Mike Hansen wrote: > Here's the next batch of questions and answers for the tutor FAQ. If > you have any clarifications or corrections, please let me know. I'll > try to post this on the web site in a couple of days.
Thanks Mike! > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > What's the best editor/IDE for Python? > > It's really a matter of preference. There are many features of an > editor or IDE such as syntax highlighting, code completion, code > folding, buffers, tabs, ... Each editor or IDE has some or all of > these features, and you'll have to decide which features are important > to you. > See http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonEditors for a list of editors. > Also http://wiki.python.org/moin/IntegratedDevelopmentEnvironments has > a list of IDEs. This question is asked every few weeks on comp.lang.python so searching the archives will yield many opinions. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > How do I make public and private attributes and methods in my classes? > > Python followws the philosophy of "we're all adults here" with respect > to hiding attributes and methods. i.e. trust the other programmers who > will use your classes. You can't really hide variables and methods in > Python. You can give clues to other programmers. By convention, a name that starts with a single underscore is an implementation detail that may change and should not be used by client code. Python does do name > mangling. By putting two underscores before the attribute or method > name and not putting two underscores after the name, Python will mangle > the name by putting the class name in front of it. <IMO this needs work but not by me tonight...> > > For an short example see > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_mangling#Name_mangling_in_Python > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Why doesn't my regular expression work? > > Typically, it's an isssue between re.match and re.search. Match matches > the beginning only and search checks the entire string. See the regular > expression HOWTO for more details. > > http://www.amk.ca/python/howto/regex/ Python comes with a handy program for testing regular expressions, Tools\Scripts\redemo.py. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > How do I perform matrix operations using Python? > > The Python FAQ has an entry on how to create multidimensional lists: > http://python.org/doc/faq/programming.html#how-do-i-create-a- > multidimensional-list > > You may want to look into the 'numarray' third party module: > http://www.stsci.edu/resources/software_hardware/numarray <Numarray is being replaced with numpy - we should refer people there> You may want to look into the 'numpy' module which contains many resources for scientific computing including powerful matrix operations: http://numeric.scipy.org/ Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
