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    From HenHanna@21:1/5 to Peter Moylan on Sat Jun 15 20:34:32 2024
    XPost: sci.lang, alt.usage.english

    Usenet (AUE) is mostly idle chat... but Talk becomes Sharp when ...

    we're talking about

    -- Computer Code
    -- today it was x[1] vs. x[1:] in Python also Zip()

    or

    -- Foreign language


    Doint must be unrelated to Doit

    "Devoir" primarily translates to "must" or "have to" in English. It
    expresses obligation or necessity. Should... Owes.

    Il/Elle doit (he/she must)


    ___________________________________________
    Peter Moylan wrote:

    Bebercito wrote: ...............

    Si tu dures
    Trop malade,
    Couleur fade
    Tu prendras,
    Et perdras
    L’embonpoint. <--------------
    Dieu te doint
    Santé bonne,
    Ma mignonne.

    I've never seen "doint" before. Is this an archaic form of "doit"?


    i just assumed it was Subjunctive... --- as in: Thy kingdom come

    or God save the Queen


    My trusty book (paperback) [501 French Verbs]
    has Donner (page 167) and has Subjunctives...

    but i'm not seeing Doint

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  • From candycanearter07@21:1/5 to HenHanna on Sun Jun 16 06:30:04 2024
    HenHanna <[email protected]> wrote at 03:34 this Sunday (GMT):

    Usenet (AUE) is mostly idle chat... but Talk becomes Sharp when ...

    we're talking about

    -- Computer Code
    -- today it was x[1] vs. x[1:] in Python also Zip()

    What?
    x[1] and x[1:] are completely different.. x[1] gets the second entry, and
    x[1:] returns another list of all elements starting from the second

    [confusing, unrelated text snipped]
    --
    user <candycane> is generated from /dev/urandom

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  • From HenHanna@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jun 16 01:35:30 2024
    XPost: sci.lang, alt.usage.english

    On 6/15/2024 11:30 PM, candycanearter07 wrote:
    HenHanna <[email protected]> wrote at 03:34 this Sunday (GMT):

    Usenet (AUE) is mostly idle chat... but Talk becomes Sharp when ...

    we're talking about

    -- Computer Code
    -- today it was x[1] vs. x[1:] in Python also Zip()

    What?
    x[1] and x[1:] are completely different.. x[1] gets the second entry, and x[1:] returns another list of all elements starting from the second



    my point was... if x=[] or [1],
    x[1] raises and Error and x[1:] does not.



    yes.. THey seem diff. when you put it like that.... but


    Consider:
    USPres[44] is Trump
    USPres[44:] is Trump plus all subsequent Presidents

    then when the List is too short, both should (or should not) raise an
    Error. (it seems)

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