Ten wrote:
> Sorry for the rant, good luck to the guy if he's solved his problem,
> but damn, that "90% so let's not bother doing things properly" stuff makes
> my blood boil.
You must really hate browsing the web then. :)
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is
> redundant since I think find searches breadth-first by default.
??? maxdepth determines how deep the search will look, not the order the
search occurs. Your search only find things within 3 levels of the root,
unless your directory tree goes no deeper than that (very unlikely) the
maxdep
won't work</EM>")
In JavaScript, this code can be expressed legally by hiding the ETAGO
delimiter before an SGML name start character:
document.write ("<EM>This will work<\/EM>")
Guess you learn something new every day. Too bad the
g the relative resume to me. I hope of to have made what appreciate
postando this announcement. In contrary case, I make excuses myself for the
disturbance.
Salutes,
Giandomenico Sica
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orrectly as
it is. Leave it to the experts and use a library.
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You could do
>>> uniq = [x for x in set(myList)]
but that's not really any different than what you already have.
This almost works:
>>> uniq = [x for x in myList if x not in uniq]
except the r-val uniq isn't updated after each iteration.
Personally I think list(set(myList)) is as optimal as
At the risk of flogging a dead horse, I'm wondering why Python doesn't have
any multiline comments. One can abuse triple-quotes for that purpose, but
that's obviously not what it's for and doesn't nest properly. ML has a
very elegant system for nested comments with (* and *).
Using an editor
The only time I miss block delimiters in Python is when I want to
temporarily change the scope of a block. Suppose I have this code:
for x in list1:
i += 1
for y in list2:
print x * i
Ignore the semantics for the moment (yes the code is suboptimal). Say I
need to disable th
Michael Spencer wrote:
> Just replace:
> for y in list2:
> with:
> if True:
Of course. I knew it would be blindingly obvious. Sometimes you just
can't shake the blinders off though. Thanks.
> Note that neither the `if` nor the `for` statement actually creates a
> new scope.
Good cat
Atanas Banov wrote:
> want to comment block of code? use tripple-quotes. does not nest? ahhh,
> maybe it's time to get rid of that block you commented out a month ago
> "just in case the new code doesnt work".
>
> that gives you incentive to tidy up. don't be a code slob... don't
> leave a mess fo
Ben Finney wrote:
> And/or switch to an editor that can perform editing operations on a
> range of lines.
I'm not unsympathetic to this point of view, as I would feel hamstrung
without my vim. It's more that I object to the paternalism of telling
people they have to use such an editor. There a
Ben Finney wrote:
> Indeed. Using revision control means never needing to comment out
> blocks of code.
Typing (* and *) on a few line will always be quicker, easier, and less
confusing than any rcs diffs/restores. Once you delete the code you can no
longer see it or add pieces back in without
Duncan Booth wrote:
> Want to comment out a block of code in C++? The only (nearly) reliable way
> is to insert single-line comments down the block. You can't use a block
> comment if there are any other block comments inside the code you want to
> block out.
As Roel said, #if 0 is the standard
Sion Arrowsmith wrote:
> Really? Under what circumstances is it easier to see what's going on
> with start/end comments than with comment-to-end-of-line?
Off the top of my head:
1. The code is usually easier to read as # can obscure the first token on
the line. This can be alleviated by leaving
Sion Arrowsmith wrote:
> Jorge Godoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Is it harder to remove "n" lines of code commented out with "#" than "n"
>>lines of multiline commented code? How?
>
> I'd say it's harder to remove the latter, due to having to search for
> the end of comment sequence, rather tha
Jorge Godoy wrote:
> Edward Elliott wrote:
> Try using Subversion. You can work and make diffs disconnected from the
> network.
rcs isn't the issue. I'm already assuming a local store, a networked one
just makes my argument even easier.
>>I'm not saying neste
Peter Tillotson wrote:
> discouraged except where vital. Perhaps we should make them really hard
> and elegant - mandate latex/mathml markup so good editors can display
> the equations we are implementing :-)
I like this guy already! :)
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Jorge Godoy wrote:
> You can use either """ or '''. I don't keep changing them in my code, so I
> can always use the other type (usually I use " so for commenting things out
> I'd use ') to do that.
It's close, only problem is it doesn't nest. It'll have to be good enough
for now.
