Re: Python MSI not installing, log file showing name of a Viatnemese communist revolutionary

2014-03-21 Thread Mark Lawrence
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Re: Explanation of this Python language feature? [x for x in x for x in x] (to flatten a nested list)

2014-03-22 Thread Mark Lawrence
deas in an attempt to get this glaring deficiency corrected. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http:/

Re: Python MSI not installing, log file showing name of a Viatnemese communist revolutionary

2014-03-22 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 22/03/2014 03:58, Mark H Harris wrote: On 3/21/14 5:44 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote: I'm pleased to see that you have answers. In return would you either use the mailing list https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list or read and action this https://wiki.python.org

Re: Python MSI not installing, log file showing name of a Viatnemese communist revolutionary

2014-03-22 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 22/03/2014 08:54, [email protected] wrote: Le samedi 22 mars 2014 05:59:34 UTC+1, Mark H. Harris a écrit : On 3/21/14 11:46 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: (Side point: You have your 0d and your 0a backwards; the Unix line ending is U+000A, and the Windows default is U+000D U+000A

Re: Explanation of this Python language feature? [x for x in x for x in x] (to flatten a nested list)

2014-03-22 Thread Mark Lawrence
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Re: Install CVXOPT in Windows 64 bit

2014-03-23 Thread Mark Lawrence
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Re: help with for loop----python 2.7.2

2014-03-23 Thread Mark Lawrence
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Re: help with for loop----python 2.7.2

2014-03-23 Thread Mark Lawrence
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Re: loop

2014-03-23 Thread Mark Lawrence
e Start by rereading this http://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/controlflow.html#for-statements, give it another go and if you have problems post your code inline here and we'll help you out. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our l

Re: Question about Source Control

2014-03-23 Thread Mark Lawrence
racker that have patches, but simply sit there for years doing nothing except gather dust. Anything that can be done to improve this situation is IMHO long overdue and extremely welcome. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language.

Re: loop

2014-03-24 Thread Mark Lawrence
0, 1 ]: ... Why the overhead of creating a list when you could use a tuple? :) -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Anti

Re: Explanation of this Python language feature? [x for x in x for x in x] (to flatten a nested list)

2014-03-24 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 24/03/2014 05:52, Mark H Harris wrote: How so? Read Guido's argument above. Another way to answer this question is that I have been programming with Python for almost a decade and I've not used lambda. In fact, I have gone out of my way to NOT use lambda because I am fully

Re: Explanation of this Python language feature? [x for x in x for x in x] (to flatten a nested list)

2014-03-24 Thread Mark Lawrence
ot; variant. It even allows you to clarify the meaning of the tuple slot by using a nicer name. Each to their own. Here give me the lambda version any day of the week. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence --

Re: Explanation of this Python language feature? [x for x in x for x in x] (to flatten a nested list)

2014-03-24 Thread Mark Lawrence
iew. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: String modifying error, trying to delete data in string

2014-03-24 Thread Mark Lawrence
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Re: Merge/append CSV files with different headers

2014-03-24 Thread Mark Lawrence
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Re: Explanation of this Python language feature? [x for x in x for x in x] (to flatten a nested list)

2014-03-24 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 24/03/2014 18:58, Mark H Harris wrote: On 3/24/14 4:58 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote: Where do you get reduce from if it's not in the standard library? That was "a" proposal for 3000. Its there, but its not on the built-ins; ie., you have to import it. The confusion: why

Re: Explanation of this Python language feature? [x for x in x for x in x] (to flatten a nested list)

2014-03-24 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 25/03/2014 00:16, Mark H Harris wrote: On 3/24/14 7:11 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 10:56 AM, Mark H Harris wrote: What is needed is the explicit closure "grab" recommended by ChrisA. Which does work. You do know why, right? Sure. ... but again, that

Re: Explanation of this Python language feature? [x for x in x for x in x] (to flatten a nested list)

2014-03-24 Thread Mark Lawrence
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Re: python installation on windows

2014-03-25 Thread Mark Lawrence
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Re: Time we switched to unicode? (was Explanation of this Python language feature?)

