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http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list
Support the Py
QOTW: "You see? That's what I like about the Python community: people even
apologise for apologising :)" - Tim Golden
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/858d1c31d0c2adff
The third alpha version of Python 2.7 is ready for testing:
http://groups.google.com/group/c
QOTW: "I think, in the spirit of the topic, they should hold it at both
places at the same time." - Brian Blais, on whether the Python Concurrency
Workshop, v2.0, should be in Chicago or Denver (in January!)
The fastest way to consume an iterable until exhaustion:
http://groups.googl
QOTW: "... if I want to know something new (be it a computer language or
anything else, such as economics, history, science) I skip the introductory
material and go directly to the discussion, to the issues. This is for me
the most effective and interesting way of learning something new. And if
th
QOTW: "With Lisp or Forth, a master programmer has unlimited power
and expressiveness. With Python, even a regular guy can reach for the
stars." - Raymond Hettinger
web2py vs. Django comparison:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/b014b89ede34dc27/
The risks of
QOTW: "It took Python to make me realize that programming *could* be
fun, or at least not annoying enough to keep me from making a career of
programming." - Aahz
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/65ad4e71c194d97e
How to compare dialects of csv module?
http://gro
QOTW: "Plus, it's not something that's never foolproof." - Carl Banks,
daring negater
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/e8f3adbf2cc31514
Several graph libraries are available; which one is the best? maybe they
should be merged?
http://groups.google.com/g
QOTW: "I'm not sure you ever understood what the problem was, or where, but
I'm happy you feel like you've solved it." - Marco Mariani
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/8ec7ad4fcc714538
Python 2.7a1, the first alpha release of the 2.7 series, i
QOTW: "... it's generally accepted that COM sucks rocks through straws, so
explore alternatives when they're available ;-)" - Chris Withers
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/29577c851ceed167
From nothing to a complete working program - Peter Otten on stepwise
QOTW: "The promise is 'batteries included.' Nobody promised you a
nickel metal hydride battery that you can use as a replacement in your
Prius." - Stephen J. Turnbull
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2009-November/094014.html
Google's new language, Go, has similarities to
QOTW: "Don't get me wrong - innovation often comes from scratching ones
personal itch. But you seem to be suffering from a rather bad case of
neurodermatitis." - Diez B. Roggisch, on ... well, personal style in
problem-solving
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/4cf102bdd3a326
QOTW: "I consider "import *" the first error to be fixed ..." - Robert
Kern, author of PyFlakes, a potential replacement for Pylint and Pychecker,
on his personal style
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/5bf77b21b3b0caf2
Python 2.6.4 is out; it fixes some small b
QOTW: "It was intended to be understood, not copied." - Dave Angel comments
on a characteristic of didactic examples
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/61e2d60d08f1c630
Altering the default character encoding (sys.setdefaultencoding) is never
a good idea:
QOTW: "It is however, much like the framework in question, best kept private
and not made public." - Ed Singleton, on a "perfectly healthful and
acceptable" practice ... left unnamed here
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/987b1a7a4b9 01f3f
Looking for a sane way of
QOTW: "Forget ethical. We can do his homework for him, we can perhaps pass
exams for him, maybe graduate for him, and then with our luck, he'll get a
job in our office and we get to do his work for him." - Mel
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/8f7c1fa393c23476
QOTW: "Python the language doesn't try to satisfy all tastes in language
design equally." - Guido van Rossum
Is it really necesary to explicitely close open files?
