On Monday 23 November 2015 10:43, Gregory Ewing wrote:
> Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> Memoisation isn't "esoteric", it is a simple, basic and widely-used
>> technique used to improve performance of otherwise expensive functions.
>
> That may be true, but I don't think it's a good example
> of a use
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Hi All,
I'm pleased to announce the release of testfixtures 4.5.1. This release
that contains:
- LogCapture, OutputCapture and TempDirectory
explicitly show what is expected versus actual when reporting
differences as of 4.5.0.
- The 4.5.1 release contains a bugfix where OutputCapture cou
On 23/11/2015 00:04, Mark Lawrence wrote:
On 22/11/2015 23:44, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Mon, 23 Nov 2015 12:21 am, BartC wrote:
But if it's used for static storage, then why not just use static
storage? That's a simpler and more general concept than memoisation.
/head-desk
"But if it's use
On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 11:04 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> What happened to "Please do not feed the trolls"?
Hey, Norwegian researchers get hungry too you know!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_(research_station)
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On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 6:25 PM, Quivis wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Nov 2015 12:40:17 +0100, Peter Otten wrote:
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> > those questions that are a little harder
>
> And just how is he going to determine what is hard?
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On 22/11/2015 23:44, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Mon, 23 Nov 2015 12:21 am, BartC wrote:
But if it's used for static storage, then why not just use static
storage? That's a simpler and more general concept than memoisation.
/head-desk
"But if it's used for cooking, why not just cook? That's a
On Mon, 23 Nov 2015 12:21 am, BartC wrote:
> But if it's used for static storage, then why not just use static
> storage? That's a simpler and more general concept than memoisation.
/head-desk
"But if it's used for cooking, why not just cook? That's a simpler and more
general concept than roasti
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Memoisation isn't "esoteric", it is a simple, basic and widely-used
technique used to improve performance of otherwise expensive functions.
That may be true, but I don't think it's a good example
of a use for a shared, mutable default value, because
it's arguably an *abus
BartC wrote:
What's bothering me is:
...
* The insistence (I think largely from Steven) that the way this feature
works is good rather than bad
Here's one reason to prefer the way it currently works:
It's rare to want a mutable default value. The vast
majority of default values are simple t
On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 9:01 AM, Quivis wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Nov 2015 10:00:51 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote:
>
>> I recommend creating a text file of notes. Every time you learn
>> something new, add it to your notes file - and commit the change to git.
>> Then, when you come back to the file, you'l
On 11/21/2015 06:44 PM, Larry Hudson wrote:
On 11/20/2015 07:30 PM, Dylan Riley wrote:
i am learning python and was tasked with making a program that flips a coin 100
times and then
tells you
the number of heads and tails.
[snip]
import random
heads = int("1")
tails = int("2")
flips = 100
In <1737402a-2f4d-440a-abd7-6cc500f67...@googlegroups.com> Dylan Riley
writes:
> heads = int("1")
Why are you taking the int value of a string constant? If you know you
want the value 1, why not just use it directly?
> flips = 100
> headscount = 0
> tailscount = 0
> while flips != 0:
> f
On 22/11/2015 13:21, BartC wrote:
On 22/11/2015 03:43, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Quite frankly, to call it such demonstrates a considerable level of
ignorance about basic programming idioms. Not just Python, but general
purpose programming.
I've come to learn that basic idioms are best.
I may
On 22/11/2015 03:43, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Fri, 20 Nov 2015 10:59 pm, BartC wrote:
On 20/11/2015 01:05, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Here's another use for function defaults, as static storage:
[...]
This is a quick and easy way to memoise a function which would otherwise
be horribly slow. A
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Steven D'Aprano :
> Really? Astonishing. To me, the Ackermann's function is a
> straight-forward, simple example.
I must admit I have not once in my life written an implementation of the
Ackermann function.
> Whereas this initiate_query example is the opposite of
> straight-forward. It involves
On Fri, 20 Nov 2015 11:39 pm, BartC wrote:
> What's bothering me is:
>
> * The large amount of mumbo-jumbo used to describe what's going on
Just because you don't know the terminology doesn't make it mumbo-jumbo.
That's a particularly unfair and unjustified response to make when multiple
peopl
On Fri, 20 Nov 2015 11:53 pm, BartC wrote:
> On 20/11/2015 12:28, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
>> Even more appropriately, you may expressly want a mutable, singleton
>> object to be the default:
>>
>> def initiate_query(query, database=global_database):
>
> Finally, a down-to-earth example.
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