Re: Python 2.5 licensing: stop this change

2006-04-01 Thread ajones
I say good riddence. Python's success has always been on its merits as an open source application platform. Corprate usage has always been relatively insignificant, and I suspect that many companies are overrepresenting the level of dependance they have on python in an attempt to steer their compet

Re: do design patterns still apply with Python?

2006-03-02 Thread ajones
John Salerno wrote: > Yeah, that's what I was wondering. I wonder if, after reading a DP book, > I might have to 'unlearn' some things when applying them to Python. I would say adjust instead of unlearn. This is probably true to a lesser or greater extent of any language for which your DP book was

Re: remote module importing (urlimport)

2006-02-24 Thread ajones
What plans do you have for security in this? I would think that in order to trust this over the network you would at least need a certificate identifying the server as well as some method of verifying package contents. Either way, cool stuff. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-lis

Re: Too Many if Statements?

2006-02-09 Thread ajones
slogging_away wrote: > Terry Reedy wrote: > > > The OP did not specify whether all of his if-tests were sequential as in > > your test or if some were nested. I vaguely remember there being an indent > > limit (40??). > > Most of the if statements are nested. Almost all of them fall under a > ce

Re: Fuzzy Lookups

2006-01-30 Thread ajones
BBands wrote: > I have some CDs and have been archiving them on a PC. I wrote a Python > script that spans the archive and returns a list of its contents: > [[genre, artist, album, song]...]. I wanted to add a search function to > locate all the versions of a particular song. This is harder than y