. It will be one line
shorter to print the other order.
As a hint - think of what the python interpreter's stack looks like when
it's running your code at the moment - that's the stack you're currently
using (and need to use) to store the results you print.
Tim
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[email protected] wrote:
> A message with some ticket links from a thread on the twisted-python
> mailing list: http://bit.ly/8csFSa
Some of those tickets seem out of date; a better plan would be to query
for tickets with the "py3k" keyword:
http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/search?q=py3
the profile
>expectancy?
I am amazed that a PhD does not already have some clues about the answers
to these questions. Your best plan is to start exploiting your network of
contacts. If you don't already have a network of commercial contacts, then
you have a long, hard road ahead of you
So I want an editor with auto complete.
I there any such tool in Python ?(not only in python any other)
I want it for my new lang
vim? emacs? or do you want the editor to be written in Python?
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t's possible to handle that, but each layer has to know about
"notifications", and has to be able to hand "notifications" up the
hierarchy tree until it gets to someone who knows what to do about it.
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perlsyntax wrote:
>
>I just want to know could it be done makeing my own socket tool that
>connect to two server at the same time.And what link do i need to look at?
You can certainly connect to two (or any number) servers at the same time,
but you have to create two sockets to do it
gt;> round(x-y,6)
0.0
Mark's solution is the generically correct one, which takes into account
the rough range of the values.
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* He hasn't actually defined a docstring. Docstrings have to be string
literals, you can't do this:
"""%s does everything you could possibly want.""" % "xyz"
I've occasionally wanted something like this, and have found that
it can be done by manually assigning to __doc__ (either at the
modul
Carl Banks wrote:
What if the object is a string you just read from a file?
How do you dispatch using polymorphism in that case?
This is where I most miss a switch/case statement in Python...I
do lots of text-file processing (cellular provider data), so I
have lots of code (for each provider
MRAB wrote:
Tim Chase wrote:
switch row['recordtype']:
case '01':
phone.international += Decimal(row['internationalcost'])
// optionally a "break" here depending on
// C/C++/Java/PHP syntax vs. Pascal syntax which
/
[email protected] wrote:
I'm looking for a small, simple, fast, Python based web server
for a simple, client side application we're building.
I've used WebStack[1] for this in the past. It allows for
stand-alone serving as well as plugging nicely into various
"real" servers (apache+mod_pyt
Great example Tim. This is something that many of us must be dealing
with on a daily basis. The problem has enough details (bar one), to
allow an answer and not so detailed as to be confusing. And for me
it's a particularly good example, because your need accommodate
mulitple provider fo
On 12/10/2009 09:22 PM, John Bokma wrote:
Tim Chase writes:
Please don't delete attribution line(s), added:
Asun Friere writes:
I tend to prune them because a good newsreader will thread
messages and put my reply in the context of the message to which
I'm replying. Both T
l = ['asc', '*nbh*', 'jlsdjfdk', 'ikjh', '*jkjsdfjasd*', 'rewr']
Notice that some of the items in the list start and end with an '*'. I wish to
construct a new list, call it 'n' which is all the members of l that start and
end with '*', with the '*'s removed.
So in the case above n would be ['
I'm curious, in an academic sense, if it's possible to spawn the
interactive interpreter (>>>) in a running python application. Ideally, I
would like to be able to access the modules, functions and variables the
application can.
Is something like this possible?
While not exactly "the intera
d a slight address book malfunction when he sent this.
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Steven D'Aprano wrote:
2) Should I use streams?
What do you mean by "streams"?
they're what come out of proton packs...just don't cross them.
It would be bad.
-tkc
(I suspect the OP is a Java/C++ programmer where "streams" are
somewhat akin to generators, but less powerful; so the answer
Grant Edwards wrote:
If it's a binary file...
OK, but... what is a "binary" file?
One containing data encoded in base-2.
