emacs has been my long time companion for php, perl, and python. My boss
recommended to me Wing2.0, I find it hard to adjust though. What can you
say about this IDE? He say's if I think it could improve my productivity
he's willing to buy it for me. Suggestions for better python IDE's are
Alvin A. Delagon wrote:
emacs has been my long time companion for php, perl, and python. My boss
recommended to me Wing2.0, I find it hard to adjust though. What can you
say about this IDE? He say's if I think it could improve my productivity
he's willing to buy it for me. Suggestions for
Alvin A. Delagon wrote:
emacs has been my long time companion for php, perl, and python. My boss
recommended to me Wing2.0, I find it hard to adjust though. What can you
say about this IDE? He say's if I think it could improve my productivity
he's willing to buy it for me. Suggestions for
Hi John,
I wonder how you're dealing with client-side code (ie. JavaScript)?
At the moment we don't work with javascript. But it should not be to
hard to create a JavaScript Renderer similar to the css one we already
have.
Have you looked at crackajax or PyPy?
Not really close so far. On of
Python itself provides parsers for xml and Dom support. So, if I
install pyxml what additional advantage or features I will get in pyxml
specially in minidom and parsers.
Anyone, please provide a brirfing on this.
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Alex Martelli wrote:
Ilias Lazaridis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
note: Anton Vredegoor wrote:
only hire people with long backstabbing histories.
Such as...? Guido van Rossum? Greg Stein? Vint Cerf? Ben Goodger?
...
The employees you've mentioned should have most possibly the
Well, what to say? I am very happy for all the solutions you guys have
posted :-)
For Paul:
I would prefer not to use Stirling's approximation
The problem with long integers is that to calculate the hypergeometric
I need to do float division and multiplication because integer division
returns 0.
If i have to execute an external program (for example, in the frontend
that i created for convert, from ImageMagick) i have 2 possibilities: i
can call one function between the exec* family, or i can call the
system function: so, which in your opinion is the best? The only
difference that i know
Alex Martelli wrote:
One great programming principle is Dont' Repeat Yourself: when you're
having to express the same thing over and over, there IS something
wrong. I believe the DYR phrasing is due to the so-called Pragmatic
Programmers, who are paladins of Ruby, but I also believe it's a
sir_alex wrote:
If i have to execute an external program (for example, in the frontend
that i created for convert, from ImageMagick) i have 2 possibilities: i
can call one function between the exec* family, or i can call the
system function: so, which in your opinion is the best? The only
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Alex Martelli wrote:
Anton Vredegoor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
Google's not a nice company (yeah, I know I'm posting from a google
account). If you look at their job requirements it's clear they will
only hire people with long backstabbing histories.
Such as...? Guido van Rossum?
Alvin A. Delagon wrote:
emacs has been my long time companion for php, perl, and python. My boss
recommended to me Wing2.0, I find it hard to adjust though. What can you
say about this IDE? He say's if I think it could improve my productivity
he's willing to buy it for me. Suggestions for
Okay, a bit of an exaggeration.
Recently, I've been using Python more seriously, and in using the
debugger I think one of the first things I noticed was that there is
no restart (R in perldb) or run (gdb) command.
I was pleasantly pleased discover how easy though it was patch pdb.py
and
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Hi everyone,
I need to write a web app, that will support millions of user accounts,
template-based user pages and files upload. The client is going to be
written in Flash. I wondered if I coudl get your opinions - what do you
think is the best language to use for
On Mon, 02 Jan 2006 04:33:44 GMT,
J. D. Leach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
... This is in spite of my setting the .bash profile correctly. As it
stands, I am at a loss for how to fix the problem ...
As a long shot, and I don't mean to insult anyone, but what is the name
of your .bash profile, and
if you don't need really goof perfomances, you ca use regular
expression... but in fact, string processing would be really better !
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Hi all,This is in reply to the 'Compressing folders in Windows using
Python' query I raised y'day.
I figured out that windows does not allow command line zipping so I
started looking for alternatives.
I found some modules in Perl which does zipping. I guess it goes by the
name 'gzip'. I plan to
sri2097 wrote:
Hi all,This is in reply to the 'Compressing folders in Windows using
Python' query I raised y'day.
I figured out that windows does not allow command line zipping so I
started looking for alternatives.
I found some modules in Perl which does zipping. I guess it goes by the
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/299412
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mike's code worked like a charm. i have one more question. i have an
href which looks like this:
td class=all
a class=btn name=D1 href=http://www.cnn.com;
/a
i thought i would use this code to get the href out but it fails, gives
me a keyerror:
Isn't it much easier to figure out how python built-in module 'zipfile'
works?
