[Tutor] Can someone explain this to me please

2015-08-21 Thread Jon Paris
greeter than the supposed maximum while still keeping it as an int. I’m confused. If sys.maxsize _isn’t_ the largest possible value then how do I determine what is? Jon Paris jon.f.pa...@gmail.com ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe

Re: [Tutor] Identifying V3 examples

2015-07-24 Thread Jon Paris
On Jul 23, 2015, at 8:23 PM, Alan Gauld alan.ga...@btinternet.com wrote: On 23/07/15 20:10, Jon Paris wrote: Anyway - thanks again. You’re the first “friendly face” I’ve encountered here. Hi Jon, that slightly worries me as list moderator. Can you explain what you mean (off list

Re: [Tutor] Identifying V3 examples

2015-07-23 Thread Jon Paris
On Jul 23, 2015, at 4:14 PM, Laura Creighton l...@openend.se wrote: In a message of Thu, 23 Jul 2015 15:10:14 -0400, Jon Paris writes: Thanks for the info Laura - I don’t think I can use it though unless it provides for activation against only one email account. For the vast majority

Re: [Tutor] Identifying V3 examples

2015-07-23 Thread Jon Paris
On Jul 23, 2015, at 5:02 PM, Laura Creighton l...@openend.se wrote: In a message of Thu, 23 Jul 2015 15:10:14 -0400, Jon Paris writes: You may find this program useful. http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/40735/href=%27 But you still have to go back and trim out unnecessary verbiage. Laura

Re: [Tutor] Identifying V3 examples

2015-07-23 Thread Jon Paris
On Jul 23, 2015, at 4:42 PM, Laura Creighton l...@openend.se wrote: In a message of Thu, 23 Jul 2015 16:23:29 -0400, Jon Paris writes: Well I confess that is what I was expecting, and certainly you have been very friendly for which I thank you. It did feel a little odd to come

Re: [Tutor] Identifying V3 examples

2015-07-23 Thread Jon Paris
On Jul 23, 2015, at 2:55 PM, Laura Creighton l...@openend.se wrote: In a message of Thu, 23 Jul 2015 10:54:09 -0400, Jon Paris writes: I’ve been posting to many different sites for twenty plus years and never had this kind of complaint. I can’t even find a way of telling my email client

Re: [Tutor] Identifying V3 examples

2015-07-23 Thread Jon Paris
On Jul 22, 2015, at 5:31 PM, Mark Lawrence breamore...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: On 22/07/2015 15:16, Jon Paris wrote: Yup - the “xxx_todo_changeme” was the part that I meant. That might not constitute a “problem” for you but, for someone just starting out, exactly what is needed to correct

Re: [Tutor] Identifying V3 examples

2015-07-23 Thread Jon Paris
On Jul 23, 2015, at 10:18 AM, Alan Gauld alan.ga...@btinternet.com wrote: On 23/07/15 14:59, Jon Paris wrote: I am not familiar with the term “top post” See this wikipedia article which describes in detail all the alternatives along with their relative merits. https://en.wikipedia.org

Re: [Tutor] Identifying V3 examples

2015-07-23 Thread Jon Paris
On Jul 23, 2015, at 10:41 AM, Steven D'Aprano st...@pearwood.info wrote: On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 09:59:22AM -0400, Jon Paris wrote: I am not familiar with the term “top post” - I’m guessing you mean that my reply came before your original message. Yes, it means post at the top. Hence

Re: [Tutor] Identifying V3 examples

2015-07-23 Thread Jon Paris
On Jul 23, 2015, at 11:58 AM, Laura Creighton l...@openend.se wrote: In a message of Thu, 23 Jul 2015 09:59:22 -0400, Jon Paris writes: I am not familiar with the term “top post” - I’m guessing you mean that my reply came before your original message. My email does it that way because

Re: [Tutor] Identifying V3 examples

2015-07-22 Thread Jon Paris
that you are on the V3 list. Jon Paris jon.f.pa...@gmail.com On Jul 21, 2015, at 8:16 PM, Alan Gauld alan.ga...@btinternet.com wrote: On 21/07/15 21:19, Jon Paris wrote: The one example I specifically remember was this one http://code.activestate.com/recipes/ For Activestate check

Re: [Tutor] Identifying V3 examples

2015-07-22 Thread Jon Paris
Yup - the “xxx_todo_changeme” was the part that I meant. That might not constitute a “problem” for you but, for someone just starting out, exactly what is needed to correct it was not obvious. I have subsequently resolved the issue. Jon Paris jon.f.pa...@gmail.com On Jul 22, 2015, at 9:52

Re: [Tutor] Identifying V3 examples

2015-07-21 Thread Jon Paris
practice to begin with - but what do I know. Most of the other examples 2to3 converted (once I discovered it existed and how to use it in my setup) or I was able to decipher myself. I’ll take a look at your tutorial - thanks. Jon Paris jon.f.pa...@gmail.com On Jul 21, 2015, at 1:35 PM, Alan

[Tutor] Identifying V3 examples

2015-07-20 Thread Jon Paris
I’m having problems identifying sites that feature V3 code. My learning is being hampered by having to worry about conversion for the vast majority of the examples I encounter. Any suggestions on how to deal with this? Jon Paris jon.f.pa...@gmail.com