If you are looking for a small and simple text editor that moonlights
as an IDE, my suggestion would be
SciTE(http://scintilla.org/SciTE.html). It has reasonable syntax
highlighting and can run Python scripts if you press F5.
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Hi all.
How do I make the computer generate 4 random numbers for the guess? I want
to know because I'm writing a computer program in Python like the game
MasterMind.
Thanks.
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Nathan Pinno said unto the world upon 02/07/2005 02:25:
Hi all.
How do I make the computer generate 4 random numbers for the guess? I want
to know because I'm writing a computer program in Python like the game
MasterMind.
Thanks.
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First, I'm very new to gui programming, so please go lightly on me :)
Ok, so far I've settled on wxPython, and what I'd like to do as a first
leap is *convert* a text program into a gui program. It would have a
few buttons as function controls and one main scrollable panel that
acts like a
[EMAIL PROTECTED] == [EMAIL PROTECTED] com [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi,
I am using pexpect to spawn an interactive program and wait for
particular string in its output. It works fine but once I get this
required information, I really don't care about the child process
anymore. I would
Thank you.
On 7/1/05, Jeff Epler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This has been discussed before. One thread I found was
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2003-June/170526.html
The advice in that message might work for you.
Jeff
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Am Freitag, den 01.07.2005, 10:53 -0700 schrieb Scott David Daniels:
Terry Hancock wrote:
I only just recently had a look at the shelve module
That would be handy if, for example, I wanted to couple
(and compress into the bargain) by putting my two
shelf files into a single zip
Am Freitag, den 01.07.2005, 18:55 +0200 schrieb Harry George:
Tom Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, Adriaan Renting wrote:
I'm not a very experienced Python programmer yet, so I might be
mistaken, but there are a few things that would make me prefer C++
over
Hi all,
I wanna thank Martin for helping out with my ignorance concerning
execution of stored procedure with python. Now i have decided to write
a web app that googles into my companies proprietary database. I need
to know whether zope is good for that job. But even the introduction to
zope
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Hi fellow Python coders,
Robert Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
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map and filter are being removed *because of* list comprehensions. Did you
even read Guido's articles about this issue? Your understanding of why
these changes are planned is incorrect; consequently your projection based
A.M. Kuchling wrote:
For anyone who's interested: the Python wiki now contains a list of the
PSF-mentored proposals that were accepted for Google's Summer of Code:
http://wiki.python.org/moin/SummerOfCode
Is it right that two Wax proposals were accepted?
Reinhold
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Hi Christopher,
if you have to make calculations or comparing operations, the only
safe method is to save and use only integer values.
Of course there must be a preventive agreement on the precision you
want to have (2, 3 4 ... decimals).
The sw part is straigthforward:
- to save in the database
On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 12:58:21 -0700, rumours say that Dave Benjamin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] might have written:
BORT wrote:
I am toying with the idea of teaching my ten year old a little about
programming. I started my search with something like best FREE
programming language for kids. After MUCH
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 07:11:43 -0500, rumours say that phil
[EMAIL PROTECTED] might have written:
I wonder what percentage of the tools you refer to are
Eclipse and not Java per se. ?? I don't know.
The really big bucks of IBM sent Eclipse through the roof.
The project name is pretty offensive
Reinhold Birkenfeld wrote:
A.M. Kuchling wrote:
For anyone who's interested: the Python wiki now contains a list of the
PSF-mentored proposals that were accepted for Google's Summer of Code:
http://wiki.python.org/moin/SummerOfCode
Is it right that two Wax proposals were accepted?
On Sat, Jul 02, 2005 at 03:04:09AM -0700, Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve wrote:
[...]
Minimal proposal
My minimal proposal is to add an enhanced version of ``adopt_init_args()``
as a standard Python built-in function (actual name secondary!)::
class grouping:
def
godwin wrote:
I wanna thank Martin for helping out with my ignorance concerning
execution of stored procedure with python. Now i have decided to write
a web app that googles into my companies proprietary database.
