On 5/5/2016 1:54 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Thu, 5 May 2016 10:31 pm, DFS wrote:
You are out of your mind.
That's twice you've tried to put me down, first by dismissing my comments
about text processing with "Linguist much", and now an outright insult. The
first time I laughed it off and made a joke about it. I won't do that
again.
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You asked whether it was better to extract the matching strings into a new
list, or remove them in place in the existing list. I not only showed you
how to do both, but I tried to give you the mental tools to understand when
you should pick one answer over the other. And your response is to insult
me and question my sanity.
Well, DFS, I might be crazy, but I'm not stupid. If that's really how you
feel about my answers, I won't make the mistake of wasting my time
answering your questions in the future.
Over to you now.
heh! Relax, pal.
I was just trying to be funny - no insult intended either time, of
course. Look for similar responses from me in the future. Usenet
brings out the smart-aleck in me.
Actually, you should've accepted the 'Linguist much?' as a compliment,
because I seriously thought you were.
But you ARE out of your mind if you prefer that convoluted "function"
method over a simple 1-line regex method (as per S. Hansen).
def isupperalpha(string):
return string.isalpha() and string.isupper()
def check(string):
if isupperalpha(string):
return True
parts = string.split("&")
if len(parts) < 2:
return False
parts[0] = parts[0].rstrip(" ")
parts[-1] = parts[-1].lstrip(" ")
for i in range(1, len(parts)-1):
parts[i] = parts[i].strip(" ")
return all(isupperalpha(part) for part in parts)
I'm sure it does the job well, but that style brings back [bad] memories
of the VBA I used to write. I expected something very concise and
'pythonic' (which I'm learning is everyone's favorite mantra here in
python-land).
Anyway, I appreciate ALL replies to my queries. So thank you for taking
the time.
Whenever I'm able, I'll try to contribute to clp as well.
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