Best posts made by Ti Leyon

Whatever the reason for the hiatus I am elated to see you back and seemingly in good health. I do not visit the forum that often and I was pleasantly surprised to read your comments. I hope everything is fine with you and will stay that way for years on end.

Thanks for the reminder but I will be using dead Python 2 for many fruitful years to come. Happy New Year!

Thank you for the link @dgelessus but I just wanted to point out that in a technical environment we should probably talk about “end of support” instead of “end of life”. What about basic idea shaping @mikael? Fundamental research can be tested in any language even “dead” ones. However, Python beats them all with out of the box arbitrary length integers for certain problems. In fact I just got a breakthrough factorizing large semi-primes using Python 2. When (and if) I release its source, I will make sure to set it to be incompatible with 3.x forcing “modern” users to make corrections in every lines or use Python 2. Well @JonB you are right so we better be careful with that “dangerous” Python 2. I wonder if those, like me, who still will use it after the “end of life” deadline will turn into “ghost programmers”. Anyway, thank you all for sharing the humor.

It is about time. Excellent work @ccc and well deserved kudos to @omz. I was a lost programming soul on iOS bouncing between a fairly good version of BASIC, a mediocre implementation of Python and Lua. Then I discovered Pythonista and my life on iOS has never been the same since.

Please define “end of life”. Does it mean that on that date all Python 2 interpreters will stop working? Will operating systems worldwide delete Python 2 and all its libraries from their environment? Will the dead Python 2 be erased from the universal consciousness of humankind and spying invisible aliens?

@ccc With all due respect to you and @mikael, there is no way that Python 2 can be an issue if it is not activated. Even a file containing a virus is harmless if it is not executed. Fifteen years ago, I used to be fascinated by “Nimda” when it just came out and made all that damage. I used to open it (not execute it) and examine its object code without any problem. If Python 2 pauses some risk if it just sits within some Python 3 directory then Python 3 is more dangerous than its older sibling. I am just advocating to uphold the traditional Python 3 distribution model (with Python 2 included) and let a user decide if they want to be “safe” or not.

@ccc I too am absolutely oppose to the removal of Python 2 support from future releases of Pythonista. I couldn’t care less about the innumerable functions and syntaxes being constantly added to python or any other language for that matter. I implement models and solve problems using whatever language that is available in a specific system using the most basic construct possible. Any complex program can be reduced to statement, decision and iteration. If complexity arises, unless it is really extensive or not directly related to my code (such as a GUI), I tend to handle it myself and my way. It is nice to have sympy preinstalled but I would do fine without it. That said, I still mainly use “print” as a statement instead of a function and so many other concepts that might be evolving endlessly within the Python framework that I do not care about. It is therefore easier to place the shebang “#!python2” on top my scripts instead of unnecessarily correcting codes that already work.

If you are using a lower resolution device such as most iPhones the optimal mode (0, 0) may not fit in landscape orientation. It will work fine in portrait though. This is because I cannot yet locate a reliable documentation for the height of title bar in a sheet presentation at any resolution. If you do want to use that orientation change the title_bar_height factor from 50 to 90.