Re: Will Python 3.x ever become the actual standard?

2013-10-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 23 October 2013 19:53:20 Dennis Lee Bieber did opine: On 23 Oct 2013 12:36:09 GMT, Neil Cerutti ne...@norwich.edu declaimed the following: On 2013-10-23, David bouncingc...@gmail.com wrote: On 23 October 2013 22:57, duf...@gmail.com wrote: a LARGE number of Python

Re: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it?

2013-10-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 17 October 2013 17:34:15 Mark Lawrence did opine: On 17/10/2013 20:43, Ian Kelly wrote: On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 11:16 AM, Roy Smith r...@panix.com wrote: On Thursday, October 17, 2013 11:07:48 AM UTC-4, Chris Angelico wrote: Module names should be descriptive, not fancy.

Re: Complex literals (was Re: I am never going to complain about Python again)

2013-10-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 11 October 2013 12:49:40 Roy Smith did opine: In article mailman.1001.1381491074.18130.python-l...@python.org, Oscar Benjamin oscar.j.benja...@gmail.com wrote: If someone tried to explain why their field couldn't use ً for the circumference of a unit circle I would suggest that

Re: Handling 3 operands in an expression without raising an exception

2013-09-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 29 September 2013 13:03:17 Chris Angelico did opine: On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 2:07 AM, Joel Goldstick joel.goldst...@gmail.com wrote: Here's my question: I wonder if Nikos has ever been employed to write software. If so, I wonder how long he lasted before he was let go.

Re: What minimum should a person know before saying I know Python

2013-09-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 22 September 2013 23:41:10 Dennis Lee Bieber did opine: On Sun, 22 Sep 2013 14:55:24 -0400, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com declaimed the following: Then it seems to me that work in the direction should be an active feature request. Unforch, as I've said before, I'm rowing

Re: What minimum should a person know before saying I know Python

2013-09-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 22 September 2013 14:49:21 Dennis Lee Bieber did opine: On Sat, 21 Sep 2013 02:22:59 -0400, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com declaimed the following: I was quite pleased to see that there was a Rexx/Regina for linux, and for about 10 minutes thought I could make use of the library

Re: What minimum should a person know before saying I know Python

2013-09-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 22 September 2013 15:46:52 Gene Heskett did opine: On Sunday 22 September 2013 14:49:21 Dennis Lee Bieber did opine: On Sat, 21 Sep 2013 02:22:59 -0400, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com declaimed the following: I was quite pleased to see that there was a Rexx/Regina for linux

Re: What minimum should a person know before saying I know Python

2013-09-21 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 21 September 2013 01:34:50 Chris Angelico did opine: On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 3:40 AM, Aseem Bansal asmbans...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday, September 20, 2013 10:04:32 PM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote: On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 2:28 AM, Aseem Bansal asmbans...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: Missing py2exe, needed 4 a gcode generator to engrave text in fancy ttf fonts in steel

2013-09-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 20 September 2013 08:48:44 Chris Angelico did opine: On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: Can someone take a look at http://www.scorchworks.com/Fengrave/fengrave_setup.html#linux_fengrav e Then this is what I get: gene@coyote:~/src/F

Missing py2exe, needed 4 a gcode generator to engrave text in fancy ttf fonts in steel

2013-09-19 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings; Since the missing module is intended for making python stuff run standalone on a winderz box, I've no clue why it should be needed to build and make F- Engrave run on my 10.04.4 LTS box, but it insists on loading it in the setup.py script that starts it the first time. FWIW,

Re: New VPS Provider needed

2013-08-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 27 August 2013 15:26:30 Neil Cerutti did opine: On 2013-08-27, Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote: On Wed, 28 Aug 2013 00:41:17 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 12:25 AM, Grant Edwards invalid@invalid.invalid wrote: On

Need somebody schmardter than me

2013-08-18 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; I am trying to make a machine vision kit of modules work in linuxcnc, which uses a lot of python for scripts and gui controls in the user interface. This is on a Ubu 10.04.4 LTS install, which because linuxcnc is intimately married to an RTAI equipt kernel version, has not been