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/d794d426a5bef2c1/
Tips for using Unicode text (specia
QOTW: "I like how being very friendly means calling people after a guy who
tried to blow up the English Parliament." - Carl Banks
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/7a190c24d8025bb4
unichr/ord cannot handle characters outside the BMP in a narrow build:
QOTW: "... [O]nce you accept that text is best handled in Unicode, there's
little sense in making an exception for the limited subset that happens to
be representable in ASCII." - Ben Finney
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/accc8c2ae9d7ed15
Python 3.1.1 released:
nformación, visitar
http://python.org.ar/pyar/
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http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list
Support the Python Software Foundation:
http://www.python.org/psf/donations/
QOTW: "They questioned my competence and that made her very sad." - Roger
Wallis,expert witness for Pirate Bay, on his wife
http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-witness-wife-overwhelmed-with-flowers-090227/
unicode(s) is, surprisingly, MUCH faster (for certain encodings) than
s.decode
QOTW: "The economy rises and falls, money comes and goes, but a great
conference has permanent good effects. Well, a lot more permanent than
government fiscal policy, anyway." - Python Software Foundation Director
"bitter-in-victory-gracious-in-defeat-ly y'rs" timbot
Is python free of "
QOTW: "But there's another principle at work here that's less well known, and
that was first articulated to me by Robert Dewar: You can remove linear
factors by profiling, but it's much harder to undo bad algorithmic decisions.
In particular, whether a program runs in O(n) or O(n^2) sometimes dep
QOTW: "If programming is symbol manipulation, then you should remember that
the user interface is also symbol manipulation, and it is a MUCH harder
problem than databases, sorting, searching, and all the other problems you
learn about in academia. The user interface has to communicate over a rich
QOTW: "Everyone gets so caught up in programming via languages that you get,
well, people trying to teach 'Computer Programming' as if it were only
necessary to grok a language, rather than grokking /symbol manipulation/
itself." - Simon Forman
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/m
QOTW: "Simulating a shell with hooks on its I/O should be so complicated that
a 'script kiddie' has trouble writing a Trojan." - Scott David Daniels
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/1c0f70d5fc69b5aa
Python 3.1 final was released last week - congratulations!
QOTW: "Fortunately, I have assiduously avoided the real wor[l]d, and am
happy to embrace the world from our 'bot overlords. Congratulations on
another release from the hydra-like world of multi-head development." - Scott
David Daniels, on release of 3.1
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lan
QOTW: "... open recursion with abstraction is supported in OOP but it
requires elaborate and rather tedious boilerplate in FP ..." - Martin Odersky
http://www.nabble.com/Re%3A--scala--usefulness-of-OOP-p23273389.html
How to write a method that may act both as an instance method a
QOTW: "Most power systems math can be summed this way: take a really big
number and multiply by the square root of two." - iceowl
http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1348321
The chuzer project provides a means for severely disabled people to
express their most basic needs
QOTW: "Death To Wildcard Imports" - Lawrence D'Oliveiro
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/835cf7f35ed f4897
How to ask questions having a chance of being answered:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/17b15282d07770d1/
Multiprocessi
QOTW: "Floating point is sort of like quantum physics: the closer you look,
the messier it gets." - Grant Edwards
The circular relationship between object and type explained:
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.general/623460
Floating point numbers don't behave exa
QOTW: "Tail recursion *unifies* message passing and function calling.
*This* is the reason tail recursion is cool." - JRM
http://funcall.blogspot.com/2009/05/you-knew-id-say-something-part-iii.html
First beta of Python 3.1 released
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/
QOTW: "... [S]omebody's gotta put up some resistance to cute shortcuts, or
we'll find ourselves back with Perl." - Peter Pearson
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/2ce1b43e4d40528f
How much memory occupies an object?
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.pytho
QOTW: "... [C]alling Python Object-Orientated is a bit of an
insult :-). I would say that Python is Ego-Orientated, it allows
me to do what I want." - Martin P. Hellwig
April 25: Python Bug Day
A perfect opportunity to get involved in Python development, bring your
own issues to att
QOTW: "Those who show promise can advance to our Winter Improve Python to
Expert program, for an additional fee, and, be given expert tutoring to help
you gain our exemplary A.R.S.E./W.I.P.E certification which is guaranteed to
attract certain types of employers by its name alone." - Paddy3118
QOTW: "Knowing C++ does tend to be a bit of a handicap, but I think
any competent programmer could learn Python." - Grant Edwards
Introducing Python to others - which amazing features to show?
