On 29/01/2016 09:12, Ulli Horlacher wrote:
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Every time I make a half-hearted attempt to learn enough Perl syntax to get
started, I keep running into the differences between $foo, %foo and @foo
and dire warnings about what happens if you use the wrong sigil
I have starte
A list comprehension has various components. Anyone know when each of
the elements is evaluated? In the form
[v0 for v0 in expr0 if expr1]
If v0 appears in expr0 or expr1 the evaluation order matters.
I think of the above as being a rewrite of
results = []
for v0 in expr0:
if expr1:
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Pretty sure this guy is asking us to do his homework. :-P
Maybe (and I hope not) but asking what PEP8 is could be easily found on
the internet and asking what the values would be at the end of the
program
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"James Harris" :
I agree with what you say. A zero-length UDP datagram should be
possible and not indicate end of input but is that guaranteed and
portable?
The zero-length payload size should
On Tuesday, September 22, 2015 at 7:45:00 PM UTC+1, Lj Fc wrote:
> you have 10 minutes😂 Good luck!!
A good set of questions, IMO. Am answering as someone coming back to Python
after a few years.
> 1. What is PEP8 ?
Coding guidelines, I think.
> 2. What are the different ways to distribute some
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"James Harris" writes:
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There are a few things and more crop up as time goes on. For example,
over TCP it would be helpful to have a function to receive a s
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On Sun, 20 Sep 2015 23:36:30 +0100, "James Harris"
declaimed the following:
There are a few things and more crop up as time goes on. For example,
over TCP it would be helpfu
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"James Harris" writes:
I guess there have been many attempts to make socket IO easier to
handle and a good number of those have been in Python.
The trou
I guess there have been many attempts to make socket IO easier to handle
and a good number of those have been in Python.
The trouble with trying to improve something which is already well
designed (and conciously left as is) is that the so-called improvement
can become much more complex and ov
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If you're usin
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In a message of Fri, 18 Sep 2015 20:09:19 +0100, "James Harris"
writes:
Set the daemon flag on the worker threads, so when the main thread
exits, the workers also exit.
Interes
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On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 3:17 AM, James Harris
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Needless to say, on a test Windows machine AF_UNIX is not present.
The only
cross-platform option, therefore, seems to be to use each s
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I have a multithreaded app that I want to be able to shut down easily
such as by hitting control-c or sending it a signal.
Set the daemon flag on the worker threa
Well, this is fun ... for some definition of the word. ;-(
I have a multithreaded app that I want to be able to shut down easily
such as by hitting control-c or sending it a signal. What follows is the
way I have come up with given the common elements of different
environments. Suggestions for
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Waking up twice per second and immediately
calling select() again on any hardware/OS built in the past 50 years
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On 2015-09-11, Chris Angelico wrote:
This is what I meant when I said you would be polling. Effectively,
you wake up your program every half-second, check if Ctrl-C has been
pressed, and if it hasn't, you go back to s
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However, on Windows the recognition of Control-C does not happen
until after
something connects to the socket.
...
This
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I have a listening socket, self.lsock, which is used in an accept()
call as
follows
endpoint = self.lsock.accept()
The problem
I have a listening socket, self.lsock, which is used in an accept() call
as follows
endpoint = self.lsock.accept()
The problem is that if control-C is pressed it is not recognised until
something connects to that socket. Only when the accept() call returns
is the signal seen.
The question,
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> On 4/3/14 9:10 PM, dave em wrote:
>>
>> I am taking a cryptography class and am having a
>> tough time with an assignment similar to this.
>>
>
> hi Dave, if your instructor wanted you to work on this with other people
> she w
"Andriy Kornatskyy" wrote in message
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> Sam,
>
> How about this?
>
> from uuid import getnode as get_mac
> '%012x' % get_mac()
AIUI that will return a mac address even if there isn't one. That may or may
not suit the OP.
To the OP, de
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> Thank you, James. I didn't know this group before. I'll post this message
> there.
You're welcome. It can be hard to find apt groups on Usenet because there
are so many. I don't think there was ever
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> > On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 11:59 AM, Simeon Chaos wrote:
> >
> > > All along, the design of programming languages is a complex task.
