Brendan Miller catph...@catphive.net wrote in message
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2010/9/29 Lawrence D'Oliveiro l...@geek-central.gen.new_zealand:
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Brendan
Miller wrote:
It seems that
RG rnospa...@flownet.com writes:
In article lnbp7g58b4@nuthaus.mib.org,
Keith Thompson ks...@mib.org wrote:
[...]
Even here, maximum() did exactly what was asked of it.
Of course. Computers always do only exactly what you ask of them. On
this view there is, by definition, no such
That argument can be made for dynamic language as well. If you write in
dynamic language (e.g. python):
def maximum(a, b):
return a if a b else b
The dynamic language's version of maximum() function is 100% correct --
if you passed an uncomparable object, instead of a number, your
In article lnr5gb4von@nuthaus.mib.org,
Keith Thompson ks...@mib.org wrote:
I'm not saying one should not use compile-time tools, only that one
should not rely on them. Compiling without errors is not -- and
cannot ever be -- be a synonym for bug-free.
Agreed. (Though C does make
In article slrnia86l9.2esf.usenet-nos...@guild.seebs.net,
Seebs usenet-nos...@seebs.net wrote:
On 2010-09-30, RG rnospa...@flownet.com wrote:
Of course. Computers always do only exactly what you ask of them. On
this view there is, by definition, no such thing as a bug, only
Ian Collins ian-n...@hotmail.com writes:
On 09/30/10 05:57 PM, RG wrote:
I'm not saying one should not use compile-time tools, only that one
should not rely on them. Compiling without errors is not -- and
cannot ever be -- be a synonym for bug-free.
We is why wee all have run time tools
Sridhar Ratnakumar sridh...@activestate.com writes:
Hi,
It seems that you forgot to update PyPI - which lists 2.1.0rc1 as the
latest version.
-srid
This should be fixed now. Let us know if you encounter problems.
Vincent
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On 09/30/10 06:38 PM, Lie Ryan wrote:
The /most/ correct version of maximum() function is probably one written
in Haskell as:
maximum :: Integer - Integer - Integer
maximum a b = if a b then a else b
Integer in Haskell has infinite precision (like python's int, only
bounded by memory), but
Yes. Nonetheless, the maximum() function does exactly what it is intended
to do *with the inputs it receives*. The failure is outside the function;
it did the right thing with the data actually passed to it, the problem
was a user misunderstanding as to what data were being passed to
In message mailman.1165.1285772270.29448.python-l...@python.org, Hugo
Léveillé wrote:
Sorry, I am not a linux guy. Did not know it was a text file
That’s why I said to check the proc(5) man page for further details.
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in C I can have a function maximum(int a, int b) that will always
work. Never blow up, and never give an invalid answer. If someone
tries to call it incorrectly it is a compile error.
The second sentence is not disproved by a cast from one datatype to
another (which changes the
Ian Collins ian-n...@hotmail.com writes:
On 09/30/10 06:38 PM, Lie Ryan wrote:
The /most/ correct version of maximum() function is probably one written
in Haskell as:
maximum :: Integer - Integer - Integer
maximum a b = if a b then a else b
Integer in Haskell has infinite precision
Hugo Léveillé heeft het volgende neergekrabbeld:
Thanks, will take a closer look on that
But to get me started, how would you get, via python, the info from that
From a unix command prompt use the cat command to view their contents.
You'll notice that they plain text files with very
Ifrit heeft het volgende neergekrabbeld:
Hugo Léveillé heeft het volgende neergekrabbeld:
Thanks, will take a closer look on that
But to get me started, how would you get, via python, the info from that
From a unix command prompt use the cat command to view their contents.
