On Tue, Feb 23, 2016, at 03:22, Paul Rubin wrote:
> Thanks. It would be nice if those were gatewayed to usenet like this
> group is. I can't bring myself to subscribe to mailing lists.
Have you tried gmane?
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On Mon, Feb 29, 2016, at 10:36, ast wrote:
> but why doesn't it work with built-in classes int, float, list ?
>
> L = [1, 8, 0]
> L.test = 'its a list !'
>
> (however lists are mutable, int, float ... are not)
Because those classes do not have attribute dictionaries, in order to
save space.
On Thu, Mar 3, 2016, at 06:52, 刘琦帆 wrote:
> I have just saw PEP 255, and it says that
>
> "A yield statement is not allowed in the try clause of a try/finally
> construct. The difficulty is that there's no guarantee the generator
> will ever be resumed, hence no guarantee that the finally block
On Thu, Mar 3, 2016, at 08:47, Peter Otten wrote:
> This is because the last generator uf = upperfile(...) is not garbage-
> collected and wasn't explicitly closed either.
But the program hasn't ended yet when you run your assertion.
import sys
_open = open
files = []
def myclose(self):
pri
On Mon, Mar 7, 2016, at 11:19, Ian Kelly wrote:
> Relative imports only work inside packages. You can't use a relative
> import to import one top-level module from another.
>
> Besides, the relative import doesn't help to disambiguate in this
> case. The absolute path of the stdlib email module is
On Mon, Mar 7, 2016, at 13:09, Jon Ribbens wrote:
> It only appears to have downloads for 32-bit, or 64-bit AMD processors,
> not 64-bit Intel processors.
Current 64-bit processors produced by Intel use the "AMD64"
architecture, not the Intel IA-64 (Itanium) architecture.
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On Fri, Mar 18, 2016, at 20:55, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 9:03 AM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> > Also, special-casing '\0' and '/' is
> > lame. Why can't I have "Results 1/2016" as a filename?
>
> Would you be allowed to have a directory named "Results 1" as well?
If I were des
On Fri, Mar 18, 2016, at 03:00, Ian Kelly wrote:
> jmf has been asked this before, and as I recall he seems to feel that
> UTF-8 should be used for all purposes, ignoring the limitations of
> that encoding such as that indexing becomes a O(n) operation.
Just to play devil's advocate, here, why is
On Wed, Mar 16, 2016, at 11:17, Sven R. Kunze wrote:
> I can imagine that. Could you describe the general use-case? From what I
> know, "else" is executed when you don't "break" the loop. When is this
> useful?
for item in collection:
if good(item):
thing = item
break
else:
th
On Thu, Mar 17, 2016, at 10:36, Chris Angelico wrote:
> This object has a generator/list duality, but if you observe it, it
> collapses to a list. When used interactively, it'd be pretty much the
> same as calling list() as the last step, but in a script, they'd
> operate lazily.
>
> Quantum com
On Wed, Mar 16, 2016, at 11:09, Joel Goldstick wrote:
> > This is interesting, but the part I'm missing is the use of the Pipe
> symbol '|' in python. Can you elaborate
His "Filter", "Map", and "Reduce" are classes which define __ror__
methods, obviously.
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On Fri, Mar 18, 2016, at 10:59, Michael Torrie wrote:
> This seems to me to be a leaky abstraction. Julia's approach is
> interesting, but it strikes me as somewhat broken as it pretends to do
> O(1) indexing, but in reality it's still O(n) because you still have to
> iterate through the bytes unt
On Fri, Mar 18, 2016, at 12:44, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> And I don't understand this meme that indexing strings is not important.
> Have people never (say) taken a slice of a string, or a look-ahead, or
> something similar?
>
> i = mystring.find(":")
find is already O(N).
