On Sunday, April 20, 2014 3:29:00 PM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Apr 2014 23:40:18 -0700, Paul Rubin wrote:
>
> > It's just that the improvement
> > from 2 to 3 is rather small, and 2 works perfectly well and people are
> > used to it, so they keep using it.
>
>
> Spoken like a
On Tuesday, April 22, 2014 11:14:17 AM UTC+5:30, Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 4/21/2014 11:57 PM, Rustom Mody wrote:
> > As a unicode user (ok wannabe unicode user :D ) Ive
> > written up some unicode ideas that have been discussed here in the
> > last couple of weeks:
> >
On Tuesday, April 22, 2014 11:41:56 AM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Apr 2014 20:57:39 -0700, Rustom Mody wrote:
> > As a unicode user (ok wannabe unicode user :D ) Ive written up some
> > unicode ideas that have been discussed here in the last coupl
On Tuesday, April 22, 2014 12:01:06 PM UTC+5:30, Ian wrote:
> On Apr 22, 2014 12:01 AM, "Rustom Mody" wrote:
> > As a unicode user (ok wannabe unicode user :D ) Ive
> > written up some unicode ideas that have been discussed here in the
> > last couple of weeks:
>
On Tuesday, April 22, 2014 12:01:06 PM UTC+5:30, Ian wrote:
> On Apr 22, 2014 12:01 AM, "Rustom Mody" wrote:
> > As a unicode user (ok wannabe unicode user :D ) Ive
> > written up some unicode ideas that have been discussed here in the
> > last couple of weeks:
>
Chris Angelico wrote:
> it's impossible for most people to type (and programming with a palette
> of arbitrary syntactic tokens isn't my idea of fun)...
Where's the suggestion to use a "palette of arbitrary tokens" ?
I just tried a greek keyboard; ie do
$ setxkbmap -option "grp:switch,grp:alt_shi
ode is a character-set, its better to think
of it as a repertory -- here is the universal set from which a choice is
available.
On Wednesday, April 23, 2014 11:20:35 AM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 3:31 PM, Rustom Mody wrote:
> > Chris Angelico wrote:
> >>
On Wednesday, April 23, 2014 1:23:00 PM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Apr 2014 23:57:46 -0700, Rustom Mody wrote:
> > On the other hand when/if a keyboard mapping is defined in which the
> > characters that are commonly needed are available, it is reasonab
On Wednesday, April 23, 2014 11:29:13 PM UTC+5:30, Rustom Mody wrote:
> On Wednesday, April 23, 2014 1:23:00 PM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> > On Tue, 22 Apr 2014 23:57:46 -0700, Rustom Mody wrote:
> > > On the other hand when/if a keyboard mapping is defined in whi
For some time now I have this in my X startup programs:
$ setxkbmap -option compose:menu
After this I can type (in mostly any window) for example:
(with MN being the windows-menu key)
MN.. gives ... ie an ellipses
MN--. gives - ie an en dash
MN--- gives -- ie an em dash
Not to mention all the e"
For some time now I have this in my X startup programs:
$ setxkbmap -option compose:menu
After this I can type (in mostly any window) for example:
(with MN being the windows-menu key)
MN.. gives ... ie an ellipses
MN--. gives - ie an en dash
MN--- gives -- ie an em dash
Not to mention all the e"
On Tuesday, April 29, 2014 4:44:48 PM UTC+5:30, Rustom Mody wrote:
>
> Any clues?
>
>
> Its the same for emacs 23 and 24
Whoops!
Wrong list :-)
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On Tuesday, April 29, 2014 4:48:51 PM UTC+5:30, Rustom Mody wrote:
Ive done it a second time !?!