Re: Need somebody schmardter than me

2013-08-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 18 August 2013 16:38:52 Roy Smith did opine: In article mailman.2.1376856608.19984.python-l...@python.org, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: [much that doesn't appear to have anything to do with Python elided] When cheese runs this camera, there is a several second delay

Re: Need somebody schmardter than me

2013-08-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 18 August 2013 19:30:43 Chris Angelico did opine: On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 9:48 PM, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: import time That of course goes near the top of the script. time.sleep(1.5) I'll see if I can see a sensible place to add this one. The import

Re: .split() Qeustion

2013-08-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 16 August 2013 10:07:12 Roy Smith did opine: In article 520da6d1$0$3$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com, Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote: On Thu, 15 Aug 2013 16:43:41 +0100, Chris Angelico wrote: A mole is as much a number (6e23) as the light

Re: .split() Qeustion

2013-08-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 16 August 2013 10:27:36 Dave Angel did opine: Roy Smith wrote: In article 520da6d1$0$3$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com, Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote: On Thu, 15 Aug 2013 16:43:41 +0100, Chris Angelico wrote: A mole is as much a number

Re: Homework help requested (not what you think!)

2013-07-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 18 July 2013 09:04:32 Albert van der Horst did opine: In article mailman.4786.1374021635.3114.python-l...@python.org, Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 8:43 AM, John Ladasky john_lada...@sbcglobal.net wrote: I think that they're disappointed

Re: Limit Lines of Output

2013-06-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 25 June 2013 17:47:22 Joshua Landau did opine: On 25 June 2013 21:22, Bryan Britten britten.br...@gmail.com wrote: Ah, I always forget to mention my OS on these forums. I'm running Windows. Supposedly, Windows has more

Re: newbie question

2013-06-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 22 June 2013 22:46:51 christheco...@gmail.com did opine: Writing simple program asking a question with the answer being yes...how do I allow the correct answer if user types Yes, yes, or YES? Thanks AND each character coming in from the keyboard with $DF before adding it to

Re: RFD: rename comp.lang.python to comp.support.superhost

2013-06-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 14 June 2013 08:33:36 Roy Smith did opine: In article 8a333cd0-c1cf-4f41-ac49-65f0b23ed...@ow4g2000pbc.googlegroups.com, alex23 wuwe...@gmail.com wrote: On Jun 14, 2:24 am, حéêüëلïٍ تï‎ٌلٍ supp...@superhost.gr wrote: iam researchign a solution to this as we speak.

Re: Changing filenames from Greeklish = Greek (subprocess complain)

2013-06-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 02 June 2013 13:10:30 Chris Angelico did opine: On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 2:21 AM, حéêüëلïٍ تï‎ٌلٍ nikos.gr...@gmail.com wrote: Paying for someone to just remove a dash to get the script working is too much to ask for One dash: 1c Knowing where to remove it: $99.99 Total bill:

Re: How to set my gui?

2013-04-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 19 April 2013 22:16:18 Chris Angelico did opine: On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 9:10 AM, Dennis Lee Bieber wlfr...@ix.netcom.com wrote: On Fri, 19 Apr 2013 09:24:36 +1000, Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general: On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at

Re: [Python-ideas] string.format() default variable assignment

2013-03-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 05 March 2013 06:54:14 Mark Lawrence did opine: On 05/03/2013 02:54, Chris Angelico wrote: On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote: It's easy for him to deal with it, all he has to do is get a goat to eat the garden waste

Re: [Python-ideas] string.format() default variable assignment

2013-03-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 04 March 2013 23:00:31 Chris Angelico did opine: On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote: It's easy for him to deal with it, all he has to do is get a goat to eat the garden waste I toss over the fence, and his problem is

Re: Python Newbie

2013-02-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 23 February 2013 12:03:00 Ethan Furman did opine: On 02/23/2013 07:51 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: Steve, why do you say you're not a developer? A score of languages under your belt, choosing to write code in your spare time, and speaking competently on the comparative merits of

Re: Python Newbie

2013-02-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 23 February 2013 17:44:21 Steve Simmons did opine: On 23/02/2013 18:32, Gene Heskett wrote: I am here because I was hoping some knowledge leakage would help me to understand python, but at my age I am beginning to have to admit the level of abstraction is something I may never

Re: Is Python venerable?