You'll
In article
5bf24e59-1be0-4d31-9fa7-c03a8bf9b...@y12g2000prb.googlegroups.com,
TheFlyingDutchman zzbba...@aol.com wrote:
Yes. Nonetheless, the maximum() function does exactly what it is intended
to do *with the inputs it receives*. The failure is outside the function;
it did the right
Nobody nob...@nowhere.com writes:
On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 00:31:04 +0200, Hellmut Weber wrote:
I'm looking for a possibility to access the partiton inforamtion of a
hard disk of my computer from within a python program.
Have you considered parsing /proc/partitions?
One could also just read the
On Sep 30, 1:02 am, Paul Rubin no.em...@nospam.invalid wrote:
in C I can have a function maximum(int a, int b) that will always
work. Never blow up, and never give an invalid answer. If someone
tries to call it incorrectly it is a compile error.
The second sentence is not
On 09/30/10 16:09, TheFlyingDutchman wrote:
That argument can be made for dynamic language as well. If you write in
dynamic language (e.g. python):
def maximum(a, b):
return a if a b else b
The dynamic language's version of maximum() function is 100% correct --
if you passed an
On Sep 30, 1:40 am, RG rnospa...@flownet.com wrote:
In article
5bf24e59-1be0-4d31-9fa7-c03a8bf9b...@y12g2000prb.googlegroups.com,
TheFlyingDutchman zzbba...@aol.com wrote:
Yes. Nonetheless, the maximum() function does exactly what it is
intended
to do *with the inputs it
Brendan Miller catph...@catphive.net writes:
2010/9/29 Lawrence D'Oliveiro l...@geek-central.gen.new_zealand:
In message mailman.1132.1285714474.29448.python-l...@python.org, Brendan
Miller wrote:
It seems that characters not in the ascii subset of UTF-8 are
discarded by c_char_p during the
My python installed but the gui gives me syntax error on any code I type
or paste in. Newbie needs help.
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On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 2:02 AM, roronron rbrown...@gmail.com wrote:
My python installed but the gui gives me syntax error on any code I type
or paste in. Newbie needs help.
Post the full, exact text of the error message.
See also: http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
Cheers,
On Sep 29, 7:36 pm, Hugo Léveillé hu...@fastmail.net wrote:
Good point
One I am looking for, is time since last user mouse or keyboard action.
So I guess I am looking for the exact same thing a screensaver is
looking for
The command
who -Hu).
will give you idle time for each logged-in
On 30/09/2010 08:09, TheFlyingDutchman wrote:
That argument can be made for dynamic language as well. If you write in
dynamic language (e.g. python):
def maximum(a, b):
return a if a b else b
The dynamic language's version of maximum() function is 100% correct --
if you passed an
On 09/30/10 09:02 PM, Paul Rubin wrote:
int maximum(int a, int b);
int foo() {
int (*barf)() = maximum;
return barf(3);
}
This compiles fine for me. Where is the cast? Where is the error message?
Are you saying barf(3) doesn't call maximum?
Try a language with
On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 11:41:48 +0300, Anssi Saari wrote:
I'm looking for a possibility to access the partiton inforamtion of a
hard disk of my computer from within a python program.
Have you considered parsing /proc/partitions?
One could also just read the partition table directly, it's on
in C I can have a function maximum(int a, int b) that will always
work. Never blow up, and never give an invalid answer.
Dynamic typed languages like Python fail in this case on Never blows
up.
How do you define Never blows up?
Never has execution halt.
I think a key reason in the
I'm having a weird problem with the 'External Tools' plugin for gedit,
that seems to get weirder the more I dig into it. When I start gedit
by clicking a launcher (from the Ubuntu menu, panel or desktop)
everything is dandy and the 'External Tools' plugin works as expected.
When gedit is launched
Andreas Waldenburger use...@geekmail.invalid wrote:
http://docs.python.org/release/3.1/reference/datamodel.html#the-standard-type-hierarchy
[ ... ]
Boolean values behave like the values 0 and 1, respectively, in
almost all contexts, the exception being that when converted to a
Hi!
