-27 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 24/12/2013 05:07, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Tue, 24 Dec 2013 00:32:31 +0000, Mark Lawrence wrote: Maybe of interest to some of you http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25495315 While I'm happy for Alan Turing, may he rest in peace, I think the thousands of other homosexuals who

Re: cascading python executions only if return code is 0

2013-12-27 Thread Mark Lawrence
ilege" ? -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: [OT]Royal pardon for codebreaker Turing

2013-12-28 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 28/12/2013 04:16, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Sat, 28 Dec 2013 07:30:34 +1100, Tim Delaney wrote: On 28 December 2013 04:34, Mark Lawrence wrote: Personally, I think that people ought to throw a party celebrating Turing's rehabilitation, and do it right outside the Russian Embas

Re: need to print seconds from the epoch including the millisecond

2013-12-30 Thread Mark Lawrence
"%s" % time.time() try: "%.6f" % time.time() %.6f is a formatting code meaning, floating-point number, 6 decimal places. -- Ned Batchelder, http://nedbatchelder.com thanks a bunch. the "%.6f" was the cure. can you please point me to the

Re: need to print seconds from the epoch including the millisecond

2013-12-30 Thread Mark Lawrence
over again :-) Great idea, but one slight snag is the poster then doesn't see how many newlines they've managed to insert using their superb tool. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence -- htt

Re: Spam trash sent to python-list from google-groups

2013-12-30 Thread Mark Lawrence
now and again as does BV BV whatever. For any spam I go straight to gg and gmane and mark them as spam. Every little counts :) -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence -- https://mail.python.org/mailman

Blog "about python 3"

2013-12-30 Thread Mark Lawrence
http://alexgaynor.net/2013/dec/30/about-python-3/ may be of interest to some of you. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Blog "about python 3"

2013-12-30 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 30/12/2013 20:49, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Mon, 30 Dec 2013 19:41:44 +0000, Mark Lawrence wrote: http://alexgaynor.net/2013/dec/30/about-python-3/ may be of interest to some of you. I don't know whether to thank you for the link, or shout at you for sending eyeballs to look

Re: Blog "about python 3"

2013-12-30 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 30/12/2013 22:38, Ethan Furman wrote: On 12/30/2013 01:29 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote: On 30/12/2013 20:49, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Mon, 30 Dec 2013 19:41:44 +0000, Mark Lawrence wrote: http://alexgaynor.net/2013/dec/30/about-python-3/ may be of interest to some of you. I don&#

Re: Blog "about python 3"

2013-12-30 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 31/12/2013 01:09, Chris Angelico wrote: On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 9:38 AM, Ethan Furman wrote: On 12/30/2013 01:29 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote: On 30/12/2013 20:49, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Mon, 30 Dec 2013 19:41:44 +0000, Mark Lawrence wrote: http://alexgaynor.net/2013/dec/30/about-p

Re: Blog "about python 3"

2013-12-31 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 30/12/2013 22:38, Ethan Furman wrote: On 12/30/2013 01:29 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote: On 30/12/2013 20:49, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Mon, 30 Dec 2013 19:41:44 +0000, Mark Lawrence wrote: http://alexgaynor.net/2013/dec/30/about-python-3/ may be of interest to some of you. I don&#

Re: Python 2.x and 3.x usage survey

2013-12-31 Thread Mark Lawrence
the URL: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/N5N5PG2 People using 1.x will be miffed as their baby has been missed out :) -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Blog "about python 3"

2013-12-31 Thread Mark Lawrence
t were backported from 3.x to 2.7, or could you have stayed with 2.6 or an even older version? -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python 2.x and 3.x usage survey

2014-01-01 Thread Mark Lawrence
-- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: About some problem

2014-01-02 Thread Mark Lawrence
is command? 2to3 -w pytesser.py -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: About some problem

2014-01-02 Thread Mark Lawrence
what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: About some problem

2014-01-02 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 02/01/2014 23:49, Steven D'Aprano wrote: Mark Lawrence wrote: raise "Not Valid DB Type" is perfectly valid in Python 2. Actually, no it isn't. It's only valid up to Python 2.4. In Python 2.5, string exceptions display a warning but continue to work, and in P

Re: Ifs and assignments

2014-01-02 Thread Mark Lawrence
y Herron I liked the look of this as well. It ought to go to python ideas, or has it been suggested there in the past? -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Ifs and assignments

2014-01-02 Thread Mark Lawrence
But even that would be problematic until it got so thoroughly understood that it's like enumerate() - which is itself still not perfect. ChrisA I find the above rather funcy :) -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language.

