Am 21.11.2012 02:43, schrieb Steven D'Aprano:
On Tue, 20 Nov 2012 20:07:54 +, Robert Kern wrote:
The source of bugs is not excessive complexity in a method, just
excessive lines of code.
Taken literally, that cannot possibly the case.
def method(self, a, b, c):
do_this(a)
do_tha
Am 28.11.2012 07:43, schrieb Prakash:
copying C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\py2exe\run_w.exe
Python 2.4 was released 8 years ago and shouldn't be used for new
development or learning any longer. The first step I would take is to
upgrade to 2.7, which is the last in the 2
Am 30.11.2012 12:11, schrieb andrea crotti:
I wrote a script, refactored it and then introducing a bug as below:
def record_things():
out.write("Hello world")
This is a function. Since "out" is not a local variable, it is looked up
in the surrounding namespace at the time the function is
Am 12.12.2012 16:00, schrieb inshu chauhan:
color = image[y,x]
if color == (0.0,0.0,0.0):
continue
else :
if color == (0.0,255.0,0.0):
classification = 1
elif color == (128.0, 0.0, 255.0):
classifi
Am 13.12.2012 08:40, schrieb deep...@poczta.fm:
I have problem with using function from dll.
import ctypes
b = ctypes.windll.LoadLibrary("kernel32")
a = ""
b.GetComputerNameA(a,20)
GetComputerNameA takes a pointer to a writable char string. You give it
a pointer to an immutable string. You
Am 09.01.2013 22:05, schrieb kwakukwat...@gmail.com:
pls I want to write a function that can compute for the sqrt root of
any number.bt it not working pls help.
Whenever describing an error, be precise. In this particular case, we
have some sourcecode (which is good!) but what is still missin
Am 14.01.2013 21:29, schrieb Paul Pittlerson:
map_textures = get_sprites( (48, 48) ,"spritesheet.png" , (0, 0) )
You forgot to include spritesheet.png in your message. Seriously,
condense your code down to a minimal example. This might help you
finding the problem yourself, otherwise
Am 15.01.2013 10:46, schrieb Levi Nie:
i want to interrupt the file sending. but i can't change the client. so i
need change the server.
All things go well, but the message i wanna response seem not work.
Ahem, what? It doesn't work, so does it sit on the couch all day?
is the self.transport
Am 21.01.2013 17:06, schrieb kwakukwat...@gmail.com:
please I need some explanation on sys.stdin and sys.stdout, and piping out
http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
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Am 23.01.2013 05:06, schrieb Isaac Won:
I have tried to use different interpolation methods with Scipy. My
code seems just fine with linear interpolation, but shows memory
error with quadratic. I am a novice for python. I will appreciate any
help.
>
#code
f = open(filin, "r")
Check out the "w
Am 24.01.2013 18:06, schrieb tamn...@gmail.com:
Any suggestions for study?..: Is is possible to take a large
executable with GUI and real time data and images, to extract
modules, and it can run as if it looks like a monolithic application
(windows over main windows, or images over other images)
Am 23.01.2012 22:48, schrieb M.Pekala:
I think that regex is too slow for this operation, but I'm uncertain
of another method in python that could be faster. A little help would
be appreciated.
Regardless of the outcome here, I would say that your code is still a
bit wonky on the handling of p
Am 31.01.2012 19:09, schrieb Tim Arnold:
high_chars = {
0x2014:'—', # 'EM DASH',
0x2013:'–', # 'EN DASH',
0x0160:'Š',# 'LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH CARON',
0x201d:'”', # 'RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK',
0x201c:'“', # 'LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK',
0x2019:"’", # 'RIGHT SINGLE
Am 01.02.2012 10:32, schrieb Peter Otten:
It doesn't matter for the OP (see Stefan Behnel's post), but If you want to
replace characters in a unicode string the best way is probably the
translate() method:
print u"\xa9\u2122"
©™
u"\xa9\u2122".translate({0xa9: u"©", 0x2122: u"™"})
u'©™'
Ye
Am 02.02.2012 12:02, schrieb Peter Otten:
Ulrich Eckhardt wrote:
>>> u'abc'.translate({u'a': u'A'})
u'abc'
I would call this a chance to improve Python. According to the
documentation, using a string [as key] is invalid, but it neither r
Am 06.02.2012 09:45, schrieb Matej Cepl:
Also, how could I write a re-implementation of random.choice which would
work same on python 2.6 and python 3.2? It is not only matter of unit
tests, but I would really welcome if the results on both versions
produce the same results.
