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Testimonial VIDEO for Honorable Prime Minister Vladimir Putin of the Russian Federation
by nanothermite911fbibustards June 29, 2010

June 29, 2010

Testimonial VIDEO for Honorable Prime Minister Vladimir Putin of the Russian Federation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCYKZq9JLnc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cnz5N9OubCQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nP8IdKP9Bc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0_zG0PEh4o http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQzBeXa6Jao A brief TIMELINE of how the MURDEROUS assault of the YANQUIS on the whole PLANET was ARRESTED : 1) Mikhael Khodorkovsky is arrested like a RAT and put in prison - the whole ROTHSCHILD + SOROS and British Petroleum Conspiracy to Destroy Motherland Russia and the Fatherland is destroyed - Odious Halliburton Cheney is found crying 2) Advanced Russian ANTI-TANK weapons INCINERATE Merkeva after Merkeva in the Hands of the BRAVE HEZBOLLAH - Butcher Bush is found crying 3) Crushing Defeat of the attempt to Harass Russia directly is Vigorously countered in South Ossetia, Abkhazia and Georgia's American Lawyer president Sakashvilli faces defeat. Butcher Bush and Halliburton Cheney are found crying. Conclusion : The only solution to the world harmony and peace is a uniform cosmopolitan fairness and ethic all over the world and application of law without prejudice.

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Russian Spies ???? This is Hilarious !!!!! Does anyone BELIEVE it ? after 911 Inside JOB and ANTHRAX
by nanothermite911fbibustards June 29, 2010

June 29, 2010

YanQui cry babies using old RACIST formula of Harassment !!! To Harass Muslims :- Make a Movie of Bin Laden from a Studio in Langley Virginia with an actor with SILICONE mask and release on the internet with FBI working on AUTHENTICATING it. Hey YANK Bustards , NO ONE trust you. You have DESTROYED your OWN CREDIBILITY with your own ODIOUS HANDS !!!! Hey YANK Bustards , NO ONE trust you. You have DESTROYED your OWN CREDIBILITY with your own ODIOUS HANDS !!!! Hey YANK Bustards , NO ONE trust you. You have DESTROYED your OWN CREDIBILITY with your own ODIOUS HANDS !!!! They cry HOARSE on Abdul Qader Khan, while its a FACT that CENTRIFUGE technology was STOLEN by GERMANS from RUSSIA. It was RUSSIA which invented the centrifuge running on a single ball. The DUTCH and BRITISH stole it under URENCO. USA stole it from LIBYA. USA stole it from LIBYA. USA stole it from LIBYA. The concept of CENTRIFUGE as the possibility was PROLIFERATED by MAD JEWS of New York Times, Washington POST and the NEOCONS. I learnt the CONCEPT from the NEWSPAPERS and before that the books were LYING about the Gas DIFFUSION PLANT or some Reactor Reprocessing Plant. The word KRYTRON was also PROLIFERATED by MAD Neocons. ========== Hey FBI BUSTARDS, I ask you a POINTED QUESTION in PUBLIC ? If you are SO competent, tell me where is the ANTHRAX MAILER and where are his sound and VIDEO TESTIMONIALS ? Where is the trail leading from nanothermite residue collected by DR STEVEN JONES to the actual 911 perpetrators ? What about the Testimonials of EXPLOSIVES and EXPLOSIONS ???? !!!!! ========== http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2010/06/russian_spies_seem_to_have_bee.html http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2010/06/russian_spies_seem_to_have_bee.html Russian Spies’ Dumbest Mistakes 6/29/10 at 11:00 AM Comment 22Comment 22Comments Anna Chapman. Photo: Patrick McMullan This morning, a lot of the papers said the Justice Department's complaint about the Russian spies read like "a Cold War thriller." But between their yapping about their work in cafés, their decision to write anti-American editorials in newspapers (because no one will notice if they're in Spanish!) and the plain fact that, over ten years, none of these ten intelligence agents actually gathered any intelligence (they're being charged with being unregistered, not with obtaining classified materials), it's more like a Cold War–era comedy, in the vein of Rocky and Bullwinkle. Let's take a look at some of the gang's most awkward moments. It appears the incompetence came from the top. For instance, someone at the S.V.R. actually sent them this directive: “You were sent to U.S.A. for long-term service trip,” it said. “Your education, bank accounts, car, house etc. — all these serve one goal: fulfill your main mission, i.e. to search and develop ties in policymaking circles and send intels [intelligence reports] to C[enter].” Thanks for the expository dialogue, super-secret agency! While several of them quite successfully immersed themselves in American culture, particularly the Murphys, whom neighbors called "suburbia personified" (“They couldn’t have been spies,” one neighbor quipped, awesomely, “Look what she did with the hydrangeas”), others explained away their weirdness with flimsy excuses, like Tracey Foley, of Cambridge. According to a neighbor: “She said they were from Canada.” Right, because that worked for the Coneheads. Then there's the methods they used to conduct their work, which were so over-the-top dramatic (briefcase-switching, short-wave-radio-using) that they may as well have been wearing signs reading, "We Are SPIES." The Post picks up on the following, which it calls a "particularly slick spy exchange" between one "Anna Chapman" and a fellow spy. Chapman pulled a laptop out of a tote bag in a bookstore at Warren and Greenwich streets in the West Village while her handler lurked outside, receiving her message on his own computer, the feds said. Wait, how is that slick, exactly? He was standing right outside. If she had just gone and told him in person, then the Feds mightn't have gotten hold of the e-mail using what according to the complaint was a common "commercially available" wireless-connection interceptor that even Ali Wise owns. Chapman, we are sorry to say, seems to be one of the least bright bulbs in this box. In addition to the above scenario, she 1) registered a cell phone under the preposterous address of "99 Fake Street," and in the end, fell hard for a ridiculous scenario posed to her by undercover U.S. agents. The undercover instructed her on how she would recognize her fellow spy and how to report back on the handoff, the feds said. "Haven’t we met in California last summer?" the spy expecting the fake passport was supposed to say. Chapman was to respond, "No, I think it was the Hamptons," according to the FBI. Oh, that dialogue. It's like they are making fun of her to her face. It gets worse: Chapman allegedly was also supposed to hold a magazine under her arm so her counterpart would recognize her, and plant a stamp on a wall map to indicate the handoff was a success. Then she was supposed to turn around three times with her finger in the air ... God. The Times this morning said Obama was "not happy" that this sting occurred so close to his hamburger social with Medvedev, and we can imagine why. He must be so embarrassed for him. Spy ring's 'femme fatale' [NYP] In Ordinary Lives, U.S. Sees the Work of Russian Agents [NYT]