>>Forcing p
RK wrote:
> I just don't get it. The scripted object-oriented clean programming
> language is done.
Nothing's ever done except LISP. There's always room for experimentation
and improvement.
> I'm more than willing to supprt RoR if it's being sold as the popular
> alternative to .NET programmin
Sion Arrowsmith wrote:
> It appears to me that our fundamental difference is that you see value
> in long-term preservation of sections of commented-out code without
> any kind of real comment as to what's going on, whereas I consider
> this to be appallingly bad practice.
Then you're reading too
Peter Otten wrote:
> Edward Elliott wrote:
>>The fact that even numeric literals are objects make me suspicious of Ruby
>>as a general-purpose language though.
>
>>>>add_one = 1 .__add__
>
> Just in case you didn't know...
True enough, but I don&#x
I know this isn't comp.lang.java but I can't resist...
Jarek Zgoda wrote:
> Going from Python to Java (as it's in my case) is real pain I wish
> nobody to feel... Even with multi-million support for Java from giants
> like Sun, IBM or Oracle, I find it much easier to gain full control over
> m
Alex Martelli wrote:
> The only "single language" I could see fitting that role is Mozart,
> deliberately designed to be SUPER-multi-paradigm -- not even Lisp and
> Scheme (the only real competition) can compare.
Don't know Mozart. After 5 minutes of googling, it looks like strictly a
high-level
John Salerno wrote:
> If I want to create a list of the form [100, 99, 99, 98, 98, 97, 97...]
> (where each item is repeated twice after the first one), how might I do
> that most efficiently?
Why not just this:
series = [x/2 for x in range(200, 1, -1)]
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Nick Craig-Wood wrote:
> That should be
>
> series = [x//2 for x in range(200, 1, -1)]
>
> to be "from __future__ import division" safe
from __present__ import gratitude
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iirc java doesn't like multiple classes in a single file (not counting
anonymous or inner classes). sounds like jython may have the same
restriction...
abcd wrote:
> the error i get when i run the exec is, "java.lang.ClassFormatError"...
>
> thanks
>
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can anyone here comment on boa constructor?
http://boa-constructor.sourceforge.net/
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Anthony Liu wrote:
> But, I want the random numbers just generated sum up
> to 1 .
This seems like an odd request. Might I ask what it's for?
Generating random numbers in [0,1) that are both uniform and sum to 1 looks
like an unsatisfiable task. Each number you generate restricts the
possib
robert wrote:
> Yes - start them explore. I'd not want to be "teached" a specific
> _language_ in a course longer that one day. A language cannot be teached.
> Who of the posters in this thread want themselves to be _teached_ more
> than one day on a language?
>
> Isn't the fun, finding the ri
No substantive problems. The str() calls are unnecessary, print calls
list.__str__ already. You can replace the loop with list comprehensions or
slices. Same result, a bit more succinct. See these pages for more:
http://docs.python.org/lib/typesseq.html
http://docs.python.org/tut/node7.html
Brian van den Broek wrote:
> The suggestions above appear not to work for me:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /etc/profile | grep 'export PYTHONPATH'
> export PYTHONPATH="~/PythonFiles"
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat .bash_profile | grep 'export PYTHONPATH'
> export PYTHONPATH="~/PythonFiles"
Those file
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Basically my application has a scheduler which stores names of functions
> defined in the "schedule" module in a database, to be run on certain
> days. Every night I call schedule.RunSchedule, which grabs all the rows on
> the database that have to be run now, and I want
Alex Martelli wrote:
> Such total disuniformity, where the very distribution of each value is
> skewed by the preceding one, may still be "random" for some sufficiently
> vague meaning of "random", but my intuition suggests it's unlikely to
> prove satisfactory for the OP's purposes.
It does seem
Alex Martelli wrote:
> sys.modules[__name__].__dict__ may be more handily accessed by the
> built-in function globals().
Well there you go. Glad it's not that awkward.
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Brian van den Broek wrote:
> if 1; then
> somestuff
>
> Trying (3) gave
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ . .bash_profile
> bash: 1: command not found
The error indicates the shell tried to execute a program named '1' and
couldn't find one. Arthimetic expressions generally have to be wrapped in
(()) i
Blair LeGent wrote:
> error: The .NET Framework SDK needs to be installed before building
> extensions for Python.
