On 3/15/2015 4:43 PM, Roy Smith wrote:
> In article ,
> Mario Figueiredo wrote:
>
>> What makes you think your anecdotal bugs constitute any sort of
>> evidence this programming language isn't ready to be used by the
>> public?
>
> There's several levels of "ready".
>
> I'm sure the core langu
On 2015-03-18 02:41, Chris Kavanagh wrote:
I have a simple script that takes user input (for an Employee) such as
name, age, etc then puts in an sqlite3 database. The script worked fine
until I realized one problem. The age input field is defined in
SQLAlchemy as an Integer, so if a user inputs a
On Wed, 18 Mar 2015 13:25:45 +1100, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Wednesday 18 March 2015 12:14, Dan Sommers wrote:
>> According to the article itself, "it relies in an implementation
>> detail (the order the zip function iterates over the arrays) to
>> work." Then again, the article also points t
I have a simple script that takes user input (for an Employee) such as
name, age, etc then puts in an sqlite3 database. The script worked fine
until I realized one problem. The age input field is defined in SQLAlchemy
as an Integer, so if a user inputs a string instead of a number in that
field, an
On Wednesday 18 March 2015 12:14, Dan Sommers wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Mar 2015 00:35:42 +, Mark Lawrence wrote:
>
>> I've just come across this
>> http://www.stavros.io/posts/brilliant-or-insane-code/ as a result of
>> this http://bugs.python.org/issue23695
>>
>> Any and all opinions welcomed, I
On 18 March 2015 at 00:35, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> I've just come across this
> http://www.stavros.io/posts/brilliant-or-insane-code/ as a result of this
> http://bugs.python.org/issue23695
>
> Any and all opinions welcomed, I'm chickening out and sitting firmly on the
> fence.
It seems fine to me
On Wed, 18 Mar 2015 00:35:42 +, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> I've just come across this
> http://www.stavros.io/posts/brilliant-or-insane-code/ as a result of
> this http://bugs.python.org/issue23695
>
> Any and all opinions welcomed, I'm chickening out and sitting firmly
> on the fence.
According
On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 11:35 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> I've just come across this
> http://www.stavros.io/posts/brilliant-or-insane-code/ as a result of this
> http://bugs.python.org/issue23695
>
> Any and all opinions welcomed, I'm chickening out and sitting firmly on the
> fence.
"""I don’t r
On Wed, 18 Mar 2015 10:29:53 +1100, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Speaking of tab completion, would anyone be interested in being able
> to auto-complete \N{...} unicode character names? I'm considering that
> as an enhancement to my tabhistory module.
Only if it's fuzzy. One use case is that "openin
On Tue, 17 Mar 2015 04:36:01 +, Mark Lawrence
wrote:
>
>Of course we could avoid all of these problems if we were to bring back
>the mainframe or mini and the dumb terminal.
>
>Take cover, incoming :)
No kidding. Installing only the software you coded (or from source)
may be a little too mu
I've just come across this
http://www.stavros.io/posts/brilliant-or-insane-code/ as a result of
this http://bugs.python.org/issue23695
Any and all opinions welcomed, I'm chickening out and sitting firmly on
the fence.
--
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
wh
On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 10:29 AM, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
> Speaking of tab completion, would anyone be interested in being able to
> auto-complete \N{...} unicode character names? I'm considering that as an
> enhancement to my tabhistory module.
>
> Python supports \N{...} backslash escapes in Uni
Speaking of tab completion, would anyone be interested in being able to
auto-complete \N{...} unicode character names? I'm considering that as an
enhancement to my tabhistory module.
Python supports \N{...} backslash escapes in Unicode strings, so we can
write things like:
py> print(u"\N{CYRILLIC
On 03/16/2015 10:13 AM, Dave Farrance wrote:
> So am I understanding this correctly: If I use this include line:
>
> "from gi.repository import Gtk, Gdk, GObject, Pango" etc...
>
> ... I get, in effect, the libraries used in Gnome-3 even with python2?
> Whatever "gi.repository" is? It's a bit h
On Tue, 17 Mar 2015 11:22 pm, Oscar Benjamin wrote:
> On 17 March 2015 at 08:10, Steven D'Aprano
> wrote:
>> On Tuesday 17 March 2015 03:23, candide wrote:
>>
>> You might like my tab completion and command history module:
>>
>> http://code.google.com/p/tabhistory/
>>
>> I've been using it on Lin
On 17/03/2015 22:36, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
On Tue, 17 Mar 2015 14:50:57 + (UTC), Grant Edwards
declaimed the following:
On 2015-03-17, Mark Lawrence wrote:
Of course we could avoid all of these problems if we were to bring back
the mainframe or mini and the dumb terminal.
