On 09 Oct 2010 17:47:56 GMT
Seebs wrote:
> In other words, your problem here is that you haven't actually described
> what you want. Slow down. Think! Describe what you want clearly enough
> that any other person who reads your description can always come up with
> the same answer you would for
harryos writes:
> On Oct 9, 4:52 pm, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote:
>
>>
>> You might get more/better answers if you tell us more about the context of
>> the problem and add some details that may be relevant.
>>
>> Peter
>
> I am trying to determine if a wep page is updated by x number of
On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Seebs wrote:
> On 2010-10-09, harryos wrote:
>> What I meant by number of characters was the number of edits happened
>> between the two versions..
>
> Consider two strings:
>
> Hello, world!
>
> Yo, there.
>
> What is the "number of edits happened between the two
On 2010-10-09, harryos wrote:
> What I meant by number of characters was the number of edits happened
> between the two versions..
Consider two strings:
Hello, world!
Yo, there.
What is the "number of edits happened between the two versions"? It could
be:
* Zero. I just typed them both from
> On Oct 9, 5:41 pm, Stefan Behnel wrote:
> > "Number of characters" sounds like a rather useless measure here.
>
> What I meant by number of characters was the number of edits happened
> between the two versions..Levenshtein distance may be one way for
> this..but I was wondering if difflib coul
On Oct 9, 5:41 pm, Stefan Behnel wrote:
> "Number of characters" sounds like a rather useless measure here.
What I meant by number of characters was the number of edits happened
between the two versions..Levenshtein distance may be one way for
this..but I was wondering if difflib could do this
r
harryos, 09.10.2010 14:24:
I am trying to determine if a wep page is updated by x number of
characters..Mozilla firefox plugin 'update scanner' has a similar
functionality ..A user can specify the x ..I think this would be done
by reading from the same url at two different times and finding the
c
On Oct 9, 4:52 pm, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote:
>
> You might get more/better answers if you tell us more about the context of
> the problem and add some details that may be relevant.
>
> Peter
I am trying to determine if a wep page is updated by x number of
characters..Mozilla firefox p
harryos wrote:
> but is there a way I can use difflib module to do this job?
I'm afraid I can't help you with that.
You might get more/better answers if you tell us more about the context of
the problem and add some details that may be relevant.
Peter
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On Oct 9, 2:45 pm, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote:
>
> What would be an acceptable time?
>
Thanks for the reply Peter,
I was using python functions I came across the net..not cpython
implementations..Probably my low config machine is also to blame..(I
am no expert at judging algorithm perfo
harryos wrote:
> I am trying to write a compare method which takes two strings and find
> how many characters have changed.
>
>
> def compare_strings(s1,s2):
> pass
>
>
> text1="goat milk"
> text2="cow milk"
> print compare_strings(text1,text2)
>
> This must give 3 ,since 3 characters are
hi
I am trying to write a compare method which takes two strings and find
how many characters have changed.
def compare_strings(s1,s2):
pass
text1="goat milk"
text2="cow milk"
print compare_strings(text1,text2)
This must give 3 ,since 3 characters are changed between strings.I was
advised
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