On 26/07/13 22:55, Jim Mooney wrote:
bigBox = [ {1:2,3:4}, ['a',2,;freddy',True], (1,2,3) ]
That is totally cool. I see something here every day that I know will
be useful. Although Python choked on the semicolon in front of freddy.
Oops, my bad. It should, of course be a quote sign.
And
On 26/07/13 09:50, Albert-Jan Roskam wrote:
if I have d = {1: 2}, I can do membership testing in the following
> two ways --but which one is the preferred way?:
if 1 in d:
pass
if d.has_key(1):
pass
In addition to being more readable (and the fact it's the only way in
v3) 'in' h
On 26/07/13 07:49, Jim Mooney wrote:
If you do dict.keys() in 2.7 you get a list, which is quite handy. But
if you do it in 3.3 you get this odd dict_keys type, for which I have
yet to find a use, and which just requires an extra list step to use.
The same for values. Since most changes from 2.7
On 07/25/2013 09:27 PM, eryksun wrote:
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 7:51 PM, Dave Angel wrote:
And it's apparently safe to change the dictionary after creating the view,
UNTIL the iterator is created.
Notice the error the iterator raised in my example was just about the
dict changing size. If the
On 07/25/2013 06:54 PM, eryksun wrote:
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 6:37 PM, Dave Angel wrote:
For dictionaries, instead of returning a list, keys() returns a dictionary
view. See http://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#dict-views
What's not clear to me is whether this dictionary view obje
On 07/25/2013 05:49 PM, Jim Mooney wrote:
If you do dict.keys() in 2.7 you get a list, which is quite handy. But
if you do it in 3.3 you get this odd dict_keys type, for which I have
yet to find a use, and which just requires an extra list step to use.
The same for values. Since most changes from
