Re: complaints about no replies last week

2009-04-02 Thread Aaron Brady
On Mar 31, 4:34 pm, Arnaud Delobelle wrote: > a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) writes: > > Arnaud Delobelle   wrote: > > >>There are no comments - I don't have the time to add any, sorry! > > > The margin is too small to contain the proof? > > I wish I could come up with such a resilient conjecture! >

Re: complaints about no replies last week

2009-04-01 Thread pruebauno
On Mar 31, 4:07 pm, Arnaud Delobelle wrote: > prueba...@latinmail.com writes: > > [...] > > > > > Well since I attracted a couple people's attention I will describe the > > problem in more detail. Describing the problem properly is probably as > > hard as solving it, so excuse me if I struggle a b

Re: complaints about no replies last week

2009-03-31 Thread Arnaud Delobelle
a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) writes: > Arnaud Delobelle wrote: >> >>There are no comments - I don't have the time to add any, sorry! > > The margin is too small to contain the proof? I wish I could come up with such a resilient conjecture! Ah but in this case, the proof is in the program, as Cu

Re: complaints about no replies last week

2009-03-31 Thread Aahz
In article , Arnaud Delobelle wrote: > >There are no comments - I don't have the time to add any, sorry! The margin is too small to contain the proof? -- Aahz (a...@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first p

Re: complaints about no replies last week

2009-03-31 Thread Arnaud Delobelle
prueba...@latinmail.com writes: [...] > Well since I attracted a couple people's attention I will describe the > problem in more detail. Describing the problem properly is probably as > hard as solving it, so excuse me if I struggle a bit. > > The problem is for a health insurance company and invol

Re: complaints about no replies last week

2009-03-31 Thread pruebauno
On Mar 31, 2:56 am, Arnaud Delobelle wrote: > Arnaud Delobelle wrote: > > prueba...@latinmail.com writes: > > [...] > > > I myself asked about how to write a library to efficiently do union > > > and intersection of sets containing time intervals some time ago on > > > this list and got little to

Re: complaints about no replies last week

2009-03-31 Thread Arnaud Delobelle
Arnaud Delobelle wrote: > prueba...@latinmail.com writes: > [...] > > I myself asked about how to write a library to efficiently do union > > and intersection of sets containing time intervals some time ago on > > this list and got little to no answers. It is a tricky problem. Since > > I was ge

Re: complaints about no replies last week

2009-03-30 Thread Arnaud Delobelle
prueba...@latinmail.com writes: [...] > I myself asked about how to write a library to efficiently do union > and intersection of sets containing time intervals some time ago on > this list and got little to no answers. It is a tricky problem. Since > I was getting paid I got an O(n*n) solution wor

Re: complaints about no replies last week

2009-03-30 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Mon, 30 Mar 2009 07:50:49 -0700, pruebauno wrote: > I myself asked about how to write a library to efficiently do union and > intersection of sets containing time intervals some time ago on this > list and got little to no answers. It is a tricky problem. With all the confidence of somebody w

Re: complaints about no replies last week

2009-03-30 Thread pruebauno
On Mar 28, 11:07 am, Aaron Brady wrote: > Hi, > > A week ago, I posted a question and an idea about Python's garbage > collector.  I got a few replies.  Some days later, I posted a mock-up > implementation of it, and got *NO* replies.  Does this mean: > > a) It works > b) It doesn't work > c) It's

Re: complaints about no replies last week

2009-03-29 Thread Aaron Brady
On Mar 28, 7:31 pm, ajaksu wrote: > Hi! > > Aaron Brady wrote: > > A week ago, I posted a question and an idea about Python's garbage > > collector.  I got a few replies. > > Some very nice, too :) Yes. > > Some days later, I posted a mock-up > > implementation of it, and got *NO* replies.  Does

Re: complaints about no replies last week

2009-03-28 Thread ajaksu
Aaron Brady wrote: > Hi, > c) It's not particularly applicable to Python at that point > (particularly) BTW, here's some interesting read: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000/2006-September/003855.html http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000/2007-May/007129.html http://mail.python.or

Re: complaints about no replies last week

2009-03-28 Thread ajaksu
Hi! Aaron Brady wrote: > A week ago, I posted a question and an idea about Python's garbage > collector.  I got a few replies. Some very nice, too :) > Some days later, I posted a mock-up > implementation of it, and got *NO* replies.  Does this mean: It's not particularly clear to me what your

Re: complaints about no replies last week

2009-03-28 Thread Aaron Brady
On Mar 28, 11:41 am, a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) wrote: > In article <2d80ec1b-5eb5-4e82-9a4a-36934dd53...@z9g2000yqi.googlegroups.com>, > Aaron Brady   wrote: > > > > >A week ago, I posted a question and an idea about Python's garbage > >collector.  I got a few replies.  Some days later, I posted

Re: complaints about no replies last week

2009-03-28 Thread Aahz
In article <2d80ec1b-5eb5-4e82-9a4a-36934dd53...@z9g2000yqi.googlegroups.com>, Aaron Brady wrote: > >A week ago, I posted a question and an idea about Python's garbage >collector. I got a few replies. Some days later, I posted a mock-up >implementation of it, and got *NO* replies. Does this me

Re: complaints about no replies last week

2009-03-28 Thread r
On Mar 28, 10:07 am, Aaron Brady wrote: > Hi, > > A week ago, I posted a question and an idea about Python's garbage > collector.  I got a few replies.  Some days later, I posted a mock-up > implementation of it, and got *NO* replies.  Does this mean: > > a) It works > b) It doesn't work > c) It's

Re: complaints about no replies last week

2009-03-28 Thread Benjamin Kaplan
On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Aaron Brady wrote: > Hi, > > A week ago, I posted a question and an idea about Python's garbage > collector. I got a few replies. Some days later, I posted a mock-up > implementation of it, and got *NO* replies. Does this mean: > > a) It works > b) It doesn't

complaints about no replies last week

2009-03-28 Thread Aaron Brady
Hi, A week ago, I posted a question and an idea about Python's garbage collector. I got a few replies. Some days later, I posted a mock-up implementation of it, and got *NO* replies. Does this mean: a) It works b) It doesn't work c) It's not particularly applicable to Python at that point (par