checking if an event is queued in Glk,
so I resorted to exposing the internal state main.char_request in
the doc string. What are the alternatives?
In addition, the last test in the docstring is only there to
ensure that other tests can open a window themselves (this
version of the library only allows one window to be open at a
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On 2006-10-20, Gabriel Genellina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At Friday 20/10/2006 16:29, Neil Cerutti wrote:
>>The example of correct usage it what's wrong with the
>>docstring.
>>
>>There's no interface for checking if an event is queued in Glk,
>
i.org/
>
> but none have Python support (or again maybe im wrong)
PyGame for SDL, I think.
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) and then fill it in afterwards.
>>> b =[range(2), range(2)]
>>> b
[0, 1], [0, 1]]
>>> b[0][1] = "OK."
>>> b
[0, 'OK.'], [0, 1]]
A flexible way to do it instead might be to make your data
attributes of objects, instead
rds, sys.stdin.encoding. Your only
hope of accepting non-US-ASCII command line arguments in this
manner is that sys.stdin.encoding is divined correctly by Python.
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Where can I find documentation of what Python accepts as the
filename argument to the builtin function file?
As an example, I'm aware (through osmosis?) that I can use '/' as
a directory separator in filenames on both Unix and Dos. But
where is this documented?
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On 2006-10-24, Leif K-Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Neil Cerutti wrote:
>> As an example, I'm aware (through osmosis?) that I can use '/'
>> as a directory separator in filenames on both Unix and Dos.
>> But where is this documented?
>
> It&#
On 2006-10-24, Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Neil Cerutti wrote:
>
>> Where can I find documentation of what Python accepts as the
>> filename argument to the builtin function file?
>>
>> As an example, I'm aware (through osmosis?) that I c
On 2006-10-24, Neil Cerutti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is translation of '/' to '\\' a feature of Windows or Python?
Well, *that* was easy to discover on my own. ;-)
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On 2006-10-24, Neil Cerutti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 2006-10-24, Neil Cerutti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Is translation of '/' to '\\' a feature of Windows or Python?
>
> Well, *that* was easy to discover on my own. ;-)
>
> Thanks for
alue outside of
>> PyEval_EvalFrameEx. Inside of it, I'd use the STACK_LEVEL
>> macro. How do I do it?
>
> No hints?
Perhaps the inspect module will help? See 3.11.4 The Interpreter
Stack.
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pe and some of the code is
intricate. Such expansion of size and complexity is a typical
result of moving from prototype to production.
(It's a useful book, especially for a hobbyist programmer. Though
there's not much Python code in it, pretty much all the advice
inside is applicab
#x27;t
> [1,2,3].len better?)
>
> I think you can't add methods to Python builtin classes, I
> think you can do it with Ruby.
You can create derived versions of builtins with new methods
(which affords the benefits of modifying builtins), but
you can't change the type of a Pyt
rly just
Alt. Those same people often hold to the heresy that 'to fill'
means 'to wrap'. They believe that modes exist for different
'languages', and moreover, that there's more than just the
trinity of INSERT, EDIT and COMMAND-LINE.
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On 2006-10-26, Neil Cerutti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It seems like the holy wars are pretty. We disciples of Vim and
> Emacs are now content merely being holier than all he others.
>
> Actually, I'm not sure there's been a good Emacs VS Vim holy war
> in years.
On 2006-10-26, Tim Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Neil Cerutti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>Some experimentation shows that Python does seem to provide
>>*some* translation. Windows lets me use '/' as a path separator,
>>but not as the
On 2006-10-26, Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Neil Cerutti wrote:
>> Seriously, experiments show the forward slash is OK as a
>> seperator, it just can't be root.
>
> do you think you can figure out why, even without reading the
> various MSDN pages
out 20
minutes with the built-in tutorial.
Getting it to work seemlessly with Python code will take
considerably longer.
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globbing since the shell doesn't do it. You would
think that a library would've been available to DOS programmers
to unify that procedure, but apparently not.
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lly simplified
> example but the effects are the same... How do I specify or
> create deep copies of objects that may contain other objects
> that may contain other object that may contain other
> objects....
See 3.18 Copy -- Shallow and deep copy operations.
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I pulled i
ef_create_by_prompt('Transcript+TextMode',
'WriteAppend', 0)
Parsing the combinable bitfield contants might be slowish,
though.
Thanks for taking the time to consider my question.
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On 2006-11-01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Neil Cerutti:
>> scriptref = glk.fileref_create_by_prompt('Transcript+TextMode',
>>'WriteAppend', 0)
>
> That "+" sign seems useless. A space looks enough to me. The
>
le '.'s.
