One idea has to do with the fact that there are only 26 (assuming Latin
alphabet) possible first letters, so I would try splitting up the list
of 10,000 into 26 lists in a dictionary indexed by the first letter.
Just doing that is a big reduction of your search space. That way you
won't be doing th
Lawrence Wang wrote:
> >>> struct.calcsize('hq')
> 12
> >>> struct.calcsize('qh')
> 10
>
> why is this? is it platform-dependent? i'm on mac os x.
This has to do with data alignment and is platform-dependent. Are you on
a PowerPC Macintosh? On my Intel Windows XP box, I get the following:
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Dinesh wrote:
> I've avoided it as long as possible but I've reached a stage where I
have to
> start using Python objects! The primary reason is that the web
framework uses
> objects and the second is to eliminate a few globals. Here is example
pseudo
> code followed by the question (one of many
It appears to me that the following line would not work:
>Circle = Oval(points)
The variable "points" is a list of six points, and I don't know how one
would define a circle or oval with 6 points. At the top part of your
program, an oval is defined using two points, which makes sense.
Maybe
Paul,
Python does not allow mixing variable length arguments and keyword arguments in
that way. To accomplish what you want, you must add an argument preceded by a
"**" which will be a dict containing all of the keyword arguments as key, value
pairs. You then have to retrieve the arguments from
