Re: lambda with floats

2010-04-15 Thread Albert van der Horst
In article <3790faeb-ae4c-4b45-b0a6-41cb32e46...@k13g2000yqe.googlegroups.com>, Patrick Maupin wrote: >On Apr 6, 11:10=A0pm, Patrick Maupin wrote: >> On Apr 6, 11:04=A0pm, Patrick Maupin wrote: >> >> >> >> > On Apr 6, 10:16=A0pm, monkeys paw wrote: >> >> > > I have the following acre meter whi

Re: lambda with floats

2010-04-09 Thread monkeys paw
On 4/9/2010 2:40 PM, Patrick Maupin wrote: On Apr 9, 1:22 pm, monkeys paw wrote: On 4/9/2010 3:43 AM, Bas wrote: On Apr 7, 6:15 am, Patrick Maupinwrote: I should stop making a habit of responding to myself, BUT. This isn't quite an acre in square feet. I just saw the 43xxx and assumed

Re: lambda with floats

2010-04-09 Thread Patrick Maupin
On Apr 9, 1:22 pm, monkeys paw wrote: > On 4/9/2010 3:43 AM, Bas wrote: > > > On Apr 7, 6:15 am, Patrick Maupin  wrote: > >> I should stop making a habit of responding to myself, BUT.  This isn't > >> quite an acre in square feet.  I just saw the 43xxx and assumed it > >> was, and then realized it

Re: lambda with floats

2010-04-09 Thread monkeys paw
On 4/9/2010 3:43 AM, Bas wrote: On Apr 7, 6:15 am, Patrick Maupin wrote: I should stop making a habit of responding to myself, BUT. This isn't quite an acre in square feet. I just saw the 43xxx and assumed it was, and then realized it couldn't be, because it wasn't divisible by 10. (I used t

Re: lambda with floats

2010-04-09 Thread Bas
On Apr 7, 6:15 am, Patrick Maupin wrote: > I should stop making a habit of responding to myself, BUT.  This isn't > quite an acre in square feet.  I just saw the 43xxx and assumed it > was, and then realized it couldn't be, because it wasn't divisible by > 10.  (I used to measure land with my gran

Re: lambda with floats

2010-04-08 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Thu, 08 Apr 2010 21:32:10 -0400, monkeys paw wrote: > I was going from example and looking for something useful from the > lambda feature. I come from C -> Perl -> Python (recent). I don't find > lambda very useful yet. Perhaps you feel that lambda is a special kind of object. It isn't. It's

Re: lambda with floats

2010-04-08 Thread monkeys paw
On 4/7/2010 12:15 AM, Patrick Maupin wrote: On Apr 6, 11:10 pm, Patrick Maupin wrote: On Apr 6, 11:04 pm, Patrick Maupin wrote: On Apr 6, 10:16 pm, monkeys paw wrote: I have the following acre meter which works for integers, how do i convert this to float? I tried return float ((208

Re: lambda with floats

2010-04-08 Thread monkeys paw
On 4/8/2010 7:19 PM, Patrick Maupin wrote: On Apr 8, 6:06 pm, monkeys paw wrote: On 4/7/2010 1:08 PM, Peter Pearson wrote: On Tue, 06 Apr 2010 23:16:18 -0400, monkeys pawwrote: I have the following acre meter which works for integers, how do i convert this to float? I tried return f

Re: lambda with floats

2010-04-08 Thread Patrick Maupin
On Apr 8, 6:06 pm, monkeys paw wrote: > On 4/7/2010 1:08 PM, Peter Pearson wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 06 Apr 2010 23:16:18 -0400, monkeys paw  wrote: > >> I have the following acre meter which works for integers, > >> how do i convert this to float? I tried > > >> return float ((208.0 * 208.0) * n)

Re: lambda with floats

2010-04-08 Thread monkeys paw
On 4/7/2010 1:08 PM, Peter Pearson wrote: On Tue, 06 Apr 2010 23:16:18 -0400, monkeys paw wrote: I have the following acre meter which works for integers, how do i convert this to float? I tried return float ((208.0 * 208.0) * n) def s(n): ... return lambda x: (208 * 208) * n ... f = s

Re: lambda with floats

2010-04-07 Thread Peter Pearson
On Tue, 06 Apr 2010 23:16:18 -0400, monkeys paw wrote: > I have the following acre meter which works for integers, > how do i convert this to float? I tried > > return float ((208.0 * 208.0) * n) > > >>> def s(n): > ... return lambda x: (208 * 208) * n > ... > >>> f = s(1) > >>> f(1) > 43264 > >

Re: lambda with floats

2010-04-06 Thread Patrick Maupin
On Apr 6, 11:10 pm, Patrick Maupin wrote: > On Apr 6, 11:04 pm, Patrick Maupin wrote: > > > > > On Apr 6, 10:16 pm, monkeys paw wrote: > > > > I have the following acre meter which works for integers, > > > how do i convert this to float? I tried > > > > return float ((208.0 * 208.0) * n) > > >

Re: lambda with floats

2010-04-06 Thread Patrick Maupin
On Apr 6, 11:04 pm, Patrick Maupin wrote: > On Apr 6, 10:16 pm, monkeys paw wrote: > > > I have the following acre meter which works for integers, > > how do i convert this to float? I tried > > > return float ((208.0 * 208.0) * n) > > >  >>> def s(n): > > ...     return lambda x: (208 * 208) * n

Re: lambda with floats

2010-04-06 Thread Patrick Maupin
On Apr 6, 10:16 pm, monkeys paw wrote: > I have the following acre meter which works for integers, > how do i convert this to float? I tried > > return float ((208.0 * 208.0) * n) > >  >>> def s(n): > ...     return lambda x: (208 * 208) * n > ... >  >>> f = s(1) >  >>> f(1) > 43264 >  >>> 208 * 2

lambda with floats

2010-04-06 Thread monkeys paw
I have the following acre meter which works for integers, how do i convert this to float? I tried return float ((208.0 * 208.0) * n) >>> def s(n): ... return lambda x: (208 * 208) * n ... >>> f = s(1) >>> f(1) 43264 >>> 208 * 208 43264 >>> f(.25) 43264 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listi