>
> I think this is a reasonable compromise in avoiding namespace
> pollution, without inflicting unseemly text entry overhead on
> your module clients.
That's looks quite tempting. Thanks!
It will be nice to provide a short way to import all the
constants at once
On 2006-11-01, Paddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Neil Cerutti wrote:
>> The Glk API (which I'm implementing in native Python code)
>> defines 120 or so constants that users must use. The constants
>> already have fairly long names, e.g., gestalt_Version,
&
hat
might accomplish your goal. You can write a new back-end for it
to produce MUD code (so you can design your maps graphically), or
you can write a new front-end to interpret MUD code (so you can
make IF-Mapper draw maps for you game in progress).
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> otherwise. I've just been defining k=0 at the start of the
> program but it seems there should be a better way.
The best way to do it is to never use undefined names.
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> openfilename() instead of openfile();-)
The encoding of the filenames in the file system is available
from sys.getfilesystemencoding(). That might turn out to be
useful when interpreting them.
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for even longer. -
. I haven't found it
terribly useful, but in theory it's invaluable (my project is
piddly in size at the moment).
If you set shiftwidth to your preferred Python indent, then
indenting and unindenting code blocks is as easy as the < and >
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sure is needed or how it works
> against the new standard python module:
>
>:au BufEnter *.py :set smarttab smartindent \
> cinwords="if,elif,else,for,while,def,try,rxcept,finally,class"
You shouldn't need that as long as the default plugin for Python
loads corre
tanding that the colon's justification is
asthetic rather than technical (though I too had expected to see
a technical excuse for it).
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, always make them Unicode strings by
> prepending the "u".
That doesn't do any good if you aren't writing them in unicode
code points, though.
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On 2006-11-10, John Machin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Neil Cerutti wrote:
>> On 2006-10-16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > here is something that surprises me.
>> >
>> > #coding: iso-885
On 2006-11-10, gavino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> both are interpreted oo langauges..
"..."
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or, the second comma is the
> to-be-continued marker
Eyiyi! That's yugly.
The colon's main purpose seems to be to allow one-liners:
Easy to parse: if a < b: a += 1
Hard to parse if a < b a += 1
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deadflag = True
Taste:
print "You nibble at one of the corners. Yum!"
Attack:
print "What did the mushroom ever to to you?"
default:
print "You can't do that to a mushroom."
I've often wanted a "Pythonic"
Peters referenced by Robert Kern
> pointed out earlier in this thread, the ABC language designers
> found that indentation-based block structure by itself wasn't
> enough to clue new users in about the code structure. Adding
> the colon at the end of the if/while/for clause helped.
On 2006-11-10, Bjoern Schliessmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Neil Cerutti wrote:
>> On 2006-11-09, Bjoern Schliessmann
>
>>> if color == red or blue or green:
>>> return 'primary'
>>>
>>>:)
>
>> The Inform 6* program
On 2006-11-10, Robert Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> P.S. I felt I just had to tie this into the thread on
>> profanity somehow. But notice that I didn't mention nazis or
>> Hitler. ;-)
>
> You did it just now!
I hate Godw
.
> It then knows precisely how to decode your string literals into
> Unicode. How do you write things in "Unicode code points"?
for = u"f\xfcr"
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lines is to pry the details ut of the
code if they might change. The above advice seems like a perfect
example.
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? Every language has a syntax. Why not just accept
> it as a given and get on with more productive activities?
That's all very well if the language has a compromised and ad-hoc
syntax. But since Python has a nice clean syntax, it makes me
want to be associated with it by investing in i
table, industrial-strength program like Vim
or emacs is something I highly recommend, but it's not
necessarily a productive thing to do that at the same time you're
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times.
Those of you experiencing a temporary obsession with this topic
are encouraged to study The Great Language Shootout, until the
obsession goes away. ;)
Your time might not be totally wasted; an opportunity to improve
the Python solutions may present itself.
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org
with push_back takes amortized
constant time. In the example above, preallocating 4 strings
saves (probably) math.log(4, 2) reallocations of the vector's
storage along with the consequent copy-construction and
destruction of some fixed number of strings. Most of those
reallocations take place while the vector is still proportionally
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On 2006-08-25, Ben Sizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Neil Cerutti wrote:
>> On 2006-08-24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > It will run a lot faster if it doesn't have to keep resizing
>> > the array.
>>
>> I don't
called ''.join(lst) instead. But that optimization turns out to
be valid only if every element of the list is a string.
So there isn't, it seems, a practical way of implementing the
sum(list of strings) -> ''.join(list of strings optimization.
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as you have experience in other
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es the
Python commands (the version 6 binaries for windows did not).
