Alan Gauld writes:
> On 11/12/14 23:15, Ben Finney wrote:
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> >> *array = json.load( { "name": "Joe", "address": "111 Street" } )*
> >
> > You are passing a Python dict value to the function. JSON is a
> > serialisation
, until then, switch to a
better client program.
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> On 2014-12-25 16:59, Ben Finney wrote:
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> > http://sscce.org/>.
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> It may be that this link will go away.
> http://www.coderanch.com/t/628405/Ranch-Office/SSCCE-org-document-disappearing
Almost certainly at some future time, but not because o
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> I would consider it good practice to have a copyright statement and a
> grant of license at the top; a handful of lines should suffice.
> […]
> But none of that belongs in the docstring.
>
> […]
> There is PEP 257 https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0
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elegant and readable. They might seem a little magic for now if you
haven't learned about them yet, but this is a good demonstration of
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several serialisation / persistence tools.
https://docs.python.org/3/library/persistence.html>
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Steven D'Aprano writes:
> On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 09:09:16AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
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> > Use a page break (the U+000C FORM FEED) whit
long.
So, those classes should be named ‘Actor’, ‘Movie’, ‘Series’.
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Laura Creighton writes:
> In a message of Sun, 12 Apr 2015 18:05:16 +1000, Ben Finney writes:
> >Please disable that in order to receive individual messages, so you
> >can participate properly: responding to individual messages that the
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Chaining long strings of operations together in a single statement goes
directly against that principle, and hence is to be avoided.
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> Thank you Ben and Martin for your detailed replies. I was debating
> whether or not to post my question at all because it looked vague,
> even to me.
That's not the issue; the question was posed clearly enough. The problem
is that your purpose is opaque, and we
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t block as small as possible.
Better than learning the idiom independently later on, and cramming half
their program into that block :-/
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unlikely to help because it's making distinctions below the level you're
used to thinking about.
Did the Wikipedia article help?
> In summary, and Ben will correct me if I'm wrong, a daemon is a
> computer program that runs as a background task.
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ach "if" until the
> problem became glaringly obvious.
>
> BTW, it isn't good to write tests like:
>
> if theo == True:
>
> "theo" a Boolean anyway. Just say:
>
> if theo:
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> It reads more naturally as well.
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> Cheers,
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So I have to make a fibonacci sequence, and I'm not sure what is wrong with
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nterms=int(input("Please enter how many terms you would like to know: "))
n1 = 1
n2 = 1
count = 0
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elif nterms
I need to write code that runs a cost calculating program with many
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beefmeals=int(input("Enter number of beef meals: "))
shitmeals=int(input("Enter number of vegan meals: "))
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if party<=50
a=7
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When installing Python on a windows server, will the server require a
restart?
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Hi I'm new to Python and I would like to know how he deals with memory
space.
I thought I had understood but I made a test and the results were
uncoherenent with my understanding, here is the thing:
>>> a=[1,2]
>>> l=[a,a]
>>> id(a); id(l[0]); id(l[1]);
61659528
61659528
61659528
>>> #All Have the
s.read_sql` function to read data from a SQL
database into a pandas dataframe, which you then can manipulate:
https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/reference/api/pandas.read_sql.html
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