On May 12, 2:04 pm, kj no.em...@please.post wrote:
petpeeveIt seems that a similar simplicity argument was invoked
to strip the cmp option from sort in Python 3. G. Simplicity
is great, but when the drive for it starts causing useful functionality
to be thrown out, then it is going too
On May 12, 5:41 pm, Paul Boddie p...@boddie.org.uk wrote:
Ahh, well done. You've sucked me into a meaningless side debate. If
I'm not distributing readline, then legally the license distribution
terms don't apply to me. End of story. (Morally, now we might get
into how trivial it is or
On May 12, 6:15 pm, Paul Boddie p...@boddie.org.uk wrote:
On 12 Mai, 20:29, Patrick Maupin pmau...@gmail.com wrote:
But nobody's whining about the strings attached to the software. Just
pointing out why they sometimes won't use a particular piece of
software, and pointing out that some
On May 12, 10:48 pm, Lawrence D'Oliveiro l...@geek-
central.gen.new_zealand wrote:
In message mailman.121.1273693278.32709.python-l...@python.org, Ed Keith
wrote:
... but to claim that putting more restrictions on someone give them more
freedom is pure Orwellian double speak.
What about
On May 11, 5:24 am, Paul Boddie p...@boddie.org.uk wrote:
On 10 Mai, 17:01, Patrick Maupin pmau...@gmail.com wrote:
I'll be charitable and assume the fact that you can make that
statement without apparent guile merely means that you haven't read
the post I was referring to:
http
On May 11, 5:34 am, Paul Boddie p...@boddie.org.uk wrote:
On 10 Mai, 20:36, Patrick Maupin pmau...@gmail.com wrote:
I've addressed this before. Aahz used a word in an accurate, but to
you, inflammatory, sense, but it's still accurate -- the man *would*
force you to pay for the chocolate
On May 11, 9:00 am, Paul Boddie p...@boddie.org.uk wrote:
On 11 Mai, 15:00, Lie Ryan lie.1...@gmail.com wrote:
Come on, 99% of the projects released under GPL did so because they
don't want to learn much about the law; they just need to release it
under a certain license so their users
On May 11, 6:18 am, Steven D'Aprano st...@remove-this-
cybersource.com.au wrote:
Last time I came home with chocolate, I tried that excuse on my wife. She
didn't believe it for a second.
Next time, I'll try claiming that I was obliged to eat the chocolate
because of the GPL.
Good luck with
On May 10, 6:01 am, Paul Boddie p...@boddie.org.uk wrote:
On 10 Mai, 03:09, Patrick Maupin pmau...@gmail.com wrote:
On May 9, 6:39 pm, Paul Boddie p...@boddie.org.uk wrote:
but if they aren't pitching it directly at you, why would you believe
that they are trying to change your behaviour
On May 10, 12:37 pm, Paul Boddie p...@boddie.org.uk wrote:
On 10 Mai, 17:06, a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) wrote:
In article
074b412a-c2f4-4090-a52c-4d69edb29...@d39g2000yqa.googlegroups.com,
Paul Boddie p...@boddie.org.uk wrote:
Actually, the copyleft licences don't force anyone to give
On May 9, 12:19 am, Steven D'Aprano st...@remove-this-
cybersource.com.au wrote:
On Sat, 08 May 2010 16:39:33 -0700, Carl Banks wrote:
GPL is about fighting a holy war against commercial software.
Much GPL software *is* commercial software. Given that you're so badly
misinformed about the
On May 9, 1:03 pm, Steven D'Aprano st...@remove-this-
cybersource.com.au wrote:
On Sat, 08 May 2010 13:05:21 -0700, Patrick Maupin wrote:
[...]
certainly the
risk of discovery if you just use a small portion of GPL code and don't
distribute your source must be very small
On May 9, 1:02 pm, Paul Boddie p...@boddie.org.uk wrote:
On 8 Mai, 22:05, Patrick Maupin pmau...@gmail.com wrote:
On May 8, 2:38 pm, Steven D'Aprano st...@remove-this-
No, you don't *owe* them anything, but this brings us back to Ben's
original post. If you care about the freedoms
On May 9, 1:42 am, Paul Rubin no.em...@nospam.invalid wrote:
Patrick Maupin pmau...@gmail.com writes:
I certainly agree that RMS's language is couched in religious rhetoric.