Two approaches come
Am 14.02.2012 00:18, schrieb Bruce Eckel:
I'm willing to subclass str, but when I tried it before it became a
little confusing -- I think mostly because anytime I assigned to self
it seemed like it converted the whole object to a str rather than a
Path. I suspect I don't know the proper idiom for
Am 14.02.2012 16:01, schrieb Jabba Laci:
Could someone please tell me what the following sorting algorithm is called?
Let an array contain the elements a_1, a_2, ..., a_N. Then:
for i = 1 to N-1:
for j = i+1 to N:
if a_j< a_i then swap(a_j, a_i)
It's so simple that it's not ment
Am 16.02.2012 01:18, schrieb Daniel Fetchinson:
Hi folks, often times in science one expresses a value (say
1.03789291) and its error (say 0.00089) in a short way by parentheses
like so: 1.0379(9)
Just so that I understand you, the value of the last "digit" is
somewhere between 9-9 and 9+9, ri
Three things up front:
1. Do not reply to digests. If you want to only read, you can use the
digests, but they are not usable for replying, because it is completely
unclear where in a discussion you are entering and what you are relating
your answers to.
2. Do not start new threads by using the re
Am 13.03.2012 22:08, schrieb Roy Smith:
Using argparse, if I write:
parser.add_argument('--foo', default=100)
it seems like it should be able to intuit that the type of foo should
be int (i.e. type(default)) without my having to write:
parser.add_argument('--foo', type=int, default=1
Hi!
I'm currently writing some tests for the error handling of some code. In
this scenario, I must make sure that both the correct exception is
raised and that the contained error code is correct:
try:
foo()
self.fail('exception not raised')
catch MyException as e:
self
Am 28.03.2012 20:07, schrieb Steven D'Aprano:
First off, that is not Python code. "catch Exception" gives a syntax
error.
Old C++ habits... :|
Secondly, that is not the right way to do this unit test. You are testing
two distinct things, so you should write it as two separate tests:
[..code
Am 28.03.2012 20:26, schrieb Terry Reedy:
On 3/28/2012 8:28 AM, Ulrich Eckhardt wrote:
with self.assertRaises(MyException(SOME_FOO_ERROR)):
foo()
I presume that if this worked the way you want, all attributes would
have to match. The message part of builtin exceptions is allowed to
change
Am 28.03.2012 20:26, schrieb Terry Reedy:
On 3/28/2012 8:28 AM, Ulrich Eckhardt wrote:
[...]
# call testee and verify results
try:
...call function here...
except exception_type as e:
if not exception is None:
self.assertEqual(e, exception)
Did you use tabs? They do not get preserved
Am 29.03.2012 17:25, schrieb Terry Reedy:
I am using Thunderbird, win64, as news client for gmane. The post looked
fine as originally received. The indents only disappeared when I hit
reply and the >s were added.
I can confirm this misbehaviour of Thunderbird (version 11.0 here), it
strips the
Am 30.03.2012 14:47, schrieb Dave Angel:
> But since it doesn't do it on all messages, have you also confirmed that
> it does it for a text message? My experience seems to be that only the
> html messages are messed up that way.
I can't find any HTML in what I posted, so HTML is not the problem.
