Austin Bingham wrote:
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 7:49 PM, Ethan Furman et...@stoneleaf.us wrote:
Austin Bingham wrote:
I'm feeling really dense about now... What am I missing?
What you're missing is the entire discussion up to this point. I was
looking for a way to use an alternative
Jon Clements wrote:
On Oct 16, 5:59 pm, Tim Chase python.l...@tim.thechases.com wrote:
Stephen Hansen wrote:
Why doesn't duck typing apply to `sum`?
Because it would be so hideously slow and inefficient that it'd be way too
easy a way for people to program something they think should work
Dave Angel wrote:
Dieter Maurer wrote:
Christian Heimes li...@cheimes.de writes on Fri, 16 Oct 2009
17:58:29 +0200:
Alan G Isaac schrieb:
I expected this to be fixed in Python 3:
sum(['ab','cd'],'')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File stdin, line 1, in
arve.knud...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi
I thought that file objects were supposed to be garbage-collected and
automatically closed once they go out of scope, at least that's what
I've been told by more merited Python programmers. I'm also quite sure
that this is quite a common assumption in various
Dave Angel wrote:
It was intended to be understood, not copied.
+1 QOTW
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Bryan Irvine wrote:
I'm a python n00b and so pardon me in advance if this is really stupid
question.
I have my suspicions but why does the following not work the way I'm
anticipating it will?
(python 2.4.4)
import os
if (os.system('echo test')):
...print 'success'
... else:
...
gslindstrom wrote:
On Oct 18, 5:56 pm, Gary Herron gher...@digipen.edu wrote:
Benjamin Middaugh wrote:
Thanks to everyone who helped with my query on reversing integers. I
have one more simple problem I'm having trouble solving. I want to
check a number for palindromic behavior (reading the
ru...@yahoo.com wrote:
On Oct 19, 12:41 pm, Ethan Furman et...@stoneleaf.us wrote:
gslindstrom wrote:
On Oct 18, 5:56 pm, Gary Herron gher...@digipen.edu wrote:
Benjamin Middaugh wrote:
Thanks to everyone who helped with my query on reversing integers. I
have one more simple problem
Following closely on the heels of the whole sum()ing strings debate, I
think I found an error -- at least, it's not documented to behave this
way...
def uncompress_job(job_num,
save_path='z:\\old_jobs',
restore_path='z:\\orders'):
destination =
Ethan Furman wrote:
Following closely on the heels of the whole sum()ing strings debate, I
think I found an error -- at least, it's not documented to behave this
way...
def uncompress_job(job_num,
save_path='z:\\old_jobs',
restore_path='z:\\orders
arve.knud...@gmail.com wrote:
On Oct 19, 3:48 pm, Ethan Furman et...@stoneleaf.us wrote:
arve.knud...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi
I thought that file objects were supposed to be garbage-collected and
automatically closed once they go out of scope, at least that's what
I've been told by more
J wrote:
Can someone explain why this code results in two different outputs?
for os in comp.CIM_OperatingSystem ():
print os.Name.split(|)[0] + Service Pack, os.ServicePackMajorVersion
osVer = os.Name.split(|)[0] + Service Pack, os.ServicePackMajorVersion
print osVer
the first print
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:45:49 -0700, Zac Burns wrote:
My preference would be that failIfEqual checks both != and ==. This is
practical, and would benefit almost all use cases. If != isn't not
== (IEEE NaNs I hear is the only known use case)
numpy uses == and != as
MRAB wrote:
Alf P. Steinbach wrote:
Hi all.
I'm just learning Python from scratch, on my own. Apologies if this
question is too newbie... Or perhaps answered in some FAQ (where?).
Here's my original code for simple starter program, using the
ActivePython implementation in Windows XP Prof,
Dan Guido wrote:
I'm trying to write a few methods that normalize Windows file paths.
I've gotten it to work in 99% of the cases, but it seems like my code
still chokes on '\x'. I've pasted my code below, can someone help me
figure out a better way to write this? This seems overly complicated
Gabriel Genellina wrote:
En Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:57:19 -0300, Ethan Furman et...@stoneleaf.us
escribió:
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:45:49 -0700, Zac Burns wrote:
My preference would be that failIfEqual checks both != and ==. This is
practical, and would benefit almost all
Greetings, List!