2013-02-21 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 20 February 2013 10:32:14 Albert Hopkins did opine: On Tue, Feb 19, 2013, at 11:10 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: [...] And even us old (78) farts are calling things Kewl now. 78??? Is that the year you were born or the years since you were born? -a Born in Oct 1934. 78yo now

Re: Algorithm. Tony Gaddis book 2 Starting python3

2013-01-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 27 January 2013 13:05:27 george...@talktalk.net did opine: Message additions Copyright Sunday 27 January 2013 by Gene Heskett Hi Question 3 Chp2 Page 76 Adds2 to a and assigns the result to b. I have several attemtps,would like to check my answer.help please At 80 i need all

Re: License status of pycollada?

2013-01-08 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 08 January 2013 14:09:55 Jeff Terrace did opine: Message additions Copyright Tuesday 08 January 2013 by Gene Heskett Hi Gene, I'm the maintainer of pycollada. No such paywall exists, and a login is not required. I'm not sure how you came across that. Google search. As Chris

License status of pycollada?

2013-01-07 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; Trying to collect all the dependencies of FreeCad-0.13, but it appears that pycollada is behind some sort of a login/paywall on github. Is anyone here familiar with how that works? Thanks. Cheers, Gene -- There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot,

Re: Is there a quick accurate way to test a python install?

2012-12-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 16 December 2012 01:33:35 Terry Reedy did opine: On 12/15/2012 9:59 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: This is 2.6, on ubuntu-10.04.4 LTS gene@lathe:/usr/lib/python2.6/test$ python -m test.regrtest That should be the right incantation for 2.6. test_grammar test_grammar skipped

Re: Is there a quick accurate way to test a python install?

2012-12-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 16 December 2012 14:55:53 Terry Reedy did opine: On 12/16/2012 6:22 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Sunday 16 December 2012 01:33:35 Terry Reedy did opine: You appear to have some of /Lib/test/ present, including Lib/test/regrtest.py, but not move of the test_xxx.py files. I do

Is there a quick accurate way to test a python install?

2012-12-15 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings; I had an app that is a heavy user of python crash on exit earlier today, and ever since, the app complains it can't find something in the python tree, and eventually the app exits. The leading few lines of the dmesg report are: Starting LinuxCNC... redis server started as:

Re: Is there a quick accurate way to test a python install?

2012-12-15 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 15 December 2012 21:19:37 Terry Reedy did opine: On 12/15/2012 8:38 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: see 26.11.2. I'm not a python guru, Terry, so you will have to expand on this 26.11.2. Thanks Running tests using the command-line interface for your version. Note

Re: Is there a quick accurate way to test a python install?

2012-12-15 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 15 December 2012 21:52:00 Terry Reedy did opine: On 12/15/2012 9:21 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 15 December 2012 21:19:37 Terry Reedy did opine: On 12/15/2012 8:38 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: see 26.11.2. I'm not a python guru, Terry, so you will have to expand

Re: Is there a quick accurate way to test a python install?

2012-12-15 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 15 December 2012 22:07:54 Terry Reedy did opine: On 12/15/2012 9:21 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 15 December 2012 21:19:37 Terry Reedy did opine: On 12/15/2012 8:38 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: see 26.11.2. I'm not a python guru, Terry, so you will have to expand

Re: Tcl wasn't installed properly

2012-12-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 07 December 2012 02:25:33 bhargavigosw...@gmail.com did opine: I faced the same problem during my last installation of ns2.35 in ubuntu 11.04. After I install ns2.35, got message of successful installation of ns. Then I set path in /.bashrc. Then I gave ns command which gave me same

Re: Spam source (Re: Horror Horror Horror!!!!!)

