Re: new sorting algorithm

2022-05-02 Thread charles hottel
On 5/1/2022 7:45 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: On Mon, 2 May 2022 at 09:20, Dan Stromberg wrote: On Sun, May 1, 2022 at 1:44 PM Chris Angelico wrote: On Mon, 2 May 2022 at 06:43, Dan Stromberg wrote: On Sun, May 1, 2022 at 11:10 AM Chris Angelico wrote: On Mon, 2 May 2022 at 01:53, Nas Ba

Re: on writing a while loop for rolling two dice

2021-09-08 Thread charles hottel
On 9/7/2021 9:20 PM, Avi Gross wrote: Greg, Yes, a smart person may come up with such tricks but a really smart person, in my view, adjusts. With some exceptions, such as when trying to port existing code to a new language quickly, someone who is not too obsessive will try to pick up the goals a

Re: Can I trust downloading Python?

2013-09-08 Thread Charles Hottel
"Steven D'Aprano" wrote in message news:522c6e4e$0$29988$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com... > On Sat, 07 Sep 2013 21:04:59 -0600, Michael Torrie wrote: > >> As for trusting python in general, I do trust the python developers, but >> recent NSA revelations call just about all aspects of comput

Which Version of Python?

2012-09-11 Thread Charles Hottel
I have a lot of programming experience in many different languages and now I want to learn Python. Which version do you suggest I download, Python 2.x or Python 3.x ? Also why should I prefer one over the other? Right now I am thinkng Python 3.x as it has been out since 2008, but I have some