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/6e366356eca17c98/
Do dee
QOTW: "[Perhaps] it sounds [as though] I'm saying that most prospective users
of OSS [open-source software] can't even manage to download it. Let me be
clear: that is exactly what I am saying." - Patrick McKenzie
http://www.kalzumeus.com/2009/03/07/how-to-successfully-compete-with-open-sourc
QOTW: "A sort of premature pessimization, then." - Steve Holden, in search
of an adequate description for a clever indexing scheme
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/37e7e9e5f9ba6159
Java best coding styles aren't adequate for Python:
http://groups.google
QOTW: "Whatever sufficiently sophisticated topic was ... initially
discussed it ends all up in a request for removing reference counting
and the GIL." - Kay Schluehr
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/6a152ff76cf313ff
Looking for a different kind of (editor|environme
QOTW: "The fundamental economics of software development leads you to
open-source software." David Rivas
http://www.ddj.com/linux-open-source/212201757
Python 2.5.4 final released (replaces 2.5.3 due to a critical bug)
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/t/4042c0
QOTW: "Threads seem to be used only because mediocre programmers don't know
what else to use." - Sturla Molden
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-December/084265.html
Python 2.4.6 and 2.5.3 were released this week:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.p
QOTW: "Thus spake the Lord: Thou shalt indent with four spaces. No more, no
less. Four shall be the number of spaces thou shalt indent, and the number
of thy indenting shall be four. Eight shalt thou not indent, nor either
indent thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to four. Tabs are right
QOTW: "One of the reasons for Python's continue march towards world domina-
tion (allow me my fantasies) is its consistent simplicity. Those last two
words would be my candidate for the definition of 'Pythonicity'." - Steve
Holden
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/e2518ea8388
QOTW: "I stopped paying much attention to this thread a while ago, but
you've got to admire the persistence of somebody who soldiers on even
though Aahz, Fredrik Lund, and Steve Holden are all on the other side of
the argument..." - Grant Edwards
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python
QOTW: "Trust me. Sean is absolutely correct. I'm currently in the process
of converting a large Perl project to Python (and learning Python at the
same time) and the improvement in code is incredible. After you learn
Python, you'll come to despise Perl." - Pat
http://groups.google.com/group/c
QOTW: "Using Unix is the computing equivalent of listening only to music by
David Cassidy." - Rob Pike
http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/10/18/1153211&tid=189&tid=156&tid=130&tid=11
Default mutable arguments revisited:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang
QOTW: ".. as the problem grows in complexity, C++ accumulates too much of
its own bloat." - sturlamolden, on Python as a *faster* language than C++
Python 2.6 final has been released:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/b440f6bd2a54b6a/
QOTW: "AFAICT, _everybody_ is bad at programming C++.
One begins to suspect it's not the fault of the programmers." - Grant Edwards
Mixing integer, float, Decimal and Fraction objects when comparing may
yield unexpected results:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.pyth
QOTW: "Python is THE real integration/composition platform !" - Nicolas Lehuen
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/05dd6fa4509ab15c
Python 2.6rc2 and 3.0rc1 have been released:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/6a285ea5e
QOTW: "There is no point in creating new hardware without new
software." - Niklaus Wirth
http://www.modulaware.com/mdlt52.htm
The first Release Candidate for Python 2.6 is out:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/bdf349528605e27f/
Ab
QOTW: "So why am I supposed to care about SOAP again? Oh yes, the wizards
I can use to generate 'web service end-points' from programming language
code. My years in the SOAP trenches just makes me laugh myself half to
death at that notion: I would probably have been twice as productive if
every
QOTW: "Information outlives technology." - Tim Bray
http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/03/24/XMLisOK, but notice
all the offspring of this meme any simple search makes apparent
Thoughts about the various forms of the import statement:
http://groups.google.co
QOTW: "A quick rule of thumb for Python: if your code looks ugly or
strained or awkward, it's probably also wrong." - John Machin
