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Undefined control sequence - not sure exactly what the problem is 3 31 (7/30/2010 7:38:29 PM) comp.text.tex For the file manual.tex ( http://github.com/metaperl/ursala-doc ) when I run pdflatex manual.tex I get an 'Undefined control sequence' error but I do not know exactly what the problem is. Clearly, LaTeX has ... Terrence

Practical Prolog - tokenizing, mapping, and transforming text 2 24 (2/8/2010 9:42:09 AM) comp.lang.prolog Hello, I am aiming to make a complete Prolog version of a Perl module that generates latin-looking text: http://search.cpan.org/~adeola/Text-Lorem-0.3/lib/Text/Lorem.pm My first goal is to take a string o... Terrence

searching on one (first?) part of a composite primary key 1 37 (3/3/2009 2:34:09 PM) comp.databases.mysql if I have a table whose 2 columns form a composite primary key, and I form a join with this table using only the first part of the key, is this join done using indexing? ... Terrence

non-invasive templating solution 2 17 (1/26/2009 9:15:57 PM) comp.lang.php Hello, I'm a perl and python programmer, but for completeness I would like to know which dynamic html generation systems exist in PHP which focus on driving HTML generation outside of the HTML itself.... I'm fa... Terrence

non-invasive templating solutions in ruby? 4 22 (1/26/2009 6:04:10 PM) comp.lang.ruby hello, I am a perl and python programmer, but for completeness, I would like to know which dynamic html generation systems exist in Ruby which focus on driving HTML generation outside of the HTML itself. In an... Terrence

push-style templating - an xml-like way to process xhtml 13 33 (11/2/2008 8:48:40 AM) comp.lang.python Hello, The most common way of dynamically producing HTML is via template engines like genshi, cheetah, makotemplates, etc. These engines are 'inline' --- they intersperse programming constructs with the HTML ... Terrence

code critique requested - just 60 lines 8 14 (10/2/2008 2:51:30 PM) comp.lang.python Hi, I would like some feedback on how you would improve the following program: http://www.bitbucket.org/metaperl/ptc_math/src/21979c65074f/payout.py Basically, using non-strict dictionary keys can lead to bugs... Terrence

how best to use a dictionary in this function? 2 13 (10/2/2008 9:18:50 AM) comp.lang.python Ok, here is some code: def calc_profit(std_clicks, vip_clicks, ad_rate=200, upline_status=None): payout = {} payout_std = std_clicks * rates['std'].per_click payout_vip = vip_clicks * rates['vip'].... Terrence

creating an (inefficent) alternating regular expression from a list of options 8 15 (9/9/2008 1:12:19 PM) comp.lang.python Pyparsing has a really nice feature that I want in PLY. I want to specify a list of strings and have them converted to a regular expression. A Perl module which does an aggressively optimizing job of this is R... metaperl

re.compile versus r'' 3 26 (8/28/2008 7:23:10 PM) comp.lang.python Hello, I'm using a tool (PLY) which apparently expects the tokens to be created using r'' But because one token is a rather complex regular expression, I want to create the regular expression programmatically.... Terrence

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non-invasive templating solution 2 17 (1/26/2009 9:15:57 PM) comp.lang.php Hello, I'm a perl and python programmer, but for completeness I would like to know which dynamic html generation systems exist in PHP which focus on driving HTML generation outside of the HTML itself.... I'm fa... metaperl (180)

non-invasive templating solutions in ruby? 4 22 (1/26/2009 6:04:10 PM) comp.lang.ruby hello, I am a perl and python programmer, but for completeness, I would like to know which dynamic html generation systems exist in Ruby which focus on driving HTML generation outside of the HTML itself. In an... metaperl (180)

is this a good way to do imports ? 1 19 (11/5/2008 7:14:05 PM) comp.lang.python hello, I can't find any good documentation or examples of packages, so I'm not sure if this is good / correct way, although it seems to work. root / dir1 / file1.py / general.py / dir2 / fil... Stef.Mientki (428)

push-style templating - an xml-like way to process xhtml 13 33 (11/2/2008 8:48:40 AM) comp.lang.python Hello, The most common way of dynamically producing HTML is via template engines like genshi, cheetah, makotemplates, etc. These engines are 'inline' --- they intersperse programming constructs with the HTML ... metaperl (180)

code critique requested - just 60 lines 8 14 (10/2/2008 2:51:30 PM) comp.lang.python Hi, I would like some feedback on how you would improve the following program: http://www.bitbucket.org/metaperl/ptc_math/src/21979c65074f/payout.py Basically, using non-strict dictionary keys can lead to bugs... metaperl (180)

creating an (inefficent) alternating regular expression from a list of options 8 15 (9/9/2008 1:12:19 PM) comp.lang.python Pyparsing has a really nice feature that I want in PLY. I want to specify a list of strings and have them converted to a regular expression. A Perl module which does an aggressively optimizing job of this is R... metaperl (180)

re.compile versus r'' 3 26 (8/28/2008 7:23:10 PM) comp.lang.python Hello, I'm using a tool (PLY) which apparently expects the tokens to be created using r'' But because one token is a rather complex regular expression, I want to create the regular expression programmatically.... metaperl (180)

graphing lifelines 5 19 (7/15/2008 6:56:59 PM) comp.lang.python (crossposted to sci.math) I'm looking for a tool which will take a dataset of tuples indicating the year of birth and death of a person: (1872, 1950, "Sri Aurobindo") (1821, 1910, "Mary Baker Eddy") (1831, 18... metaperl (180)

2d graphics - drawing a vescica piscis in Python 4 27 (6/17/2008 7:45:36 PM) comp.lang.python Hello, I have written a program to draw a vescica piscis from turtle import * def main(): setup(width=400, height=400) r = 50 color("black") circle(r) color("white") forward(r) c... metaperl (180)

optimal selection of all records for a certain month (illegal dates OK?) 2 19 (5/8/2008 6:09:26 PM) comp.databases.ms-sqlserver First a simple question: Is it allowed to provide a date range that has an illegal date. For instance SELECT * FROM tbl WHERE datex >= 2007-09-01 AND datex = and <= as in my first sample query, but then I run ... metaperl (180)