Re: do ya still use python?

2021-04-23 Thread J. Pic
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Re: do ya still use python?

2021-04-23 Thread David Lowry-Duda
> You wouldn't see Tim Peters or even Guido here nowadays, and > Steven D'Aprano was IMO forced out for no good reason ... you see > the results here every day... What happened to Steven D'Aprano? - DLD -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: do ya still use python?

2021-04-23 Thread David Lowry-Duda
> Are there reasons why someone might prefer StackOverflow to this list? > Are they more to do with the person, or something the Python Community > should address? I think general discoverability is a driving force. A beginner has a problem, goes to google, types in their problem, and sees some l

Re: do ya still use python?

2021-04-22 Thread Terry Reedy
On 4/21/2021 6:07 AM, o1bigtenor wrote: On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 6:26 PM Terry Reedy wrote: On 4/20/2021 4:32 AM, Alan Gauld via Python-list wrote: We see the same trend on the tutor list, traffic has dropped off by a factor of 3-5 times what it was at its peak. And the questions are changing

RE: do ya still use python?

2021-04-21 Thread Avi Gross via Python-list
. -Original Message- From: Python-list On Behalf Of o1bigtenor Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2021 6:07 AM To: Terry Reedy Cc: Python Subject: Re: do ya still use python? On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 6:26 PM Terry Reedy wrote: > > On 4/20/2021 4:32 AM, Alan Gauld via Python-list wrote: &g

Re: do ya still use python?

2021-04-21 Thread Bischoop
On 2021-04-19, Unbreakable Disease wrote: >> do ya still use python? That's why we're all here. > almost no useful posts here for almost a year. is python dying? It's not a Python thing, it's Usenet that's not used as much today as decade ago. There'

Re: do ya still use python?

2021-04-21 Thread o1bigtenor
On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 6:26 PM Terry Reedy wrote: > > On 4/20/2021 4:32 AM, Alan Gauld via Python-list wrote: > > > We see the same trend on the tutor list, traffic has dropped off > > by a factor of 3-5 times what it was at its peak. And the questions > > are changing too, fewer basic things abo

Re: do ya still use python?

2021-04-20 Thread Terry Reedy
On 4/20/2021 4:32 AM, Alan Gauld via Python-list wrote: We see the same trend on the tutor list, traffic has dropped off by a factor of 3-5 times what it was at its peak. And the questions are changing too, fewer basic things about loops and writing functions, more about specific library modules

Re: do ya still use python?

2021-04-20 Thread Terry Reedy
On 4/20/2021 5:44 PM, dn via Python-list wrote: Are there reasons why someone might prefer StackOverflow to this list? For programming questions with testable answers, generally yes. But I sometimes advise SO questioners to redirect questions here when more appropriate. Advantages include

Re: do ya still use python?

2021-04-20 Thread dn via Python-list
On 20/04/2021 20.32, Alan Gauld via Python-list wrote: > On 20/04/2021 04:47, Dan Stromberg wrote: > >> Actually, this list is less busy than it was a decade or two ago, but >> that's probably because of things like stackoverflow, python-dev, pypy-dev, >> cython-devel, python-ideas, distutils-sig,

Re: do ya still use python?

2021-04-20 Thread X Guest
we are in ML industry where python is used widely. On Tue, Apr 20, 2021, at 8:53 AM, Jon Ribbens via Python-list wrote: > On 2021-04-20, Paul Rubin > wrote: > > Ethan Furman mailto:ethan%40stoneleaf.us>> writes: > >> List, my apologies -- not sure how that one go

Re: do ya still use python?

2021-04-20 Thread Alan Gauld via Python-list
On 20/04/2021 04:47, Dan Stromberg wrote: > Actually, this list is less busy than it was a decade or two ago, but > that's probably because of things like stackoverflow, python-dev, pypy-dev, > cython-devel, python-ideas, distutils-sig, issue trackers, code-quality, > and probably others. > > The

Re: do ya still use python?

2021-04-20 Thread jkn
On Tuesday, April 20, 2021 at 7:11:41 AM UTC+1, Paul Rubin wrote: > Jon Ribbens writes: > > Why do you say that? The group seems quite lively to me (and no I'm > > not counting spam etc). > No there is a lot happening in the Python world that never gets > mentioned here. Look at the 3.10 and 3.

Re: do ya still use python?

2021-04-19 Thread Dan Stromberg
On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 5:55 PM Jon Ribbens via Python-list < python-list@python.org> wrote: > On 2021-04-20, Paul Rubin wrote: > > Ethan Furman writes: > >> List, my apologies -- not sure how that one got through. > > > > It was trollishly written but was a reasonable observation on the state >

Re: do ya still use python?

2021-04-19 Thread Jon Ribbens via Python-list
On 2021-04-20, Paul Rubin wrote: > Ethan Furman writes: >> List, my apologies -- not sure how that one got through. > > It was trollishly written but was a reasonable observation on the state > of the Usenet group. I didn't realize it had come through (or reached) > the mailing list. Anyway the

Re: do ya still use python?

2021-04-19 Thread Ethan Furman
On 4/19/21 11:22 AM, Unbreakable Disease wrote: [offensive drivel] List, my apologies -- not sure how that one got through. -- ~Ethan~ Python List Moderator -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: do ya still use python?

2021-04-19 Thread Unbreakable Disease
On 19.04.2021 17:37, JWS wrote: On Monday, April 19, 2021 at 11:44:11 AM UTC-5, Unbreakable Disease wrote: almost no useful posts here for almost a year. is python dying? I can't tell what group you are referencing. comp.lang.python is still active. I'm doing a tkinter project now. Active for