> next_char = mystring[
On Wed, Mar 16, 2016, at 10:57, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> For instance, we can take a string, extract all the digits, convert them
> to
> ints, and finally multiply the digits to give a final result:
>
> py> from operator import mul
> py> "abcd12345xyz" | Filter(str.isdigit) | Map(int) | Reduce(m
On Fri, Mar 18, 2016, at 15:46, Tim Golden wrote:
> Speaking for a moment as the list owner. Posts by this OP are usually
> blatant provocation and I usually filter them out before they hit the
> list. (They'll still appear if you're reading via Usenet). In this case
> I approved a post thinking
On Wed, Mar 16, 2016, at 13:01, Sven R. Kunze wrote:
> On 16.03.2016 17:56, Sven R. Kunze wrote:
> > On 16.03.2016 17:37, Random832 wrote:
> >> for item in collection:
> >> if good(item):
> >>thing = item
> >>break
> >>
On Fri, Mar 18, 2016, at 11:17, Ian Kelly wrote:
> > Just to play devil's advocate, here, why is it so bad for indexing to be
> > O(n)? Some simple caching is all that's needed to prevent it from making
> > iteration O(n^2), if that's what you're worried about.
>
> What kind of caching do you ha
On Wed, Mar 16, 2016, at 11:20, Random832 wrote:
> How about:
>
> from functools import partial, reduce
> from operator import mul
> def rcall(arg, func): return func(arg)
> def fpipe(*args): return reduce(rcall, args)
It occurs to me that this suggests a further refinement:
On Sun, Mar 20, 2016, at 10:55, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
> It's 21. The reason being (or at least part of the reason being) that
> 21 bits can be UTF-8 encoded in 4 bytes: 0xxx 10xx 10xx
> 10xx (3 + 3*6).
The reason is the UTF-16 limit. Prior to that, UTF-8 had no such limit
(it could
On Mon, Mar 21, 2016, at 09:48, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Pardon me, do I understand you correctly? You're saying that the C parser
> is
> Unicode-aware and allows you to use Unicode in C source code?
Er, "the" C parser?
In the C standard, the source character set is implementation-defined,
and is
On Wed, Mar 23, 2016, at 08:17, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Any Windows users here?
>
> print(e.winerror) # Windows only
> print(e.errno)
> print(repr(e))
183
17
FileExistsError(17, 'Cannot create a file when that file already
exists')
Python 3.5.1.
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On Wed, Mar 23, 2016, at 05:03, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> https://medium.com/@azerbike/i-ve-just-liberated-my-modules-9045c06be67c
>
> Of course, moving his allegedly infringing package "kik" to github isn't
> going to fix the problem. It's still allegedly infringing.
I think the issue, and it is
On Wed, Mar 23, 2016, at 10:52, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> - He didn't bother to check to see whether the name was in use when he
> picked it.
Someone not making a commercial product shouldn't have to worry about a
name collision with something they've never heard of.
> - The lawyers were polite bu
On Wed, Mar 23, 2016, at 12:08, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> > And doing it 'Pythonically' can lead to suggestions such as the
> > following the other day:
> >
> > c, psource = psource[0], psource[1:]
> >
> > (where psource is a very long string), which even I could tell, from
> > knowing what goes o
On Wed, Mar 23, 2016, at 19:55, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> while psource:
> c, psource = psource[0], psource[1:]
> lxsymbol = disptable[min(ord(c), 256)](c, psource)
>
>
> But one positive: this conclusively proves that "Pythonic" is in the eye
> of
> the beh
On Thu, Mar 24, 2016, at 06:14, Lele Gaifax wrote:
> I tried to insert an entry in my ~/.netrc for an account having a
> password that contains a space, something like:
>
> machine my-host-name login myname password "My Password"
>
> The standard library netrc module does not seem able to parse i
On Thu, Mar 24, 2016, at 10:49, BartC wrote:
> On 24/03/2016 14:34, Jussi Piitulainen wrote:
> > You understand correctly, but it may be more natural in practice to
> > write it this way:
> >
> > for k, item in enumerate(them):
> > them[k] = f(item)
> >
> > I _think_ I might write i
On Thu, Mar 24, 2016, at 11:18, BartC wrote:
> On 24/03/2016 15:03, Jon Ribbens wrote:
> > No it isn't, it's replacing the elements in-place,
>
> Replace them with what, if not an entirely new list built from
> '[0]*len(L)'?
