"Diez B. Roggisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote, oder schrieb, of het geskryf:
| Hendrik van Rooyen schrieb:
| > Hi,
| >
| > for S where S is a Standard Python type:
| > The slice notation S[n] returns either:
| > The n'th element of S, or
| > The value of the dictionary entry who
"Paul Boddie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wrote:
| Hendrik van Rooyen wrote:
| >
| > There seems to be no common methods such as-
| > "prepend" - for adding something to the beginning
| > "append" - for adding something to the end
| > "insert[j]" - for adding something somewhere in the middle
Brendon Towle wrote:
>> b) http://pyfaq.infogami.com/why-doesn-t-list-sort-return-the-sorted-list
>>(this also explains how to handle your specific use case)
>
> Well, I posted working code, so I thought it should have been obvious
> that I knew how to handle my use case, and was (am) lookin
Brendon Towle wrote:
> My third response is that it's *always* possible to shoot yourself in
> the foot. Protecting a naive user from one particular metatarsal
> projectile insertion at the expense of letting the power-user write more
> concise code seems a bad tradeoff to me -- but, I'm not in
"Brendon Towle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 15:28:46 +0200
From: "Fredrik Lundh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Consistency in Python
Brendon Towle wr
Message: 3 Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 15:28:46 +0200 From: "Fredrik Lundh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Consistency in Python Brendon Towle wrote: So, my question is: Someone obviously thought that it was wise and proper to require the longer versions that I write above. Why? a
Brendon Towle wrote:
> So, my question is: Someone obviously thought that it was wise and
> proper to require the longer versions that I write above. Why?
a) maybe they had a working carriage return key ?
b) http://pyfaq.infogami.com/why-doesn-t-list-sort-return-the-sorted-list
(this also exp
Date: 25 Aug 2006 04:22:37 -0700From: "Paul Boddie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Subject: Re: Consistency in PythonTo: [email protected]: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"Paul McGuire wrote: But with mutators that return self, a client could write any of these:b
Paul McGuire wrote:
>
> There's nothing wrong with returning self from a mutator. This was a common
> idiom in Smalltalk (the syntax for this was "^self", which was probably the
> most common statement in any Smalltalk program), and permitted the chaining
> of property mutators into a single line,
"Paul Boddie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Moreover, append and insert return
> no result because the change occurs within an existing object - if you
> were to return a reference to the changed object, it would be the same
> reference as the one you already had.
Hendrik van Rooyen wrote:
>
> There seems to be no common methods such as-
> "prepend" - for adding something to the beginning
> "append" - for adding something to the end
> "insert[j]" - for adding something somewhere in the middle
>
> Or have I missed something ?
[...]
> BTW - I und
Hendrik van Rooyen schrieb:
> Hi,
>
> for S where S is a Standard Python type:
> The slice notation S[n] returns either:
> The n'th element of S, or
> The value of the dictionary entry whose key is n.
>
> This is beautiful because as a programmer you don't have to worry what S
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