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/90893abfe9a181de
Barry Warsaw announces the third (and last) beta releases of Python 2.6
and P
QOTW: "COMP.LANG.PYTHON. We're so efficent, we deliver the answer before
you can ask the question." - Travis Beaty
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/0a976f29ec9f43e0
Named tuples, exec, closures, and why the old taxonomy of languages is
no more relevant:
QOTW: "... XML Schema ... include[s] 44 built-in types and a complex set
of rules for defining additional types, encompassing atomic, simple, complex,
primitive, derived, list, union, and anonymous types, as well as two forms of
inheritance, twelve 'constraining facets', substitution groups, and v
QOTW: "As a project manager, I have never had trouble finding people
with crazy ideas. I have trouble finding people who can execute. IOW,
'innovation' is way oversold. And it sure as hell shouldn't be applied
to products like MS Word or Open office." - Linus
http://www.simple-talk.com/opin
QOTW: "Python's goals are to maximize opportunities for good
programming, which is quite different." - Bruno Desthuilliers, contrasting
Python with Java
Load and initialize dynamic plugins from a directory:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/ba8d361
QOTW: "I find that eloquent Python speakers often tend to write a for loop
when mere good ones will try to stick a list comprehension in!" - Arnaud
Delobelle
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/dfc72ea32f1f9c91
The first beta release of Python 3.0 is out (jointly with
QOTW: "The problem [with C++] is, I never feel like I'm programing
the *problem*, I always feel like I'm programming the *language*." - Roy Smith
Alternatives to the Decimal type:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/9cd6dae725268afb/
How
QOTW: "You could use exec. Probably if you find yourself doing this a
lot, you're better off using a dictionary." - Erik Max Francis
Python books for programmers:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/83d2bc376f6a5c69/
Determining in whic
QOTW: "PS: in some ways it's interesting and relevant that there has been
no discussion on psf-members of Google's AppEngine, which many people I've
talked to think is the most important thing that's ever happened to Python
ever." - David Ascher
Alternatives for a multi dimensional d
QOTW: "GHUM: There are no big applications written in Python.
GHUM: Big applications are written in JAVA or COBOL or C# or other legacy
programming systems.
GHUM: If you programm in Python, your applications become quite small. Only
frameworks in Python are big.
JMC: So the fact that there
QOTW: "IIRC the idea was so that managers could write programs in English.
It failed because nobody could write a parser that would handle something
like 'The bottom line is that the stakeholder group requires the situation
going forward to be such as to facilitate the variable known as x to provi
QOTW: "With Python, you can program with a smile on your face." - Gary
Herron
"Looking back over the years, after I learned Python I realized that I
never really had enjoyed programming before." - Aahz
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/b4aa1d1578c26950/
QOTW: "[buildout] is not just some stupid thing." - Alan Runyan
http://wiki.python.org/moin/buildout has more background
sum() doesn't use the best possible algorithm when dealing with floating
point numbers:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2008-May/4
QOTW: "Posting to comp.lang.python is pair programming with the entire
internet ;-)" - Nick Craig-Wood
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/6f13cfca8a92c1a2
"When it got to the point where managers were asking, 'Why didn't you use
the config check tool?', it was a done deal." -
QOTW: "But people will always prefer complaining on the grounds of
insufficient information to keeping quiet on the basis of knowledge." - Steve
Holden
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/007b9fea0a5db786
Speed of Python vs C when reading, sorting and writing data:
QOTW: "This for me is Python's chief selling point: dir()dir() and
help(). Python's two selling points are dir(), help(), and very readable
code. Python's *three* selling points are dir(), help(), very readable
code, and an almost fanatical devotion to the BFDL. Amongst Python's
selling p
QOTW: "Describing [Python] as a 'scripting language' is like describing a
fully-equipped professional kitchen as 'a left-over warming room'." - Steven
D'Aprano
"[S]ocial measures are the only thing that *can* properly deal with these
issues [in this case, naming conflicts, functionality non-parti
QOTW: "My thumb has been putting two spaces after a period for 30 years, so