Re: About some problem

2014-01-02 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 03/01/2014 04:18, Ethan Furman wrote: On 01/02/2014 05:14 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote: On 02/01/2014 23:49, Steven D'Aprano wrote: Mark Lawrence wrote: raise "Not Valid DB Type" is perfectly valid in Python 2. Actually, no it isn't. It's only valid up to Python 2

Re: Blog "about python 3"

2014-01-03 Thread Mark Lawrence
incorrect code in preference to something that is correct but slow? Except that Python 3.3.3 is often faster. And always (to my knowledge) correct. Upper Class Twit of the Year anybody? :) -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our langua

Re: Strange behaviour with a for loop.

2014-01-03 Thread Mark Lawrence
d sys.edit() is very unlikely to work :) -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Blog "about python 3"

2014-01-03 Thread Mark Lawrence
se from None' or ... In any case I think we will be maintaining python 2.x code for at least another 5 years; the version gap is then a real hindrance. Of interest https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2012-October/121919.html ? -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our langu

3.4 on Windows ImportError: cannot import name 'IntEnum'

2014-01-04 Thread Mark Lawrence
et.py", line 51, in from enum import IntEnum ImportError: cannot import name 'IntEnum' Before I raise an issue on the bug tracker can another Windows user or two please confirm that this is a genuine problem and not my installation being corrupt or whatever. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: print range in python3.3

2014-01-05 Thread Mark Lawrence
t what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: 3.4 on Windows ImportError: cannot import name 'IntEnum'

2014-01-05 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 04/01/2014 19:35, Mark Lawrence wrote: Raised an issue anyway and then found a file caused enum.py. Whoops :( -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Blog "about python 3"

2014-01-05 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 31/12/2013 09:53, Steven D'Aprano wrote: Mark Lawrence wrote: http://blog.startifact.com/posts/alex-gaynor-on-python-3.html. I quote: "...perhaps a brave group of volunteers will stand up and fork Python 2, and take the incremental steps forward. This will have to remain ju

"More About Unicode in Python 2 and 3"

2014-01-05 Thread Mark Lawrence
http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2014/1/5/unicode-in-2-and-3/ Please don't shoot the messenger :) -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Dos cursor and input management.

2014-01-05 Thread Mark Lawrence
re looking for something like this https://github.com/jmcb/python-pdcurses -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: [ANN] gg_scrapper -- scrapping of the Google Groups

2014-01-05 Thread Mark Lawrence
ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Blog "about python 3"

2014-01-05 Thread Mark Lawrence
d nothing but the Python." :) -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

function to split strings and lists on predicate

2014-01-05 Thread Mark Lawrence
k not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: "More About Unicode in Python 2 and 3"

2014-01-06 Thread Mark Lawrence
thon 2.8, as my understanding is that the vast majority of the Python core developers won't do it for them. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: "More About Unicode in Python 2 and 3"

2014-01-06 Thread Mark Lawrence
at you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: "More About Unicode in Python 2 and 3"

2014-01-06 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 06/01/2014 16:46, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 06 January 2014 11:42:55 Mark Lawrence did opine: On 06/01/2014 14:32, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 06 January 2014 08:52:42 Ned Batchelder did opine: [...] You are still talking about whether Armin is right, and whether he writes well

Re: "More About Unicode in Python 2 and 3"

2014-01-06 Thread Mark Lawrence
t you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Which python framework?

2014-01-06 Thread Mark Lawrence
. Mark Lawrence -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

the Gravity of Python 2

2014-01-06 Thread Mark Lawrence
ince the first release of Python 3. Surely much more time should be made available for people using Python 2 to plan for a migration? -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: "More About Unicode in Python 2 and 3"

2014-01-06 Thread Mark Lawrence
oded bytes as text is the problem here. I think the whole forking community is confused at because of your own arrogance. Foo(l)s. markj Looks like another bad batch, time to change your dealer again. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for o

Re: the Gravity of Python 2

2014-01-06 Thread Mark Lawrence
n the list. Add your new commentary and links to existing threads would be easier, yes? I've just had a really good chuckle reading that coming from you. Got the new dealer yet? -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our langu

Re: Drawing shaded area depending on distance with latitude and altitude coordinate