>
> ...but the .NET Framework IS installed
Just a guess, but is the C compiler in your PATH when you run python? I'm
assuming python on xp still uses environment variables and not
Alex Martelli wrote:
> the Windows version, despite the slight
> overhead of running under Parallels' virtualization, is an impressive
> 12%+ _faster_ than the "native" MacOSX Python 2.4.3 (I'm not quite sure
> about how good Parallels' virtualization IS, but even if it's as
> impressive as a mere
Brian van den Broek wrote:
> It
> didn't work here until I used ':' rather than ';' as the path
> element separator.
Sorry, I missed the semi-colon before. Yes, unix uses colon to separate
path elements. Glad you figured it out and got it working.
FYI you can type 'man ' at the shell to get inf
Dave Hughes wrote:
> Another algorithm that might interest isn't based on "sounds-like" but
> instead computes the number of transforms necessary to get from one
> word to another: the Levenshtein distance. A C based implementation
> (with Python interface) is available:
I don't know what algorith
Alex Martelli wrote:
> OK, I've placed on http://www.aleax.it/Python/ the files that pybench
> writes (with the -file option) for each machines, the names are
> onmbp.txt and onwin2k.txt -- just 20k each (I'm not sure their format is
> documented, but I guess that, worst case, one just needs to stu
Alex Martelli wrote:
> At the same time, if the 14% slowdown is representative, then it's not
> true that the compiler responsible for it "optimizes as well" as the
> other; indeed, "does not optimize particularly well", under such a
> hypothesis, would be far from a "beyond BS" assertion.
Maybe s
Alex Martelli wrote:
> about MacOSX, which also uses gcc: 14% faster pybench using Python 2.4.3
this is the second time I've seen that 14% figure. OOC, where does it come
from? the data sets you posted show an average 12.6% speedup. 14 is an
odd way to round. :)
I don't think it's very useful
Brian Elmegaard wrote:
> "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> You can build the entire Python interpreter with Cygwin (but you
>> don't need to, because there is a precompiled version), and you can
>> build extensions for the python.org binary using MingW.
>
> Great, then I tend to agr
John Machin wrote:
> On 25/04/2006 6:26 PM, Iain King wrote:
>> iain = re.compile("(Ia(i)?n|Eoin)")
>> steven = re.compile("Ste(v|ph|f)(e|a)n")
>
> IMHO, the amount of hand-crafting that goes into a *general-purpose*
> phonetic matching algorithm is already bordering on overkill. Your
> method usi
John Machin wrote:
> On 25/04/2006 3:15 PM, Edward Elliott wrote:
>> Phoneme matching seems overly complex and might
>> grab things like Tsu-zi.
>
> It might *only* if somebody had a rush of blood to the head and devised
> yet another phonetic key "algorithm&quo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> It's less explicit than self. but it's shorter, this improves typing,
> and allows to produce more compact code:
>
> return "".join(["Graph(", repr($o), ", ", repr($nodeData), ")"])
>
> Instead of:
>
> return "".join(["Graph(", repr(self.o), ", ", repr(self.nodeData),
sturlamolden wrote:
> MinGW and Cygwin GCC is actually the same compiler. On Cygwin you can
> remove the dependency on the cygwin dll by compiling with -mno-cygwin.
> But as long as the cygwin dll is there, it creates an overhead for any
> system call.
Thanks for that very informative post! To c
Thomas Bartkus wrote:
> Tis the conundrum of programming in general. If all you know how to do is
> write code - then you truly have nothing to do. What *other* interests do
> you have? Hobbies? Job Skills?
> What *does* "blow your hair back" ;-)
>
> That's where your programming ideas need to
sturlamolden wrote:
> Edward Elliott wrote:
>> Couldn't you compile the msvc-python code under gcc/mingw?
>
> Yes I could, but I cannot compile the code under msvc for comparison. I
> only have MinGW. If build the mingw binary then someone else has to
> build the msvc b
"Martin v. Löwis" wrote:
> Well, you are not compiling with neither mingw, nor cygwin; you are
> compiling with gcc in either case.
touche, mr. pedant. :)
> Well, there is no native C library on Microsoft Windows: the system
> simply doesn't include an official C library (I know there is crtdll.d
Ross Ridge wrote:
> MSVCRT.DLL ... It's not
> exactly "endorsed", Microsoft would rather you use it's current
> compiler and runtime, but it is the standard "official" Windows system
> C library.
