On Thu, 03 Dec 2015 06:21:45 +0200, Steve Hayes
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>On Wed, 2 Dec 2015 15:20:13 + (UTC), Grant Edwards
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>>On 2015-12-02, Richard Heathfield wrote:
>>> On 02/12/15 08:57, Juha Nieminen wrote:
>>>> In comp.lang.c++ Steve Hayes wrote:
>&
On Wed, 2 Dec 2015 15:20:13 + (UTC), Grant Edwards
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>On 2015-12-02, Richard Heathfield wrote:
>> On 02/12/15 08:57, Juha Nieminen wrote:
>>> In comp.lang.c++ Steve Hayes wrote:
>>>> You download things FROM a computer, you upload them TO a comp
much about computers, anything else you
say is obviously not worth readin.
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On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 04:58:30 +, ÏÄ»ªÁÖ wrote:
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ported OS for Python 3.5+
Or revert to an earlier version of Python that does work.
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ncluding Python) need to be updated, but when I've downloaded and
updated them, the update hasn't worked.
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>http://www.openbookproject.net/thinkcs/python/english3e/
>How to Think Like a Computer Scientist:Learning with Python 3
>
>Many of these are updated versions (2 or 3 years old) of well known py2
>books.
That may be so, but I've not seen any of them in any bookshops or
It's much easier, and you don't have to spend hours searching online
for differences between 3.x and 2.x just to find what caused an error
in an example script.
Once you've l;earnt it, then you can start learning the differences,
and maybe by that time there will be a book that de
ean with Python
>3. With respect to programming, are you
>amateur (unpaid)
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dustry) skilled Professional Candidates,
So what does it actually DO?
I'm assuming that it's some kind of enhancement for Python, but why
would anyone actually use it?
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On Wed, 17 Jun 2015 17:49:35 -0400, Saran Ahluwalia
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>Good Evening Everyone:
>
>I would like to have this JSON object written out to a CSV file so that the
You've already said that in another thread, and got several answers.
What are you? Some kind of troll?
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On Sat, 23 May 2015 19:01:55 +1000, Chris Angelico
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>On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 4:46 PM, savitha devi wrote:
>> I am developing a web scraper code using HTMLParser. I need to extract
>> text/email address from java script with in the HTMLCode.I am beginner level
>> in python coding and totall
ily frowned upon here.
>>
>>TIA.
>
>Would it be possible to use a script that checks every incoming mail to the
>Python mail list? Main ingredients beatfilsoup (to textify
And that badly formatted posts like this are corrected for proper line
length.
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On Thu, 19 Mar 2015 14:57:33 -0700 (PDT), bv4bv4...@gmail.com wrote:
>Monotheism - One God
There is no God but Monty, and Python is his prophet.
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lear is whether odo is something you have to download
somewhere.
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sionally to communicate.
>
>I really dont understand what we are communicating (or not) about...
>
>Can you hear my accent? I certainly cant hear yours
And if I call a Python list "books", is Python going to complain about
my accent? Really?
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erwhelming, try to speak like a BBC newsreader. Your native accent can
>be very difficult to understand.
Are things named in Python named with an accent?
Can you tell what my accent is like when I write in this newsgroup?
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ifferences
were between SQLite and MySQL, and I got a lot of uninformative
gobbledegook.
This was more informative.
I would summarise it by saying if you want a multiuser database
running on a network, use MySQL. If you want a standalone database on
a single machine, use SQLite.
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>But SQLite3 is *not* great if you look on it as a database engine
>comparable with DB2, PostgreSQL, and even MySQL.
And how does that answer the OP's question?
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re you saying that Frank made three major errors of judgement? :)
No, ChrisA did, in answering questions that no one was asking, and
changing the subject of the thread without changing the subject line.
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welcome to disagree, but since PostgreSQL doesn't cost any
>money and (on Linux at least; can't speak for other platforms) doesn't
>take significant effort to set up, I will continue to recommend it.
All of which has nothing, absolutely nothing, to do with the OP's
quest
at extent it uses Python to interac t
with the database, but it seems to do a pretty good job of handling
dates, calculating ages etc.
http://www.rootsmagic.com/
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notice.
1. I found it already on my computer.
2. It seemed to be used to run the Gramps genealogy program, which is quite
complex. I was impressed.
3. When I started to look at it, I found that strings could be any length and
were not limited to swomething arbitrary, like 256 characters.