Pseudo-code would be something like:
#UNTESTED
import zipfile
import os
import os.path
zf = zipfile.ZipFile('myzipfilename.zip', 'w', zipfile.ZIP_DEFLATED)
for root, dirs, files in os.walk('compressthisdir'):
for
Using gzip means you can compress only 1 file per gzip; so you'll have
to invent something like tar to put all your files in your directories
together into 1 file and then apply gzip on that file to get it
compressed...
Using the zipfile module should allow you to create a standard
In todays posting
Any wing2.0 users here?
I found in the sentence
What can you say about this IDE? He say's 'if I think it could
improve my productivity he's willing to buy it for me.
the indirect question:
Can a better Python IDE increase programmers productivity?
From my experience
I think it's one of the best myself. I littel laggy on windows but you
get use to it. Just my .02
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Hello, I'm Sam and I've been under som trouble with using wxPython
that when I try to execute code containing wxPython gui programs
provided with wxPython geting started sample progams it's giving a
error but when I type the code to the shell prompt it works fine. Is
it beacus I'm on windows or
Hi!
I have:
x = {'a':3, 'b':2, 'c':4}
How can I sort x by value? (I tried using sorted() with x.items() - but I
didn't get a dictionary as response.)
My second question:
How can I reduce the dictionary to 2 items (so delete everything after the
first two items)
Thanks in advance.
Best
Markus Franz wrote:
Hi!
I have:
x = {'a':3, 'b':2, 'c':4}
How can I sort x by value? (I tried using sorted() with x.items() - but I
didn't get a dictionary as response.)
My second question:
How can I reduce the dictionary to 2 items (so delete everything after the
first two items)
Hello everybody,
my little problem resurfaced together with COM.
The generated .py file contains the following function:
def showApplication(self, show=defaultNameNotOptArg):
return self._oleobj_.InvokeTypes(...,show)
The value for show (defaultNameNotOptArg) must be True|False.
I
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
I say it entirely depends on what your programming. For instance, if
creating a GUI, there is no question that a well developed high quality
IDE is a huge help -- from the point of view of stub generation and code
completion, as well as the GUI
Raven wrote:
...
def main():
t = time.time()
for i in range(1000):
r = hypergeometric(6,6,30,6)
print time.time() - t
t = time.time()
for i in range(1000):
r = hypergeometric_gamma(6,6,30,6)
print time.time() - t
and the result is:
0.0386447906494
J. D. Leach wrote:
I'm lost. Surely I've missed something simple.
Maybe you can look in the source. help is an object defined by
site.py to be a Helper object from pydoc.py. Look in your Python lib
folder for pydoc.py and you should be able to trace through and find the
source of the
Question:
write a word jumble game. the program will read a word from a file of words,
scramble the order of letters of the word, print the scrambled word, ask the
user to make a guess, congratulate the user if she/he was able to correctly
figure out the word, and repeat this process until the
Ilias Lazaridis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
... or equivalent (I do believe all I named have at least a Bachelor
degree, but with the undisputable results they've shown afterwards, I
think they'd all meet the or equivalent clause anyway).
* BS or MS in Computer Science or
J. D. Leach wrote:
found online. However, neither of my Python installations (2.4
in /usr/bin/, and 2.4.2 in /usr/local/bin/) recognize the existence of the
html docs. The following error from within the Python shell yields the
same result:
Then when I enter the os.environ.get('PYTHONDOCS')
Hi,
I've built an app using this great software called groupkit
(http://www.groupkit.org/) based on tcl/tk language, now I'd like to
test python possibilities for groupware. Anyone knows about this, I
have made a google search; crossing groupkit and python, but I haven´t
found any project except
aysun ergin wrote:
Question:
write a word jumble game. the program will read a word from a file of words,
scramble the order of letters of the word, print the scrambled word, ask the
user to make a guess, congratulate the user if she/he was able to correctly
figure out the word, and repeat
Read this first:
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
and then try again.
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January, 2006.
I do not intend to start any kind of flame war, but only to seek advice
about different technologies concerning which I am mostly ignorant.
I am the database manager for a unit of a major state university. A
part of my job includes building database access and web enabled
On Fri, 30 Dec 2005, Tom Sheffler wrote:
Does Java have generators? I am aware of the Iterator interface,
but it seems much more restrictive. Python generators are useful
for many more things than simply list enumeration, but the Java
Iterator seems limited.
What makes you think that
Daniel J. Rubin wrote:
I say it entirely depends on what your programming. For instance, if
creating a GUI, there is no question that a well developed high quality
IDE is a huge help -- from the point of view of stub generation and code
completion, as well as the GUI designer.
