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From: Alf P. Steinbach /Usenet on 6 Jul 2010 22:11 Donald Knuth once remarked (I think it was him) that what matters for a program is the name, and that he'd come up with a really good name, now all he'd had to do was figure out what it should be all about. And so considering Sturla Molden's recent posting about unavailability of MSVC 9.0 (aka Visual C++ 2008) for creating Python extensions in Windows, and my unimaginative reply proposing names like "pni" and "pynacoin" for a compiler independent Python native code interface, suddenly, as if out of thin air, or perhaps out of fish pudding, the name "pyni" occurred to me. "pyni"! Pronounced like "tiny"! Yay! I sat down and made my first Python extension module, following the tutorial in the docs. It worked! But, wait, perhaps some other extension is already named "piny"? Google. <url: http://code.google.com/p/pyni/>, "PyNI is [a] config file reader/writer". Argh! - Alf -- blog at <url: http://alfps.wordpress.com>
From: Richard Thomas on 6 Jul 2010 22:51 On Jul 7, 3:11 am, "Alf P. Steinbach /Usenet" <alf.p.steinbach +use...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Donald Knuth once remarked (I think it was him) that what matters for a program > is the name, and that he'd come up with a really good name, now all he'd had to > do was figure out what it should be all about. > > And so considering Sturla Molden's recent posting about unavailability of MSVC > 9.0 (aka Visual C++ 2008) for creating Python extensions in Windows, and my > unimaginative reply proposing names like "pni" and "pynacoin" for a compiler > independent Python native code interface, suddenly, as if out of thin air, or > perhaps out of fish pudding, the name "pyni" occurred to me. > > "pyni"! Pronounced like "tiny"! Yay! > > I sat down and made my first Python extension module, following the tutorial in > the docs. It worked! > > But, wait, perhaps some other extension is already named "piny"? > > Google. > > <url:http://code.google.com/p/pyni/>, "PyNI is [a] config file reader/writer". > > Argh! > > - Alf > > -- > blog at <url:http://alfps.wordpress.com> PyNI seems to perform the same function as ConfigParser. I prefer the pronunciation like tiny to Py-N-I. The latter seems clunky. On a possibly related note I was disappointed to discover that Python's QT bindings are called PyQT not QTPy. :-) Chard.
From: Stephen Hansen on 6 Jul 2010 23:35 On 7/6/10 8:25 PM, Shashwat Anand wrote: > On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 8:21 AM, Richard Thomas <chardster(a)gmail.com > <mailto:chardster(a)gmail.com>> wrote: > On a possibly related note I was disappointed to discover that > Python's QT bindings are called PyQT not QTPy. :-) > Isn't this the standard. > Qt -> PyQt > crypto -> pycrypto > MT -> PyMT I think the point is QTPy would be pronounced "cutie pie" :) -- Stephen Hansen ... Also: Ixokai ... Mail: me+list/python (AT) ixokai (DOT) io ... Blog: http://meh.ixokai.io/
From: rantingrick on 7 Jul 2010 01:42 On Jul 6, 9:11 pm, "Alf P. Steinbach /Usenet" <alf.p.steinbach +use...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > "pyni"! Pronounced like "tiny"! Yay! hmm, how's about an alternate spelling... "pyknee", or "pynee", or "pynie" ... considering those are not taken either?
From: Rami Chowdhury on 7 Jul 2010 19:10
On Tuesday 06 July 2010 22:42:25 rantingrick wrote: > On Jul 6, 9:11 pm, "Alf P. Steinbach /Usenet" <alf.p.steinbach > > +use...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > "pyni"! Pronounced like "tiny"! Yay! > > hmm, how's about an alternate spelling... "pyknee", or "pynee", or > "pynie" ... considering those are not taken either? Pynie's taken too -- it's the Python implementation on the Parrot VM. ---- Rami Chowdhury "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one." -- Godwin's Law +1-408-597-7068 / +44-7875-841-046 / +88-01819-245544 |