> > > Because we
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> I'm running:
>
> Ubuntu Precise
> Python 2.7.3
> django 1.4.5
> gunicorn 0.17.4
> gevent 1.0dev (rc3)
>
> I haven't been able to pin this down exactly, but it looks like if I
> do (inside of a custom logging.Handler subclass):
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>
> #!/usr/bin/python
> import time
> f = open('/home/martin/Downloads/a.txt')
Looks like you are on Unix so you can do this from the shell
tail -F /home/martin/Downloads/a.txt
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> 26/9/2013 12:07 ??, ?/? Antoon Pardon ??:
>> Experiment and find out for yourself. That is the only way you will
>> acquire the experience and understanding you need. Sure we could
>> spoon feed you the line you need, but t
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> A toolkit (that's old, arguably), that might help you is TVision, a port
> of the old Turbo Vision library that formed the foundation for Borland's
> old DOS IDEs back in the day (check wikipedia)
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> Am looking for a TUI (textual user interface) mechanism to allow a Python
> program to create and update a display in text mode. For example, if a
> command prompt was sized 80x25 it would be made u
Am looking for a TUI (textual user interface) mechanism to allow a Python
program to create and update a display in text mode. For example, if a
command prompt was sized 80x25 it would be made up of 80 x 25 = 2000
characters. The Python program would need to be able to write to any of
those 200
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On Feb 22, 6:40Â pm, Zachary Ware
wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 12:16 PM, Walter Hurry
> wrote:
> > I use FreeBSD or Linux, but my son is learning Python and is using
> > Windows.
>
> > My question is this: Would it be good practice for him to put #!/usr/bin/
> > env python at the top of his
On Nov 14, 10:32Â pm, Jorge Biquez wrote:
> Hello all.
> Quick question. I know some of you are with Python since started,
> some other maybe later.
>
> I was wondering if you can share what was the strategy you followed
> to master Python (Yes I know I have to work hard study and practice a
> lot)
On 14 Oct, 16:49, Daniel Fetchinson wrote:
> I keep getting recruiting emails from charlesngu...@google.com about
> working for google as an engineer. The messages are pretty much the
> same and go like this:
...
> I'm guessing I'm not the only one on this list to get these emails and
> suspect
On 5 Oct, 06:52, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> In message
> , James
>
> Harris wrote:
> > On 29 Sep, 18:20, Seebs wrote:
>
> >> On 2010-09-29, Tracubik wrote:
>
> >>> button = gtk.Button(("False,", "True,")[fill==True])
On 29 Sep, 18:20, Seebs wrote:
> On 2010-09-29, Tracubik wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> > I'm studying PyGTK tutorial and i've found this strange form:
>
> > button = gtk.Button(("False,", "True,")[fill==True])
>
> > the label of button is True if fill==True, is False otherwise.
>
> > i have googled for
On 5 May, 04:25, Scott wrote:
> James,
>
> Thanks for the comprehensive reply. I would like to post it to
> comp.lang.python but the main file is 169 lines long and the file for
> functions is 316 lines long. I'm thinking that is a little long for
> this format.
You're welcome. Yes, it sounds a b
On 4 May, 22:40, Scott wrote:
> I'm looking for suggestions on what to do (and how to do it) if I want
> to share a program that I wrote in Python. There seem to be quite a
> few places to post code and I don't know how to choose.
Perhaps look at the options and then select whichever suits your n
On 26 Mar, 14:58, Jon Clements wrote:
> On 26 Mar, 09:49, James Harris wrote:
...
> > I'm toying with some
> > ideas for a way to help generate source code (in various languages,
> > not just Python). If it goes ahead the text files would be mainly
> > marked-up
On 26 Mar, 10:04, Harishankar wrote:
...
> > Think of the database as similar to an associative array stored on
> > disk. The only difference is I may want to play fast and loose with
> > the keys in some ways - e.g. check for partial key matches or return a
> > list of part-matched keys. The lang
On 25 Mar, 22:56, Jon Clements wrote:
> On 25 Mar, 22:40, James Harris wrote:
>
> > I am looking to store named pieces of text in a form that can be
> > edited by a standard editor such as notepad (under Windows) or vi
> > (under Unix) and then pulled into Python as
I am looking to store named pieces of text in a form that can be
edited by a standard editor such as notepad (under Windows) or vi
(under Unix) and then pulled into Python as needed. The usual record
locking and transactions of databases are not required.
Another way to look at it is to treat the
On 10 Mar, 15:19, kj wrote:
> Subject line pretty much says it all: is there a book like "Effective
> Java" for Python. Â I.e. a book that assumes that readers are
> experienced programmers that already know the basics of the language,
> and want to focus on more advanced programming issues?