It seem that the new version of gnome 3.0 will dismiss pygtk support.
link:
[1] http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointNinetyone/ (search killing pygtk)
[2] http://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/PythonIntrospectionPorting
i'm studying pygtk right now, am i wasting my time considering that my
On 29 sep, 19:20, Seebs usenet-nos...@seebs.net wrote:
On 2010-09-29, Tracubik affdfsdfds...@b.com wrote:
button = gtk.Button((False,, True,)[fill==True])
Oh, what a nasty idiom.
Well, it's not very different from dict-based dispatch , which is the
core of OO polymorphic dispatch in quite a
Ok after some testing, what the who -Hu is giving me is the idle time of
each running open shell. The first line always return a ? as the IDLE
time.
ex:
NAME LINE TIME IDLE PID COMMENT
vg0619hl :0 2010-09-30 06:10 ? 13091
vg0619hl pts/1
Hello,
in my program I use recursive functions. A recursion limit of 10 would
be by far sufficient. Yet, I also use some (not very complicated)
regular expressions, which only compile if I set the recursion limit
to 100, or so. This means, of course, an unnecessary loss of speed.
Can I use one
Thanks for your reply, you've given me plenty to think about
On Sep 29, 11:51 pm, Antoine Pitrou solip...@pitrou.net wrote:
My original plan was to have the data processing and data acquisition
functions running in separate processes, with a multiprocessing.Queue
for passing the raw data
bah, I meant to say I'm running a fully updated ubuntu lucid lynx
(10.4).
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Santiago Caracol wrote:
in my program I use recursive functions. A recursion limit of 10 would
be by far sufficient. Yet, I also use some (not very complicated)
regular expressions, which only compile if I set the recursion limit
to 100, or so. This means, of course, an unnecessary loss of
Why do you think so? The recursion limit has no effect on the speed of your
script. It's just a number that the interpreter checks against.
Yes, sorry. I was just about to explain that. The 'of course' in my
post was silly.
In MY program, the recursion limit is relevant for performance,
Joel Hedlund wrote:
I'm having a weird problem with the 'External Tools' plugin for gedit,
that seems to get weirder the more I dig into it. When I start gedit
by clicking a launcher (from the Ubuntu menu, panel or desktop)
everything is dandy and the 'External Tools' plugin works as
On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 03:20:18PM +, Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2010-09-26, Paul Rubin no.em...@nospam.invalid wrote:
Steven D'Aprano st...@remove-this-cybersource.com.au writes:
There's nothing obscure or unintuitive about spam*3 = spamspamspam,
Why would it not be [spam,spam,spam] or
I am trying to use PyRTF.
I gather that an RTF doc consists of a list of sections, a section
consists of a list of paras,
paras seem to be just text (not sure on that one)
Some questions:
When does one end one section and start another?
How does one handle lists (as in numbered, bulleted etc)?
Santiago Caracol wrote:
Why do you think so? The recursion limit has no effect on the speed of
your script. It's just a number that the interpreter checks against.
Yes, sorry. I was just about to explain that. The 'of course' in my
post was silly.
In MY program, the recursion limit is
On 27 Sep, 20:29, p...@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon)
wrote:
namekuseijin namekusei...@gmail.com writes:
snip
Fact is: almost all user data from the external words comes into
programs as strings. No typesystem or compiler handles this fact all
that graceful...
I would even
How do I catch output to stdout/stderr when launching from a launcher?
I added this to /usr/lib/gedit-2/plugins/externaltools/__init__.py:
import sys
f = open('/tmp/eraseme.txt', 'w')
print f, The executable is %r. % sys.executable
f.close()
In both cases (launcher/termial) the contents of
I'm posting this last message as I've found the source of my initial
memory leak problem, unfortunately it was an embarrassingly basic
mistake. In my defence I've got a horrible cold, but I'm just making
excuses.