Am 09.04.2012 20:57, schrieb Kiuhnm:
> Do you have some real or realistic (but easy and self-contained)
> examples when you had to define a (multi-statement) function and pass it
> to another function?
Take a look at decorators, they not only take non-trivial functions but
also return them. That s
Hi!
My class Foo exports a constant, accessible as Foo.MAX_VALUE. Now, with
functions I would simply add a docstring explaining the meaning of this,
but how do I do that for a non-function member? Note also that ideally,
this constant wouldn't show up inside instances of the class but only
inside
Am 08.05.2012 22:05, schrieb John Gordon:
[...]
> class QuestionTooShortError(ApplicationException):
> """User entered a security question which is too short."""
> pass
>
> class QuestionTooLongError(ApplicationException):
> """User entered a security question which is too long."""
>
Am 09.05.2012 10:36, schrieb lilin Yi:
> //final_1 is a list of Identifier which I need to find corresponding
> files(four lines) in x(x is the file) and write following four lines
> in a new file.
>
> //because the order of the identifier is the same, so after I find the
> same identifier in x ,
Marco wrote:
> >>> '123'.isdecimal(), '123'.isdigit()
> (True, True)
> >>> print('\u0660123')
> ٠123
> >>> '\u0660123'.isdigit(), '\u0660123'.isdecimal()
> (True, True)
> >>> print('\u216B')
> Ⅻ
> >>> '\u216B'.isdecimal(), '\u216B'.isdigit()
> (False, False)
[chr(a) for a in range(0x2) if
Am 24.05.2012 01:45, schrieb hsa...@gmail.com:
> I am trying to join an online class that uses python. I need to brush
> up on the language quickly. Is there a good book or resource that
> covers it well but does not have to explain what an if..then..else
> statement is?
First thing to check first
Am 23.05.2012 11:30, schrieb 20_feet_tall:
> I have a problem with the visualization of korean fonts on Python.
> When I try to type in the characters only squares come out.
> I have tried to install the CJK codec, the hangul 1.0 codec but still
> no result.
What exactly do you mean with "visualiz
Hi!
I'm using Python 2.7 for mostly unit testing here. I'm using
Boost.Python to wrap C++ code into a module, in another place I'm also
embedding Python as interpreter into a test framework. This is the stuff
that must work, it's important for production use. I'm running MS
Windows XP here and dev
Am 29.05.2012 16:37, schrieb Qi:
> I tried to only call Py_Initialize() and Py_Finalize(), nothing else
> between those functions, Valgrind still reports memory leaks
> on Ubuntu?
Call the pair of functions twice, if the reported memory leak doesn't
increase, there is no problem. I personally woul
Am 31.05.2012 09:57, schrieb Qi:
> I have an application that embedding Python into C++.
> When any exception occurred in C++ code, PyErr_SetString will
> be called to propagate the exception to Python.
The first sentence is clear. The second sentence rather sounds as if you
were implementing a Py
Am 01.06.2012 05:06, schrieb Qi:
> On 2012-5-31 23:01, Ulrich Eckhardt wrote:
>> I can only guess what you are doing, maybe you should provide a simple
>> piece of code (or, rather, one C++ piece and a Python piece) that
>> demonstrates the issue. What I could imagi
Am 05.06.2012 15:54, schrieb hassan:
> what is the equivalent to the php fputs in python
If that fputs() is the same as C's fputs(), then write() is pretty
similar. Check the documentation for files, you will surely find the
equivalent.
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Am 05.06.2012 19:32, schrieb Laurent Pointal:
> I started a first translation of my document originally in french. Could
> some fluent english people read it and indicate errors or bad english
> expressions.
Just one note up front: Languages or nationalities are written with
uppercase letters, l
Am 08.06.2012 18:02, schrieb Steve:
> Well, I guess I was confused by the terminology. I thought there were
> leaked objects _after_ a garbage collection had been run (as it said
> "collecting generation 2"). Also, "unreachable" actually appears to mean
> "unreferenced". You live n learn...