I don
On 10 Mar, 06:29, "Gabriel Genellina" wrote:
> En Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:41:10 -0300, Daniel Klein Â
> escribi :
>
> > Basically I'm wondering if there are any plans to implemented named
> > loops in Python, so I can tell a break command to break out of a
> > specific loop in the case of nested loop
On 19 Feb, 15:52, SiWi wrote:
> Hello community,
> I googled for an answer of the following problem, but I couldn't find
> anything.
> I've got a netbook and my fast workstation compter, which I usually
> use for developing.
> But I'd also like to take my netbook around the house and to develop
>
On 7 Feb, 21:25, James Harris wrote:
> In case someone else finds it useful here is a program I wrote a year
> or so ago to help manage tab characters. It will convert tabs to runs
> of spaces, convert runs of spaces to tabs, or count or check for tab
> characters as required. It
In case someone else finds it useful here is a program I wrote a year
or so ago to help manage tab characters. It will convert tabs to runs
of spaces, convert runs of spaces to tabs, or count or check for tab
characters as required. It supports tab stops at regular and irregular
positions.
http:
On 3 Dec, 20:56, Michael Torrie wrote:
> Steve Ferg wrote:
> > Is there any particular reason why this might be a *bad* language-
> > design idea?
>
> Syntactically, using braces, begin/end blocks, python white space, and
> your if/elif/then/endif structures, amounts to the same thing; they are
>
On 15 Nov, 05:41, r wrote:
> On Nov 14, 6:21Â pm, James Harris
> wrote:
>
> > Is there a simple way to play musical notes in Python? Something like
> > Â voice.play("c4")
>
> Uhh, tksnack is pretty easy to use IMO, see this link...
> http://www.daniweb.c
On 16 Nov, 16:54, Steve Ferg wrote:
> This is a question for the language mavens that I know hang out here.
> It is not Python related, except that recent comparisons of Python to
> Google's new Go language brought it to mind.
>
> NOTE that this is *not* a suggestion to change Python. Â I like Pyth
On 15 Nov, 00:12, James Harris wrote:
> Is there a simple way to play musical notes in Python? Something like
>
> Â voice.play("c4")
>
> to play C in octave 4 would be ideal. I included a voice parameter as
> I'd like to play proper notes, not just beeps. This i
Is there a simple way to play musical notes in Python? Something like
voice.play("c4")
to play C in octave 4 would be ideal. I included a voice parameter as
I'd like to play proper notes, not just beeps. This is for recognition
of pitch. For example, the program plays a note and the user tries
On 28 Oct, 08:58, "Alf P. Steinbach" wrote:
> * tm:
>
> > On 28 Okt., 07:52, "Alf P. Steinbach" wrote:
> >> [Cross-posted comp.programming and comp.lang.python]
>
> > Looking at your topic '(Python in Windows)', without taking a
> > glimpse at your actual introduction, I have the following to say
On 3 Sep, 15:54, Albert van der Horst
wrote:
> In article ,
> Derek Martin  wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> >--W1uEbMXJ1Mj4g6TI
> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
> >Content-Disposition: inline
>
> >On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 05:03:28PM +, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> >> On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 11:21:46
On 3 Sep, 15:35, Grant Edwards wrote:
...
> >>> Obviously I can't speak for Ken Thompson's motivation in creating this
> >>> feature, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't to save typing or space on
> >>> punchcards. Even in 1969, hex was more common than octal, and yet hex
> >>> values are written with
On 3 Sep, 14:26, Albert van der Horst
wrote:
> In article <6031ba08-08c8-416b-91db-ce8ff57ae...@w6g2000yqw.googlegroups.com>,
> James Harris  wrote:
>
>
>
>
> >So you are saying that Smalltalk has r where
> >r is presumably for radix? That's maybe b
On 27 Aug, 18:31, Ethan Furman wrote:
> Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> > A mistake is still a mistake even if it shared with others.
>
> > Treating its with a lead zero as octal was a design error when it was
> > first thought up
>
> [snippage]
>
> I have to disagree with you on this one. Â The computi
On 24 Aug, 03:49, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
...