Well, the *contents* of such a list, obviously. But the original list's
On Thu, Mar 24, 2016, at 16:24, kevind0...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hello:
>
> newbie Tkinter question
>
> If I run the code below two windows appear.
> One empty and one with the text box and button.
The empty one is the root window.
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On Fri, Mar 25, 2016, at 22:46, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Culturally, C compiler writers have a preference for using undefined
> behaviour to allow optimizations, even if it means changing the semantics
> of your code. The C compiler is allowed to ignore your code, move it
> around
> so that things
On Sat, Mar 26, 2016, at 23:18, Ben Finney wrote:
> What you've demonstrated is that at least one host is violating
> communication standards by altering existing reference fields on
> messages in transit.
The usenet gateway relays posts that originated on the mailing list to
usenet with their *Me
On Mon, Mar 28, 2016, at 07:36, larudwer wrote:
> in case you want to mainain order:
>
> ["a","b"]*3
> ['a', 'b', 'a', 'b', 'a', 'b']
>
> is completely suffincient.
I think you've completely missed the point of what order he's talking
about. How do you turn ['a', 'c', 'b'] into ['a', 'a',
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014, at 10:56, Simon Kennedy wrote:
> Thanks everyone. That's a thorough enough explanation for me.
You should know, though, that numeric values equal to 1 (and 0 for
False) _are_ == True. This works for dictionary keys, array indexes,
etc. The bool type is actually a subclass of
;
> >
> > (None, None)
> >
> > C:\Users\Terry>python -c "import locale;
> > locale.setlocale(locale.LC_CTYPE, ''); print(locale.getlocale())"
> > ('English_United States', '1252')
>
> What is the differen
e, None)
> >
> > C:\Users\Terry>python -c "import locale;
> > locale.setlocale(locale.LC_CTYPE, ''); print(locale.getlocale())"
> > ('English_United States', '1252')
>
> What is the difference between getlocale and getdefaultlocale anyway? The
> docstrings are even partially the same. The notatation of getlocale
> appears to be OS-specific ("English_United States" in Windows) and not
> Unix-like (cf. getdefaultlocale: en_US)
>
> regards,
> Albert-Jan
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On Thu, Nov 20, 2014, at 07:35, Peter Otten wrote:
> >>> "%s nötig %s" % (u"üblich", u"ähnlich")
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "", line 1, in
> UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 4:
> ordinal not in range(128)
This is surprising to me - why is it
On Thu, Nov 20, 2014, at 09:59, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 12:59 AM, wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 20, 2014, at 07:35, Peter Otten wrote:
> >> >>> "%s nötig %s" % (u"üblich", u"ähnlich")
> >> Traceback (most recent call last):
> >> File "", line 1, in
> >> UnicodeDecodeError: 'as
On Thu, Nov 20, 2014, at 16:29, Ethan Furman wrote:
> If your unicode string happens to contain a base64 encoded .png, then you
> could decode that into bytes. ;)
Bytes of the PNG, or of the raw pixels?
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se combining accents, in a way unfortunately
incompatible with unicode normalization if naively translated, whereas
VISCII sacrifices a handful of C0 control characters in addition to
fully packing the high half with letters.
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On Fri, Nov 21, 2014, at 05:33, alister wrote:
> the problem with input is code-injection which is very similar to sql
> injection (httpd://xkcd.com/327).
>
> the data entered by the user is processed as if it was python code, this
> means the user could enter a command (or sequence of commands)
On Fri, Nov 21, 2014, at 05:47, Chris Angelico wrote:
> Now, maybe you want it to eval. There are times when I conceptually
> want "enter an integer", but it makes good sense to be able to type
> "1+2" and have it act as if I typed "3". That's fine... but if you
> want eval, write eval into your co
On Fri, Nov 21, 2014, at 02:00, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> Gill Shen :
>
> > How is this [nesting] behavior implemented under the hood?
>
> Pointers.
>
> > And why is this allowed at all?
>
> There's no reason not to.
There's no reason not to allow it with tuples, but you can't do it.