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Re: Why Python3
by Steven D'Aprano June 29, 2010

June 29, 2010

On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 20:12:10 -0400, Terry Reedy wrote: > 7. Order comparisonS > > In early Python1, I believe all objects could be (arbitrarily) compared > and sorted. When Guido added the complex type, he decided not to add an > arbitrary order, as he thought that could mask bugs. I should point out that this wasn't a mere whimsy on Guido's part. Mathematically, supporting larger-than and less-than comparisons on complex numbers *is* a bug -- they're simply meaningless mathematically. (Which is greater, 2-1i or -1+2i?) What Python needs[1] is a "sorting" operator, which is allowed to return a consistent if arbitrary sort order (perhaps lexicographic sort order?), separate from the ordinary > and < operators. This would allow the caller to sort lists of arbitrary items for display purposes, without implying anything about the relative size of items. [1] For some definition of "need". -- Steven

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Re: Infinite prime number generator
by Thomas Mlynarczyk June 29, 2010

June 29, 2010

Thomas Jollans schrieb: > def primes(): > yield 1 1 is not a prime number. Greetings, Thomas -- Ce n'est pas parce qu'ils sont nombreux à avoir tort qu'ils ont raison! (Coluche)

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Python v3.1.2 documentation question
by Ethan Furman June 29, 2010

June 29, 2010

In the glossary section it states: <doc> nested scope The ability to refer to a variable in an enclosing definition. For instance, a function defined inside another function can refer to variables in the outer function. Note that nested scopes work only for reference and not for assignment which will always write to the innermost scope. In contrast, local variables both read and write in the innermost scope. Likewise, global variables read and write to the global namespace. </doc> Doesn't the nonlocal keyword make variables in outer scopes writable? ~Ethan~

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Re: validate string representation of a timedelta
by CM June 29, 2010

June 29, 2010

On Jun 29, 8:00 am, Thomas Jollans <tho...(a)jollans.com> wrote: > On 06/29/2010 03:41 AM, CM wrote: > > > > > I'm looking for a good way to check whether a certain string is > > valid. It is a string representation of a Python timedelta object, > > like this: '0:00:03.695000' > > > (But the first place, the hours, could also be double digits) > > > In trying to figure out how to validate that, I saw this page which > > creates a parseTimeDelta(s) function, which takes that kind of string > > and returns a timedelta object: > > >http://kbyanc.blogspot.com/2007/08/python-reconstructing-timedeltas-f... > > (and I agree that this sort of function should come standard with > > datetime) > > > I modified the code to accept microseconds, too, and I can use it now > > by trying to parse my candidate string and if it throws an exception, > > rejecting that string as invalid. It works fine on strings that are > > not even close to my format, like '0 min'. But it doesn't throw an > > exception on something like: '0:00:03.695000extrajunk' > > > I'd like it to be pickier than that with the validation and only > > accept strings which are truly string representations of timedelta > > objects. But I have not learned regex yet, so am not sure how to > > modify parseTimeDetla so it wouldn't work with > > '0:00:03.695000extrajunk'. > > > My question: is there a simple way to modify the parseTimeDelta so > > that it will work ONLY with a string that would be the string > > representation of a timedelta object? > > If you want the end of the regexp to correspond to the end of the > string, add a "$" at the end of the regexp. Thanks. That works to do what I need. Che

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Re: refactoring a group of import statements
by aahz＠pythoncraft.com June 29, 2010