Does it comply with the ANSI C89 standard? I'm still not seeing why mingw
can't just link python to i
Alex Martelli wrote:
> I assume you mean "compare pybench on Python 2.4.3 compiled under" etc.
Yep
> Unfortunately, I suspect the ex-officio gcc defenders will only react by
> finding yet another quibble (anything to avoid admitting that gcc may
> not be as good at optimizing as a _Microsoft_ pro
Alex Martelli wrote:
> I believe the single figure is a useful summary. Even the most
> sophisticated benchmarks are eventually boiled down to single figures,
> as in "so many SPECmarks" etc, because in everyday discourse a scalar is
> what you can reasonably discuss. Sure, philosophically speaki
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> can anybody explain, in the first case why i need to do two attempts.
I would guess it's because redhat requires your browser to submit a session
cookie with the login form. In the urllib2 example, the first request you
make tries to submit login form data directly. Si
Iain King wrote:
> steven = re.compile("Ste(v|ph|f|ff)(e|a)n")
> steven = ["Steven", "Stephen", "Stefen", "Steffen", "Stevan",
> "Stephan", "Stefan", "Steffan"]
>
> I know which I'd rather type. 'Course, if you can use a ready-built
> list of names...
Oh I agree, I'd rather *type* the former, bu
Iain King wrote:
> steven = re.compile("Ste(v|ph|f|ff)(e|a)n")
Also you can expand the RE a bit to improve readability:
re.compile("Stev|Steph|Stef|Steff)(en|an)")
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Sion Arrowsmith wrote:
> Absolutely. I've written quite a lot of code (which I wasn't expecting
> anyone else to maintain) using 'I' for the same reasons. Plus, it's
> even shorter in terms of characters (if not keystrokes), stands out
> reasonably well, and for how I read it makes for better Engli
Dave Hansen wrote:
> Not really. It was mostly a lead-in to that last sentence. Problems
> like this couldn't happen in Python. So it's an opportunity to get a
> giggle at the expense of programmers using a language that gives you
> enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot...
Which can be enti
Stelios Xanthakis wrote:
> Also, I think that perl does that because otherwise code like
>
> if ($x) $y++ if $z; else $z--;
>
> would be even more confusing :)
With or without braces, that's not legal code. A one-line if can't be
followed by an else. The closest you can do is this:
$y++ if $z
RunLevelZero wrote:
> 10:00am - 11:00am:
> Here is the re.
>
> findshows =
> re.compile(r'(\d\d:\d\d\D\D\s-\s\d\d:\d\d\D\D:*.*)')
1. A regex remembers everything it matches -- no need to wrap the entire
thing in parens. Just call group() on the returned MatchObject.
2. If all you want is the
Panos Laganakos wrote:
> i.e. we usually define private properties and provide public functions
> to access them, in the form of:
> get { ... } set { ... }
>
> Should we do the same in Python:
> Or there's no point in doing so?
>
> Some other techniques come to mind, but I think that Python tends
Philippe Martin wrote:
''
On the other hand, foo.__doc__ and foo.__name__ work fine.
(I was going to quote your post but my reader interprets everything after
the two dashes as your sig and ignores it. And I won't bother to fix it.)
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Philippe Martin wrote:
> I'm not sure I understand what you mean ... I did get a strange new
> message from my email client and disabled the signature.
Look again at the post I replied to (great-grandparent of this one). It's
not your sig quote that was the problem.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> If you are parsing HTML, it may make more sense to use a package
> designed especially for that purpose, like Beautiful Soup.
I don't know Beautiful Soup, but one advantage regexes have over some
parsers is handling malformed html. Omitted closing tags can wreak havoc.
Kevin Simmons wrote:
> I have a python script that prompts the user for input from stdin via a
> menu. I want to process that input when the user types in two characters
> and not have to have the user press . As a comparison, in the bash
> shell one can use (read -n 2 -p "-->" CHOICE; case $CHOICE
Scott Simpson wrote:
> def func():
> from sys import stderr, exit
> try:
> f = open("foo", 'r')
> except IOError:
> print >> stderr, "Input file foo does not exist"
> exit(1)
IOError can be raised when foo exists, e.g. if there's a permission problem.
