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QOTW:
- Nick Coghlan brings up the 'lambdas are going away in 3.0' topic, which
has been discussed before:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/81e17b1d3ccba538 - A user asks about a non-generator-based method for iteration using class
__iter__andnext()methods:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/6336a00ad217888a - Daniel Bickett asks about getting Twisted and wxPython working together,
and receives both a threaded and non-threaded version:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/73f1e7758225afc3 - A question about iterating over floats...be careful!
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/1278866159ac4429 - A Boogieman asks whether Python is easily learned and what can be done
with it. Quick answer: yes, and anything you are capable of doing:
This Boogieman later asks about GUI toolkits:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/e67b776df72eb336
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/d502698b4adacd01 - Erik Bethke writes Majong game after using Python for a month. Ahh, will
the wonders of Python never cease?
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/6d710e35007f0f32 - Kamilche asks about getting warnings when not calling a function, and gets
pointed to pychecker, something more of us should be using:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/dff810b7dacd247c - Are people allowed to build commercial applications in Python? YES!
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/aa953388db68b196 - Questions about asyncore brings up a web server in asyncore from _Python
Web Programming_, and a pointer to Twisted. Alternatively, one could look
at the asynchat or smtpd modules in the standard library as sources of
inspiration:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/81360ec06013e36d
Jim Fulton: "[What's] duck typing?"
Andrew Koenig: "That's the Australian pronunciation of 'duct taping'."
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