C W wrote:
> This is a follow up. I actually ran into this today:
>
> import numpy as np
> xArray = np.ones((3, 4))
>
>> xArray.shape
> (3, 4)
>> np.shape(xArray)
> (3, 4)
>
> It was confusing to see that both xArray.shape and np.shape() worked. Are
> they equivalent?
>>> print(inspect.getsour
On 9 August 2017 at 23:15, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 08, 2017 at 12:56:56PM +0200, Chris Warrick wrote:
>
>> While setuptools is not officially part of the stdlib,
>
> This is the critical factor. How can you use *by default* something that
> is *NOT* supplied by default?
>
> Obviously
On Wed, Aug 09, 2017 at 12:06:37PM -0400, C W wrote:
> Dear Python experts,
>
> What exactly does the three dots do?
> > aList = ...
... is literal syntax for the Ellipsis singleton object.
Ellipsis was added to the language at the express request of the numpy
developers. Although numpy is a th
On Mon, Aug 07, 2017 at 10:04:21PM -0500, Zachary Ware wrote:
> Next, take a dive into the wonderful* world of Unicode:
>
> https://nedbatchelder.com/text/unipain.html
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7m5JA3XaZ4k
Another **Must Read** resource for unicode is:
The Absolute Minimum Every Softwar
On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 09:39:02AM -0400, C W wrote:
> What's a literal? The only other time I heard about it was studying
> Shakespare. ;)
A "literal" is syntax that creates a value, without the programmer
needing to call a function. The syntax stands for the LITERAL value as
shown.
For examp
What's a literal? The only other time I heard about it was studying
Shakespare. ;)
I don't know what literal is. So, it won't help me to understand ellipsis,
I really thought it was that oval shaped figure.
Wiki says: "Literals are often used to initialize variables"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
On 10/08/17 14:39, C W wrote:
> I suppose it's just a place holder, though I don't know when I would use it
> in my every day life.
Probably never.
Like most programming languages Python has a load of rarely used,
obscure features. Most Python programmers never use ellipses,
metaclasses(*), the
On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 8:01 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>
> Another **Must Read** resource for unicode is:
>
> The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely Positively Must
> Know About Unicode (No Excuses!)
>
> https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2003/10/08/the-absolute-minimum-every-softwa
On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 8:40 PM, boB Stepp wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 8:01 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> Python 3 makes Unicode about as easy as it can get. To include a unicode
>> string in your source code, you just need to ensure your editor saves
>> the file as UTF-8, and then insert (
On 10Aug2017 20:40, boB Stepp wrote:
(By the way, it is nearly 14 years later, and PHP still believes that
the world is ASCII.)
I thought you must surely be engaging in hyperbole, but at
http://php.net/manual/en/xml.encoding.php I found:
"The default source encoding used by PHP is ISO-8859-1.
On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 2:34 AM, Cameron Simpson wrote:
>
> In files however, the default encoding for text files is 'utf-8': Python
> will read the file's bytes as UTF-8 data and will write Python string
> characters in UTF-8 encoding when writing.
The default encoding for source files is UTF-8.
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