>> class Vector(list):
>>>
>>> ... def __add__(self, other):
>>> ... return map(add, self, other)
>>> ...>>> x = Vector([1,2])
I've used the complex type for a similar problem (2D Cartesian points)
in the past, I saw the suggestion
once on the pygame list.
>>> x = complex(1,2)
>
>
> I agree that it's an alternative. There are a number of alternatives.
> However the OP was asking for a "neater/easier" alternative. I argue
> that introducing an external module/function to do the exact same thing
> as a built-in type's method doesn't exactly qualify as a "neater/easier"
> alt
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 8:28 AM, Albert Hopkins wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-03-20 at 07:25 +1100, Jervis Whitley wrote:
>> >
>> > if stringA.lower() in stringB.lower():
>> > bla bla bla
>> >
>>
>> from string import lower
>>
>
>
> if stringA.lower() in stringB.lower():
> bla bla bla
>
from string import lower
if lower(stringA) in lower(stringB):
# was this what you were after?
Cheers,
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> What I was wondering
> was whether a similar construct was considered for a while loop or even an
> if clause, because then the above could be written like this:
>
> if open(filename, 'rb') as f:
> while f.read(1000) as buf:
> # do something with 'buf'
>
see here, and the associat
>
> What happens when you have hundreds of megabytes, I don't know.
>
>
I hope I never have to test a word that is hundreds of megabytes long
for a vowel :)
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>
> This moves the for-loop out of slow Python into fast C and should be much,
> much faster for very large input.
>
_Should_ be faster.
Here is my test on an XP system Python 2.5.4. I had similar results on
python 2.7 trunk.
WORD = 'g' * 100
WORD2 = 'g' * 50 + 'U'
BIGWORD = 'g' * 1 + 'U'
>
> You've merely replaced the 'test n<0' with 'not check' at the expense
> of an additional parameter that has to be passed each time (and the
> additional test 'n<0' for the first iteration).
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>
I think you have missed the point. The OP s
> You've merely replaced the 'test n<0' with 'not check' at the expense
> of an additional parameter that has to be passed each time (and the
> additional test 'n<0' for the first iteration).
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>
I think you have missed the point. The OP stat
> I've done this:
>
> def _fact(n):
>if n = 0: return 1
>return _fact(n-1)*n
>
> def fact(n):
>if n < 0: raise ValueError
>return _fact(n)
>
> but that's ugly. What else can I do?
>
>
Hello, an idea is optional keyword arguments.
def fact(n, check=False):
if not check:
if n <
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Vincent Davis wrote:
> Jervis Whitley wrote "Although you should really solve your problem by
> thinking about it
> from a completely different angle, maybe subclassing your datatype and
> adding a 'name'
> attribute ? I'
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 3:57 AM, Vincent Davis wrote:
> Sorry for not being clear
> I would have something like this
> x = [1, 2, 3,5 ,6 ,9,234]
> Then
> def savedata(dataname): ..
>
> savedata(x)
> this would save a to a file called x.csv This is my problem, getting the
> name to be x.csv
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Chris Jones wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 01, 2009 at 07:26:24PM EST, Ben Finney wrote:
>> a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) writes:
>>
>> > Just to register a contrary opinion: I *hate* syntax highlighting
>>
>> On what basis?
>
> Real men hate syntax highlighting.
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> Most
> will have functions like str[pf]time that could be used to similar
> effect.
In mysql this is:
str_to_date( '21/02/2008', '%d/%m/%Y')
and oracle:
to_date( '21/02/2008', 'dd-mm-')
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From: Jervis Whitley
Date: Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 10:59 AM
Subject: Re: problem with program - debugging leading nowhere
To: Matthew Sacks
Cc: python-list@python.org
>
>
>
> error message:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> F
>
>
>
> error message:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "", line 1, in
> IndentationError: expected an indented block (, line 39)
>
> code:
> http://pastebin.com/f2f971f91
>
Hi,
It looks like you have commented out a line on line 30, you need to place
something
in here, as python is
>
>
> Today this works fine, it saves me a lot of manuall work, but a seach
> takes around 5 min,
> so my questin is is there another way of search in a file
> (Today i step line for line and check)
>
If the files you are searching are located at some other location on a
network, you may find that
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 9:02 AM, wrote:
> I'm trying to make a script environment with datatypes (or classes)
> for accessing hardware registers. At the top level, I would like the
> ability to bitwise ops if bit slice brackets are used, but if no
> brackets are used, I would like it to write/re
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Jeff McNeil wrote:
> On Jan 21, 4:53 pm, culpritNr1 wrote:
> > Hello All,
> >
> > Say I have a list like this:
> >
> > a = [0 , 1, 3.14, 20, 8, 8, 3.14]
> >
> > Is there a simple python way to count the number of 3.14's in the list in
> > one statement?
> >
> > I
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Kingston wrote:
> I have a user input a date and time as a string that looks like:
> "200901010100" but I want to do a manipulation where I subtract 7 days
> from it.
>
> The first thing I tried was to turn the string into a time with the
> format "%Y%m%d%H%M" and
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 8:39 AM, Per Freem wrote:
> hello
>
> i have an optimization questions about python. i am iterating through
> a file and counting the number of repeated elements. the file has on
> the order
> of tens of millions elements...
>
>
> for line in file:
> try:
>elt = MyCla
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 12:29 PM, killsto wrote:
>
> force. So lets say I am slowing down at a rate of -2m/s^2, if I hit 1,
> the next number will be -1 and I shoot off in the other direction. How
> do I fix this an still have backwards movement?
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On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 9:06 AM, killsto wrote:
>
> I would think something like:
>
> def newball():
> x = last_named_ball + 1
>ball_x = ball(size, etc) # this initializes a new ball
>return ball_x
>
> But then that would just name a ball ball_x, not ball_1 or ball_2.
>
> Is it possib
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 7:21 AM, Stef Mientki wrote:
> 5lvqbw...@sneakemail.com wrote:
>
>> Hi, I've looked around for a way to allow a python console from within
>> a wxPython application, but have only found stuff on embedded/
>> extending python with C/C++ or wxWidgets in C++, but not wxPython.
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