Probably related to the temp being a cool > 40 °C
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On Tuesday, April 29, 2014 11:29:23 PM UTC+5:30, Tim Chase wrote:
> While I dislike feeding the troll, what I see here is:
Since its Unicode-troll time, here's my contribution
http://blog.languager.org/2014/04/unicode-and-unix-assumption.html
:-)
More seriously, since Ive quoted some esteemed
On Thursday, May 1, 2014 10:30:43 AM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Apr 2014 21:53:22 -0700, Rustom Mody wrote:
> > On Tuesday, April 29, 2014 11:29:23 PM UTC+5:30, Tim Chase wrote:
> >> While I dislike feeding the troll, what I see here is:
> > Since i
On Friday, May 2, 2014 5:03:21 AM UTC+5:30, MRAB wrote:
> On 2014-05-01 23:38, Terry Reedy wrote:
> > On 5/1/2014 2:04 PM, Rustom Mody wrote:
> >>>> Since its Unicode-troll time, here's my contribution
> >>>> http://blog.languager.org/2014/04/unicode-and
On Friday, May 2, 2014 4:08:35 AM UTC+5:30, Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 5/1/2014 2:04 PM, Rustom Mody wrote:
> >>> Since its Unicode-troll time, here's my contribution
> >>> http://blog.languager.org/2014/04/unicode-and-unix-assumption.html
> I will not comment
On Friday, May 2, 2014 7:59:55 AM UTC+5:30, Rustom Mody wrote:
> "Why should I pay more for a EURO sign than a $ sign?"
A unicode 'headache' there:
I typed the Euro sign (trying again € ) not EURO
Somebody -- I guess its GG in overhelpful mode -- converted it
And made
On Friday, May 2, 2014 8:09:44 AM UTC+5:30, Ben Finney wrote:
> Rustom Mody writes:
> > Yes, the headaches go a little further back than Unicode.
> Okay, so can you change your article to reflect the fact that the
> headaches both pre-date Unicode, and are made much easier by Un
On Friday, May 2, 2014 8:31:56 AM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 12:29 PM, Rustom Mody wrote:
> > Here is an instance of someone who would like a certain optimization to be
> > dis-able-able
> > https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2014
On Friday, May 2, 2014 9:46:36 AM UTC+5:30, Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 5/1/2014 7:33 PM, MRAB wrote:
> > On 2014-05-01 23:38, Terry Reedy wrote:
> >> On 5/1/2014 2:04 PM, Rustom Mody wrote:
> >>>>> Since its Unicode-troll time, here's my contribution
> >
On Friday, May 2, 2014 2:15:41 PM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Thu, 01 May 2014 19:02:48 -0700, Rustom Mody wrote:
> > - Worst of all what we
> > *dont* see -- how many others dont see what we see?
> Again, this a deficiency of the font. There are very few code poi
On Friday, May 2, 2014 5:25:37 PM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Fri, 02 May 2014 03:39:34 -0700, Rustom Mody wrote:
> > On Friday, May 2, 2014 2:15:41 PM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> >> On Thu, 01 May 2014 19:02:48 -0700, Rustom Mody wrote:
> >>
On Friday, May 2, 2014 5:25:37 PM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Fri, 02 May 2014 03:39:34 -0700, Rustom Mody wrote:
> > On Friday, May 2, 2014 2:15:41 PM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> >> On Thu, 01 May 2014 19:02:48 -0700, Rustom Mody wrote:
> >>
On Friday, May 2, 2014 11:37:02 PM UTC+5:30, Peter Otten wrote:
> Rustom Mody wrote:
> > Just noticed a small thing in which python does a bit better than haskell:
> > $ ghci
> > let (fine, fine) = (1,2)
> > Prelude> (fine, fine)
> > (1,2)
> > In case its n
On Saturday, May 3, 2014 6:48:21 AM UTC+5:30, Ned Batchelder wrote:
> On 5/2/14 8:58 PM, Rustom Mody wrote:
> > On Friday, May 2, 2014 11:37:02 PM UTC+5:30, Peter Otten wrote:
> >> Rustom Mody wrote:
> >>> Just noticed a small thing in which python does a bit bet
On Saturday, May 3, 2014 7:24:08 AM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 11:42 AM, Rustom Mody wrote:
> > Two identifiers that to some programmers
> > - can look the same
> > - and not to others
> > - and that the language treats as different
>
On Tuesday, May 6, 2014 6:09:44 AM UTC+5:30, Satish Muthali wrote:
> Hello experts,
> I have a burning question on how to pass variable by reference in Python.
Technically correct answer: You cant. But see below.
> I understand that the data type has to be mutable.
