[RELEASED] Python 3.2 rc 1

2011-01-15 Thread Georg Brandl
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On behalf of the Python development team, I'm very happy to announce the first release candidate of Python 3.2. Python 3.2 is a continuation of the efforts to improve and stabilize the Python 3.x line. Since the final release of Python 2.7, the 2.x l

Re: After C++, what with Python?

2011-01-15 Thread geremy condra
On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 9:30 PM, Aman wrote: > Hey all, I am a college student, and at college, we did most of the work in > C/C++. I kind of stopped using C when I learned C++ (simply because C++ > seemed a natural/elegant choice to me, and had backward compatibility with > C). I've had a lot

Re: Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

2011-01-15 Thread Terry Reedy
On 1/15/2011 11:17 PM, rantingrick wrote: Well Geremy the very first step a wise developer employs is to get an idea of what the masses want and what they don't want. 'The masses' have so far been divided on what alternative they might want. In any case, open source developers are typically s

Re: After C++, what with Python?

2011-01-15 Thread John Nagle
On 1/15/2011 10:48 PM, Aman wrote: @nagle Means you are suggesting me not to proceed with Python because I've had experience with C++? No, Python is quite useful, but on the slow side. If you're I/O bound, not time critical, or otherwise not performance constrained, it's quite useful. The

Re: After C++, what with Python?

2011-01-15 Thread Aman
@nagle Means you are suggesting me not to proceed with Python because I've had experience with C++? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: After C++, what with Python?

2011-01-15 Thread John Nagle
On 1/15/2011 9:30 PM, Aman wrote: Hey all, I am a college student, and at college, we did most of the work in C/C++. I kind of stopped using C when I learned C++ (simply because C++ seemed a natural/elegant choice to me, and had backward compatibility with C). I've had a lot of experience with C+

Re: do you know what's CGI? (web history personal story)

2011-01-15 Thread Xah Lee
> > > Avatar was very disappointing (Both in graphics and story) but maybe i > > > expect too much...? > > > The story was clearly "Pocahontas… in Space!", which was very disappointing. > > I have to disagree.. Loly. At this point, i must voice Xah's Point Of View. 〈Avatar and District 9 Movie Re

After C++, what with Python?

2011-01-15 Thread Aman
Hey all, I am a college student, and at college, we did most of the work in C/C++. I kind of stopped using C when I learned C++ (simply because C++ seemed a natural/elegant choice to me, and had backward compatibility with C). I've had a lot of experience with C++. Recently, I was on the path to

Re: Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

2011-01-15 Thread rantingrick
On Jan 14, 3:37 pm, geremy condra wrote: > If you'd spent the > last year programming instead of doing your best Xah Lee impression > you might have actually made some progress on this. Well Geremy the very first step a wise developer employs is to get an idea of what the masses want and what the

Re: do you know what's CGI? (web history personal story)

2011-01-15 Thread Rainy
On Jan 15, 5:22 pm, Alice Bevan–McGregor wrote: > On 2011-01-15 08:55:47 -0800, rantingrick said: > > > On Jan 15, 10:38 am, Grant Edwards wrote: > > >>> Yeah, James Cameron made a *ton* of money using it to make Avatar. > > >> Too bad he couldn't have used it to make a better movie. > > I found

Re: Regex url

2011-01-15 Thread Corey Richardson
On 01/15/2011 08:48 PM, Jean-Francois wrote: > Hi, > > I try to match the following url with one regex > > /hello > /hello/ > /hello/world > /hello/world/ > > > world is a variable, I can put toto instead > > Thanks ! What was the regex you tried, and where did it fail? I'm no re guru, but he

Re: Regex url

2011-01-15 Thread MRAB
On 16/01/2011 01:48, Jean-Francois wrote: Hi, I try to match the following url with one regex /hello /hello/ /hello/world /hello/world/ world is a variable, I can put toto instead The regex is: ^/hello(?:/(?:[a-z]+/?)?)$ Its meaning is: start of string characters "/hello"

