On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 6:02 PM, Mensanator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sep 1, 6:55�pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Steven D'Aprano:
>>
>> > productory() -- I don't know that function, and googling mostly comes up
>> > with retail product searches. Do you mean product(),
>>
>> Darn my English, y
On Sep 2, 6:35 am, Nick Craig-Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > It's not just my familiarity, Ada language too uses underscore for
> > that purpose, I think, so there's a precedent, and Ada is a language
> > designed to always minimize programmin
On 02 Sep 2008 06:10:51 GMT, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> At the risk of bike-shedding,
[snip]
(startled noises) It is a delight to find a reference to
that half-century-old essay (High Finance) by the wonderful
C. Northcote Parkinson, but how many readers will catch the
allusion?
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ben Finney:
> > I don't see any good reason (other than your familiarity with the D
> > language) to use underscores for this purpose, and much more reason
> > (readability, consistency, fewer arbitrary differences in syntax,
> > perhaps simpler imple
On Tue, 02 Sep 2008 11:13:27 +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
>> For Python 2.7/3.1 I'd now like to write a PEP regarding the
>> underscores into the number literals, like: 0b_0101_, 268_435_456
>> etc.
>
> +1 on such a capability.
>
> -1 on underscore as the separator
Ben Finney:
> I don't see any good reason (other than your familiarity with the D
> language) to use underscores for this purpose, and much more reason
> (readability, consistency, fewer arbitrary differences in syntax,
> perhaps simpler implementation) to use whitespace just as with string
> liter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> For Python 2.7/3.1 I'd now like to write a PEP regarding the
> underscores into the number literals, like: 0b_0101_, 268_435_456
> etc.
+1 on such a capability.
-1 on underscore as the separator.
When you proposed this last year, the counter-proposal was made
htt
On Sep 1, 2:15�pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have just re-read the list of changes in Python 2.6, it's huge,
> there are tons of changes and improvements, I'm really
> impressed:http://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/2.6.html
>
> I'll need many days to learn all those changes! I can see it fixes
>
On Sep 1, 6:55�pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Steven D'Aprano:
>
> > productory() -- I don't know that function, and googling mostly comes up
> > with retail product searches. Do you mean product(),
>
> Darn my English, you are right, sorry, I meant a product() of
> course :-)
But the name product
Steven D'Aprano:
> productory() -- I don't know that function, and googling mostly comes up
> with retail product searches. Do you mean product(),
Darn my English, you are right, sorry, I meant a product() of
course :-)
Bye,
bearophile
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On Mon, 01 Sep 2008 12:15:53 -0700, bearophileHUGS wrote:
> Now math has factorial:
> http://docs.python.org/dev/library/math.html#math.factorial Seen how
> reduce() is removed from Python 3 (I know it's in itertools), and seeing
> that for me to write a productory() function was the first usage I
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Now math has factorial:
http://docs.python.org/dev/library/math.html#math.factorial
That's rather underdocumented.
Does it really attempt exact calculation
for arbitrary integers?? Is there any
way to request a nice fast approximation
for large integers (e.g., with Gos
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I presume it's better for me to not hold my breath while I wait
CPython to be written in C99 :-)
First you have to convince Microsoft to release C99 compiler ... good luck!
Christian
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I have just re-read the list of changes in Python 2.6, it's huge,
there are tons of changes and improvements, I'm really impressed:
http://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/2.6.html
I'll need many days to learn all those changes! I can see it fixes
several of the missing things/problems I have found in
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