Re: The devolution of English language and slothful c.l.p behaviors exposed!

2012-01-29 Thread Dominic Binks
snipped lots of mindless nonsense, nothing at all to do with Python On 25-Jan-12 3:23 PM, Rick Johnson wrote: ... In my world ... Rick, I may be overstepping the mark here but I believe all participants on this list would probably like it if that's precisely where you stayed. -- Do

Re: socket.gethostbyaddr( os.environ['REMOTE_ADDR'] error

2012-01-09 Thread Dominic Binks
address database can have multiple names for the same IP address so gethostbyaddr returns a list - [0] being the first item in the list (and usually considered the canonical name) -- Dominic Binks: dbi...@codeaurora.org Employee of Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc.

Re: Python education survey

2012-01-02 Thread Dominic Binks
On 1/2/2012 9:27 PM, Rick Johnson wrote: On Dec 31 2011, 11:12 pm, Dominic Binks wrote: I doubt you could validate or invalidate a word. A word is, there is no ... taken off list -- Dominic Binks: dbi...@codeaurora.org Employee of Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. Qualcomm Innovation

Re: Python education survey

2011-12-31 Thread Dominic Binks
tter defined as 'somewhat' or 'quite'. (Oh and it's use in this context can be traced back to 1565.) While you're here you might want to investigate what nice and liaise mean cause they probably don't mean what you think they do. This is group has the most dumbest smart people i have ever met! I don't know what planet you come from, but I would refrain from picking arguments over tedious detail of words when it is perfectly clear what people mean. -- Dominic Binks: dbi...@codeaurora.org Employee of Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of Code Aurora Forum -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Py-dea: Streamline string literals now!

2011-12-28 Thread Dominic Binks
#x27;s make python case-insensitive kind of idea - it's never going to happen cause it offers very little benefit at huge cost. And I'm not going to contribute to this thread any further cause it's a pointless waste of my time to write it and others time to read it. -- Dominic B

Re: Does py2app improves speed?

2011-11-24 Thread Dominic Binks
improves substantially. So I need to know; is This a myth or it is a fact? Thanks in advance for your time. Depending on the code you have pypy may be faster - I've seen it both significantly faster and about the same as CPython. -- Dominic Binks: dbi...@codeaurora.org Employee of Qual

Re: What exactly is "pass"? What should it be?

2011-11-17 Thread Dominic Binks
except: pass Correct: http://docs.python.org/reference/simple_stmts.html#pass http://docs.python.org/reference/lexical_analysis.html#keywords Cheers, Chris -- Dominic Binks: dbi...@codeaurora.org Employee of Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member

Re: Opportunity missed by Python ?

2011-11-14 Thread Dominic Binks
the Dart developers were unaware of Python's structural style, so the choice to not use such was most likely conscious. (It may have been as simple as "let's keep the syntax mostly JS-like, to make it easier for JS developers to grok" though, rather than a major language-design choi