Re: gmpy moving to code.google.com

2007-02-28 Thread aleaxit
On Feb 27, 1:38 pm, "Ziga Seilnacht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alex Martelli wrote: > > On Feb 27, 2007, at 2:59 AM, Daniel Nogradi wrote: > > > > Hi Alex, > > > > I did another test, this time with python 2.4 on suse and things are > > > worse than in the previous case (which was python 2.5 on

Re: gmpy moving to code.google.com

2007-02-28 Thread aleaxit
On Feb 27, 9:10 am, "Daniel Nogradi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi Alex, > > > > I did another test, this time with python 2.4 on suse and things are > > > worse than in the previous case (which was python 2.5 on fedora 3), > > > ouput of 'python gmp_test.py' follows: > > > Interesting! gmpy

Re: Rational numbers

2007-02-26 Thread aleaxit
On Feb 25, 3:09 pm, Fernando Perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > gmpy itself is or should be pretty trivial to build on any platform > > (and I'll always happily accept any fixes that make it better on any > > specific platform, since it's easy to make them conditional s

Re: Rational numbers

2007-02-25 Thread aleaxit
On Feb 24, 12:25 am, Toby A Inkster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > aleaxit wrote: > > If anybody who has easy access to Microsoft's MSVC++.NET (and is willing > > to try building GMP 4.2 with/for it), or a PPC Mac with XCode installed > > (possibly with MacOSX 10.3.

Re: Rational numbers

2007-02-23 Thread aleaxit
On Feb 23, 3:44 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... > I can keep building gmpy for Windows. I actually use MINGW since > getting GMP compiled under MSVC is "challanging". I should be able to > build new binaries for Windows this weekend. And I would be happy to > point everyone to a real release.

Re: Rational numbers

2007-02-23 Thread aleaxit
On Feb 23, 2:52 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Am I hallucinating? Didn't I see at least some version > > of gmpy for Python 2.5 on SourceForge awhile back? > > I distinctly remember thinking that I don't have to > > direct people to your site, but SourceForge is not > > showing anything beyond v

Re: Rational numbers

2007-02-23 Thread aleaxit
On Feb 23, 12:00 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... > > > + gmpy is looking pretty unmaintained (dead) to me (newest update of > > > cvs 10 months ago). > > I worked withAlex Martelli(gmpy's maintainer) to fix a bug found by > mensanator. With Alex's permission, I released it as gmpy 1.04a. Alex >

Re: Unfortunate newbie questions!

2005-09-12 Thread aleaxit
Alessandro Bottoni wrote: ... > > - In college, I came to admire the Schaum's Outline book > >approach--again heavy on problems and solutions! What's > >the closest Python equivalent? > > Maybe this: > > Python Cookbook > Alex Martelli, David Ascher > O'Reilly I'd rather s

Re: up to date books?

2005-08-22 Thread aleaxit
One of my most popular talks is "re-learning Python" -- can be anywhere between 1 and 4 hours, depending on level of detail -- it's all about the changes 1.5.2 -> today's Python, why they came about and why you would want to use them... Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-lis

Re: up to date books?

2005-08-22 Thread aleaxit
Glad to hear that my efforts to cover some of 2.3's release features in a mostly-2.2 book were appreciated. I'm probably going to do the same thing for the 2nd edition of the Nutshell: wait until 2.5 alpha's out so I can mention _its_ feechurz in a mostly-2.4 book... meaning the 2nd ed of the Nuts

Re: up to date books?

2005-08-18 Thread aleaxit
John Salerno wrote: ... > Just one more quick question: I'm basically learning programming for > fun, and I'm concentrating on C# right now. Python seems interesting, > but I was wondering if I should even bother. Would it supplement C# in > any way, or can C# do everything Python can? C# and P