-
dora had it
as well.
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from there.
Could ignore XML by just converting to json with something like xml2json and
pushing to many databases from there.
(reposted to fix the long lines produced by the lame GoogleGroups editor)
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uot;
I usually reply to those saying "So why did you send it to me?"
I suspect that in most cases the senders do not know that that is what their
mail program is sending, and do it to let them know that their mesdsage could
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Web:
On Mon, 22 Dec 2014 17:33:10 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote:
>On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 5:21 PM, Steve Hayes wrote:
>> Yes, my initial reaction was "that's awesome".
>>
>> And my second thought was that it was scary.
>>
>> I ran it. It worked, and prin
e obfuscated code
>for production use.
Yes, my initial reaction was "that's awesome".
And my second thought was that it was scary.
I ran it. It worked, and printed "Hello world". I was awed.
But what if I had run it and it reformatted my hard disk?
How would I ha
),
>lambda _: _.func_code.co_argcount,
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>lambda _: _,
>lambda _, __: _,
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On Fri, 21 Nov 2014 15:07:39 -0500, Denis Beauregard
wrote:
>On Fri, 21 Nov 2014 14:35:14 -0500, Dennis Lee Bieber
> wrote in soc.genealogy.computing:
>
>>On Fri, 21 Nov 2014 10:35:19 +0200, Steve Hayes
>>declaimed the following:
>>
>>
>>>This Python s
On Sat, 22 Nov 2014 06:51:15 +1100, Paul Blair
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>On 22-Nov-2014 6:35 am, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
>> On Fri, 21 Nov 2014 10:35:19 +0200, Steve Hayes
>> declaimed the following:
>>
>>
>>> This Python script does it for me.
>>>
>>> ye
On Fri, 21 Nov 2014 14:50:36 -0500, Dennis Lee Bieber
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>On Fri, 21 Nov 2014 12:15:03 +0200, Steve Hayes
>declaimed the following:
>
>>On Fri, 21 Nov 2014 19:40:22 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote:
>>
>>>On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 7:35 PM, Steve Hayes wrote:
>&
On Fri, 21 Nov 2014 17:03:12 +, duncan smith
wrote:
>On 21/11/14 08:35, Steve Hayes wrote:
>> I've finally found a use for Python.
>>
>> When, in the course of my genealogy research, I look at census or burial
>> records, I often want to work out a perso
On Fri, 21 Nov 2014 10:20:06 +, Mark Lawrence
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>On 21/11/2014 08:50, Gary Herron wrote:
>> On 11/21/2014 12:35 AM, Steve Hayes wrote:
>>> I've finally found a use for Python.
>>>
>>> When, in the course of my genealogy research, I look at cens
On Fri, 21 Nov 2014 19:40:22 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote:
>On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 7:35 PM, Steve Hayes wrote:
>> This Python script does it for me.
>>
>> year = input("Year: ")
>> age = input("Age: ")
>> born = year-age
>> print
g routines, namely to convert the kinds of dates
produced by genealogy programs to a simple -mm-dd that computer database
programs can understand, so that "Abt May 1677" would be rendered as
"1677-05-00"
Has anyone done something like that in Python?
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On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 16:12:07 +1100, Ben Finney
wrote:
>Steve Hayes writes:
>
>> I have a book on Python that advocates dividing programs into modules,
>> and importing them when needed.
>
>Which book is this? (This is not essential to your question, but it
>might
understand that Python is an interpreted language, and If I wrote a
program in Python like that, and wanted to run it on another computer, how
would it find all the modules to import at run-time, unless I copied the whole
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> [...]"
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On Sun, 3 Aug 2014 15:12:02 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:
>On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 3:11 PM, Steve Hayes wrote:
>>>You're looking at a Python 2 book, and you're running Python 3. I
>>>would recommend instead getting a Python 3 tutorial:
>>
>> Or do a
this instead:
>
>print("Game Over")
>
>You're looking at a Python 2 book, and you're running Python 3. I
>would recommend instead getting a Python 3 tutorial:
Or do as I did, and install Python 2.
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On Sun, 27 Jul 2014 14:42:49 +0200, Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick
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>On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 2:24 PM, Steve Hayes wrote:
>> The main reason I use Evernote is that I found a book for it, and couln't
>> find
>> one for OneNote.