Say I have an old-fashioned dbf style table, with a single name field of
50 characters:
names = dbf.Table(':memory:', 'name C(40)')
Then I add a bunch of names from who-knows-where:
for name in some_iterable():
names.append((name))
Now I want to know how many start
Greetings, all!
I would like to add unicode support to my dbf project. The dbf header
has a one-byte field to hold the encoding of the file. For example,
\x03 is code-page 437 MS-DOS.
My google-fu is apparently not up to the task of locating a complete
resource that has a list of the 256
KB wrote:
Hi,
I have to pass over 150 parameters to a print statement ala:
print %s text %s other text %s 150'th unique text %s % (v
[0], v[1], ... v[150])
I can't use a for loop like I normally would over the list v due to
the different text fragments between each var.
Is there a lambda
John Machin wrote:
On Oct 23, 7:28 am, Ethan Furman et...@stoneleaf.us wrote:
Greetings, all!
I would like to add unicode support to my dbf project. The dbf header
has a one-byte field to hold the encoding of the file. For example,
\x03 is code-page 437 MS-DOS.
My google-fu is apparently
John Machin wrote:
On Oct 23, 3:03 pm, Ethan Furman et...@stoneleaf.us wrote:
John Machin wrote:
On Oct 23, 7:28 am, Ethan Furman et...@stoneleaf.us wrote:
Greetings, all!
I would like to add unicode support to my dbf project. The dbf header
has a one-byte field to hold the encoding
John Machin wrote:
On Oct 24, 4:14 am, Ethan Furman et...@stoneleaf.us wrote:
John Machin wrote:
On Oct 23, 3:03 pm, Ethan Furman et...@stoneleaf.us wrote:
John Machin wrote:
On Oct 23, 7:28 am, Ethan Furman et...@stoneleaf.us wrote:
Greetings, all!
I would like to add unicode
John Machin wrote:
On Oct 27, 3:22 am, Ethan Furman et...@stoneleaf.us wrote:
John Machin wrote:
Try this:
http://webhelp.esri.com/arcpad/8.0/referenceguide/
Wow. Question, though: all those codepages mapping to 437 and 850 --
are they really all the same?
437 and 850 *are* codepages
Steve wrote:
On Oct 17, 8:28 pm, Tim Chase python.l...@tim.thechases.com wrote:
Christian Heimes wrote:
Alan G Isaac wrote:
On 10/16/2009 5:03 PM, Christian Heimes wrote:
It's not going to happen.
That's a prediction, not a justification.
It's not a prediction, it's a statement.
Ethan Furman wrote:
This body part will be downloaded on demand.
Not sure what happened there... here's the text...
Howdy, Pierre!
I have also written a pure Python implementation of a database, one that
uses dBase III or VFP 6 .dbf files. Any chance you could throw it into
the mix
Eric S. Johansson wrote:
yup how long will i[t] be before you become disablesd? maybe not as badly as
I am
but you should start feeling some hand problems in your later 40's to early 50's
and it goes down hill from there. self preservation/interest comes to mind as a
possible motive for
Greetings!
My closest to successfull attempt:
Python 2.5.4 (r254:67916, Dec 23 2008, 15:10:54) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)]
Type copyright, credits or license for more information.
IPython 0.9.1 -- An enhanced Interactive Python.
In [161]: re.findall('\d+','this is test a3 attempt 79')
Ethan Furman wrote:
Greetings!
My closest to successfull attempt:
Python 2.5.4 (r254:67916, Dec 23 2008, 15:10:54) [MSC v.1310 32 bit
(Intel)]
Type copyright, credits or license for more information.
IPython 0.9.1 -- An enhanced Interactive Python.