2012-11-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 18 November 2012 21:18:16 Robert Miles did opine: On Sunday, November 18, 2012 1:35:00 PM UTC-6, Terry Reedy wrote: The question was raised as to how much spam comes from googlegroups. Not all, but more that half, I believe. This one does. From: MoneyMaker

Re: Where are documentation for Gnome

2012-10-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 28 October 2012 16:45:12 GangGreene did opine: On Sun, 28 Oct 2012 16:29:07 +, Mark Lawrence wrote: On 13/10/2012 18:49, Santosh Kumar wrote: Try your local garden centre. I inquired at the local garden centre, Just got strange looks Are you sure that is the

Re: A desperate lunge for on-topic-ness

2012-10-21 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 21 October 2012 07:02:26 Steven D'Aprano did opine: On Sat, 20 Oct 2012 14:18:47 +, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2012-10-20, Dennis Lee Bieber wlfr...@ix.netcom.com wrote: Strangely, we've gone from 80-character fixed width displays to who-knows-what (if I drop my font size

Re: A desperate lunge for on-topic-ness

2012-10-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 18 October 2012 18:40:52 Grant Edwards did opine: On 2012-10-18, Den patents...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday, October 17, 2012 11:06:43 PM UTC-7, Zero Piraeus wrote: What are people's preferred strategies for dealing with lines that go over 79 characters? A few I can think

Re: subprocess call is not waiting.

2012-09-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 19 September 2012 11:56:44 Hans Mulder did opine: On 19/09/12 12:26:30, andrea crotti wrote: 2012/9/18 Dennis Lee Bieber wlfr...@ix.netcom.com: Unless you have a really massive result set from that ls, that command probably ran so fast that it is blocked

Re: Obnoxious postings from Google Groups (was: datetime issue)

2012-09-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 16 September 2012 12:29:39 pandora.ko...@gmail.com did opine: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list email client to python-list@python.org wait a minute! i must use my ISP's news server and then post o comp.lang.python no? No. What is python-list@python.org

Re: Obnoxious postings from Google Groups (was: datetime issue)

2012-09-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 16 September 2012 12:08:47 pandora.ko...@gmail.com did opine: Whaen i tried to post just now by hitting sumbit, google groups told me that the following addresssed has benn found in this thread! i guess is used them all to notify everything!

Re: Arithmetic with Boolean values

2012-08-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 12 August 2012 20:27:13 Alister did opine: On Sun, 12 Aug 2012 19:20:26 +0100, Mark Lawrence wrote: On 12/08/2012 17:59, Paul Rubin wrote: which can be simplified to: for x in range(len(L)//2 + len(L)%2): for x in range(sum(divmod(len(L), 2))): ... So who's going to be

Re: Gender, Representativeness and Reputation in StackOverflow

2012-07-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 23 July 2012 19:42:29 Alexander Serebrenik did opine: 1) The paper referenced contains 4 pages, so it should be available via IEEXplore. Moreover, you can find a copy on http://www.win.tue.nl/~aserebre/MSR2012.pdf 2) Since the survey is only one of the techniques we intend to use,

Re: How to safely maintain a status file

2012-07-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 12 July 2012 23:21:16 Steven D'Aprano did opine: On Fri, 13 Jul 2012 12:12:01 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Rick Johnson rantingrickjohn...@gmail.com wrote: On Jul 12, 2:39 pm, Christian Heimes li...@cheimes.de wrote: Windows's file system

Re: is this foolish?