Or one of a system of two files that orbits around a common
center of mass? So if you see two files orbiting around a
cathedral, they're binary files.
f.open('binaryf
ve the same kind of
code to push "this", for example, even though "this" is not shown in the
parameter list.
I agree with the other repliers. "Explicit" self is not "implemented"
anywhere. It's just an implementation decision.
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Gabriel Genellina wrote:
Peter Otten escribió:
bsneddon wrote:
I am going to read a text file that is an export from a control
system.
It has lines with information like
base=1 name="first one" color=blue
I would like to put this info into a dictionary for processing.
import shlex
s = 'base=
time.
>Where do I get strict date parsing?
You do it yourself. Strict date parsing is incredibly tricky.
The eGenix mx.DateTime module might be more to your liking.
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Dani wrote:
Is it correct that low-level file handles are not being closed after
doing
fd = open(filepath)
fd.close()
no, you are not correct.
Demonstration:
Cmd window #1:
c:\temp> echo hello world > x.txt
Cmd window #2
c:\temp> python
Python 2.4.3 (#69, Mar 29 2006, 17:35:34) [MSC v
On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 15:44 +0100, Virgil Stokes wrote:
> I have a rather large Java package for the analysis of networks that I
> would like to convert to Python. Many of the classes in the Java package
> are "Serializable".
>
> Any recommendations on Java-to-Python (2.6) would be appreciated.
Victor Subervi wrote:
How do I...?
Well, you start by reading a book on how to program. You would
then learn that what you want (in all likelihood) is a
dictionary/map structure for dynamically created key/value pairs.
Once you have progressed from your current apprenticeship and
achieved
Victor Subervi wrote:
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Tim Chase wrote:
Well, you start by reading a book on how to program. You would then learn
that what you want (in all likelihood) is a dictionary/map structure for
dynamically created key/value pairs. Once you have progressed from your
Ray Holt wrote:
When I run a dir(_builtins_) I get the error message that the name
_builtins_ is not defined. I haven't tried the dir function on other
functions, but can someone tell me why I am getting this message? Thanks,
Ray
So close, and yet thrown by requisite extra underscores:
>>> di
Victor Subervi wrote:
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Stephen Hansen wrote:
Of course, I can pass the page name as a parameter, but that's not
elegant.
That is precisely what it is in fact-- elegant; it is non-elegant to have
magical behavior where what 'imports' something somehow changes or
Victor Subervi wrote:
The aim was not arrogance, but expression of exasperation
"Walk a mile in my mocassins." You can't do it. I'm an artist.
I think out of my right hemisphere, not my left like you. You
couldn't possibly understand.
[snip]
Thank you for your help anyway. Thank you for your
Chris Rebert wrote:
>On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 9:47 PM, Tim Roberts wrote:
>> Tobias Weber wrote:
>>>
>>>despite the directives for leading zero stime.strptime('09121',
>>>'%y%m%d') returns the first of December. Shouldn't it raise V
John wrote:
Hi there,
I have a rather lengthy program that troubles me for quite some time. After
some debugging, I arrived at the following assertion error:
for e in edges.keys():
assert edges.has_key(e)
Oops!? Is there ANY way that something like this can possibly happen?
Three w
John wrote:
another thread can remove the key prior to the has_key call; or perhaps
edges isn't a real dictionary?
of course. But unless there is a way of using threading without being aware of
it, this is not the case. Also, edges is definitely a dict (has been declared
some lines before,
vsoler wrote:
I'm using Python 2.6.4 on Windows (Vista & 7)
I usually start Python by clicking on Start Menu the Python IDLE
(Python GUI).
However, if I want to save a new source *.py file, the default
directory proposed for saving is not the one that I want.
What can I do if I want that the c
I'm trying to work up a programming course using Python,
aimed at secondary school students [*] here in London. One
of my aims is to have a series of compact but functional
examples, each demonstrating a particular field in which
Python (and programming) can be useful.
I'm trying to come up with
er-draw control. See the ListCtrl_virtual.py example, for
instance.
