Re: Python is fun (useless social thread) ;-)

to even start writing things in C++. No need to compile or debug in Python. When something goes wrong: CTRL+C, correct and restart. Python is fun because it's easy to write, to understand and to use. -- == Remi Villatel [EMAIL PROTECTED] == -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: What's wrong in this HTML Source file of a Bank

ser(me). This is definitively not the right newsgroup for HTML issues. Go to: http://validator.w3.org/ And I'm already too nice... -- == Remi Villatel [EMAIL PROTECTED] == -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: python coding contest

pythonic goal if you count in bytes. The same contest with the length of the code measured in "pythonic units" would be better. When I say "pythonic unit", I mean to count 1 unit for each variable, literal, operator or key-word. That would be more pythonic. ...b

Re: python coding contest

ure at 99% that I'm really stuck... -- == Remi Villatel [EMAIL PROTECTED] == -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: python coding contest

27;ll have to see what can be done... 39 bytes... 53 bytes... It gives me the impression to follow a jet plane with a bike with my 179 bytes! There isn't a single superfluous byte. My code is so compressed that the syntactic colorizer can't cope any more. I definitively need a

Re: python coding contest

rbt wrote: > Does positioning matter? For example, say I give it '123' is it ok to > output this: > > 1 > 2 > 3 > > Or does it have to be 123 Download the test suite and you'll see that only 123 on one line passes the test. Sorry... -- ==

Re: python coding contest

in order to > be able to submit) Do your best! I'd really like to see your code. Right now, 179 chars doesn't seem enough for me to write a "Hello world". ;-) -- == Remi Villatel [EMAIL PROTECTED] == -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Polling, Fifos, and Linux

f you kill the listener, the writer reports a broken pipe when it tries to flush(). The writer can close and open the pipe to its liking, the listener doesn't care. The only problem is that the writer freezes when it opens the pipe until there is a listener at the other end. A

Re: Loop until condition is true

; used to it. Grandfathers and eggs. Now, excuse me but I have a group of savage AI written in bad style Python to tame. -- == Remi Villatel [EMAIL PROTECTED] == -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Loop until condition is true

uot;while". So far, all I got is: while True: some(code) if final_condition is True: break # # What I don't find so "nice" is to have to build an infinite loop only to break it. Is there a better recipe? --