Re: Top posting and double spacing

2014-02-12 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
On Thu, Feb 13 2014,Rustom Mody wrote: [snipped 11 lines] > What we need is something like the following self-policing rules: > > - First couple of answers, say nothing about etiquette/norms > - Then start putting a gentle footnote indicating the issue along with the > answer > - If the problem

Re: Python HTTP POST

2013-07-18 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
On Thu, Jul 18 2013,Joel Goldstick wrote: [snipped 28 lines] > > Many people find urllib and urllib2 to be confusing. There is a module > called requests which makes this stuff a lot easier. ymmv > > http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/ Yes, please use this instead of the url* ones, eas

Re: Important features for editors

2013-07-08 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
On Mon, Jul 08 2013,Skip Montanaro wrote: >>> I couldn't live without the keyboard macro record and playback. >> >> I used to work with a programmer who couldn't live without his insulin >> injections. > > Hyperbole aside, two of my most common "crutches" are Emacs macros and > bash history. Give