June 29, 2010

In article <mailman.2202.1277677180.32709.python-list(a)python.org>, Thomas Jollans <thomas(a)jollans.com> wrote: > >(3) Why not > >try: > import x > import y > import z >except ImportError as exc: > display_error_properly(exc) > raise exc Why not? Because that destroys the original traceback. Inside an except clause, you should almost always use a bare raise. (I'm not absolutely certain that the new "as" subclause doesn't fix the problem, but why not stick with an idiom guaranteed to work in all versions of Python.) -- Aahz (aahz(a)pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "If you don't know what your program is supposed to do, you'd better not start writing it." --Dijkstra

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Re: CONTROLLED DEMOLITION INC explosive-charge placement technician Tom Sullivan 911 TESTIMONIAL Video
by Pieyed Piper June 29, 2010

June 29, 2010

On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 12:49:50 -0600, m II <sc(a)in.the.hat> wrote: >See you You are worse than Proteus. He IS a retard. You have no excuse, so for you, it must be by choice. Making your mental age below 15 years. How sad. I wonder how long it will take you to notice that I have been calling you "shit for brains" for over a week now in every post. Then, how much longer will it take for you to realize that the statement is true?

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Re: C++/Python function call
by Rami Chowdhury June 29, 2010

June 29, 2010

Hi Zohair, On Tuesday 29 June 2010 05:24:26 Zohair M. Abu Shaban wrote: > Dear Rami, > > Thanks for your reply. I am using hardware that uses some libraries on > Linux. def set_time_at_next_pps(*args, **kwargs): > """set_time_at_next_pps(self, usrp2::time_spec_t time_spec) -> > bool""" return _usrp2.usrp2_base_set_time_at_next_pps(*args, **kwargs) > > This is actually a definition of a function in C++ transformed to python. > It receives a structure parameter and returns boolean the structure is > defined like this: in a library called libusrp2.so and the header file is > usrp2.h > > typedef struct time_spec{ > uint32_t secs; > uint32_t ticks; > time_spec(void){ > secs = ~0; > ticks = ~0; > } > time_spec(uint32_t new_secs, uint32_t new_ticks = 0){ > secs = new_secs; > ticks = new_ticks; > } > } time_spec_t; > > in my python code I wrote: > zeroise=usrp2.time_spec_t(0,0) > self.$(id).set_time_at_next_pps(zeroise) > > The error Iam receiveing is : > zeroise=usrp2.time_spec_t(0,0) > AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'time_spec_t' > Thank you for the details. Could you let me know how you're accessing the C++ code? Are you using ctypes? Are you using a Python extension module that wraps the C++ code? Some other method? > MY PROBLEM THAT I NEED HELP FOR IS: > 1- Am I using the structure correctly? > 2- Am I invoking the python definition correctly? I'd guess not, since you're getting an error ;-) > > Thanks againg for your help. > > JZK > > Zohair > > > From: rami.chowdhury(a)gmail.com > > To: python-list(a)python.org > > Subject: Re: C++/Python function call > > Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 13:05:20 -0700 > > CC: zohair_ms(a)hotmail.com > > > > On Monday 28 June 2010 12:46:13 Zohair M. Abu Shaban wrote: > > > Hello every one: > > > > > > > > > I have this python function defined as: > > > > > > def set_time_at_next_pps(self, *args, **kwargs): > > > """set_time_at_next_pps(self, usrp2::time_spec_t time_spec) > > > > > > -> bool""" > > > > > > > > > > > > it was generated to do the same function as the c++: > > > > > > set_time_at_next_pps(usrp2::time_spec_t(0, 0)) > > > > > > > > > I am new to python and don't know hoe to use this python syntax. > > > > > > Any hint or help please? > > > > Can you give us a little more information? What do you need to use it > > for? > > > > > Cheers > > > > > > > > > Zoh > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > > http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/197222280/direct/01/ > > > Do you have a story that started on Hotmail? Tell us now > > > > ---- > > Rami Chowdhury > > "Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow." -- Linus' Law > > +1-408-597-7068 / +44-7875-841-046 / +88-01819-245544 > > _________________________________________________________________ > http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/197222280/direct/01/ > Do you have a story that started on Hotmail? Tell us now ---- Rami Chowdhury "It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take Hofstadter's Law into account." -- Hofstadter's Law +1-408-597-7068 / +44-7875-841-046 / +88-01819-245544

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Re: Infinite prime number generator
by John Posner June 29, 2010

June 29, 2010

On 6/29/2010 12:51 PM, Thomas Jollans wrote: > def rprimes(): > def elim_mult(n): > yield n > for p in filter((lambda x:x%n != 0), elim_mult(n+1)): yield p > yield 1 > for p in elim_mult(2): yield p > Thomas, take a look at the thread "Generators/iterators, Pythonicity, and primes" in the April 2009 archives of python-list. For example: from itertools import ifilter, count pgen = ifilter( lambda n, primes=[]: all(n%p for p in primes) and not primes.append(n), count(2) ) for _ in range(50): print pgen.next() -John

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