Re: Increasing the diversity of people who write Python (was:

2017-11-27 Thread nospam . Rustom Mody
On Monday, November 27, 2017 at 8:07:47 PM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 1:25 AM, Rustom Mody wrote: > > You could go one step more sophisticated and use TeX-input method > > (C-x RET C-\) > > After which \'e will collapse as ÄC > > â £Yeah ok but how the ^)*^$# am I to

Re: Increasing the diversity of people who write Python (was:

2017-11-27 Thread nospam . Rustom Mody
On Friday, November 24, 2017 at 10:11:24 PM UTC+5:30, Skip Montanaro wrote: > > Because if I already can't understand the words, it will be more useful > > to me to be able to type them reliably at a keyboard, for replication, > > search, discussion with others about the code, etc. > > I am probabl

Re: Benefits of unicode identifiers (was: Allow additional separator

2017-11-27 Thread nospam . Rustom Mody
On Monday, November 27, 2017 at 6:48:56 PM UTC+5:30, Rustom Mody wrote: > Having said that I should be honest to mention that I saw your post first on > my phone where the î, showed but the gØÜ« showed as a rectangle something like âî$ > > I suspect that îö OTOH would have workedâ | dunno Yeah îö

Re: Benefits of unicode identifiers (was: Allow additional separator

2017-11-27 Thread nospam . Rustom Mody
On Monday, November 27, 2017 at 3:43:20 PM UTC+5:30, Antoon Pardon wrote: > Op 23-11-17 om 19:42 schreef Mikhail V: > > Chris A wrote: > > > >>> On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 1:10 AM, Mikhail V wrote: > >>> > Chris A wrote: > > Fortunately for the world, you're not the one who decided whic

Re: connect four (game)

2017-11-27 Thread nospam . Rustom Mody
On Monday, November 27, 2017 at 12:12:24 PM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 3:04 PM, Rustom Mody wrote: > >> Aviators have pinned down the best solution to this, I think. A pilot > >> is not expected to be perfect; he is expected to follow checklists. A > >> preflight che

Re: connect four (game)

2017-11-27 Thread nospam . Rustom Mody
On Monday, November 27, 2017 at 9:08:42 AM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 1:55 PM, Michael Torrie wrote: > > On 11/26/2017 07:11 AM, bartc wrote: > >>> You may argue that testing doesn't matter for his small game, written > >>> for his own education and amusement. The f

Re: [META] Why are duplicate posts coming through?

2017-11-27 Thread nospam . Rustom Mody
On Monday, November 27, 2017 at 5:35:09 AM UTC+5:30, Skip Montanaro wrote: > Chris, > > Please forward one or two to me. Mark Sapiro and I have been banging on the > SpamBayes instance which supports the Usenet gateway. I suppose it's > possible some change caused the problem you're seeing. > > Ski

Re: Compile Python 3 interpreter to force 2-byte unicode

2017-11-27 Thread nospam . nospam . nospam . Rustom Mody
Mody) On Sunday, November 26, 2017 at 3:43:29 AM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Sun, Nov 26, 2017 at 9:05 AM, wojtek.mula wrote: > > Hi, my goal is to obtain an interpreter that internally > > uses UCS-2. Such a simple code should print 65535: > > > > import sys > > print sys.maxunicode

Re: Compile Python 3 interpreter to force 2-byte unicode

2017-11-26 Thread nospam . nospam . Rustom Mody
On Sunday, November 26, 2017 at 3:43:29 AM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Sun, Nov 26, 2017 at 9:05 AM, wojtek.mula wrote: > > Hi, my goal is to obtain an interpreter that internally > > uses UCS-2. Such a simple code should print 65535: > > > > import sys > > print sys.maxunicode > > >

Re: Compile Python 3 interpreter to force 2-byte unicode

2017-11-26 Thread nospam . Rustom Mody
On Sunday, November 26, 2017 at 3:43:29 AM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Sun, Nov 26, 2017 at 9:05 AM, wojtek.mula wrote: > > Hi, my goal is to obtain an interpreter that internally > > uses UCS-2. Such a simple code should print 65535: > > > > import sys > > print sys.maxunicode > > >