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gettext compatible, public domain collections of translationsforstrings commonly used in software applications?
On Fri, 21 May 2010 18:01:58 -0400, python wrote: It seems to me that there must be some public domain collection of translated strings that could be searched for 1:1 or fuzzy translations for strings commonly used in software applications? There must be? Is that a law of nature or something? "I want it, ... 21 May 2010 20:32

gettext compatible, public domain collections of translations forstrings commonly used in software applications?
It seems to me that there must be some public domain collection of translated strings that could be searched for 1:1 or fuzzy translations for strings commonly used in software applications? Is there a technical and copyright friendly (LGPL licensed?) way to query services like Google's Translator Toolkit, Launch... 21 May 2010 18:19

creating addon system
On Fri, 2010-05-21 at 08:50 -0700, timo verbeek wrote: What is the easiest way in python to create a addon system? I found to easy ways: * using a import system like this: for striper in stripers: if striper["enabled"]: exec("from strip import %s as _x"%striper["striper"]) ... 22 May 2010 10:30

Another "Go is Python-like" article.
In a recent Reg article, there's yet more yammering on about how Go is somehow akin to Python -- referring to Go as a "Python-C++" crossbreed. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/20/go_in_production_at_google/ I still don't get it. What about Go, exactly, do people see as Phython-like? Go doesn't seem to ... 22 May 2010 21:26

oStri: Cython optimized String object
Mike 'Fuzzy' Partin, 21.05.2010 08:37: Optimized String-like Object is kind of a misnomer in that, the object provided is a subclass of the base str type, adding optimized (Cython bindings to the standard (POSIX) libc regex and string functions) match() and sub() methods. Hi, could you give an idea wh... 21 May 2010 07:17

Solutions for finding the 1000th prime
I'm doing the MIT OpenCourseWare class that this assignment hails from and I don't doubt that its a relatively common assignment. Upon searching for it for some ideas of why my program wouldn't work one of the top results is this a thread from this group full of derision and sarcasm. Believe me I understand that th... 21 May 2010 15:00

starting repl programmatically
I have a python script that sets up some environmental stuff. I would then like to be able to change back to interactive mode and use that environment. What's the best way to do that? ... 20 May 2010 21:35

Strange MySQL Problem
Victor Subervi wrote: Hi; I have this code: #!/usr/bin/python import cgitb; cgitb.enable() import cgi import sys,os sys.path.append(os.getcwd()) import MySQLdb from login import login def create_edit_passengers4(): print "Content-Type: text/html" print print ''' ... 21 May 2010 13:53

Drawing glyphs based on their index (NOT their character code)
Here's an interesting little problem: I am given a master.ttf font file and a subset file subset.ttf of that font, and I am asked to map indices of all the glyphs in subset.ttf to the corresponding indices in master.ttf. The subset font file is the result of a pipeline of 3 tools (pdflatex, Adobe Reader, and th... 20 May 2010 10:32

Problem with an huge dictionary
> The question is: Is there a limit on the number of entries a dictionary can have i jython? I wrote a little app where my data is stored in a huge dictionary (11746 entries) generated with a python script. When I try to import the dictionary, jython complains with the following message: 1... 22 May 2010 03:01