I ran across a kind of fun problem today that I wanted to run past you Gentle
Geniuses (tm):
- Imagine an environment in which there may be multiple instances of a given
microservice written in Python.
- Each of these services needs to produce a string of ten digits guaranteed to
be unique
On Tue, 10 Dec 2019 at 12:12, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
> - Each of these services needs to produce a string of ten digits
> guaranteed to be unique
> on a per service instance basis AND to not collide for - oh, let's say -
> forever :)s
>
> Can anyone suggest a randomiz
On 12/9/19 8:50 PM, Paul Rubin wrote:
> Tim Daneliuk writes:
>> - Imagine an environment in which there may be multiple instances of a given
>> microservice written in Python.
>
> Decide the maximum number of microservice instances, say 1000. Chop up
> the 10 digit ra
On 12/9/19 8:54 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Dec 2019 18:52:11 -0600, Tim Daneliuk
> declaimed the following:
>
>>
>> - Each of these services needs to produce a string of ten digits guaranteed
>> to be unique
>> on a per service instance basis A
On 12/10/19 10:36 AM, Peter Pearson wrote:
> Just to be sure: you *are* aware that the "Birthday Paradox" says
> that if you pick your 10-digit strings truly randomly, you'll probably
> get a collision by the time of your 10**5th string . . . right?
I did not consider this, but the point is taken.
On 12/10/19 12:37 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 5:01 AM Tim Daneliuk wrote:
>>
>> On 12/10/19 10:36 AM, Peter Pearson wrote:
>>> Just to be sure: you *are* aware that the "Birthday Paradox" says
>>> that if you pick your 10-di
On 2019-12-22 23:34, Batuhan Taskaya wrote:
> I encounter with cases like doing a function 6 time with no
> argument, or same arguments over and over or doing some structral
> thing N times and I dont know how elegant I can express that to the
> code. I dont know why but I dont like this
>
> for _
If I do this:
foo = [ "bar", "baz" "slop", "crud" ]
Python silently accepts that and makes the middle term "bazslop".
BUT, if I do this:
foo = [ "bar", "baz" 1, "crud" ]
or this:
foo = [ "bar", 2 1, "crud" ]
The interpreter throws a syntax error.
This is more of an intellectual
On 12/23/19 7:52 PM, DL Neil wrote:
>
> WebRef: https://docs.python.org/3/reference/lexical_analysis.html
Yep, that explains it, but it still feels non-regular to me. From a pointy
headed academic
POV, I'd like to see behavior consistent across types. Again ... what do I know?
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On 12/23/19 8:35 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 24, 2019 at 12:56 PM DL Neil via Python-list
> wrote:
>> However, your point involves the fact that whereas:
>>
>> 1 + 2 # 3 is *clearly* addition, and
>> "a" + "b" # "ab" is *clearly* concatenation
>>
>> "a" "b" # al
On 12/24/19 6:37 AM, Stefan Ram wrote:
> And you all are aware that this kind of string concatenation
> happens in C and C++, too, aren't you?
>
> main.c
>
> #include
> int main( void ){ puts( "a" "b" ); }
>
> transcript
>
> ab
Noting that it has been a long time since I looked at the
On 2019-12-29 12:52, Greg Ewing wrote:
> On 29/12/19 11:49 am, Chris Angelico wrote:
> > "Define before use" is a broad principle that I try to follow,
> > even when the code itself doesn't mandate this.
>
> I tend to do this too, although it's probably just a habit
> carried over from languages
On 2020-01-30 06:44, Souvik Dutta wrote:
> Hey I was thinking how I can save a dictionary in python(obviously)
> so that the script is rerun it automatically loads the dictionary.
This is almost exactly what the "dbm" (nee "anydbm") module does, but
persisting the dictionary out to the disk:
im
On 2020-02-20 13:30, David Wihl wrote:
> I believe that it would be more idiomatic in Python (and other
> languages like Ruby) to throw an exception when one of these
> partial errors occur. That way there would be the same control flow
> if a major or minor error occurred.
There are a variety of
Hello,
I am trying to install a custom Python package but ran into an error. The error
presumably associated with cython. I tried a different compiler since Intel
compiler often crashes when using cython, but couldn't get it working.