Most non-IDE
I create a zip file on my WinXP system, using this function:
fn
import zipfile
import os
import os.path
def zipdir(dirname, zfname):
zf = zipfile.ZipFile(zfname, 'w', zipfile.ZIP_DEFLATED)
for root, dirs, files in os.walk(dirname):
for f in files:
fullname =
Folks: How do you create a multidimesional array of objects w/ the size
of the array entered at runtime? So basically, for an arbitrary class,
create an array and then *.resize it to be of size NXM, and then
populate the elements of the objects.
thanks for any help.
Scott
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January, 2006.
I do not intend to start any kind of flame war, but only to seek advice
about different technologies concerning which I am mostly ignorant.
[...]
I have been tasked by me IT department with investigating different
In Python 2.4.1:
None = 99
SyntaxError: assignment to None
True = 99
False = 99
True == False
True
---
So why is 'None' special?
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Peter Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Alex Martelli wrote:
One great programming principle is Dont' Repeat Yourself: when you're
having to express the same thing over and over, there IS something
wrong. I believe the DYR phrasing is due to the so-called Pragmatic
Programmers, who are
Rodney Maxwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In Python 2.4.1:
None = 99
SyntaxError: assignment to None
True = 99
False = 99
True == False
True
---
So why is 'None' special?
A legacy/backwards compatibility issue: None has been there 'forever',
so that no sensible
Alex Martelli wrote:
Anton Vredegoor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
only hire people with long backstabbing histories.
Such as...? Guido van Rossum? Greg Stein? Vint Cerf? Ben Goodger?
...
No insider information is necessary, the job requirements make it
absolutely clear (at least
Andrew Durdin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 29 Dec 2005 09:50:57 -0800, colinwb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
puts ck.first, ck[0], '*', ck.last, ck[-1]
One of the points at issue (minimalism/monotony) relates to TOOWTDI,
which has implications for language/module design and for code
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
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January, 2006.
* OO Perl/Perl6 -- Perl has worked real well for us, but we have
doubts that it is the best technology, and we want to make a serious
attempt to look at other things.
It might help if you elaborated on what these
Hello, you smell.
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In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Alex Martelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
.
[much valuable and
correct detail that
somehow managed to
avoid mentioning
Forth or Smalltalk]
.
I'm trying to get a scrollbar bound with a Frame, and I keep on getting
a scrollbar, but it doesn't actually scroll. Some help, please?
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Peter Otten wrote:
What do you get if you do
import pydoc
pydoc.help.docdir
'/should/be/path/to/docs'
The response is:
import pydoc
print pydoc.help.docdir
None
Obviously not there.
I believe there is a bug in the documentation-finding code. With the
current logic PYTHONDOCS will
BTW, experience tells me it is necessary for me to explicitly state
that I'm a newbie (otherwise I get rude people saying I should already
know such-and-such).
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Consider the following:
#!/usr/bin/python
#-
class Grand_parent( object ):
def speak( self ):
print 'Grand_parent.speak()'
self.advise()
def advise( self ):
print 'Grand_parent.advise()'
Parent.critique() is calling self.critique(), which has been overriden
by Child.critique() instead of Parent.critique. It makes perfect sense
to me.
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Oh, I see what you mean. From my experience, the methods are passed
down, not referred to from the parent. That is, Parent does have its
own critique method, not a reference to Grand_parent.critique(). So
when Child calls self.advise, it is calling its inherrited copy. Then,
since the inherited
John M. Gabriele wrote:
Consider the following:
[snip]
#-
class Parent( Grand_parent ):
def speak( self ):
print '\tParent.speak()'
self.advise()
def advise( self ):
print
it calls it's own overriden critique method
(overriden meaning the one that did the overriding)
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Cameron Laird [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
c = d unless ...: it's possible to distinguish Python from
Ruby in another way. Python is arguably better for group work,
or at least more standard for team projects, because it more
consistently exposes one correct solution, while Ruby both
Alvin A. Delagon napisał(a):
emacs has been my long time companion for php, perl, and python. My boss
recommended to me Wing2.0, I find it hard to adjust though. What can you
say about this IDE? He say's if I think it could improve my productivity
he's willing to buy it for me. Suggestions
Aysun,
out of curiousity: where do you go to school? is your
teacher/professor making use of Python? what class is this for?
I agree with previous posters, and I'm not trying to get you in
trouble. I'm just curious.
-Mark
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J. D. Leach wrote:
The response is:
import pydoc
print pydoc.help.docdir
None
Obviously not there.