Just checking... do you really mean googles, or is that in your mind a
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
T can be silent in England too ..
frui'
cricke'
Both of those words (fruit and cricket) have the letter T sounded.
Stephen (Nationality: English).
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On 7/2/05, Brian van den Broek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Patrick Rutkowski said unto the world upon 02/07/2005 00:12:
That's... annoying, to say the least. And my number 4/5 was a rational
number too; I can understand how when doing 1/3 things can get funky.
Really though... 4/5 = 0.8 right
Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
class grouping:
def __init__(self, .keep_this, .and_this, but_not_this,
.but_this_again):
# real code right here
I'm really torn about this. On the one hand, my first thought was you
shouldn't be writing constructors
On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 14:00:33 +0200, rumours say that fargo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] might have written:
If I use the md5 module with .txt files, it'ok.
The Problem comes from the .msg files. I get the same signature for
every .msg file I try to hash with the md5 algorithm. I think some
character are
On 20 Jun 2005 11:43:28 -0700, rumours say that Oren Tirosh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] might have written:
For very short keys and record (e.g. email addresses) you can use
symbolic links instead of files. The advantage is that you have a
single system call (readlink) to retrieve the contents of a link.
On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 17:00:17 +0300, rumours say that Konstantin
Veretennicov [EMAIL PROTECTED] might have written:
On 6/21/05, Charles Krug [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Related question:
What if I need to create/modify MS-Access or SQL Server dbs?
You could use ADO + adodbapi for both.
On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 23:42:21 -0800, rumours say that EP
[EMAIL PROTECTED] might have written:
I tried this for one application under the Windows OS and it worked fine...
until my records (text - maybe 50KB average) unexpectedly blossomed into the
10,000-1,000,000 ranges. If I or someone else
On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 12:57:36 -0700, xeys_00 wrote:
The other alternative
is to install console mode linux on it and hope that the ncurses library
can be used by python.
Hi, for curses module and linux, I made a library which give you
various widgets (combobox, buttons,checkbox,menubar,...).
Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
class grouping:
def __init__(self, .x, .y, .z):
# real code right here
Emulation using existing syntax::
def __init__(self, x, y, z):
self.x = x
del x
At 7:17 PM -0300 7/1/05, Rodrigo Dominguez wrote:
My question is: is there some kind of framework that works with mod_python?
You could take a look at Myghty:
http://www.myghty.org/
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Phone:
Steven Bethard wrote:
Fredrik Johansson wrote:
On 6/27/05, Reinhold Birkenfeld
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Do you have any other good and valued Python modules that you would
think are
bug-free, mature (that includes a long release distance) and useful
enough to
be granted a place in
On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, Andreas Kostyrka wrote:
Am Freitag, den 01.07.2005, 08:25 -0700 schrieb George Sakkis:
Again, how? Is there a way to force that an external user of my lib can
not use my internal data/methods/classes, unless he uses odd compiler
hacks?
I never understood how mainstream
On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, Ivan Van Laningham wrote:
Personally, I find that Lisp its derivatives put your head in a very
weird place. Even weirder than PostScript/Forth/RPN, when you come
right down to it.
+1 QOTW!
tom
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On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, Sion Arrowsmith wrote:
Tom Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, Roy Smith wrote:
Even some of the relatively recent library enhancements have been kind
of complicated. The logging module, for example, seems way over the
top.
