Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-28 Thread Bob Martin
in 681910 20120927 131113 Devin Jeanpierre jeanpierr...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 2:13 AM, Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote: On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 09:15:00 +0100, Mark Lawrence wrote: And a response: http://data.geek.nz/python-is-doing-just-fine Summary

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-28 Thread Dwight Hutto
Summary of that article: Sure, you have all these legitimate concerns, but look, cake! Quote : This piece argues that Python is an easy-to-learn language that where you can be almost immediately productive in. It is, but so is every other language. hello world is the standard... follow the

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-28 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 27/09/2012 20:08, Terry Reedy wrote: On 9/27/2012 5:33 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: Nevertheless, I think there is something here. The consequences are nowhere near as dramatic as jmf claims, but it does seem that replace() has taken a serious performance hit. Perhaps it is unavoidable, but

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-28 Thread rusi
On Sep 27, 5:11 pm, Devin Jeanpierre jeanpierr...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 2:13 AM, Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote: On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 09:15:00 +0100, Mark Lawrence wrote: And a response: http://data.geek.nz/python-is-doing-just-fine Summary

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-28 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Fri, 28 Sep 2012 05:08:24 -0700, rusi wrote: On Sep 27, 5:11 pm, Devin Jeanpierre jeanpierr...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 2:13 AM, Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote: On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 09:15:00 +0100, Mark Lawrence wrote: And a response:

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-28 Thread rusi
On Sep 28, 5:54 pm, Steven D'Aprano steve +comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote: On Fri, 28 Sep 2012 05:08:24 -0700, rusi wrote: On Sep 27, 5:11 pm, Devin Jeanpierre jeanpierr...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 2:13 AM, Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote:

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-28 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 12:31 AM, Dennis Lee Bieber wlfr...@ix.netcom.com wrote: On Fri, 28 Sep 2012 14:37:21 +1000, Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general: For further details, poke around on the web; I'm sure you'll find plenty of good blog

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-28 Thread Ian Kelly
On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 8:58 AM, Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, MySQL has definitely improved. There was a time when its unreliability applied to all your data too, but now you can just click in InnoDB and have mostly-real transaction support etc. But there's still a lot of work

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-28 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 1:14 AM, Ian Kelly ian.g.ke...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 8:58 AM, Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, MySQL has definitely improved. There was a time when its unreliability applied to all your data too, but now you can just click in InnoDB and

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-28 Thread rurpy
On 09/27/2012 10:37 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:[...] * MySQL is designed for dynamic web sites, with lots of reading and not too much writing. Its row and table locking system is pretty rudimentary, and it's quite easy for performance to suffer really badly if you don't think about it. But if

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-28 Thread Devin Jeanpierre
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 8:59 PM, alex23 wuwe...@gmail.com wrote: On Sep 28, 2:17 am, Devin Jeanpierre jeanpierr...@gmail.com wrote: Uncharitably, it's just a way of hiding one's head in the sand, ignoring any problems Python has by focusing on what problems it doesn't have. But isn't that

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-28 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Fri, 28 Sep 2012 14:50:14 -0400, Devin Jeanpierre wrote: I'm pretty sure nobody thinks Python is on a death march. Don't be so sure. There's always *someone* complaining about something, and they're usually convinced that (Language X) is on it's last legs because (feature Y) is missing or

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-27 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Thu, 27 Sep 2012 15:37:35 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote: While PyPy is still a work in progress, and is not anywhere near as mature as (say) gcc or clang, it should be considered production-ready.