In [161]: re.findall('\d
Many thanks to all who replied! And, yes, I will *definitely* use raw
strings from now on. :)
~Ethan~
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Steven D'Aprano wrote:
There is some evidence that 30-60% of people simply cannot learn to
program, no matter how you teach them:
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000635.html
http://www.cs.mdx.ac.uk/research/PhDArea/saeed/
I'm sympathetic to the idea, but not entirely convinced.
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:02:19 -0700, Aahz wrote:
In article 006e795f$0$9711$c3e8...@news.astraweb.com, Steven D'Aprano
st...@remove-this-cybersource.com.au wrote:
On Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:32:10 +0200, Jean-Michel Pichavant wrote:
kj wrote:
sense = cmp(func(hi),
Robert Kern wrote:
On 2009-07-14 14:56, Dr. Phillip M. Feldman wrote:
!= does do what I want, except that it doesn't indicate to someone
reading
the code that the operands are being treated as logicals.
(Readability is
supposed to be one of the major selling points of Python). But, this is
MRAB wrote:
Ethan Furman wrote:
Robert Kern wrote:
On 2009-07-14 14:56, Dr. Phillip M. Feldman wrote:
!= does do what I want, except that it doesn't indicate to someone
reading
the code that the operands are being treated as logicals.
(Readability is
supposed to be one of the major
Christian Heimes wrote:
Chris Rebert wrote:
Using the xor bitwise operator is also an option:
bool(x) ^ bool(y)
I prefer something like:
bool(a) + bool(b) == 1
It works even for multiple tests (super xor):
if bool(a) + bool(b) + bool(c) + bool(d) != 1:
raise
Scott David Daniels wrote:
Ethan Furman wrote:
and returns the last object that is true
A little suspect this.
_and_ returns the first object that is not true, or the last object.
or returns the first object that is true
Similarly:
_or_ returns the first object that is true
Helmut Jarausch wrote:
Hi,
I have a lot of old Dbase files (.dbf) and I'll like to convert these
to SQLite databases as automatically as possible.
Does anybody know a tool/Python script to do so?
I know, I could use dbfpy and create the SQLite table and import all
data. But is there something
John Machin wrote:
If dbfpy can't handle any new-fangled stuff you may have in your
files, drop me a line ... I have a soon-to-be released DBF module that
should be able to read the new stuff up to dBase7 and VFP9,
including memo files, conversion from whatever to Unicode if
needed, ...
Jean-Michel Pichavant wrote:
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:53:45 +0200, Jean-Michel Pichavant wrote:
Given three result codes, where 0 means no error and an arbitrary non-
zero integer means some error, it is simple and easy to write:
failed = result_1 or result_2 or
Paul Rubin wrote:
Steven D'Aprano st...@remove-this-cybersource.com.au writes:
def assemble_page(header, body, footer):
if header or body or footer:
do_lots_of_expensive_processing()
else:
do_nothing_gracefully()
Why should the processing be expensive if all three fields
[fixed for bottom-posting]
Dr. Phillip M. Feldman wrote:
MRAB-2 wrote:
snip
What values should 'xor' return? IMHO, if only one of the values is true
then it should return that value, otherwise it should return False.
1 xor 0 = 1
0 xor 2 = 2
1 xor 2 = False
0 xor 0 = False
Mark Dickinson wrote:
On Jul 20, 11:34 pm, Ethan Furman et...@stoneleaf.us wrote:
Dr. Phillip M. Feldman wrote:
Suppose that 'xor' returns the value that is true when only one value is
true, and False otherwise. This definition of xor doesn't have the
standard
associative property
Ryniek90 wrote:
Got it:
exec('self.' + attr + '=\'' + val + '\'')
That worked. I think it'll do what you want now ;)
Ching-Yun Xavier Ho, Technical Artist
Contact Information
Mobile: (+61) 04 3335 4748
Skype ID: SpaXe85
Email: cont...@xavierho.com mailto:cont...@xavierho.com
Website:
Or, in other words, what Steven D'Aprano had already said. Guess I
should read the whole thread before madly posting! :)
~Ethan~
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[corrected top posting]
Mohammad Tayseer wrote:
*From:* Piet van Oostrum p...@cs.uu.nl
*To:* python-list@python.org
*Sent:* Monday, July 27, 2009 11:18:20 AM
*Subject:* Re: Looking for a dream language: sounds like Python to me.
Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com mailto:dotanco...@gmail.com
Ben Finney wrote:
Martin P. Hellwig martin.hell...@dcuktec.org writes:
Machine Code:
Whatever the machine executes, it could be that the CPU uses an
abstraction of microcode to do this but from the perspective of the
user, this is all done in the same 'black box'
This requires, of course,
Marcus Wanner wrote:
On 7/30/2009 9:32 AM, Beldar wrote:
On 30 jul, 15:07, MRAB pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com wrote:
Beldar wrote:
Hi there!
I have a problem and i'm not very good at regular expressions.
I have a text like lalala lalala tiruri beldar-is-listening tiruri
lalala I need a regexp
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:47:04 +0100, Tim Rowe wrote:
That and the fact that I couldn't stop laughing for long enough to learn
any more when I read in the Pragmatic Programmer's Guide that Ruby,
unlike less flexible languages, lets you alter the value of a constant.
Yep,
MRAB wrote:
Ethan Furman wrote:
Marcus Wanner wrote:
Wow, I really need to learn more about regexp...
Any tutorials you guys can recommend?
Marcus
Mastering Regular Expressions
Powerful Techniques for Perl and Other Tools
By Jeffrey E. F. Friedl
Great book!
+1
I have the first edition
Mornin'! and a good one, too, I hope.
Question for you...
First part of the question: What is the general value in having Null
capability for fields?
Second part: Is there a tangible difference between Null, and the
nothing of 0, '', False, etc, in python?
Third part: If there is a
John Machin wrote:
On Aug 1, 3:41 am, Ethan Furman et...@stoneleaf.us wrote:
Mornin'! and a good one, too, I hope.
Question for you...
First part of the question: What is the general value in having Null
capability for fields?
In general, in any database system, so that one can
Mensanator wrote:
snippers galore
What does this mean?
import turtle
tooter = turtle.Turtle()
*tooter*.tracer
Traceback (most recent call last):
File pyshell#2, line 1, in module
tooter.tracer
AttributeError: 'Turtle' object has no attribute 'tracer'
tooter.hideturtle()
Greetings!
I have seen posts about the assert statement and PbC (or maybe it was
DbC), and I just took a very brief look at pycontract
(http://www.wayforward.net/pycontract/) and now I have at least one
question: Is this basically another way of thinking about unit testing,
or is the idea
Nobody wrote:
On Thu, 06 Aug 2009 08:35:57 -0700, Robert Dailey wrote:
I'm creating a python script that is going to try to search a text
file for any text that matches my regular expression. The thing it is
looking for is:
FILEVERSION #,#,#,#
The # symbol represents any number that can be
László Sándor wrote:
Thank you, Tim. My comments are below.
On 2009-08-07 13:19:47 -0400, Tim Chase python.l...@tim.thechases.com
said:
After I have written a short Python script that hashes my textfile
line by
line and collects the numbers next to the original, I checked what I
got.
Cornelius Keller wrote:
[snip]
I still think this is very confusing, because default values don't
behave like most people would expect without reading the docs.
- Cornelius
Why would you expect to become a good programmer of _any_ language
without reading its docs?
~Ethan~
--
Kee Nethery wrote:
As someone trying to learn the language I want to say that the tone on
this list towards people who are trying to learn Python feels like it
has become anti-newbies.
Learning a new language is difficult enough without seeing other
newbies getting shamed for not knowing
David Lyon wrote:
On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 09:13:34 -0700, Ethan Furman et...@stoneleaf.us
wrote:
As someone who relies heavily on the docs I will also say that the idea
of giving the ability to modify the official documentation to somebody
who is /learning/ the language is, quite frankly
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 08:21:03 -0700, Douglas Alan wrote:
But you're right, it's too late to change this now.
Not really. There is a procedure for making non-backwards compatible
changes. If you care deeply enough about this, you could agitate for
Python 3.2 to raise
Alonso Luján Torres Taño wrote:
Hi!
I'm trying to modify a dbf adding a new field in a python script, but I
can't.