Exactly the same thing
On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, Scott David Daniels wrote:
Daniel Dittmar wrote:
Rocco Moretti wrote:
Except that (please correct me if I'm wrong) there is somewhat of a
policy for not including interface code for third party programs
which are not part of the operating system. (I.e. the modules in
Gregory Piñero wrote:
While that policy does make sense, I think a database program falls
somewhere in between an OS and an everyday third party program. For
web developers, the database might as well be the OS. I use the
database to store everything in my web app. That way I can just worry
Rocco Moretti wrote:
Paul Rubin wrote:
Rocco Moretti [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Except that (please correct me if I'm wrong) there is somewhat of a
policy for not including interface code for third party programs which
are not part of the operating system. (I.e. the modules in the
standard
John Roth wrote:
Robert Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
map and filter are being removed *because of* list comprehensions. Did you
even read Guido's articles about this issue? Your understanding of why
these changes are planned is incorrect; consequently your
Andrew Koenig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In Python, unlike many other languages, the names of formal parameters are
part of a function's interface. For example:
def f(x, y):
return x-y
Now f(3, 4) is -1 and f(y=3,x=4) is 1.
The names of instance variables are generally not
Peter Hansen wrote:
godwin wrote:
I wanna thank Martin for helping out with my ignorance concerning
execution of stored procedure with python. Now i have decided to write
a web app that googles into my companies proprietary database.
Just checking... do you really mean googles, or is
Tom Anderson wrote:
So, if you're a pythonista who loves map and lambda, and disagrees with
Guido, what's your background? Functional or not?
I have no functional language background. Until recently, I had no use
for programming expression to be evaluated later or deferred
expressions or
Am Samstag, den 02.07.2005, 15:11 +0100 schrieb Tom Anderson:
On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, Andreas Kostyrka wrote:
Am Freitag, den 01.07.2005, 08:25 -0700 schrieb George Sakkis:
Again, how? Is there a way to force that an external user of my lib can
not use my internal data/methods/classes,
Peter Hansen wrote:
godwin wrote:
I wanna thank Martin for helping out with my ignorance concerning
execution of stored procedure with python. Now i have decided to write
a web app that googles into my companies proprietary database.
Just checking... do you really mean googles, or
Scanning quickly through the various response, I noticed that at least
one person suggested rur-ple (rur-ple.sf.net), hence Python. I would
second that ;-) ... but then, I am biased as the author of rur-ple!
rur-ple is intended to be a complete learning environment for learning
programming and
Jamey Cribbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Code blocks allow you to wrap up any Ruby code and pass it to a method
and have it executed within that method. It is more powerful than
lambda, because you can have multiple statements in the code block and
you can do assignment within the code block.
Robert Kern wrote:
David Pratt wrote:
I have string text with language text records that looks like this:
'en' | 'the brown cow' | 'fr' | 'la vache brun'
translations = [x.strip( ') for x in line.split('|')]
d = dict(zip(translations[::2], translations[1::2]))
One caevat is that this
Hi,
I have one problem ( I am a python beginner) in a cgi:
printa href=mailto:%s; %(campovalore.encode('iso-8859-1'))
print campovalore.encode('iso-8859-1')
print /a
campovalore is an email address with special (italian) characters.
From IE6 everything is fine and the link launches my
Hi all,
What's wrong with the following code? It says there is name error, that
random is not defined. How do I fix it?
# Plays the guessing game higher or lower.
# Originally written by Josh Cogliati, improved first by Quique, then by
Nathan Pinno.
print Higher or Lower
print
Nathan Pinno a écrit :
Hi all,
What's wrong with the following code? It says there is name error, that
random is not defined. How do I fix it?
Add import random at the top of your file
Cheers,
SB
# Plays the guessing game higher or lower.
# Originally written by Josh Cogliati,
Nathan Pinno wrote:
Hi all,
What's wrong with the following code? It says there is name error, that
random is not defined. How do I fix it?
You need to import random.
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Are the graves of dreams allowed
Hi all,
Brief question for anyone who knows the answer, because I don't. Is there
anyway to make Python calculate square roots?
Thanks,
Nathan Pinnohttp://www.npinnowebsite.ca/
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Scott David Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Rocco Moretti wrote:
Joseph Garvin wrote:
I'm not aware of a language that allows it, but recently I've found
myself wanting the ability to transparently replace objects
I mainly look for it in the object replaces self form, but I guess
you
Why not just update the local dictionary?
class Grouping:
def __init__(self,x,y,z):
self.__dict__.update(locals())
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Nathan Pinno wrote:
Hi all,
Brief question for anyone who knows the answer, because I don't. Is
there anyway to make Python calculate square roots?
http://docs.python.org/
There is a search facility.