I begin by mallocing the memory, which gives me a pointer foo to
that memory:
On 29 set, 11:04, w_a_x_man w_a_x_...@yahoo.com wrote:
On Sep 26, 9:24 am, p...@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon)
wrote:
Xah Lee xah...@gmail.com writes:
here's a interesting toy list processing problem.
I have a list of lists, where each sublist is labelled by
a number. I
On 30 Sep, 11:14, TheFlyingDutchman zzbba...@aol.com wrote:
in C I can have a function maximum(int a, int b) that will always
work. Never blow up, and never give an invalid answer.
Dynamic typed languages like Python fail in this case on Never blows
up.
How do you define Never
FOUND IT!
I added the line
print f, '\n'.join(sorted(sys.path))
and diff:ed the files produced from terminal/launcher.
When using the launcher, changes to PYTHONPATH done in ~/.bashrc are
not picked up, and I apparently had an old reference to /usr/lib/
python2.4 sitting in there. Removed it,
Tracubik:
i'm studying pygtk right now, am i wasting my time considering that my
preferred platform is linux/gnome?
I expect the dynamic binding will be very similar to the current
static binding but easier to keep up-to-date. There's already some use
of dynamic binding in the recent PyGTK
I guess the moral of the story is don't always dist-upgrade.
Reformat once in a while to remove old forgotten garbage. Clear the
blood clots from your systems, so to say.
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Tracubik affdfsdfds...@b.com writes:
Hi!
It seem that the new version of gnome 3.0 will dismiss pygtk support.
link:
[1] http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointNinetyone/ (search killing pygtk)
[2] http://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/PythonIntrospectionPorting
i'm studying pygtk right now, am i
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 6:49 PM, John Nagle na...@animats.com wrote:
Python's signal handling for multithread and multiprocess programs
leaves something to be desired.
Thanks for the confirmation (that I'm not missing something obvious).
I've reported a bug for this behavior in the Python
On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 04:06:03 -0700 (PDT)
Tom Conneely tom.conne...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks for your reply, you've given me plenty to think about
On Sep 29, 11:51 pm, Antoine Pitrou solip...@pitrou.net wrote:
My original plan was to have the data processing and data acquisition
TheFlyingDutchman zzbba...@aol.com writes:
In this example RG is passing a long literal greater than INT_MAX to a
function that takes an int and the compiler apparently didn't give a
warning about the change in value as it created the cast to an int,
even with the option -Wall (all warnings).
So, this kind of notation would be different:
args[0][2]
verses args[[0][2]]
the latter is multidimensional. Can you think of example of using this
type of list?
I don't know why this had me a bit confused. I've got to get into
programming more... I had done more in the past.
Bruce
In article mailman.1203.1285848899.29448.python-l...@python.org,
Rustom Mody rustompm...@gmail.com wrote:
I am trying to use PyRTF.
I gather that an RTF doc consists of a list of sections, a section
consists of a list of paras,
paras seem to be just text (not sure on that one)
They also
On 30 set, 09:35, namekuseijin namekusei...@gmail.com wrote:
On 29 set, 11:04, w_a_x_man w_a_x_...@yahoo.com wrote:
On Sep 26, 9:24 am, p...@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon)
wrote:
Xah Lee xah...@gmail.com writes:
here's a interesting toy list processing problem.
I
Joel Hedlund wrote:
FOUND IT!
Heureka!
I added the line
print f, '\n'.join(sorted(sys.path))
and diff:ed the files produced from terminal/launcher.
When using the launcher, changes to PYTHONPATH done in ~/.bashrc are
not picked up, and I apparently had an old reference to /usr/lib/
Nick Keighley nick_keighley_nos...@hotmail.com writes:
On 27 Sep, 20:29, p...@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon)
wrote:
If you start with the mindset of static type checking, you will consider
that your types are checked and if the types at the interface of two
modules matches you'll
On 9/30/2010 5:10 AM Antoon Pardon said...
