Re: usenet reading

2012-05-25 Thread Jason Earl
On Fri, May 25 2012, Jon Clements wrote: Hi All, Normally use Google Groups but it's becoming absolutely frustrating - not only has the interface changed to be frankly impractical, the posts are somewhat random of what appears, is posted and whatnot. (Ironically posted from GG) Is there a

Re: Learn Technical Writing from Unix Man in 10 Days

2012-04-29 Thread Jason Earl
On Sat, Apr 28 2012, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Sat, 28 Apr 2012 14:55:42 -0700, Xah Lee wrote: Learn Technical Writing from Unix Man in 10 Days Quote from man apt-get: remove remove is identical to install except that packages are removed instead of installed.

Re: a little parsing challenge ☺

2011-07-20 Thread Jason Earl
On Wed, Jul 20 2011, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Uri == Uri Guttman u...@stemsystems.com writes: Uri a better parsing challenge. how can you parse usenet to keep this troll Uri from posting on the wrong groups on usenet? first one to do so, wins the Uri praise of his peers. 2nd one to do it

Re: Code hosting services

2011-07-16 Thread Jason Earl
On Sat, Jul 16 2011, Thomas Jollans wrote: On 07/16/2011 10:32 AM, Andrew Berg wrote: Does anyone know if there are any services that have cross-project integration? I can see myself closing a ton of bug reports just because they are issues with the library part of the program, which will be

Re: Development tools and practices for Pythonistas

2011-05-01 Thread Jason Earl
On Sun, May 01 2011, Dietmar Schwertberger wrote: Am 01.05.2011 02:47, schrieb Shawn Milochik: Look at the big two sites for open-source repositories -- github and bitbucket. One's git, the other Mercurial. I don't think you can go wrong picking either one. Can any of those be used from

Re: opinion: comp lang docs style

2011-01-04 Thread Jason Earl
On Tue, Jan 04 2011, Xah Lee wrote: a opinion piece. 〈The Idiocy of Computer Language Docs〉 http://xahlee.org/comp/idiocy_of_comp_lang.html -- The Idiocy of Computer Language Docs Xah Lee, 2011-01-03 Worked with Mathematica for a whole

Re: Google AI challenge: planet war. Lisp won.

2010-12-20 Thread Jason Earl
On Mon, Dec 20 2010, Jon Harrop wrote: Wasn't that the challenge where they wouldn't even accept solutions written in many other languages (including both OCaml and F#)? Cheers, Jon. http://ai-contest.com/faq.php Question: There is no starter package for my favorite language. What

Re: Man pages and info pages

2010-11-03 Thread Jason Earl
On Wed, Nov 03 2010, rustom wrote: On Nov 3, 3:11 pm, Daniel da Silva ddasi...@umd.edu wrote: Guys, this really has nothing to do with python. ?? python docs have nothing to do with python?? python docs by default on linux are read with info and many seem to find info unpleasant to use.

Re: Hide DOS console for .pyc file

2010-09-11 Thread Jason Earl
On Fri, Sep 10 2010, Muddy Coder wrote: Hi Folks, For a quick testing purpose, I deliver .pyc files to my customer. I don't want the black DOS console appearing behind my GUI, but I have no idea how to do it. Somebody can help? Thanks! Cosmo I don't really use Windows any more, so I

Re: Microsoft lessening commitment to IronPython and IronRuby

2010-08-11 Thread Jason Earl
On Tue, Aug 10 2010, Ben Finney wrote: Steven D'Aprano steve-remove-t...@cybersource.com.au writes: On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 20:07:06 +1200, Gregory Ewing wrote: Is there any way for a non-.NET program to access a .NET library? Or is it necessary to drink the entire bottle of .NET kool-aid?

Re: A Exhibition Of Tech Geekers Incompetence: Emacs whitespace-mode

2009-08-17 Thread Jason Earl
Xah Lee xah...@gmail.com writes: Fresh out of the oven: • How to use and setup Emacs's whitespace-mode http://xahlee.org/emacs/whitespace-mode.html Xah ∑ http://xahlee.org/ Xah, I disagree with you about the usefulness of whitespace-mode's defaults, and I certainly disagree with the

Re: standalone python web server

2007-12-27 Thread Jason Earl
eric [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all, I want to setup simple python web server and I want it to just unzip and run, without any installation steps (have no right to do it). I've tried to write by myself, however, I find I am getting into more details like processing image file, different

Re: Tried Ruby (or, what Python *really* needs or perldoc!)

2006-03-15 Thread Jason Earl
msoulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have found the Python sidebar VERY helpful: Personally, I can't use local docs on my desktop as they may not be the same version of the docs for the Python distro running on the server that I'm deploying on. I usually go to python.org and use the wayback

Re: spell check code

2006-02-09 Thread Jason Earl
rtilley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What is the most common way to spell check comments in code? Are there any idle plugins or modules that do this? In Emacs you can use flyspell-prog-mode to check strings and comments automagically. Just a bit of editor elitism... Jason --

Re: HTML page into a string

2006-02-07 Thread Jason Earl
Tempo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In my last post I received some advice to use urllib.read() to get a whole html page as a string, which will then allow me to use BeautifulSoup to do what I want with the string. But when I was researching the 'urllib' module I couldn't find anything about its

Re: Extract contents of html cells

2006-02-04 Thread Jason Earl
Robot [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dear all, I need to create a script which will extract the contents of 2 cells of an html that contains a specified number of cells.Then I need to put that contents in another cells of my own html page.How can i do that?Any samples, tutorials, advice? The