I dont know that mutability h
On Tuesday, May 6, 2014 5:39:25 PM UTC+5:30, doaa eman wrote:
> hello;
>
> I'm a researcher from Cairo University (Information science Dep.)
> i want to know how can i use Paython language on CiteULike
> i need to use it for extracting only tagged articles in the field > of
> medicine for exampl
On Wednesday, May 7, 2014 5:16:16 AM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 7:00 AM, Mark H Harris wrote:
> Is this code mutating or rebinding?
> x = 1.1
> y = 2.2
> x = x + y
Heh! Neat example!
> What language did I write that in? Is there really a fundamental
> difference
On Wednesday, May 7, 2014 8:09:34 AM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 12:18 PM, Rustom Mody wrote:
> > Wrong conclusion!
> > These 3 lines look the same and amount to much the same in python and C.
> > But as the example widens to something beyond 3
On Thursday, May 8, 2014 12:10:45 PM UTC+5:30, Ben Finney wrote:
> Marko Rauhamaa writes:
> > What you are describing is that Python has pointer semantics.
> That doesn't describe it, no. To my eye, "pointer semantics" entails
> that one can directly pass a pointer around as a value (which can't
On Friday, May 9, 2014 8:01:56 AM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 12:21 PM, Roy Smith wrote:
>
>
> > Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>
> >
>
> >> Although Fortran is still in use, and widely so, it is mostly used for
> >> accessing existing Fortran libraries rather than writi
On Friday, May 9, 2014 11:21:37 AM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 3:40 PM, Rustom Mody wrote:
>
> >> I'd like to argue that you're not using Fortran, then. You're making
> >> use of it in the same way that I might make use of Rub
On Friday, May 9, 2014 7:59:14 PM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote:
> The similarities and differences between the variable models are no
> more relevant. What becomes relevant are the PyObject* pointer (the C
> interface to a Python object (not variable)) and the various functions
> for manipulating
On Saturday, May 10, 2014 6:31:49 AM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Sat, 10 May 2014 01:34:58 +0300, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
>
> > and you can't pass references to them.
>
>
> That at least you have got right.
>
And that's Marko's main point
>
>
> > Right, Python's variables aren't li
On Saturday, May 10, 2014 8:03:28 AM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote:
>
> 2) Returning them. This is a lot more dodgy, owing to the
> dangling-pointer issue, but as long as you accept that the reference
> to a variable doesn't ensure its continued life, I suppose this might
> be acceptable. Maybe.
On Saturday, May 10, 2014 1:21:04 AM UTC+5:30, scott...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
>
> here is a snippet of code that opens a file (fn contains the path\name) and
> first tried to replace all endash, emdash etc characters with simple dash
> characters, before doing a search.
>
> But the re
On Saturday, May 10, 2014 1:18:27 PM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Python assignment doesn't copy values.
Maybe our values differ ?
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On Sunday, May 11, 2014 9:46:06 AM UTC+5:30, Nelson Crosby wrote:
> I also believe in this more 'BSD-like' view, but from a business point of
> view. No one is going to invest in a business that can't guarantee against
> piracy, and such a business is much less likely to receive profit (see
> Ar
On Saturday, May 10, 2014 2:39:31 PM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>
> Personally, I don't imagine that there ever could be a language where
> variables were first class values *exactly* the same as ints, strings,
> floats etc. Otherwise, how could you tell the difference between a
> functio
On Sunday, May 11, 2014 11:51:59 AM UTC+5:30, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> Rustom Mody :
>
>
>
> > On Saturday, May 10, 2014 2:39:31 PM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>
> >>
>
> >> Personally, I don't imagine that there ever could be a l
On Sunday, May 11, 2014 11:47:55 AM UTC+5:30, Mark H. Harris wrote:
> 'Julia' is going to give everyone a not so small run for competition;
> justifiably so, not just against FORTRAN.