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On Sun, 2009-12-27 at 20:10 +, Star Glider wrote:
> the problem is that the one of the fields as text in rich text format,
> and it needs to be display without the RTF markup, of course.
> Is there any way to convert RTF to HTML?
Depending on how precisely you need to lay it out you might fin
Shawn Milochik wrote:
[... suggesting Video rendering and name/address matching ...]
Thanks for those, Shawn. The latter's more within my
power, but the former certainly has an extra buzz factor. I'll
look around to see if I can rustle up some straightforward
example of the kind of thing...
TJG
MyFunc( 27 )
MyFunc( "abcde" )
If the thing passed in is a list or an object, you can modify the object in
place without trickery. You can check that with the "type" operator:
if type(varPassed) == list:
pass
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Nobody wrote:
On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 20:06:02 +, Tim Golden wrote:
I'm trying to come up with something which will illustrate
the usefulness of a distributed processing model. Since I
may not be using the term "distributed" exactly, my
criteria are:
* It should be clear that
However the following is not an error
for x in []:
assert type(x) == type(())
I expected an AssertionError but get no errors at all.
Any explaination?
number_of_times_through_the_loop = 0
for x in []:
assert type(x) == type(())
number_of_times_through_the_loop += 1
print nu
oint value "1.1" in a new
variable called "DO10I".
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On Tue, 2009-12-29 at 19:44 +0100, Chris Colbert wrote:
> I'm happy to announce the first beta release of Pymazon: a Python
> implemented alternative to the Amazon mp3 downloader.
>
> Pymazon was created specifically to alleviate the issues surrounding
> the Linux version of the Amazon mp3 downlo
vsoler wrote:
Hence, I need to parse Excel formulas. Can I do it by means only of re
(regular expressions)?
I know that for simple formulas such as "=3*A7+5" it is indeed
possible. What about complex for formulas that include functions,
sheet names and possibly other *.xls files?
Where things
I need to do something like the following:
pat = re.compile('edit[0-9]*:[0-9]*')
check = form.getfirst(pat)
(to check things like 'edit0:1') How do I do this?
Well, you can do it either as
check = pat.search(string_to_search)
which is pretty plainly detailed in the help for the "re
Victor Subervi wrote:
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Tim Chase wrote:
But if you're using it on HTML form text, regexps are usually the wrong
tool, and you should be using an HTML parser (such as BeautifulSoup) that
knows how to handle odd text and escapings better and more robustly
Victor Subervi wrote:
Hi;
The following code works fine. I would like you to suggest something more
simple and elegant:
sql = 'select p.ID from %sPackages p join %sCategoriesPackages c where
c.CategoryID=%s;' % (store, store, categoryID)
cursor.execute(sql)
tmp = [itm[0] for it
monkeys paw wrote:
How do you access the command line from the
python interpreter?
on unix:
type python
>>> print 'hey'
'hey'
>>> # I want to access the shell here, how do i do that?
If you're interactive, I'd just use standard process/job control,
and hit control+Z to suspend and "fg"
Steve Holden wrote:
Steve Holden wrote:
[...]
Can someone explain why these two commands are giving different
results? I thought I should have the same number of matches (or maybe
different by 1, but not 6000!)
re.MULTLINE is apprently 1, and you are providing it as the "maxsplit"
argument. C
On 13/01/2010 20:24, Aahz wrote:
In article,
Tim Golden wrote:
I'm trying to come up with something which will illustrate the
usefulness of a distributed processing model. Since I may not be using
the term "distributed" exactly, my criteria are:
Distributed spider with firew
pth of recursion (I'd use a dict of
fname->recursion-depth to keep tabs on how deep I'd gotten, and
raise an exception if I go too deep), but otherwise, that should
give you a pretty straight-forward and easy-to-tweak starting point.
