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> The Apathetic Approach:
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> I could just assume that a programmer is responsible for the
> code he writes. If he passes mutables into a function as
> default arguments, and
On Jun 21, 2013, at 11:17 AM, Rick Johnson wrote:
> On Thursday, June 20, 2013 5:28:06 PM UTC-5, Lefavor, Matthew
> (GSFC-582.0)[MICROTEL LLC] wrote:
>>
>> [snip example showing dummy coder doing something dumb]
>>
>> +1. This is what convinces me that ke
Or, in many MANY cases, the choice was the right one, but isn't
obvious to everyone.
I think it's worth pointing out that changing function defaults to
late-binding would merely change the nature of the gotcha, not eliminate it.
words = ("one", "two", "red", "blue", "fish")
def join_strings(stri
And as for launching iTunes and playing a Podcast, you should take a look at
AppleScript. AppleScript is designed specifically for running and controlling
Mac OS X applications—iTunes among them. (I once wrote a script to sync my
iTunes play counts from last.fm, for example.)
You might also loo
If you do want an in-place extension, you could try:
aList=[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10]
xList=[1,2,3]
print "The concatenated lists are:", aList + bList
Though you need to remember that neither aList nor bList is altered in
this situation!
Matthew Lefavor
NASA GSFC [Microtel, LLC]
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