>
>
> Julia is Matlab and R, Python, Lisp, Scheme; all rolled together on
> steroids. Its amazing as a dynami
On Sunday, May 11, 2014 1:56:41 PM UTC+5:30, Jussi Piitulainen wrote:
> Marko Rauhamaa writes:
> > Rustom Mody:
> >
> > > On Saturday, May 10, 2014 2:39:31 PM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Personally, I don't imagine
On Sunday, May 11, 2014 6:21:08 PM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> The point is, it is *logically impossible* for a language to use
> precisely the same syntax for value-assignment and variable-assignment.
> Consider the variable called "x", which is bound to the value 23. If the
> language
On Saturday, May 10, 2014 10:28:18 PM UTC+5:30, Simon Evans wrote:
> I am new to Python, but my main interest is to use it to Webscrape.
I guess you've moved on from this specific problem.
However here is some general advice:
To use beautiful soup you need to use python.
To use python you need to
On Monday, May 12, 2014 11:05:53 PM UTC+5:30, scott...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Friday, May 9, 2014 8:12:57 PM UTC-4, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> > fStr = fStr.replace(b'‒', b'-')
>
>Still doesn't work
>
>
> > Best:
> >
> >
> > # Untested
> >
> > fStr = re.sub(b'&#x(201[2-5])|(2E3[A
On Tuesday, May 13, 2014 6:48:35 AM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Mon, 12 May 2014 17:47:48 +, alister wrote:
>
> > Surely those example programs are not the pythonoic way to do things or
> > am i missing something?
>
>
>
> Feel free to show us your version of "cat" for Python then.
On Tuesday, May 13, 2014 11:09:06 AM UTC+5:30, Mark H. Harris wrote:
> 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
On Tuesday, May 13, 2014 3:30:36 PM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote:
> Actually, even the file system can do some of this to you. I was
> checking lsof on one of my Linux systems a little while ago, and found
> that I had half a dozen old versions of a program, all with the same
> file name, all del
On Tuesday, May 13, 2014 12:37:24 PM UTC+5:30, Ganesh Pal wrote:
> Hi Team ,
>
>
> what would be the best way to intent the below line .
>
> I have few lines in my program exceeding the allowed maximum line Length of
> 79./80 characters
>
>
> Example 1 :
>
>
>p =
> Subprocess.Popen(s
On Tuesday, May 13, 2014 2:15:49 PM UTC+5:30, Peter Otten wrote:
> Ganesh Pal wrote:
> > what would be the best way to intent the below line .
> >p =
> > Subprocess.Popen(shlex.split(cmd),stdout=subprocess.PIPE,stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
> (3) Import names:
>
>
> from subprocess import PIPE
> p
On Tuesday, May 13, 2014 7:13:47 PM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 11:39 PM, Steven D'Aprano
> > Or price something in cents? I suppose the days of the 25¢ steak dinner
> > are long gone, but you might need to sell something for 99¢ a pound...
>
>
> $0.99/lb? :)
Dollar
On Wednesday, May 14, 2014 9:08:32 AM UTC+5:30, Leonardo Petry wrote:
>
> This is just too convenient.
>
> Basically my question is: Why is python not treating the contents of
> wordplay.txt as one long string and looping each character?
Did you mean convenient or inconvenient?
Anyways...
Ma
On Thursday, May 15, 2014 4:23:52 AM UTC+5:30, Albert van der Horst wrote:
>
> Rustom Mody wrote:
> >80-character limit?!
> >Sheesh! A relic of the days when terminals were ASCII and 80x24
>
>
> 80 character was the hard limit.
> The soft limit for readability
On Thursday, May 15, 2014 4:55:42 PM UTC+5:30, Simon Evans wrote:
> Dear Programmers,
>
> As anticipated, it has not been to long before I have encountered further
>
> difficulty. At the top of page 16 of 'Getting Started with Beautiful Soup" it
>
> gives code to be input, whether to the Pytho
On Thursday, May 15, 2014 6:37:54 PM UTC+5:30, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> Johannes Bauer :
>
>
> > I don't know why anyone would force a display issue onto everyone.
>
>
> Well, if I have to work with your code, you are forcing your style on
> me.
