Re: Vowels [was Re: monty python]
In article mnydnwm7b9i5ndfmnz2dnuvz_s6dn...@giganews.com, Larry Hudson org...@yahoo.com wrote: The word apron was originally napron, and over the years the phrase a napron mutated to an apron. So that became the accepted word. Similarly, the snake was a nadder - congruent with the natterjack toad. -- David Wild using RISC OS on broadband www.davidhwild.me.uk -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Moving from Python 2 to Python 3: A 4 page cheat sheet
In article 9d290ad6-e0b8-4bfa-92c8-8209c7e93...@a21g2000yqc.googlegroups.com, Mark Summerfield l...@qtrac.plus.com wrote: There is a typographical fault on page 4 of this pdf file. The letter P is missing from the word Python at the head of the comparison columns. I can't see that problem---I've tried the PDF with evince, gv, acroread, and okular, and no missing P on page 4. I don't have a machine with RISC OS on it so I can't test on that environment! Using a different pdf reader, on the same machine, the letters are there. It's an odd thing, because it's only that one page that has the problem. Thanks, anyway. -- David Wild using RISC OS on broadband www.davidhwild.me.uk -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Moving from Python 2 to Python 3: A 4 page cheat sheet
In article 351fcb4c-4e88-41b0-a0aa-b3d63832d...@e23g2000yqd.googlegroups.com, Mark Summerfield l...@qtrac.plus.com wrote: I only just found out that I was supposed to give a different URL: http://www.informit.com/promotions/promotion.aspx?promo=137519 This leads to a web page where you can download the document (just by clicking the Download Now button), but if you _choose_ you can also enter your name and email to win some sort of prize. There is a typographical fault on page 4 of this pdf file. The letter P is missing from the word Python at the head of the comparison columns. -- David Wild using RISC OS on broadband www.davidhwild.me.uk -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Encrypting a short string?
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Steven D'Aprano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I really don't recommend the ROT13 cipher, as this is extremely easy to crack. Most grade school kids could break this one in seconds. ;-) I think you missed the point. Any recommendation to use ROT13 is likely to be a joke. A recommendation to use Triple ROT13 is *absolutely* a joke. ROT13 does have a legitimate use, but it's not as a cypher. It is really the equivalent of the newspaper quiz where the answers are upside down at the bottom of the page. By doing this you stop seeing the answers too early. -- David Wild using RISC OS on broadband www.davidhwild.me.uk -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: OT: Speed of light
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jeff Schwab [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We (Americans) all measure our weight in pounds. People talk about how much less they would weigh on the moon, in pounds, or even near the equator (where the Earth's radius is slightly higher). Their weight on the moon would be exactly the same as on earth if they used a balance with weights on the other side of the fulcrum. -- David Wild using RISC OS on broadband www.davidhwild.me.uk -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Python is not a good name, should rename to Athon
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], greg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not necessarily. A python is a sleek and powerful creature, which are good associations for a programming language. The word also hints at a bit of danger and excitement. On the whole, I think it's a good name. I remember reading an interview with a young woman who danced with a python across her shoulders and down her arms. The interviewer asked if she was afraid when she danced. She replied that she was afraid that the python would go to sleep if she didn't keep him moving. -- David Wild using RISC OS on broadband www.davidhwild.me.uk -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: strings (dollar.cents) into floats
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Chris Mellon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe that to the degree that real accounting was done in those currencies it did in fact use non-decimal bases. Just as people don't use decimal time values (except us crazy computer folk), you're write 1 pound 4 shillings, not 1.333... pounds. When I worked on the British Railways National Payroll system, about 35 years ago, we, in common with many large users, wrote our system to deal with integer amounts of pennies, and converted to pounds, shillings and pence in the output part of the system. -- David Wild using RISC OS on broadband www.davidhwild.me.uk -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: strings (dollar.cents) into floats
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], MRAB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I worked on the British Railways National Payroll system, about 35 years ago, we, in common with many large users, wrote our system to deal with integer amounts of pennies, and converted to pounds, shillings and pence in the output part of the system. So you never handled halfpennies? Halfpennies had disappeared from the BR accounting system before the first use of computers for accounting work. -- David Wild using RISC OS on broadband www.davidhwild.me.uk -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: 128 or 96 bit integer types?
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To actually answer you question, there is a known loop cycle in 3n+85085 for which p=492 and q=264. If there is one solution, there must be at leats 263 others (the cyclic permutations), but to brute force search for any others would require enumerating the answer to how many ways can 492 marbles be put in 264 bins such that each bin has at least 1 marble. Thank you very much. I am awestruck. -- David Wild using RISC OS on broadband www.davidhwild.me.uk -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: 128 or 96 bit integer types?