I would say political movement rhetoric. He's not religious. He uses
the word spiritual sometimes but has made
On May 9, 8:58 am, Ed Keith e_...@yahoo.com wrote:
Stepping back from the political/philosophical/religious arguments, I'd like
to give some real advice based on my own perspective.
How you license your software should be based on how you want it to be used.
If you are releasing an end user
On May 9, 12:08 pm, Paul Boddie p...@boddie.org.uk wrote:
On 9 Mai, 09:05, Carl Banks pavlovevide...@gmail.com wrote:
Bottom line is, GPL hurts everyone: the companies and open source
community. Unless you're one of a handful of projects with sufficient
leverage, or are indeed a petty
On May 9, 4:21 pm, Paul Boddie p...@boddie.org.uk wrote:
(Lots of good and balanced commentary snipped...)
I didn't say that you personally argued that way, but people do argue
that way. In fact, it's understandable that this is how some people
attempt to understand the GPL - the software
On May 9, 6:39 pm, Paul Boddie p...@boddie.org.uk wrote:
On 10 Mai, 00:02, Patrick Maupin pmau...@gmail.com wrote:
If this is code that you would consider using in an existing project,
Well, in a few cases I'm talking about, I wouldn't consider using the
code -- I just stumbled across it when
On May 9, 5:05 pm, Paul Boddie p...@boddie.org.uk wrote:
On 9 Mai, 21:55, Patrick Maupin pmau...@gmail.com wrote:
On May 9, 12:08 pm, Paul Boddie p...@boddie.org.uk wrote:
Oh sure: the GPL hurts everyone, like all the companies who have made
quite a lot of money out of effectively
On May 7, 6:44 pm, Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au wrote:
Patrick Maupin pmau...@gmail.com writes:
On May 7, 5:33 pm, Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au wrote:
Since no-one is forcing anyone to take any of the actions permitted
in the license, and since those actions would
On May 8, 3:37 am, Steven D'Aprano st...@remove-this-
cybersource.com.au wrote:
On Fri, 07 May 2010 23:40:22 -0700, Patrick Maupin wrote:
Personally, I believe that if anything is false and misleading, it is
the attempt to try to completely change the discussion from MIT vs. GPL
to GPL vs
On May 8, 12:19 pm, dasacc22 dasac...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi
This is a simple question. I'm looking for the fastest way to
calculate the leading whitespace (as a string, ie ' ').
Here are some different methods I have tried so far
--- solution 1
a = ' some content\n'
b = a.strip()
c
On May 8, 2:38 pm, Steven D'Aprano st...@remove-this-
cybersource.com.au wrote:
most of the discussion about moral hazard snipped
I don't think you understand what a moral hazard is. Under no
circumstances is it a moral hazard to say If you do X, I will do Y --
in this case, If you obey these
On May 8, 1:16 pm, dasacc22 dasac...@gmail.com wrote:
On May 8, 12:59 pm, Patrick Maupin pmau...@gmail.com wrote:
On May 8, 12:19 pm, dasacc22 dasac...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi
This is a simple question. I'm looking for the fastest way to
calculate the leading whitespace (as a string
On May 8, 8:41 pm, Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au wrote:
Patrick Maupin pmau...@gmail.com writes:
On May 8, 2:38 pm, Steven D'Aprano st...@remove-this-
cybersource.com.au wrote:
Which brings us back full circle to Ben's position, which you took
exception to.
[…]
To me
On May 8, 11:29 pm, Paul Rubin no.em...@nospam.invalid wrote:
No it doesn't (not like the above). You, the licensee under the GPL,
can make those combinations and use them as much as you want on your own
computers. You just can't distribute the resulting derivative to other
people. With
On May 8, 11:36 pm, Paul Rubin no.em...@nospam.invalid wrote:
a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) writes:
What does your argument claim about Apache?