2014-03-25 Thread Mark Lawrence
;ve got 20 minutes". "Ay ay, Captain.". Nowadays the role of the Captain is taken by the salesman, sorry the Account Manager, and Scottie is played by the programming team leader. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our la

Re: YADTR (Yet Another DateTime Rant)

2014-03-26 Thread Mark Lawrence
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Re: Hold wxframe (GUI)

2014-03-26 Thread Mark Lawrence
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Re: YADTR (Yet Another DateTime Rant)

2014-03-27 Thread Mark Lawrence
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Re: Howto flaten a list of lists was (Explanation of this Python language feature)

2014-03-28 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 28/03/2014 21:56, Mark H Harris wrote: On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 1:42 PM, vasudevram wrote: >> Can anyone - maybe one of the Python language core team, or someone >> with knowledge of the internals of Python - can explain why this >> code works, and whether the different

Re: Explanation of this Python language feature? [x for x in x for x in x] (to flatten a nested list)

2014-03-29 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 29/03/2014 08:21, Mark H Harris wrote: Yes. Well, as the joke goes, if you're trilingual you speak three languages, if you're bilingual you speak two languages, if you're monolingual you're an American (well, that might go for Australia too, maybe). When whole conti

Re: Howto flaten a list of lists was (Explanation of this Python language feature)

2014-03-29 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 29/03/2014 03:21, Rustom Mody wrote: On Saturday, March 29, 2014 8:34:19 AM UTC+5:30, Mark H. Harris wrote: On 3/28/14 9:33 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: Mark, please stop posting to the newsgroup comp.lang.python AND the mailing list (...). They mirror each other. Your posts are n

Re: OFF TOPIC Spanish in the USA [was Re: Explanation of this Python language feature?]

2014-03-31 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 31/03/2014 05:57, Mark H Harris wrote: On 3/30/14 5:35 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: Approximately 5% of the US population either do not speak English at all, or speak it poorly. That includes approximately half a million ASL speakers (American Sign Language, which is not a m

Compact way to assign values by slicing list in Python

2014-04-03 Thread Mark Lawrence
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Re: python nose unit test - test plan preparation

2014-04-03 Thread Mark Lawrence
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Re: Two Questions about Python on Windows

2014-04-03 Thread Mark Lawrence
yw file simply by copying or renaming foo.py to foo.pyw? Yes. The only distinction between .py and .pyw is that the Python installer associates the former with Python.exe and the latter with Pythonw.exe. Pythonw runs the script without creating a console window for stdin/stdout. Not with more

Re: Two Questions about Python on Windows

2014-04-03 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 03/04/2014 23:41, Ian Kelly wrote: On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 2:15 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote: On 03/04/2014 18:54, Ian Kelly wrote: On Apr 3, 2014 11:12 AM, "Walter Hurry" mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Normally my Python development is done on FreeBSD and

Re: Yet Another Switch-Case Syntax Proposal

2014-04-03 Thread Mark Lawrence
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Re: Default mutable parameters in functions

2014-04-03 Thread Mark Lawrence
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Re: converting strings to hex

2014-04-04 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 04/04/2014 04:22, dave em wrote: You haven't seen nothing yet, wait till M.L. catches you on the flip side for using gg. {running for cover} Who is ML? Good morning :) -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language.

Re: Explanation of this Python language feature? [x for x in x for x in x] (to flatten a nested list)

2014-04-04 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 04/04/2014 03:29, Mark H Harris wrote: Now, about Python2. It has not died. It appears to be 'useful'. The perceived reality is that Python2 is 'useful'. Or, is it as I perceive it, python2 is embedded in so many places that it must be maintained for a long time be

Re: Explanation of this Python language feature? [x for x in x for x in x] (to flatten a nested list)

2014-04-04 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 04/04/2014 21:58, Mark H Harris wrote: On 4/4/14 3:20 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote: On 04/04/2014 03:29, Mark H Harris wrote: Now, about Python2. It has not died. It appears to be 'useful'. {snip} For a lot of people, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. hi Mark, ye

Re: Explanation of this Python language feature? [x for x in x for x in x] (to flatten a nested list)

2014-04-04 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 04/04/2014 23:52, Mark H Harris wrote: As Ian points out, you can't expect a complete migration on the PSF schedule (2->3), because of the fear|panic of a fork. So, comp.lang.python is the best place to find out where the Cpython community is, and where they expect to go (

Re: How can I parse this correctly?

