Mastering Python

[Dennis Lee Bieber]

It will actually do something: rebind name 'a' to the method lower() of
the string previously binded to 'a'

For future reference, and I hope you don't mind the lesson, the past
tense of "bind" is "bound" (I can't state it as a firm rule, but many
*ind words seem to go *ound: bind, find, wind [as in wrap, not blowing
in the...], grind -> bound, found, wound [not to confuse with an
injury], ground [not to confuse with dirt]... But mind -> minded <G>)

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[Michael Bentley]

For future reference, and I hope you don't mind the lesson, the past
tense of "bind" is "bound" (I can't state it as a firm rule, but many
*ind words seem to go *ound: bind, find, wind [as in wrap, not blowing
in the...], grind -> bound, found, wound [not to confuse with an
injury], ground [not to confuse with dirt]... But mind -> minded <G>)

blind -> blound # couldn't resist yet another counterexample ;-)

 

[cga2000]

I've added it to this page, see the last entry. Hope some find it
entertaining, if not informative.

Nice job.

Thanks,
cga

 

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

Dennis Lee Bieber a écrit :

For future reference, and I hope you don't mind the lesson,

I don't.

the past
tense of "bind" is "bound"

err... I knew that, of course.

 

[Hendrik van Rooyen]

Dennis Lee Bieber a écrit :

I don't.

err... I knew that, of course.

If one were to apply Dennis' ..ind to ..ound rule in reverse,
then the present tense of the verb "hound"
will be "hind" - bound to be..

English is such a a marvellously logical, consistent language.

For instance, there is a disease of the lungs called phthisis,
which is pronounced something like: "tie-sis"...

Pretty obvious of course, as is the pronounciation of the
name: "Cholmondely"

- Hendrik

 

[Dennis Lee Bieber]

If one were to apply Dennis' ..ind to ..ound rule in reverse,
then the present tense of the verb "hound"
will be "hind" - bound to be..

English is such a a marvellously logical, consistent language.

For instance, there is a disease of the lungs called phthisis,
which is pronounced something like: "tie-sis"...

Looks Greek to me

Pretty obvious of course, as is the pronounciation of the
name: "Cholmondely"

Is that a scottish "Ch" (as in LoCH Lomond), plain hard "Ch" (as in
CHristmas) or a soft "Ch" (as in CHicken)?
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[Hendrik van Rooyen]

[email protected]> declaimed the following in comp.lang.python:
Is that a scottish "Ch" (as in LoCH Lomond), plain hard "Ch" (as in
CHristmas) or a soft "Ch" (as in CHicken)?

It comes out something like "Chum-lee", with the ch like chicken...

(that's what I have heard - but who knows - It may have been
a regional dialect, a case of the blind leading the blind, or
someone pulling the piss..)

- Hendrik

 

[Steve Holden]

It comes out something like "Chum-lee", with the ch like chicken...

(that's what I have heard - but who knows - It may have been
a regional dialect, a case of the blind leading the blind, or
someone pulling the piss..)

You have been correctly informed. It's one of the least intuitive names
in the English language.

regards
Steve

 

[DarkBlue]

Before we get to far away from the original question...
as you have may have noticed you reached one of the best user
groups on the net , where help from the top gurus and best minds in
the python universe is only a question away.
Go for it, you are in good hands.

Db

 

[Hendrik van Rooyen]

Hendrik van Rooyen wrote:
You have been correctly informed. It's one of the least intuitive names
in the English language.

Oh No! - don't tell me there is worse - this is already enough to drive
a saint to drink!

I will have to move to "Hants"...

: - )

- Hendrik

 

[Steve Holden]

Oh No! - don't tell me there is worse - this is already enough to drive
a saint to drink!

I will have to move to "Hants"...

Speaking of which, here's a limerick To read it you need to know not
only that Hampshire is colloquially know as Hants, but also that
Salisbury's ancient Roman name is Sarum.

There once was a young man of Salisbury
Whose manners were most halisbury-scalisbury
He visited Hampshire
Without any pampshire
Till somebody told him to walisbury.

try-running-a-spell-checker-on-that-ly y'rs - steve

 

[Tim Golden]

Speaking of which, here's a limerick To read it you need to know not
only that Hampshire is colloquially know as Hants, but also that
Salisbury's ancient Roman name is Sarum.

There once was a young man of Salisbury
Whose manners were most halisbury-scalisbury
He visited Hampshire
Without any pampshire
Till somebody told him to walisbury.

Not to mention the meaning (or at least existence)
of the phrase harum-scarum and the pronounciation
of Sarum and the possible wordplay inherent in...

.... oh well, you know what I mean!

I had a laugh, anyway. Thanks, Steve.

TJG

 

[Hendrik van Rooyen]

Speaking of which, here's a limerick To read it you need to know not
only that Hampshire is colloquially know as Hants, but also that
Salisbury's ancient Roman name is Sarum.

There once was a young man of Salisbury
Whose manners were most halisbury-scalisbury
He visited Hampshire
Without any pampshire
Till somebody told him to walisbury.

try-running-a-spell-checker-on-that-ly y'rs - steve

Nice one! - Thanks Steve

- Hendrik