Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed3.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 0.058 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.89; '*S*': 0.00; '(at': 0.04; "'a'": 0.09; 'spelled': 0.09; 'subject:files': 0.09; 'subject:How': 0.10; 'cc:addr:python-list': 0.11; 'jan': 0.12; '(no)': 0.16; '(these': 0.16; 'dig': 0.16; 'dots': 0.16; 'fits': 0.16; 'from:addr:rosuav': 0.16; 'from:name:chris angelico': 0.16; 'instead:': 0.16; 'lower- case': 0.16; 'subject:remove': 0.16; 'vowel': 0.16; '(you': 0.16; 'sat,': 0.16; 'language': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'example': 0.22; 'putting': 0.22; 'rules': 0.22; 'cc:addr:python.org': 0.22; 'unicode': 0.24; 'looks': 0.24; 'cc:2**0': 0.24; 'subject:/': 0.26; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'am,': 0.29; 'message- id:@mail.gmail.com': 0.30; 'another': 0.32; 'cases': 0.33; 'common': 0.35; 'but': 0.35; 'received:google.com': 0.35; 'there': 0.35; 'two': 0.37; 'previous': 0.38; 'does': 0.39; 'called': 0.40; 'how': 0.40; 'above,': 0.60; 'most': 0.60; 'full': 0.61; 'mentioned': 0.61; 'simple': 0.61; 'more': 0.64; 'different': 0.65; 'air': 0.66; 'american': 0.66; 'between': 0.67; 'bothered': 0.68; 'sound': 0.68; 'cold': 0.69; 'fact,': 0.69; 'special': 0.74; '"la': 0.84; '2015': 0.84; 'common,': 0.84; 'distinguish': 0.84; 'sixth': 0.84; 'texts,': 0.84; 'together,': 0.84; 'british': 0.87; 'notion': 0.91; 'to:none': 0.92 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:cc :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=zSPIHXbmkQt33kyNDTQBCu5Q92XsdzMOWsuQTx9635A=; b=yUnO9Q/rX/3k3fbZWsK6SHkKjZIVBD27mhs2/0LW65qScGBR66MkL7XQdRSUEiOARM NuG2HeNMv20u3/sPayF/ioeFy+QbaozdRdTIfi1eDk1PF9TbldJlKXRRy0Jz+26WJvCY Q/xoj6m38rWSVTiGGllooreqnhKE7gSRCiUnU1IvWwfGG/b4sFdYlJAB+VyMchdtvrjd sTI5az3SVOLh95RW1uGhsCH8Hbii2PlDg2IyUIjVvvHAbSb3yYItZ7KqlZwIjQrHPk8f K7019iZPc3oEcgTMbeLiJLahoWGMmQcbkbbHVpLk9k+Nk9Uby6J4/2+uHzbsGmEnrRYo y75Q== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.107.160.143 with SMTP id j137mr10669887ioe.43.1420232909756; Fri, 02 Jan 2015 13:08:29 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <20150102090051.GC22372@arxnet.hu> <20150102102153.GA89926@cskk.homeip.net> <20150102053552.6ed449b8@bigbox.christie.dr> <20150102123604.GB24295@arxnet.hu> <20150102135132.GE24572@arxnet.hu> <2a5bfb42-c0b4-40dc-ba86-10bb67001350@googlegroups.com> Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2015 08:08:29 +1100 Subject: Re: How do I remove/unlink wildcarded files From: Chris Angelico Cc: "python-list@python.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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: 33 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1420232918 news.xs4all.nl 2900 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:59387 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:83130 On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 4:54 AM, Rustom Mody wrote: > And how does this strange language called English fits into your rules > and (no) special cases scheme? > > http://www.omgfacts.com/lists/3989/Did-you-know-that-ough-can-be-pronounc= ed-TEN-DIFFERENT-WAYS I learned six, which is no more than there are for the simple vowel 'a' (at least, in British English; American English has a few less sounds for 'a'). Consider "cat", "bay", "car" (that's the three most common sounds), "watch", "water", "parent" (these three are less common, and American English often folds them into the other three). Now have a look at Norwegian, where the fifth of those sounds ("water") is spelled with a ring above, eg "La den g=C3=A5" - and the sixth is (I think) more often spelled with a slashed O - "Den kraften jeg skjulte f=C3=B8r". Similarly in Swedish: "Sl=C3=A5 dig loss, sl=C3=A5 dig f= ri" is pronounced "Slaw di loss, slaw di free". Or let's look at another of English's oddities. Put a t and an h together, and you get a completely different sound... two different sounds, in fact, voiced or unvoiced. Icelandic uses thorn instead: "=C3=9Eetta er n=C3=B3g" is pronoun= ced (roughly) "Thetta air know". And the whole notion of putting a dot on a lower-case i and not putting one on upper-case I is pretty illogical, but Turkish, as I mentioned in the previous post, uses the dots to distinguish between two pronunciations of the vowel, hence "ald=C4=B1rma" which would sound somewhat different with a dot on the i. (You may be able to see a theme in my example texts, but I figured it's time to see what I can do with full Unicode support. The cold looks of disapproval never bothered me, anyway.) ChrisA