Actual
Am 18.06.2012 09:10, schrieb Prashant:
> class Shape(object):
> def __init__(self, shapename):
> self.shapename = shapename
>
>
> def update(self):
> print "update"
>
> class ColoredShape(Shape):
> def __init__(self, color):
> Shape.__init__(se
Am 18.06.2012 16:00, schrieb jmfauth:
> A string is a string, a "piece of text", period.
No. There are different representations for the same piece of text even
in the context of just Python. b'fou', u'fou', 'fou' are three different
source code representations, resulting in two different runtime
Rouslan Korneychuk wrote:
> if i != pindex:
> (less if x <= pivot else greater).append(x)
Just curious, is there a reason why you wrote this last line that way
instead of using a "normal" if/else clause?
Cheers!
Uli
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Amaninder Singh wrote:
> I am fairly new to the language and programing. I am trying to solve a
> problem in a text file. Where names are something like in this manner
> [**Name2 (NI) 98**]
>
> [**Last Name (STitle) 97**]
> [**First Name4 (NamePattern1) 93**]
> [**Last Name (NamePattern1) 94**]
Peter Otten wrote:
> Examples for classes that don't accept attributes are builtins
> like int, tuple, and -- obviously -- dict. You can make your own
> using the __slot__ mechanism:
>
class A(object):
> ... __slots__ = ["x", "y"]
> ...
a = A()
a.x = 42
a.y = "yadda"
a
Peter Otten wrote:
> collections.namedtuple is a convenient struct replacement -- if you don't
> mind that it is immutable.
Thanks you and also Steven for mentioning this, it is an even better
replacement for what I had in mind!
Uli
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Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> But if the function itself runs for longer than 10 seconds, there
> will be a major problem, as the sleep apparently takes the argument as
> unsigned, and a negative number is a very big sleep!
"time.sleep()" takes a floating point number, so an underflow like for
fixed
Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> And that was a direct cut&paste from a command window; showing it
> had slept for some 90 seconds before I killed it.
Interesting. Just tried a 2.7.2 on a 32-bit MS Windows with following
results:
1. sleep(5 - 2**32) sleeps for a few seconds
2. sleep(-1) sleeps much lo
Ulrich Eckhardt wrote:
> I'll take this to the developers mailinglist and see if they
> consider the behaviour a bug.
Filed as bug #12459.
Uli
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Hi!
I'm trying to add some scripting capabilities to an application. Since it is
a GUI application, I need some way to display output from Python. For 3.x,
where "print" is a function, I'd just exchange this function with one that
redirects the output to a log window, right.
However, I'm using
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Why do you think it [sink for use as sys.stdout] needs to be in C? As
> far as I can tell, so long as it quacks like a file object (that is,
> has a write method), it should work.
Good point & thanks for the example fish!
Uli
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rantingrick wrote:
> On Jul 5, 10:26 am, Steven D'Aprano > Since you can't do anything without a root window, I don't see the
>> benefit in forcing the user to do so [create one explicitly].
>
> The reason is simple. It's called order. It's called learning from day
> one how the order of things ex
Mel wrote:
> In wx, many of the window classes have Create methods, for filling in
> various attributes in "two-step construction". I'm not sure why, because
> it works so well to just supply all the details when the class is called
> and an instance is constructed. Maybe there's some C++ strateg
Rama Rao Polneni wrote:
> After storing 1.99 GB data in to the dictionary, python stopped to
> store the remaining data in to dictionary.
Question here:
- Which Python?
- "stopped to store" (you mean "stopped storing", btw), how does it behave?
Hang? Throw exceptions? Crash right away?
> Memo
Ian Kelly wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 12:49 AM, Ulrich Eckhardt
> wrote:
>> Mel wrote:
>>> In wx, many of the window classes have Create methods, for filling in
>>> various attributes in "two-step construction". [...]
