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Thu Dec 2 20:37:29 CET 2010 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-December/106282.html

Am 02.12.2010 03:01, schrieb Ben Finney:
> "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen at xemacs.org> writes:
> 
>> Furthermore, he provided good *objective* reason (excessive cost, to
>> which I can also testify, in several different input methods for
>> Japanese) why numbers simply would not be input that way.
>>
>> What's left is copy/paste via the mouse.
> 
> For direct entry by an interactive user, yes. Why are some people in
> this discussion thinking only of direct entry by an interactive user?

Ultimately, somebody will have entered the data.

> Input from an existing text file, as I said earlier.

Which *specific* existing text file? Have you actually *seen* such a
text file?

> Direct entry at the console is a red herring.

And we don't need powerhouses because power comes out of the socket.

Regards,
Martin

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