Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed2.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!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: UNSURE 0.301 X-Spam-Level: *** X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.48; '*S*': 0.08; 'compiler': 0.07; 'subject:help': 0.08; 'magazine,': 0.09; 'observation': 0.09; 'renamed': 0.16; 'soap,': 0.16; 'all.': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'library': 0.18; 'bit': 0.19; 'subject:request': 0.19; 'cc:addr:gmail.com': 0.22; 'cheers,': 0.24; 'looks': 0.24; 'cc:2**0': 0.24; 'source': 0.25; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'tim': 0.29; 'wonder': 0.29; 'chase': 0.31; 'font': 0.31; 'quite': 0.32; 'running': 0.33; 'computer.': 0.33; 'could': 0.34; 'received:66': 0.35; 'done.': 0.35; 'but': 0.35; 'building': 0.35; 'thanks': 0.36; 'half': 0.37; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'that,': 0.38; "couldn't": 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'dangerous': 0.60; 'received:unknown': 0.61; 'ago,': 0.61; 'color': 0.61; 'first': 0.61; 'making': 0.63; 'header:Message- Id:1': 0.63; 'charset:windows-1256': 0.64; 'more': 0.64; 'different': 0.65; 'percent': 0.68; 'published': 0.71; 'million': 0.74; 'received:204': 0.75; 'hand': 0.80; 'citizens.': 0.84; 'gray': 0.84; 'trig': 0.84; 'boxes': 0.91; 'traded': 0.91; 'hair': 0.93; 'hands': 0.96; '2013': 0.98 X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.4 required=5.0 X-Spam-Level: + From: Gene Heskett To: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: My first real request for help Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 17:01:42 -0500 References: <201311190431.15449.gheskett@wdtv.com> <20131119125742.20914158@bigbox.christie.dr> <201311191110.37323.thudfoo@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201311191110.37323.thudfoo@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="windows-1256" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 23:45:26 +0100 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: 32 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1384901127 news.xs4all.nl 15896 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:39766 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:60039 On Tuesday 19 November 2013 16:48:40 xDog Walker did opine: > On Tuesday 2013 November 19 10:57, Tim Chase wrote: > > Just an observation here, it looks like you might have a "one" > > instead of an "ell" in "float" in the file-name. > > That is exactly what I see using Monospace font where the letter and > digit are different shapes. And I see exactly that in firefox. That l is indeed a 1. No wonder I couldn't type it, but could copy/paste it. Until I renamed it with an l. That bit of confusion first bit me hard, darned near 30 tears ago, building a trig functions library for the Microware C compiler running on a trs-80 Color Computer. Source published in the Rainbow magazine, Offset plates made from a DMP printer. I don't remember that fondly at all. I traded printers because of that, the 9 pin DMP's used exactly the same image for both. I had quite a bit more gray hair when that was done. :( Thanks for making me go look again. :) Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) "Ninety percent of baseball is half mental." -- Yogi Berra A pen in the hand of this president is far more dangerous than 200 million guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens.