Re: any Adobe Reader like apps written in python, for examination?

2005-12-25 Thread garabik-news-2005-05
Alex Gittens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is anyone aware of any applications that handle font and graphics > display--- something like Adobe Reader--- that are written in Python, > and the code is available for examination? It doesn't matter what GUI > toolkit is used. > Grail comes to my mind im

Re: python coding contest

2005-12-25 Thread taroso
Currently I'm on 149 characters in one line - 128 without spaces/newlines. (it'd be three characters shorter if it didn't have to end with a "\n") -T. "unclean... unclean..." -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Indentation/whitespace

2005-12-25 Thread Ilias Lazaridis
Robert Hicks wrote: > I disagree...I don't think the whitespace rule will ever be > "optional". Why would it be so? If someone doesn't like it...choose > another language. It is that simple really. > Robert It's not that simple. But let's simply await. We will know in 2 years. - TAG.python.e

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Re: python coding contest

2005-12-25 Thread phil_nospam_schmidt
Tim Hochberg wrote: > No. I have 8 lines and 175 chars at present. And, I expect that's gonna > get beaten. I wasn't going to get into this, but I couldn't resist :). I'm already behind though... 198 characters on 1 line. It's ugly, but it works. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pyt

How to fix the bug about iconv for python?

2005-12-25 Thread Strong IsOnlyWord
I find a problem: Now when i input some special word in browser ,the Apache will report the error. My Apache error_log: python: ../iconv/skeleton.c:324: __gconv_transform_utf8_internal: Assertion `nstatus == GCONV_FULL_OUTPUT' failed. How to fix the bug? My python version:1.52 (because work spe

Re: Indentation/whitespace

2005-12-25 Thread Robert Hicks
I disagree...I don't think the whitespace rule will ever be "optional". Why would it be so? If someone doesn't like it...choose another language. It is that simple really. Robert -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: python coding contest

2005-12-25 Thread Tim Peters
Over at http://spoj.sphere.pl/problems/SIZECON/ the task is to come up with the shortest program that solves a different problem. There's a twist in this one: Score equals to size of source code of your program except symbols with ASCII code <= 32. So blanks, newlines and tabs aren

Re: python coding contest

2005-12-25 Thread Remi Villatel
rbt wrote: > Does positioning matter? For example, say I give it '123' is it ok to > output this: > > 1 > 2 > 3 > > Or does it have to be 123 Download the test suite and you'll see that only 123 on one line passes the test. Sorry... -- == Remi Villatel [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: python coding contest

2005-12-25 Thread Alex Martelli
rbt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tim Hochberg wrote: > > > > Is it necessary to keep the input parameter as 'input'? Reducing that to > > a single character drops the length of a program by at least 8 > > characters. Technically it changes the interface of the function, so > > it's a little bogu

Re: python coding contest

2005-12-25 Thread Alex Martelli
Simon Hengel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Definitely, characters. A high-granularity measure is essential to > > reduce the chance of ties. Even so there may well be equal-first-place > > winners -- hope they're not solved in terms of first submission, since > > submitting at 14:00 UTC is WAY

Re: python coding contest

2005-12-25 Thread Alex Martelli
Christian Tismer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Simon Hengel wrote: > >> I would suggest that all whitespace (except within string literals) > >> should be ignored, as well. > > > Good point, but i assume that is not possible with regular expressions. > > No, but a trivial task using the compiler.

Re: python coding contest

2005-12-25 Thread Tim Hochberg
Remi Villatel wrote: > André Malo wrote: > > >>>is two lines and 347 characters ugly enough to win? > > >>Nope. 3 lines / 179 chars here >:-> >>Yes, it's quite unreadable. > > > I'm in for the second place with 4 lines / 228 chars. > > >>(The problem is that I need to find an internet cafe

Re: python coding contest

2005-12-25 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 02:21:11 +0100, André Malo wrote: > * Steven D'Aprano wrote: > >> is two lines and 347 characters ugly enough to win? > > Nope. 3 lines / 179 chars here >:-> > Yes, it's quite unreadable. I think Perl coders should be banned from this contest, as they have an unfair advantag

Re: python coding contest

2005-12-25 Thread Remi Villatel
André Malo wrote: >>is two lines and 347 characters ugly enough to win? > Nope. 3 lines / 179 chars here >:-> > Yes, it's quite unreadable. I'm in for the second place with 4 lines / 228 chars. > (The problem is that I need to find an internet cafe on 28/29th in order to > be able to submit) D