You are getting no match rather than the wrong one. Have you verified that a
subdirectory
/usr/share/doc/python-2.4/html/lib
exists on your system? If not, the documentation may not be
I'm running Python 2.4 under WinXP Pro, and I would like to do some basis
operations on my LAN - get list of workgroups, list the computers in each
workgroup and possibly connect to specific computer and get
share/directory list? Is there some Pythonic way of doing this? Or any
other less
rzed wrote:
I create a zip file on my WinXP system, using this function:
...
However, WinXP has a feature (if that's what it is): if you click
on a zip file in explorer, an explorer window opens that shows the
contents of the zip file. If I use WinZip or UltimateZip to create
the files,
hey ken thanks for writing. when i try that i get told
KeyError: 'href'
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The Bug-Reporting Attitude
Xah Lee, 2005-02, 2006-01
People,
There is a common behavior among people in software geek forums, that
whenever a software is crashing or behaving badly, they respond by
“go file a bug report” as if it is the duty of software consumers.
When a software is ostensibly
actuall the full error is this:
File /home/felafela/BeautifulSoup.py, line 301, in __getitem__
return self._getAttrMap()[key]
KeyError: 'href'
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On 2 Jan 2006 03:35:33 -0800, Raven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
The problem with long integers is that to calculate the hypergeometric
I need to do float division and multiplication because integer division
returns 0. A solution could be to calculate log(Long_Factorial_Integer)
ISTM you
Dustan wrote:
From my experience, the methods are passed
down, not referred to from the parent. That is, Parent does have its
own critique method, not a reference to Grand_parent.critique().
This is typical of static binding as (for example) seen in C++. If you
think of dynamically bound
While preparing a Python411 podcast about classes and OOP, my mind
wondered far afield. I found myself constructing an extended metaphor
or analogy between the way programs are organized and certain
philosophical ideas. So, going where my better angels dare not, here is
the forbidden fruit of my
This function return a tuple of value-key pairs, sorted by value:
x = {'a':3, 'b':2, 'c':4}
def sortByValue(myDict):
return sorted( [(v,k) for k,v in myDict.items()] )
If you want to get the first two value-key pairs:
sortByValue(x)[:2]
[(2, 'b'), (3, 'a')]
Hope this helps...
Luis
This function returns a tuple of value-key pairs, sorted by value:
x = {'a':3, 'b':2, 'c':4}
def sortByValue(myDict):
return sorted( [(v,k) for k,v in myDict.items()] )
If you want to get the first two value-key pairs:
sortByValue(x)[:2]
[(2, 'b'), (3, 'a')]
Hope this helps...
Luis
There are many ways of going crazy, but the most valuable of them is
this one which makes a genius out of an ordinary man.
Claudio
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While preparing a Python411 podcast about classes and OOP, my mind
wondered far afield. I found myself constructing an extended metaphor
Jarek Zgoda wrote:
Alvin A. Delagon napisał(a):
emacs has been my long time companion for php, perl, and python. My boss
recommended to me Wing2.0, I find it hard to adjust though. What can you
say about this IDE? He say's if I think it could improve my productivity
he's willing to buy it for
Anton Vredegoor wrote:
cut description of modern western society
Most people can survive (without damaging their souls so to speak) when
working for corruption themselves in this way, but sooner or later one
is asked to corrupt others (defending one's title during a promotion,
leading a
I have (inadvertently) wiped out the functionality of my personal
python snippets by eliminating leading space. I have also just visited
http://www.python.org/tim_one/000419.html and saw a piece of code with
the indentation gone. Python code is fragile in this regard. One
solution that occurs to
Claudio Grondi napisał(a):
To be honest, the more experience I have, the less I can understand what
a debugger is for. Can't even remember when used one last time. This is
valid also for programming in C/C++ or Java, so in my eyes the
Debugger? No, Thanks! is not limited only to Python or
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In response to Mike's post...
I know exactly where you're coming from and you are right a web based
solution is the simplest and would be the fastest to develop and
rollout etc. but..
The cost is in the data, in the uk you get charged for the amount of
data you
Karlo Lozovina napisał(a):
I'm running Python 2.4 under WinXP Pro, and I would like to do some basis
operations on my LAN - get list of workgroups, list the computers in each
workgroup and possibly connect to specific computer and get
share/directory list? Is there some Pythonic way of
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have (inadvertently) wiped out the functionality of my personal
python snippets by eliminating leading space. I have also just visited
http://www.python.org/tim_one/000419.html and saw a piece of code with
the indentation gone. Python code is fragile in this regard.