No idea. I don't have the impression the developer communities are
really similar, and Apache httpd doesn't have all that many developers
compared
On May 6, 6:56 pm, Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au wrote:
a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) writes:
In article 4be05d75.7030...@msn.com,
Rouslan Korneychuk rousl...@msn.com wrote:
The only question I have now is what about licensing? Is that
something I need to worry about? Should I go
On May 6, 9:44 pm, james_027 cai.hai...@gmail.com wrote:
On May 6, 11:33 pm, John Bokma j...@castleamber.com wrote:
james_027 cai.hai...@gmail.com writes:
I was working with regex on a very large text, really large but I have
time constrained. Does python has any other regex library or
On May 7, 5:33 pm, Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au wrote:
Patrick Maupin pmau...@gmail.com writes:
On May 6, 6:56 pm, Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au wrote:
Er, no. Anyone who thinks that a copyleft license “forces” anyone to
do anything is mistaken about copyright law
On May 4, 5:34 pm, TomF tomf.sess...@gmail.com wrote:
On 2010-05-04 07:11:08 -0700, alex23 said:
(I also think there's value to be gained in studying _bad_ code,
too...)
True, although whether that's time well spent is another question.
I don't know how this applies to reading other
On May 2, 12:14 pm, Paul McGuire pt...@austin.rr.com wrote:
While sifting through some code looking for old x and y or z code
that might better be coded using y if x else z, I came across this
puzzler:
x = boolean expression and True or False
What is and True or False adding to this
On May 1, 7:13 am, Tim Chase t...@thechases.com wrote:
On 05/01/2010 12:08 AM, Patrick Maupin wrote:
+=, -=, /=, *=, etc. conceptually (and, if lhs object supports in-
place operator methods, actually) *modify* the lhs object.
Your proposed .= syntax conceptually *replaces* the lhs
On May 1, 9:03 pm, Chris Rebert c...@rebertia.com wrote:
In both cases, __iOP__ operator methods are being used, not vanilla
__OP__ methods, so neither of your examples are relevant to Mr.
Chase's point.
Well, Tim's main assertion was: The += family of operators really do
rebind the symbol,
On Apr 30, 11:04 am, Jabapyth jabap...@gmail.com wrote:
At least a few times a day I wish python had the following shortcut
syntax:
vbl.=func(args)
this would be equivalent to
vbl = vbl.func(args)
example:
foo = Hello world
foo.=split( )
print foo
# ['Hello', 'world']
and I guess
On Apr 26, 8:44 am, lkcl luke.leigh...@googlemail.com wrote:
the purpose of browsers is to isolate the application, restrict its
access to the rest of the desktop and OS, so that random applications
cannot go digging around on your private data.
Well, I would agree that a requirement for the
On Apr 26, 4:09 am, Lawrence D'Oliveiro l...@geek-
central.gen.new_zealand wrote:
It doesn’t seem to mention in the documentation for os.walk
http://docs.python.org/library/os.html that symlinks to directories are
returned in the list of directories, not the list of files. This will lead
to an
On Apr 26, 4:12 pm, lkcl luke.leigh...@googlemail.com wrote:
and, given that you can use AJAX (e.g. JSONRPC) to communicate with a
server-side component, installed on 127.0.0.1 and effectively do the
exact same thing, nobody bothers.
I suppose, but again, that pushes off the security thing.
On Apr 25, 8:49 am, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton l...@lkcl.net
wrote:
pyjamas - the stand-alone python-to-javascript compiler, and separate
GUI Widget Toolkit, has its 0.7 release, today. this has been much
delayed, in order to allow the community plenty of time between the
0.7pre2 release
On Apr 25, 3:31 pm, Colin Howell colin.d.how...@gmail.com wrote:
[I originally sent this to python-help; the volunteer who responded
thought it was OK to repost it here.]
I'm sure this has been discussed somewhere before, but I can't find it
in the Python issue tracker. The following behavior
On Apr 25, 2:55 pm, sdistefano sdistef...@gmail.com wrote:
I have the following issue:
My program runs a thread called the MainThread, that loops trough a
number of URLs and decides when it's the right time for one to be
fetched. Once a URL has to be fetched, it's added to a Queue object,
On Apr 12, 3:05 pm, vsoler vicente.so...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi everyone,
say that 'db' is a list of values
say 'i' is a list of indexes
I'd like to get a list where each item is i-th element of db.