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-27 Thread Chris Angelico
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 4:01 PM, Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2012 15:37:35 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: Assuming it manages to catch up with Py3, which a decade makes entirely possible, this I can well believe. And while we're sounding all hopeful,

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-27 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 09:15:00 +0100, Mark Lawrence wrote: Hi all, I though this might be of interest. http://www.ironfroggy.com/software/i-am-worried-about-the-future-of- python And a response: http://data.geek.nz/python-is-doing-just-fine -- Steven --

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-27 Thread Serhiy Storchaka
On 27.09.12 09:08, Chris Angelico wrote: LAMP usually means PHP these days. There's a lot of that around. And Cyrillic Р means Ruby. :-P -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-27 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Wed, 26 Sep 2012 08:45:30 -0700, wxjmfauth wrote: Sorry guys, I'm only able to see this (with the Python versions an end user can download): [snip timeit results] While you have been all doom and gloom and negativity that Python has destroyed Unicode, I've actually done some testing. It

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-27 Thread Alex Strickland
Hi Sorry guys, I'm only able to see this (with the Python versions an end user can download): [snip timeit results] While you have been all doom and gloom and negativity that Python has destroyed Unicode, I thought that jmf's concerns were solely concerned with the selection of latin1 as

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-27 Thread Devin Jeanpierre
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 2:13 AM, Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote: On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 09:15:00 +0100, Mark Lawrence wrote: And a response: http://data.geek.nz/python-is-doing-just-fine Summary of that article: Sure, you have all these legitimate concerns, but look,

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-27 Thread Serhiy Storchaka
On 27.09.12 12:33, Steven D'Aprano wrote: Nevertheless, I think there is something here. The consequences are nowhere near as dramatic as jmf claims, but it does seem that replace() has taken a serious performance hit. Perhaps it is unavoidable, but perhaps not. If anyone else can confirm

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-27 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2012-09-27, Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 4:01 PM, Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote: Given how Perl has slipped in the last decade or so, that would be a step backwards for Python :-P LAMP usually means PHP these days. There's a

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-27 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Thu, 27 Sep 2012 08:11:13 -0400, Devin Jeanpierre wrote: On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 2:13 AM, Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote: On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 09:15:00 +0100, Mark Lawrence wrote: And a response: http://data.geek.nz/python-is-doing-just-fine Summary of that

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-27 Thread Chris Angelico
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 11:59 PM, Grant Edwards invalid@invalid.invalid wrote: On 2012-09-27, Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 4:01 PM, Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote: Given how Perl has slipped in the last decade or so, that would be

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-27 Thread Ian Kelly
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 4:43 AM, Alex Strickland s...@mweb.co.za wrote: I thought that jmf's concerns were solely concerned with the selection of latin1 as the 1 byte set. My impression was that if some set of characters was chosen that included all characters commonly used in French then all

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-27 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 27/09/2012 13:46, Serhiy Storchaka wrote: On 27.09.12 12:33, Steven D'Aprano wrote: Nevertheless, I think there is something here. The consequences are nowhere near as dramatic as jmf claims, but it does seem that replace() has taken a serious performance hit. Perhaps it is unavoidable, but

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-27 Thread Devin Jeanpierre
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2012 08:11:13 -0400, Devin Jeanpierre wrote: On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 2:13 AM, Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote: On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 09:15:00 +0100, Mark

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-27 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 27/09/2012 17:16, Devin Jeanpierre wrote: On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2012 08:11:13 -0400, Devin Jeanpierre wrote: On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 2:13 AM, Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote:

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-27 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 27/09/2012 07:13, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 09:15:00 +0100, Mark Lawrence wrote: Hi all, I though this might be of interest. http://www.ironfroggy.com/software/i-am-worried-about-the-future-of- python And a response: http://data.geek.nz/python-is-doing-just-fine

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-27 Thread Chris Angelico
On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 2:45 AM, Mark Lawrence breamore...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: The article Steven D'Aprano referred to is not a direct response to the article I referred to, yet your words are written as if it were. May I ask why? Or have I missed something? Steven cited it with the words And

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-27 Thread Devin Jeanpierre
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Mark Lawrence breamore...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: The article Steven D'Aprano referred to is not a direct response to the article I referred to, yet your words are written as if it were. May I ask why? Or have I missed something? Post hoc ergo propter hoc :( --