>
>Both are actually self-explanat
On Sun, 27 Jul 2014 10:10:44 +0200, Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick
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>On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 6:49 AM, Steve Hayes wrote:
>> The one thing that isn't available with LibreOffice is OneNote, which you
>> don't seem to be able to get separately, and doesn't seem to hav
r would do more
>with invitations, cards, and maybe reports/brochures)!
The one thing that isn't available with LibreOffice is OneNote, which you
don't seem to be able to get separately, and doesn't seem to have any
documentation (ie 3rd party books on it). But there is Evernote.
o a members-only list
So has someone tried to gate the comp.lang.python newsgroup to an Sqlite
mailing list without the list owner's permission?
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ople using this list. I
> for one can't even see them.
And for those reading it as a newsgroup they don't work at all.
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On Sun, 01 Jun 2014 07:01:46 BST, Bob Martin wrote:
>in 722929 20140601 035727 Steve Hayes wrote:
>
>>No, it's a bit like flying in a Boeing 747 rather than a Concorde. The latyer
>>may be later and more technically advanced and flew faster, but no one uses or
>>
iding point?
Yes.
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On Sat, 31 May 2014 15:44:46 +0300, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
>Steve Hayes :
>
>> I'll leave Python 3.2 on my computer, but 2.7.5 will be the one I'm
>> installing now. Even if I could *find* a book that deals with Python
>> 3.x, couldn't afford to but yet an
On 31 May 2014 12:30:11 GMT, Steven D'Aprano
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>On Sat, 31 May 2014 12:07:59 +0200, Steve Hayes wrote:
>
>> I'll leave Python 3.2 on my computer, but 2.7.5 will be the one I'm
>> installing now. Even if I could *find* a book that deals with Python
>>
On Sat, 31 May 2014 13:09:45 +0200, Johannes Bauer
wrote:
>On 31.05.2014 12:07, Steve Hayes wrote:
>
>> So I bought this book, and decided that whatever version of Python it deals
>> with, that's the one I will download and use.
>
>This sounds like remarkably bad
-0-672-33687-4
For Python 2.7.5
I'll leave Python 3.2 on my computer, but 2.7.5 will be the one I'm installing
now. Even if I could *find* a book that deals with Python 3.x, couldn't afford
to but yet another Python book.
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to learn Python.
I had Python 3 on my computer (came on one of those freebie discs you get with
magazines, I think) and my son had a book on it, so I thought with the program
and the instructions I should be able to learn something.
It took me a week, with some help from this forum, to get the Prin
On Wed, 9 Apr 2014 01:07:20 -0700 (PDT), wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote:
>Well, there is a (serious) problem somewhere...
As there is with pandas and infertility.
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more quickly -- Prolog for AI programs, for
example.
So the question is, which kinds of programs is Python best for?
I'm a novice at it, so it's a question that concerns me. From what I've heard
and read, it seems to be a fairly good general-purpose language, and it seems
to be mo
On Thu, 2 Jan 2014 01:07:54 +1100, David wrote:
>On 1 January 2014 23:38, Steve Hayes wrote:
>>
>> I was thinking or of this:
>>
>>>>> python g:\work\module1.py
>> File "", line 1
>> python g:\work\module1.py
>>
On Wed, 01 Jan 2014 22:37:45 +1100, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
>Steve Hayes wrote:
>
>> I borrowed a book called "Learning Python" by Lutz and Asher, which is
>> geared for 2.2/2.3.
>>
>> But the version I have in Windows is 3.2, and it seems that even
ux, so I booted into that and it seemed to work there, but
it seems that the differences between the versions are not trivial.
So perhaps I should just try to install 2.x in Windows, and learn that.
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ine and gone back to 1990!!
>
>Not everything that's changed since 1990 has been an improvement.
And vice versa.
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all anyone even slightly to the right of them "fascist". But
since both Nazis and fqascists were authoritarian types, perhaps we can create
a portmanteau word to cover it -- how about "grammatarian" for "authoritarian
grammarian".
No, don't tell me.
The libertari
On Wed, 4 Sep 2013 14:03:09 + (UTC), Grant Edwards
wrote:
>On 2013-09-04, Steve Hayes wrote:
>
>> Can anyone recommend a web site that gives a good beginner's guide to Python?
>
>http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/
>
>> -- what kind of projects Pytho
ide to its syntax
I've read about Python, and installed it on my computer when I found it on a
DVD that came with a magazine, but I haven't got a clue about how to use it.
So any advice on the best web sites for absolute novices would be welcome.
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