On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 03:20:18PM +, Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2010-09-26, Paul Rubinno.em...@nospam.invalid wrote:
Steven D'Apranost...@remove-this-cybersource.com.au writes:
There's nothing obscure or unintuitive about spam*3 = spamspamspam,
On Sep 30, 9:08 am, David wizza...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 6:49 PM, John Nagle na...@animats.com wrote:
Python's signal handling for multithread and multiprocess programs
leaves something to be desired.
Thanks for the confirmation (that I'm not missing something obvious).
On 9/30/2010 3:21 AM Sion Arrowsmith said...
Andreas Waldenburgeruse...@geekmail.invalid wrote:
http://docs.python.org/release/3.1/reference/datamodel.html#the-standard-type-hierarchy
[ ... ]
Boolean values behave like the values 0 and 1, respectively, in
almost all contexts, the
On Sep 29, 4:08 pm, Jim Mellander jmellan...@lbl.gov wrote:
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Gary Herron gher...@digipen.edu wrote:
On 09/29/2010 09:50 AM, Jim Mellander wrote:
Hi:
I'm a newbie to python, although not to programming. Briefly, I am
using a binding to an external
If I had to choose between blow up or invalid answer I would pick
invalid answer.
there are some application domains where neither option would be
viewed as a satisfactory error handling strategy. Fly-by-wire, petro-
chemicals, nuclear power generation. Hell you'd expect better than
Needing to pass a string command into a third party program and having
issues creating a string to do what I need.
here's what I have so far.
eval('import sys;
sys.stderr.write(\'\n\n\nCompleted!!!\nCompleted!!!\nCompleted!!!\nCompleted!!!\nCompleted!!!\nCompleted!!!\n\n\n\');')
Traceback
On 2:59 PM, Bruce W. wrote:
So, this kind of notation would be different:
args[0][2]
verses args[[0][2]]
the latter is multidimensional. Can you think of example of using
this type of list?
I don't know why this had me a bit confused. I've got to get into
programming more... I had done
Brandon Harris wrote:
Needing to pass a string command into a third party program and having
issues creating a string to do what I need.
here's what I have so far.
eval('import sys;
sys.stderr.write(\'\n\n\nCompleted!!!\nCompleted!!!\nCompleted!!!
On Thursday 30 September 2010, it occurred to Brandon Harris to exclaim:
Needing to pass a string command into a third party program and having
issues creating a string to do what I need.
here's what I have so far.
eval('import sys;
On 30 Sep, 15:24, TheFlyingDutchman zzbba...@aol.com wrote:
If I had to choose between blow up or invalid answer I would pick
invalid answer.
there are some application domains where neither option would be
viewed as a satisfactory error handling strategy. Fly-by-wire, petro-
Peter Otten wrote:
exec 'import sys\nsys.stderr.write(completed!\n)'
Oops, you need to escape the backslashes for newlines inside quotes inside
quotes:
exec 'import sys\nsys.stderr.write(completed!\\n)'
completed!
Peter
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On 2010-09-30 13:36:17 +0100, Nick Keighley said:
there are some application domains where neither option would be
viewed as a satisfactory error handling strategy. Fly-by-wire, petro-
chemicals, nuclear power generation. Hell you'd expect better than
this from your phone!
People always give
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 8:14 AM, Rustom Mody rustompm...@gmail.com wrote:
I am trying to use PyRTF.
I gather that an RTF doc consists of a list of sections, a section
consists of a list of paras,
paras seem to be just text (not sure on that one)
Some questions:
When does one end one
RG rnospa...@flownet.com writes:
[...]