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first time I saw StudlyCaps I thought it was the ugliest
thing I'd ever seen. Now I use it a lot. I still have trouble
with GVR's preference for HTTPServer over HttpServer. The latter
is, to me, easier to read and write.
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On 2006-08-30, Chaz Ginger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Neil Cerutti wrote:
>> The first time I saw StudlyCaps I thought it was the ugliest
>> thing I'd ever seen. Now I use it a lot. I still have trouble
>> with GVR's preference for HTTPServer over HttpServe
for i in xrange(1, len(seq)):
if abs(n-seq[i]) < abs(n-seq[m]):
m = i
return seq[m]
Putting my faith in Python builtins instead:
def closest_to(n, seq):
s = [abs(n-x) for x in seq]
return seq[s.index(min(s))]
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> http://pyfaq.infogami.com/why-can-t-i-use-an-assignment-in-an-expression
Python saves me from ever making the assignment-as-conditional
mistake, but I invented the conditional-as-assignment mistake to
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A billion here, a billion there, sooner or later i
hon way, but I think it's
cute:
def flatten(x):
"""Flatten list x, in place."""
i = 0
while i < len(x):
if isinstance(x[i], list):
x[i:i+1] = x[i]
i = i+1
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exceptions in this way. Is the above really a popular idiom?
If so, I guess I'll get used to it.
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ValueError()
> except ValueError:
> Do_B
> else:
> Do_A
>
> If you want to distinguish between the two error cases (not a
> number vs number not in [1,20]), handle the second one as
> "Do_C" instead of raising ValueError.
Is the original value of x available in Do_B and Do_A, or will it
have been clobbered before getting there?
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On 2006-09-05, George Sakkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Neil Cerutti wrote:
>
>> On 2006-09-04, George Sakkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > x=raw_input('\nType a number from 1 to 20')
>> > try:
>> > x = int(x)
>&
solution bundled with XP
turned out to be incompatible with the one bundled with 95. I had
to get a third-party software solution to access my old backups.
You might as well start with a third-party solution to begin
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ot; the
> lines in memory. You could actually type a program in from last line to
> first (ie, upside down) and it would run.
>
> NO other language that I know of uses line numbers to control
> source code order. Heck, Visual BASIC doesn't use line numbers
> either (I don
27; where `something else` is enclosed by (?=...)
>
> The regular expression engine will surreptitiously check that
> 'something else' does indeed follow, before returning any match of
> 'something'.
At any rate it further blurs the line between parsing and
pattern-matching. ;)
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me A?
A = ["abb", "bbc"]
B = ["a", "ab", "abb", "b", "bb", "bbc", "bc", "c"]
Is that what you're after?
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riting a thin wrapper around the dictionary might be beneficial,
and would also furnish a place for the docstrings. Actually, the
wrapper would probably prevent you from needing the docstring
very often. ;)
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On 2006-09-12, Matthew Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue 12 Sep 2006 10:06:27 AM EDT, Neil Cerutti wrote:
>> Writing a thin wrapper around the dictionary might be
>> beneficial, and would also furnish a place for the docstrings.
>
> I wrote a function that hop
rammers something
to defeat.
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's my attempt, neither of my regexps
> work quite how I want:
I suggest a websearch for email address validators instead of
writing of your own.
Here's a hit that looks useful:
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/66439
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getting would be helpful. That is, until such time
as Guido finalizes PyESP.
import PyESP
e = ESP.mindread(CSUIDL, "r")
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ython Documenation: DON'T PANIC!"
>CONSULT PYTHON ABOUT RE MODULE
You don't have that.
>TAKE IT
Taken.
>CONSULT GUIDE ABOUT RE MODULE
You'll have to play the game to find out how it ends. ;)
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the call-stack when called with value 45.0 (using the
substitution model):
recursive_halve(45.0) -->
return recursive_halve(22.5) -->
return recursive_halve(11.25) -->
return recursive_halve(5.625) -->
return recursive_halve(2.8125) -->
return recursive_hal
us effort to solve
the problem on your own. Those who take the trouble, as you did,
usually get excellent free help.
It's not out of the kindness of our hearts that we help. Heck, I
don't know what it is. Probably I just like reading my own drivel
on the internet and occassionally
C version of Odict (maybe fit
> for the collections module).
Check out http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyavl/ for a probably
useful sorted mapping type, already implemented in C as an
extension module.
However, I haven't tried it myself.
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27;x') --> ('a','b','c'), ('d','e','f'), ('g','x','x')
"""
return izip(*[chain(iterable, repeat(padvalue, n-1))]*n)
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I can't find the mystic search glob that will find a binary
search function in the Python documentation.
Am I searching in vain, or do I need better search-fu?
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On 2006-09-26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> bisect...