Re: python coding contest

2005-12-25 Thread Justin Azoff
>>> c=open("seven_seg.py").read() >>> len(c) 251 >>> len(c.replace(" ","")) 152 :-) Knowing me, I'll forget to submit it. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: python coding contest

2005-12-25 Thread Simon Hengel
> Is it necessary to keep the input parameter as 'input'? Reducing that to > a single character drops the length of a program by at least 8 > characters. Technically it changes the interface of the function, so > it's a little bogus, but test.py doesn't check. (Personally I prefer > that if be

Re: python coding contest

2005-12-25 Thread rbt
Tim Hochberg wrote: > > Is it necessary to keep the input parameter as 'input'? Reducing that to > a single character drops the length of a program by at least 8 > characters. Technically it changes the interface of the function, so > it's a little bogus, but test.py doesn't check. (Personally

Re: python coding contest

2005-12-25 Thread Tim Hochberg
Is it necessary to keep the input parameter as 'input'? Reducing that to a single character drops the length of a program by at least 8 characters. Technically it changes the interface of the function, so it's a little bogus, but test.py doesn't check. (Personally I prefer that if be illegal,

Re: python coding contest

2005-12-25 Thread Tim Hochberg
Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 19:14:43 -0500, rbt wrote: > > >>Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> >>>On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 18:05:37 +0100, Simon Hengel wrote: >>> >>> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 >I'm envisioning lots of convoluted one-liners which >

Re: nonetype error is not callable

2005-12-25 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 17:39:14 -0800, homepricemaps wrote: > if i do the following i get the url of an image i am looking for > > image = "" > image = bs.img > print image image = "" is a pointless operation in the above snippet. What is bs and bs.img? How does it know what URL you are looking fo

Re: Indentation/whitespace

2005-12-25 Thread Ilias Lazaridis
Larry Bates wrote: > Joe wrote: > >>Is Python going to support s syntax the does not use it's infamous >>whitespace rules? Of course. I estimate it will take around 1 to 2 years from now, until this whitespace-concept will become optionally. Backwards-compatibility will be kept, thus those wh

[EVALUATION] - E04 - Leadership! Google, Guido van Rossum, PSF

2005-12-25 Thread Ilias Lazaridis
Python Leadership was a weakness [1] and becomes now a threat for python, thanks to Mr. van Rossums employment at Google. - I've wrote the Leadership list prioritized (Google rules, Mr. van Rossum follows, PSF watches and accepts). The core developer of an open-source-project is 'captured' by

nonetype error is not callable

2005-12-25 Thread homepricemaps
if i do the following i get the url of an image i am looking for image = "" image = bs.img print image however if i do this out.write (image ) i get an error that says "nonetype error is not callable" any ideas -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: python coding contest

2005-12-25 Thread rbt
Simon Hengel wrote: > Hello, > we are hosting a python coding contest an we even managed to provide a > price for the winner... > > http://pycontest.net/ > > The contest is coincidentally held during the 22c3 and we will be > present there. > > https://events.ccc.de/congress/2005/wiki/Python_cod

Re: python coding contest

2005-12-25 Thread André Malo
* Steven D'Aprano wrote: > is two lines and 347 characters ugly enough to win? Nope. 3 lines / 179 chars here >:-> Yes, it's quite unreadable. (The problem is that I need to find an internet cafe on 28/29th in order to be able to submit) nd -- my @japh = (sub{q~Just~},sub{q~Another~},sub{q~Per

Re: How to signal "not implemented yet"?

2005-12-25 Thread Heiko Wundram
Roy Smith wrote: > How do other people do this? raise NotImplementedError, "I chose not to implement this because of..." (built-in exception) --- Heiko. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Merging Subway and TurboGears

2005-12-25 Thread Jan Niklas Fingerle
Jan Niklas Fingerle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > the templating language (Cheetah vs Kid). Those will be points of > (as far as "depend" might go) the Kid funtionality (i.e. importing > ElementTree-s as sub-trees, and ElementTree is part of the heart of my > application logics). If I might add:

Re: python coding contest

2005-12-25 Thread Simon Hengel
> What is your algorithm for determining "shortest" program? Are you > counting tokens, lines or characters? Does whitespace count? like: $wc -c seven_seg.py At the moment we have to live with characters, and yes whitespace characters do count. Sorry for that. Have fun, Simon Hengel -- python

Re: python coding contest

2005-12-25 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 19:14:43 -0500, rbt wrote: > Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 18:05:37 +0100, Simon Hengel wrote: >> >>> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >>> Hash: SHA1 >>> I'm envisioning lots of convoluted one-liners which are more suitable to a different P-language

Re: Which Python web framework is most like Ruby on Rails?