2014-01-06 Thread Mark Lawrence
top of the plot of each point. If you give any idea or hint, I will really apprecite. Thank you, Isaac Sorry I can't help directly but can point you here https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users or perhaps stackoverflow. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our lang

Re: "More About Unicode in Python 2 and 3"

2014-01-06 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 06/01/2014 20:31, Serhiy Storchaka wrote: 06.01.14 15:44, Mark Lawrence написав(ла): Simply scrap PEP 404 and the currently unhappy customers will be happy as they'll be free to do all the work they want on Python 2.8, as my understanding is that the vast majority of the Python

Re: "More About Unicode in Python 2 and 3"

2014-01-06 Thread Mark Lawrence
low Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: "More About Unicode in Python 2 and 3"

2014-01-06 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 06/01/2014 20:49, Terry Reedy wrote: On 1/6/2014 8:44 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote: On 06/01/2014 12:39, Ned Batchelder wrote: I'm not talking about the technical details of bytes and Unicode. I'm talking about making customers happy. Simply scrap PEP 404 Not necessary.

Re: "More About Unicode in Python 2 and 3"

2014-01-06 Thread Mark Lawrence
approach. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: "More About Unicode in Python 2 and 3"

2014-01-06 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 06/01/2014 21:42, Ned Batchelder wrote: On 1/6/14 4:33 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote: On 06/01/2014 21:17, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 06 January 2014 16:16:13 Terry Reedy did opine: On 1/6/2014 9:32 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: And from my lurking here, its quite plain to me that 3.x python has

Re: "More About Unicode in Python 2 and 3"

2014-01-06 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 06/01/2014 22:22, Ned Batchelder wrote: On 1/6/14 5:08 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote: On 06/01/2014 21:42, Ned Batchelder wrote: On 1/6/14 4:33 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote: On 06/01/2014 21:17, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 06 January 2014 16:16:13 Terry Reedy did opine: On 1/6/2014 9:32 AM, Gene

Re: Suggested GUI framework for Mac and unix?

2014-01-06 Thread Mark Lawrence
ojectPhoenix which is the port of wxpython to support Python 3. I'm not sure when it will be released by I believe we're talking months. -- Russell -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: "More About Unicode in Python 2 and 3"

2014-01-06 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 06/01/2014 22:35, Antoine Pitrou wrote: Mark Lawrence yahoo.co.uk> writes: [...] And as I started this thread, I'll say what I please, throwing my toys out of my pram in just the same way that your pal Armin is currently doing. I'll join Ned here: please stop it. Yo

Re: "More About Unicode in Python 2 and 3"

2014-01-06 Thread Mark Lawrence
eloped". Funny really as I see bug fixes going into Python 2.7 on a daily basis so I can only assume that their definition of dead is different to mine and presumably yours. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: "More About Unicode in Python 2 and 3"

2014-01-06 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 06/01/2014 23:14, Ben Finney wrote: Mark Lawrence writes: You arrogance really has no bounds. If you'd have done the job that you should have done in the first place and stopped that blithering idiot 16 months ago, we wouldn't still be putting up with him now. That is a mi

Re: python finance

2014-01-07 Thread Mark Lawrence
oes the PSF get its money?". Or a misplaced need for funding to support a pet Burmese Python Or European? -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: the Gravity of Python 2

2014-01-08 Thread Mark Lawrence
updates or no security updates. That's all fine. What's not fine though is people holding the rest of us back with their negativity and FUD that Python 3 is a mistake. Big +1 from me to all the above. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you

Re: the Gravity of Python 2

2014-01-08 Thread Mark Lawrence
use of the massive overhead they've already had to do supporting 2 and 3 in parellel. Assuming that I'm correct, who is going to do the work involved, you Martijn? -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: the Gravity of Python 2

2014-01-08 Thread Mark Lawrence
-- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: the Gravity of Python 2

2014-01-08 Thread Mark Lawrence
the bug tracker would come higher up my list, particularly as some of them have been sitting there for ten years. Or how about finally getting the "new" regex module into the standard library? -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for ou

Re: Blog "about python 3"

2014-01-08 Thread Mark Lawrence
argument about memory usage to pieces. You did not bother to respond to the comments from Tim Delaney made almost one day ago. Please give up. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence -- https://mail.python.org

Re: Recover handle to shadowed builtin?

2014-01-08 Thread Mark Lawrence
I suppose. >>> help(__builtins__.sum) Help on built-in function sum in module __builtin__: ... -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Editor for Python

2014-01-08 Thread Mark Lawrence
you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

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