Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.mixmin.net!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed5.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 0.034 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.93; '*S*': 0.00; 'subject:Python': 0.05; 'performs': 0.07; 'python': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'badly.': 0.16; 'enough.': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.17; 'unicode': 0.17; 'tests': 0.18; 'code,': 0.18; 'combination': 0.22; 'seems': 0.23; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.25; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.26; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.28; 'this.': 0.29; "i'm": 0.29; 'from:addr:yahoo.co.uk': 0.32; 'problem': 0.33; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.33; 'there': 0.35; 'received:org': 0.36; 'really': 0.36; 'but': 0.36; 'too': 0.36; 'enough': 0.36; '(for': 0.37; 'far': 0.37; 'subject:: ': 0.38; 'mark': 0.38; 'nothing': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'header:Received:5': 0.40; 'your': 0.60; 'skip:u 10': 0.60; 'you.': 0.61; "you've": 0.61; 'email addr:gmail.com': 0.63; 'here': 0.65; 'soon': 0.70; 'lack': 0.71; 'idiot,': 0.84; 'idiot.': 0.84; 'stalin': 0.84; 'amongst': 0.91; 'serious': 0.98 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Mark Lawrence Subject: Re: Article on the future of Python Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 14:21:06 +0100 References: <5062ad83$0$29997$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <693ac61b-b1d3-4192-9e50-5166fd119278@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-78-146-9-148.as13285.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120907 Thunderbird/15.0.1 In-Reply-To: <693ac61b-b1d3-4192-9e50-5166fd119278@googlegroups.com> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 120926-0, 26/09/2012), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean 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: 31 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1348665653 news.xs4all.nl 6928 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:44937 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:30196 On 26/09/2012 10:31, wxjmfauth@gmail.com wrote: > > I'm ready to be considered as an idiot, but I'm not blind. People here have seen enough of your writings to know that you're not an idiot. I'm feeling far too polite right now to state what they actually know about you. > As soon as I tested these characters, Py3.3 performs really > badly. It seems to me it is legitimate to consider, there > is a serious problem here. Your tests (for the lack of a better term) have been repeatedly shot to pieces, refuted, you've shown nothing at all to indicate that Python 3.3 performs really badly. > > Many people are commmenting, I have the feeling, I'm the only > one who tested this. It is not necessary to dive in the Python > code, understanding all this "characters stuff" is enough. Complete dross from a person who seems to know as much about the combination of Python 3.3 and unicode as Hitler, Stalin and Pol Pot amongst others knew about human rights. -- Cheers. Mark Lawrence.