2014-04-06 Thread Mark Lawrence
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Re: Python streaming media server

2014-04-06 Thread Mark Lawrence
line spacing and single line paragraphs, thanks. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com

Re: How can I parse this correctly?

2014-04-06 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 06/04/2014 12:54, Chris Angelico wrote: On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 9:32 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote: I'd recommend using this import statement in Python 2 so you get used to print being a function. from __future__ import print_function Or better still, just write Python 3 code - then you g

Re: Explanation of this Python language feature? [x for x in x for x in x] (to flatten a nested list)

2014-04-06 Thread Mark Lawrence
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Re: Explanation of this Python language feature? [x for x in x for x in x] (to flatten a nested list)

2014-04-06 Thread Mark Lawrence
users to grasp, the designers came up with the fantastic idea of using different coloured beads on different strings to simplify the user experience. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence --- This email is free

Re: threading

2014-04-07 Thread Mark Lawrence
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Re: Python 2.3 and ODBC

2014-04-08 Thread Mark Lawrence
: no Gates, no Windows and an Apache inside. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com -- https

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] How do I find a mentor when no one I work with knows what they are doing?

2014-04-09 Thread Mark Lawrence
x27;) except TrollingError: print('just ignore him') -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com

Re: Python and Unicode

2014-04-09 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 09/04/2014 09:07, [email protected] wrote: Well, there is a (serious) problem somewhere... jmf Look in a mirror and you'll see it as it'll be staring you in the face. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our langua

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] How do I find a mentor when no one I work with knows what they are doing?

2014-04-09 Thread Mark Lawrence
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Re: threading

2014-04-09 Thread Mark Lawrence
transactional memory (STM) may also be of interest, though it's not that great a fit with Python. The pypy folks have been looking at this see http://pypy.readthedocs.org/en/latest/stm.html -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language.

Re: threading

2014-04-10 Thread Mark Lawrence
UK you can stay in bed and say "Raining" and the odds are you'll be correct :) -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivir

Re: CommandLine Option in Python for filtering values from Column

2014-04-10 Thread Mark Lawrence
`sys.argv`. An alternative is to grab docopt from pypi, it's awesome :) -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is a

Re: Teaching python to non-programmers

2014-04-10 Thread Mark Lawrence
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Sorted Containers

2014-04-10 Thread Mark Lawrence
I've just chanced upon this and thought it might be of interest to some of you, haven't tried it myself http://www.grantjenks.com/docs/sortedcontainers/ -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence --- Thi

Re: python obfuscate

2014-04-10 Thread Mark Lawrence
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Re: Language summit notes

2014-04-11 Thread Mark Lawrence
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Re: python obfuscate

2014-04-11 Thread Mark Lawrence
less you have a heartbleed :) Sturla I was thinking more along the lines of Greek tragedies. :) -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus

Re: Teaching python to non-programmers

2014-04-11 Thread Mark Lawrence
o be a jerk, or is it just for yuks? If the latter, you're not funny. Lucky I didn't say anything about the dirty knife. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence --- This email is free from viruses

Re: Language summit notes

2014-04-11 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 11/04/2014 16:49, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Fri, 11 Apr 2014 13:48:50 +0100, Mark Lawrence wrote: On 11/04/2014 10:25, [email protected] wrote: Unicode! Works perfectly in Python 3.3+ thanks to the excellent work done as a result of http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0393/

Re: threading

2014-04-11 Thread Mark Lawrence
ow, I have to agree... you can't terminate a thread, no matter how many posts it has in it! ChrisA Wro -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast!