>>
>> Just guessing, is
Billy Mays wrote:
> On 07/06/2011 04:02 PM, Ian Kelly wrote:
>> According to Wikipedia:
>>
>> """
>> In practice the Schönhage–Strassen algorithm starts to outperform
>> older methods such as Karatsuba and Toom–Cook multiplication for
>> numbers beyond 2**2**15 to 2**2**17 (10,000 to 40,000 decimal
Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 10:33 AM, goldtech wrote:
>>
>> I'm using using Idle on winXP, activestate 2.7. Is there a way to
>> suppress this and just show 174 in the shell ?
>> A script reading data and assigns 174 to n via some regex. Links on
>> this appreciated - I've tri
Pedro Larroy wrote:
> Just crossposting this from stackoverflow:
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/...
>
> Any hints?
At first I was just too lazy to visit stackoverflow and skipped this
posting. Then I thought: Why didn't you include the content, so people can
actually answer this question here? T
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> jc wrote:
>> n = 900
>> cache = range(0 , n + 1 , 1)
>> for i in cache:
>> cache[i] = -1
>
> This is a waste of time. Better to write:
>
> cache = [-1]*900
Since he's computing the Fibonacci number of n, and n is 900, he needs
cache = [-1] * (n + 1)
smith jack wrote:
> I am using pydev plugin in eclipse, all things works just as well
> but now i have confronted with a confusing problem, that is i can
> import a module write by myself successfully, but when i try to run
> this program,
> error just shows up, what's wrong?
>
> the directory str
Vipul Raheja wrote:
> I have wrapped a library from C++ to Python using SWIG. But when I
> import it in Python, I am able to work fine with it, but it gives a
> segmentation fault while exiting.
1. Use a debugger
Run python with "gdb python", import the module and exit. The debugger
should then s
Johny wrote:
> I have a client that is a part of a local network.This client has a
> local address( not public).Is there a way how I can connect to this
> client from outside world?
> What software must I install so that I can connect and control that
> client from outside?
How is that a Python p
Amit Jaluf wrote:
> which book or tutorial i should for it(Python)
> i found "A Byte of Python " by Swaroop
> after that which tutorial(book) i have to read
You can read lots of book reviews online. That said, have you checked
http://www.python.org?
Uli
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Hyun-su wrote:
> I have a file which is 3D data ([pixel_x, pixel_y, pixel_z])
>
> I want to plot and write into other file as 1 dimension ([:, y_cut,
> z_cut])
>
> How can I do it?
I'd write a loop along these lines:
with open(outputfile, 'w') as o:
for pixel_x, pixel_y, pixel_z in inpu
smith jack wrote:
> i have heard that function invocation in python is expensive, but make
> lots of functions are a good design habit in many other languages, so
> is there any principle when writing python function?
> for example, how many lines should form a function?
Don't compromise the desig
Cross wrote:
> On 03/08/2011 01:27 PM, Chris Rebert wrote:
> Well Chris, my implementation is in Python. :) That is as much
> python-specific as it gets.
>
> Well the question is general of course and I want to discuss the problem
> here.
If you have anything written in Python yet and want to pre
Edward Diener wrote:
> I have multiple versions of Python installed under Vista. Is there any
> easy way of switching between them so that invoking python and file
> associations for Python extensions files work automatically ?
These associations are stored in the registry. Just cut out the accord
yoro wrote:
> Thanks for replying, maybe i'm misunderstanding your comment -
> nodeTable is used to store the distances from source of each node
> within a text file, the file having the format :
>
> 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9
> 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9
>
> Each of these nodes will have the same settings as set
Alexander Schatten wrote:
> Thanks for the comments so far. This sounds to be more complicated in
> detail than I expected. I wonder how all the other Python programs and
> scripts are doing that...
Well, it's not like that's impossible to find out, the source is out
there! :)
Anyhow, you basical
yqyq22 wrote:
> I would like to put an alphanumeric string like this one
> EE472A86441AF2E629DE360 in a list, then iterate inside the entire
> string lenght and change each digit with a random digit.