2012-04-12 Thread gene heskett
On Thursday, April 12, 2012 10:40:47 AM Tim Golden did opine: On 12/04/2012 10:35, Cameron Simpson wrote: I've found myself using a Python gotcha as a feature. Tim: your setup of using the CC: line for every thing with a blank To: line is landing your posts in my spam folder. Do you have

Re: Questionnaire on motivation analysis of open source and open content

2012-02-23 Thread gene heskett
On Wednesday, February 22, 2012 03:14:51 PM George Tsinarakis did opine: Dear Sirs, We are researchers in Technical University of Crete and our current research is in the field of motivation analysis of open source and open content software projects participants. We would like to ask you to

Re: TEST AN EXECUTABLE PYTHON SCRIPT SPEED UNDER A PYTHON SHELL

2012-02-16 Thread gene heskett
On Thursday, February 16, 2012 08:40:04 PM Arnaud Delobelle did opine: On 16 February 2012 21:10, Prasad, Ramit ramit.pra...@jpmorgan.com wrote: When you reply to a known bot, please include some indication of the fact, so we know your message can be ignored as well. Sometimes I wonder

Re: MOST COMMON QUESTIONS ASKED BY NON-MUSLIMS ?????????

2012-01-03 Thread gene heskett
On Tuesday, January 03, 2012 01:13:08 PM John Ladasky did opine: On Jan 3, 7:40 am, BV bv5bv5...@yahoo.com wrote: MOST COMMON QUESTIONS ASKED BY NON-MUSLIMS Q0. Why do thousand-line religious posts appear in comp.lang.python? Already discussed, at considerable length I got told off. The

Re: MOST COMMON QUESTIONS ASKED BY NON-MUSLIMS ?????????

2012-01-03 Thread gene heskett
On Tuesday, January 03, 2012 07:27:32 PM D'Arcy Cain did opine: On 12-01-03 01:24 PM, gene heskett wrote: The solution is to chop the link between google.groups and this list. But that subject has been declared verboten. Too much inconvenience to ask the googlers to subscribe to the real

Re: Verbose and flexible args and kwargs syntax

2011-12-12 Thread gene heskett
On Monday, December 12, 2011 12:44:27 PM Chris Angelico did opine: On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 2:55 AM, Nick Dokos nicholas.do...@hp.com wrote: Terry Reedy tjre...@udel.edu wrote: calculations are helped by the fact that (a+b) % c == a%c + b%c, so As long as we understand that == here does

Re: Non-POSIX parity (mark/space) with Python-Serial on Linux.

2011-11-21 Thread gene heskett
On Monday, November 21, 2011 11:58:53 AM David Riley did opine: On Nov 21, 2011, at 11:28 AM, Matthew Lenz wrote: Using 8N1 under minicom with this device resulted in garbled text when once connected. Connection using 7M1 resulted in the correct text. So there must be something else that

Re: Non-POSIX parity (mark/space) with Python-Serial on Linux.

2011-11-21 Thread gene heskett
On Monday, November 21, 2011 01:28:16 PM David Riley did opine: On Nov 21, 2011, at 12:25 PM, gene heskett wrote: And that is 9600 baud 8n1 on both ends. Ascii is normally 7 bit and will have a low 8th bit if fed normal ascii data, so how is the 8th bit getting set other than purposely

Re: all() is slow?

2011-11-10 Thread gene heskett
On Thursday, November 10, 2011 08:13:13 AM Devin Jeanpierre did opine: I don't expect you to take my word on it (and why should you, I could be an idiot or a sock-puppet), but you could always try googling for Raymond Hettinger python and see what comes up. He is not some fly-by Python

Re: Python lesson please

2011-11-07 Thread gene heskett
On Monday, November 07, 2011 05:35:15 AM Peter Otten did opine: gene heskett wrote: Greetings experts: I just dl'd the duqu driver finder script from a link to NSS on /., and fixed enough of the tabs in it to make it run error-free. At least python isn't having a litter of cows over

Re: Python lesson please

2011-11-07 Thread gene heskett
On Monday, November 07, 2011 10:38:32 AM Andreas Perstinger did opine: On 2011-11-07 12:22, gene heskett wrote: On Monday, November 07, 2011 05:35:15 AM Peter Otten did opine: Are you talking about this one? https://github.com/halsten/Duqu-detectors/blob/master/DuquDriverPatt erns

