On 30/08/12 17:21, John Maclean wrote:
My main issue is that I am a sysadmin and not a programmer. I am aware
of pydoc but not of BNF. So I was a bit taken aback when I saw the BNF
syntax. It was obvious to me that syntax of the try statements were not
python syntax but had no clue how to parse
On 08/30/2012 05:15 PM, Alan Gauld wrote:
On 30/08/12 15:43, John Maclean wrote:
Thanks. This is a heck of a lot more clearer to me! BNF, huh? Another
set TLA that I don't need to know ;-)
Actually, BNF is one of those useful skills for any programmer because
almost every language is 'formal
On 30/08/12 15:43, John Maclean wrote:
Thanks. This is a heck of a lot more clearer to me! BNF, huh? Another
set TLA that I don't need to know ;-)
Actually, BNF is one of those useful skills for any programmer because
almost every language is 'formally' described using it - at least since
th
On 08/30/2012 11:26 AM, Steve Willoughby wrote:
> On 30-Aug-12 08:22, Dave Angel wrote:
>> On 08/30/2012 10:43 AM, John Maclean wrote:
>>> On 08/30/2012 03:05 PM, Dave Angel wrote:
>>>
>>> Thanks. This is a heck of a lot more clearer to me! BNF, huh? Another
>>> set TLA that I don't need
On 30-Aug-12 08:22, Dave Angel wrote:
On 08/30/2012 10:43 AM, John Maclean wrote:
On 08/30/2012 03:05 PM, Dave Angel wrote:
Thanks. This is a heck of a lot more clearer to me! BNF, huh? Another
set TLA that I don't need to know ;-)
I learned BNF in about 1972. I've used about 35 languag
On 08/30/2012 10:43 AM, John Maclean wrote:
> On 08/30/2012 03:05 PM, Dave Angel wrote:
>>
>>
>
> Thanks. This is a heck of a lot more clearer to me! BNF, huh? Another
> set TLA that I don't need to know ;-)
>
I learned BNF in about 1972. I've used about 35 languages since (not
counting hobby on
On 08/30/2012 03:05 PM, Dave Angel wrote:
On 08/30/2012 09:30 AM, John Maclean wrote:
What does the first line from `pydoc try` actually mean? This does not
look like the syntax that one is supposed to use.
try_stmt ::= try1_stmt | try2_stmt
You're looking at the first of three BNF statement
On 30/08/12 23:30, John Maclean wrote:
What does the first line from `pydoc try` actually mean? This does not look
like the syntax that one is supposed to use.
try_stmt ::= try1_stmt | try2_stmt
That's a description of the Python grammar in some variation of
Backus-Naur Form. In English, it
On 08/30/2012 09:30 AM, John Maclean wrote:
> What does the first line from `pydoc try` actually mean? This does not
> look like the syntax that one is supposed to use.
>
> try_stmt ::= try1_stmt | try2_stmt
>
You're looking at the first of three BNF statements. BNF (Backus Naur
Form, or somethin
On 30 August 2012 15:30, John Maclean wrote:
> What does the first line from `pydoc try` actually mean? This does not
> look like the syntax that one is supposed to use.
>
> try_stmt ::= try1_stmt | try2_stmt
>
looks like part of the python language reference. It goes a little further
and expla
What does the first line from `pydoc try` actually mean? This does not
look like the syntax that one is supposed to use.
try_stmt ::= try1_stmt | try2_stmt
I can write simple statements as shown below, but I want to actually
understand what I am doing.
try:
import io
print("import
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