Mainly beca
On Fri, Nov 21, 2014, at 12:47, Chris Angelico wrote:
> You can do it in C, I believe - PyTuple_New() followed by
> PyTuple_SetItem(x, 0, x) should do it.
Yeah, that's how I did it. I think python 2 crashed and python 3
didn't... or maybe it was the interactive interpreter that crashed and
calling
On Fri, Nov 21, 2014, at 23:38, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> I really don't understand what bothers you about this. In Python, we have
> Unicode strings and byte strings. In computing in general, strings can
> consist of Unicode characters, ASCII characters, Tron characters, EBCDID
> characters, ISO-88
On Sat, Nov 22, 2014, at 18:38, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> ...
> That is a standard Windows build. He is again conflating problems with
> using the Windows command line for a given code page with the FSR.
The thing is, with a truetype font selected, a correctly written win32
console problem should be
On Sat, Nov 22, 2014, at 21:47, Seymore4Head wrote:
> What do I need to do to make a and b have different values?
> import random
> class RPS:
> throw=random.randrange(3)
> a=RPS
> b=RPS
>
> print ("a ",a.throw)
> print ("b ",b.throw)
> if a.throw == b.throw:
> print("Tie")
> elif (a.thr
On Sat, Nov 22, 2014, at 21:11, Chris Angelico wrote:
> Is that true? Does WriteConsoleW support every Unicode character? It's
> not obvious from the docs whether it uses UCS-2 or UTF-16 (or maybe
> something else).
I was defining "every unicode character" loosely. There are certainly
display prob
On Sun, Nov 23, 2014, at 00:59, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> >> It works fine now (Python 3.3).
> >>
> >> py> L = []
> >> py> t = (L, None)
> >> py> L.append(L)
> >> py> L.append(t) # For good measure.
> >> py> print(t)
> >> ([[...], (...)], None)
> >
> > This is a tuple in a list in a tuple, not
On Sun, Nov 23, 2014, at 11:33, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> Why would that be possible? Many truetype fonts only supply glyphs for
> single-byte encodings (ISO-Latin-1, for example -- pop up the Windows
> character map utility and see what some of the font files contain.
With a bitmap font se
On Sun, Nov 23, 2014, at 15:31, Dave Angel wrote:
> I didn't realize Windows shell (DOS box) had that bug. Course I don't
> use Windows much the last few years.
>
> it's one thing to not display it properly. It's quite another to supply
> faulty data to the clipboard. Especially since the Win
On Wed, Nov 26, 2014, at 06:29, Mark Summerfield wrote:
> TypeError: type() argument 1 must be string, not unicode
If this is a bug, maybe it is one in type() itself - I get the same
error with type('X', (object,), dict(a=1))
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On Wed, Nov 26, 2014, at 01:04, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
> In this case, I am not trying to write a fullblown language or recover
> from syntax errors. Here's a usecase - I want to know whether I need
> to use a sudo password when the user passes a command on the command line
> of a program:
>
> some
On Wed, Nov 26, 2014, at 10:02, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
>someprog.py "uname && sudo cat /etc/sudoers"
>
> vs.
>
>someprog.py 'uname && echo "sudo cat /etc/suoders"'
I think it would be better to provide a general way for the user to
provide an input script as an option, rather than to spec
On Wed, Nov 26, 2014, at 09:40, Chris Angelico wrote:
> I'd say that's a limitation, not a bug. A lot of stuff in Python 2
> depends on identifiers being ASCII-only byte strings, including -
> apparently - parts of the core code.
But why shouldn't the type constructor do the conversion (and any
va
On Wed, Nov 26, 2014, at 10:36, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
> The more I think about this, the more I think I am just going to look for
> the
> string 'sudo' anywhere in the argument. This merely will force the user
> to
> enter their sudo password if detected. If it turns out to be a false
> positive,
>
On Wed, Nov 26, 2014, at 10:55, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
> Nope. Password only exist in memory locally.
How does it send it to the remote sudo?
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On Wed, Nov 26, 2014, at 11:02, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
> On 11/26/2014 10:00 AM, random...@fastmail.us wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 26, 2014, at 10:55, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
> >> Nope. Password only exist in memory locally.