> > Here's another suggested number literal format. First, keep the
> > familar 0x and 0b of C and others and to add 0t for octal. (T is the
> >thirdletter of octal as X is thethirdletter of hex.) The numbers
> > above would be
>
> Â Â Â Â The thing
On 25 Aug, 01:25, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:23:06 -0700, James Harris wrote:
> > Sure but while I wouldn't normally want to type something as obscure as
> > 32"rst" into a file of data I might want to type 0xff00 or similar. That
> >
On 24 Aug, 14:05, Mel wrote:
> James Harris wrote:
> > On 24 Aug, 02:19, Max Erickson wrote:
> [ ... ]
> >> >>> int('100', 3)
> >> 9
> >> >>> int('100', 36)
> >> 1296
>
> > This is fine typed into the
On 24 Aug, 09:30, Erik Max Francis wrote:
> James Harris wrote:
> > On 24 Aug, 09:05, Erik Max Francis wrote:
> >>>> Here's another suggested number literal format. First, keep the
> >>>> familar 0x and 0b of C and others and to add 0t for octal. (T
On 24 Aug, 09:05, Erik Max Francis wrote:
...
> >> Here's another suggested number literal format. First, keep the
> >> familar 0x and 0b of C and others and to add 0t for octal. (T is the
> >> third letter of octal as X is the third letter of hex.) The numbers
> >> above would be
>
> >> Â 0b101
On 24 Aug, 02:19, Max Erickson wrote:
...
> > It can be assumed however that .9. isn't in binary?
>
> > That's a neat idea. But an even simpler scheme might be:
>
> > .octal.100
> > .decimal.100
> > .hex.100
> > .binary.100
> > .trinary.100
>
> > until it gets to this anyway:
>
> > .thiryseximal
On 23 Aug, 21:55, James Harris wrote:
...
> > Â However for floating point you
> > need at least three letters because a floating point number has
> > three parts: the fixed point point, the exponent base, and the
> > exponent. Â Now we can represent the radices of the i
On 23 Aug, 00:16, Mel wrote:
> James Harris wrote:
> > I have no idea why Ada which uses the # also apparently uses it to end
> > a number
>
> > Â 2#1011#, 8#7621#, 16#c26b#
>
> Interesting. Â They do it because of this example from
> <http://archive.adaic.com/
On 23 Aug, 04:38, c...@tiac.net (Richard Harter) wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Aug 2009 14:54:41 -0700 (PDT), James Harris
>
>
>
>
>
> wrote:
> >On 22 Aug, 10:27, David <71da...@libero.it> wrote:
>
> >... (snipped a discussion on languages and other systems inte
On 21 Aug, 00:59, James Harris wrote:
...
> > Is there some magic to make the 2.x CPython interpreter to ignore the
> > annoying octal notation?
> > I'd really like 012 to be "12" and not "10".
>
> This is (IMHO) a sad hangover from C (which to
On 22 Aug, 10:27, David <71da...@libero.it> wrote:
... (snipped a discussion on languages and other systems interpreting
numbers with a leading zero as octal)
> > Either hexadecimal should have been 0h or octal should
> > have been 0t :=)
>
>
> I have seen the use of Q/q instead in order to make
On 21 Aug, 22:18, MRAB wrote:
> Piet van Oostrum wrote:
> >> Derek Martin (DM) wrote:
>
> >> DM> I fail to see how 0O012, or even 0o012 is more intelligible than 012.
> >> DM> The latter reads like a typo, and the former is virtually
> >> DM> indistinguishable from 00012, O0012, or many other
On 21 Aug, 20:48, Derek Martin wrote:
...
> James Harris wrote:
> > It maybe made sense once but this relic of the past should have been
> > consigned to the waste bin of history long ago.
>
> Sigh. Â Nonsense. Â I use octal notation *every day*, for two extremely
>
On 20 Aug, 20:06, David <71da...@libero.it> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Is there some magic to make the 2.x CPython interpreter to ignore the
> annoying octal notation?
> I'd really like 012 to be "12" and not "10".
This is (IMHO) a sad hangover from C (which took it from B but not
from BCPL which used
On 18 Aug, 21:50, Chris Rebert wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 10:09 AM, James
>
> Harris wrote:
> > I am writing some code to form a tree of nodes of different types. The
> > idea is to define one class per node type such as
>
> > class node_type_1(node):
&g
I am writing some code to form a tree of nodes of different types. The
idea is to define one class per node type such as
class node_type_1(node):
class node_type_2(node):
etc
(Class "node" would hold any common properties).
When walking the tree I need to know what type of node I'm dealing
On 27 Nov, 16:32, "Emanuele D'Arrigo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Nov 27, 5:00 am, Steven D'Aprano
>
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Refactor until your code is simple enough to unit-test effectively, then
> > unit-test effectively.