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-27 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 27/09/2012 17:49, Chris Angelico wrote: On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 2:45 AM, Mark Lawrence breamore...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: The article Steven D'Aprano referred to is not a direct response to the article I referred to, yet your words are written as if it were. May I ask why? Or have I missed

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-27 Thread Ethan Furman
Mark Lawrence wrote: On 27/09/2012 17:16, Devin Jeanpierre wrote: On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2012 08:11:13 -0400, Devin Jeanpierre wrote: Summary of that article: Sure, you have all these legitimate concerns, but look, cake! Did you read the

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-27 Thread Serhiy Storchaka
On 27.09.12 18:06, Ian Kelly wrote: I understand ISO 8859-15 (Latin-9) to be the preferred Latin character set for French, as it includes the Euro sign as well as a few characters that are not in Latin-1 but are nonetheless infrequently found in French. Even for Latin-9 Python 3.3 can be a

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-27 Thread Terry Reedy
On 9/27/2012 5:33 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: Nevertheless, I think there is something here. The consequences are nowhere near as dramatic as jmf claims, but it does seem that replace() has taken a serious performance hit. Perhaps it is unavoidable, but perhaps not. If anyone else can confirm

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-27 Thread wxjmfauth
This flexible string representation is wrong by design. Expecting to divide Unicode in chunks and to gain something is an illusion. It has been created by a computer scientist who thinks bytes when on that field one has to think bytes and usage of the characters at the same time. The latin-1 chunk

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-27 Thread Terry Reedy
On 9/27/2012 12:16 PM, Devin Jeanpierre wrote: Charitably, maybe we'd call this a way of encouraging people who are discouraged by the bleaker tone of Calvin's post. And that's valid, if we're worried about morale. Definitely Calvin's post could be -- and has been -- taken the wrong way. It

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-27 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 27/09/2012 20:09, wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote: This flexible string representation is wrong by design. Please state who agrees with this and why. Expecting to divide Unicode in chunks and to gain something is an illusion. Please provide the benchmarks to support your claim. It has been

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-27 Thread Chris Angelico
You're posting to both comp.lang.python and python-list, are you aware that that's redundant? On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 5:09 AM, wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote: This flexible string representation is wrong by design. Expecting to divide Unicode in chunks and to gain something is an illusion. It has

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-27 Thread alex23
On Sep 28, 2:47 am, Mark Lawrence breamore...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: ... why does the runtime environment have to be so limiting? Operations involving primitives could be easily compiled (on the fly - JIT) to machine code and more advanced objects exist as plug-ins. Oh, and it would be nice to be

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-27 Thread alex23
On Sep 28, 2:17 am, Devin Jeanpierre jeanpierr...@gmail.com wrote: Uncharitably, it's just a way of hiding one's head in the sand, ignoring any problems Python has by focusing on what problems it doesn't have. But isn't that what counterpoint is all about? Calvin's article highlighted what he

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-27 Thread Walter Hurry
On Fri, 28 Sep 2012 00:32:58 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 11:59 PM, Grant Edwards invalid@invalid.invalid wrote: On 2012-09-27, Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 4:01 PM, Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote: Given

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-27 Thread Jason Friedman
Fair enough, but it's the M in the LAMP stack I object to. I'd much rather have P. +1 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-27 Thread Littlefield, Tyler
On 9/27/2012 9:05 PM, Jason Friedman wrote: Fair enough, but it's the M in the LAMP stack I object to. I'd much rather have P. +1 I know this isn't the list for database discussions, but I've never gotten a decent answer. I don't know much about either, so I'm kind of curious why

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-27 Thread Wayne Werner
On 9/27/2012 9:05 PM, Jason Friedman wrote: Fair enough, but it's the M in the LAMP stack I object to. I'd much rather have P. +1 I know this isn't the list for database discussions, but I've never gotten a decent answer. I don't know much about either, so I'm kind of curious why

