Re: [Tutor] 2 vs 3

2015-09-05 Thread Alan Gauld
On 05/09/15 14:06, Sithembewena Lloyd Dube wrote: A colleague and I are embarking on a project for a client. We have agreed to implement a REST API in Falcon (www.falconframework.org) and colleague wants to implement it in Python 3. Python 3 is the future and where we will all inevitably wind u

Re: [Tutor] Creating lists with definite (n) items without repetitions

2015-09-05 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 05/09/2015 10:09, Peter Otten wrote: marcus lütolf wrote: Hello Peter, hello Martin, many thanks for your very quick response !!! As for Peter's advice: the 5 lists above do not match my task insofar as every of the 5 lists contains 'a' and 'b' which should occur only once, hence my count

Re: [Tutor] 2 vs 3

2015-09-05 Thread Sithembewena Lloyd Dube
@Steven, @Mark, Thanks for the feedback. On Sat, Sep 5, 2015 at 5:37 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote: > On 05/09/2015 14:25, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > >> On Sat, Sep 05, 2015 at 03:06:25PM +0200, Sithembewena Lloyd Dube wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> A colleague and I are embarking on a project for a cli

Re: [Tutor] 2 vs 3

2015-09-05 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 05/09/2015 14:25, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Sat, Sep 05, 2015 at 03:06:25PM +0200, Sithembewena Lloyd Dube wrote: Hi all, A colleague and I are embarking on a project for a client. We have agreed to implement a REST API in Falcon (www.falconframework.org) and colleague wants to implement it

Re: [Tutor] 2 vs 3

2015-09-05 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sat, Sep 05, 2015 at 03:06:25PM +0200, Sithembewena Lloyd Dube wrote: > Hi all, > > A colleague and I are embarking on a project for a client. We have agreed > to implement a REST API in Falcon (www.falconframework.org) and colleague > wants to implement it in Python 3. > > Are there any advan

[Tutor] 2 vs 3

2015-09-05 Thread Sithembewena Lloyd Dube
Hi all, A colleague and I are embarking on a project for a client. We have agreed to implement a REST API in Falcon (www.falconframework.org) and colleague wants to implement it in Python 3. Are there any advantages/ disadvantages of using Python 3? I have always stuck to Python 2. -- Kind rega

Re: [Tutor] Creating lists with definite (n) items without repetitions

2015-09-05 Thread Peter Otten
Peter Otten wrote: [proofreading goof] > OK, you want all triples where no pair inside a triple is repeated. > There are 325 pairs, and one triple uses up three pairs. > That puts an upper limit of 325/3 = 108 on the number of triples. > You then have to find all sets of three > pairs where th

Re: [Tutor] Creating lists with definite (n) items without repetitions

2015-09-05 Thread Peter Otten
marcus lütolf wrote: > Hello Peter, hello Martin, > many thanks for your very quick response !!! > > As for Peter's advice: > >> At first I thought you might want itertools.combinations() >> > import string, itertools > for t in itertools.combinations(string.ascii_lowercase, 3): >> ...