That doesn't tell me if an item doesn't exist in the sequence
though, does it? Maybe I'm being dense.
My guess nobody keeps their sequences sorted in Python. ;)
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short function to
translate my raw data into a dictionary, and that was the end of
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# Do stuff with f
except IOError, inst:
print 'Phooey.', inst.errno, inst.strerror
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x / 2
>> return ''.join(out)
>>
>> Regards,
It was surprising that
>>> i = int("111010101", 2)
is a one-way operation.
>>> s = str(i, 2)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in ?
TypeError: str() takes at most 1 argument (2 given)
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On 2006-09-29, Georg Brandl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Neil Cerutti wrote:
>> On 2006-09-29, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> MonkeeSage wrote:
>>>> So far as unobfuscated versions go, how about the simple:
>>>>
_exclude:
> del dirs[i-1]
>
> I am looking for a nicer solution.
I'd probably just skip over those dirs as I came them instead of
troubling about mutating the list. Unless the list is needed in
more than one place.
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On 2006-11-29, Roberto Bonvallet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> BTW, iterating over range(len(a)) is an anti-pattern in Python.
Unless you're modifying elements of a, surely?
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ca
ed to know what type it is.
>
>>>> x = 'asdf'
>>>> type(x)
>
>>>> i = 0
>>>> type(i)
>
That makes me wonder how he manages to store Python objects in
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On 2006-11-29, Roberto Bonvallet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Neil Cerutti wrote:
>> On 2006-11-29, Roberto Bonvallet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> BTW, iterating over range(len(a)) is an anti-pattern in Python.
>>
>> Unless you're modifying elem
12.11.1 Message Objects:
class Message( file[, seekable])
A Message instance is instantiated with an input object as
parameter. Message relies only on the input object having a
readline() method; in particular, ordinary file objects
qualify. Instantiation reads headers from the i
unter].split()))
> myArray[counter, itemCounter]
I was going to suggest replacing the whole loop with nothing as
the best way of removing the manual counters.
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.. yield items[5:]
>>> for seq in parts(range(10)):
... print seq
[0]
[1]
[2, 3, 4]
[5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
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On 2006-11-30, Neil Cerutti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 2006-11-30, John Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> If I have a list of say, 10 elements and I need to slice it into
>> irregular size list, I would have to create a bunch of temporary
>> variables and t
gt;> informative error message) in the event of bad input, rather than
>> allowing that bad data to send your program into an endless loop.
>
>
> Yet that detection is what the asked alg should do. Example:
> When a HTML-(content)-relaying sends you around in a circle
> thr
;4', '16']
ai = [int(i) for i in a]
Yes.
But...
Try: a = ['82', '4', '16', 'foo']
Ok, I go out...
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> Neil Cerutti wrote:
>> On 2006-12-02, Michel Claveau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > Hi!
>> >
>> > Yes.
>> >
>> > But...
>> >
>> > Try:d = {'a'
ing. Here's an amusing sampling:
EXERCISE THREE
Design and implement a full-size game. Submit it to testing,
fix all resulting bugs, help marketing design a package, ship
the game, and sell at lest 250,000 units.
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function being
> called 100 times, which is correct, but the rest seems at too
> low a level for me to understand which statements are causing
> the slow execution.
>
> hw6r3.py:276(main) hw6r3.py:73(findw)(100) 26700.865
Is this the print_callees output?
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But either
system comes naturally enough with practice.
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ave anything to do with the name of our
>> favorite language? (*Everyone* gets snake jokes! :)
>
> It's people like you wot cause unrest!
I think the decent people of this newsgroup are sick and tired of
being told that the decent people of this newsgroup are sick and
tired. I'
pathname library. I suppose I missed whatever
the point was supposed to be in the midst of the mind-boggling. I
meant to get back to it but haven't yet.
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es to matching the Python
code), but whatever it is would be a better foundation for
comparing brain units with the above Python.
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On 2006-12-13, hit_the_lights <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Neil Cerutti schrieb:
>
>> >> a[i] = b[n]
>> >>
>> >> with
>> >>
>> >> (setf (aref a i) (aref b n))
>> >>
>> >> and the attractions of Py
ups in
> copy-paste cannot be fixed by the editor automatically, because
> it cannot read the original programmer's mind, and you have to
> fix it manually, and risk screwing it up.
It is very easy a manual process, possibly as simple as selecting
the correct s-expr and pasting i
't annoy me that it didn't work, but
it did seem natural to me given the syntax of comprehensions.
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On 2006-12-14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Neil Cerutti wrote:
>> On 2006-12-13, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > Expressions keep the same meaning even if you have to start
>> > breaking them across lines,
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