Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Jul 28)

2009-07-28 Thread Gabriel Genellina
QOTW: "But there's another principle at work here that's less well known, and that was first articulated to me by Robert Dewar: You can remove linear factors by profiling, but it's much harder to undo bad algorithmic decisions. In particular, whether a program runs in O(n) or O(n^2) sometimes dep

Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Jul 28)

2008-07-28 Thread Gabriel Genellina
QOTW: "Python's goals are to maximize opportunities for good programming, which is quite different." - Bruno Desthuilliers, contrasting Python with Java Load and initialize dynamic plugins from a directory: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/ba8d361