Hope this helps,
-tim
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On 14/01/2010 18:16, Mike Driscoll wrote:
I think distributed transcoding of hi-def videos would be cool, but I
haven't found much with Google. Still, you might find this useful for
your project:
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/AsynCluster/0.3
Thanks. I suspect that that would be overkill for what
On 15/01/2010 07:20, Greg K wrote:
I'm trying to create a program that will process files dragged into
its window, however I can't seem to get the cursor to change correctly
when something is dragged over the window. I've created an object that
implements the IDropTarget interface, but it seems t
On 15/01/2010 15:43, r0g wrote:
Distributed password cracking? It's really simple yet potentially
engaging and could be a good segway into teaching them about
computability and security. All you need is a bunch of password hashes
and a wordlist.
At the moment, that's pretty much what my example
W. eWatson wrote:
Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2010-01-15, W. eWatson wrote:
I thought I'd put a page break, chr(12), character in a txt
file I wrote to skip to the top of the page. It doesn't work.
Comments?
Yes, it does work.
Apparently not with with my Brother 1440 laser printer. The characte
W. eWatson wrote:
Tim Chase wrote:
The pseudo-pipeline comparison would be
type file.txt > lpt1:
which would send the raw text file to the printer (assuming it's set up
on LPT1, otherwise, use whatever port it's attached to in your printer
control panel); or are you using s
W. eWatson wrote:
I am writing a txt file. It's up to the user to print it using
Notepad or some other tool. I have no idea how to send it
directly to the printer, but I really don't want to furnish
that capability in the program. From Google, The Graphics
Device Interface (GDI).
If you're wri
John Yeung wrote:
In another response, Tim Chase suggested creating an RTF file instead
of plain text. I think this is your best bet if your goal is to get
page breaks with the least amount of additional effort.
The package he's probably referring to is PyRTF. I took a quick look
at it a
Phlip wrote:
On Jan 12, 7:09 am, ikuta liu wrote:
Go language try to merge low level, hight level and browser language.
Go uses := for assignment.
This means, to appease the self-righteous indignation of the math
professor who would claim = should mean "equality"...
...you gotta type a shif
[email protected] wrote:
I want to parse a log file with the following format for
example:
TIMESTAMPEOperation FileName
Bytes
12/Jan/2010:16:04:59 +0200 EXISTS sample3.3gp 37151
12/Jan/2010:16:04:59 +0200 EXISTSsample3.3gp 37151
12/Jan/2010:16:04:
"Jean Guillaume Pyraksos" wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> What's the best one to use with beginners ?
> Something with integrated syntax editor, browser of doc...
> Thanks,
>
>JG
eclipse + pydev works well f
Gnarlodious wrote:
for name in ["object1", "object2", "object3"]:
d = {name: classname()}
print d[name]
This works! However I end up saying:
d['Server'].Config.BaseURL
to get the data, when I should be saying:
Server.Config.BaseURL
It sounds like you want a mapping of strings to cl
MRAB wrote:
[email protected] wrote:
Is there a built-in method in python that lets you specify a "default"
value that will be returned whenever you try to access a list item
that is out of bounds? Basically, it would be a function like this:
def item(x,index,default):
try:
return x[
(\s+)', "Hello world!")
> ['Hello', ' ', 'world!']
also, partition works though it returns a tuple instead of a list.
>>> s = 'hello world'
>>> s.partition(' ')
('hello', ' ', 'world')
>>>
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works by using image analysis to locate the regions on the screen to
be tickled. It's a novel idea, although others have correctly pointed out
that it's not the most efficient way to automate applications.
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announcement. It is, for the most part, THE canonical example of the wrong
way to conduct a development effort.
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r) to watch the PID file if it were deleted reliably.
If the server crashes then it clearly won't get around to deleting it's
pid file.
The way I do it is to use os.kill (with signal 0 IIRC) to check if the
process is still alive when the script starts. If it's not then I delete
t
ce
>> with such use that might suggest sources?
>
>Win XP OS. Any general methods for dealing with such commercially built
>capture cards?