Attached is the installation error log. I have installed and
Hello,
I am trying to install a custom Python code but ran into an error. The error
presumably associated with cython. I tried a different compiler since Intel
compiler often crashes when using cython, but couldn't get it working.
Attached is the installation error log. I have installed and upd
On 2020-04-01 19:27, Peter Wiehe wrote:
> Is there a Python3 module with financial accounts?
You'd have to be more specific. For interacting with online accounts
with financial institutions? For tracking financial data locally?
There's beancount (http://furius.ca/beancount/ and written in Pytho
I know that vim lets me do things like
$ ls | vim -
where it will read the data from stdin, but then take over the screen
TUI curses-style, and interact directly with the keyboard input
without being limited to input from stdin.
I've played around with something like
import sys
import
On 2020-05-19 20:10, Manfred Lotz wrote:
> Hi there,
> I am asking myself if I should preferably use single or double
> quotes for strings?
I'd say your consistency matters more than which one you choose.
According to a recent observation by Raymond H.
"""
Over time, the #python world has show
On 2020-05-24 01:40, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 10:52 PM Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer
> wrote:
> >
> > The interpreter prefers single-quotes
> >
> > >>> "single or double"
> > 'single or double'
> >
> >>> 'not all that strongly, it doesn\'t'
> "not all that strongly, it do
On 2020-05-23 14:46, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Sat, 23 May 2020 11:03:09 -0500, Tim Chase
> >But when a string contains both, it biases towards single quotes:
> >
> > >>> "You said \"No it doesn't\""
> > 'You said &q
On 2020-06-05 12:15, DL Neil via Python-list wrote:
> Finking/discussion:
>
> - how do you like to balance these three (and any other criteria)?
For most of what I do, I only ever have one such module so I'm not
trying keep multiple short-names in my head concurrently. For me,
it's usually tkint
On 2020-07-03 10:09, Daley Okuwa via Python-list wrote:
> Write an algorithm (choose the language you prefer) that given a
> character string, for instance {‘c’,’a’,’i’,’o’,’p’,’a’}, will
> print out the list of characters appearing at least 2 times. In
> this specific example, it would return {‘a’
I know for ints, cpython caches something like -127 to 255 where `is`
works by happenstance based on the implementation but not the spec
(so I don't use `is` for comparison there because it's not
guaranteed by the language spec). On the other hand, I know that None
is a single object that can (and
On 2020-07-22 11:54, Oscar Benjamin wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 11:04 AM Tim Chase wrote:
>>> reading through the language specs and didn't encounter
>>> anything about booleans returned from comparisons-operators,
>>> guaranteeing that they always ret
I have a weird problem I could use a bit of help with ...
I have successfully installed 3.8.5 using pew/pythonz on a BSD FreeBSD system.
But when I attempt to install it on a Linux system I get the traceback below.
In this case, pew/pythonz were installed locally in my own account using system
nat
On 8/17/20 1:26 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> For context, see this commit:
>
> https://github.com/python/peps/commit/0c6427dcec1e98ca0bd46a876a7219ee4a9347f4
>
> The commit message is highly politically charged and is now a
> permanent part of the Python commit history. The Python Steering
> Counc
On 8/18/20 12:28 PM, justin walters wrote:
> I apologize for being ageist earlier as well. That was out of line.
I am likely older than you and there is no reason to apologise.
Only the profoundly undeveloped psyche takes every opportunity to
find offense when none is intended. It is the sign of
On 8/18/20 6:34 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> I would kindly recommend that folks just educate themselves on what
I would also like to help you become educated. Be sure to check
out these literary treasures - they are the foundation of the
worldview you are espousing:
The_Origin of the Famil
On 8/18/20 6:34 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> I would kindly recommend that folks just educate themselves on what
Speaking of being educated ... Could you please do an exposition
for all us ignorant types on the books that really animate
your worldview:
The_Origin of the Family, Private P
On 8/19/20 8:35 AM, Alexandre Brault wrote:
> I've not seen anyone objecting to the idea of removing the reference to
> Strunk and White in favour of the underlying message of "be understandable by
> others who may read your comments" (there were at most a few philosophical
> "what is understand
On 8/18/20 12:18 PM, gia wrote:
> That's why I picked Math, it is also universally accepted, it's very
> strict, and it leaves the reader to decide its color based on themselves
> (it's not white btw :)
Sorry, but when it comes to the demands of the woke, you are not
immune. Reported widely ear
On 8/19/20 2:00 PM, Karen Shaeffer wrote:
> Where you conclude with: "Methinks there is an ideological skunk in the
> parlor …”
>
> Considering all your posts on this thread, it is reasonable to infer you have
> some ideological motivations.