Just I can add a field in new dbf created in the same script.
I tryed with:
db = dbf.Dbf(../filesource.dbf,new =False, readOnly=False)
...
Ethan Furman wrote:
Greetings!
I have seen posts about the assert statement and PbC (or maybe it was
DbC), and I just took a very brief look at pycontract
(http://www.wayforward.net/pycontract/) and now I have at least one
question: Is this basically another way of thinking about unit
Douglas Alan wrote:
On Aug 11, 2:00 pm, Steven D'Aprano st...@remove-this-
cybersource.com.au wrote:
test.cpp:1:1: warning: unknown escape sequence '\y'
Isn't that a warning, not a fatal error? So what does temp contain?
My Annotated C++ Reference Manual is packed, and surprisingly in
Charles Yeomans wrote:
On Aug 11, 2009, at 3:30 PM, Ethan Furman wrote:
Ethan Furman wrote:
Greetings!
I have seen posts about the assert statement and PbC (or maybe it
was DbC), and I just took a very brief look at pycontract
(http://www.wayforward.net/pycontract/ ) and now I have
Paul Boddie wrote:
On 12 Aug, 17:08, Steven D'Aprano st...@remove-this-
cybersource.com.au wrote:
It's not the people who suggest improvements to the docs that are the
problem, but the ones who insist that the docs are terrible, but aren't
willing to do anything but complain. Oh, and trolls
Erik Bernoth wrote:
Hi List,
look at the following code:
def evens():
# iterator returning even numbers
i = 0
while True:
yield i
i += 2
# now get all the even numbers up to 15
L = [n for n in evens() if n 15]
Isn't it strange, that this code runs (in a lazy
Ethan Furman wrote:
Erik Bernoth wrote:
Hi List,
look at the following code:
def evens():
# iterator returning even numbers
i = 0
while True:
yield i
i += 2
# now get all the even numbers up to 15
L = [n for n in evens() if n 15]
Isn't it strange
MRAB wrote:
Gary Herron wrote:
goldtech wrote:
Could you explain or link me to an explanation of this? Been using
Python for a while but not sure I understand what's happening below.
Thanks.
ss=1 and f
ss
'f'
ss=0 and f
ss
0
Python's Boolean
kj wrote:
Sometimes I want to split a string into lines, preserving the
end-of-line markers. In Perl this is really easy to do, by splitting
on the beginning-of-line anchor:
@lines = split /^/, $string;
But I can't figure out how to do the same thing with Python. E.g.:
import re
dippim wrote:
On Aug 14, 10:48 am, Dave Angel da...@ieee.org wrote:
dippim wrote:
On Aug 14, 2:34 am, Raymond Hettinger pyt...@rcn.com wrote:
[David]
I am new to Python and I have a question about descriptors. If I have
a class as written below, is there a way to use descriptors to be
Charles Yeomans wrote:
On Aug 14, 2009, at 12:09 AM, Scott David Daniels wrote:
Charles Yeomans wrote:
On Aug 11, 2009, at 3:30 PM, Ethan Furman wrote:
Ethan Furman wrote:
Greetings!
I have seen posts about the assert statement and PbC (or maybe it
was DbC), and I just took a very
Dr. Phillip M. Feldman wrote:
I wrote the following correct but inefficient test of primality for purposes
of demonstrating that the simplest algorithm is often not the most
efficient. But, when I try to run the following code with a value of n that
is large enough to produce a significant
Emmanuel Surleau wrote:
Dr. Phillip M. Feldman wrote:
[snip]
def is_prime(n):
for j in range(2,n):
if (n % j) == 0: return False
return True
It seems as though Python is actually expanding range(2,n) into a list of
numbers, even though this is incredibly wasteful of memory. There
John Posner wrote:
BTW, from the (admittedly few) responses to my original post, it seems
there's some sentiment that conditional expressions are a non-Pythonic
misfeature. Interesting ...