> >
> > How does it send it to the remote sudo?
> >
>
> Over paramiko transport (ssh
On Mon, Dec 1, 2014, at 15:28, Israel Brewster wrote:
> For example, I have a URL on my Cherrypy app that updates some local
> caches. It is accessed at http:///admin/updatecaches So if I
> start typing http:///a, for example, safari may auto-fill the
> "dmin/updatecaches", and trigger a cache refr
On Tue, Dec 2, 2014, at 10:59, Israel Brewster wrote:
> Primary because they aren’t forms, they are links. And links are, by
> definition, GET’s. That said, as I mentioned in earlier replies, if using
> a form for a simple link is the Right Way to do things like this, then I
> can change it.
As I
On Thu, Dec 4, 2014, at 05:09, Albert van der Horst wrote:
> So in that case max doesn't return the maximum (True), but instead
> something else.
If you want to find the "largest" item in a list of of strings, sorted
case-insensitively, you might use str.lower or locale.strxfrm as the key
function
On Thu, Dec 4, 2014, at 10:50, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> That is, the internal integer wrap is not guarded against between the
> calls to time.monotonic(), maybe.
Looking at the code, it looks like it does guard against the rollover,
though if you let your program run for 49.7 days _without_ calling
On Tue, Dec 9, 2014, at 16:18, Duncan Booth wrote:
> The default parameters are actually evaluated when the 'def' statement is
> executed and the function object is created from the default arguments
> and
> the previously compiled code block.
Which means that if you execute the def statement [o
On Tue, Dec 9, 2014, at 21:44, Rustom Mody wrote:
> Nice example -- thanks.
> Elaborates the why of this gotcha -- a def(inition) is imperative.
> From a semantic pov very clean.
> From an expectation pov always surprising.
Of course, I used a lambda for this. The equivalent without would be:
def
On Wed, Dec 10, 2014, at 21:18, Rustom Mody wrote:
> But I have a different question -- can this be demonstrated without the
> 'is'?
Er, yeah. You can, for example, add an item to one of the dictionaries
and observe that it's not present in the other.
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On Fri, Dec 19, 2014, at 07:23, Ben Finney wrote:
> Cem Karan writes:
> > I'd like to suggest that getattr(), setattr(), and hasattr() all be
> > modified so that syntactically invalid statements raise SyntaxErrors.
>
> What syntactically invalid statements? The only syntactically invalid
> state
On Wed, Dec 24, 2014, at 09:09, Chris Cioffi wrote:
> PS: For those who are curious, the 2 issues that seemed to hold things
> up the most are non-Unix systems (Windows) and how to handle when there
> is no home directory. Posix only says that the results are undefined.
What did they end up do
On Tue, Jan 13, 2015, at 04:03, brice DORA wrote:
> i consume a web service that return a element whose the type is
> "instance". but this element seem be a dictionary but when i want to use
> it like a dictionary, i got some errors. so this is the element and
> please someone can tell me how can i
On Thu, Jan 22, 2015, at 13:28, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> Evidence in completely the opposite direction if I'm reading this
> correctly https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0484/#usage-patterns
>
> "The main use case of type hinting is static analysis using an external
> tool without executing the a
On Thu, Jan 22, 2015, at 23:23, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Rick Johnson wrote:
>
> > The solution is move the type
> > hinting syntax completely out of the source file and into
> > another file -- think of it as a "Python Type Hinting Header
> > File".
>
> The 1970s called, they want their bad idea
On Tue, Jan 27, 2015, at 00:17, Rehab Habeeb wrote:
> Hi there python staff
> does python support arabic language for texts ? and what to do if it
> support it?
> i wrote hello in Arabic using codeskulptor and the powershell just for
> testing and the same error appeared( a sytanx error in unicode)
On Tue, Jan 27, 2015, at 01:36, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> I consider return type to be part of the function signature. The
> signature
> of a function is the parameters it accepts and the result it returns.
It's part of it, but not the whole of it, and early C compilers had no
information about th
On Mon, Jan 26, 2015, at 19:11, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> > (header files in the 1970s didn't even actually include function
> > signature information) - which did not even participate in compilation
> > at all.
