Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!rt.uk.eu.org!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed2.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.111 X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.78; '*S*': 0.00; 'ec2': 0.05; 'that).': 0.09; 'amazon.': 0.16; 'aye.': 0.16; 'finney': 0.16; 'from:addr:rosuav': 0.16; 'from:name:chris angelico': 0.16; 'hrm.': 0.16; 'roy': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'subject:Code': 0.24; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'chris': 0.29; 'moved': 0.30; 'message-id:@mail.gmail.com': 0.30; 'involvement': 0.31; 'writes:': 0.31; 'service,': 0.32; 'running': 0.33; 'minimal': 0.33; 'amazon': 0.34; 'maybe': 0.34; "can't": 0.35; 'something': 0.35; 'received:google.com': 0.35; 'really': 0.36; '2.6': 0.36; 'instances': 0.36; 'ben': 0.38; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'pm,': 0.38; 'rather': 0.38; 'support,': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'even': 0.60; 'company': 0.60; 'tell': 0.60; 'ago,': 0.61; 'skip:n 10': 0.64; 'more': 0.64; 'customers': 0.66; '20,': 0.68; 'smith': 0.68; 'listening': 0.74; 'article': 0.77; '2013': 0.98 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=jtXwmn+V+q08dvQqZinjhaCzX59zSOKoitH7GRkPPl0=; b=TzbvfySwxXPtxutuHZiixgJxTOtzM06eymPpaa//7zA4OSD5/r+Zp5pCB5xbVrjA1N nm0g9j/v35vn7lnC+n4+friQYbZi2YNrFwFzyrBIRGD1Qu+yiqdhhuPyXErs0HAOkYAK UtEPiA9/BfRY8CJaiQySc8pK/hc9W9CSFVQ1he0wWYS+VL89BJbfzhhwVLIO67X/leHG 1rBvFynzHDN6qbjz6XsNcPqreK82/vsJNWYBeJrE6aV9MRgivqs/jr7p+aHb8t/H5jmO e1caFWBWZtEXyTSUnF65eV/tVv1fkDsBMe6HC3SJrrAlXlfZxCi6PnuYxFj/znu7gb6I LMeQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.68.233.135 with SMTP id tw7mr10649644pbc.112.1382236180581; Sat, 19 Oct 2013 19:29:40 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <7wiowshe4c.fsf@benfinney.id.au> References: <52624e8f$0$29981$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <5262b042$0$29981$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <7wiowshe4c.fsf@benfinney.id.au> Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2013 13:29:40 +1100 Subject: Re: Looking for UNICODE to ASCII Conversioni Example Code From: Chris Angelico To: python-list@python.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 24 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1382236183 news.xs4all.nl 15983 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:43218 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:57142 On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Ben Finney wrote: > Roy Smith writes: > >> In article , >> Chris Angelico wrote: >> >> > > Heck, I can't even really move off 2.6 because we use Amazon's EMR >> > > service, which is stuck on 2.6. >> > >> > Hrm. 2.6 is now in source-only security-only support, and that's >> > about to end (there's a 2.6.9 in the pipeline, and that's that). >> > It's about time Amazon moved to 2.7, at least... >> >> Tell that to Amazon. > > Tell that to customers of Amazon's EMR service, who are going to have > rather more leverage with Amazon than non-customers. Aye. My involvement with Amazon is pretty minimal - I evaluated EC2 a while ago, and I think maybe the company paid Amazon something like $20... maybe as much as $100, we had some of the higher-end instances running for a while. They won't be listening to me. :) ChrisA