-John
I didn't read it that way. One of the (to me) core points of Pythonic
is readability. A
James Harris wrote:
I am writing some code to form a tree of nodes of different types. The
idea is to define one class per node type such as
class node_type_1(node):
specific properties by name including other node types
class node_type_2(node):
specific properties by name including other
Mark Lawrence wrote:
For a bit of light relief from those fed up of reading of the perceived
shortcomings of tkinker thought you might like this. Enjoy :)
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/fac/Spencer.Rugaber/poems/love.txt
Kindest regards.
Mark Lawrence
AH hahahahahahahahahahahah
Much
Stephen Hansen wrote:
On 6/12/10 12:50 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
On Sat, 12 Jun 2010 14:42:27 -0400, Victor Subervi
victorsube...@gmail.com declaimed the following in
gmane.comp.python.general:
Interestingly,
ls -al
reveals *no* *.pyc files.
Which would seem to indicate that
lkcl wrote:
oh look - there's a common theme, there: web technology equals
useless :)
this is getting sufficiently ridiculous, i thought it best to
summarise the discussions of the past few days, from the perspective
of four-year-olds:
AH hahahahahahahahahahahaha
--
Stephen Hansen wrote:
On 6/17/10 9:12 AM, pyt...@bdurham.com wrote:
Now, this is all IMHO: the style guide does not define any 'guidelines'
on this, except that its okay to use from ... import ... to pull in
classes and (implicitly) constants, and despite how the rules say 'one
module per line'
Stephen Hansen wrote:
On 6/17/10 10:01 AM, Ethan Furman wrote:
Stephen Hansen wrote:
On 6/17/10 9:12 AM, pyt...@bdurham.com wrote:
Now, this is all IMHO: the style guide does not define any 'guidelines'
on this, except that its okay to use from ... import ... to pull in
classes
Jack Diederich wrote:
You want to import a name that is itself a namespace; preferably a
module or package and sometimes a class. Importing constants can lead
to trouble. ex/
from settings import DEBUG
if DEBUG: log('debug is on!')
The value of the flag gets fetched at import time. If code
Deadly Dirk wrote:
On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 13:48:45 -0400, J. Cliff Dyer wrote:
super gives you an instantiated version of the super class, which means
that you don't have to explicitly send self to any methods you call on
it.
So use `super().__init__()` instead.
Thanks. Interestingly enough,
Deadly Dirk wrote:
On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 12:18:33 -0700, Ethan Furman wrote:
Deadly Dirk wrote:
On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 13:48:45 -0400, J. Cliff Dyer wrote:
super gives you an instantiated version of the super class, which
means that you don't have to explicitly send self to any methods you
call
Jeff Hobbs wrote:
On Jun 6, 2:11 pm, rantingrick rantingr...@gmail.com wrote:
On Jun 6, 2:06 pm, Mark Lawrence breamore...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
On 06/06/2010 16:31, rantingrick wrote:
On Jun 5, 9:22 pm, antshi...@uklinux.net wrote:
I ask the group; should we try to create a new GUI for
WANG Cong wrote:
On 06/25/10 15:34, Bruno Desthuilliers
bruno.42.desthuilli...@websiteburo.invalid wrote:
WANG Cong a écrit :
Hi, list!
I have a doubt about the design of dynamic attribute creation by
assignments in Python.
As we know, in Python, we are able to create a new attribute of
a
Sneaky Wombat wrote:
Why is python turning \x0a into a \n ?
In [120]: h='\x0a\xa8\x19\x0b'
In [121]: h
Out[121]: '\n\xa8\x19\x0b'
I don't want this to happen, can I prevent it?
'\x0a' == '\n'
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In the glossary section it states:
doc
nested scope
The ability to refer to a variable in an enclosing definition. For
instance, a function defined inside another function can refer to
variables in the outer function. Note that nested scopes work only for
reference and not for assignment
WANG Cong wrote:
On 06/27/10 12:01, Carl Banks pavlovevide...@gmail.com wrote:
On Jun 25, 8:24 pm, WANG Cong xiyou.wangc...@gmail.com wrote:
Understand, but please consider my proposal again, if we switched to:
setattr(foo, 'new_attr', blah)
by default, isn't Python still dynamic as it is?
