Thanks for this very helpful post, Lie. I find decorators quite interesting
and am always looking for new ways to understand and use them. Your trace
function is fun, and I added it to my decorator library. In response to your
point about event-handling in GUIs:
I haven't used pyqt that exte
Alex,
Many people have trouble wrapping their minds around decorators. I couldn't
find a decent explanation either until reading an allegedly 'advanced' python
book (b/c 'advanced' is in the title, I guess).
An easy explanation might be sufficient, if you don't intend to use them
yourself. A
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On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 10:40:44 pm Siren Saren wrote:
> I'm not sure if there's a way to submit responses 'live' or
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Alan,
Your message appeared on the forum right as I posted my response. Brief
unrelated thanks: your website has been a great help to me as I've been
learning python. I'm especially grateful to you for making it so easy to
download in various formats, since my health problems make it hard for
I'm not sure if there's a way to submit responses 'live' or
whether it's better to respond to subthreads at once or together, so I'll err
on the side of discretion and just send one response. Thanks to each of you
who tried to help me. I've responded individually below.
To summarize the
I'm still fairly new to programming. Python is my first language and I am
teaching myself as best I can. I'm struggling with a situation that I expect
must come up all the time. I can come up with relatively complicated solutions
but I wonder if there's not a more pythonic way of doing it.
I
