Re: how to read in the newsreader

On Mon, 16 Oct 2017 08:57:18 +0100, Chris Green wrote: > Michael Torrie wrote: >> On 10/15/2017 08:50 PM, Andrew Z wrote: >> > Gents, >> > how do i get this group in a newsreader? The digest i'm getting is >> > not >> > workable for me - i can't reply , can only read the

Re: Heroku (was Re: Lies in education [was Re: The "loop and a half"])

On Sat, 14 Oct 2017 11:41:08 +0200, Peter J. Holzer wrote: > On 2017-10-13 21:42, Ben Bacarisse wrote: >> That's one way to put it. Another is that to use Python I need to buy >> a new service that is already configured. > > That's exactly the same for PHP. You can't use

Re: Lies in education [was Re: The "loop and a half"]

On Sat, 14 Oct 2017 01:48:44 +1300, Gregory Ewing wrote: > Steve D'Aprano wrote: >> I wasn't questioning where the data came from, but how the compiler can >> write to READ ONLY MEMORY which might not even be in the same continent >> as the compiler that generated the code. > > I thought it

Re: The "loop and a half"

On Mon, 09 Oct 2017 17:27:27 +0300, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com>: > >> On 2017-10-09, alister via Python-list <python-list@python.org> wrote: >> >>> or if you want the luxury of a GUI editor simply ssh to the remote >

Re: The "loop and a half"

On Mon, 09 Oct 2017 08:00:34 +0200, Lele Gaifax wrote: > Chris Angelico writes: > >>> Or you could use a GUI editor that runs locally and has the capability >>> to edit files remotely over ssh. >> >> That's also a possibility, but I have yet to find one that can SSH to a >>

Re: stop/start windows services -python command

On Thu, 05 Oct 2017 17:37:11 -0700, Prabu T.S. wrote: > On Thursday, October 5, 2017 at 8:33:02 PM UTC-4, MRAB wrote: >> On 2017-10-05 23:32, Prabu T.S. wrote: >> > On Thursday, October 5, 2017 at 6:16:44 PM UTC-4, Prabu T.S. wrote: >> >> hello all,what is the command to stop and start windows

Re: The "loop and a half"

On Wed, 04 Oct 2017 20:16:29 +1300, Gregory Ewing wrote: > Steve D'Aprano wrote: >> On Wed, 4 Oct 2017 01:40 pm, Chris Angelico wrote: >> >>>You know, you don't HAVE to economize on letters. It's okay to call >>>your parameters "prompt" instead of "prmt". Remember, that's part of >>>your API. >>

Re: Spam

> They are literally criminals, they use computer viruses and malware to > hijack people's computers to send their spam, and you want to trust them > and buy from them? this was probably a "Drive By" posy to get the original spam more attention & possibly bypass spam filters -- Come live

Re: Beginners and experts (Batchelder blog post)

On Wed, 27 Sep 2017 18:18:10 -0700, Larry Hudson wrote: > On 09/27/2017 09:41 AM, leam hall wrote: >> On Sat, Sep 23, 2017 at 5:26 PM, Ned Batchelder >> wrote: > [snip] >> >> The question is, what should a person "know" when hiring out as a >> programmer? What is 'know"

Re: Grumpy-pants spoil-sport [was Re: [Tutor] beginning to code]

On Tue, 26 Sep 2017 14:16:47 +, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2017-09-26, Ned Batchelder wrote: >> On 9/25/17 10:20 PM, Steve D'Aprano wrote: >>> On Tue, 26 Sep 2017 02:54 am, Ned Batchelder wrote: >>> [...] >>> >>> >>> >> We've been asked nicely by the list mod to stop

Re: Assertions

On Fri, 22 Sep 2017 21:15:54 +1000, Steve D'Aprano wrote: > On Fri, 22 Sep 2017 08:50 pm, alister wrote: > >>> The bottom line is, if I saw >>> >>> if not (thing > 0): raise AssertionError(...) >>> >>> in a code review, I'd probably insist that either it be changed to use >>> `assert`, >>> or

Re: Assertions

On Fri, 22 Sep 2017 03:44:59 +1000, Steve D'Aprano wrote: > On Fri, 22 Sep 2017 02:29 am, Tobiah wrote: > >> Are these completely equivalent? >> >> def foo(thing): >> >> assert(thing > 0), "Thing must be greater than zero" >> >> >> def foo(thing): >> >> if not (thing > 0):

Re: Research paper "Energy Efficiency across Programming Languages: How does energy, time, and memory relate?"

