Crunch mode

Patrick_K_O_Brien · March 18, 2004, 2:45am

"Neil Hodgson" <nhodgson@bigpond.net.au> writes:

Wyant, Jaime:

> What does this mean? You'll only answer 60% of the questions instead of
the
> usual 80%. Can anyone on this list actually confirm that Robin is indeed
> human?

I met something that claimed to be Robin Dunn at a Python conference a
couple of years ago. It appeared to be of vaguely human shape and would
probably have passed a Turing test. However, I did not see it send a *single
email*. Possibly this is done while 'asleep'.

Hmm. At the last OSCON someone claiming to be Robin Dunn was emailing
every spare moment of the day. Perhaps you met his evil twin.

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Blog http://www.sum-ergo-cogito.com

Grimmtooth · March 18, 2004, 2:58am

Patrick K. O'Brien wrote:

"Neil Hodgson" <nhodgson@bigpond.net.au> writes:

Wyant, Jaime:

What does this mean? You'll only answer 60% of the questions instead of

the

usual 80%. Can anyone on this list actually confirm that Robin is indeed
human?

I met something that claimed to be Robin Dunn at a Python conference a
couple of years ago. It appeared to be of vaguely human shape and would
probably have passed a Turing test. However, I did not see it send a *single
email*. Possibly this is done while 'asleep'.

Hmm. At the last OSCON someone claiming to be Robin Dunn was emailing
every spare moment of the day. Perhaps you met his evil twin.

That's IT! Of course! How could we have missed it! It's an *army* of DunnBots! Hm, what day was SkyNet supposed to wake up? And most importantly -- /was it programmed in PYTHON?/

... "I'd give real money if he'd shut up!"

Daniel_Gagnon · March 18, 2004, 3:19am

That's IT! Of course! How could we have missed it! It's an *army* of DunnBots! Hm, what day was SkyNet supposed to wake up? And most importantly -- /was it programmed in PYTHON?/

Well... If you wanted to write something that big, would you have turned to the language that would make the devellopement shorter ? And since it's intelligence allows it to adapt it's program and modify it, don't you think that Python is the language of choice ?

Anyway, according to Terminator 2, the judgement day was may 1996 (I don't acknowledge the existance of the 3rd movie since it contradict totally the two previous ones).

Robin · March 18, 2004, 6:31pm

Daniel Gagnon wrote:

That's IT! Of course! How could we have missed it! It's an *army* of DunnBots! Hm, what day was SkyNet supposed to wake up? And most importantly -- /was it programmed in PYTHON?/

[...]

Anyway, according to Terminator 2, the judgement day was may 1996

Hmm... and the first versions of the 2nd generation of wxPython started showing up about a year later. Coincidence? You be the judge.

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Robin Dunn
Software Craftsman
http://wxPython.org Java give you jitters? Relax with wxPython!

Roger_Binns · March 18, 2004, 7:01pm

> Anyway, according to Terminator 2, the judgement day was may 1996

Hmm... and the first versions of the 2nd generation of wxPython started
showing up about a year later. Coincidence? You be the judge.

This is spookier than you think. Being a Terminator-phile I would like
to point out that Judgement Day was actually August 29, 1997 (*) [I
actually held a party :-] So the second generation arrived "on time".
Unfortunately I haven't been able to find any wxPython history prior
to 2000.

All of James Cameron's movies have the same theme [Terminator 1&2, Titanic,
Aliens, True Lies, The Abyss] They are about how people collectively
tend towards "bad" things (making ships go too fast, exploiting people,
building weapons systems) yet individuals are virtuous, and do their
best to save the day. Society bad, individuals good.

I just hope you don't travel by having spheres of energy appearing
and then walk out naked demanding people's clothes, boots, sunglasses
and motorcycles

Roger

(*) Feel free to pedantically debate this at
Which is the date of Judgement Day in all of the 3 movies?

Robin · March 18, 2004, 7:38pm

Roger Binns wrote:

Anyway, according to Terminator 2, the judgement day was may 1996

Hmm... and the first versions of the 2nd generation of wxPython started
showing up about a year later. Coincidence? You be the judge.

This is spookier than you think. Being a Terminator-phile I would like
to point out that Judgement Day was actually August 29, 1997 (*) [I
actually held a party :-] So the second generation arrived "on time".
Unfortunately I haven't been able to find any wxPython history prior
to 2000.

Oops, I had an off-by-one error on the year. Here's the announcement of the first second generation (almost completely rewritten by me, using SWIG, targeting wxWindows 2.0) version of wxPython:

Here is an announcement of a first generation (written by hand, without SWIG, using wxWindows 1.6x) version of wxPython that I was involved with here:

http://www.google.com/groups?selm=PA.95Jul27032244%40ok.tekla.fi&oe=UTF-8

However, August of 1997 is still very significant for wxPython. It is about that time that I discovered SWIG and decided to use it for the new wxPython, but first I dabbled with it on the BerkeleyDB wrappers:

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=33E57239.DD45E089%40earthling.net

I just hope you don't travel by having spheres of energy appearing
and then walk out naked demanding people's clothes, boots, sunglasses
and motorcycles

Havn't tried that yet. Sounds sorta fun...

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Robin Dunn
Software Craftsman
http://wxPython.org Java give you jitters? Relax with wxPython!

Susanne_Lefvert · March 18, 2004, 8:42pm

Hello,

I am having a problem with wxTreeCtrl and DnD. Following code causes the
wxMessageDialog to be unresponsive when opened in the EndDrag callback
method.

def BeginDrag(self, event):
event.Allow()

def EndDrag(self, event):
selectedItem = event.GetItem()

        if selectedItem.IsOk():
            item = self.tree.GetItemData(selectedItem).GetData()

            if item.name != 'test':
                message = wxMessageDialog(self, "You can not remove this item.",
                                          "Error")
                message.Show()
                return

Please help!

Thanks,

Susanne