ipy %run noob confusion

2013-10-03 Thread jshrager
I have some rather complex code that works perfectly well if I paste it in by hand to ipython, but if I use %run it can't find some of the libraries, but others it can. The confusion seems to have to do with mathplotlib. I get it in stream by: %pylab osx and do a bunch of stuff

Re: Only one obvious way...

2006-05-08 Thread JShrager
If I ever _DO_ find a language that *DOES* mercilessly refactor in pursuit of the ideal only one obvious way, I may well jump ship, since my faith in Python's adherence to this principle which I cherish so intensely has been so badly broken ... The phrase only one obvious way... is nearly the

Re: (non)compositionality

2006-05-07 Thread JShrager
There are *NO* semantic advantages for named vs unnamed functions in Python. I feel that this conversation has glanced off the point. Let me try a new approach: There is the Pythonic way (whatever that is), and then The Lisp Way. I don't know what the former is, but it has something to do with