>
> If C compilers didn't use the header files, what were they for?
My sentence may ha
On Mon, Jan 26, 2015, at 19:11, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> random...@fastmail.us wrote:
> - lexical analysis has to look for twice as many files (it has to
> hit the hard drive for a stub file before looking at the source),
> and we know from importing that file system access is a
> significa
On Tue, Jan 27, 2015, at 12:25, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> People might find this http://bugs.python.org/issue1602 and hence this
> https://github.com/Drekin/win-unicode-console useful. The latter is
> available on pypi.
However, Arabic is one of those scripts that runs up against the real
limitati
On Tue, Jan 27, 2015, at 13:05, Mario Figueiredo wrote:
> In article ,
> jpiit...@ling.helsinki.fi says...
> >
> > If you mean literally some_predicate, then perhaps this.
> >
> > if some_predicate:
> >for x in seq:
> > handle(x)
> >
>
> Careful. See Chris Warrick answer for the corr
On Tue, Jan 27, 2015, at 16:06, Mario Figueiredo wrote:
> That error message has me start that thread arguing that the error is
> misleading because the Sub object does have the __bases__ attribute.
> It's the Sub instance object that does not have it.
What do you think "Sub object" means?
Sub
On Tue, Jan 27, 2015, at 23:47, alex23 wrote:
> On 28/01/2015 10:24 AM, Mario Figueiredo wrote:
> > In other words, the object know as "Sub class" is not an instance
> > object. True, it is an instance of the object 'type'.
>
> >>> class Foo:
> ... pass
> ...
> >>> isinstan
On Wed, Jan 28, 2015, at 00:43, Devin Jeanpierre wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 9:37 PM, wrote:
> > Sub itself is not a Sub object, it is a type object. "instance" is
> > implicit in the phrase "foo object".
>
> Yes. Unfortunately, it's still not really completely clear. "Sub
> instance" would
On Wed, Jan 28, 2015, at 01:59, Ben Finney wrote:
> You have no justification to claim that, and it's hostile and dismissive
> to claim it so assertively.
Sorry about that - I was tired and had just read through the whole
thread at once.
> I'll freely admit to finding “'Foo' object” ambiguous. It
On Wed, Jan 28, 2015, at 13:16, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> C and C++ are weakly and statically typed languages.
"strong typing" has no meaning at all, and "weak typing" means "anything
I don't like".
The fact that you can add an int and a float, or that you can use any
object as a boolean, would make
On Thu, Jan 29, 2015, at 10:56, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Bar language, on the other hand, tries extremely hard to ensure that
> every
> type is automatically able to be coerced into every other type. The
> coercion might not do what you expect, but it will do *something*:
See, this is where the co
On Tue, Feb 24, 2015, at 10:10, Chris Angelico wrote:
> Ah, okay. :) But even with that level of confidence, you still have to
> pick between Latin-1 and CP-1252, which you can't tell based on this
> one snippet. Welcome to untagged encodings.
Or Latin-9 (ISO 8859-15) That was popular on Linux sys
On Mon, Feb 24, 2014, at 13:05, j.e.ha...@gmail.com wrote:
> typedef struct {
> int value;
> } Number;
>
> Number *o;
> o = malloc(sizeof(*o));
> o->value=3;
> printf("o<%p>, o->value<%p>\n", o, &o->value);
>
> o<0x9fe5008>, o->value<0x9fe5008>
>
> Is the compiler borked?
That's cheat
On Mon, Feb 24, 2014, at 13:19, Michael Torrie wrote:
> Why would you think that? The address of the start of your malloc'ed
> structure is the same as the address of the first element. Surely this
> is logical? And of course all this is quite off topic.
That's not helpful - the problem, in cont
On Mon, Feb 24, 2014, at 15:46, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> That is:
>
> 1. ineffient (encode/decode shuffle)
>
> 2. unnatural (strings usually have no place in protocols)
That's not at all clear. Why _aren't_ these protocols considered text
protocols? Why can't you add a string directly to header
On Thu, Mar 13, 2014, at 13:01, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 1:43 AM, John Gordon wrote:
> >> select foo() as value from dual
> >
> > That will get the return value into an SQL variable, but the OP wanted
> > to know how to fetch it from python code.
