Re: [Edu-sig] Edu-sig Digest, Vol 71, Issue 4

2009-06-05 Thread Marianne McKenna
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[Edu-sig] mentions of Py on Math Forum....

2009-06-05 Thread kirby urner
Brief mention of Python on Math Forum this morning, in same sentence as Mathematica, though I don't see them as filling the same market niche (partially overlapping though, yes): http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?threadID=1949352tstart=0 This guy Gary at work one time wanted my analysis of

Re: [Edu-sig] mentions of Py on Math Forum....

2009-06-05 Thread Scott David Daniels
kirby urner wrote: I haven't tried 3.1 yet, have been using dictionary versus list to harp on the cardinality vs. ordinality distinction (per Midhat Gazale), understand there's a new kind of dictionary that has ordinal properties You really should. The io module went to C, so simple file

Re: [Edu-sig] mentions of Py on Math Forum....

2009-06-05 Thread kirby urner
OK, took your advice. Turns out I was thinking of OrdererdDict added to collections in 2.7 (?), now used more routinely for some return types. An ordered dictionary doesn't support indexing but does remember the order in which items were inserted, is prepared to divulge such items in either LIFO