For some people the "while true" method seems reasonable but it has a
problem if the internal body does not have some guarantee of an exit. And
that exit can be subtle. Many have mentioned ways an end condition can fail
due to rounding errors not being exactly equal to what you are looking for,
or
On 2021-09-04, Hope Rouselle wrote:
> Igor Korot writes:
>
>> Hi,
>> Will this syntax work in python 2?
>
> If you say
>
> print(something)
>
> it works in both.
But it doesn't always work the _same_ in both. If you're expecting
some particular output, then one or the other might not won't "wo
On Sat, 4 Sep 2021 12:27:55 -0500, "Michael F. Stemper"
declaimed the following:
>
>Kernighan and Ritchie agree(d) with you. Per _The C Programming
>Language__:
> Experience shows that do-while is much less used that while
> and for.
>
And just for confusion, consider languages with
On Sat, 04 Sep 2021 10:40:35 -0300, Hope Rouselle
declaimed the following:
>course, I don't even have floats to worry about.) If I'm given 1.17,
>say, I am not confident that I could turn this number into 117 by
>multiplying it by 100. And that was the question. Can I always
>multiply such IEE
On 2021-09-05, Peter J. Holzer wrote:
> On 2021-09-05 03:38:55 +1200, Greg Ewing wrote:
>> If 7.23 were exactly representable, you would have got
>> 723/1000.
>>
>> Contrast this with something that *is* exactly representable:
>>
>> >>> 7.875.as_integer_ratio()
>> (63, 8)
>>
>> and observe that
I forked and made some improvements to the ariadne package [1]. I noticed that
the current RPROMPT line is composed by percol.view.PROMPT [2] and
percol.view.__class__.RPROMPT [3], as shown below:
X10DAi-00 (M-h/M-n)> M-m:string Path:C-d Local:C-l Unique:M-r Exit0:M-t
Fold:F1,F2,F3
But
"Peter J. Holzer" writes:
> On 2021-09-05 03:38:55 +1200, Greg Ewing wrote:
>> If 7.23 were exactly representable, you would have got
>> 723/1000.
>>
>> Contrast this with something that *is* exactly representable:
>>
>> >>> 7.875.as_integer_ratio()
>> (63, 8)
>>
>> and observe that 7875/1000
Il 03/09/2021 22:09, Nacnud Nac ha scritto:
Hi,
Is there a quick way to get the number of bits required to store the value in a
Decimal class?
What obvious thing am I missing? I'm working with really large integers, say,
in the order of 5_000_000 of ASCII base 10 digits.
It seems the function m
Chris Angelico writes:
> On Sun, Sep 5, 2021 at 1:04 PM Hope Rouselle wrote:
>> The same question in other words --- what's a trivial way for the REPL
>> to show me such cycles occur?
>>
>> >> 7.23.as_integer_ratio()
>> >>> (2035064081618043, 281474976710656)
>>
>> Here's what I did on this
I actually like it if a language lets you spell out your intention, although
adding many keywords is not a plus.
So, yes something like:
loop
...
end loop;
Is appealing as it makes clear the decision on when to exit the loop must be
within the loop (or till some
Let me add something, Stefan. Some people just want to get a job done. For
this person, he had a very specific need for a one-time project where the
rest of it was understood but one small step was confusing. Frankly, he
could have done it faster by opening a text editor on something like a CSV
fil
On 2021-09-06 at 20:11:41 -0400,
Avi Gross via Python-list wrote:
> And in the python version, has anyone made a generator that returned
> NULL or the like so you can say uselessly:
>
> for ( _ in forever() ) ...
while "forever":
...
--
https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pyth
I hate to quibble but as almost anything in Python can evaluate to being
truthy, a command like
while "never"
evaluates to true as the string is not empty.
I meant a generator like
>>> def boring():
while True: yield()
>>> for _ in boring():
print("repeating ...")
The
On Mon, 6 Sep 2021 20:11:41 -0400, Avi Gross via Python-list
declaimed the following:
>changing. Ages ago we had code that processed MTA headers and every time we
>had a meeting of standards bodies, we kept adding ever more headers and
Why did my mind immediately flash on "The Man Who Ne
RESEND with clarification!
On Mon, 6 Sep 2021 20:11:41 -0400, Avi Gross via Python-list
declaimed the following:
>changing. Ages ago we had code that processed MTA headers and every time we
>had a meeting of standards bodies, we kept adding ever more headers and
Why did my mind immedi
It has been nearly three decades since I have had to write in C, Stefan, but
what I suggested jokingly is quite mild compared to what the winners of the
obfuscated C Contest do:
https://www.ioccc.org/
Time for me to drop out of this thread. Personally I fully agree uses of
"while' as described ar
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