G'day,
While the list is kind of slow I thought I'd post a few thoughts on a couple
of things in Python that bug me. They're not really questions but maybe
someone can help me understand.
The first one is lists... I can't for the life of me understand why a list
starts at zero. In everything e
Let me see if I can tackle these..
On Jun 4, 2006, at 8:33 AM, John Connors wrote:
> The first one is lists... I can't for the life of me understand why a
> list
> starts at zero. In everything else in life other than programming the
> 1st
> item in a list is always 1.
>
> The next thing I don'
John Connors wrote:
G'day,
While the list is kind of slow I thought I'd post a few thoughts on a couple
of things in Python that bug me. They're not really questions but maybe
someone can help me understand.
The first one is lists... I can't for the life of me understand why a list
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John Connors wrote:
> G'day,
>
> While the list is kind of slow I thought I'd post a few thoughts on a couple
> of things in Python that bug me. They're not really questions but maybe
> someone can help me understand.
Maybe I can give you some not-really answers ;)
>
> The first one is lists..
John Connors wrote:
>
> The first one is lists... I can't for the life of me understand why a list
> starts at zero. In everything else in life other than programming the 1st
> item in a list is always 1.
Hi,
Exactly, everything else other than programming. Zero indexed arrays are
the norm in
Hi John,
I'll pitch in although I've read most of the other answers
too so I'll be adding to them mostly.
> The first one is lists... I can't for the life of me understand why
> a list
> starts at zero. In everything else in life other than programming
Not quite. In math zero is usually the sta
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Alan Gauld wrote, On 06/04/2006 04:01 PM:
> Hi John,
>
> I'll pitch in although I've read most of the other answers
> too so I'll be adding to them mostly.
>
>> The first one is lists... I can't for the life of me understand why
>> a list
>> starts
* Hugo González Monteverde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060604 13:04]:
>
> Exactly, everything else other than programming. Zero indexed arrays are
> the norm in everything but moronic old VB. I guess it's just a defacto
> standard now.
I make equal parts of my income from writing python code and fr
I think we should say that the number set is zero
through nine (not 1-10 as we were taught in school),
making "zero" the first number in the set; thus the
offset by one. Of course zero is not a number, but a
placeholder for a number. Thankfully this concept was
invented a few centuries ago in India
hi john,
everyone else has posted great replies to your inquiries, so i'll keep
mine brief.
> While the list is kind of slow I thought I'd post a few thoughts on a couple
> of things in Python that bug me.
my 1st comment is that you are not talking about Python alone.
everything you state pertai
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Hi list,
I am pickling a dictionary that has as one of it's values an object I
create on the fly. When I try to unpickle that object, cPickle attempts
to recreate that object but of course that module is not present
anymore. How can I just make it sk
>> Not quite. In math zero is usually the starting point, its
>> generally
>> viewed as a positive number(although it is obviously neither
>> positive
>> or negative)
> That is just not true. A number is positive if and only if it is
> strictly greater than 0 by definition. Zero is not consider
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