>
> In theory, that should
On Thu, Mar 13, 2014, at 11:28, Rustom Mody wrote:
> Heh! I was hesitating to put that line at all: For one thing its a
> hackneyed truth in the non-FP community. For another, in practical
> Haskell, use of frank recursion is regarded as as sign of programming
> immaturity:
And IIRC Lisp and Schem
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014, at 11:10, Rustom Mody wrote:
> Just out of curiosity how do/did you type that?
> When I see an exotic denizen from the unicode-universe I paste it into
> emacs and ask "Who are you?"
>
> But with your 'def' my emacs is going a bit crazy!
Your emacs probably is using UCS-2 or
On Thu, Apr 3, 2014, at 5:00, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> In fact, proper dealing with punctuation in pathnames is one of the main
> reasons to migrate to Python from bash. Even if it is often possible to
> write bash scripts that handle arbitrary pathnames correctly, few script
> writers are pedantic
On Thu, Apr 3, 2014, at 20:38, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> I just wish I had a quid for every time somebody expects something out
> of Python, that way I'd have retired years ago. At least here it's not
> accompanied by "as that's how it works in ".
I can't imagine a language that would work that wa
On Mon, Apr 28, 2014, at 4:57, wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote:
> Python 3:
> - It missed the unicode shift.
> - Covering the whole unicode range will not make
> Python a unicode compliant product.
Please cite exactly what portion of the unicode standard requires
operations with all characters to be han
On Fri, Aug 9, 2013, at 16:43, Devyn Collier Johnson wrote:
> Thanks MRAB! That is easy. I always (incorrectly) thought the join()
> command got two threads and made them one. I did not know it made the
> script wait for the threads.
What you're missing is the fact that the main thread [i.e. the
On Mon, Aug 12, 2013, at 10:56, Rotwang wrote:
> No! A function should have *four* well-defined pieces: what are its
> parameters, what does it do, what are its side-effects, what does it
> return, and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope [etc.]
To be fair, I can't think of what "what does i
On Wed, Aug 14, 2013, at 10:32, wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote:
> I'm always and still be suprised by the number of hard coded
> '\n' one can find in Python code when the portable (here
> win)
>
> >>> os.linesep
> '\r\n'
>
> exists.
Because high-level code isn't supposed to use the os module directly
On Fri, Aug 16, 2013, at 7:47, Roy Smith wrote:
> There is no need to shell out to dd just to do this. All dd is doing
> for you is seeking to the offset you specify and closing the file. You
> can do that entirely in Python code.
>
> http://docs.python.org/2.7/library/stdtypes.html#file.seek
to be notified when its name changes, and so have a name
property. The subclass may want to use a variable called _name for some
other purpose. (maybe "name" isn't the best example).
Examples often look pathological when you simplify out the bit that
makes them make sense.
--
Random8
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013, at 13:32, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Aseem Bansal
> wrote:
> > Currently the documentation download includes a lot of things but PEPs are
> > not its part. I wanted to suggest that PEPs should be included in the
> > download. They are very much
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013, at 14:15, Jerry Hill wrote:
> Personally, the only PEPs I've used as reference material as PEP 8
> (the Python Style Guide), and PEP 249 (the Python Database API
> Specification v2.0). If I recall correctly, one of the database
> adapters I used basically said that they were
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013, at 12:42, David M. Welch wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This is an old thread, but I'm having the same behavior in my terminal
> when
> I run some code but kill the process in the terminal (Ctrl-C). The code
> has
> two prime suspects (from a simple google search):
> 1. Creates ssh p
On Thu, Aug 22, 2013, at 9:45, Ned Batchelder wrote:
> So that I understand what's going on, what's the bad thing that happens
> with a multi-part message? I would have thought that mail readers would
> choose the preferred part, or is it something to do with the message
> quoting?
The bad thi
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