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sbp: A rather small Web browser written in Python. python browser.py URI
sbp: It can HEAD pages (-head), get as text/plain (-text), and render HTML
sbp: isn't the HTML parser just a bundle of joy?
sbp: If you have a feature request, feel free to mail me (if you know my email address), the the response will invariably be: use cURL
sbp: s/the the/but the/
AaronSw: A request to the Python List for allowing pring >> to work on strings.
sbp: cf. PEP214, which is an excellent idea to extend the Python print statement to print to any object with a write() method. Roll on Python 2.3
AaronSw: It was implemented in 2.0.
AaronSw: I'm really eager for PEP 215 which allows the $varname syntax from Perl and Tcl to be used in Python.
sbp: [Sound of me re-reading the Python manuals]
sbp: They cry: Stop Perling Python!
AaronSw: With a link to the first post in Google's archive.
AaronSw: Ooops. Here's the first post in google's archive.
AaronSw: Cory has found a nice quote from it.
AaronSw: A Belgian web designer claims to have designed the iLamp last year.
AaronSw: "The design was logical. They made a cube and a tower. I was sure they would make something spherical. I know them too well."
AaronSw: via Mark, Fark, 0xdeadbeef, /dev/null, Chris
AaronSw: (Google link, for the lazy ones)
AaronSw: Ooh, but I can take the lead with plesh fishwife yielding 0 hits.
AaronSw: Hmm, the words have to be "common" he says. I guess the obsolete plesh doesn't count then.
AaronSw: Ok, so how about tariser hypermedia?
AaronSw: "High-profile portal sites like Yahoo and AOL will continue to consolidate and demand our attention (and maybe make some money), while millions of smaller sites and hundreds of millions of users do the heavy work of creating content that is used and linked. These will be paid entirely in the gift economy."
AaronSw: Reminds me of The People's Net by Ruskoff.