For example:
db=[10,20,30,40,50,60,70,80,90] #undefined length
i=[3,5,7]
On Apr 12, 9:26 pm, Steven D'Aprano
ste...@remove.this.cybersource.com.au wrote:
# The obfuscated, fragile way
map( itemgetter(0), sorted(
zip(db, range(1, len(db)+1)), key=lambda t: t[1] if t[1] in i else -1
)[-len(i):] )
I have to hand it to you that this might, in fact, be the
On Apr 11, 12:01 am, Jimbo nill...@yahoo.com wrote:
Hello, I am getting an error in my python script when I try to change
a character in a string. [b]But I dont know why or what to do to fix
it?[/b]
I have commented in my code where the error occurs
[code]
def format_file(filename):
On Apr 10, 11:13 pm, Ted Larson Freeman free...@alumni.stanford.org
wrote:
This week the SEC proposed new requirements for asset-backed
securities that include the use of XML and Python:
The asset-level information would be provided according to proposed
standards and in a tagged data format
On Apr 10, 1:05 pm, Stefan Behnel stefan...@behnel.de wrote:
Running a Python program in CPython eventually boils down to a sequence of
commands being executed by the CPU. That doesn't mean you should write
those commands manually, even if you can. It's perfectly ok to write the
program in
On Apr 11, 3:12 am, Cameron Simpson c...@zip.com.au wrote:
On 10Apr2010 23:05, Chris Rebert c...@rebertia.com wrote:
| On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 9:13 PM, Ted Larson Freeman|
free...@alumni.stanford.org wrote:
| This week the SEC proposed new requirements for asset-backed
| securities that
On Apr 10, 5:10 am, Lawrence D'Oliveiro l...@geek-
central.gen.new_zealand wrote:
In message 18988a53-e88f-4abf-
a83a-314b16653...@x12g2000yqx.googlegroups.com, Patrick Maupin wrote:
I want nothing to do with any programmer who would mis-indent their
code.
But what happens when you’re
On Apr 10, 9:26 am, vsoler vicente.so...@gmail.com wrote:
class Uno:
a=1
def m():
print mouse
...
I cannot write
Uno.m()
By default (at least in Python 2.x), Python will pass any function
which is accessed through getattr on class or instance (usually called
a
On Apr 8, 5:13 am, Nobody nob...@nowhere.com wrote:
On Wed, 07 Apr 2010 18:25:36 -0700, Patrick Maupin wrote:
Regular expressions != Parsers
True, but lots of parsers *use* regular expressions in their
tokenizers. In fact, if you have a pure Python parser, you can often
get huge
On Apr 10, 11:35 am, Neil Cerutti ne...@norwich.edu wrote:
On 2010-04-10, Patrick Maupin pmau...@gmail.com wrote:
as Pyparsing. Which is all well and good, except then the OP
will download pyparsing, take a look, realize that it uses
regexps under the hood, and possibly be very confused
On Apr 10, 10:16 pm, Steven D'Aprano st...@remove-this-
cybersource.com.au wrote:
After converting a text file containing doctests to use Windows line
endings, I'm getting spurious errors:
ValueError: line 19 of the docstring for examples.txt has inconsistent
leading whitespace: '\r'
I
On Apr 9, 1:22 pm, monkeys paw mon...@joemoney.net wrote:
On 4/9/2010 3:43 AM, Bas wrote:
On Apr 7, 6:15 am, Patrick Maupinpmau...@gmail.com wrote:
I should stop making a habit of responding to myself, BUT. This isn't
quite an acre in square feet. I just saw the 43xxx and assumed it
On Apr 9, 1:07 pm, Gabriel Genellina gagsl-...@yahoo.com.ar wrote:
En Thu, 08 Apr 2010 21:02:23 -0300, Patrick Maupin pmau...@gmail.com
escribió:
On Apr 8, 6:35 pm, Gabriel Genellina gagsl-...@yahoo.com.ar wrote:
The CPython source contains lots of shortcuts like that. Perhaps
On Apr 9, 5:31 pm, Lawrence D'Oliveiro l...@geek-
central.gen.new_zealand wrote:
Anybody who ever creates another indentation-controlled language should
be beaten to death with a Guido van Rossum voodoo doll.
