Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

2005-10-08 Thread Mike Meyer
Roedy Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 05 Oct 2005 09:38:49 +1000, Steven D'Aprano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote or quoted : Yes it is. HTML means that after I've specified my email client use my favourite font, in the size I like, people send me emails that over-ride my choice. Invariably

Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

2005-10-08 Thread Lasse Vågsæther Karlsen
Mike Meyer wrote: If you've got a browser with a better solution, what's the browser, and what's the solution? There is no single solution. On one side you got control freaks who condemn everyone who dares send an email with something other than what you've got your own email set up to use.

Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

2005-10-08 Thread Mike Meyer
Roedy Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 04 Oct 2005 17:57:13 -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gordon Burditt) wrote or quoted : HTML enables a heck of a lot of problems: web bugs in email, links to fake sites that appear as real ones in what shows up on the screen, Javascript viruses,

Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

2005-10-08 Thread Roedy Green
On Tue, 04 Oct 2005 17:57:13 -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gordon Burditt) wrote or quoted : HTML enables a heck of a lot of problems: web bugs in email, links to fake sites that appear as real ones in what shows up on the screen, Javascript viruses, denial-of-service attacks (pages that open two

Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

2005-10-08 Thread Roedy Green
On Sat, 08 Oct 2005 17:41:38 -0400, Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote or quoted : If you've got a browser with a better solution, what's the browser, and what's the solution? Try Opera. You can merge the two. -- Canadian Mind Products, Roedy Green. http://mindprod.com Again taking new Java

Re: new forum -- homework help/chit chat/easy communication

2005-10-08 Thread Brandon K
Hrm...i find it demeaning to relegate Python to a scripting language while Visual Basic is in the software development section. Python so outdoes VB in every way shape and form. I've launched a new forum not too long ago, and I invite you all to go there: www.wizardsolutionsusa.com (click

Re: new forum -- homework help/chit chat/easy communication

2005-10-08 Thread Brandon K
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've launched a new forum not too long ago, and I invite you all to go there: www.wizardsolutionsusa.com (click on the forum link). We offer all kinds of help, and for those of you who just like to talk, there's a chit chat section just for you...Just remember that

Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

2005-10-08 Thread Roedy Green
On Sun, 09 Oct 2005 00:03:05 +0200, Lasse Vågsæther Karlsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote or quoted : On one side you got control freaks who condemn everyone who dares send an email with something other than what you've got your own email set up to use. You dare specify the font sized when I finally

Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

2005-10-08 Thread John Bokma
Roedy Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 04 Oct 2005 17:57:13 -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gordon Burditt) wrote or quoted : HTML enables a heck of a lot of problems: web bugs in email, links to fake sites that appear as real ones in what shows up on the screen, Javascript viruses,

Re: new forum -- homework help/chit chat/easy communication

2005-10-08 Thread Lasse Vågsæther Karlsen
Brandon K wrote: Hrm...i find it demeaning to relegate Python to a scripting language while Visual Basic is in the software development section. Python so outdoes VB in every way shape and form. snip In that respect I would very much like to see a definition of scripting language as well

Re: new forum -- homework help/chit chat/easy communication

2005-10-08 Thread Brandon K
In other words, what is the difference between a scripting language and a programming language. Good point. == Posted via Newsgroups.com - Usenet Access to over 100,000 Newsgroups == Get Anonymous, Uncensored, Access to West and East Coast Server Farms! == Highest Retention

Re: Book Python and Tkinter Programming

2005-10-08 Thread DaveInSidney
Check out BestBookBuys: http://www.bestwebbuys.com/Python_and_Tkinter_Programming-ISBN_1884777813.html?isrc=b-search -- .. Remove NOSPAM. before replying Pursuant to U.S. code, title 47, Chapter 5, Subchapter II, Section 227

Pyzine article Python and MIDI

2005-10-08 Thread Gorlon the Impossible
ok, here's a long shot: would anyone here who subscribes to Pyzine be willing to send me the article on Python and MIDI from Issue #6? I would be eternally grateful as I am strapped for funds and cannot justify spending the money for a 1 yr subscription when i am only interested in this one

Re: how do you pronounce wxpython

2005-10-08 Thread George Sakkis
Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My native language is not English so I just wonder how you pronounce wxPython. vi-ex python double-you-ex python wax-python or something else Thanks I am sure it is pronounced the same way as wxWidgets wink. George --

Re: CSV like file format featured recently in Daily Python URL?