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-27 Thread Greg Donald
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 10:14 PM, Littlefield, Tyler ty...@tysdomain.com wrote: I know this isn't the list for database discussions, but I've never gotten a decent answer. I don't know much about either, so I'm kind of curious why postgresql over mysql? MySQL is an open-source PRODUCT owned by

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-27 Thread Greg Donald
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 10:37 PM, Wayne Werner wa...@waynewerner.com wrote: the only advice I can give on that is just learn to use both. I find there's little to lose in having experience with both. Most every good web framework out there supports lots of different databases through generic

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-27 Thread Chris Angelico
On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Greg Donald gdon...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 10:37 PM, Wayne Werner wa...@waynewerner.com wrote: the only advice I can give on that is just learn to use both. I find there's little to lose in having experience with both. Most every good web

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-27 Thread Littlefield, Tyler
On 9/27/2012 10:37 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Greg Donald gdon...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 10:37 PM, Wayne Werner wa...@waynewerner.com wrote: the only advice I can give on that is just learn to use both. I find there's little to lose in having

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-26 Thread Chris Angelico
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote: On Wed, 26 Sep 2012 14:10:28 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: The flip side to node.js is pyjs. After the ham-fisted, nasty way pyjamas project was hijacked this year, I'm not entirely sure I'd want to

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-26 Thread Paul Rubin
Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com writes: That is true, but the concept is still around - that you can write your code in some other language and compile to js. http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/The_JavaScript_Problem -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-26 Thread wxjmfauth
Le mercredi 26 septembre 2012 01:34:01 UTC+2, 8 Dihedral a écrit : Grant Edwards於 2012年9月26日星期三UTC+8上午2時25分31秒寫道: On 2012-09-25, Martin P. Hellwig martin.hell...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday, 25 September 2012 09:14:27 UTC+1, Mark Lawrence wrote: Hi all,

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-26 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 23:35:39 -0700, wxjmfauth wrote: Py 3.3 succeeded to somehow kill unicode and it has been transformed into an American product for American users. For the first time in Python's history, Python on 32-bit systems handles strings containing Supplementary Multilingual Plane

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-26 Thread Ethan Furman
wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote: Py 3.3 succeeded to somehow kill unicode and it has been transformed into an American product for American users. *plonk* -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-26 Thread Dwight Hutto
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 3:17 AM, Ethan Furman et...@stoneleaf.us wrote: wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote: Py 3.3 succeeded to somehow kill unicode and it has been transformed into an American product for American users. Well, we can all use american as a standard, or maybe you'd prefer to borrow

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-26 Thread Chris Angelico
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 5:39 PM, Dwight Hutto dwightdhu...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 3:17 AM, Ethan Furman et...@stoneleaf.us wrote: wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote: Py 3.3 succeeded to somehow kill unicode and it has been transformed into an American product for American users.

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-26 Thread Dwight Hutto
Well, we can all use american as a standard, or maybe you'd prefer to borrow my Latin for Idiots handbook. But then again google has a Universal Communicator going, so, does it matter? Never in the field of human discussion has there been so much reason for so many to plonk so few. Plonk it

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-26 Thread Terry Reedy
On 9/26/2012 2:35 AM, wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote: Py 3.3 succeeded to somehow kill unicode and it has been transformed into an American product for American users. Python 3.3 is the first version that handles the full unicode character set correctly on all platforms. If anything, it will make

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-26 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 26/09/2012 05:10, Chris Angelico wrote: On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote: SQL? ... it's time to sell your shares in Oracle. Ehh, I wouldn't be investing in Oracle, but that's more because I think free RDBMSes like PostgreSQL

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-26 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 26/09/2012 07:35, wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote: Py 3.3 succeeded to somehow kill unicode and it has been transformed into an American product for American users. jmf Why do you keep repeating this rubbish when you've already been shot to pieces? Don't you know when it's time to make sure

