As Alan and I disagree on this, to a degree, I thought I would follow up to add
another perspective. Remember that it is _only_ perspective; Alan's opinions
are sound and have good reasons. So are mine:-) We place different values on
the costs and benefits here.
On 17May2015 00:27, alan.ga...@
On 16/05/15 20:25, daaku gee wrote:
I think I understand what's going on here. What I don't understand is
if/when to use property instead of a normal attribute.
1. Is 'property' used widely? Do you use it?
No,
Yes, occasionally
I first came across properties in Borland Delphi (Object Pascal
I came across some code where 'property' is being used for class attributes
(or as a decorator @property)
name = property(lambda self: getattr(self, '_data')['name'])
I think I understand what's going on here. What I don't understand is
if/when to use property instead of a normal attribute.
On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 09:56:33AM -0700, Jim Mooney Py3.4.3winXP wrote:
> def make_error():
> raise ZeroDivisionError('Here I am')
>
> def call_error():
> try:
> make_error()
> except:
> print("How do I get the 'Here I am' message to print in the calling
> routine?")
On 16/05/15 17:56, Jim Mooney Py3.4.3winXP wrote:
I can see I was marvelously unclear ;') Here is what I meant.
def make_error():
raise ZeroDivisionError('Here I am')
def call_error():
try:
make_error()
except:
print("How do I get the 'Here I am' message to pri
On 15 May 2015 at 22:45, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>
> What does "didn't work" mean? Did your computer crash? Catch fire? A
> completely different error got printed? Something else?
I can see I was marvelously unclear ;') Here is what I meant.
def make_error():
raise ZeroDivisionError('Here I
On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 04:11:45AM +, Fast Primes wrote:
>
> How do I set Python to print fixed length ascii--whereby all characters have
> the exact same length?
Use a fixed-width font, also known as a non-proportional, monospaced or
typewriter typeface.
E.g. Monaco (Apple Mac), Courier (
On 16/05/15 05:11, Fast Primes wrote:
How do I set Python to print fixed length ascii--whereby all characters have
the exact same length?
It's not clear what you mean.
Do you mean you want to use the ASCII character set?
That limits all characters to 7 bits long.
If so we probably need a l
How do I set Python to print fixed length ascii--whereby all characters have
the exact same length?
Thanks.
Alex
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