2005-12-25 Thread UrsusMaximus
One last comment: This will work, I think, if and only if the "Consolidating" framework, the one to be used to absorb the other(s) best aspects, makes immediate and up-front, highly visible concession(s) so as to clearly communicate a win-win scenario. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: python coding contest

2005-12-25 Thread Simon Hengel
> Definitely, characters. A high-granularity measure is essential to > reduce the chance of ties. Even so there may well be equal-first-place > winners -- hope they're not solved in terms of first submission, since > submitting at 14:00 UTC is WAY easier for Europe residents (residents of > the A

Re: Which Python web framework is most like Ruby on Rails?

2005-12-25 Thread UrsusMaximus
On December 15, Alex Martelli wrote: >Alternatively, counting Google hits: >rails python django 112,000 >rails python subway 81,600 >rails python turbogears 32,000 >This isn't exactly "buzz", of course, but it's SOME measure of "critical >mass" -- and with django about e

Re: python coding contest

2005-12-25 Thread Christian Tismer
Simon Hengel wrote: >> I would suggest that all whitespace (except within string literals) >> should be ignored, as well. > Good point, but i assume that is not possible with regular expressions. No, but a trivial task using the compiler. they should have taken this as a second challenge :-) -

Re: How to signal "not implemented yet"?

2005-12-25 Thread Roy Smith
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tim Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >[Roy Smith] >> Is there some standard way to signal "not implemented yet" in >> unfinished code? > >raise NotImplementedError > >That's a builtin exception. Ah, that's exactly what I was looking for. Thanks. -- http://ma

Re: python coding contest

2005-12-25 Thread Simon Hengel
> I would suggest that all whitespace (except within string literals) > should be ignored, as well. Good point, but i assume that is not possible with regular expressions. Cheers, Simon -- python coding contest - http://www.pycontest.net/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

CHRIST: THE ARRIVAL

2005-12-25 Thread Antoll MA
www.antollma.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: python coding contest

2005-12-25 Thread Tobias Bell
André schrieb: > Neat idea! Indeed > > I'm far from being a decent Python programmer but I managed (for fun) > to do it in a one-liner; however, it was definitely longer (in term of > number of characters) than the more readable multi-line solution. I made a readable version with 352 bytes and

Re: Python IDE's

2005-12-25 Thread Colin J. Williams
J. D. Leach wrote: > Quick question as I am rather new to Python. What is the preferred tool > amongst you gurus to use in coding Python? I have ran across Eric3 and > found it to be pretty well full-featured. Any comments or suggestions for > better tools/IDE's? > > J.D. Leach I wouldn't say "pre

Re: How to signal "not implemented yet"?

2005-12-25 Thread Tim Peters
[Roy Smith] > Is there some standard way to signal "not implemented yet" in > unfinished code? raise NotImplementedError That's a builtin exception. ... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: python coding contest

2005-12-25 Thread rbt
Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 18:05:37 +0100, Simon Hengel wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >>> I'm envisioning lots of convoluted one-liners which >>> are more suitable to a different P-language... :-) >> I feel that python is more beautiful and reada

Re: python coding contest

2005-12-25 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 18:05:37 +0100, Simon Hengel wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > >> I'm envisioning lots of convoluted one-liners which >> are more suitable to a different P-language... :-) > I feel that python is more beautiful and readable, even if you write > short p

How to signal "not implemented yet"?

2005-12-25 Thread Roy Smith
Is there some standard way to signal "not implemented yet" in unfinished code? When I'm coding, I'll often only flesh out one side of a branch, or delay writing some method until later. It would be nice to be able to identify these right in the code to make sure they don't get forgotten about. I

Re: python coding contest

2005-12-25 Thread André
Neat idea! I'm far from being a decent Python programmer but I managed (for fun) to do it in a one-liner; however, it was definitely longer (in term of number of characters) than the more readable multi-line solution. André -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: python coding contest

2005-12-25 Thread Alex Martelli
Tim Hochberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > These two would be easy to acomplish using something like: > > def countchars(text): > n = 0 > for line in text.split('\n'): > n += len(line.strip()) > return n > > This would ignore leading and trailing white space as well as

Re: python coding contest

2005-12-25 Thread Alex Martelli
Christian Tismer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > Maybe a compromize proposal could be like this: > > - Squeezing many lines into one using semicola does not help, >the program will be expanded to use one statement per line > > - blank lines are allowed and not counted if they are not >

break into running code PythonWin

2005-12-25 Thread tim
Very often this doesn't work and I am forced to do ctrl+alt+del to quit pythonwin from the task manager. Is there a better way to interrupt my testruns when they hang ? thank you, Tim -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: python coding contest

2005-12-25 Thread Christian Tismer
Tim Hochberg wrote: > Christian Tismer wrote: ... >> - Squeezing many lines into one using semicola does not help, >>the program will be expanded to use one statement per line >> >> - blank lines are allowed and not counted if they are not >>needed as part of the code > > These two would

Re: Linux > python > file-I/O ?

