Is distutils deprecated?

2019-01-05 Thread אורי
Is `distutils` deprecated or about to be deprecated? https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/issues/3547 אורי (Uri) u...@speedy.net -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Best practice for upgrading SQLite C library (DLL, SO, etc) that ships with Python

2019-01-05 Thread Frank Millman
"Malcolm Greene" wrote in message news:1546723194.1501226.1626474960.7ac72...@webmail.messagingengine.com... I noticed that there's a rather big gap between the latest version of SQLite and the version of SQLite that ships with Python 3.6/3.7. Is there best practice advice for upgrading the SQ

RE: the python name

2019-01-05 Thread Avi Gross
Chris, As you noticed, I wanted to focus on a point and simplified the code. The point was of an example that struck me as both mathematically beautiful and completely impractical when it comes to decent programming given the languages and tools available today. What follows is really off topic s

Re: the python name

2019-01-05 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sun, Jan 6, 2019 at 9:34 AM Avi Gross wrote: > I recall an example from a version of mathematical LISP that I will rewrite > in python for illustration: > > def is_greater(left, right): > if left <= 0 : return False > if right <= 0 : return True > return is_greater(left - 1, right -

RE: the python name

2019-01-05 Thread Avi Gross
Dennis, Yes, I remember seeing proofs that a bare-bones Turing Machine with an infinite bidirectional tape can solve anything done by a classical computer. I also suggest that in many cases, such a device is a way to transform any problem that can be solved decently into one that can now be solved

Best practice for upgrading SQLite C library (DLL, SO, etc) that ships with Python

2019-01-05 Thread Malcolm Greene
I noticed that there's a rather big gap between the latest version of SQLite and the version of SQLite that ships with Python 3.6/3.7. Is there best practice advice for upgrading the SQLlite C library that ships with Python ... without causing havoc and mayhem on my system? Options Don't do it - th

Re: conda/anaconda and pip3 (pip)

2019-01-05 Thread Paulo da Silva
Às 17:39 de 03/12/18, Paulo da Silva escreveu: Well ... further clarification ... > Hi! > > I have an environment created with conda (anaconda3). > There is a package that is unavailable in conda. The package is sklearn (import sklearn). - Look below before comment pls. > Installing it with pip

Re: the python name

2019-01-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 04 January 2019 20:27:44 Michael Torrie wrote: > On 01/03/2019 06:35 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Thursday 03 January 2019 15:28:49 Grant Edwards wrote: > >> About 20 years ago, the RedHat Linux (way before RHEL) installer > >> (which was written in Python) was called Anaconda. > > > >

Re: the python name

2019-01-05 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2019-01-05, Michael Torrie wrote: > On 01/03/2019 06:35 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Thursday 03 January 2019 15:28:49 Grant Edwards wrote: >>> About 20 years ago, the RedHat Linux (way before RHEL) installer >>> (which was written in Python) was called Anaconda. > >> Thanks for rescuing my ol

Re: Hands-On Quantum Computing with Python

2019-01-05 Thread Andrew Z
Good for you. On Sat, Jan 5, 2019, 06:25 Bhagvan Kommadi I am coauthoring a packt book : Hands-On Quantum Computing with Python. > The book will be published around Aug 2019 > > > > The book will introduce quantum computing and a comprehensive overview of > the quantum programming languages curre

Re: chr - what's this?

2019-01-05 Thread Jon Ribbens
On 2019-01-05, Stefan Ram wrote: > r...@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes: >>print( chr( 0x231E )) # Unicode Character 'BOTTOM LEFT CORNER' (U+231E) >> File "~~~\Python\Python37\lib\encodings\cp1252.py", line 19, in encode > > I also have: > > print(chr) > > > . Don't see how the cal

Hands-On Quantum Computing with Python

2019-01-05 Thread Bhagvan Kommadi
I am coauthoring a packt book : Hands-On Quantum Computing with Python. The book will be published around Aug 2019 The book will introduce quantum computing and a comprehensive overview of the quantum programming languages currently available, such as QCL, QASM, QUIL, and the differences betw