Python Magazine: Issue 1 Free!

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Bruno Desthuilliers

J. Clifford Dyer a écrit :
Well, it's also unpythonic to start numbering a sequence at 1, but
it's clearly the right thing to do in this case.

As far as I'm concerned, if I had to number a magazine about
programming, I'd obviously start with 0. Then it would be n°1, n°10,
n°11, n°100 etc !-)
 
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Bruno Desthuilliers

Wayne Brehaut a écrit :
And since the "first" issue is free that would be best here too.


But probably with enough leading zeros to last the expected lifetime
(8 bits should about do it?) so they'd sort properly:

0000 0000
0000 0001
etc.

Mmm... sort of reminds me of y2k.
 
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Bruno Desthuilliers

Wayne Brehaut a écrit :
Funny, I was thinking IPv4.

Lol. At the exact moment I hit the 'send' button, I thought of some
(in)famous quote about 640k for everyone !-)

And to answer your first point, 0, 1, 10, 11, 100 etc *does* sort
properly...
 
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Adrian Cherry

I've just been told by the editors at Python Magazine that
the first issue is out. It's all-electronic so anyone can
download and read it. Let them know what you think:

http://www.pythonmagazine.com/c/issue/2007/10

regards
Steve

Thanks for that, initial impression looks good, I peruse it later
when the boss isn't watching. Unfortunately there seems to be a
few horror pictures crept in on page 4!.

One initial comment is the end of the magazine. It just seems to
stop abruptly. No back page commentry, cartoon or teaser for the
next issue.

Regards

Adrian
 
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Paul McGuire

Thanks for that, initial impression looks good, I peruse it later
when the boss isn't watching. Unfortunately there seems to be a
few horror pictures crept in on page 4!.

One initial comment is the end of the magazine. It just seems to
stop abruptly. No back page commentry, cartoon or teaser for the
next issue.

Regards

Adrian

I thought Steve Holden's Random Hits column was the "back page
commentry". Maybe this column needs to start on the last page, and
continue on the previous one, so that it qualifies as truly "back
page".

Nice launch, good luck PyMag!

-- Paul
 
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Adrian Cherry

I thought Steve Holden's Random Hits column was the "back
page commentry".

after re-reading it then yes I can see your point, I suppose I
was just hoping for some pythonesque humour to close the show!

Regards

Adrian
 
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Paul McGuire

The first issue is issue number 10?

That's a bit silly.

--
Grant Edwards grante Yow! I can't decide which
at WRONG TURN to make first!!
visi.com I wonder if BOB GUCCIONE
has these problems!

Probably Issue 10 as in "issued in October, being the 10th month", so
this is more of an id than it is a sequential index number. Just like
a social security number of 123-45-6789 does not mean you are the
123,456,789th human born since the beginning of the SS system.

But I grant that Issue number does have some connotation of sequence
to it, and if the next issue is something like 2 or 8, or really
anything other than 11, now THAT would be silly. And I'm sure that in
the future, when people are trying to amass the complete set of Python
Magazines, they'll wonder why those issues 1-9 of the first volume are
so hard to come by.

But I suspect that, come January, we will see the release of Vol 2,
Issue 1. Just an artifact of having the first issue come out in some
month other than January.

-- Paul
 
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Grant Edwards

It's the October edition. They obviously decided to make sure
the month numbering was consistent across the volumes.

I presumed that was the reasoning. It just seems
counter-intuitive (and sort of un-Pythonic) to start numbering
a sequence of objects at 10. ;)
 
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J. Clifford Dyer

I presumed that was the reasoning. It just seems
counter-intuitive (and sort of un-Pythonic) to start numbering
a sequence of objects at 10. ;)

Well, it's also unpythonic to start numbering a sequence at 1, but it's clearly the right thing to do in this case.

Cheers,
Cliff
 
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Wayne Brehaut

J. Clifford Dyer a écrit :

As far as I'm concerned, if I had to number a magazine about
programming, I'd obviously start with 0.

And since the "first" issue is free that would be best here too.
Then it would be n°1, n°10,
n°11, n°100 etc !-)

But probably with enough leading zeros to last the expected lifetime
(8 bits should about do it?) so they'd sort properly:

0000 0000
0000 0001
etc.

wwwayne
 
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Daniel Klein

I've just been told by the editors at Python Magazine that the first
issue is out. It's all-electronic so anyone can download and read it.

The website states that existing subcribers are notified of the
availability of new issues automatically, yet I received no such
notification.

Daniel Klein
 
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Steve Holden

Daniel said:
The website states that existing subcribers are notified of the
availability of new issues automatically, yet I received no such
notification.
You'd better take that up wth the subscriptions department, then. I am
sure they will be disappointed if it turns out they have failed to keep
a promise.

Anyway, that failing apart, how do you like the magazine?

regards
Steve
--
Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119
Holden Web LLC/Ltd http://www.holdenweb.com
Skype: holdenweb http://del.icio.us/steve.holden

Sorry, the dog ate my .sigline so I couldn't cat it
 

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