Source code to identify user through browser?

[rusi]

On Jun 5, 8:31 pm, Mark Lawrence <breamore... at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> On 05/06/2013 16:18, rusi wrote:
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> > On Jun 5, 8:10 pm, Carlos Nepomuceno <carlosnepomuc... at outlook.com>
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> >>> From: nos... at nospam.com
> >>> Subject: Source code to identify user through browser?
> >>> Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2013 15:08:54 +0200
> >>> To: python-l... at python.org
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> >>> Hello
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> >>> I was wondering if some Python module were available to identify a
> >>> user through their browser, like it's done on the Panopticlick site:
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> >> What do you mean by user?
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> > Ha! Nice question.  Not in direct answer but here's E.W Dijkstra
> > defining 'user':
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> > [fromhttp://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/EWD618.html
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> > The computer �user� isn�t a real person of flesh and blood, with
> > passions and brains. No, he is a mythical figure, and not a very
> > pleasant one either. A kind of mongrel with money but without taste,
> > an ugly caricature that is very uninspiring to work for. He is, as a
> > matter of fact, such an uninspiring idiot that his stupidity alone is
> > a sufficient explanation for the ugliness of most computer systems.
> > And oh! Is he uneducated! That is perhaps his most depressing
> > characteristic. He is equally education-resistant as another equally
> > mythical bore, �the average programmer�, whose solid stupidity is the
> > greatest barrier to progress in programming. It is a sad thought that
> > large sections of computing science are effectively paralyzed by the
> > narrow-mindedness and other grotesque limitations with which a poor
> > literature has endowed these influential mythical figures. (Computing
> > science is not unique in inventing such paralyzing caricatures:
> > universities all over the world are threatened by the invention of
> > �the average student�, scientific publishing is severely hampered by
> > the invention of �the innocent reader� and even �the poor reader�!)
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> Where does the Bastard Operator From Hell fit in this? :)

:-)
Yes Dijkstra is quite a devil.
Always thought-provoking and entertaining -- never to be taken too
seriously!