Re: Python 3.6.0a2 is now available

2016-06-15 Thread cjw
On Monday, 13 June 2016 23:57:20 UTC-4, Ned Deily wrote: > On behalf of the Python development community and the Python 3.6 release > team, I'm happy to announce the availability of Python 3.6.0a2. > 3.6.0a2 is the first of four planned alpha releases of Python 3.6, > the next major release of

Re: Access to comp.lang.python

2010-05-19 Thread cjw
On 18-May-10 19:27 PM, Tim Chase wrote: On 05/15/2010 05:34 PM, cjw wrote: It seems that messages are coming from a number of sources, such as gmane and google groups. The problem is that many messages seem to get unlinked from their threads. I use Thunderbird 3.0.5 and wonder whether

Re: another question about classes and subclassing

2010-05-19 Thread cjw
On 18-May-10 17:51 PM, Alex Hall wrote: Hi again all, More about classes. I am still looking into my battleship game, and I will have several different craft. All craft have common attribs (position, alive, and so on) but each craft may be a surface ship, submarine, or airplane. All three are

Re: Access to comp.lang.python

2010-05-17 Thread cjw
On 16-May-10 12:47 PM, Jim Byrnes wrote: Grant Edwards wrote: On 2010-05-16, cjwc...@ncf.ca wrote: On 16-May-10 01:31 AM, James Mills wrote: On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Aahza...@pythoncraft.com wrote: It's also at least partly due to problems with mail-news gateways and the differing

Re: Access to comp.lang.python

2010-05-16 Thread cjw
On 16-May-10 01:31 AM, James Mills wrote: On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Aahza...@pythoncraft.com wrote: It's also at least partly due to problems with mail-news gateways and the differing fields used to maintain threading. Some blame goes on MUAs too :) Thanks for the responses. Is it

Access to comp.lang.python

2010-05-15 Thread cjw
This isn't about Python but I'm seeking suggestions as to the best way to access the newsgroup. It seems that messages are coming from a number of sources, such as gmane and google groups. The problem is that many messages seem to get unlinked from their threads. I use Thunderbird 3.0.5 and

Re: How to test whether bit is set within a flag with Python ?

2010-05-12 Thread cjw
On 12-May-10 14:40 PM, MRAB wrote: robert somerville wrote: I am trying to determine how to test whether variors bits are set within a byte (or larger flag) , the python 'and' and 'or' do not seem to be doing what i want .. does anybody have some sample code showing how to do it ?? e.g. (in C)

Re: unittest not being run

2010-05-10 Thread cjw
On 10-May-10 10:21 AM, John Maclean wrote: On 10/05/2010 14:38, J. Cliff Dyer wrote: My guess is you mixed tabs and spaces. One tab is always treated by the python interpreter as being equal to eight spaces, which is two indentation levels in your code. Though if it were exactly as you show

Re: Teaching Programming

2010-05-03 Thread cjw
On 03-May-10 09:38 AM, Samuel Williams wrote: Dear Chris, Thanks for reading further into the site. Yes, it is complicated to provide a good comparison. It isn't always accurate and I welcome feedback. Please be aware that orange does not mean problem - it simply means take note that there

Re: ooolib, reading writing a spread sheet and keep formatting

2010-04-29 Thread cjw
On 28-Apr-10 23:18 PM, Kushal Kumaran wrote: On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 5:46 AM, News123news1...@free.fr wrote: Hi, I'm making first attempts to modify a few cells of an openoffice spreadsheet. Try the xlrd and xlwt modules, and the documentation at http://www.python-excel.org/ The tutorial

Re: array matching

2010-04-29 Thread cjw
On 29-Apr-10 14:46 PM, MRAB wrote: Bill Jordan wrote: Hey guys, I am sorry if this is not the right list to post some questions. I have a simple question please and would appreciate some answers as I am new to Python. I have 2 D array: test = [[A,1],[B,2],[A,3][B,4]] I want to arrang this

Re: assigning multi-line strings to variables

2010-04-28 Thread cjw
On 27-Apr-10 22:31 PM, Brendan Abel wrote: On Apr 27, 7:20 pm, goldtechgoldt...@worldpost.com wrote: Hi, This is undoubtedly a newbie question. How doI assign variables multiline strings? If I try this i get what's cited below. Thanks. d=d d d Traceback (most recent call last):

Re: Interesting talk on Python vs. Ruby and how he would like Python to have just a bit more syntactic flexibility.

2010-02-17 Thread cjw
On 17-Feb-10 05:48 AM, Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: Lawrence D'Oliveiro a écrit : In message 60b1abce-4381-46ab-91ed- f2ab2154c...@g19g2000yqe.googlegroups.com, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: Also, lambda's are expressions, not statements ... Is such a distinction Pythonic, or not? Python is (by

Re: method names nounVerb or verbNoun

2010-02-11 Thread cjw
On 05-Feb-10 14:53 PM, Wanderer wrote: Which is the more accepted way to compose method names nounVerb or verbNoun? For example voltageGet or getVoltage? getVoltage sounds more normal, but voltageGet is more like voltage.Get. I seem to mix them and I should probably pick one way and stick with

Re: Numeric Python

2006-05-03 Thread cjw
Numeric = numarray = numpy is in a state of transition. It might be better if you installed the latest version of numpy. Colin W. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list