[Python-Dev] hi everyone

2009-08-09 Thread malathi selvaraj
I am new one to this mailing list I would like to learn python.. how to join IRC for python,i try it like #python, but i dn't get can you tell me -- Regards, S.Malathi. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailma

Re: [Python-Dev] hi everyone

2009-08-09 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven
-On [20090809 09:50], malathi selvaraj (malathira...@gmail.com) wrote: >I am new one to this mailing list Welcome. >I would like to learn python.. There is sufficient information on the website of www.python.org Furthermore, this is not the mailinglist you want to email with question

Re: [Python-Dev] hi everyone

2009-08-09 Thread Nick Coghlan
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote: > -On [20090809 09:50], malathi selvaraj (malathira...@gmail.com) wrote: >> I am new one to this mailing list > > Welcome. > >> I would like to learn python.. > > There is sufficient information on the website of www.python.org

Re: [Python-Dev] hi everyone

2009-08-09 Thread skip
Nick> Specifically, python-l...@python.org (also available as the Nick> newsgroup comp.lang.python). Also, if you're a complete beginner, try subscribing to tu...@python.org: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor and reading through that list's ten year's worth of archived p

Re: [Python-Dev] hi everyone

2009-08-09 Thread Billy Earney
There's also the diveintopython.org website that contains a free ebook about python.. That's what I used to get started :) -Original Message- From: python-dev-bounces+billy.earney=gmail@python.org [mailto:python-dev-bounces+billy.earney=gmail@python.org] On Behalf Of s...@pobox.com

[Python-Dev] statement vs expression [was: (try-except) conditional expression similar to (if-else) conditional (PEP 308)]

2009-08-09 Thread Jim Jewett
> Kristján Valur Jónsson wrote: >> I've never understood the need to have a distinction betwen statements >> and expressions, not when expressions can have side effects. Alex Martelli responded: > If you're interested in understanding it better, research > Query-Command Separation (QCS), e.g. sta

[Python-Dev] codecs.oen [was: PEP 385: the eol-type issue]

2009-08-09 Thread Jim Jewett
> M.-A. Lemburg wrote: >> ... and because of this, the feature is already available if >> you use codecs.open() instead of the built-in open(): Neil Hodgson asked: > So should I not add an issue for the basic open because codecs.open > should be used for this case? In python 3, why does codecs.o