Regex url

2011-01-15 Thread Jean-Francois
Hi, I try to match the following url with one regex /hello /hello/ /hello/world /hello/world/ world is a variable, I can put toto instead Thanks ! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: do you know what's CGI? (web history personal story)

2011-01-15 Thread rantingrick
On Jan 15, 4:22 pm, Alice Bevan–McGregor wrote: > That's just the naked Angelina Jolie in your brain talking.  ;) must...keep...hands...on...keyboard :-O . . . . . . . . OPPS! ;-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: do you know what's CGI? (web history personal story)

2011-01-15 Thread Alice Bevan–McGregor
On 2011-01-15 08:55:47 -0800, rantingrick said: On Jan 15, 10:38 am, Grant Edwards wrote: Yeah, James Cameron made a *ton* of money using it to make Avatar. Too bad he couldn't have used it to make a better movie. I found the graphics impressive; the "blue people" was merely an effort to

Re: do you know what's CGI? (web history personal story)

2011-01-15 Thread Alice Bevan–McGregor
On 2011-01-15 08:15:25 -0800, Sherm Pendley said: "Captain Obvious" writes: XL> ... i recall, i stopped doing Mathematica in 1998 because it's a XL> career dead-end as a programing lang, and dived into the utterly XL> idiotic Perl & unix & mysql world. (See: The Unix Pestilence ◇ Xah XL> Lee'

Re: Developing a program to make a family tree.

2011-01-15 Thread Ata Jafari
People here guided me to GRAMPS, an open-source software project. Yes, I'm new, and Python is my first programming language. My software should not be only a "tree-like" one. There are 254 people in this family tree. I'm trying to find another method. But I think it is better to start with contribu

Re: Developing a program to make a family tree.

2011-01-15 Thread Michael Hunter
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Ata Jafari wrote: > Hi there. > I'm trying to develop a program like family tree maker. I have all > information, so there is no need to search on the net. This must be > something like trees. Can someone help me? I'm at the beginning. > Thanks. I think you are p

Re: Fitness data program

2011-01-15 Thread GrayShark
On Sat, 15 Jan 2011 19:48:40 +, Katie T wrote: > On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 5:47 PM, Antonio Cardenes > wrote: >> Hello folks, I'm trying to improve my Phyton skills with a project: A >> fitness program that can correlate measurements (weight and size of >> various body parts), date taken and it

Re: Career path - where next?

2011-01-15 Thread Alan Harris-Reid
To all those who answered my original post so far (Jon Clements, Terry Jan Reedy, Philip Semanchuk) - many thanks. Your suggestions have given me a number of avenues to follow. I'll let you know how I get on. Regards, Alan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Fitness data program

2011-01-15 Thread Katie T
On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 5:47 PM, Antonio Cardenes wrote: > Hello folks, I'm trying to improve my Phyton skills with a project: A > fitness program that can correlate measurements (weight and size of various > body parts), date taken and it has to be able to print a nice graph showing > improvement

Re: Developing a program to make a family tree.

2011-01-15 Thread Katie T
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 7:57 PM, Jon Clements wrote: > Otherwise, you're in for a struggle, as you need to choose a storage > back-end, a GUI (wxWindows/GTK/Qt4 etc...), how to handle GEDCOM > format (unless it's not going to be compatible with other software), > does it need to produce web pages/

Re: do you know what's CGI? (web history personal story)

2011-01-15 Thread John Nagle
On 1/14/2011 1:20 PM, Xah Lee wrote: some extempore thought. Who let the dogs in? John Nagle -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: do you know what's CGI? (web history personal story)

2011-01-15 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 1/15/2011 8:44 AM Grant Edwards said... On 2011-01-15, Martin v. Loewis wrote: CGI is still used in some places today, hello? Yeah, James Cameron made a *ton* of money using it to make Avatar. He used compacted graphite iron in Avatar? I didn't know that. Is that what "unobtanium" is?

