Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.etla.org!news.stack.nl!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed3a.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 0.017 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.97; '*S*': 0.00; 'from:addr:yahoo.co.uk': 0.04; 'boring': 0.09; 'lawrence': 0.09; 'pointless': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'subject:()': 0.09; 'subject:question': 0.10; 'jan': 0.12; 'language.': 0.14; 'darts': 0.16; 'distinct': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'stumbled': 0.16; 'language': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; '>>>': 0.22; 'example': 0.22; 'header:User- Agent:1': 0.23; "i've": 0.25; 'shown': 0.26; 'pass': 0.26; 'subject:/': 0.26; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.27; 'header:In- Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'point': 0.28; "i'm": 0.30; 'code': 0.31; 'getting': 0.31; 'lines': 0.31; '>>>>': 0.31; 'accidentally': 0.31; 'larry': 0.31; 'piece': 0.31; "we're": 0.32; 'another': 0.32; "can't": 0.35; 'but': 0.35; 'there': 0.35; 'really': 0.36; 'two': 0.37; 'being': 0.38; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'pm,': 0.38; 'explain': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'received:org': 0.40; 'helps': 0.61; 'first': 0.61; 'our': 0.64; 'forward': 0.65; 'here': 0.66; 'between': 0.67; 'advantages': 0.68; 'sunday': 0.68; 'watching': 0.68; 'url:v': 0.71; 'url:youtube': 0.71; 'us,': 0.73; 'url:watch': 0.77; 'discovered': 0.83; 'actually,': 0.84; 'tv?': 0.84; 'edwards': 0.91; 'masters': 0.91 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Mark Lawrence Subject: Re: question about input() and/or raw_input() Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 19:29:26 +0000 References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-78-146-2-200.as13285.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 In-Reply-To: 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: 38 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1390159785 news.xs4all.nl 2969 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:45599 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:64317 On 19/01/2014 19:24, Larry Martell wrote: > On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 12:17 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote: >> On 19/01/2014 18:15, Grant Edwards wrote: >>> >>> On 2014-01-19, Mark Lawrence wrote: >>>> Actually, to go off at a tangent, I'm just getting into GUIs via >>>> wxPython. I've discovered there are distinct advantages having to >>>> write endless lines of code just to get a piece of data. For example >>>> on a Sunday it helps pass the time between the two sessions of the >>>> Masters Snooker final being shown on TV. >>> >>> >>> Fair enough, but what do you do to pass the time _during_ Snooker >>> being shown on TV? >>> >>> I can still remember the point in my first trip to the UK when I >>> accidentally stumbled across darts on TV. Given the endless variety >>> (and quantity) of pointless crap that people watch here in the US, I >>> can't really explain why I was so baffled and amused by darts on TV -- >>> but I was. >>> >> >> Just no comparison, darts and snooker. This is excellent though >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHnBppccI0o > > Now that we're way off on the tangent of what some people consider > boring and others don't, I'm really looking forward to watching > curling in the upcoming Olympics. > Curling, now there's another good reason to allow Scottish independance :) -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence