I've always been a fan of Sesame Street, some of the earliest
episodes of which you can't buy as a minor they tell me,
because they show kids doing too dangerous things (like
making friends with strangers and running through a junk
yard, hopping on bed springs or something). TV-14?
On that show,
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Edward Cherlin wrote:
> So 'in' is a comparison "operator", is it? I am annoyed at how long it
> took me to verify that Python treats it as such, and I am also annoyed
> that it is so.
>
> http://docs.python.org/tutorial/datastructures.html
> 5.7. More on Conditi
I am a big fan of discovery learning, and thus down on anything that
interferes with discovery. I practice what I call defensive
documentation on such problems, as do some others. See for example,
The C Puzzle Book, and my Sugar Labs page
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/The_Undiscoverable
We will ne
Einstein probably did not say, "Everything should be made as simple as
possible, but _no simpler_." However, somebody did, and somebody was
right. One of the biggest problems in teaching programming is the
constant pretense that we are not doing complicated mathematics, and
the resulting attempt to
So 'in' is a comparison "operator", is it? I am annoyed at how long it
took me to verify that Python treats it as such, and I am also annoyed
that it is so.
http://docs.python.org/tutorial/datastructures.html
5.7. More on Conditions¶
The conditions used in while and if statements can contain any
What is a Python module? #==
Common answer is "a file containing Python source code?",
but I'm questioning whether that's sufficient definition.
How about an importable .pyc or .pyd, with no .py in the
picture. That's a module too, no?
** Import Star #===