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-26 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 26/09/2012 08:44, Chris Angelico wrote: On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 5:39 PM, Dwight Hutto dwightdhu...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 3:17 AM, Ethan Furman et...@stoneleaf.us wrote: wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote: Py 3.3 succeeded to somehow kill unicode and it has been transformed into

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-26 Thread Chris Angelico
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 6:34 PM, Mark Lawrence breamore...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Further for somebody who is apparently up in the high tech world, why are you using a gmail account and hence sending garbage in more ways than one to mailing lists like this? I use gmail too, largely because I

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-26 Thread Dwight Hutto
Why do you keep repeating this rubbish when you've already been shot to pieces? I still feel intact, so whatever little shards of pain you intended to emit were lost on my ego. Don't you know when it's time to make sure that you're safely strapped in and reach for and use the release

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-26 Thread Dwight Hutto
I tried to make a play on that some days ago and failed dismally. That's the fucking understatement of the year. Thanks for putting me out of my misery :) -- No prob. Best Regards, David Hutto CEO: http://www.hitwebdevelopment.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-26 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 26/09/2012 09:47, Dwight Hutto wrote: I tried to make a play on that some days ago and failed dismally. That's the fucking understatement of the year. You remind me of the opening to the song Plaistow Patricia by Ian Dury and the Blockheads. Thanks for putting me out of my misery

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-26 Thread Dwight Hutto
That's the fucking understatement of the year. You remind me of the opening to the song Plaistow Patricia by Ian Dury and the Blockheads. Make a modern day/mainstream reference, and maybe someone will get it. Thanks for putting me out of my misery :) Again, no problem...anytime

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-26 Thread Ramchandra Apte
-the-future-of- python Interesting article, but the comments of those who say the only language I need to know is Python strike me as a bit limited. If this is the case, then Python can never be moved forward, because it is written in C. Incorrect. IronPython

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-26 Thread wxjmfauth
Le mercredi 26 septembre 2012 09:23:47 UTC+2, Steven D'Aprano a écrit : On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 23:35:39 -0700, wxjmfauth wrote: Py 3.3 succeeded to somehow kill unicode and it has been transformed into an American product for American users. Steven, you are correct. But the price

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-26 Thread Dwight Hutto
they are written in themselves, using some clever bootstrapping techniques. C is neither the most powerful, the oldest, the best, or the most fundamental language around. Would you recommend Assembly, because C just becomea macros of Assembly, or better yet machine language, which is line

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-26 Thread Chris Angelico
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 7:31 PM, wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote: you are correct. But the price you pay for this is extremely high. Now, practically all characters are affected, espacially those *in* the Basic *** Multilingual*** Plane, these characters used by non American user (No offense here,

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-26 Thread Hannu Krosing
On 09/26/2012 10:32 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote: On 26/09/2012 05:10, Chris Angelico wrote: On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote: SQL? ... it's time to sell your shares in Oracle. Ehh, I wouldn't be investing in Oracle, but that's more

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-26 Thread wxjmfauth
Le mercredi 26 septembre 2012 10:35:04 UTC+2, Mark Lawrence a écrit : On 26/09/2012 07:35, wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote: Py 3.3 succeeded to somehow kill unicode and it has been transformed into an American product for American users. jmf Why do you keep repeating this

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-26 Thread wxjmfauth
Le mercredi 26 septembre 2012 10:13:58 UTC+2, Terry Reedy a écrit : On 9/26/2012 2:35 AM, wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote: Py 3.3 succeeded to somehow kill unicode and it has been transformed into an American product for American users. Python 3.3 is the first version that

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-26 Thread Roy Smith
In article mailman.1421.1348653712.27098.python-l...@python.org, Hannu Krosing ha...@krosing.net wrote: You can get only so far using sales. At some point you have to deliver. But, by that time, the guy who closed the sale has already cashed his bonus check, bought his new BMW, and moved on