>
> Ok, I've taken this wise suggestion on board and of cours
On 20 Nov, 06:01, srinivasan srinivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yes it works for most of the cases. But it doesn't for the following case:
>
> >>> str(abs(int(1234567.89)-1234567.89))
>
> '0.88999898'
Well, that is 0.89 or about as near to it as the calculation can
represent. Like other nu
On 17 Nov, 19:15, ckkart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> on XP when starting a certain external program (plain C calculation
> program which communicates via stdout/fs) from python 2.5 using
> subprocess.Popen the external program crashes. It does not if started
> directly from the XP command
On 15 Nov, 01:02, "Brendan Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 3:54 AM, James Harris
>
>
>
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On 11 Nov, 22:59, Brendan Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> What would heavy python
On 13 Nov, 18:59, Stef Mientki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Abah Joseph wrote:
> > What is the best Python GUI API? I am planning to start my first GUI
> > application and I need something easy and cross platform. Qt
> > applications look beautiful but I hate the license. What do you advice?
>
> I
On 11 Nov, 22:59, Brendan Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What would heavy python unit testers say is the best framework?
>
> I've seen a few mentions that maybe the built in unittest framework
> isn't that great. I've heard a couple of good things about py.test and
> nose. Are there other opti
On 6 Nov, 22:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Chris Rebert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > the term
> > "comprehension" for the concept was first used in the NPL programming
> > language (Wikipedia again).
>
> Ah, thanks... and does "comprehension" have any special computer
> science meaning?
Good qu
On 17 Oct, 16:42, Luis Zarrabeitia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I need to parse a file, text file. The format is something like that:
>
> TYPE1 metadata
> data line 1
> data line 2
> ...
> data line N
> TYPE2 metadata
> data line 1
> ...
> TYPE3 metadata
> ...
>
> And so on. The type and metadata d
On 25 Jul, 20:05, sturlamolden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Jul 25, 8:37 pm, Johny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Is it possible to run a Python program as daemon?
> > Thanks
>
> Here is an example on how to run a Python script as a Unix daemon:
>
> http://svn.plone.org/svn/collective/bda.daem
On 19 May, 16:18, SPJ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is it possible to run specific commands on cisco router using Python?
> I have to run command "show access-list" on few hundred cisco routers and get
> the dump into a file. Please let me know if it is feasible and the best way
> to achieve this.
On 5 Jul, 08:46, Dennis Lee Bieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 04 Jul 2007 22:12:46 -0400, Roy Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> declaimed
> the following in comp.lang.python:
>
> > Astronomers use Julian Date (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_date) for
> > calculations like this. It's a widel
On 5 Jul, 02:53, greg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> James Harris wrote:
> > With that the time would range to +/- 9000
> > quintillion years (18 digits)
>
> Use the Big Bang as the epoch, and you won't have
> to worry about negative timestamps.
Good idea if
On 4 Jul, 22:18, "Peter J. Holzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> But it really doesn't matter much. If you ignore leap seconds, using
> days instead of seconds is just a constant factor (in fact, the unix
> timestamp ignores leap seconds, too, so it's always a constant factor).
> You can't repre
On 3 Jul, 06:12, Scott David Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Inspired format:
> Days since a some standard date (the TAI date may be a good such
> date) expressed as fixed point 64-bit (32-bit day part, 32-bit
> day-fraction part) or floating point (using Intel's double-precision,
> f
On 1 Jul, 15:11, "Peter J. Holzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Stick to unix timestamps but store them as a double precision floating
> point number. The 53 bit mantissa gives you currently a resolution of
> about 200 ns, slowly deteriorating (you will hit ms resolution in about
> 280,000 year
On 25 Jun, 02:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Maas, see http://tinyurl.com/uh3t)
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> > From: James Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > I have a requirement to store timestamps in a database. ...
> > 1) subsecond resolution - milliseconds or, preferably, more detailed
>
On 22 Jun, 23:49, Roger Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> My rule of thumb in situations like this is "When in doubt store it as
> text". The one format I am pretty sure we will still be able to deal
> with in 2039.
Interesting. I hadn't thought about using text. It would add to the
storage
I have a requirement to store timestamps in a database. Simple enough
you might think but finding a suitably general format is not easy. The
specifics are
1) subsecond resolution - milliseconds or, preferably, more detailed
2) not bounded by Unix timestamp 2038 limit
3) readable in Java
4) writabl
Hi,
I am wanting to develop some software that
a) Reads existing files of music of a few well known types
b) Displays the music in traditional notation - i.e. on a stave
c) Displays the same music in my own notation that I am playing with
d) Allows both to be printed
I guess I ca
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