Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (May 22)

2009-05-22 Thread Gabriel Genellina
QOTW: "Floating point is sort of like quantum physics: the closer you look, the messier it gets." - Grant Edwards The circular relationship between object and type explained: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.general/623460 Floating point numbers don't behave exa

Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (May 22)

2006-05-22 Thread Peter Otten
QOTW: "It's hard to make a mistake by having too many short and simple functions. And much too easy to make them when you have too few ;-)" - Thomas Bartkus "Argh, the following is valid Python syntax: assert a is not b - XXX in-progress" - Armin Rigo (found on Michael Hudson's blog) A GR