Re: Which coding style is better? public API or private method inside class definition

2011-01-06 Thread Carey Tilden
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 9:15 AM, Peter Otten __pete...@web.de wrote: Jacek Krysztofik wrote: Sorry for OT, but this is actually a question of mine if numbers % 2 == 0: wouldn't the following be faster? if numbers 1 == 0: You can answer that and similar

Re: Fastest technique for string concatenation

2010-10-02 Thread Carey Tilden
On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 12:09 PM, pyt...@bdurham.com wrote: My understanding is that appending to a list and then joining this list when done is the fastest technique for string concatenation. Is this true? Have you profiled an application and found string concatenation to be a performance

Re: Pop return from stack?

2010-08-16 Thread Carey Tilden
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 4:18 AM, Steven D'Aprano st...@remove-this-cybersource.com.au wrote: On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 21:01:04 -0700, Carey Tilden wrote: On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 6:43 PM, bvdp b...@mellowood.ca wrote: Not to belabor the point .. but func is not a standard lib module. It's part

Re: Pop return from stack?

2010-08-15 Thread Carey Tilden
On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 6:43 PM, bvdp b...@mellowood.ca wrote: Not to belabor the point .. but func is not a standard lib module. It's part of a much larger application ... and in that application it makes perfect sense to terminate the application if it encounters an error. I fail to see the

Re: inline exception handling in python

2010-08-12 Thread Carey Tilden
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 1:18 PM, wheres pythonmonks wherespythonmo...@gmail.com wrote: Well I suppose it matters depending on the nature of the data you are looking at...  But small function calls tend to be the death of interpreted languages... I would be interested to see a real application

Re: Need mentor

2010-08-09 Thread Carey Tilden
On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 11:31 PM, Ranjith Kumar ranjitht...@gmail.com wrote: I have described the theme of my project here, It appears all you did was describe your project. Did you ask a question or seek any specific guidance? Did I miss something? Carey --

Re: easy question on parsing python: is not None

2010-08-05 Thread Carey Tilden
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 8:42 AM, wheres pythonmonks wherespythonmo...@gmail.com wrote: How does x is not None make any sense?  not x is None does make sense. I can only surmise that in this context (preceding is) not is not a unary right-associative operator, therefore: x is not None ===

Re: Why is python not written in C++ ?

2010-08-02 Thread Carey Tilden
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 3:18 PM, sturlamolden sturlamol...@yahoo.no wrote: Perl is written in C++. That is not enough to make me want to use it ;) I realize this was meant to be funny, but it's not true, and detracts from the point you were trying to make. Maybe skip the pointless jabs at Perl

Re: Ascii to Unicode.

2010-07-29 Thread Carey Tilden
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Joe Goldthwaite j...@goldthwaites.com wrote: Hi Ulrich, Ascii.csv isn't really a latin-1 encoded file.  It's an ascii file with a few characters above the 128 range that are causing Postgresql Unicode errors.  Those characters work fine in the Windows world

Re: indexing lists/arrays question

2010-05-13 Thread Carey Tilden
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 8:45 AM, a oxfordenergyservi...@googlemail.com wrote: On 13 May, 16:19, Tim Chase python.l...@tim.thechases.com wrote: On 05/13/2010 09:36 AM, a wrote: this must be easy but its taken me a couple of hours already i have a=[2,3,3,4,5,6] i want to know the