Re: Can Python do shopping cart?

2009-03-07 Thread Tino Wildenhain
Muddy Coder wrote: Hi Folks, I know PHP can do shopping cart, such as Zen Cart. I wonder can Python do such a thing? Thanks! No, python cannot "do" that. I also doubt there are many other computer languages, much less PHP that can "do" that. You or somebody else has to write the code - but of

Re: Can Python do shopping cart?

2009-03-06 Thread Jason Scheirer
On Mar 6, 1:19 am, Lie Ryan wrote: > Muddy Coder wrote: > > Hi Folks, > > > I know PHP can do shopping cart, such as Zen Cart. I wonder can Python > > do such a thing? Thanks! > > > Muddy Coder > > Python is Turing Complete "Python is Turing complete" is c.l.p's equivalent to Godwin's law. >From

Re: Can Python do shopping cart?

2009-03-06 Thread MRAB
Paul Rubin wrote: Tim Wintle writes: Surely you can address an infinite amount of storage using infinite length integers and a wrapper to files on disk - then it's just your OS's limits that hold it back - so python is turing/register complete. Python doesn't have infinite length integers. I

Re: Can Python do shopping cart?

2009-03-06 Thread Paul Rubin
Tim Wintle writes: > Surely you can address an infinite amount of storage using infinite > length integers and a wrapper to files on disk - then it's just your > OS's limits that hold it back - so python is turing/register complete. Python doesn't have infinite length integers. It has long integ

Re: Can Python do shopping cart?

2009-03-06 Thread Marco Mariani
Tim Wintle wrote: Python is Turing Complete Well, actually no, because it doesn't support an infinite amount of memory. Surely you can address an infinite amount of storage using infinite length integers and a wrapper to files on disk - then it's just your OS's limits that hold it back - so p

Re: Can Python do shopping cart?

2009-03-06 Thread Tim Wintle
On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 11:59 +0100, Marco Mariani wrote: > Lie Ryan wrote: > > > Python is Turing Complete > > Well, actually no, because it doesn't support an infinite amount of memory. Surely you can address an infinite amount of storage using infinite length integers and a wrapper to files on

Re: Can Python do shopping cart?

2009-03-06 Thread Marco Mariani
Lie Ryan wrote: Python is Turing Complete Well, actually no, because it doesn't support an infinite amount of memory. Add this to "things to check before wasting a lot of money in hardware". -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Can Python do shopping cart?

2009-03-06 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
Dennis Lee Bieber a écrit : On Thu, 5 Mar 2009 14:30:54 -0800 (PST), Muddy Coder declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: I know PHP can do shopping cart, such as Zen Cart. I wonder can Python do such a thing? Thanks! Python is a general purpose, byte-code-compiled/interpreted, l

Re: Can Python do shopping cart?

2009-03-06 Thread Ben Finney
Paul Rubin writes: > As they say in a certain other place--the answer is: yes! Python can > do that. Wow, you're right. They do sound quite certain in that place. -- \“Don't fight forces, use them.” —Richard Buckminster Fuller, | `\

Re: Can Python do shopping cart?

2009-03-06 Thread Paul Rubin
Muddy Coder writes: > I know PHP can do shopping cart, such as Zen Cart. I wonder can Python > do such a thing? Thanks! As they say in a certain other place--the answer is: yes! Python can do that. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Can Python do shopping cart?

2009-03-06 Thread Lie Ryan
Muddy Coder wrote: Hi Folks, I know PHP can do shopping cart, such as Zen Cart. I wonder can Python do such a thing? Thanks! Muddy Coder Python is Turing Complete -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Can Python do shopping cart?

2009-03-05 Thread Luis Gonzalez
Python can do. On 5 mar, 19:30, Muddy Coder wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I know PHP can do shopping cart, such as Zen Cart. I wonder can Python > do such a thing? Thanks! > > Muddy Coder -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Can Python do shopping cart?

2009-03-05 Thread Jason Scheirer
On Mar 5, 2:30 pm, Muddy Coder wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I know PHP can do shopping cart, such as Zen Cart. I wonder can Python > do such a thing? Thanks! > > Muddy Coder http://www.satchmoproject.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Can Python do shopping cart?

2009-03-05 Thread Joe Riopel
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 5:40 PM, SpamMePlease PleasePlease wrote: > Python can do that and a lot more! For this purpose I would go to > http://djangoproject.com/ Django is neat, but there are more choices for you: http://wiki.python.org/moin/WebFrameworks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Can Python do shopping cart?

2009-03-05 Thread SpamMePlease PleasePlease
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 11:30 PM, Muddy Coder wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I know PHP can do shopping cart, such as Zen Cart. I wonder can Python > do such a thing? Thanks! > > > > Muddy Coder > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > Python can do that and a lot more! For this purpos

Can Python do shopping cart?

2009-03-05 Thread Muddy Coder
Hi Folks, I know PHP can do shopping cart, such as Zen Cart. I wonder can Python do such a thing? Thanks! Muddy Coder -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list