>
>
> > It imples the arrogant stance that every
On Thursday, May 15, 2014 6:57:26 PM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote:
> The limit of human readability is generally given to be somewhere in
> the range of 60-120. It's not a single specific value that's exactly
> the same for everyone; personally, I like my lines of code to be a bit
> longer than 8
On Thursday, May 15, 2014 7:28:01 PM UTC+5:30, Roy Smith wrote:
>
> Rustom Mody wrote:
>
>
>
> > And yet programmers continue to be decades behind all other users of
> > computers. We continue to use flat text for our programs when all others
> > have move
On Friday, May 16, 2014 3:51:27 AM UTC+5:30, Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 5/15/2014 9:58 AM, Rustom Mody wrote:
>
>
> > As far as I can see the votaries of the mystical 79 have yet to explain
> > how/where it appeared from
>
>
>
> As has been explained before, a
On Friday, May 16, 2014 5:51:21 AM UTC+5:30, Ben Finney wrote:
>
>
> Rather, I've claimed that the conventional lime length limit is *based
> in* the real cognitive limits of human reading comprehension -- and that
> technologies have been designed with corresponding limitations.
>
>
> Nowhere
On Saturday, May 17, 2014 7:36:19 PM UTC+5:30, Roy Smith wrote:
>
> Mark Lawrence wrote:
> > > Now translate E=mc^2 into Java.
> > >
> >
> > I can't do that as I simply don't understand it. What has the
> > Marylebone Cricket Club got to do with E?
>
> A wicket looks like an E on its side.
On Sunday, May 18, 2014 8:43:11 AM UTC+5:30, Bill Cunningham wrote:
> Does Python have good mathematical capabilities? I am interested in
>
> learning a second language for mathematical purposes. I am considering
>
> looking at python, perl, fortran, Adas out. It looked too complicated to
>
>
On Sunday, May 18, 2014 5:47:05 AM UTC+5:30, Ned Batchelder wrote:
> On 5/17/14 7:53 PM, CM wrote:
>
> > If I want to switch my work from one computer to a new one, and I
> > have lots of various libraries installed on the original computer,
> > what's the best way to switch that all to the new c
On Monday, May 19, 2014 3:45:22 PM UTC+5:30, Fabien wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> I am new on this forum (I come from IDL and am starting to learn python)
> This thread perfectly illustrates why Python is so scary to newcomers:
> one question, three answers: yes, no, maybe.
> Python-fans sure would a
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:
> > The provers call the calculators as "Just applied not pure mathematicians"
> > The calculators say of the provers: "They are not mathematicia
On Monday, May 19, 2014 8:26:11 PM UTC+5:30, jmf wrote:
> Yesterday, I spent one hour attemepting to install IPython
> for Py3.3 (win 7), I failed. I do not even succeed to
> understand how. Pip, setuptools, whl or manualy with from the
> zip... completely lost. There is always something not worki
On Tuesday, May 20, 2014 7:13:42 AM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On a separate topic, you're posting through Google Groups with its
> abhorrent bugs. Can you please either edit your posts before sending
> (removing the blank lines, wrapping to a sane width, and trimming the
> quoted text), or
On Monday, May 19, 2014 2:32:36 PM UTC+5:30, Satish ML wrote:
> On Monday, May 19, 2014 12:31:05 PM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote:
> > On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 4:53 PM, wrote:
> Could you kindly help? Sure. Either start writing code and then post when you
> have problems, or investigate some shel
On Tuesday, May 20, 2014 3:43:45 PM UTC+5:30, Tim Golden wrote:
> If it's possible, download get-pip.py from here:
>
> https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
Gives me secure connection failed error (in firefox)
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On Tuesday, May 20, 2014 5:25:40 PM UTC+5:30, Tim Golden wrote:
> On 20/05/2014 12:20, Rustom Mody wrote:
>
> > On Tuesday, May 20, 2014 3:43:45 PM UTC+5:30, Tim Golden wrote:
> >> If it's possible, download get-pip.py from here:
> >>
> >> https://bo
On Tuesday, May 20, 2014 7:12:19 PM UTC+5:30, jmf wrote:
> I give up.
> Anyway, thanks.
Take a deep breath.
Be patient.