My motivation was to demonstrate that if people of yo
On 8/19/20 1:10 PM, J. Pic wrote:
> Tim, don't you also think that statements should be backed by
> evidence, even more if they are particularly accusatory ?
>
> We'll be lucky if S&W's editor doesn't sue the PSF for slandering for
> publishing that S&W
On 8/19/20 3:29 PM, Ethan Furman wrote:
> On 8/19/20 12:40 PM, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
>> On 8/19/20 2:00 PM, Karen Shaeffer wrote:
>
>>> Considering all your posts on this thread, it is reasonable to infer you
>>> have some ideological motivations.
>>
>>
etter place to ask a pandas question
is StackOverflow. Here's a link that may answer your question.
Convert timestamp to day, month, year and hour
<https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57515291/convert-timestamp-to-day-month-year-and-hour>
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e others that are following
Should be able to use
:%s/%%\(\_.\{-}\)%%/\1<\/del>/g
It simplifies slightly if you use a different delimiter
:%s@%%\(\_.\{-}\)%%@\1@g
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Derp, sorry about the noise. I mistook this message for a similar
dialog over on the Vim mailing list.
For Python, you want
re.sub(r"%%(.*?)%%", r"\1", s, flags=re.S)
or put the flag inline
re.sub(r"(?s)%%(.*?)%%", r"\1", s)
-tim
On 2020-09-03 09
a can be hard to spot, so I usually draw a little
extra attention to it with either
(x, ) = iterable
or
x, = iterable # unpack one value
I'm not sure it qualifies as Pythonic, but it uses Pythonic features
like tuple unpacking and the code is a lot more concise.
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On 2020-09-21 09:48, Stavros Macrakis wrote:
>> def fn(iterable):
>> x, = iterable
>> return x
>
> Thanks, Tim! I didn't realize that you could write (x,) on the LHS!
> Very nice, very Pythonic!
It also expands nicely for other cases, so you want th
On Fri, Oct 2, 2020 at 11:00 AM Shaozhong SHI
wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I got a json response from an API and tried to use pandas to put data into
> a dataframe.
>
> However, I kept getting this ValueError: arrays must all be same length.
>
> Can anyone help?
>
> The following is the json text. Regard
On Sun, Oct 4, 2020 at 8:39 AM Tim Williams wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 2, 2020 at 11:00 AM Shaozhong SHI
> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I got a json response from an API and tried to use pandas to put data into
>> a dataframe.
>>
>> However, I ke
data is another table.
>
> Regards,
>
> Shao
>
>
> I'm fairly new to pandas myself. Can't help there. You may want to post
this on Stackoverflow, or look for a similar issue on github.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/pandas+json
https://github.com/pandas-de
On 10/10/20 2:35 PM, Marco Sulla wrote:
> He should also calculate the carbon dioxide emitted by brains that
> works in C++ only. I omit other sources.
>
yes, methane is an alleged greenhouse gas as well
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On 2020-10-31 15:22, Grant Edwards wrote:
> > A MUA may have to display hundreds of mailboxes, and maybe tens of
> > thousands of mails in a single mailbox.
>
> No. It doesn't. It has to display a tree widget that shows N items
> and holds tens of thousands of items, or a scrolling list widget
>
On 2020-11-07 13:46, Bischoop wrote:
> text = "This is string, remove text after second comma, to be
> removed."