Let me Google that for you.
http://www.lmgtfy.com?q=python+video+capture+windows
Most such devices use DirectShow, so you need a C++ extensi
was added in
Maildir++, and the subfolder names start with a dot. It's not a "wierd
extension thereof".
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Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Sun, 27 Sep 2009 16:11:52 +0200, Stef Mientki wrote:
I've a Python desktop application, running under Widows, that stores the
data in a central SQLite database.
Depending on the user login on the system, some of the data from the
database is allowed and other data is
Tim Golden wrote:
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
[... snip further stuff from Stephen
whose name I can't even copy from three lines above :)
Sorry, Steven.
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I have tuples in the format shown below:
(u('2','3','4'),u('5','6','7')u('20','21','22'))
Um, this is not valid Python which might explain the errors
you're getting. Are you sure you don't mean to write:
((u'2', u'3', u'4'), (u'5', u'6', u'7')...)
because "u" prefixing a tuple is
Piet van Oostrum wrote:
Steven D'Aprano (SD) wrote:
SD> What you describe is impossible -- os.listdir() returns an ordinary list,
SD> it isn't a lazy iterator that updates automatically as the directory
SD> changes. (At least not in Python2.5 -- I haven't checked Python 3.1.)
He's not usi
a month or two back where folks were asking to turn os.listdir()
into an iterator (or create an os.xlistdir() or os.iterdir()
function) because directories with lots of files were causing
inordinate slowdown. Yes, listdir() in both 2.x and 3.x both
return lists while such a proposed iterator vers
What's the sanest way to print out all the files in the directory that
start with the underscore? Ie, I just want to list _1, _2, _3, _4.
I'd use a string's join() method to combine the results of a
list-comprehension or generator that filtered the output of
os.listdir() based on the startswit
import os
for filename in os.listdir("/usr/bbs/confs/september"):
#stat = os.stat(filename)
if filename.startswith("_"):
print filename
yes, as lallous mentioned, this can be done as a
list-comprehension/generator. If printing is all you want to do,
it's a nice and concise
a fucking idiot...
> motherfucking aggresive
> it's just few of priest fuckheads
> look at lojban's motherfucking idiotic logo
If you really knew anything about social function you would be able to
work out why people think you are a troll.
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error?
Not clear which "int" error you mean, but trying to help anyway...
You need to use raw strings (or use double-backslashes). That
may or may not be the cause of your problems, but it certainly
won't help. You may also run into theoretical restrictions of
what remote WMI proce
On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 18:36 +0200, Donn wrote:
> see: http://www.panda3d.org/wiki/index.php/Attaching_an_Object_to_a_Joint
+1 for Panda 3d.
Their Node graph is very intuitive for animating joints, and Panda's API
is very nice and clean.
TimW
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One feature I have that emacs don't is that I'm able to efficiently edit
a file on a remote machine with vim on a terminal (without graphical
interface), and I'm using it. Apart from that, both solutions are
emacs has the same efficiency on a terminal.
or maybe I don't understand your sentence.
Carl Banks wrote:
On Oct 7, 10:29 am, Tim Chase wrote:
Perhaps this is a reference to the alt/meta/control/buckey/super
key-chords that emacs is infamous for using
It's Esc-Meta-Alt-Ctrl-Shift
Sure that's not Winkey+Tab+Fn? :-)
-tkc
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David Jackson wrote:
ok, cut and pasted, but changed the username/password to protect the innocent.
this is from interactive prompt.
let me know if i am still not doing the slashes correctly please.
i doubt authentication is the issue.; i can get pid information using
WQL queries.
objCreateProc.C
Processor-Dev1l wrote:
On Oct 8, 10:22 am, Tim Golden wrote:
David Jackson wrote:
ok, cut and pasted, but changed the username/password to protect the innocent.
this is from interactive prompt.
let me know if i am still not doing the slashes correctly please.
i doubt authentication is the
Month arithmetic is a bit of a mess, since it's not clear how
to map e.g. Jan 31 + one month.
