python philosophical question - strong vs duck typing

2012-01-03 Thread Sean Wolfe
Hello everybody, I'm a happy pythonista newly subscribed to the group. How is it going? I have a theoretical / philosophical question regarding strong vs duck typing in Python. Let's say we wanted to type strongly in Python and were willing to compromise our code to the extent necessary, eg not cha

Re: python philosophical question - strong vs duck typing

2012-01-04 Thread Sean Wolfe
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 7:28 PM, Ben Finney wrote: > Sean Wolfe writes: > >> Hello everybody, I'm a happy pythonista newly subscribed to the group. > > Welcome! Thanks! and thanks to all, hjaha. > >> I have a theoretical / philosophical question regarding st

help me get excited about python 3

2012-01-04 Thread Sean Wolfe
I am still living in the 2.x world because all the things I want to do right now in python are in 2 (django, pygame). But I want to be excited about the future of the language. I understand the concept of needing to break backwards compatibility. But it's not particularly exciting to think about. W

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2012-01-08 Thread Sean Wolfe
is anybody out there? On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 5:07 AM, abdullah zuberi wrote: > hello ? > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. - Abraham Maslow -- htt

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2012-01-08 Thread Sean Wolfe
On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 11:38 PM, David George wrote: > > Sean Wolfe wrote: >> >> is anybody out there? >> >> On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 5:07 AM, abdullah zuberi >>  wrote: >>> >>> hello ? >>> > > Hello there Sean, How are you d

Re: An "alternative" to Learning Perl

2012-01-08 Thread Sean Wolfe
On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 8:44 PM, Sebastian Rooks wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I was wondering if you could help me. I'm looking for a python > introductory book, kind of like Learning Python only smaller (?!) > The thing is, I travel to and from work each day for about 1,5h in each > direction, and

open office in another language?

2012-01-10 Thread Sean Wolfe
I'm a somewhat-satisfied openoffice.org user. I mean it works, but if it weren't in Java I'd be doing some of my own tweaking. But since it's in Java I stay away... no likey. Has there been any talk of doing another similar office suite, or maybe just writer + spreadsheet, in a better language eg

Re: open office in another language?

2012-01-10 Thread Sean Wolfe
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 6:53 PM, Nelle Varoquaux wrote: > Small nitpick: Openoffice.org (and LibreOffice) has in fact very little > java. The core of it is written in C++, so if you ever want to extend it > (unlikely), you won't be dealing with java code. > hmm I didn't know this, nice to know. Y

Re: An "alternative" to Learning Perl

2012-01-11 Thread Sean Wolfe
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 8:25 PM, Sebastian Rooks wrote: > On Mon, 9 Jan 2012 00:55:22 -0300, Sean Wolfe > wrote: > >>kindle? ipad? tablet? > > I'm interested in books, not files ... > (seriously, now ... I don't have any of those devices) > >>also t

Re: open office in another language?

2012-01-11 Thread Sean Wolfe
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 6:35 PM, Martin Manns wrote: > or in pyspread (GPL, my own effort) > > http://manns.github.com/pyspread/ > Checking this out now. Do you have text boxes? Cause maybe I will add some ... cool! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: THAT WHAT NEED EXPECT FROM OPERATORS OF PYTHON. (e-mail get by the list moderator)

2012-01-17 Thread Sean Wolfe
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 4:01 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 09:03:54 +0300, _ wrote: > >> # THAT WHAT NEED EXPECT FROM OPERATORS OF PYTHON: Worddr = "56" # CREATE >> A STRING: "56" Word = ["12"] # CREATE A LIST WITH ONE SIGNED: "12" Word >> = Word.append("34") > ... > > > Do you