2005-12-25 Thread Steve Horsley
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've just started to test/learn python. > I've got Linux > mandrake9 > python & documentation. > What I'll initially want to be doing needs file I/O, so I > wanted to confirm file I/O early in my tests. > > Following the examples : f=open('/tmp/workfile', 'w')

Re: Please enlighten me about PyPy

2005-12-25 Thread Christian Tismer
Luis M. González wrote: > I'd like to know, in your opinion, how far is the goal of making pypy > complete and fast? Me too :-) PyPy is doing a great job, that's for sure. I'm hesitant with making estimates, after I learned what a bad job I'm doing at extrapolation. First I thought that we woul

Re: deal or no deal

2005-12-25 Thread Duncan Smith
Rocco Moretti wrote: > rbt wrote: > >> The TV show on NBC in the USA running this week during primetime (Deal >> or No Deal). I figure there are roughly 10, maybe 15 contestants. They >> pick a briefcase that has between 1 penny and 1 million bucks and then >> play this silly game where NBC tries

Re: python coding contest

2005-12-25 Thread Christian Tismer
Simon Hengel wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > >> I'm envisioning lots of convoluted one-liners which >> are more suitable to a different P-language... :-) > I feel that python is more beautiful and readable, even if you write > short programs. > >> How about """best comp

Re: python coding contest

2005-12-25 Thread Tim Hochberg
Christian Tismer wrote: > Simon Hengel wrote: > >>-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >>Hash: SHA1 >> >> >>>I'm envisioning lots of convoluted one-liners which >>>are more suitable to a different P-language... :-) >> >>I feel that python is more beautiful and readable, even if you write >>short pro

Re: python coding contest

2005-12-25 Thread Simon Hengel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > I'm envisioning lots of convoluted one-liners which > are more suitable to a different P-language... :-) I feel that python is more beautiful and readable, even if you write short programs. > How about """best compromize between shortness and readib

Re: Please enlighten me about PyPy

2005-12-25 Thread Luis M. González
Christian Tismer wrote: > Christian Tismer wrote: > > > This is not trying to split apart from PyPy, or to short-cut its > > goals. I'm completely with PyPy's goals, and it will do much > > more than RPython translation ever will, this is out of question. Hi Christian, I'd like to know, in your

Re: suppress pyc generation

2005-12-25 Thread skip
Eddy> I would like to suppress .pyc generation or have the .pyc Eddy> generation in a speical seperate root (I found something about Eddy> PYCROOT). Has this been implemented yet? Is there an environment Eddy> variable or a command line switch that suppresses .pyc generation? Take

Re: python coding contest

2005-12-25 Thread Christian Tismer
Simon Hengel wrote: > Hello, > we are hosting a python coding contest an we even managed to provide a > price for the winner... > > http://pycontest.net/ Nice idea to have a contest, of course! What I dislike a bit is the winning criterion: Shortest possible Python module? I'm envisioning lots o

Re: How to avoid "f.close" (no parens) bug?

2005-12-25 Thread Christian Tismer
o wrote: > plez send me This is actually no bug but a feature. :-) Well, I know what you mean. The problem is created by the fact that in Python, functions are first-class object which can be assigned, passed around, inspected and whatever, as every other object can. The drawback is that you hav

python coding contest

2005-12-25 Thread Simon Hengel
Hello, we are hosting a python coding contest an we even managed to provide a price for the winner... http://pycontest.net/ The contest is coincidentally held during the 22c3 and we will be present there. https://events.ccc.de/congress/2005/wiki/Python_coding_contest Please send me comments, su

Re: Please enlighten me about PyPy

2005-12-25 Thread Christian Tismer
Christian Tismer wrote: > This is not trying to split apart from PyPy, or to short-cut its > goals. I'm completely with PyPy's goals, and it will do much > more than RPython translation ever will, this is out of question. Of course I meant "this is beyond question" :-) -- Christian Tismer

Re: Trying to find regex for any script in an html source

2005-12-25 Thread 28tommy
Thank you all. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: program with raw_input prompt behaves differently after compile