You can't have it both ways. Either I am calling it incorrectly, in
which case I should get a compiler error, or I am calling it correctly,
and I should get the right answer. That I got neither does in fact
falsify the claim. The only way out of
Hello list, i had seriously troubles with the connection between a form and
the wsgi, i' ve made an application on Python3 and was running perfectly
but when i try to use the form to pass the data this can't be see on the
server, so what is your recommendation?, i am open to all the ideas
hid...@gmail.com writes:
Hello list, i had seriously troubles with the connection between a form and
the
wsgi, i' ve made an application on Python3 and was running perfectly but when
i
try to use the form to pass the data this can't be see on the server, so
what
is your recommendation?,
On 2010-09-30, TheFlyingDutchman zzbba...@aol.com wrote:
even with the option -Wall (all warnings).
For various historical reasons, -Wall has the semantics you might
expect from an option named -Wsome-common-warnings-but-not-others.
-s
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On 2010-09-30, RG rnospa...@flownet.com wrote:
We lost some important context somewhere along the line:
in C I can have a function maximum(int a, int b) that will always
work. Never blow up, and never give an invalid answer. If someone
tries to call it incorrectly it is a compile error.
On 2010-09-30, Paul Rubin no.em...@nospam.invalid wrote:
int maximum(int a, int b);
int foo() {
int (*barf)() = maximum;
return barf(3);
}
This compiles fine for me. Where is the cast?
On the first line of code inside foo().
Where is the error message?
You
On 2010-09-30, RG rnospa...@flownet.com wrote:
You can't have it both ways. Either I am calling it incorrectly, in
which case I should get a compiler error,
You get a warning if you ask for it. If you choose to run without all
the type checking on, that's your problem.
-s
--
Copyright
On 2010-09-30, Pascal Bourguignon p...@invitado-174.medicalis.es wrote:
Nick Keighley nick_keighley_nos...@hotmail.com writes:
do you have any evidence that this is actually so? That people who
program in statically typed languages actually are prone to this well
it compiles so it must be
In article lniq1n45ht@nuthaus.mib.org,
Keith Thompson ks...@mib.org wrote:
RG rnospa...@flownet.com writes:
[...]
You can't have it both ways. Either I am calling it incorrectly, in
which case I should get a compiler error, or I am calling it correctly,
and I should get the right
In comp.lang.lisp TheFlyingDutchman zzbba...@aol.com wrote:
More specifically, the claim made above:
in C I can have a function maximum(int a, int b) that will always
work. Never blow up, and never give an invalid answer.
is false. ?And it is not necessary to invoke the vagaries of
On 2010-09-30, Lie Ryan lie.1...@gmail.com wrote:
On 09/30/10 16:09, TheFlyingDutchman wrote:
Dynamic typed languages like Python fail in this case on Never blows
up.
How do you define Never blows up?
I would say blow up would be raise an exception.
Personally, I'd consider
In article slrnia9dbo.2uqe.usenet-nos...@guild.seebs.net,
Seebs usenet-nos...@seebs.net wrote:
On 2010-09-30, RG rnospa...@flownet.com wrote:
You can't have it both ways. Either I am calling it incorrectly, in
which case I should get a compiler error,
You get a warning if you ask for
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Chris Rebert c...@rebertia.com wrote:
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 2:02 AM, roronron rbrown...@gmail.com wrote:
My python installed but the gui gives me syntax error on any code I type
or paste in. Newbie needs help.
Post the full, exact text of the error
Hi,
I am trying to use Pylint with Emacs on Windows XP. My Emacs version
is EmacsW32 23.1, pylint is 0.21.3 with Python 2.5. After easy_install
pylint, I added the code block below to Emacs init file, copied form
Emacs Wiki.
(when (load flymake t)
(defun flymake-pylint-init ()
In article slrnia9cpd.2uqe.usenet-nos...@guild.seebs.net,
Seebs usenet-nos...@seebs.net wrote:
On 2010-09-30, Lie Ryan lie.1...@gmail.com wrote:
On 09/30/10 16:09, TheFlyingDutchman wrote:
Dynamic typed languages like Python fail in this case on Never blows
up.