Fitness data program

2011-01-15 Thread Antonio Cardenes
Hello folks, I'm trying to improve my Phyton skills with a project: A fitness program that can correlate measurements (weight and size of various body parts), date taken and it has to be able to print a nice graph showing improvements (a la Wii Fit) I was wondering if you could point me in the rig

Re: do you know what's CGI? (web history personal story)

2011-01-15 Thread rantingrick
On Jan 15, 10:38 am, Grant Edwards wrote: > > Yeah, James Cameron made a *ton* of money using it to make Avatar. > > Too bad he couldn't have used it to make a better movie. I don't LOL very often but i must say that i was ROTF after this comment. Avatar was very disappointing (Both in graphics

Re: BackupRead problem

2011-01-15 Thread Stefan Sonnenberg-Carstens
Am 15.01.2011 16:06, schrieb Stefan Sonnenberg-Carstens: I'm trying to create a Backup/Restore app. I'm really struggeling for a long time. I can successfully read directories, but not files. Every time, I'll try I get "Access denied", Error 5. It's running with admin privs. Any ideas ? #!pyt

Re: do you know what's CGI? (web history personal story)

2011-01-15 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-01-15, Martin v. Loewis wrote: >>> CGI is still used in some places today, hello? >> >> Yeah, James Cameron made a *ton* of money using it to make Avatar. > > He used compacted graphite iron in Avatar? I didn't know that. Is that what "unobtanium" is? Did anybody else thing Unobtainium

Re: do you know what's CGI? (web history personal story)

2011-01-15 Thread Martin v. Loewis
>> CGI is still used in some places today, hello? > > Yeah, James Cameron made a *ton* of money using it to make Avatar. He used compacted graphite iron in Avatar? I didn't know that. Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: do you know what's CGI? (web history personal story)

2011-01-15 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-01-15, Sherm Pendley wrote: > "Captain Obvious" writes: > >> XL> ... i recall, i stopped doing Mathematica in 1998 because it's a >> XL> career dead-end as a programing lang, and dived into the utterly >> XL> idiotic Perl & unix & mysql world. (See: The Unix Pestilence ??? Xah >> XL> Lee'

Re: do you know what's CGI? (web history personal story)

2011-01-15 Thread Sherm Pendley
"Captain Obvious" writes: > XL> ... i recall, i stopped doing Mathematica in 1998 because it's a > XL> career dead-end as a programing lang, and dived into the utterly > XL> idiotic Perl & unix & mysql world. (See: The Unix Pestilence ◇ Xah > XL> Lee's Computing Experience (Impression Of Lisp fro

Re: Developing a program to make a family tree.

2011-01-15 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-01-14, Ata Jafari wrote: > I'm trying to develop a program like family tree maker. I have all > information, so there is no need to search on the net. This must be > something like trees. Not really. It's more like a combination of a directed graph and a relational database. > Can som

BackupRead problem

2011-01-15 Thread Stefan Sonnenberg-Carstens
I'm trying to create a Backup/Restore app. I'm really struggeling for a long time. I can successfully read directories, but not files. Every time, I'll try I get "Access denied", Error 5. It's running with admin privs. Any ideas ? #!python import sys import os import os.path import getopt impo

Re: Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

2011-01-15 Thread Mel
Zeissmann wrote: >> Seriously, get off of WoW and go write some code. If you'd spent the >> last year programming instead of doing your best Xah Lee impression you >> might have actually made some progress on this. > > I'm curious, is Xah Lee some sort of a Usenet meme? Cause this is not the > fi

Re: do you know what's CGI? (web history personal story)

2011-01-15 Thread Captain Obvious
XL> ... i recall, i stopped doing Mathematica in 1998 because it's a XL> career dead-end as a programing lang, and dived into the utterly XL> idiotic Perl & unix & mysql world. (See: The Unix Pestilence ◇ Xah XL> Lee's Computing Experience (Impression Of Lisp from Mathematica).) I guess you're ca

Re: FTP problem

2011-01-15 Thread Justin Ezequiel
'indexftp.barcap.com' only (sans the 'ftp.' prefix) allows me to connect to an FTP server >ftp indexftp.barcap.com Connected to usftp.barcap.com. 220-Connected to usftp.barcap.com. 220 FTP server ready. User (usftp.barcap.com:(none)): -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list