Sybren Stuvel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] enlightened us with:
At the moment we don't work with javascript. But it should not be to
hard to create a JavaScript Renderer similar to the css one we already
have.
Isn't CSS for rendering, and JavaScript for client-side
Peter Otten wrote:
You are getting no match rather than the wrong one. Have you verified that
a subdirectory
/usr/share/doc/python-2.4/html/lib
exists on your system? If not, the documentation may not be properly
installed.
Peter
I checked it Peter and rearranged the files in the
Scott David Daniels wrote:
Dustan wrote:
From my experience, the methods are passed
down, not referred to from the parent. That is, Parent does have its
own critique method, not a reference to Grand_parent.critique().
This is typical of static binding as (for example) seen in C++.
Dustan wrote:
[snip] That is, Parent does have its
own critique method, not a reference to Grand_parent.critique().
Interesting. It has its own critique method? Hm. Not quite sure what
that means exactly...
Anyhow, I wasn't suggesting that Parent had a reference to
Grand_parent.critique(),
André wrote:
John M. Gabriele wrote:
Since Child has no advice() method, it inherits the one for Parent.
Thus, Child can be thought of as being defined as follows:
. class Child( Parent ):
.
. def speak( self ):
. print '\t\tChild.speak()'
. self.advise()
.
.
Scott David Daniels ha scritto:
You should really look into the timeit module -- you'll get nice
solid timings slightly easier to tweak.
This seems a very interesting module, I will give it a try as soon as
possible. Thanks Scott.
Ale
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Hi,
I have a class and I am trying to set the instance varirable 'variables'
(also tried different names). The variable gets initialized by
default-value parameter of the constructor. When I change the variable and
call the constructor again, the default value changes !!! Is this supposed
to
rzed wrote:
I create a zip file on my WinXP system, using this function:
fn
import zipfile
import os
import os.path
def zipdir(dirname, zfname):
zf = zipfile.ZipFile(zfname, 'w', zipfile.ZIP_DEFLATED)
for root, dirs, files in os.walk(dirname):
for f in files:
Lunchtimemama wrote:
What is the superior method of exception handling:
...
For a start, note that the exception hook does not _really_ have to be
in the main module, just imported before any protected code is to be
executed.
Having said that, what I personally typically do for exception
On 2 Jan 2006 13:16:26 -0800, Xah Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The Bug-Reporting Attitude
Xah Lee, 2005-02, 2006-01
People,
There is a common behavior among people in software geek forums, that
whenever a software is crashing or behaving badly, they respond by
go file a bug report as if it
Bengt Richter wrote:
ISTM you wouldn't get zero if you scaled by 10**significant_digits (however
many
you require) before dividing. E.g., expected hits per trillion (or septillion
or whatever)
expresses probability too. Perhaps that could work in your calculation?
Regards,
Bengt
Bengt Richter wrote:
ISTM you wouldn't get zero if you scaled by 10**significant_digits (however
many
you require) before dividing. E.g., expected hits per trillion (or septillion
or whatever)
expresses probability too. Perhaps that could work in your calculation?
Regards,
Bengt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev i en meddelelse
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It would give me great satisfaction though to roll my own solution to
this
Ahh - a bright young employee ready to meet the realities of corporate life,
much like a bike rider meets the concrete he drives on ;-)
and then at
On Mon, 02 Jan 2006 13:38:47 -0800, UrsusMaximus wrote:
It seems to me that, if anything of a person survives death in any way,
it must do so in some way very different from that way in which we
exist now.
[snip]
I don't dare ask where your evidence for this hypothesis is, but I will
ask what
J. D. Leach [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Mike Meyer wrote:
Chris Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
J == J D Leach [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm stupider; I can't ATFQ for you.
But last night I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express, and can recommend
http://projects.edgewall.com/python-sidebar/
Eddy Ilg said unto the world upon 02/01/06 05:43 PM:
Hi,
I have a class and I am trying to set the instance varirable 'variables'
(also tried different names). The variable gets initialized by
default-value parameter of the constructor. When I change the variable and
call the constructor
On Mon, 02 Jan 2006 14:19:15 -0800, smichr wrote:
I have (inadvertently) wiped out the functionality of my personal
python snippets by eliminating leading space. I have also just visited
http://www.python.org/tim_one/000419.html and saw a piece of code with
the indentation gone. Python code
On 2 Jan 2006 10:24:54 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote, quoted or
indirectly quoted someone who said :
* Java/JSP -- We have already made the decision to go with Java, but
we haven't started with it, and have not committed to Java.
* Python -- Some of us have had limited experience with Python.
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