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-26 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 26/09/2012 10:31, wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote: I'm ready to be considered as an idiot, but I'm not blind. People here have seen enough of your writings to know that you're not an idiot. I'm feeling far too polite right now to state what they actually know about you. As soon as I

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-26 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 26/09/2012 14:01, Roy Smith wrote: In article mailman.1421.1348653712.27098.python-l...@python.org, Hannu Krosing ha...@krosing.net wrote: You can get only so far using sales. At some point you have to deliver. But, by that time, the guy who closed the sale has already cashed his bonus

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-26 Thread Littlefield, Tyler
On 9/26/2012 2:11 AM, Dwight Hutto wrote: Well, we can all use american as a standard, or maybe you'd prefer to borrow my Latin for Idiots handbook. But then again google has a Universal Communicator going, so, does it matter? Never in the field of human discussion has there been so much reason

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-26 Thread Kevin Walzer
On 9/25/12 11:35 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: IronPython in C#. Jython is written in Java. CLPython is written in Lisp. Berp and HoPe are written in Haskell. Nuitka is written in C++. Skulpt is written in Javascript. Vyper is written in Ocaml. PyPy is written in RPython. Some of those Python

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-26 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 26/09/2012 14:31, Littlefield, Tyler wrote: PS: Anyone know if rantingrik had relatives? ;) I say steady on old chap that's just not cricket. I've been known to have a go at rr in the past for good reasons, but when he gets stuck into Tkinter he is an extremely useful contributor. I

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-26 Thread Chris Angelico
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 10:19 PM, wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote: You are always selling the same argument. Py3.3 is the only computer language I'm aware of which is maltreating Unicode in such a way. You mean, the only computer language that represents Unicode characters as integers, and then

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-26 Thread Chris Angelico
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 11:43 PM, Mark Lawrence breamore...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: On 26/09/2012 14:31, Littlefield, Tyler wrote: PS: Anyone know if rantingrik had relatives? ;) I say steady on old chap that's just not cricket. I've been known to have a go at rr in the past for good reasons,

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-26 Thread wxjmfauth
Le mercredi 26 septembre 2012 11:55:16 UTC+2, Chris Angelico a écrit : On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 7:31 PM, wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote: you are correct. But the price you pay for this is extremely high. Now, practically all characters are affected, espacially those *in* the Basic ***

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-26 Thread Chris Angelico
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 12:19 AM, wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote: No, I'm comparing Py33 with Py32 narrow build [*]. Then look at the broken behaviour that Python, up until now, shared with Javascript and various other languages, in which a one-character string appears as two characters, and slicing

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-26 Thread wxjmfauth
I should add that I have not the knowledge to dive in the Python code. But I see what has been done. As I have a very good understanding of all this coding of characters stuff, I can just pick up - in fact select characters or combination of characters - which I supspect to be problematic and I

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-26 Thread Chris Angelico
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 12:50 AM, wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote: I just see the results and the facts. For an end user, this is the only thing that counts. Then what counts is that Python 3.2 (like Javascript) exhibits incorrect behaviour, and Python (like Pike) performs correctly. I think this

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-26 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 26/09/2012 15:50, wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote: I should add that I have not the knowledge to dive in the Python code. But I see what has been done. How? As I have a very good understanding of all this coding of characters stuff, I can just pick up - in fact select characters or combination

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-26 Thread wxjmfauth
Le mercredi 26 septembre 2012 16:56:55 UTC+2, Chris Angelico a écrit : On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 12:50 AM, wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote: I just see the results and the facts. For an end user, this is the only thing that counts. Then what counts is that Python 3.2 (like Javascript)

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-26 Thread wxjmfauth
Sorry guys, I'm only able to see this (with the Python versions an end user can download): timeit.repeat(('你'*1).replace('你', 'a')) [31.44532887821319, 31.409585124813844, 31.40705548932476] timeit.repeat(('你'*1).replace('你', 'a')) [323.56687741054805, 323.1660997337247,