"Jan 31 + one month" usually means "add one to the month value
and then keep backing off the day if you get an exception making
the date", so you'd get Feb 31, exception, Feb 30, exception, Feb
29, p
Che M wrote:
2. Start your own.
As long it is not another new code editor for Python.
There are a lot already.
How about writing a web framework instead? [grins & ducks]
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But if I chose as a value another number (a big one, let say 1e10) I
get what I will expect also in the case of the chose of the integer 10
showed above:
a=1e10
d=1e10
d is a
False
id(a)
11388984
id(d)
11388920
CPython has the option to cache frequently used items, and does
so for a small
gt; And I know somebody, in other languages, thinks it's
> a Best Practice to avoid using exceptions for flow control.
>
> Thankfully, python programmers are less dogmatic, and use whatever makes
> sense to use. I hope.
Absolutely. And it doesn't make sense to use exceptions for flow control :-)
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eption )
And with enough static analysis to guarantee that the break will be
reached? I think it would be a bit much to expect Python to solve the
halting problem!
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cannot decrease indefinitely, if you can define
a loop variant then you gurantee that the loop will terminate.
Even if you are not being formal, just considering what the loop
variants and invariants can save no end of trouble with tricky loops.
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p.kill()
print 'skipping' # this works ok
break
s = ''
if p:
s = p.stdout.read() # trhis will hang occasionally
if not s:
continue
--------
Dave Angel wrote:
def find(root):
for pdf in os.walk(root, topdown=False):
for file in pdf[2]:
yield os.path.join(pdf[0],file)
At the risk of nitpicking, I think that a modicum of
tuple-unpacking would aid readability here:
for dirpath, dirnames, filenames in
2009/10/11 Philip Semanchuk :
> IMHO, break, goto, etc. have their place, but they're ripe for abuse which
> leads to spaghetti code.
Unrestricted goto can leat to spaghetti code, but surely break can't?
AFAICS, any break construct will still be H-K reducible.
--
T
Xavier Ho wrote:
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 6:39 PM, Chris Rebert wrote:
Nanjundi meant "index method" as in "a method .index()" (i.e. a method
named "index") which searches through the container for the given item
and returns the index of the first instance of said item, like
list.index() does.
Peng Yu wrote:
It says on http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/
... don't get too hung up on things like this. Just
use the modules.
But StringIO does not following this convention. Although on the same
page, it also mentions the following. However, since StringIO is in
the library, shall
I can't send emails out. Can u fix this problem please?
The problem is on line 72.
Oh wait...you didn't include any code or the traceback. Yeah,
that's gonna make it a little difficult to diagnose. But I'm
gonna guess that "The authentication setting might not be correct
for your outgoing e-m
;
>
>
> --
> Thanks,
> --Minesh
Hi Minesh,
Looks like I need to learn about signals--that code looks nice. I'm using
python2.6.
thanks,
--Tim Arnold
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a simple concept, I've been surprised how many places
itertools.count() has come in handy for me.
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On Fri, 2009-10-16 at 01:01 +0200, Mick Krippendorf wrote:
> Maybe my English (and my memory) is just not so good. I'm german, and
> here "abnormal" and "anormal" are both negations of "normal", but with
> a slight difference in meaning. "anormal" means just "not normal",
> whereas the meaning of "
Stephen Hansen wrote:
Why doesn't duck typing apply to `sum`?
Because it would be so hideously slow and inefficient that it'd be way too
easy a way for people to program something they think should work fine but
really doesn't... alternatively, the function would have to do two
/completely/ dif
ry, not merely the only clean way to exit.
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ppened that shouldn't have". If one uses it when something has
happened that *should* have, because it happens to have the right
behaviour (even if the overhead doesn't matter), then one is
misrepresenting the program logic.
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Stephen Hansen wrote:
There really is just a right way verses a wrong way to join strings
together; using + is always the wrong way. Sometimes that level of 'wrong'
is so tiny that no one cares, like if you are using it to join together two
small strings. But when joining together a sequence of s
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