the chances that it's going to change are rather slim. :)" - Grant Edwards
"In the past, I used Matlab for prototyping, but over the last few years I
have switched to a combination of numpy, scipy, matplotlib, and ipython
QOTW: "Most people don't use Python by accident, and most people don't
continue to use Python by accident" - Chris Hagner, during the talk "Why
Python Sucks (But Works Great For Us)" at PyCon 2008
"I don't want a macro facility in the language _because_ it would be so
cool." - Laura Creighton
QOTW: "No, Google, I didn't want the Botswana daily news with its article on
the Botswana National Front and another on a fellow arrested for having
contraband python skins." - Martin Rineh, during his relentless search for
Python's BNF
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/8843
QOTW: "I think not enough is made of the fact that Python combines legibility
and power better than any other platform." - Michael Tobis
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/advocacy/2008-February/000518.html
"C++ is a compile-time, type-checked language, which means it is totally
safer for newbi
QOTW: "Syntax can be, and has been, interoperable. The definitions of the
telephone network, the Internet, email, and the Web are all
bits-on-the-wire definitions of what you send back and forth, and they've
all worked well enough to change the world. This belief that
bits-on-the-wire is more imp
QOTW: "And don't EVER make the mistake that you can design something
better than what you get from ruthless massively parallel trial-and-error
with a feedback cycle. That's giving your intelligence _much_ too much
credit." - Linus Torvalds
http://groups.google.com/group/fa.linux.kernel/msg/52f
QOTW: "Everyone with a PC knows that eventually their computer will slow down,
crash unexpectedly, and develop problems with applications." - promotional
materials for award-winning *Degunking Windows* book
"It's a very good idea to read the entire FAQ as soon as you've gotten past
the very basic
QOTW: "The nice thing with Pyrex is that you can use the Python
interpreter, or not use it, more or less depending on your way to declare
things and your way to code. So, in a way, you have full control over
the compromise between speed and facility. The temptation is always
strong to use Python
QOTW: "I'd say Java was never sexy, but dressed up in expensive lingerie by
marketing maniacs..." - Diez B. Roggisch
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/ae0463c921077f7f
"I must say that the richness that list comprehensions, generators and
iterators have brought to Python are
QOTW: "I find the best approach is to use multiple languages." - Roger Binns
"All generators can be re-written with classes using the iterator
protocol." - Jean-Paul Calderone
Mutable default arguments revisited:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/t
QOTW: "However, inspection of a vast corpus of code might lead one to believe
that any commenting capability was completely unnecessary." - Jim B. Wilson
"The Python people also piped [up] to say 'everything's just fine here', but
then they always do; I really must learn that language." - Tim Bra
QOTW: "XML. Almost as good as plain text for grepping." - Joe Mason
"Where there's IP, there's a way." - Kyler Laird, on network programming
Linked lists, deques, and iteration over a mutating container:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/1017de91
QOTW: "I wrote 20 short programs in Python yesterday. It was wonderful.
Perl, I'm leaving you." Randall Munroe
title attribute embedded in source of http://xkcd.com/353/
"[M]ost undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically
Java vocational training." - Alan Kay
QOTW: ""Given that C++ has pointers and typecasts, it's really hard to have
a serious conversation about type safety with a C++ programmer and keep a
straight face. It's kind of like having a guy who juggles chainsaws wearing
body armor arguing with a guy who juggles rubber chickens wearing a T-s
QOTW: "I think the need for these 'eventloop unifications' stems from Visual
Basic. VB programmers never learned to use more than one thread, and they are
still struggling to unlearn the bad habits they aquired." - sturlamolden
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/41d29242b2a825
QOTW: "AOP is a programming paradigm in the same way indie is a genre of
film." - Carl Banks
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/224e922a3e1a8638
"I really like Python's notion of having just one data type: the duck." -
itsme
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.perl.m
QOTW: "I've just done my first serious work in Python/IDLE, a small dot
pre-processor for software modeling diagrams and I am very enthused.