It'
Leonardo da Vinci wrote:
>> to limit the width to something acceptable, and show
>> only the tail of the line.
>
> Yes, this is exactly what I wanted to do. Do you know a way to
> accomplish that? Because Eric Brunel said it is impossible on a
> Listbox.
Use a string slice.
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Peter Otten wrote:
> del x[-1:] # or del x[-1] if you are sure that len(x) > 0
> just deletes the last item (if any) from x whereas
> x = x[:-1]
> copies all but the last item of the original list into a new one. This can
> take much longer:
But his data is a string, which is immutable but heavily
[email protected] wrote:
> class Item(object):
>def __init__(self, value):
> self.val=value
> self.order = dict(c=0, a=1, d=2, b=3)
>def __cmp__(self, other):
> return cmp(self.order[self.val], self.order[other.val])
An object that keeps track of the order it's stored in an
Steven Bethard wrote:
> Ok, lets get comparable functions by writing them both in Python:
First of all, your functions aren't quite comparable. The first index takes
the value to locate as a variable, while the second has both values
hard-coded as literals. Changing the second one to index2(L, a
Scott David Daniels wrote:
> It is not currently possible to delete or replace individual elements
> in a zip file, nor (in all likelihood) would you want to do so. It
> would require having the zip[ file in a broken state for some time
> as you copy data from one area of the zip to another.
If
John Salerno wrote:
> Thanks, but I'm still a little confused. Since I'm running Windows
You misplaced your period, it goes at the end of that line. ;)
> assume that I can't run the chmod line on my own computer.
Sure you can, install cygwin. chmod only affects files on your computer,
and won'
gregarican wrote:
>> How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
>> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>
> Actual the parent post on the thread wasn't asking a question. They
> were making a somewhat puzzling dangling statement.
Maybe it's time for the sequel, How To Make Smart Statements
Daniel Nogradi wrote:
> I have next to zero experience with windows but as far as I know
> windows doesn't have file permissions at all (anyone, please correct
> me if I'm wrong :)) so in windows land it doesn't make any sense to
> "change file permissions".
Actually Windows has a quite good perm
John Salerno wrote:
> Obviously the single backslash at the end of 'path' will cause a
> problem, and escaping it with a backslash seems to fix this problem, but
> how does escaping work when I already have it as a raw string?
see the first two items here:
http://www.ferg.org/projects/python_gotc
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> The function basically takes in a list of all the prime number found,
> it takes the next number to be tested for (next) and the limit it will
> go up to. It divide next by the list of previous prime numbers if next
> is not bigger than lim, count up all the times where i
Scott David Daniels wrote:
> Edward Elliott wrote:
>> Scott David Daniels wrote:
>>>...
> > ... You windows kids and your crazy data formats.
> There were a few oth OS's than Linux and Windows. Maybe you
> should call me "you crazy Tenex kid."
W
Holger wrote:
> oops, that was kinda embarrassing.
It's really not. You got a completely unhelpful error message saying you
passed 2 args when you only passed one explicitly. The fact the b is also
an argument to b.addfile(f) is totally nonobvious until you know that 1) b
is an object not a modu
Scott David Daniels wrote:
> Actually I think it was a combination of CP/M and DOS that popularized
> the ZIP format; essentially the floppy-disk set, for whom the zip format
> was a godsend.
Ah you're right. I just lump all Microsoft OSes under the term 'Windows'
now, though I suppose that's unf
Steve Holden wrote:
> Objects don't actually "pass references to themselves". The interpreter
> adds the bound instance as the first argument to a call on a bound method.
Sure, if you want to get technical For that matter, objects don't actually
call their methods either -- the interpreter looks
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> For the list [1,2,3,4], I'm looking for the following for k = 2:
>
> [[1,2], [3,4]]
> [[1,3], [2,4]]
> [[1,4], [2,3]]
That's not what you asked for the first time. You said you wanted "m
non-empty, disjoint subsets", but the subsets above are clearly not all
disjoint;
Serge Orlov wrote:
> I. Myself wrote:
>> Suppose it is supposed to run for one minute, but it just keeps going
>> and going. Does Python have any way to kill it?
>
> On linux it's pretty easy to do, just setup alarm signal. On windows
> it's not so trivial to the point you cannot do it using pyth
bruno at modulix wrote:
>> that 1) b is an object not a module*, and 2) objects pass references to
>> themselves as the first argument to their methods.