>
> k= (text.find(",")) #find "," in a string
> m = (text.find(",", k+1)) #Find second "," in a string
> new_string = text[:m]
>
> print(new_string)
How about:
new_string = text.r
On 2020-11-07 10:51, Tim Chase wrote:
> from string import ascii_lowercase
> text = ",".join(ascii_lowercase)
> to_throw_away = 5
[derp]
For obvious reasons, these should be s/\/to_throw_away/g
To throw away the trailing N delimited portions:
> new_string =
On 2020-12-12 07:39, ast wrote:
> In case a function recursively calls itself many times,
> is there a way to return a data immediately without
> unstacking all functions ?
Not that I'm aware of. If you use recursion (and AFAIK, Python
doesn't support tail-recursion), you pay all the pushes & pa
On 2020-12-12 15:12, Bischoop wrote:
> I need to check if input number is 1-5. Whatever I try it's not
> working. Here are my aproaches to the problem: https://bpa.st/H62A
>
> What I'm doing wrong and how I should do it?
A range is similar to a list in that it contains just the numbers
listed:
On 2020-12-14 21:21, Schachner, Joseph wrote:
> >>> r = range(10)
> So r is a list containing 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
In Python 3.x, r is *not* a list. It is a custom object/class.
> >>> 2 in r
> True
> As expected.
I'm not sure what your replies are suggesting here. I demonstrate
On 2020-12-20 21:00, danilob wrote:
> b = ((x[0] for x in a))
here you create a generator
> print(list(b))
> [1, 0, 7, 2, 0]
and then you consume all the things it generates here which means
that when you go to do this a second time
> print(list(b))
the generator is already empty/exhausted so
ements. For example:
data = {}
for n in range(3):
data[n] = read_from( 'filename%d' % n )
It IS possible to create variables on the fly, but except in very special
situations, it is almost never the right way to do things.
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y for these kinds of problems. We're always
looking for a great new customer.
Always-Developing-New-Business-ly Yours,
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[Russell Warren, playing w/ time.clock() on Windows]
> ...
> Based on this code and some quick math it confirms that not only will
> the rollover be a looong way out, but that there will not be any loss
> in precision until ~ 30 years down the road. Checking my math:
>
> (float(10**16 + 1) - floa
On 29 Sep 2005 07:24:17 -0700, Xah Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Of course, you begin to write things like Java, in three thousand wordsjust to state you are a moron.
+1 QOTW.
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,
[1,1,1,1,1],
[1,1,1,1,1],
[1,1,1,1,1],
[1,1,1,1,1]]
Would you say there were 12 lines there?
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Will McGugan wrote:
> There is a new version if anyone is interested...
>
> http://www.willmcgugan.com/chess.py
>
> It contains optimizations and bugfixes.
>
> Can anyone suggest a name for this module? pyChess is already taken...
Pyawn???
Tim C
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his use case -- interprocess
communication. The WM_USER range is only if you are inventing a custom
message for some new purpose.
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ed
>as the "mbcs" codec.
>
>import sys
>print repr(sys.argv[1])
>print repr(unicode(sys.argv[1], "mbcs"))
>
>C:\bin>python glurp.py abcß
>'abc\xdf\x95'
>u'abc\xdf\u2022'
There's another entry in my "keep this post
;\xb6'
8 doesn't have anything to do with it. What you have there is hexadecimal.
0377 is an example of an octal number.
However, as was pointed out elsewhere, the same thing would be true even if
you used 'z'.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>cool. so this line
>server = smtplib.SMTP(localhost)
>is when i connect ?
Use the source, Luke. Source code for every standard module is included on
your hard disk. If you look in the __init__ for "class SMTP", your
question will be answered.
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Piet van Oostrum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>>>> Tim Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (TR) wrote:
>
>>TR> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>>> cool. so this line
>>>> server = smtplib.SMTP(localhost)
>>>> is when i connect ?
&g
[Jeremy Moles]
> ...
> I may be missing something critical here, but I don't exactly grok what
> you're saying; how is it even possible to have two instances of
> PyType_vector3d? It is (like all the examples show and all the extension
> modules I've done in the past) a static structure declared an
[Alex Martelli]
>>> try it (and read the Timbot's article included in Python's sources, and the
>>> sources themselves)...
