In article mnydnwm7b9i5ndfmnz2dnuvz_s6dn...@giganews.com, Larry Hudson
org...@yahoo.com wrote:
The word apron was originally napron, and over the years the phrase
a napron mutated to an apron. So that became the accepted word.
Similarly, the snake was a nadder - congruent with the natterjack
In article
9d290ad6-e0b8-4bfa-92c8-8209c7e93...@a21g2000yqc.googlegroups.com,
Mark Summerfield l...@qtrac.plus.com wrote:
There is a typographical fault on page 4 of this pdf file. The letter
P is missing from the word Python at the head of the comparison
columns.
I can't see that
In article
351fcb4c-4e88-41b0-a0aa-b3d63832d...@e23g2000yqd.googlegroups.com,
Mark Summerfield l...@qtrac.plus.com wrote:
I only just found out that I was supposed to give a different URL:
http://www.informit.com/promotions/promotion.aspx?promo=137519
This leads to a web page where you can
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Steven D'Aprano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I really don't recommend the ROT13 cipher, as this is extremely easy to
crack. Most grade school kids could break this one in seconds. ;-)
I think you missed the point. Any recommendation to use ROT13 is likely
to
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Jeff Schwab [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We (Americans) all measure our weight in pounds. People talk about how
much less they would weigh on the moon, in pounds, or even near the
equator (where the Earth's radius is slightly higher).
Their weight on the moon
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
greg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Not necessarily. A python is a sleek and powerful
creature, which are good associations for a programming
language. The word also hints at a bit of danger and
excitement. On the whole, I think it's a good name.
I remember reading
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Chris Mellon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I believe that to the degree that real accounting was done in those
currencies it did in fact use non-decimal bases. Just as people don't
use decimal time values (except us crazy computer folk), you're write
1 pound 4
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
MRAB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When I worked on the British Railways National Payroll system, about
35 years ago, we, in common with many large users, wrote our system to
deal with integer amounts of pennies, and converted to pounds,
shillings and pence in
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
To actually answer you question, there is a known loop
cycle in 3n+85085 for which p=492 and q=264. If there is
one solution, there must be at leats 263 others (the
cyclic permutations), but to brute force search for
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For example, how many ways can you put 492 marbles into
264 ordered bins such that each bin has at least 1 marble?
The answer
66189415264331559482776409694993032407028709677550
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Adrian Petrescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Maybe it has shown up and Google simply isn't showing it yet. Can
anyone confirm that a thread posted yesterday (July 18th, 2007) whose
title was something like interpreting os.lstat() output exists or
not?
That thread
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
momobear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I forgot to give the url :http://www.freenet.org.nz/python/pySpeex/
I Couldn't Open the website.
It works if you knock the colon off the front of the URL as given.
--
David Wild using RISC OS on broadband
www.davidhwild.me.uk
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
John Machin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So why do you want to strip off accents? The history of communication
has several examples of significant difference in meaning caused by
minute differences in punctuation or accents including one of which you
may have
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Fredrik Lundh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have just installed FC5 on a new computer. I can access Python by
typing Python in a terminal window, but I can't find any way of
getting to IDLE.
Can anyone help?
$ yum provides idle
can help, I think. it'll
I have just installed FC5 on a new computer. I can access Python by typing
Python in a terminal window, but I can't find any way of getting to IDLE.
Can anyone help?
--
David Wild using RISC OS on broadband
--
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Fredrik Lundh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have just installed FC5 on a new computer. I can access Python by
typing Python in a terminal window, but I can't find any way of
getting to IDLE.
Can anyone help?
$ yum provides idle
can help, I think. it'll
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Steven D'Aprano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But the real question is why it is that American publishers believe
their readers are so lazy and ignorant that they require special
translations of British books. I don't know anyone who has said I'm
glad that I read
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Mikael Olofsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One question here is: Are US English and UK English different languages
or not?
A few years ago I was in a French bookshop in London. On the counter was a
leaflet advertising recent translations; some were from the
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Roedy Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I take it then you avoid browsers or use Lynx? No you FIX the
problems rather than wear a hair shirt. Same for email. Why should
rich expressions only be permitted to those with websites.
Between consenting adults, yes,
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Tim Tyler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Plain text is a badly impoverished medium for explaining things in.
For one thing, code on my web site tends to get syntax highlighted.
There's no way I could do that in plain text.
On your web site the use of additional
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Roedy Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think e-mail should be text only.
I disagree. Your problem is spam, not HTML. Spam is associated with
HTML and people have in Pavlovian fashion come to hate HTML.
But HTML is not the problem!
HTML in email is a
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Terry Reedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Xah Lee,
Do you want to be taken seriously?
First, stop posting.
Second, learn perl.
Third, learn python.
Hey all, I have seen no evidence that XL even reads the responses that
have been directed thereto. The
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