On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Kent Johnson wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 10:09 AM, kevin parks wrote:
>> Yeah i don't mean an infinite loop, but more like a perpetual dance back and
>> forth between to items
>> that point to each other. I think I need to be careful when i define the
>> ru
"kevin parks" wrote
I been using that flatten function since 1970. Prolly pilfered from
Tim Peters or Effbot.
Are you sure about that date?
If you did get it from Tim or F/ it certainly wouldn't have been in
Python back then!
:-)
Alan G
kevin parks wrote:
On Oct 12, 2009, at 8:02 PM, Dave Angel wrote:
Often, when a combination of existing stdlib collection types gets
too confusing, it's time to consider classes and objects. Not
necessarily to make the program "object oriented," but to make the
program data structure unders
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 10:09 AM, kevin parks wrote:
>> > I don't understand why you want to flatten outlist; when I run your
>> > program I get one number per line, not one generation per line as you
>> > show above.
>
>
> That's odd. Anyway in my program I am printing the list twice. The first
>
On Oct 12, 2009, at 8:02 PM, Dave Angel wrote:
Often, when a combination of existing stdlib collection types gets
too confusing, it's time to consider classes and objects. Not
necessarily to make the program "object oriented," but to make the
program data structure understandable.
That
> You might be interested in Steven Wolfram's book, "A New Kind of
> Science" and the many examples on his web site:
> http://www.wolframscience.com/ See Wikipedia as well. This is a very
> rich area.
Thanks. That was just the kind of reference I was looking for.
Fantastic.
I am sure i wont
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 5:01 AM, kevin parks wrote:
> First, as i mentioned I would like to know what, precisely, this kind of
> process is called so that i can look it up.
It looks like a simple cellular automaton where a cell's neighborhood
includes only the cell itself. You might be interested
kevin parks wrote:
I posted
about this a couple weeks back, but then got horribly ill and dropped
the ball so i was hoping to revisit.
I am not sure if this is and example of Finite Automaton or a Finite
State Machine or perhaps it is related to a transition table or markov
process. I think
