In article ,
"Russell E. Owen" wrote:
> In article ,
> Ned Deily wrote:
> > In article ,
> > Russell Owen wrote:
> > > I installed the Mac binary on my Intel 10.5.6 system and it works,
> > > except it still uses Apple's system Tcl/Tk 8.4.7 instead of my
> > > ActiveState 8.4.19 (which is
In article ,
Ned Deily wrote:
> In article ,
> Russell Owen wrote:
> > I installed the Mac binary on my Intel 10.5.6 system and it works,
> > except it still uses Apple's system Tcl/Tk 8.4.7 instead of my
> > ActiveState 8.4.19 (which is in /Library/Frameworks where one would
> > expect)
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009, BJ?rn Lindqvist wrote:
>
> It's not only about what people find intuitive. Why care about them?
> Most persons aren't programmers. It is about what application
> developers find useful too. I have often needed to calculate month
> deltas according to the proposal. I suspect ma
It's not only about what people find intuitive. Why care about them?
Most persons aren't programmers. It is about what application
developers find useful too. I have often needed to calculate month
deltas according to the proposal. I suspect many other programmers
have too. Writing a month add func
Hi,
As discussed before, I have put two mock Python Tracker instances online.
The Test[1] instance follows bugs.python.org code, so we can test
bugfixes and procedures without breaking the real tracker. The
Experimental[2] one, aka the cool instance, is where new features are
showcased.
Currently
On Apr 16, 2009, at 11:17 PM, Ronald Oussoren wrote:
On 16 Apr, 2009, at 20:58, Russell Owen wrote:
I installed the Mac binary on my Intel 10.5.6 system and it works,
except it still uses Apple's system Tcl/Tk 8.4.7 instead of my
ActiveState 8.4.19 (which is in /Library/Frameworks where one
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On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Scott David Daniels
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> Non-associativity is what makes for floating point headaches.
> To my knowledge, floating point is at least commutative.
Well, mostly. :-)
>>> from decimal import Decimal
>>> x, y = Decimal('NaN123'), Decimal('-NaN456')
>>> x + y
Deci
Greg Ewing wrote:
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
it should be obvious in the same way that string concatenation is
different from numerical addition:
1 + 2 = 2 + 1
'1' + '2' != '2' + '1'
However, the proposed arithmetic isn't just non-
commutative, it's non-associative, which is a
much rarer and mor
>> "2rd of March on leap years,
> ^^^
> The turd of March?
Yeah, it's from a little known Shakespearean play about a benevolent
dictator, Guidius van Rossumus. The name of the play escapes me at the
moment, but there's this critical scene where the BDFL is in mortal danger
because
On Apr 17, 2009, at 5:42 AM, Piet van Oostrum wrote:
Maybe a link to the MacOSX image can also be added to
http://www.python.org/download
Done.
-Barry
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> Barry Warsaw (BW) wrote:
>BW> On behalf of the Python community, I'm happy to announce the availability
>BW> of Python 2.6.2. This is the latest production-ready version in the
>BW> Python 2.6 series. Dozens of issues have been fixed since Python 2.6.1
>BW> was released back in Decembe
James Y Knight fuhm.net> writes:
>
> It's a human-interface operation, and as such, everyone (ahem) "knows
> what it means" to say "2 months from now", but the details don't
> usually have to be thought about too much.
I don't think it's true. When you say "2 months from now", some people wi
Jess Austin gmail.com> writes:
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> I have worked in utility/telecom billing, and needed to examine large
> numbers of invoice dates, fulfillment dates, disconnection dates,
> payment dates, collection event dates, etc. There would often be
> particular rules for the relationships among these dat
-On [20090417 04:55], s...@pobox.com (s...@pobox.com) wrote:
>Again, I think it needs to bake a bit. I understand the desire and need for
>doing date arithmetic with months. Python is mature enough though that I
>don't think you can just "toss this in". It should
On 2009-04-16 21:55, s...@pobox.com wrote:
Jess> If, on the other hand, one of the committers wants to toss this in
Jess> at some point, whether now or 3 versions down the road, the patch
Jess> is up at bugs.python.org (and I'm happy to make any suggested
Jess> modificatio
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