It should be called Pytho; it has the positive qualities of Play-Do and
Lego: you get ideas squishing it through your fingers and it snaps together
nicely t
QOTW: "Template engines are amongst the things that seem easy enough to
look at the available software and say 'bah, I'll write my own in a day',
but are complex enough to keep them growing over years until they become
as huge and inaccessible as all the other implementations. Then it's time
for s
QOTW: "[T]here's always no best." - Lawrence Oluyede
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/32bce47d185 ce42e
"I actually do a lot of unit testing. I find it both annoying and highly
necessary and useful." - Steven Bethard
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/4
QOTW: "Aaaugh! Don't use __slots__!" - Aahz
"I will use public attributes (with access customizable with properties)
and remember that in Python I can do everything :)." - Artur Siekielski
Don't use __slots__ to create struct-like objects:
http://groups.google.com/group/co
QOTW: "Does 'this non-Python related twaddle is boring the shit out of me'
mean anything to you both?" - Steve Holden
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/78b9262de1aeaecd
"... if you're programming on Win32 and expecting the application to scale
well, you already have problems
QOTW: "This thread shows again that Python's best feature is
comp.lang.python." - Joerg Schuster
"I find it best to treasure the saints, tolerate the irritable and ignore
the whiners." - RedGrittyBrick
Python as a functional language: of limited usage due to stack limitations:
http
QOTW: "I learn something valuable from comp.lang.python every week, and
most of it has nothing to do with Python." - Richie Hindle
"Ninety percent of all problems on top of the stove are caused because
people don't preheat their pan properly." - Christopher Kimball, on the
Zen that apparently app
QOTW: "Python is a revelation to me as a language that grows with the ability
of the programmer, which creates a multi-level community not too centered on
one-upmanship to nurture new talent." - John K Masters
"Python is a well designed language that focuses on a few simple ideas (name
semantics,
QOTW: "If there were a protein that could only be folded by proving the
Riemann Hypothesis, the gene that coded for it would quickly get weeded
out of the gene pool." - Scott Aaaronson
http://scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=266
"We read Knuth so you don't have to." - Tim Peters
The first
QOTW: "There is something to be said for Python's 'elitism' ;)" - Carsten
Haese
"While the discipline of TDD is good and useful, there's a time and place
for unstructured and informal experimentation too." - Steven D'Aprano
Issue tracker migration is complete - now at
http://bug
QOTW: "So I never let the age of the universe intimidate me." - mensanator,
on (roughly) the occurrence of large integral exponents in combinatorics and
more
"You're coming from a Perl background, right? No one else would think of
using a regexp for such a simple thing." - Sion Arrowsmith
QOTW: "The first time you see twenty tons of machinery move unexpectedly
because you inadvertently changed one bit in memory, you become very
conservative about your software platform." - Walt Leipold
"Making use of the available wrappers for current Tk libraries such as
BWidgets, Tile, Tablelis
QOTW: "If you really want to learn hard-core Python, probably your best bet
is:
* read everything Tim Peters has ever written in comp.lang.python
(this will take a few months), start with "import this"
* read everything the PyPy guys have ever written (particularly
Christian and
QOTW: "It's a good QOTW but social romantic nonsense nevertheless." - Kay
Schluehr
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/6348bfbb69642a4a/
"If it [the QOTW] were predictable, wouldn't it be boring?" - Peter Otten
An analysis of random.shuffle beha
QOTW: "That's a property of open source projects. Features nobody really
needs are not implemented." - Gregor Horvath
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/1fcefd79c7aa4832
"I'm working in a Java shop, with eclipse - one of the most intimate
IDE-lanaguage-relationships imaginabl
QOTW: "[R]edundant/useless/misleading/poor code is worse than
wrong." - Michele Simionato
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/74adbb471826a245
"Unit tests are not a magic wand that discover every problem that a
program could possibly have." - Paul Rubin
http://groups.googl
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