2005-10-08 Thread Alex Willmer
On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 07:44 -0800, EP wrote: Was it something like ARFF? http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~ml/weka/arff.html Yes that was it thankyou. Although it would seem there isn't a general python module, rather a Cookbook script to perform conversion to SQL. I must have confused ARFF with

Re: Daisy Daisy, give me your answer do

2005-10-08 Thread Sam
Xah Lee writes: Dear Michael Goettsche, why don't you lead the pack to be on-topic for a change, huh? Why don't you: 1. Learn how to properly format messages for posting to Usenet, so that your scribblings don't read like stream-of-consciousness babbling (see

Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

2005-10-08 Thread Rich Teer
On Sat, 8 Oct 2005, Roedy Green wrote: Some people use email PRIMARILY for sharing photos. WHat the hell has that got to do with HTML email? Sending photos is an example of what attachments are for. -- Canadian Mind Products, Roedy Green. http://mindprod.com Again taking new Java

Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

2005-10-08 Thread Rich Teer
On Sun, 9 Oct 2005, Lasse Vågsæther Karlsen wrote: But trying to keep your email world into a pure text-based no-formatting-whatsoever world, that's a fantasy bubble that is bound to burst, sooner rather than later. Not here. I've configured my email server to reject HTML emails before I

Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

2005-10-08 Thread John Bokma
Rich Teer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 8 Oct 2005, Roedy Green wrote: Some people use email PRIMARILY for sharing photos. WHat the hell has that got to do with HTML email? The photo doesn't have to be included (as in attached)? with the email? Sending photos is an example of what

Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

2005-10-08 Thread John Bokma
Rich Teer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 9 Oct 2005, Lasse Vågsæther Karlsen wrote: But trying to keep your email world into a pure text-based no-formatting-whatsoever world, that's a fantasy bubble that is bound to burst, sooner rather than later. Not here. I've configured my email

Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

2005-10-08 Thread Mike Meyer
Roedy Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, 08 Oct 2005 17:41:38 -0400, Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote or quoted : If you've got a browser with a better solution, what's the browser, and what's the solution? Try Opera. You can merge the two. Merge the two CSS files? Most browsers do

[regex] case-splitting strings in unicode

2005-10-08 Thread John Perks and Sarah Mount
I have to split some identifiers that are casedLikeThis into their component words. In this instance I can safely use [A-Z] to represent uppercase, but what pattern should I use if I wanted it to work more generally? I can envisage walking the string testing the unicodedata.category of each char,

Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

2005-10-08 Thread Mike Meyer
Roedy Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is one of the marvels of CSS once you get the hang of it. If you don't like bright red letters on green backgrounds, you can CHANGE that. You can change the fonts, sizes etc etc. You can if you want get something very like plain ASCII text. Show us

Re: New Python book

2005-10-08 Thread hrh1818
The title is very misleading. The book is a nice introduction to Python, covers the high lights of Python without getting bogged down in detail and the author has a lively writing style. But the book has very litle to entice professional programmers. Dick Moores wrote: (Sorry, my previous post

Re: Book Python and Tkinter Programming

2005-10-08 Thread Dick Moores
DaveInSidney wrote at 15:55 10/8/2005: Check out BestBookBuys: http://www.bestwebbuys.com/Python_and_Tkinter_Programming-ISBN_1884777813.html?isrc=b-search Or even better, BestBookDeal.com: http://www.bestbookdeal.com/book/compare/1884777813 Dick Moores --