What does "change each digit with a random digit"? Do you want to swap two
random elements of the
yqyq22 wrote:
> Hi, to be honest i'm a newbye so i don't know where to start, i began
> in this way but i don't know how to proceeed.
> list = (EE472A86441AF2E629DE360)
"list" is a builtin type, so you shouldn't use it as name for other things.
The thing on the right-hand side of the assignment is
ecu_jon wrote:
> import time,os,string,getpass,md5,ConfigParser
> from time import strftime,localtime
You are importing the time module first, then import some symbols from the
time module. This seems redundant to me. Note that after the "import
time", the name "time" refers to the module you i
Hi!
I want to write a file starting with the BOM and using UTF-8, and stumbled
across some problems:
1. I would have expected one of the codecs to be 'UTF-8 with BOM' or
something like that, but I can't find the correct name. Also, I can't find a
way to get a list of the supported codecs at al
Chris Rebert wrote:
>> 3. The docs mention encodings.utf_8_sig, available since 2.5, but I can't
>> locate that thing there either. What's going on here?
>
> Works for me™:
> Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Jan 12 2011, 13:35:00)
> [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5664)] on darwin
> Type "help", "copyright"
anvar wrote:
> Could you please help me with the modeling in Python the following
> problem: (e.g., g_t means g with index t)
Typically, you would use either a list or a dict to simulate something like
that:
# list
g = [1, 2, 4, 8, 16]
print g[3]
# dictionary
h = {}
h[0] = 1
h[1]
Bastian Ballmann wrote:
> I am searching for a library to parse data from a graph in an image file
> something like http://pytseries.sourceforge.net/_images/yahoo.png
> Any suggestions, hints, links?
I'm not sure I understand 100% what you want. If you want to extract
("parse") the data that is c
Ethan Furman wrote:
> Several folk have said that objects that compare equal must hash equal,
> and the docs also state this
> http://docs.python.org/dev/reference/datamodel.html#object.__hash__
>
> I'm hoping somebody can tell me what horrible thing will happen if this
> isn't the case?
If you w
Octavian Rasnita wrote:
> Somebody told that C# and Objective C are good languages. They might be
> good, but they are proprietary, and not only that they are proprietary,
> but they need to be ran under platforms that cannot be used freely, so
> from the freedom point of view, Perl, Ruby, Python a
RVince wrote:
> s = "C:\AciiCsv\Gravity_Test_data\A.csv"
> f = open(s,"r")
>
> How do I obtain the full pathname given the File, f?
Apart from the issue that the 'name' attribute is only the name used to open
the file, there is another issue, though not on the platform you're using:
Multiple di
ad wrote:
> Please review the code pasted below. I am wondering what other ways
> there are of performing the same tasks.
On a unix system, you would call "find" with according arguments and then
handle the found files with "-exec rm ..." or something like that, but I see
you are on MS Windows.
herauszufinden, suche ich eine Funktion zeige_escape(string), die
mir liefert:
s = 'Hallo\nNeue Zeile'
zeige_escape(s)
Hallo\nNeue Zeile
print hilft nicht, denn
print(s)
Hallo
Neue Zeile
Hat jemand eine Idee?
Dank und Gruß
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read the outputfile into the string l
return (l)
What would be nice:
I would like to avoid the extra steps writing an reading extern files.
Can anybody help me?
Thanks
Ulrich
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session)
File "/usr/lib/python3.5/subprocess.py", line 1551, in _execute_child
raise child_exception_type(errno_num, err_msg)
PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied
Using
subprocess.call(['./', 'Test.py'], shell=True)
I get
Test.py: 1: Test.py: ./: Permission d
Sorry for the wrong spelling. In fact
subprocess.call('./Test.py')
works.
The raising error was my error too, using ['./', 'Test.py'] instead of
'./Test.py'
Sorry...