Re: Python lesson please

2011-11-07 Thread gene heskett
On Monday, November 07, 2011 11:30:45 AM Dave Angel did opine: Back on the list.. On 11/07/2011 06:22 AM, gene heskett wrote: On Monday, November 07, 2011 05:35:15 AM Peter Otten did opine: SNIP Are you talking about this one? https://github.com/halsten/Duqu-detectors/blob/master

Re: Python lesson please

2011-11-07 Thread gene heskett
On Monday, November 07, 2011 02:43:11 PM Dave Angel did opine: On 11/07/2011 11:40 AM, gene heskett wrote: On Monday, November 07, 2011 11:30:45 AM Dave Angel did opine: Back on the list.. On 11/07/2011 06:22 AM, gene heskett wrote: On Monday, November 07, 2011 05:35:15 AM Peter Otten

Re: Python lesson please

2011-11-07 Thread gene heskett
On Monday, November 07, 2011 07:34:05 PM Terry Reedy did opine: On 11/7/2011 11:30 AM, gene heskett wrote: Perhaps winderz does not have 'pipe' files so the authors never got caught out on this? Last I know, Windows not only had no pipe files but also no real in-memory pipes. Maybe one

Re: Python lesson please

2011-11-07 Thread gene heskett
On Tuesday, November 08, 2011 12:53:20 AM Cameron Simpson did opine: On 07Nov2011 15:00, gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: | On Monday, November 07, 2011 02:43:11 PM Dave Angel did opine: | On 11/07/2011 11:40 AM, gene heskett wrote: | Down toward the bottom of the file, the tab

Python lesson please

2011-11-06 Thread gene heskett
Greetings experts: I just dl'd the duqu driver finder script from a link to NSS on /., and fixed enough of the tabs in it to make it run error-free. At least python isn't having a litter of cows over the indentation now. But it also runs instantly on linux. This line looks suspect to me:

Re: Python lesson please

2011-11-06 Thread gene heskett
On Sunday, November 06, 2011 06:07:36 PM Dave Angel did opine: On 11/06/2011 01:14 PM, gene heskett wrote: Greetings experts: I just dl'd the duqu driver finder script from a link to NSS on /., and fixed enough of the tabs in it to make it run error-free. At least python isn't having

Re: try... except with unknown error types

2011-08-23 Thread gene heskett
On Tuesday, August 23, 2011 04:42:04 AM Chris Angelico did opine: On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 8:21 AM, Paul Rubin no.email@nospam.invalid wrote: Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com writes: Ehh, granted. Definitely a case of should. But certainly, there won't be an infinite number of new

Re: List spam

2011-08-19 Thread gene heskett
On Thursday, August 18, 2011 10:23:49 PM Steven D'Aprano did opine: gene heskett wrote: But I'd like to return the question. What's wrong with nntp? The sheer volume of traffic eats 99% of an ISP's bandwidth. I doubt that very much, particularly if the ISP drops the binary newsgroups

Re: List spam

2011-08-19 Thread gene heskett
On Thursday, August 18, 2011 12:16:50 PM Jason Staudenmayer did opine: [...] I do know it is ironic that I forgot to stop the footer for the one reply. It's not my choice to add it but I was able to find a way around that work policy for list emails. I'm a strong opponent of dropping any

Re: List spam

2011-08-18 Thread gene heskett
On Thursday, August 18, 2011 09:51:04 AM Philip Semanchuk did opine: On Aug 18, 2011, at 8:58 AM, Jason Staudenmayer wrote: I really like this list as part of my learning tools but the amount of spam that I've been getting from it is CRAZY. Doesn't anything get scanned before it sent to

Re: List spam

2011-08-18 Thread gene heskett
On Thursday, August 18, 2011 12:08:00 PM Ghodmode did opine: On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 9:39 PM, Philip Semanchuk phi...@semanchuk.com wrote: On Aug 18, 2011, at 8:58 AM, Jason Staudenmayer wrote: I really like this list as part of my learning tools but the amount of spam that I've been