How do you define Never
On Sep 30, 9:38 am, Dsrt Egle dsrte...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to use Pylint with Emacs on Windows XP. My Emacs version
is EmacsW32 23.1, pylint is 0.21.3 with Python 2.5. After easy_install
pylint, I added the code block below to Emacs init file, copied form
Emacs Wiki.
(when
On 2010-09-30, RG rnospa...@flownet.com wrote:
My code compiles with no warnings under gcc -Wall.
That's nice. gcc -Wall uses only a small subset of warnings that fit
the usual expectations of C code that's trying to work on common
architectures.
2. The constant is not of type int, and the
This is a recurrent situation: I want to initialize a whole bunch
of local variables in a uniform way, but after initialization, I
need to do different things with the various variables.
What I end up doing is using a dict:
d = dict()
for v in ('spam', 'ham', 'eggs'):
d[v] = init(v)
On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 09:39:08 -0700 Chris Rebert c...@rebertia.com
wrote:
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 2:57 AM, ronald brown rbrown...@gmail.com
wrote:
print 'Hello, world!'
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
Installed 3 times. Used uninstall in program files and control
panel. Followed directions
On 30 sep, 19:07, kj no.em...@please.post wrote:
This is a recurrent situation: I want to initialize a whole bunch
of local variables in a uniform way, but after initialization, I
need to do different things with the various variables.
What I end up doing is using a dict:
d = dict()
for v
On 30/09/2010 18:07, kj wrote:
This is a recurrent situation: I want to initialize a whole bunch
of local variables in a uniform way, but after initialization, I
need to do different things with the various variables.
What I end up doing is using a dict:
d = dict()
for v in ('spam', 'ham',
n.a.s wrote:
I want to ask about graphics using Gasp .Attached is exercise 10
(houses at night) http://openbookproject.net/thinkCSpy/ch04.html#exercises
if i call the draw_house function once it will work properly ,but more than
one call,windows and doors disappear from some houses .
On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 03:42:29 -0700 (PDT)
bruno.desthuilli...@gmail.com bruno.desthuilli...@gmail.com wrote:
On 29 sep, 19:20, Seebs usenet-nos...@seebs.net wrote:
On 2010-09-29, Tracubik affdfsdfds...@b.com wrote:
button = gtk.Button((False,, True,)[fill==True])
Oh, what a nasty idiom.
Ian Collins wrote:
On 09/30/10 05:57 PM, RG wrote:
I'm not saying one should not use compile-time tools, only that one
should not rely on them. Compiling without errors is not -- and
cannot ever be -- be a synonym for bug-free.
We is why we all have run time tools called unit tests, don't
In article slrnia9fvi.307n.usenet-nos...@guild.seebs.net,
Seebs usenet-nos...@seebs.net wrote:
And that's the magic of static typing: It is not a false positive to
warn you that 2L is not of type int.
We'll have to agree to disagree about that. The numerical value 2 can
safely be
Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:
Squeamizhsque...@hotmail.com writes:
In short, static typing doesn't solve all conceivable problems.
We are all aware that there is no perfect software development process
or tool set. I'm interested in minimizing the number of problems I
run into during
Seebs usenet-nos...@seebs.net writes:
On 2010-09-30, Paul Rubin no.em...@nospam.invalid wrote:
int maximum(int a, int b);
int foo() {
int (*barf)() = maximum;
return barf(3);
}
This compiles fine for me. Where is the cast?
On the first line of code inside foo().
RG rnospa...@flownet.com writes:
Yes, I know I could have used lint. But that misses the point. For any
static analyzer, because of the halting problem, I can construct a
program that either contains an error that the analyzer will not catch,
or for which the analyzer will produce a false
RG rnospa...@flownet.com writes:
One might hypothesize that the best of both worlds would be a dynamic
language with a static analyzer layered on top. Such a thing does not
exist. It makes an instructive exercise to try to figure out why. (For
the record, I don't know the answer, but
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