Why is there no platform independent way of clearing a terminal?
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From: Mark Lawrence on 2 Aug 2010 17:35 On 02/08/2010 19:14, Benjamin Kaplan wrote: > On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 9:51 AM, David Robinow<drobinow(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Benjamin Kaplan >> <benjamin.kaplan(a)case.edu> wrote: >>> ... >>> So these are the packages needed just to run Python in Ubuntu. It doesn't >>> include the packages required for the kernel, the desktop environment, >> the >>> window manager, the terminal, and whatever else you want running. In my >>> fairly clean Ubuntu VM (I use it almost exclusively for testing), I have >>> close to 1500 packages installed. >> As an admittedly stupid comparison, I have 1579 DLLs in my >> \windows\system32 directory. >> Some number of these have been upgraded by Windows Update. This is XP >> Service Pack 3. >> I'm not sure if this means that Windows is better because it has more >> packages or that it is worse because it's got too many. :) >> -- >> > > A package is usually more than one file. > http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/amd64/linux-image-2.6.32-21-generic/filelist > > >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >> > This is all very well, but what is the unladen airspeed velocity of a swallow in flight? Answers on a postcard please, given that I expect both direction and speed! Kindest regards. Mark Lawrence.
From: MRAB on 2 Aug 2010 19:41 Mark Lawrence wrote: > On 02/08/2010 19:14, Benjamin Kaplan wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 9:51 AM, David Robinow<drobinow(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Benjamin Kaplan >>> <benjamin.kaplan(a)case.edu> wrote: >>>> ... >>>> So these are the packages needed just to run Python in Ubuntu. It >>>> doesn't >>>> include the packages required for the kernel, the desktop environment, >>> the >>>> window manager, the terminal, and whatever else you want running. In my >>>> fairly clean Ubuntu VM (I use it almost exclusively for testing), I >>>> have >>>> close to 1500 packages installed. >>> As an admittedly stupid comparison, I have 1579 DLLs in my >>> \windows\system32 directory. >>> Some number of these have been upgraded by Windows Update. This is XP >>> Service Pack 3. >>> I'm not sure if this means that Windows is better because it has more >>> packages or that it is worse because it's got too many. :) >>> -- >>> >> >> A package is usually more than one file. >> http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/amd64/linux-image-2.6.32-21-generic/filelist >> >> >> >>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >>> >> > > This is all very well, but what is the unladen airspeed velocity of a > swallow in flight? Answers on a postcard please, given that I expect > both direction and speed! > African or European? :-)
From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro on 4 Aug 2010 18:47 In message <mailman.1445.1280767895.1673.python-list(a)python.org>, David Robinow wrote: > As an admittedly stupid comparison, I have 1579 DLLs in my > \windows\system32 directory. > Some number of these have been upgraded by Windows Update. What about the ones that aren't? How do you maintain those?
From: David Robinow on 4 Aug 2010 22:20 On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo(a)geek-central.gen.new_zealand> wrote: > In message <mailman.1445.1280767895.1673.python-list(a)python.org>, David > Robinow wrote: > >> As an admittedly stupid comparison, I have 1579 DLLs in my >> \windows\system32 directory. >> Some number of these have been upgraded by Windows Update. > > What about the ones that arent? How do you maintain those? Lawrence, you've been asking a lot of off-topic questions about Microsoft Windows. I think it's wonderful that you're so open to new ideas, but suggest that you take it to a Windows group, where I'm sure you'll get a friendly response.
From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro on 5 Aug 2010 06:36
In message <mailman.1601.1280974847.1673.python-list(a)python.org>, David Robinow wrote: > Lawrence, you've been asking a lot of off-topic questions about > Microsoft Windows. You've got to be kidding. Look at the number of Windows-specific questions this groups is already full of. |