Re: List spam

2011-08-18 Thread gene heskett
On Thursday, August 18, 2011 12:08:38 PM Alain Ketterlin did opine: Jason Staudenmayer jas...@adventureaquarium.com writes: I really like this list as part of my learning tools but the amount of spam that I've been getting from it is CRAZY. Doesn't anything get scanned before it sent to

Re: List spam

2011-08-18 Thread gene heskett
On Thursday, August 18, 2011 12:14:39 PM Alain Ketterlin did opine: Ghodmode ghodm...@ghodmode.com writes: [...] Make an effort to curb the spam even if it means killing the newsgroup availability. Choose mailman or Google Groups, or another single solution. Make it members only,

Re: List spam

2011-08-18 Thread gene heskett
On Thursday, August 18, 2011 02:12:58 PM Alain Ketterlin did opine: gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com writes: Or save work and find a public nntp server (or setup one, or ask your provider), and use a news reader to follow the list (even thunderbird can do this). No spam, no need to store

Re: List spam

2011-08-18 Thread gene heskett
On Thursday, August 18, 2011 02:26:24 PM Peter Pearson did opine: On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 12:15:59 -0400, gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: [snip] What is wrong with the mailing list only approach? In the mailing-list approach, how do I search for prior discussions on a subject? (I'm

Re: List spam

2011-08-18 Thread gene heskett
On Thursday, August 18, 2011 05:18:42 PM Terry Reedy did opine: On 8/18/2011 12:14 PM, gene heskett wrote: into a REAL mailing list. Subscribers only, or get past a GOOD captcha. I just had an idea. Ask 'What is python? __ or What can you do with a python?' with a free

Re: Tabs -vs- Spaces: Tabs should have won.

2011-07-18 Thread gene heskett
On Sunday, July 17, 2011 08:24:12 PM Dotan Cohen did opine: On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 17:29, gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: I'm still looking for the perfect programming font. Suggestions welcomed. When you find it Dotan, let me know, I've been looking since the later '70's

Re: Tabs -vs- Spaces: Tabs should have won.

2011-07-18 Thread gene heskett
On Monday, July 18, 2011 09:32:19 AM Tim Chase did opine: On 07/17/2011 08:01 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: Roy Smith wrote: We don't have that problem any more. It truly boggles my mind that we're still churning out people with 80 column minds. I'm willing to entertain arguments about

Re: a little parsing challenge ☺

2011-07-17 Thread gene heskett
* * by Gene Heskett * * * * some additional code for ignoring syntax chars inside of * * double quoted strings added 3/21/93 by Gene Heskett * * same for single quoted

Re: Tabs -vs- Spaces: Tabs should have won.

2011-07-17 Thread gene heskett
On Sunday, July 17, 2011 10:28:16 AM Dotan Cohen did opine: On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 19:51, rantingrick rantingr...@gmail.com wrote: -- Evidence: Tabs ARE superior! -- I am also a recent

Re: Lisp refactoring puzzle

2011-07-13 Thread gene heskett
On Wednesday, July 13, 2011 05:34:23 AM Terry Reedy did opine: On 7/12/2011 2:23 PM, gene heskett wrote: Now, I hate to mention it Terry, but your clock seems to be about 126 months behind the rest of the world. Please do not hate to be helpful. It was a bad malfunction perhaps due

Re: Functional style programming in python: what will you talk about if you have an hour on this topic?

2011-07-13 Thread gene heskett
On Wednesday, July 13, 2011 09:38:26 AM Anthony Kong did opine: (My post did not appear in the mailing list, so this is my second try. Apology if it ends up posted twice) Actually, it did, but gmail, in its infinite wisdom, thinks an echo of your post to a mailing list is a duplicate, and

Re: Lisp refactoring puzzle

2011-07-12 Thread gene heskett
On Tuesday, July 12, 2011 02:08:02 PM Terry Reedy did opine: On 7/11/2011 11:37 PM, Xah Lee wrote: watch the first episode of Douglas Crockford's talk here: http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/theater/video.php?v=crockonjs-1 The link includes a transcript of the talk, which I read I

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