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Re: Intermediate Python user needed help

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On Sun, 05 Aug 2012 19:32:26 -0400, Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> declaimed
the following in gmane.comp.python.general:

> In article <mailman.2984.1344208723.4697.python-list@python.org>,
>  Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> wrote:
> 
> > On 08/05/12 17:00, John Mordecai Dildy wrote:
> > > since when did we start talking about lisp?
> > 
> > Though not a lisper, the Python tie-in was my reply:  Python (among
> > many other languages) doesn't allow a "-" as a character in
> > identifiers as you appeared to use it in your code.  Unlike HTML,
> > XML, CSS, and apparently lisp and COBOL (thanks, MRAB, for ripping
> > open that scab after years of trying to repress those COBOL memories
> > :-)   where identifiers may contain the dash.
> > 
> > -tkc
> 
> Does BNF count as a language?

	It's a meta-language <G>
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Intermediate Python user needed help John Mordecai Dildy <jdildy85@gmail.com> - 2012-08-05 12:29 -0700
  Re: Intermediate Python user needed help John Ladasky <john_ladasky@sbcglobal.net> - 2012-08-05 12:34 -0700
  Re: Intermediate Python user needed help John Mordecai Dildy <jdildy85@gmail.com> - 2012-08-05 12:44 -0700
  Re: Intermediate Python user needed help John Mordecai Dildy <jdildy85@gmail.com> - 2012-08-05 12:51 -0700
    Re: Intermediate Python user needed help Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8825@gmail.com> - 2012-08-05 15:09 -0500
    Re: Intermediate Python user needed help xDog Walker <thudfoo@gmail.com> - 2012-08-05 13:15 -0700
    Re: Intermediate Python user needed help Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-08-05 20:24 +0000
      Re: Intermediate Python user needed help John Mordecai Dildy <jdildy85@gmail.com> - 2012-08-05 13:31 -0700
  Re: Intermediate Python user needed help John Mordecai Dildy <jdildy85@gmail.com> - 2012-08-05 13:16 -0700
    Re: Intermediate Python user needed help John Mordecai Dildy <jdildy85@gmail.com> - 2012-08-05 13:17 -0700
  Re: Intermediate Python user needed help John Mordecai Dildy <jdildy85@gmail.com> - 2012-08-05 13:19 -0700
  Re: Intermediate Python user needed help John Mordecai Dildy <jdildy85@gmail.com> - 2012-08-05 13:52 -0700
    Re: Intermediate Python user needed help Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2012-08-05 17:01 -0400
    Re: Intermediate Python user needed help Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2012-08-05 16:03 -0500
      Re: Intermediate Python user needed help John Mordecai Dildy <jdildy85@gmail.com> - 2012-08-05 14:09 -0700
      Re: Intermediate Python user needed help Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2012-08-05 17:32 -0400
        Re: Intermediate Python user needed help Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-08-05 23:15 +0100
        Re: Intermediate Python user needed help Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2012-08-05 18:27 -0500
    Re: Intermediate Python user needed help Vlastimil Brom <vlastimil.brom@gmail.com> - 2012-08-05 23:06 +0200
    Re: Intermediate Python user needed help Zero Piraeus <schesis@gmail.com> - 2012-08-05 17:07 -0400
    Re: Intermediate Python user needed help MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2012-08-05 22:08 +0100
    Re: Intermediate Python user needed help MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2012-08-05 22:12 +0100
      Re: Intermediate Python user needed help John Mordecai Dildy <jdildy85@gmail.com> - 2012-08-05 14:14 -0700
        Re: Intermediate Python user needed help alex23 <wuwei23@gmail.com> - 2012-08-05 19:49 -0700
      Re: Intermediate Python user needed help John Mordecai Dildy <jdildy85@gmail.com> - 2012-08-05 14:14 -0700
        Re: Intermediate Python user needed help "William R. Wing" <wrw@mac.com> (Bill Wing) - 2012-08-05 19:38 -0400
    Re: Intermediate Python user needed help Andre Ramaciotti <andre@ramaciotti.com> - 2012-08-05 18:22 -0300
      Re: Intermediate Python user needed help John Mordecai Dildy <jdildy85@gmail.com> - 2012-08-05 15:00 -0700
      Re: Intermediate Python user needed help John Mordecai Dildy <jdildy85@gmail.com> - 2012-08-05 15:00 -0700
        Re: Intermediate Python user needed help Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-08-05 23:17 +0100
        Re: Intermediate Python user needed help Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2012-08-05 18:19 -0500
          Re: Intermediate Python user needed help Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2012-08-05 19:32 -0400
            Re: Intermediate Python user needed help Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2012-08-05 21:15 -0400
            Re: Intermediate Python user needed help Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2012-08-05 20:27 -0500
          Re: Intermediate Python user needed help Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-08-06 00:42 +0000
    Re: Intermediate Python user needed help Jugurtha Hadjar <jugurtha.hadjar@gmail.com> - 2012-08-07 04:06 +0100
      Re: Intermediate Python user needed help rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2012-08-06 20:52 -0700
        Re: Intermediate Python user needed help Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2012-08-07 12:27 -0400
  Re: Intermediate Python user needed help John Mordecai Dildy <jdildy85@gmail.com> - 2012-08-05 15:39 -0700
  Re: Intermediate Python user needed help Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2012-08-06 09:05 -0700
    Re: Intermediate Python user needed help Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-08-07 01:16 +0000
      Re: Intermediate Python user needed help rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2012-08-06 20:55 -0700
  Re: Intermediate Python user needed help Alec Taylor <alec.taylor6@gmail.com> - 2012-08-07 02:13 +1000
  Re: Intermediate Python user needed help Jean-Michel Pichavant <jeanmichel@sequans.com> - 2012-08-06 19:05 +0200
  Re: Intermediate Python user needed help Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2012-08-06 15:22 -0400
  Re: Intermediate Python user needed help Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-08-07 07:59 +1000
  Re: Intermediate Python user needed help Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2012-08-06 23:39 -0400
    Re: Intermediate Python user needed help John Mordecai Dildy <jdildy85@gmail.com> - 2012-08-07 07:09 -0700
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