>
> Nope. It's the MethodType object (a descriptor) that wraps the function
> that do the job. The object itself is totally unaware of this.
It'
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> while 1:
> line = f.readline().rstrip("\n")
> if line == '':
> break
> #if not re.findall(r'^$',line):
> print line
you want continue, not break there. but that gives you an infinite loop, so
you need a new exit condition
bruno at modulix wrote:
> It is to be taken literally. Either you talk about how Python
> effectively works or the whole discussion is useless.
I started talking about the code-level view (programmer's perspective) so
shorthand was fine. Now that we've moved on to interpreter/compiler-level
stuff
Florian Lindner wrote:
> I think the best solution would be to use a seperation character:
>
> dir="/home/florian, /home/john, home/whoever"
>
> What character would be best to work on various operating systems? (of
> what names may a path consist is the question)
I don't think there are any uni
bruno at modulix wrote:
> re-phrase it according to how Python works, and you'll get the answer:
>
> "Is there a way to bind multiple names to the same object, but so the
> identity of this object is different from the identity of this object ?"
Which raises an interesting parallel question: is
Scott David Daniels wrote:
> A little better:
>
> f = open("test.dat")
> for line in f:
> printLine = line.rstrip("\n")
> if printLine:
> print printLine
[sys.stdout.write(line) for line in open('test.dat') if line.rstrip('\n')]
Where's my prize? What do
Heiko Wundram wrote:
> Integer and string objects
> are immutable in Python, so why'd you want to have different IDs for an
> object of the same value? It's the value you're working with in a program,
> not the objects ID. At least it should be, if you're truly intent on
> working with the (pseudo-
Bruno Desthuilliers wrote:
> Edward, I know I told you so at least three times, but really,
> seriously, do *yourself* a favor : take time to read about descriptors
> and metaclasses - and if possible to experiment a bit - so you can get a
> better understanding of Python's object model. Then I'll
Ben Finney wrote:
> So now you're proposing that this be a special case when a function is
> declared by that particular syntax, and it should be different to when
> a function is created outside the class definition and added as a
> method to the object at run-time.
>
> Thus breaking not only "ex
Ben Finney wrote:
> So the tradeoff you propose is:
>
> - Honour "explicit is better than implicit", but users are confused
> over "why do I need to declare the instance in the method
> signature?"
>
> against
>
> - Break "explicit is better than implicit", take away some of the
>
Roy Smith wrote:
> decision. In Python, assignment is not an operator with side effects like
> in C or Java, but a statement.
assignemnt is actually an expression in those languages, not a
statement.
> The lack of embedded assignments leads to slightly more verbose code in
> situations like
Edward Elliott wrote:
> assignemnt is actually an expression in those languages, not a
> statement.
s/statement/operator/
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Edward Elliott wrote:
> Edward Elliott wrote:
>> assignemnt is actually an expression in those languages, not a
>> statement.
>
> s/statement/operator/
it was probably clearer the first time, but let me rephrase:
in C/Java, assignment is neither a statement not a
Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
>> I work for a risk-averse company, and I want to compile a solid case for
>> obtaining and using Python at work.
>>
> Given the nature of the US Patent Office... You might as well lock
> the doors now...
>
> The Patent Office could issue a patent next week that makes all
Bruno Desthuilliers wrote:
> IOW, let's give Edward some time to come up with enough rope so we can
> hang him to the nearest (AS) Tree !-)
That's all I ask. ;)
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Bruno Desthuilliers wrote:
> But then, constructs like:
>
> class Obj(object):
>def method(...): ...
>method = staticmethod(method)
>
> or it's newer syntactic-sugar-version would become somewhat more
> difficult to parse properly - but I admit that this is beyond my
> knowledge.
Hmm, th
bruno at modulix wrote:
> And of course propose an implementation - perhaps the compiler.ast could
> be useful ?
Ugh. Just when I thought I'd seen my last abstract syntax tree, one rears
its ugly head.
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Michele Simionato wrote:
> Python solution is to rely on the intelligence of programmers. If they
> see an all caps name and then they try to change it without knowing what
> they are doing, then they are stupid. If you have stupid programmers there
> is no way the language can stop them for makin
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