Two weeks from tonight - PySIG
Kent Johnson
kent37 at tds.net
Fri Oct 13 13:54:01 EDT 2006
Python wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 12:34 -0400, Ben Scott wrote:
>> On 10/13/06, Bill Sconce <sconce at in-spec-inc.com> wrote:
>>> And as my friend Kent Johnson promptly pointed out, no Pythonista ever need
>>> make such a mistake:
>> Not to belittle Python or anything, but cal(1) already does that.
>> The venerable "cal" is about as universal as any Unix utility gets,
>> and I daresay the Python function is clearly modeled on it.
>>
>> But hey, if you want to fire up Python for that, go right ahead... ;-)
>>
>> -- Ben
>
> Well, some of the Python folks are using a less advanced OS that omits
> cal. At least they have Python to fall back on. (I don't think that's
> Bill's excuse.)
And my original posting was to the PySIG list. But you can get cal for
Windows too as part of GnuWin32 - you don't even have to run CygWin.
Kent
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