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In the fields of hell where the
Vittorio wrote:
printa href=mailto:%s; %(campovalore.encode('iso-8859-1'))
print campovalore.encode('iso-8859-1')
print /a
campovalore is an email address with special (italian) characters.
[snip]
Any suggestion is welcome,
It might help if you showed us the output of repr(x) where x is
On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 08:54:31 -0700, Scott David Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Sion Arrowsmith wrote:
... And if you were to do so, surely:
class foo(object):
def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
super(foo, self).__init__(self)
would be the preferred way to go?
Or, perhaps:
Florian Lindner wrote:
Peter Hansen wrote:
[Zope] doesn't include
database interfaces other than to its own ZODB.
That's not correct. Zope2 includes DB interfaces to MySQL, PostGre, ODBC and
many others.
It actually *includes* them? I thought those were all add-in modules,
not ones that
Bengt Richter wrote:
BTW, there's something about referring to type(self) by its not
always dependably bound (though usually global) name that bothers me.
I wonder if the above common use of super could be implemented as a property
of object,
so you'd normally inherit it and be able to
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Walter Brunswick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why not just update the local dictionary?
class Grouping:
def __init__(self,x,y,z):
self.__dict__.update(locals())
That's pretty clever. The only minor annoyance is that it creates a
self.self. If that
Patrick Rutkowski said unto the world upon 02/07/2005 09:25:
On 7/2/05, Brian van den Broek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Patrick Rutkowski said unto the world upon 02/07/2005 00:12:
That's... annoying, to say the least. And my number 4/5 was a rational
number too; I can understand how when doing
Bengt Richter wrote:
On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 08:54:31 -0700, Scott David Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Or, perhaps:
class foo(object):
def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
super(foo, self).__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)
...
Doesn't super(foo,
Colin J. Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Isn't this where the discussion should start? There should be some
general policy guiding the types of modules which should be in the
standard library.
A couple of times, Guido has given his general policy as generally
Nathan Pinno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Brief question for anyone who knows the answer, because I don't.
Is there anyway to make Python calculate square roots?
Python can calculate any calculable function of the objects it has to work
with. So the answer
Thanks much for your response.
I looked at PyCrust, and while its given me a few cool ideas, I may
have described the problem incorrectly. What I really need is not
something that takes input, but merely redirects the 'print' statements
to something like a terminal window.
Is this even possible
Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve wrote:
A shorter alternative (my personal favorite since minimally redundant)::
class grouping:
def __init__(self, .keep_this, .and_this, but_not_this,
.but_this_again):
# real code right here
There is also the variant which I proposed on
flamesrock wrote:
I looked at PyCrust, and while its given me a few cool ideas, I may
have described the problem incorrectly. What I really need is not
something that takes input, but merely redirects the 'print' statements
to something like a terminal window.
Is this even possible without
I would like to determine the actual elapsed time of an operation
which could take place during a time change, in a platform-independent
manner (at least across Linux/Windows machines).
Using time.time() doesn't appear to be suitable, since time might jump
forwards or backwards at the user's
Exactly what I'm looking for! Thanks
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Roy Smith wrote:
Peter Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you get the UTC time, daylight savings time doesn't enter the equation.
Of course... I didn't think of that approach. I don't actually care
about absolute time, so this should work fine for at least the DST case.
If you care about
Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve wrote:
...
class grouping:
def __init__(self, x, y, z):
self.x = x
self.y = y
self.z = z
# real code, finally
This becomes a serious nuisance in complex applications with long
argument lists, especially if long
On Friday 01 July 2005 11:13 pm, John Machin wrote:
x BETWEEN y AND z
Ah, even better, thank you.