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For example, how many ways can you put 492 marbles into 264 ordered bins such that each bin has at least 1 marble? The answer 66189415264331559482776409694993032407028709677550 59629130019289014193777349831417543311612293951363 4124491233746912456893016976209252459301489030 has 146 digits. What on earth made you think of that question? -- David Wild using RISC OS on broadband www.davidhwild.me.uk -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Posted messages not appearing in this group
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Adrian Petrescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe it has shown up and Google simply isn't showing it yet. Can anyone confirm that a thread posted yesterday (July 18th, 2007) whose title was something like interpreting os.lstat() output exists or not? That thread is there, with four postings. -- David Wild using RISC OS on broadband www.davidhwild.me.uk -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Speex bindings for python 2.5
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], momobear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I forgot to give the url :http://www.freenet.org.nz/python/pySpeex/ I Couldn't Open the website. It works if you knock the colon off the front of the URL as given. -- David Wild using RISC OS on broadband www.davidhwild.me.uk -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: utf - string translation
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], John Machin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So why do you want to strip off accents? The history of communication has several examples of significant difference in meaning caused by minute differences in punctuation or accents including one of which you may have heard: a will that could be read (in part) as either a chacun d'eux million francs or a chacun deux million francs with the remainder to a 3rd party. The difference there, though, is a punctuation character, not an accent. -- David Wild using RISC OS on broadband -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: IDLE on Fedora Core 5
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Fredrik Lundh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just installed FC5 on a new computer. I can access Python by typing Python in a terminal window, but I can't find any way of getting to IDLE. Can anyone help? $ yum provides idle can help, I think. it'll probably tell you to do $ yum install python-tools I've done that, thanks, but I still can't find out how to get to python-tools. I'm obviously missing a trick somewhere. -- David Wild using RISC OS on broadband -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
IDLE on Fedora Core 5
I have just installed FC5 on a new computer. I can access Python by typing Python in a terminal window, but I can't find any way of getting to IDLE. Can anyone help? -- David Wild using RISC OS on broadband -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: IDLE on Fedora Core 5
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Fredrik Lundh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just installed FC5 on a new computer. I can access Python by typing Python in a terminal window, but I can't find any way of getting to IDLE. Can anyone help? $ yum provides idle can help, I think. it'll probably tell you to do $ yum install python-tools Thanks -- David Wild using RISC OS on broadband -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: OT: excellent book on information theory
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Steven D'Aprano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But the real question is why it is that American publishers believe their readers are so lazy and ignorant that they require special translations of British books. I don't know anyone who has said I'm glad that I read the American edition of [Harry Potter/Discworld/pick your own example], it was much better than the British edition. Not even American fans. Something which irritates me, along with many other British people, is a book written in UK English, but which uses US spelling for the American market. If people can understand the words, then the slight differences in spelling shouldn't be a problem. -- David Wild using RISC OS on broadband -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: OT: excellent book on information theory
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mikael Olofsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One question here is: Are US English and UK English different languages or not? A few years ago I was in a French bookshop in London. On the counter was a leaflet advertising recent translations; some were from the English and others from the American. :-)) -- David Wild using RISC OS on broadband -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Roedy Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I take it then you avoid browsers or use Lynx? No you FIX the problems rather than wear a hair shirt. Same for email. Why should rich expressions only be permitted to those with websites. Between consenting adults, yes, but for general use **in emails**, no. Some people use email PRIMARILY for sharing photos. I do, frequently, without any need for HTML. -- David Wild using RISC OS on broadband -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tim Tyler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Plain text is a badly impoverished medium for explaining things in. For one thing, code on my web site tends to get syntax highlighted. There's no way I could do that in plain text. On your web site the use of additional features is often, but not always, justified - but we were talking about emails where the use of HTML bulks up the email for very little gain. -- David Wild using RISC OS on broadband -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Roedy Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think e-mail should be text only. I disagree. Your problem is spam, not HTML. Spam is associated with HTML and people have in Pavlovian fashion come to hate HTML. But HTML is not the problem! HTML in email is a problem. It makes emails much bigger, and senders often show off by including irrelevant things in what they send just because they can. That is like hating all choirs because televangelists use them. It is not unreasonable to hate choirs singing advertising jingles. Choirs, like HTML, have their place, but it isn't in emails. -- David Wild using RISC OS on broadband -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Talking to the wind
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Terry Reedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Xah Lee, Do you want to be taken seriously? First, stop posting. Second, learn perl. Third, learn python. Hey all, I have seen no evidence that XL even reads the responses that have been directed thereto. The above is like /dev/null, Why don't you ever answer the messages I keep sending to you? He's been in my killfile for quite some time. If **everyone** ignored him, this newsgroup would be a better place. :-)) -- __ __ __ __ __ ___ _ |__||__)/ __/ \|\ ||_ | / Acorn StrongArm Risc_PC | || \\__/\__/| \||__ | /...Internet access for all Acorn RISC machines ___/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
