Re: Your beloved python features

2010-02-06 Thread Bruce C. Baker
Terry Reedy tjre...@udel.edu wrote in message news:mailman.1929.1265328905.28905.python-l...@python.org... Iterators, and in particular, generators. A killer feature. Terry Jan Reedy Neither unique to Python. And then're the other killer features superfluous :s and rigid formatting! --

Re: Your beloved python features

2010-02-05 Thread Bruce C. Baker
George Sakkis george.sak...@gmail.com wrote in message news:de06116c-e77c-47c4-982d-62b48bca5...@j31g2000yqa.googlegroups.com... I'll give the benefit of doubt and assume you're joking rather than trolling. George * Not trolling,

Re: Why does this group have so much spam?

2009-08-29 Thread Bruce C. Baker
casebash walkr...@gmail.com wrote in message news:7294bf8b-9819-4b6d-92b2-afc1c8042...@x6g2000prc.googlegroups.com... So much of it could be removed even by simple keyword filtering. Assuming this is a serious question: 1. comp.lang.python has relatively little spam, compared to others. 2.

Re: What python can NOT do?

2009-08-28 Thread Bruce C. Baker
qwe rty hkh00...@gmail.com wrote in message news:00a36f89-52dd-4d90-a455-cee6a0c9d...@q5g2000yqh.googlegroups.com... i know that an interpreted language like python can't be used to make an operating system or system drivers. what else can NOT be done in python? what are the limitations of

Re: AP -- MeAmI.org Paces Google

2009-07-10 Thread Bruce C. Baker
Floetry scribe...@yahoo.com wrote in message news:803a7f06-8e43-4ff5-86a6-9fd9d2eee...@2g2000prl.googlegroups.com... On Jul 9, 8:33 pm, Bruce C. Baker b...@undisclosedlocation.net wrote: scribe...@yahoo.com wrote in message news:defacf35-6149-485a-8f03-15472d63d

Re: AP -- MeAmI.org Paces Google

2009-07-10 Thread Bruce C. Baker
Musatov marty.musa...@gmail.com wrote in message news:fe9969b0-3c6a-49f7-8f38-0ed89dc9a...@x6g2000prc.googlegroups.com... [snip-a-rooney] violator. Google could not be reached for comment. Possibly because they were laughing so hard they couldn't hear their cell phones ringing ...? --

Re: language analysis to enforce code standards

2009-07-09 Thread Bruce C. Baker
Jason S. Friedman ja...@powerpull.net wrote in message news:mailman.2927.1247192026.8015.python-l...@python.org... Hello, I administer the Informatica ETL tool at my company. Part of that role involves creating and enforcing standards. I want the Informatica developers to add comments to

Re: AP -- MeAmI.org Paces Google

2009-07-09 Thread Bruce C. Baker
scribe...@yahoo.com wrote in message news:defacf35-6149-485a-8f03-15472d63d...@a39g2000pre.googlegroups.com... ka-snip Oh, puh-LEEZ, Martin! A two-year-old wouldn't be fooled by this! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: The Importance of Terminology's Quality

2008-05-07 Thread Bruce C. Baker
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] (for example, Perl's naming heavily relies on unix culture (grep, pipe, hash...), ... hash + pipe? Ah, /no wonder/ Perl is the syntactic mishmash it is! ;-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: is laziness a programer's virtue?

2007-04-17 Thread Bruce C. Baker
Lew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Markus E Leypold Trying to correct Xah's behaviour is probably impossible. Ingo Menger wrote: Perhaps somebody could ask the chinese government to put him in jail for hurting international society :) Y'know, even in jest,