2005-12-25 Thread tim
It was kindof a stupid mistake on my part: I had to put 'import os' at the very beginning, and not only in one of my two function definitions. Thanks anyway, thanks to your link I also found how to change the colour of the console...neat :p ! Tim Hans Nowak wrote: >tim wrote: > > > >>I want t

Re: Please enlighten me about PyPy

2005-12-25 Thread Christian Tismer
Carl Friedrich Bolz wrote: > Luis M. González wrote: ... >> So we will have two choices: >> 1) running normal python programs on Pypy. >> 2) translating rpython programs to C and compiling them to stand-alone >> executables. >> >> Is that correct? > > Indeed. Another possibility is to write a Py

Re: suppress pyc generation

2005-12-25 Thread Ivan Herman
There is a simple, though slightly ugly trick: if the directory where the python module resides, is not writable to the python process, the python runtime will silently ignore .pyc generation (as far as I know). It is not elegant, but it works... Ivan Original Message From: "Edd

Re: suppress pyc generation

2005-12-25 Thread Ivan Herman
There is a simple, though slightly ugly trick: if the directory where the python module resides, is not writable to the python process, the python runtime will silently ignore .pyc generation (as far as I know). It is not elegant, but it works... Ivan Original Message From: "Edd

Re: Python obfuscation

2005-12-25 Thread Chris Mellon
On 12/25/05, Peter Maas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > yepp schrieb: > > Once you got the model of free and open source software you can't but shake > > your head at obfuscating people treating their users as enemies. > > Sorry but this is naive nonsense. Open source is a good model but > it can't be

suppress pyc generation

2005-12-25 Thread Eddy Ilg
Hi, I would like to suppress .pyc generation or have the .pyc generation in a speical seperate root (I found something about PYCROOT). Has this been implemented yet? Is there an environment variable or a command line switch that suppresses .pyc generation? Eddy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman

Re: Have a very Pythonic Christmasolstihanukwanzaa

2005-12-25 Thread Jérôme Laheurte
On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 07:52:54 -0800, infidel wrote: > Happy holidays to my fellow Pythonistas. This will never get old. Reminds me of something on Slashdot: "Happy random day in december!" Maybe it's next year's version. Merry Christmas :) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-lis

Is there any detailed debug tutorial for Pythonwin?

2005-12-25 Thread linda.s
Is there any detailed debug tutorial for Pythonwin? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

build curiosities of svn head (on WinXP)

2005-12-25 Thread David Murmann
hi all! i just built revision 41809 under winxp using a rather uncommon setup (at least i think so). since i have no visual studio here, i only used freely available tools: cygwin to get the source, the microsoft compiler/linker and NAnt (nant.sf.net) as the build tool to interpret the .vcproj-fil

Re: Python obfuscation

2005-12-25 Thread Peter Maas
yepp schrieb: > Once you got the model of free and open source software you can't but shake > your head at obfuscating people treating their users as enemies. Sorry but this is naive nonsense. Open source is a good model but it can't be applied everywhere. Look at the following example: There is

Re: sorting with expensive compares?

2005-12-25 Thread Paul Rubin
Thomas Wouters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But the odds of such a message having the same MD5 as an existing > song on his disk is quite a lot higher than 2**64, unless he has a really, > really large music collection ;) In the case you propose, two files don't > just need to have the same MD5, b

Python & SOAP

2005-12-25 Thread annaiak
I trying to run some implementation of SOAP in Python. Iam using ZSI, but iam little bit lost. I downloaded the official documentation, but iam still not able to understand relations between objects (soapwriter, typecode). Everything i can, is send a simple string via return value of server fun

Re: show in GUI stdout of a command

2005-12-25 Thread Ian Parker
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, twigster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >Hi, > >I need to display in real time the output of a command line tool in a >GUI written so far with Tkinter and Pmw. I've got a command line tool >that I want to integrate to a GUI. The parameters are set using the GUI >and

Re: sorting with expensive compares?

2005-12-25 Thread Thomas Wouters
On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 21:56:44 -0800, Paul Rubin wrote: > Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > There are also known ways of deliberately constructing md5 collisions >> > (i.e. md5 is broken). Whether the OP should care about that depends >> > on the application. >> >> Sure, but I don't

Re: Indentation/whitespace

2005-12-25 Thread Paul McGuire
"Lee Harr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On 2005-12-23, Gary Herron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You've got the visible/invisible aspect of things > > *exactly* backwards. > > The point on a line of text where things change > > from white space to > > non-white spa