Re: [Tutor] Another try at Python's selfishness

> I have to say that as a newbie, it took me quite a while to get my > head around that extra parameter (self). That's OK, its true of most folks, even non newbies! It is one area where Python is different to most languages who hide the self completely. > It took me ages to work out that: > >clas

Re: [Tutor] list method help

> > You definitely have to stop thinking of variables as containers. They > > are pointers or references to values. Another way to think of this is > > that variables are names for things. > Kent that's a perfectly understandable and easy to grasp analogy. But it > stays just an analogy ;-) Nope.

Re: [Tutor] list method help

> > But this assignment sort of puzzles me to why it's done like this > > (maybe cuz I am not used to it and can not see beyond my own > > experience in coding (having a blind spot or something like that)). If we have a snippet of code like: ### def test(): x = [] f(x) print

Re: [Tutor] list method help

Rinzwind wrote: > On 2/3/06, *Kent Johnson* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > You definitely have to stop thinking of variables as containers. They > are pointers or references to values. Another way to think of this is > that variables are names for things. You

Re: [Tutor] query regarding mysql database backup?? please Help

On Fri, 3 Feb 2006, deepak.gupta wrote: > I did my script like this for backing my max_everest_2006 mysql database > > error: 1044: Access denied for user 'MAX_USER'@'%' to database > 'MAX_EVEREST_2006' when using LOCK TABLES Your question doesn't have to do with Python. Ask your MySQL admini

[Tutor] query regarding mysql database backup?? please Help

Hi, I did my script like this  for backing my max_everest_2006 mysql database   >>import os > > target_dir = "./backup"> > os.system("mysqldump --add-drop-table -c -u root  -pmysql 'MAX_EVEREST_2006' > "+target_dir+"table.bak.sql")      root is my user name,mysql is my password,'MAX_EVERE

Re: [Tutor] list method help

On 2/3/06, Kent Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2/3/06, Chris or Leslie Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:>>Others could give you a really good answer. I am a BASIC/FORTRAN writer >>myself, and getting used to the *object* orientation of python took a little >>while, but after you get the ha

Re: [Tutor] subclass

Christopher Spears wrote: > Here is a problem I'm working on out of Learning > Python: > > Make a subclass of MyList from exercise 2 called > MyListSub which extends MyList to print a message to > stdout before each overloaded operation is called and > counts the number of calls. MyListSub should

[Tutor] subclass

Here is a problem I'm working on out of Learning Python: Make a subclass of MyList from exercise 2 called MyListSub which extends MyList to print a message to stdout before each overloaded operation is called and counts the number of calls. MyListSub should inherit basic method behavoir from MyLi

Re: [Tutor] list method help

> On 2/3/06, Chris or Leslie Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Others could give you a really good answer. I am a BASIC/FORTRAN writer >>myself, and getting used to the *object* orientation of python took a little >>while, but after you get the hang of it, it's not bad. In BASIC you think of >>var

Re: [Tutor] list method help

On 2/3/06, Chris or Leslie Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rinzwind wrote: > | Well Chris or Leslie Smith. > | > | This bit l[:]=l[-1:]+l[0:-1] I think is VERY elegant. When I saw this > | in your post I tought: DUH. > | I did the same with 1 line more but I am still new to python ;) > | > You'r

[Tutor] Fwd: list method help

Chris or Leslie Smith: sorry wrong addess :*( This bit l[:]=l[-1:]+l[0:-1] I think is VERY elegant. When I saw this in your post I tought: DUH. I did the same with 1 line more but I am still new to python ;) Regarding the rest of the 'aside'. What is the reasoning behind this: ### >>> l=range(

Re: [Tutor] Another try at Python's selfishness

On 3 Feb 2006 03:59:10 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I still see "newbie-friendliness" as a > > MAJOR plus for Python -- it increases the chance that users > > of your software will become contributors. > > Yes, I 100% agree to that point! > But the point is, the current s