The python equivalent would be to write it out as:
if a b-epsilon and a b+epsilon:
print a~=b
Try this:
if b-epsilon a b+epsilon:
This I knew, but I was trying to
On 28 Jun 2005 13:24:42 -0700, rumours say that muldoon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] might have written:
Now, what forum would you recommend? Any help would be appreciated.
alt.usage.english?
alt.languages.english?
alt.english.usage?
uk.culture.language.english?
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On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 18:29:56 +0100, rumours say that Tom Anderson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] might have written:
On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, Benji York wrote:
python-needs-more-duct-tape'ly yours,
You're in luck: Python 3000 will replace duck typing with duct taping.
I would bet that somewhere in the
On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 20:55:20 -0400, rumours say that Mike Meyer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] might have written:
Actually, I was thinking of pre-KR Unix compilers.
There must be something I am missing here, cause I don't understand what
you mean; what is the earliest KR C compiler (Unix compiler) you
On Friday 01 July 2005 04:40 pm, Andreas Kostyrka wrote:
It's even worse: shelve is basically a class that wraps a dictionary. It
provides a dictionary string - pickable object based on a dictioary
string - string. bsddb, gdbm etc. probably access files via lowlevel
calls that are not
Peter Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I guess as long as the NTP client is set up to ensure the time
adjustments are smaller than some value X, it would be acceptable.
NTP is generally capable of keeping the various system clocks on a LAN
within a few ms of each other, and within a few 10's
Christos TZOTZIOY Georgiou [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Were there other Unix C compilers before KR wrote one?
Considering that KR (along with T) invented both Unix and C, I would say
that the answer to the above has to be No.
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On Saturday 02 July 2005 10:55 am, phil wrote:
Zope is like that to me. I ask what is it and the answer
sounds like Oh, it's oierbv for the zxcvioupo of 7cvn^djh'.
Now understand, I know what very well what Python, Apache, PhP,
MySQL, IE and javascript do. I just don't know what Zope
If you're looking for a leight weight web development enviroment acting
as a front end for a database take a look at http://www.cherrypy.org
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On Saturday 02 July 2005 05:04 am, Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve wrote:
I often find myself writing::
class grouping:
def __init__(self, x, y, z):
self.x = x
self.y = y
self.z = z
# real code, finally
Fortunately, you don't have
Yes, I knew that copying it to my root was a kludge. But between that
and not having it work, I chose the former. (As you might be able to
tell from my posts, I tried multiple things and was frustrated.) I
tried putting quotes around c:\program files\python24. It still
didn't work.
I chose to
Thanx all for responding.
I've been doing the epsilon comparisons, i had just hoped that to be a
temporary solution.
anyway, thanx for the responses
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Roy Smith wrote:
Peter Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'll have to look into how to set up Windows XP to prevent users from
changing the time on their own, assuming that's possible.
On a single-user system like Windows, you pretty much have to assume the
user can do anything. They can
Christos TZOTZIOY Georgiou wrote:
On Fri, 01 Jul 2005 23:45:57 +1000, rumours say that John Machin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] might have written:
Simon Brunning wrote:
On 7/1/05, Peter Maas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Simon Brunning schrieb:
Sibylle Koczian needs to sort part of a list. His
Nathan Pinno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
What's wrong with the following code? It says there is name error, that
random is not defined. How do I fix it?
# Plays the guessing game higher or lower.
# Originally written by Josh Cogliati, improved first by Quique, then by
Nathan Pinno.
Roy Smith wrote:
Peter Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Using time.time() doesn't appear to be suitable, since time might jump
forwards or backwards at the user's whim, if the system clock is reset,
or when a daylight savings time change occurs.
If you get the UTC time, daylight savings time
[Peter Hansen]
Hmmm... not only that, but at least under XP the return value of
time.time() _is_ UTC. At least, it's entirely unaffected by the
daylight savings time change, or (apparently) by changes in time zone.
On all platforms, time.time() returns the number of seconds since the
epoch.