Am 28.11.19 um 11:05 schrieb Ulrich Goebel:
Hi,
I have to call commands fro
e possible languages.)
Best regards
Ulrich
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That's absolutely great, thank You!
Am 17.12.19 um 11:53 schrieb Jon Ribbens via Python-list:
On 2019-12-17, Ulrich Goebel wrote:
I need to interpret a date string to get a datetime object. That should
be done with strptime from the module datetime.
But I don't know enough about
użytkownik Ulrich Goebel napisał:
13. Januar 1965
13. January 1965
13.01.1965
1965-01-13
02.03.2000
Is it Mar, 2nd 2000 or Feb, 3rd 2000?
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Paul F. Dietz wrote:
> Bart Lateur wrote:
>
>> As a similar example: I've been told by various women independently,
>> that "there are more babies born near a full moon."
>
> That's also a myth.
Right, everybody knows that it's not natural (moon) light that
influences reproductive behavior, it'
Richard Gration wrote:
> Are you fucking seriously fucking expecting some fucking moron to
> translate your tech geeking fucking code moronicity? Fucking try writing
> it fucking properly in fucking Perl first.
Fucking excuse me?
Fucking maybe you should fucking go fucking fuck your fucking self.
Sherm Pendley wrote:
> I'm guessing you didn't get the joke then. I think Richard's response was a
> parody of Xah's "style" - a funny parody, at that.
If you take all the line noise in Perl as swearing ;)
I suppose I'm lucky I can't read it.
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Xah Lee wrote:
> To sort a list in Python, use the “sort” method. For example:
>
> li=[1,9,2,3];
> li.sort();
> print li;
Likewise in Common Lisp. In Scheme there are probably packages for that
as well. My apologies for not being very fluent anymore.
CL-USER> (setf list (sort '(1 9 2 3) #'<))
Pascal Bourguignon wrote:
> Do you have an "Approved by Xah Lee" seal logo they could put on their web
> page?
Funny, that'd *exactly* mirror the opinion I have of PHP :D
(btw, why is this posted to every newsgroup EXCEPT a PHP one? make us
feel good?)
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Jürgen Exner wrote:
> Just for the records at Google et.al. in case someone stumbles across Xah's
> masterpieces in the future:
> Xah is very well known as the resident troll in many NGs and his
> 'contributions' are less then useless.
And you are the resident troll-reply service, posting this rep
jan V wrote:
> Did you know that some deranged people take sexual pleasure out of starting
> fires? Apparently some of the latest forest/bush fires in southern Europe
> were even started by firemen (with their pants down?).
I've only heard of people trying to extinguish fires with their pants
dow
Keith Thompson wrote:
> "Xah Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [the usual]
At least he noticed that tar sucks. There's nothing better than tarring
your backup back to disk, only to notice that the pathnames were "too
long." Great!
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l v wrote:
> Xah Lee wrote:
>> (circa 1996), and email should be text only (anti-MIME, circa 1995),
>
> I think e-mail should be text only. I have both my email and news
> readers set to display in plain text only. It prevents the marketeers
Be generous in what you accept and conservative in
Roger Leigh wrote:
>> At least he noticed that tar sucks. There's nothing better than tarring
>> your backup back to disk, only to notice that the pathnames were "too
>> long." Great!
>
> That's been fixed for quite some time, though. The current GNU tar
> (1.15.1) writes POSIX.1-2001 (PAX) a
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In comp.lang.perl.misc John Bokma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> the argument that usenet should never change seems a little
>>> heavy-handed and anachronistic.
>> No, simple since there *are* alternatives: web based message boards. Those
>> alternatives *do* support HTM
John Bokma wrote:
> Ulrich Hobelmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> On the information side (in contrast to the discussion side) RSS is
>> replacing Usenet,
>
> LOL, how? I can't post to RSS feeds. Or do you mean for lurkers?
I said "information s
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