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  Re: python in school notebooks/laptops hackingKK <hackingkk@gmail.com> - 2011-05-30 16:39 +0530
    Re: python in school notebooks/laptops jmfauth <wxjmfauth@gmail.com> - 2011-05-30 07:30 -0700
      Re: python in school notebooks/laptops Irmen de Jong <irmen.NOSPAM@xs4all.nl> - 2011-05-31 00:15 +0200
        Re: python in school notebooks/laptops Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-05-30 21:12 -0400

#6652 — Re: python in school notebooks/laptops

On 30/05/11 15:45, John Thornton wrote:
> Hello
>         Is it a waste of time to try to get school admins to put 
> python in their school laptops?
>
>        OK. Here's the crib for the rest[!] of the world. Here in 
> Australia most secondary schools [that is kids from age approx 12-18] 
> have some sort of netbook/laptop program. I have looked at a few 
> schools and they put visual basic in  but not python. [unless of 
> course it's a mac where python may already be in it] . This is a 
> curious omission when Blender needs python to run.

Even better, try convincing them to use Ubuntu instead of  a virus 
called Where I Never Do Operations With Safety, or WINDOWS for short.
That way Python will come by default  and VB will be out of question
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.

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#6663

On 30 mai, 13:09, hackingKK <hackin...@gmail.com> wrote:

[...]

>
> Even better, try convincing them to use Ubuntu instead of  a virus
> called Where I Never Do Operations With Safety, or WINDOWS for short.
> That way Python will come by default  and VB will be out of question
> Happy hacking.
> Krishnakant.

Do you mean one of these os's, where Python (2) is not
working properly because the *defaultencoding* is set
to utf-8?

jmf

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#6675

On 30-5-2011 16:30, jmfauth wrote:
> On 30 mai, 13:09, hackingKK <hackin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
>>
>> Even better, try convincing them to use Ubuntu instead of  a virus
>> called Where I Never Do Operations With Safety, or WINDOWS for short.
>> That way Python will come by default  and VB will be out of question
>> Happy hacking.
>> Krishnakant.
> 
> Do you mean one of these os's, where Python (2) is not
> working properly because the *defaultencoding* is set
> to utf-8?
> 
> jmf

Huh? On all of my machines, including windows and Ubuntu 11.04, sys.getdefaultencoding()
returns 'ascii'.

Irmen

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#6688

On 5/30/2011 6:15 PM, Irmen de Jong wrote:

>> Do you mean one of these os's, where Python (2) is not
>> working properly because the *defaultencoding* is set
>> to utf-8?

> Huh? On all of my machines, including windows and Ubuntu 11.04, sys.getdefaultencoding()
> returns 'ascii'.

For me, WINXP, 2.7
 >>> sys.getdefaultencoding()
'ascii'

winxp, 3.2:
 >>> sys.getdefaultencoding()
'utf-8'

Both are what one would want.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy

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