Re: Language summit notes

2014-04-11 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 11/04/2014 17:02, Chris Angelico wrote: On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 1:57 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote: If you wish to interpret my words as baiting that's fine by me. From my perspective I'm simply making a statement of fact. It's almost now debatable whether you were metabait

Re: indexing in format strings

2014-04-11 Thread Mark Lawrence
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Re: Teaching python to non-programmers

2014-04-13 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 13/04/2014 23:51, Rhodri James wrote: On Fri, 11 Apr 2014 21:20:05 +0100, wrote: On Thursday, April 10, 2014 3:40:22 PM UTC-7, Rhodri James wrote: It's called irony, and unfortunately Mark is reacting to an all-to-common situation that GoogleGroups foists on unsuspecting posters

Re: Teaching python to non-programmers

2014-04-14 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 14/04/2014 01:20, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Mon, 14 Apr 2014 00:54:02 +0100, Mark Lawrence wrote: but the powers that be deem fit not to take any action over. There is no Internet police. Which is a good thing, for if there were, this sort of criticism of the Internet police is ex

Martijn Faassen: The Call of Python 2.8

2014-04-14 Thread Mark Lawrence
http://blog.startifact.com/posts/the-call-of-python-28.html so in response to the last line, who *IS* going to do all of the required work? -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence --- This email is free from

Re: Martijn Faassen: The Call of Python 2.8

2014-04-14 Thread Mark Lawrence
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Re: converting old project to Python 3 was: Re: Why Python 3?

2014-04-19 Thread Mark Lawrence
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Re: Why Python 3?

2014-04-19 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 19/04/2014 07:40, Paul Rubin wrote: That said, I don't know anyone who actually uses Python 3. You do now :) -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence --- This email is free from viruses and malware be

Re: Why Python 3?

2014-04-20 Thread Mark Lawrence
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Re: which book to read next??

2014-04-21 Thread Mark Lawrence
ative solution: Join python-bugs as well as python-list, and pledge to help out on *every* issue seen :) -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Anti

Re: Moving to an OOP model from an classically imperitive one

2014-04-23 Thread Mark Lawrence
t your code into one file and stop messing about. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Significant digits in a float?

2014-04-29 Thread Mark Lawrence
meone walk one mile south, one mile east, and one mile north and end up at their starting point? Emile Haven't you heard of The Triangular Earth Society? -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence --- This email

Re: Significant digits in a float?

2014-04-30 Thread Mark Lawrence
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Re: Off-topic circumnavigating the earth in a mile or less

2014-05-01 Thread Mark Lawrence
ne walking in a radius 1/2pi circle about the pole might easily see it. OK, change bear to bird & the question to "What kind of bird is it?" A buffalo with an aqualung possibly? -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our langua

Re: Python Image Registration and Cropping?

2014-05-03 Thread Mark Lawrence
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Re: Bug in Decimal??

2014-05-04 Thread Mark Dickinson
3021, too. And that's *precisely* what you're seeing: the Decimal module is giving you a result that's exactly `Decimal('2e-1007') - Decimal('1.3e-3021')`, while the result you were expecting is `Decimal('2e-1007') + Decimal('0.7e-3021')`. A difference of exactly `Decimal('2e-3021')`, as expected. -- Mark -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: (question) How to use python get access to google search without query quota limit

2014-05-06 Thread Mark Lawrence
ure but it's USD 1,000 cash or cheque made payable to the Python Software Foundation, backed up by bankers card. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence --- This email is free from viruses and malware bec

Re: The “does Python have variables?” debate

2014-05-07 Thread Mark Lawrence
end there. I entirely agree. This discussion has been done to death an infinite number of times. It fits into my "I couldn't care less" category, I just want to write code. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language.

Re: how to create an external string when binding C to Python?

2014-05-08 Thread Mark Lawrence
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Re: The “does Python have variables?” debate

2014-05-08 Thread Mark Lawrence
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Re: The “does Python have variables?” debate

2014-05-09 Thread Mark Lawrence
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PyPy updated

2014-05-09 Thread Mark Lawrence
Might interest some of you fine folk out there :- http://morepypy.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/pypy-23-terrestrial-arthropod-trap.html -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence --- This email is free from viruses and

Re: The “does Python have variables?â€瑩 debate

2014-05-09 Thread Mark Lawrence
repetative thread is made infinitely better by the mention of three wonderful letters, V, M and S. What bliss :) -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast

Re: Question on Debugging a code line

2014-05-11 Thread Mark Lawrence
paragraphs, thanks. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com -- https://mail.python.org/mailman

Re: Fortran

2014-05-11 Thread Mark Lawrence
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Re: Fortran

2014-05-12 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 12/05/2014 03:28, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Mon, 12 May 2014 01:27:17 +0100, Mark Lawrence wrote: On 12/05/2014 00:51, Steven D'Aprano wrote: Cars are standardized -- there are basically two types, manuals and automatics. Sadly they can still go wrong due to modern e

Everything you did not want to know about Unicode in Python 3

2014-05-12 Thread Mark Lawrence
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Re: Everything you did not want to know about Unicode in Python 3

2014-05-12 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 13/05/2014 02:18, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Mon, 12 May 2014 17:47:48 +, alister wrote: On Mon, 12 May 2014 16:19:17 +0100, Mark Lawrence wrote: This was *NOT* written by our resident unicode expert http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2014/5/12/everything-about-unicode/ Posted as I thoug

Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions.

2014-05-13 Thread Mark Lawrence
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Re: Everything you did not want to know about Unicode in Python 3

2014-05-13 Thread Mark Lawrence
why stuff went wrong. Unless you're (un)lucky enough to be working on IIRC the 1/3 of major IT projects that deliver nothing :) -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence --- This email is free from viruses

Re: Fortran (Was: The "does Python have variables?" debate)

2014-05-13 Thread Mark Lawrence
erybody is afraid to touch it :-) And sometimes, both... Or neither as you don't have the source :) -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence --- This email is free from viruses and malware because a

Re: How do I access 'Beautiful Soup' on python 2.7 or 3.4 , console or idle versions.

2014-05-13 Thread Mark Lawrence
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Re: PEP 8 : Maximum line Length :

2014-05-14 Thread Mark Lawrence
punch cards that made up his end of course project. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com

Re: PEP 8 : Maximum line Length :

2014-05-14 Thread Mark Lawrence
hen, let's continue to write our code as though humans are the ones who will be reading it. I thought code was meant to be read by programmers, not humans :) -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence --- This ema

Re: PEP 8 : Maximum line Length :

2014-05-15 Thread Mark Lawrence
's obviously overcome all of the known obstacles, in exactly the same way that all previous silver bullets have done. At least I think it's the kind of thing that you're talking about. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can

Re: Everything you did not want to know about Unicode in Python 3

2014-05-17 Thread Mark Lawrence
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Re: PEP 8 : Maximum line Length :

2014-05-17 Thread Mark Lawrence
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Re: PEP 8 : Maximum line Length :

2014-05-17 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 17/05/2014 15:06, Roy Smith wrote: In article , Mark Lawrence wrote: On 17/05/2014 13:52, Albert van der Horst wrote: Now translate E=mc^2 into Java. I can't do that as I simply don't understand it. What has the Marylebone Cricket Club got to do with E? A wicket looks

Problem building 3.5 on Windows

2014-05-17 Thread Mark Lawrence
nnot open include file: 'excpt.h': No such file or directory etc. What stupid thing have I forgotten, apart from switching to *nix? :) -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence --- This email is free

Re: Problem building 3.5 on Windows

2014-05-17 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 17/05/2014 18:05, Chris Angelico wrote: On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 2:59 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote: 1>..\PC\make_versioninfo.c(1): fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'stdio.h': No such file or directory What stupid thing have I forgotten, apart from switching to *nix? :)

Re: Problem building 3.5 on Windows

2014-05-17 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 17/05/2014 20:08, Chris Angelico wrote: On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 5:06 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote: Solved as you got me looking in a different direction. It certainly helps if you have an up to date version of the SDK :) Hah. I don't know which versions of Visual Studio Express go with

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