And post the backtrace (or whatever is the evidence of 'not working')
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On Tuesday, May 20, 2014 10:08:06 PM UTC+5:30, Skip Montanaro wrote:
> I don't have Windows and since upgrading my Mac to Mavericks I no
> longer have Excel of any flavor. I have a few Excel spreadsheets in
> which I store parameters from which I generate other config files. I
> read those spreadsh
On Tuesday, May 20, 2014 9:35:10 PM UTC+5:30, Jagadeesh N. Malakannavar wrote:
> Hi Satish,
>
> Can you please send python part in plain text format? Python code here is
>
> difficult to read.
It would be helpful to read
https://wiki.python.org/moin/GoogleGroupsPython#Posting_from_Google_Group
On Tuesday, May 20, 2014 10:08:06 PM UTC+5:30, Skip Montanaro wrote:
> I don't have Windows and since upgrading my Mac to Mavericks I no
> longer have Excel of any flavor. I have a few Excel spreadsheets in
> which I store parameters from which I generate other config files. I
> read those spreadsh
On Wednesday, May 21, 2014 2:11:42 PM UTC+5:30, Satish ML wrote:
> import xlrd, sys, os, shutil
> for f in files:
> for s in source:
> for d in destination:
> print f
> print s
>
On Wednesday, May 21, 2014 8:15:10 PM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 12:14 AM, Rustom Mody wrote:
>
> > d ++ "\\" ++ f
>
> ITYM:
>
> d + "\\" + f
>
> or possibly:
>
> d + "/" + f
Heh!
I had
On Wednesday, May 21, 2014 7:16:46 PM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote:
> If I have a file called 1.py, is there a way to import it? Obviously I
> can't import it as itself, but in theory, it should be possible to
> import something from it. I can manage it with __import__ (this is
> Python 2.7 I'm w
On Friday, May 23, 2014 9:06:32 PM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote:
> > There was a problem while creating the post asking the question. Here it is
> > now:
> > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.lang.python/WINUrOfAey4/pvbnapLrRcsJ
> Solution: Get off Google Groups. Subscribe to python-list@p
On Saturday, May 24, 2014 3:29:01 PM UTC+5:30, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
>
>
>
> Instead of focusing on bringing legacy libraries to Python3 (for which
> there never seems to be a critical need), Python3 needs a brand new
> killer module/application/library that is only available on Python3.
>
I t
On Sunday, May 25, 2014 8:51:18 PM UTC+5:30, Ethan Furman wrote:
> On 05/24/2014 11:43 PM, jmf wrote:
> >
> > Python and unicode: a buggy hobbyist toy.
> > Voil�. Nothing either good or bad.
>
>
> I thought this was a moderated list. What exactly are the moderators doing?
Your unicode is moj
On Monday, May 26, 2014 2:57:54 PM UTC+5:30, Radu Ioan Barbos wrote:
> Greetings from Romania,sorry
> for my english,i just wanted to ask you if i need any other
> software/program beside the one software from the next page
> https://www.python.org/downloads/
> or is it enough the software on t
On Tuesday, May 27, 2014 8:29:13 AM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Mon, 26 May 2014 08:44:51 -0400, Roy Smith wrote:
>
>
>
> >> That makes even less sense. The build system runs under whatever
>
> >> version of Python it needs, and your code runs under whatever version
>
> >> of Python
On Tuesday, May 27, 2014 12:05:58 AM UTC+5:30, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2014-05-26, gaurang shah wrote:
> > Would someone let me know how to verify JSON data in python.
> Parse the file into a data structure with whatever parser you like,
> then write a program to go thorugh the data structure a
On Wednesday, May 28, 2014 4:13:29 PM UTC+5:30, Sameer Rathoud wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> I am new to python.
> I am currently using python 3.3
> With python I got IDLE, but I am not very comfortable with this.
> Please suggest, if we have any free ide for python development.
Im not going to a
On Friday, May 30, 2014 6:22:24 AM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote:
> Since lines are so critical to Python syntax, I'm a little surprised
> there's no majorly obvious solution to this... or maybe I'm just
> blind.
