Re: global lists

2005-05-08 Thread Bernd Nawothnig
On 2005-05-08, andrea crotti wrote: > I have a little "problem", I don't understand the reason of this: > a = [10,1,2,3] > def foo(): > global a > for el in a: > el = el*2 Simple data types (as integer) are _not_ implemented as references as you obviously expected. Instead el is copied b

Re: A new to Python question

2005-05-14 Thread Bernd Nawothnig
On 2005-05-14, David wrote: > abc(x,y,dotp,sumx,maxv) (x,y,dotp,sumx,maxv) = abc(x,y,dotp,sumx,maxv) Bernd -- Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. [T. Jefferson] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: A new to Python question

2005-05-14 Thread Bernd Nawothnig
On 2005-05-14, Philippe C. Martin wrote: > You're thinking you're passing the arguments as reference That is the way Fortran handles them: [...] >> Right now I'm taking a simple program I wrote in Fortran Bernd -- Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security, will not hav

Re: A new to Python question

2005-05-14 Thread Bernd Nawothnig
> On 2005-05-14, M.E.Farmer wrote: > (x,y,dotp,sumx,maxv) = abc(x,y,dotp,sumx,maxv) > This will only create a tuple in memory that has no name to reference > it by! Maybe. But it does not seem to hurt. And I am not sure the tupel _is_ really created in that situation. > How would you access the

Re: A new to Python question

2005-05-14 Thread Bernd Nawothnig
On 2005-05-14, M.E.Farmer wrote: > I explained what i meant in previous post there was nothing more than > just a discussion No. You claimed This will only create a tuple in memory But we just learned that this is not the case. > I have no real problem here just more of a sore point in style

Re: Schily ueber Deutschland

2005-05-15 Thread Bernd Nawothnig
On 2005-05-15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Lese selbst: > http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/59427 Ja, schlimm. Trotzdem ist das hier a) eine englischsprachige NG und b) geht es hier um die Programmiersprache Python Lass es also bitte endlich! Bernd -- Those who desire to give up freed

Re: A new to Python question

2005-05-15 Thread Bernd Nawothnig
On 2005-05-15, M.E.Farmer wrote: >> No. You claimed > > This will only create a tuple in memory > > That is not what I said please do not edit my words and call it a > quote! Again the whole sentence: Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | This will only create a tuple in memory that has no name t

Re: German spam event [was: Re: Schily ueber Deutschland]

2005-05-16 Thread Bernd Nawothnig
On 2005-05-16, François Pinard wrote: >> I don't think that post was really from MAL. It seems to be a >> sporgery attack on the newsgroup. Sigh. > For the last two days, I receive quite an amount of robotic rejects, > after my name was used as the forged From: Same with me after my follow-up.

Re: newbie - variable "buried in quotes"

2005-05-16 Thread Bernd Nawothnig
On 2005-05-16, plsullivan wrote: > I've got a variable deep inside some quotes needed by the application I > am using. I can't figure out how to make this work. (Also, is there a > line continuation character?) > luser = win32api.GetUserName() > gp.FeatureclassToCoverage_conversion("'Database > [

Re: newbie - variable "buried in quotes"

2005-05-16 Thread Bernd Nawothnig
On 2005-05-16, plsullivan wrote: > If I follow your response Bernd, it looks like you interpreted that as > several lines. It actually should all be on one line. That's what made > me wonder if there is a line continuation character. The lines are concatenated to one string as I wrote it. See al

Re: newbie - variable "buried in quotes"

2005-05-16 Thread Bernd Nawothnig
On 2005-05-16, plsullivan wrote: > Thanks guys but I am still not getting it. This part --> > gp.FeatureclassToCoverage_conv­ersion("'Database > [EMAIL PROTECTED]' > POLYGON", prcl83, "", "DOUBLE") <-- % luser is one long command. Yes, I understood you perfectly well. > I need to be able to

Re: Recommended version of gcc for Python?

2005-05-16 Thread Bernd Nawothnig
On 2005-05-16, Dave Kuhlman wrote: > Is there a recommended version of gcc that I should be using to > compile Python? I've compiled Python 2.4 with gcc 3.3.4 on Ubuntu > Debian GNU/Linux. However, I notice that gcc 3.5 and gcc 4.0 are > available for installation. I am on Gentoo Linux and use