On Wed, 20 Sep 2017 14:14:24 +0100, Paul Moore wrote: > On 20 September 2017 at 13:58, alister via Python-list > <python-list@python.org> wrote: >> On Tue, 19 Sep 2017 14:40:17 -0400, leam hall wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 2:37 PM, Stephan Houben < >

Re: Research paper "Energy Efficiency across Programming Languages: How does energy, time, and memory relate?"

On Tue, 19 Sep 2017 14:40:17 -0400, leam hall wrote: > On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 2:37 PM, Stephan Houben < > stephan...@gmail.com.invalid> wrote: > >> Op 2017-09-19, Steven D'Aprano schreef > pearwood.info>: >> >> > There is a significant chunk of the Python community for

Re: [Tutor] beginning to code

On Tue, 12 Sep 2017 08:03:58 -0700, Rick Johnson wrote: > Chris Angelico wrote: >> Rick Johnson wrote: >> > Ruby: >> > farray = [1.5, 1.9, 2.0, 1.0] >> > uniqueIntegers = farray.map{|f| f.to_i()}.uniq.length >> > >> > Python: >> > flist = [1.5, 1.9, 2.0, 1.0] >> > uniqueIntegers =

Re: id

On Thu, 24 Aug 2017 11:21:27 -0400, Ned Batchelder wrote: > On 8/24/17 10:42 AM, Stefan Ram wrote: >> i = 0 while True: print( f"{ i }:{ id( i )}" ); i = i + 1 >> >> This loop prints increasing ids while i is less than 257, and then it >> starts to print alternating ids. >> >> So this seems

Re: Feature suggestion -- return if true

On Mon, 21 Aug 2017 05:44:53 -0700, jek wrote: > This is a very old post, but since I just though I would like a > conditional return like this, and checked for previous proposals, I > thought I'd give my opinion. > > Unfortunately only about 8 of the 67 replies actually answer the > question,

Re: Default .py program and Edit with IDLE problem

On Sun, 20 Aug 2017 01:56:14 +1000, Steve D'Aprano wrote: > On Sun, 20 Aug 2017 12:11 am, Rick Johnson wrote: > >> On Saturday, August 19, 2017 at 5:39:19 AM UTC-5, Chris Angelico wrote: >>> I'm not sure how "refuse to guess" translates into "wipe it out and >>> start over". I *never* recommend

Re: Why is my class undefined?

On Wed, 16 Aug 2017 18:02:48 -0700, Sayth Renshaw wrote: > On Thursday, 17 August 2017 09:03:59 UTC+10, Ian wrote: > wrote: >> > Morning >> > >> > I haven't ventured into classes much before. When trying to follow >> > some examples and create my own classes in a jupyter notebook I >> > receive

Re: Solution Manual Test Bank for South-Western Federal Taxation 2018: Corporations, Partnerships, Estates and Trusts, 41st Edition by Hoffman

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Re: Validating regexp

On Thu, 10 Aug 2017 09:38:49 -0400, Larry Martell wrote: > On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 8:33 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: >> On 09Aug2017 10:46, Jon Ribbens wrote: >>> >>> On 2017-08-09, Cameron Simpson wrote: On 08Aug2017 17:31,

Re: Planning a Python Course for Beginners

On Tue, 08 Aug 2017 14:19:53 +, Stefan Ram wrote: > I am planning a Python course. > > I started by writing the course akin to courses I gave in other > languages, that means, the course starts roughly with these topics: > > - number and string literals - types of number and string

Re: Direct Download Movies - No Download Limits - Download DivX DVD Movies

On Sun, 30 Jul 2017 13:21:30 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Sun, Jul 30, 2017 at 1:08 PM, wrote: >> On Saturday, December 5, 2009 at 8:52:52 PM UTC-8, hussain dandan >> wrote: >>> Movie Download Reviews offers Free Online Movie Download,Hollywood >>> Movie

Re: Installing matplotlib on python3

On Thu, 27 Jul 2017 04:40:40 -0700, FS wrote: > I just installed matplotlib on debian and I tried to import it on > python3. It cannot be found however it can be found on python 2.x. No > surprise: > A 'find -name matplotliib' reveals: > /usr/share/matplotlib

Re: Recent Spam problem

On Tue, 25 Jul 2017 17:29:56 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 4:50 PM, wrote: >> I see two solutions: >> >> 1. We build new architecture or adept current one so it's more like a >> blockchain, have to calculate some hash before being able to post

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