[Kay Schluehr]
>> Just a reading advise. The translated PyPy source
>> pypy/objectspace/listsort.py might be more accessible than the
>> corresponding C code.
[cfbolz]
> inde
Alan Balmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote or quoted:
> On Tue, 04 Oct 2005 17:14:45 GMT, Roedy Green
> >I try to explain Java each day both on my website on the plaintext
> >only newsgroups. It is so much easier to get my point across in HTML.
> >
> >Program listings are much more readable on my websi
;echo 123 | x.py
The process tried to write to a nonexistent pipe.
C:\Tmp>python x.py < x.py
import sys
C:\Tmp>x.py < x.py
C:\Tmp>
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rld is a string, and every operation is a regular expression match
upon that string.
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In comp.lang.java.programmer Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote or
quoted:
> On Sun, 09 Oct 2005 07:19:29 +, Roedy Green wrote:
> > Rich Teer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >>WHat the hell has that got to do with HTML email? Sending photos
> >>is an example of what attachments are for.
> >
>
In comp.lang.java.programmer Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote or quoted:
> The technial problems have been solved for over a decade. NeXT shipped
> systems that used text/richtext, which has none of the problems that
> HTML has. The problems are *social* - you've got to arrange for
> people t
In comp.lang.java.programmer Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote or quoted:
> Roedy Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Read my essay.
> > http://mindprod.com/projects.html/mailreadernewsreader.html
> >
> > I talk around those problems.
>
> Actually, you present a design that forces a solution
In comp.lang.java.programmer Roedy Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote or quoted:
> Read my essay.
> http://mindprod.com/projects.html/mailreadernewsreader.html
FYI, this bit:
``Like ICQ, someone cannot send you mail without your prior permission.
They can't send you mail because they don't have
In comp.lang.java.programmer Paul Boddie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote or quoted:
> Roedy Green wrote:
> > Just how long do you want to stall evolution? Do you imagine people
> > 200 years from now will be still be using pure ASCII text unable to
> > find a solution to JavaScript viruses (turn off JS
In comp.lang.java.programmer Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote or quoted:
> Roedy Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > On Sat, 08 Oct 2005 19:56:50 -0400, Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> >>Show us *examples*! Do you create a style sheet for every site you
> >>visit that overrides there
In comp.lang.java.programmer Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote or quoted:
> Roedy Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > On Sat, 08 Oct 2005 17:41:38 -0400, Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>If you've got a browser with a better solution, what's the browser,
> >>and what's the solution?
SC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on
win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import msvcrt
>>> msvcrt.getch()
'\x1b'
>>>
(I pressed "escape" after the second "enter".)
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[saw huan chng]
> I am beginner in Python. I have some questions on WMI Service in Python.
> I was able to use properties of Class Restore in WMI, but not able to
> use the method. Here is the sample code that I done, anyone can help me?
[... snip code ...]
OK, I don't actually use XP (and the
Any other ideas? What would work the best
>
> Relational database are useful for sharing data in a controlled way.
> A better option for arbirary Python objects might be ZODB with ZEO.
>
> http://www.zope.org/Wikis/ZODB/FrontPage
> http://www.zope.org/Wikis/ZODB/FrontPage
[Bell, Kevin]
| Anyone have any advice on listening for directory events?
Would this be of any use?
http://tgolden.sc.sabren.com/python/win32_how_do_i/watch_directory_for_changes.html
TJG
This e-mail has been scanned fo
In comp.lang.java.programmer Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote or quoted:
> Tim Tyler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > In comp.lang.java.programmer Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote or quoted:
> >> Roedy Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> &
[Echo]
> I have been trying to figure out the problem with this string formatting:
[monstrous statement snipped]
> when it executes, I get this error: "inv argument required".
That shoud be "int", not "inv".
> I have checked and rechecked both the string and the tuple. I cant figure
> out what
In comp.lang.java.programmer Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote or quoted:
> Tim Tyler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > In comp.lang.java.programmer Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote or quoted:
> >> The technial problems have been solved for over a decade.
t... and he never left?
IAC, I've had enough. I don't killfile many people... but Mr.
Lee seems to have gone above and beyond. His arguments are
nothing but incendiary, and he doesn't even know Perl well
enough to bash it as he does.
