Re: Call for Assistance

On 12.08.2016 06:48, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote: On Wednesday, August 10, 2016 at 3:42:39 AM UTC+12, Reto Brunner wrote: What on earth isn't "free" enough about You are free to: Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format No you are not. A court has ruled

Re: Can math.atan2 return INF?

On 30.06.2016 11:42, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote: On Thursday, June 30, 2016 at 9:31:29 PM UTC+12, Andreas Röhler wrote: Science is not about believing, but about models. The nice thing about science is, it works even if you don’t believe in it. Thats it! -- https://mail.python.org/mailman

Re: Can math.atan2 return INF?

On 30.06.2016 10:24, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Thursday 30 June 2016 12:13, Rustom Mody wrote: The irrational and emotional psychological forces that inspire mathematicians can make interesting reading, but they have no relevance in deciding who is write or wrong. Hmm, so math is not

Re: Can math.atan2 return INF?

On 30.06.2016 10:24, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Thursday 30 June 2016 12:13, Rustom Mody wrote: [ ... ] Besides, the whole point of science is to develop objective, rational reasons to believe things. Science is not about believing, but about models. Believing is important to make the career

Re: Can math.atan2 return INF?

On 30.06.2016 03:33, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote: So you see, like it or not, we are drawn to the conclusion that there *was* indeed something before our particular Big Bang. That's linear like the Big Bang theorie. What about assuming something beyond our notion of time and space, unknown

Re: Operator Precedence/Boolean Logic

On 23.06.2016 14:08, Antoon Pardon wrote: Op 23-06-16 om 13:45 schreef Chris Angelico: On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 7:23 PM, Antoon Pardon wrote: I don't care. In modern mathematics, zero is usaly defined as the empty set. The empty set contains nothing, but it

Re: Operator Precedence/Boolean Logic

On 23.06.2016 11:46, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: Ridiculous? It was this line of thinking that led Paul Dirac to predict the existence of antimatter. Marko Yeah. Maybe we could construct examples already using antagonistic charges of electrons? --

Re: Operator Precedence/Boolean Logic

On 23.06.2016 11:17, Steven D'Aprano wrote: [ ... ] We can derive arithmetic from set theory. IMO not, resp. not really. But that would make a another item, pretty off-topic from Python. Should you know a place where to continue, would like to follow up. Thanks BTW. Zero is very

Re: Operator Precedence/Boolean Logic

On 23.06.2016 10:17, Antoon Pardon wrote: Op 23-06-16 om 09:05 schreef Steven D'Aprano: On Thursday 23 June 2016 16:34, Andreas Röhler wrote: Indeed, why should the result of 4 - 4 have a different truth-value than 4 - 3 ? Because 4-4 is zero, which is "nothing", while 4-3 is

Re: Operator Precedence/Boolean Logic

On 23.06.2016 09:05, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Thursday 23 June 2016 16:34, Andreas Röhler wrote: Indeed, why should the result of 4 - 4 have a different truth-value than 4 - 3 ? Because 4-4 is zero, which is "nothing", Hmm, water freezes at zero degree celsiu

Re: Operator Precedence/Boolean Logic

On 23.06.2016 06:47, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote: On Thursday, June 23, 2016 at 3:12:52 PM UTC+12, Larry Hudson wrote: On 06/22/2016 12:42 AM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote: * boolean operators don’t have to operate on boolean values. The language spec

Re: Distinction between “class” and “type”

I suspect that one could produce a class that is not a type, Say: has not a complete type definition. Think of type for example with the distinction of strings and numbers. Types start from low level units. A class definition must know about strings and numbers, it inherits this knowledge

[issue26326] Named entity "vertical line" missed in 2.7 htmlentitydefs.py

New submission from Andreas Röhler: Shouldn't a named entity "vbar" or "vline" be part of dict in htmlentitydefs.py? Thanks, Andreas -- messages: 260003 nosy: andreas.roehler priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Named entity "ver

Re: Emacs python-mode.el bug #1207470

Am 14.02.2014 17:38, schrieb Frank Stutzman: According to https://bugs.launchpad.net/python-mode/+bug/1207470 this bug was fixed in version 6.1.2 of python-mode.el. I am trying to run 6.1.3 and am running into it. I back dated to 6.1.2 and still see it there. I am running GNU Emacs 23.3.1.

Re: Python launcher (PEP 397) and emacs python-mode.el

Am 31.01.2013 10:03, schrieb Thomas Heller: Has someone managed to patch python-mode.el to use the PEP 397 python launcher when you hit C-c C-c? It seems that emacs should parse the shebang line in the edited python script and pass the corresponding arguments to py.exe. Yes, that's the way

Re: Python launcher (PEP 397) and emacs python-mode.el

Am 31.01.2013 17:35, schrieb Thomas Heller: Am 31.01.2013 12:05, schrieb Andreas Röhler: Am 31.01.2013 10:03, schrieb Thomas Heller: Has someone managed to patch python-mode.el to use the PEP 397 python launcher when you hit C-c C-c? It seems that emacs should parse the shebang line

Re: Python launcher (PEP 397) and emacs python-mode.el

Am 01.02.2013 00:59, schrieb Vinay Sajip: Thomas Heller theller at ctypes.org writes: What I meant to write is this: when the shebang line in script.py contains this: #!/usr/bin/python3.1-32 then emacs SHOULD run py.exe -3.1-32 script.py and the launcher runs

Re: python setup ?

Xavier Maillard wrote: Hi Xavier Maillard x...@gnu.org writes: I am starting to do some work with python. I am looking for options/setups to introduce into my .emacs file to have the best experience possible with this scripting language. Where should I start ?

Re: looking up function's doc in emacs

Xah Lee wrote: in programing elisp in emacs, i can press “Ctrl+h f” to lookup the doc for the function under cursor. is there such facility when coding in perl, python, php? (i'm interested in particular python. In perl, i can work around with “perldoc -f functionName”, and in php it's