We did, e
On 17Mar2015 05:30, Mario Figueiredo wrote:
On Tue, 17 Mar 2015 14:42:42 +1100, Ben Finney
wrote:
Mario Figueiredo writes:
On Tue, 17 Mar 2015 09:02:38 +1100, Chris Angelico
wrote:
>Imagine you need a PostgreSQL database for your Python application -
>which also means you need psycopg2, of
Jason Heeris wrote:
>In terms of toolkit bindings, (a) I prefer GTK, but (b) it's impossible to
>tell what the greater proportion of people using one vs. the other is. Or
>if they're wise to do so. Are there more Google hits/SO questions because
>it's harder to use? Or because everyone loves to u
On 03/15/2015 07:01 AM, Peter Otten wrote:
Probably not helpful, but I can provoke the behaviour you see by toggling
bytes with ctypes, thus simulating a corrupted str object:
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On 03/17/2015 09:51 AM, George Trojan wrote:
On 03/16/2015 11:47 PM, memilanuk wrote:
Might be just you...
monte@machin-shin:~$ python
Python 3.4.3 |Continuum Analytics, Inc.| (default, Mar 6 2015, 12:03:53)
[GCC 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-1)] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 12:44 AM, Frank Millman wrote:
> Thanks for the explanation. I'll try not to make that mistake again.
>
> However, to go back to the original example, we want to compare a dict
> comprehension with a dict() constructor using a generator expression.
>
> Let's see if I have g
On 03/16/2015 11:47 PM, memilanuk wrote:
Might be just you...
monte@machin-shin:~$ python
Python 3.4.3 |Continuum Analytics, Inc.| (default, Mar 6 2015, 12:03:53)
[GCC 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-1)] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import tk
On 03/17/2015 02:39 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 March 2015 12:46, Michael Torrie wrote:
>
>> Python3 can be installed from Software Collections (and that is somewhat
>> reasonable), but it won't integrate by default, so you can't use
>> #!/usr/bin/python3 in your apps by default wit
On 2015-03-17, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> Of course we could avoid all of these problems if we were to bring back
> the mainframe or mini and the dumb terminal.
We did, except we made the terminal smarter and prettier and called it
a "web browser" and we call the mainframe a "web server".
--
Gran
On Tue, 17 Mar 2015 22:26:58 +1100, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
>
>>
>> Can you give an example? I wouldn't count things like gets, which
>> aren't as much changes in the language, as recognition that using it was
>> buggy from the start.
>
>That's exactly the point. `gets` is dangerous and needs to
"Frank Millman" writes:
> It seems that a dict comp is noticeably faster.
>
> Does this sound right, or are there other factors I should be taking into
> account?
The dict comp does not execute any function call. Consider the following:
$ python3 -m timeit "d=dict()"
1000 loops, be
On 17 March 2015 at 08:10, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 March 2015 03:23, candide wrote:
>
> You might like my tab completion and command history module:
>
> http://code.google.com/p/tabhistory/
>
> I've been using it on Linux for about three or four years, and although I
> don't promise
Hey you two, get a room.
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On Tue, 17 Mar 2015 09:36 am, Paul Rubin wrote:
> Steven D'Aprano writes:
[...]
>> If we were designing Python from scratch today, here are some of the
>> changes we would certainly make: [mostly good changes]
>
> I agree with most of those changes and I'd add some of my own that are
> even more
Hi,
I don't know how to contact you by email, nor am I going to answer your
question.
I have a question for you. Please help if you can.
On running the code from this page ( Unsupervised Learning ):
http://nbviewer.ipython.org/gist/rjweiss/7158866#
The output of
'lda[corpus[1]]'
keeps changing
On Tuesday 17 March 2015 12:46, Michael Torrie wrote:
> Python3 can be installed from Software Collections (and that is somewhat
> reasonable), but it won't integrate by default, so you can't use
> #!/usr/bin/python3 in your apps by default without altering the system
> paths.
If RedHat installs
On Tuesday 17 March 2015 14:33, Michael Torrie wrote:
> On 03/16/2015 09:04 PM, Mario Figueiredo wrote:
>> Are you saying this is a problem for any developer? Especially
>> considering this is a one-time operation...
>>
>> Or maybe you mean lazy developers. But lazy developers are an edge
>> case
On Tuesday 17 March 2015 03:23, candide wrote:
> Python 3.4 provides auto-completion facility within a Python console
> embedded in a command line terminal.
>
>
> But apparently this facility doesn't allow the user to complete with
> standard module name. For instance, editing the following :
>
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