Re: [regex] case-splitting strings in unicode

2005-10-08 Thread Micah Elliott
On Oct 09, John Perks and Sarah Mount wrote: I have to split some identifiers that are casedLikeThis into their component words. In this instance I can safely use [A-Z] to represent uppercase, but what pattern should I use if I wanted it to work more generally? I can envisage walking the

Re: how do you pronounce wxpython

2005-10-08 Thread Paul Boddie
George Sakkis wrote: I am sure it is pronounced the same way as wxWidgets wink. Which is in turn pronounced the same way as wxWindows. As to how that's pronounced, I'd suggest asking Microsoft's lawyers whose actions in defending an arguably dubious trademark possibly involved investigating this

Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

2005-10-08 Thread Paul Boddie
Roedy Green wrote: Just how long do you want to stall evolution? Do you imagine people 200 years from now will be still be using pure ASCII text unable to find a solution to JavaScript viruses (turn off JS), pop-up( disable popups) etc.? People in their sky-cars turning off JavaScript in

Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

2005-10-08 Thread Matt Garrish
John Bokma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Rich Teer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 9 Oct 2005, Lasse Vågsæther Karlsen wrote: But trying to keep your email world into a pure text-based no-formatting-whatsoever world, that's a fantasy bubble that is bound to

Re: Daisy Daisy, give me your answer do

2005-10-08 Thread James Stroud
On Saturday 08 October 2005 16:26, Sam wrote: Xah Lee writes: Dear Michael Goettsche, why don't you lead the pack to be on-topic for a change, huh? Why don't you: 1. Learn how to properly format messages for posting to Usenet, so that your scribblings don't read like

Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

2005-10-08 Thread Paul Rubin
Lasse Vågsæther Karlsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But trying to keep your email world into a pure text-based no-formatting-whatsoever world, that's a fantasy bubble that is bound to burst, sooner rather than later. I read mail over an ssh connection to a Unix shell. I have no easy way to read

Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

2005-10-08 Thread Mike Meyer
Paul Rubin http://[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I read mail over an ssh connection to a Unix shell. I have no easy way to read html email with a graphics browser. You don't need a grahics browser - you just need a browser. I read mail in emacs, and use emacs-w3m to view html in the mailer. Works

Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

2005-10-08 Thread Paul Rubin
Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I read mail over an ssh connection to a Unix shell. I have no easy way to read html email with a graphics browser. You don't need a grahics browser - you just need a browser. Right, precisely. I use lynx, as I explained. It renders the html as plain

Re: new forum -- homework help/chit chat/easy communication

2005-10-08 Thread Donn Cave
Quoth Lasse_Vgsther_Karlsen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: | Brandon K wrote: | Hrm...i find it demeaning to relegate Python to a scripting language | while Visual Basic is in the software development section. Python so | outdoes VB in every way shape and form. | snip | | In that respect I would very

Re: Continuous system simulation in Python

2005-10-08 Thread phil_nospam_schmidt
Nicholas, I have a particular interest in this subject as well. I've also used the Python/Scipy combination, and it is a tantalizing combination, but I found it to be a bit more clumsy than I'd like. Plus, my need for continuous-time simulation is not as great as it has been in the past. That

Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

2005-10-08 Thread Gordon Burditt
HTML enables a heck of a lot of problems: web bugs in email, links to fake sites that appear as real ones in what shows up on the screen, Javascript viruses, denial-of-service attacks (pages that open two windows when you close one), etc. That is like hating all choirs because televangelists use

[ python-Bugs-1316162 ] Segmentation fault with invalid coding

2005-10-08 Thread SourceForge.net
Bugs item #1316162, was opened at 2005-10-07 22:24 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by birkenfeld You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detailatid=105470aid=1316162group_id=5470 Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment

[ python-Bugs-1117670 ] profiler: Bad return and Bad call errors with exceptions

2005-10-08 Thread SourceForge.net
Bugs item #1117670, was opened at 2005-02-07 15:50 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by spiv You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detailatid=105470aid=1117670group_id=5470 Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread,

[ python-Bugs-1316162 ] Segmentation fault with invalid coding

2005-10-08 Thread SourceForge.net
Bugs item #1316162, was opened at 2005-10-07 13:24 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by nnorwitz You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detailatid=105470aid=1316162group_id=5470 Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment

[ python-Bugs-1317376 ] irregular behavior within class using __setitem__

2005-10-08 Thread SourceForge.net
Bugs item #1317376, was opened at 2005-10-08 02:27 Message generated for change (Tracker Item Submitted) made by Item Submitter You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detailatid=105470aid=1317376group_id=5470 Please note that this message will contain a full copy of

[ python-Bugs-1317376 ] irregular behavior within class using __setitem__

2005-10-08 Thread SourceForge.net
Bugs item #1317376, was opened at 2005-10-08 17:27 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by ncoghlan You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detailatid=105470aid=1317376group_id=5470 Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment

[ python-Bugs-1317376 ] irregular behavior within class using __setitem__

2005-10-08 Thread SourceForge.net
Bugs item #1317376, was opened at 2005-10-08 02:27 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by capnstabn You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detailatid=105470aid=1317376group_id=5470 Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment

[ python-Bugs-1317376 ] irregular behavior within class using __setitem__

2005-10-08 Thread SourceForge.net
Bugs item #1317376, was opened at 2005-10-08 17:27 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by ncoghlan You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detailatid=105470aid=1317376group_id=5470 Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment

[ python-Bugs-1317376 ] irregular behavior within class using __setitem__

2005-10-08 Thread SourceForge.net
Bugs item #1317376, was opened at 2005-10-08 17:27 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by ncoghlan You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detailatid=105470aid=1317376group_id=5470 Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment

[ python-Bugs-1317376 ] irregular behavior within class using __setitem__

2005-10-08 Thread SourceForge.net
Bugs item #1317376, was opened at 2005-10-08 02:27 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by capnstabn You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detailatid=105470aid=1317376group_id=5470 Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment

[ python-Bugs-1311784 ] python.exe 2.4.2 compiled with VS2005 crashes

2005-10-08 Thread SourceForge.net
Bugs item #1311784, was opened at 2005-10-03 14:18 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by loewis You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detailatid=105470aid=1311784group_id=5470 Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment

[ python-Bugs-1311579 ] 2.4.2 make problems

2005-10-08 Thread SourceForge.net
Bugs item #1311579, was opened at 2005-10-03 09:58 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by loewis You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detailatid=105470aid=1311579group_id=5470 Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment

[ python-Bugs-1306484 ] compile() converts filename parameter to StringType

2005-10-08 Thread SourceForge.net
Bugs item #1306484, was opened at 2005-09-28 06:49 Message generated for change (Settings changed) made by loewis You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detailatid=105470aid=1306484group_id=5470 Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment

[ python-Bugs-1302793 ] 2.4.1 windows MSI has no _socket

2005-10-08 Thread SourceForge.net
Bugs item #1302793, was opened at 2005-09-24 07:53 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by loewis You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detailatid=105470aid=1302793group_id=5470 Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment

[ python-Bugs-1292634 ] The _ssl build process for 2.3.5 is broken

2005-10-08 Thread SourceForge.net
Bugs item #1292634, was opened at 2005-09-16 09:27 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by loewis You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detailatid=105470aid=1292634group_id=5470 Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment

[ python-Bugs-1316162 ] Segmentation fault with invalid coding

2005-10-08 Thread SourceForge.net
Bugs item #1316162, was opened at 2005-10-07 22:24 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by birkenfeld You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detailatid=105470aid=1316162group_id=5470 Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment

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