Danny,
It sure did, though I wish there was an easier way of coding it than
int(raw_input())! Any ideas would gladly be appreciated.
By the way, is there any code floating out there that can show how many
possible mixtures there are, e.g. for x0, x1, x2, x3, and a0, a1, a2, and a3
for example. If there is, show me it, please. I'm getting confused writing
my MasterMind and don't want to screw up bad, e.g. repeat the same answer in
a different way.
Thanks,
Nathan Pinno.
- Original Message -
From: Danny Yoo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Nathan Pinno [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Terry Reedy [EMAIL PROTECTED]; tutor@python.org
Sent: Monday, July 18, 2005 2:14 AM
Subject: Re: [Tutor] Who uses input()? [was Re: question on input]
On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Nathan Pinno wrote:
I find it easier to remember and faster to code than int(raw_input()).
The faster I can code a program, the better in my opinion. So what if
it
has a few bugs, I fix them gradually.
Hi Nathan
You're right, just as long as we're writing programs that are only meant
to be used by ourselves, and as long as we're sure that it's not talking
to the outside world. The driving issue behind getting paranoid is
this:
it's getting much easier to write programs that we think might be just
for
ourselves, but which become useful for others.
And as soon as we write programs that other people are going to use, we
really do have to play by a different set of rules than just ease of
programming. Some folks were casual about eval(), and look what
happened
to them:
http://gulftech.org/?node=researcharticle_id=00088-07022005
They should have known better.
This problem is not exclusive to programmers in PHP: programmers in
Python make the same kind of mistakes. As a concrete example, take a
look
at the comments about the deprecated SimpleCookie and SerialCookie
functions:
http://www.python.org/doc/lib/module-Cookie.html
Again, they should have known better. And we should know better.
So we do have a responsibility to state up front that using 'eval' (or
things that call 'eval' for us) is convenient, but it's not safe.
That's
why we bug about it every so often.
Hope this helps!
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