*plonk*
Tim
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beginning programmers, this would definitely
need to be tacked up to it.
Nice work.
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-optimized that the Schwartzian transform is almost always faster
than passing a custom comparator to the sort function.
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silly to credit Microsoft with the
ubiquity of powerful computers.
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I will, however, say that they have engaged in immoral[*],
unethical, and illegal practices to artificially maintain and
augment their position in the industry and has not yet provided
products/services to back it up.
[*] Yeah, I know. What place do morals have in the business
world. I'm a
home, are you legally prevented from being able to
remove the engine, or replace/upgrade parts?
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little CoCo! I had the original CoCo, upgraded with
the 5 1/4" floppy drive, and later upgraded the whole system to
CoCo 3 with OS9.
<3 <3 <3
Of course, it all went downhill from there. MS-DOS 3.1, Pascal,
Windows 3.1...
*sigh*
10 years later, things picked up. Huzzah!
Tim Hammerqui
In comp.lang.java.programmer Peter T. Breuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote or
quoted:
> Uh - when microsoft produced dos 1.0, or whatever it was, I was sitting
> at my Sun 360 workstation (with 4M of RAM, later upgraded to 8M),
> running SunOS 3.8 or thereabouts.
>
> And a mean game of tetris it pla
In comp.lang.java.programmer Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote or
quoted:
> I'm aware of talk that Dell is selling Linux PCs at Walmart for less than
> the same hardware plus Windows. Talk is cheap -- I'm not aware of anyone
> who has actually seen these Linux PCs. I'd love to know either
In comp.lang.java.programmer Richard Gration <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote or
quoted:
> On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 11:51:16 +, Tim Tyler wrote:
> > Acorn computers. Manufacturers of the best computer I ever owned.
>
> I'm willing to bet that was an Arc ... ? I never used on
In comp.lang.java.programmer Jeroen Wenting wrote or quoted:
> "Mike Meyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > "Jeroen Wenting" writes:
[Microsoft]
> >> no, they got their by clever marketing [snip]
> >
> > What you call "clever marketing" the DOJ calls "monopolistic
> > practices". The
Tim Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote or quoted:
[Microsoft]
> Part of their behavior really escape me. The whole thing about browser
> wars confuses me. Web browsers represent a zero billion dollar a year
> market. Why would you risk anything to own it?
Power. Minshare.
In comp.lang.java.programmer Roedy Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote or quoted:
> MS has held BACK computer evolution by tying their OS so heavily to
> the Pentium architecture. The chip architecture has nowhere near
> enough registers. MS refused to believe the Internet was more than a
> passing f
[Alex Martelli]
> ...
> not_empty and not_full are not methods but rather instances of the
> threading.Condition class, which gets waited on and notified
> appropriately. I'm not entirely sure exactly WHAT one is supposed to do
> with the Condition instances in question (I'm sure there is some des
In comp.lang.java.programmer Paul Rubin <http://[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote or
quoted:
> Tim Tyler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Are there any examples of HTML email causing security problems - outside
> > of Microsoft's software?
>
> There was a pr
In comp.lang.java.programmer Ross Bamford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote or quoted:
> Roedy, I would just _love_ to see the response from the industry when you
> tell them they should dump their whole mail infrastructure, and switch
> over to a whole new system (new protocols, new security holes, n
Gordon Burditt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote or quoted:
> Before worrying about the possible bugs in the implementations,
> worry about security issues present in the *DESIGN*. Email ought
> to be usable to carry out a conversation *SAFELY* with some person out
> to get you. Thus features like this
[Qun Cao]
>> import thread
>> def main():
>> thread.start_new(test.())
>>
>> def test():
>> print 'hello'
>>
>> main()
>> "
>> this program doesn't print out 'hello' as it is supposed to do.
>> while if I change main()
[Neil Hodgson]
>The program has exited before the thread has manage
[Toby Dickenson]
> ...
> ZODB's BTrees work in a similar way but use the regular python comparison
> function, and the lack of a guarantee of a total ordering can be a liability.
> Described here in 2002, but I think same is true today:
> http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zodb-dev/2002-February/002304
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