Re: What happened to NASA at Python? :(

2009-03-19 Thread Steve Holden
Dotan Cohen wrote: >> There are about 40 people supporting the Mars Lander mission using >> Python and aiming for a launch window this September. Wish them luck! >> > > What, exactly, are they using Python for? > Mostly for testing, I understand, but during their training I was the Python guy amo

Re: What happened to NASA at Python? :(

2009-03-19 Thread Dotan Cohen
> Could you perhaps be persuaded to post in ASCII? Sorry, Aahz, Gmail sends the mail as base64 encoded if there are non-ascii characters. This is the first problem that I've encountered with this, what mailer are you using? -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il -- http:/

Re: What happened to NASA at Python? :(

2009-03-19 Thread Aahz
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Re: What happened to NASA at Python? :(

2009-03-19 Thread Dotan Cohen
> There are about 40 people supporting the Mars Lander mission using > Python and aiming for a launch window this September. Wish them luck! > What, exactly, are they using Python for? -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק

Re: What happened to NASA at Python? :(

2009-03-19 Thread Steve Holden
s...@pobox.com wrote: > >> In fact, graphics were added for several organizations. I believe > >> they will be chosen randomly. NASA is still there. > > MiO> In that case, they must be using the random number generator from > MiO> Dilbert. You know, the one that said 9, 9, 9, 9,.

Re: What happened to NASA at Python? :(

2009-03-19 Thread Steve Holden
r wrote: > On Mar 12, 3:31 am, Michele Simionato > wrote: > >> That's pretty much impossible. I am sure NASA uses all programming >> languages in existence, >> plus probably many internal ones we never heard of. > > True but... > all([NASA.does_endorse(lang) for lang in NASA['languages']])

Re: What happened to NASA at Python? :(

2009-03-13 Thread skip
>> I would have thought someone would have noticed by now. Am I the only >> person who uses Windows? Apparently just you and the guy who built the distribution. Skip -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: What happened to NASA at Python? :(

2009-03-12 Thread Mensanator
On Mar 12, 6:22 pm, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: > > I would have thought someone would have noticed by now. Am I > > the only person who uses Windows? > > No, but perhaps the only person who still uses 2.6.0. 2.6b1, actually. I suppose I ought to get the latest version. > > Regards, > Martin -- ht

Re: What happened to NASA at Python? :(

2009-03-12 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> I would have thought someone would have noticed by now. Am I > the only person who uses Windows? No, but perhaps the only person who still uses 2.6.0. Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: What happened to NASA at Python? :(

2009-03-12 Thread Mensanator
On Mar 12, 3:11 pm, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: > >>> The Python home page no longer sports a promotion from NASA. What > >>> happened, did we lose NASA. Where did they go? > >> The python.org guys just decided it would be nice to have some > >> different graphics. > > > If they were so keen on new g

Re: What happened to NASA at Python? :(

2009-03-12 Thread Martin v. Löwis
>>> The Python home page no longer sports a promotion from NASA. What >>> happened, did we lose NASA. Where did they go? >> The python.org guys just decided it would be nice to have some >> different graphics. > > If they were so keen on new graphics, why did 2.6 revert > to the same icons that 2.

Re: What happened to NASA at Python? :(

2009-03-12 Thread r
On Mar 12, 3:31 am, Michele Simionato wrote: > That's pretty much impossible. I am sure NASA uses all programming > languages in existence, > plus probably many internal ones we never heard of. True but... >>> all([NASA.does_endorse(lang) for lang in NASA['languages']]) False As the code sugge

Re: What happened to NASA at Python? :(

2009-03-12 Thread skip
>> In fact, graphics were added for several organizations. I believe >> they will be chosen randomly. NASA is still there. MiO> In that case, they must be using the random number generator from MiO> Dilbert. You know, the one that said 9, 9, 9, 9,... Sorry, randomly chosen when

Re: What happened to NASA at Python? :(

2009-03-12 Thread skip
>> If they were so keen on new graphics, why did 2.6 revert >> to the same icons that 2.4 used? (At least they did on my >> machine. After installing 2.6, I no longer had the new >> 2.5 icons but had reverted to the earlier ones.) Can you be more specific? Is this a Windows thing

Re: What happened to NASA at Python? :(

2009-03-12 Thread Dotan Cohen
> I, at least, get the same parking lot graphics every time I reload the page. > If you click "and more" link, you will come to a page of success stories, one of which is this: http://python.org/about/success/usa/ It is not as prominent as the earlier Nasa logo, though. -- Dotan Cohen http://w

Re: What happened to NASA at Python? :(

2009-03-12 Thread James Matthews
>From what I see most startups are jumping to Python to rapidly setup their prototypes. On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Mikael Olofsson wrote: > s...@pobox.com wrote: > >> In fact, graphics were added for several organizations. I believe they >> will >> be chosen randomly. NASA is still ther

Re: What happened to NASA at Python? :(

2009-03-12 Thread Mikael Olofsson
s...@pobox.com wrote: In fact, graphics were added for several organizations. I believe they will be chosen randomly. NASA is still there. In that case, they must be using the random number generator from Dilbert. You know, the one that said 9, 9, 9, 9,... I, at least, get the same parking

Re: What happened to NASA at Python? :(

2009-03-12 Thread Michele Simionato
On Mar 12, 4:26 am, r wrote: > On Mar 11, 10:09 pm, s...@pobox.com wrote: > > > In fact, graphics were added for several organizations.  I believe they will > > be chosen randomly.  NASA is still there. > > > --http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > > Whew! Thats good news, i though

Re: What happened to NASA at Python? :(

2009-03-11 Thread Mensanator
On Mar 11, 9:55�pm, Benjamin Peterson wrote: > r gmail.com> writes: > > > > > The Python home page no longer sports a promotion from NASA. What > > happened, did we lose NASA. Where did they go? > > The python.org guys just decided it would be nice to have some > different graphics. If they were

Re: What happened to NASA at Python? :(

2009-03-11 Thread r
On Mar 11, 10:09 pm, s...@pobox.com wrote: > In fact, graphics were added for several organizations.  I believe they will > be chosen randomly.  NASA is still there. > > --http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list Whew! Thats good news, i thought we had lost their support. -- http://mail

Re: What happened to NASA at Python? :(

2009-03-11 Thread skip
>> The Python home page no longer sports a promotion from NASA. What >> happened, did we lose NASA. Where did they go? > The python.org guys just decided it would be nice to have some > different graphics. In fact, graphics were added for several organizations. I believe they will be chosen ran

Re: What happened to NASA at Python? :(

2009-03-11 Thread Benjamin Peterson
r gmail.com> writes: > > The Python home page no longer sports a promotion from NASA. What > happened, did we lose NASA. Where did they go? The python.org guys just decided it would be nice to have some different graphics. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

What happened to NASA at Python? :(

2009-03-11 Thread r
The Python home page no longer sports a promotion from NASA. What happened, did we lose NASA. Where did they go? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list