WANG Cong wrote:
On 06/29/10 17:48, Andre Alexander Bell p...@andre-bell.de wrote:
As said previously I don't think one should differentiate between meta
programming and programming within the language, since the former is
nothing different than the latter.
If you check other programming
Stephen Hansen wrote:
On 6/29/10 10:01 AM, Ethan Furman wrote:
In the glossary section it states:
doc
nested scope
The ability to refer to a variable in an enclosing definition. For
instance, a function defined inside another function can refer to
variables in the outer function. Note
Terry Reedy wrote:
On 6/30/2010 8:22 AM, Nobody wrote:
I've noticed over the years a significant anti-RE sentiment in the
Python community.
IMHO, the sentiment isn't so much against REs per se, but against
excessive or inappropriate use. Apart from making it easy to write
illegible code,
Ben Finney wrote:
geremy condra debat...@gmail.com writes:
Right. I'm much more concerned about the position of my Ctrl key, to
avoid hand injury from all the key chording done as a programmer.
Not saying its a cure-all, but I broke my hand pretty badly a few years
ago and had a lot of luck
Aahz wrote:
In article mailman.2365.1277844243.32709.python-l...@python.org,
Ethan Furman et...@stoneleaf.us wrote:
Stephen Hansen wrote:
On 6/29/10 10:01 AM, Ethan Furman wrote:
In the glossary section it states:
doc
nested scope
The ability to refer to a variable in an enclosing
Terry Reedy wrote:
On 7/1/2010 6:42 PM, Ethan Furman wrote:
Hmmm Well, as this is my first ever bug post (yay! ;)
Great!
I *think* this is what you want:
http://bugs.python.org/issue9121
I believe Benjamin meant that it was already fixed in
http://docs.python.org/dev/py3k
Terry Reedy wrote:
On 7/1/2010 6:42 PM, Emile van Sebille wrote:
On 7/1/2010 2:52 PM Jay said...
pywinauto looks to be almost perfect. All I need now is to read the
numbers uncovered when a minesweeper square is clicked on, or that I
just hit a mine.
... or, you could always win...
Nobody wrote:
On Wed, 07 Jul 2010 15:08:07 +0200, Thomas Jollans wrote:
you should never rely on a floating-point number to have exactly a
certain value.
Never is an overstatement. There are situations where you can rely
upon a floating-point number having exactly a certain value.
It's not
Wolfram Hinderer wrote:
On 7 Jul., 19:32, Ethan Furman et...@stoneleaf.us wrote:
Nobody wrote:
On Wed, 07 Jul 2010 15:08:07 +0200, Thomas Jollans wrote:
you should never rely on a floating-point number to have exactly a
certain value.
Never is an overstatement. There are situations
Alf P. Steinbach /Usenet wrote:
* MRAB, on 12.07.2010 00:37:
Alf P. Steinbach /Usenet wrote:
Of course there are variables, that's why the docs call them variables.
In Java a variable is declared and exists even before the first
assignment to it. In Python a 'variable' isn't declared and
MRAB wrote:
[snip]
How about 'strip_str', 'lstrip_str' and 'rstrip_str', or something
similar?
+1 on the names
~Ethan~
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Gregory Ewing wrote:
Raymond Hettinger wrote:
Every class
in the MRO implementing the target method *must* call super() to give
the next class in the MRO a chance to run.
EXCEPT for the last one, which must NOT call super!
The posted example happens to work because object has
a default
Bruno Desthuilliers wrote:
Duncan Booth a écrit :
Bruno Desthuilliers bruno.42.desthuilli...@websiteburo.invalid wrote:
If you don't want to create as many Whatever instances as MyClass
instances, you can create a single Whatever instance before defining
your class:
DEFAULT_WHATEVER =
Bruno Desthuilliers wrote:
Bruno Desthuilliers a écrit :
Ethan Furman a écrit :
Bruno Desthuilliers wrote:
Duncan Booth a écrit :
(snip)
Or you could create the default as a class attribute
from the OP:
I have a class (FuncDesigner oofun) that has no attribute size, but
it is overloaded
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