On Saturday 02 July 2005 10:55, Nathan Pinno wrote:
Brief question for anyone who knows the answer, because I don't. Is
there anyway to make Python calculate square roots?
from math import sqrt
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Nathan Pinno wrote:
Hi all,
What's wrong with the following code? It says there is name error, that
random is not defined. How do I fix it?
Others have already answered that question. This posting is a
pre-emptive strike to head off the next half-a-dozen questions.
# Plays the
On Sat, 2 Jul 2005, Tom Brown wrote:
On Saturday 02 July 2005 10:55, Nathan Pinno wrote:
Brief question for anyone who knows the answer, because I don't. Is
there anyway to make Python calculate square roots?
from math import sqrt
That's one way. I'd do:
root = value ** 0.5
Does that
You might want to be a little more explicit. Do you know that
this = this
that = that
or do you mean
this = `the part before the \D*`
that = `the part after the \D*`
If you mean the former, then the previously proposed
py import re
py line = 'see this man with that woman holding this dog and
Roy Smith wrote:
Peter Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I guess as long as the NTP client is set up to ensure the time
adjustments are smaller than some value X, it would be acceptable.
NTP is generally capable of keeping the various system clocks on a LAN
within a few ms of each other,
On 7/3/05, Tom Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That's one way. I'd do:
root = value ** 0.5
Does that mean we can expect Guido to drop math.sqrt in py3k? :)
I'd rather like to see a well implemented math.nthroot. 64**(1/3.0)
gives 3.9996, and this error could be avoided.
John Machin wrote:
Nathan Pinno wrote:
guess = input(Guess a number: )
guess will refer to a string e.g. 42 which will *not* compare equal
to the integer 42. Also you should use raw_input, not input.
so do this:
guess = int(raw_input(Guess a number: ))
Ahem ... I'll redo
Bengt Richter wrote:
I wonder if the above common use of super could be implemented as a property
of object,
so you'd normally inherit it and be able to write
self.super.__init__(*args, **kwargs) # (maybe spell it
self.__super__.__init__(...) I suppose)
I.e., self.__super__ would
muldoon wrote:
Americans consider having a British accent a sign of sophistication
and high intelligence. Many companies hire salespersons from Britain to
represent their products,etc. Question: When the British hear an
American accent, does it sound unsophisticated and dumb?
Be blunt. We
On Fri, 01 Jul 2005 12:24:44 -0700, Devan L wrote:
With the exception of reduce(lambda x,y:x*y, sequence), reduce can be
replaced with sum, and Guido wants to add a product function.
How do you replace:
reduce(lambda x,y: x*y-1/y, sequence)
with sum?
Inquiring minds want to know.
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On Fri, 01 Jul 2005 09:13:58 -0700, mcherm wrote:
Lambda serves a very specific purpose: declaring small, in-place
functions which are no bigger than a single expression. I do this often
enough that I DO want special syntax for it. But I'll admit that I
wish lambda were about 5 or 6
On Fri, 01 Jul 2005 12:59:20 -0400, François Pinard wrote:
[Peter Hansen]
Mike Meyer wrote:
Yes. I once grabbed an old program that did assignments to None. But
that's always been a bad idea.
What was the use case!?
People used to assign None to itself as a keyword argument in
On Fri, 01 Jul 2005 13:42:10 -0400, Mike Meyer wrote:
iK [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Seems like he wants python programmers to solve their problems all in the
same way. While that is great for corporate slaves it is terrible for the
creative programmer.
No, he wants Python to be
Bengt Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
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I wonder if the above common use of super could be implemented as a
property of object,
so you'd normally inherit it and be able to write
self.super.__init__(*args, **kwargs) # (maybe spell it
On Fri, 01 Jul 2005 19:15:46 -0700, Erik Max Francis wrote:
Sean McIlroy wrote:
if that's the case then list
comprehensions and/or first class functions are likely to be the next
target.
Slippery slope arguments are logical fallacies, you know.
Not if you are actually standing on a
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