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-26 Thread Ian Kelly
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 1:23 AM, Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote: On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 23:35:39 -0700, wxjmfauth wrote: Py 3.3 succeeded to somehow kill unicode and it has been transformed into an American product for American users. For the first time in Python's

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-26 Thread Ethan Furman
Mark Lawrence wrote: On 26/09/2012 14:31, Littlefield, Tyler wrote: PS: Anyone know if rantingrik had relatives? ;) I say steady on old chap that's just not cricket. I've been known to have a go at rr in the past for good reasons, but when he gets stuck into Tkinter he is an extremely

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-26 Thread wxjmfauth
Le mercredi 26 septembre 2012 17:54:04 UTC+2, Ian a écrit : On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 1:23 AM, Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote: On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 23:35:39 -0700, wxjmfauth wrote: Py 3.3 succeeded to somehow kill unicode and it has been transformed

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-26 Thread Ethan Furman
Chris Angelico wrote: On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 10:19 PM, wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote: After all, if replacing a Nabla operator in a string take 10 times more times in Py33 than in Python32 [. . .] But I'll give you the benefit of the doubt; maybe your number is in binary. +1 QOTW --

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-26 Thread Paul Rubin
Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com writes: When you compare against a wide build, semantics of 3.2 and 3.3 are identical, and then - and ONLY then - can you sanely compare performance. And 3.3 stacks up much better. I like to have seen real world benchmarks against a pure UTF-8 implementation.

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-26 Thread Chris Angelico
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 2:52 AM, Paul Rubin no.email@nospam.invalid wrote: Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com writes: When you compare against a wide build, semantics of 3.2 and 3.3 are identical, and then - and ONLY then - can you sanely compare performance. And 3.3 stacks up much better. I

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-26 Thread Paul Rubin
Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com writes: So, I don't actually have any stats for you, because it's really easy to just not index strings at all. Right, that's why I think the O(n) indexing issue of UTF-8 may be overblown. Haskell 98 was mentioned earlier as a language that did Unicode

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-26 Thread wxjmfauth
Le mercredi 26 septembre 2012 18:52:44 UTC+2, Paul Rubin a écrit : Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com writes: When you compare against a wide build, semantics of 3.2 and 3.3 are identical, and then - and ONLY then - can you sanely compare performance. And 3.3 stacks up much better.

Fwd: Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-26 Thread Ian Kelly
Resending to the list. -- Forwarded message -- From: Ian Kelly ian.g.ke...@gmail.com Date: Sep 26, 2012 12:57 PM Subject: Re: Article on the future of Python To: wxjmfa...@gmail.com On Sep 26, 2012 12:42 AM, wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote: Py 3.3 succeeded to somehow kill unicode

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-26 Thread Terry Reedy
On 9/26/2012 4:45 AM, Dwight Hutto wrote: Why do you keep repeating this rubbish when you've already been shot to pieces? I still feel intact, so whatever little shards of pain you intended to emit were lost on my ego. Uh, Dwight, he was not talking to you. -- Terry Jan Reedy --

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-26 Thread Matej Cepl
On 26/09/12 15:30, Kevin Walzer wrote: Apart from IronPython, what constituency do these alternative and Jython ... that is widely used in the Java server world implementations of Python have that would raise them above the level of interesting experiments? Matěj --

Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-26 Thread Terry Reedy
On 9/26/2012 8:19 AM, wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote: You are always selling the same argument. Because you keep repeating the same insane argument against 3.3. Py3.3 is the only computer language I'm aware of which is maltreating Unicode in such a way. You have it backwards. 3.3 fixes

Re: Fwd: Re: Article on the future of Python

2012-09-26 Thread Terry Reedy
On 9/26/2012 2:58 PM, Ian Kelly wrote: You know, usually when I see software decried as America-centric, it's because it doesn't support Unicode. This must be the first time I've seen that label applied to software that dares to *fully* support Unicode. What is truly bizarre is the idea came

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