> Problem: Translate this into a shell one-liner:
> import os
> for root, dirs, fil
On Friday, May 30, 2014 11:34:36 AM UTC+5:30, Rustom Mody wrote:
> On Friday, May 30, 2014 6:22:24 AM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote:
> > Since lines are so critical to Python syntax, I'm a little surprised
> > there's no majorly obvious solution to this... or
On Friday, May 30, 2014 12:15:46 PM UTC+5:30, Rustom Mody wrote:
> Heres a (pr) approx
>
> $ python -c 'import os, pprint; pprint.pprint ([ r for r, d, f in
> os.walk(".") if len(d+f) != 1])'
Without pprint: (pooor)
python -c 'import os; print "\
On Friday, May 30, 2014 12:50:31 PM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 4:04 PM, Rustom Mody wrote:
> > I thought when one signs up for python one has to sign an affidavit
> > saying:
> > "I shall not write one-liners\n" * 100
> Certainly
On Thursday, May 29, 2014 10:14:35 PM UTC+5:30, Paul Rudin wrote:
> Terry Reedy writes:
> > 3. Search unopened files (grep) for a string or re.
> Emacs.
How do you do this with emacs?
I find a menagerie of greppish commands -- rgrep, lgrep, grep-find etc
--
https://mail.python.org/mailman/listin
On Friday, May 30, 2014 7:24:10 PM UTC+5:30, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> Rustom Mody wrote:
>
>
> >> > 3. Search unopened files (grep) for a string or re.
> >
> > How do you do this with emacs?
> > I find a menagerie of greppish commands -- rgrep, lgrep,
On Friday, May 30, 2014 8:36:54 PM UTC+5:30, wxjm...@gmail.com wrote:
> Out of curiosity.
> Are you the Rusi Mody attempting to dive in Xe(La)TeX?
Yeah :-)
As my blog posts labelled unicode will indicate I am a fan of using
unicode in program source:
http://blog.languager.org/search/label/Unicod
On Friday, May 30, 2014 10:07:21 PM UTC+5:30, Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 5/30/2014 12:15 PM, Rustom Mody wrote:
>
> > And for those who dont know xetex, its is really xɘtex – a pictorial
> > anagram if written as XƎTEX
>
> I believe you mean 'pictorial palindrome&#x
On Friday, May 30, 2014 10:08:04 PM UTC+5:30, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> On 30/05/2014 17:15, Rustom Mody wrote:
> > On Friday, May 30, 2014 8:36:54 PM UTC+5:30, jmf wrote:
> > It is now about time that we stop taking ASCII seriously!!
> This can't happen in the Python world un
On Friday, May 30, 2014 10:47:33 PM UTC+5:30, wxjm...@gmail.com wrote:
> =
> Ok, thanks for the answer.
> "xetex does not quite work whereas pdflatex works smoothly"
> ?
Problem is a combination of
1. I am a somewhat clueless noob
2. xetex is emerging technology therefore changing fast
On Friday, May 30, 2014 10:37:00 PM UTC+5:30, Rustom Mody wrote:
> You are talking about the infrastructure needed for writing unicode apps.
> The language need not have non-ASCII lexemes for that
> I am talking about something quite different.
> Think for example of a German want
On Sunday, June 1, 2014 9:05:11 AM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote:
> So if you want to start a one-man airline (where you're managing the
> company, flying the plane, and everything else), do you start by
> looking at the relative merits of the 747-400 and 777-300ER
I guess a person starting a one
On Sunday, June 1, 2014 2:01:09 PM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 5:58 PM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> > As a Finnish-speaker, I hope that patch doesn't become default behavior.
> > Too many times, we have been victimized by the German conventions. A
> > Finnish-speaker would
On Monday, June 2, 2014 7:53:05 AM UTC+5:30, Tim Delaney wrote:
> On 2 June 2014 11:14, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> Latin-1 is one of those legacy encodings which needs to die, not to be
>> entrenched as the default. My terminal uses UTF-8 by default (as it
>> should), and if I use the terminal to
On Monday, June 2, 2014 7:48:25 PM UTC+5:30, Samuel Kamau wrote:
> I have created a txt file with various paths to directories. The paths look
> like this
>
> /home/wachkama/Desktop/api/genshi
>
> /home/wachkama/Desktop/www/portal/schedule
>
> /home/wachkama/Desktop/show/help.genshi
>
>
>
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