No ...
Yes, because otherwise you wouldn’t have stupid problems like the one
On Apr 8, 1:49 pm, gry georgeryo...@gmail.com wrote:
[ python3.1.1, re.__version__='2.2.1' ]
I'm trying to use re to split a string into (any number of) pieces of
these kinds:
1) contiguous runs of letters
2) contiguous runs of digits
3) single other characters
e.g. 555tHe-rain.in#=1234
On Apr 8, 3:21 pm, M. Hamed mhels...@hotmail.com wrote:
I have trouble with some Python concept. The fact that you can not
assign to a non-existent index in an array. For example:
a = [0,1]
a[2] = Generates an error
I can use a.append(2) but that always appends to the end. Sometimes
On Apr 8, 3:40 pm, gry georgeryo...@gmail.com wrote:
s='555tHe-rain.in#=1234'
import re
r=re.compile(r'([a-zA-Z]+|\d+|.)')
r.findall(s)
['555', 'tHe', '-', 'rain', '.', 'in', '#', '=', '1234']
This is nice and simple and has the invertible property that Patrick
On Apr 8, 6:06 pm, monkeys paw mon...@joemoney.net wrote:
On 4/7/2010 1:08 PM, Peter Pearson wrote:
On Tue, 06 Apr 2010 23:16:18 -0400, monkeys pawmon...@joemoney.net wrote:
I have the following acre meter which works for integers,
how do i convert this to float? I tried
return float
On Apr 8, 6:35 pm, Gabriel Genellina gagsl-...@yahoo.com.ar wrote:
The CPython source contains lots of shortcuts like that. Perhaps the
checks should be stricter in some cases, but I imagine it's not so easy to
fix: lots of code was written in the pre-2.2 era, assuming that internal
On Apr 8, 3:54 pm, M. Hamed mhels...@hotmail.com wrote:
Thanks Patrick, that is what I was exactly looking for.
You're welcome!
But I have to say, you should consider what Paul and Lie are saying.
In general, when I use a stack, I just use append() and pop(), as they
mention, and let the list
On Apr 8, 9:32 pm, Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com wrote:
Regexes do have their uses. It's a case of knowing when they are the
best approach and when they aren't.
Agreed. The problems begin when the when they aren't is not recognised.
Arguing against this is like arguing against motherhood
On Apr 7, 4:40 pm, J dreadpiratej...@gmail.com wrote:
Can someone make me un-crazy?
I have a bit of code that right now, looks like this:
status = getoutput('smartctl -l selftest /dev/sda').splitlines()[6]
status = re.sub(' (?= )(?=([^]*[^]*)*[^]*$)', :,status)
print status
On Apr 7, 4:47 pm, Grant Edwards inva...@invalid.invalid wrote:
On 2010-04-07, J dreadpiratej...@gmail.com wrote:
Can someone make me un-crazy?
Definitely. Regex is driving you crazy, so don't use a regex.
inputString = # 1 Short offline Completed without error 00%
On Apr 7, 7:49 pm, Patrick Maupin pmau...@gmail.com wrote:
On Apr 7, 4:40 pm, J dreadpiratej...@gmail.com wrote:
Can someone make me un-crazy?
I have a bit of code that right now, looks like this:
status = getoutput('smartctl -l selftest /dev/sda').splitlines()[6]
status
On Apr 7, 3:52 am, Chris Rebert c...@rebertia.com wrote:
Regular expressions != Parsers
True, but lots of parsers *use* regular expressions in their
tokenizers. In fact, if you have a pure Python parser, you can often
get huge performance gains by rearranging your code slightly so that
you can
On Apr 7, 8:41 pm, Steven D'Aprano
ste...@remove.this.cybersource.com.au wrote:
On Wed, 07 Apr 2010 10:55:10 -0700, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
[Gustavo Nare]
In other words: The more different elements two collections have, the
faster it is to compare them as sets. And as a consequence, the
On Apr 7, 9:02 pm, James Stroud nospamjstroudmap...@mbi.ucla.edu
wrote:
Patrick Maupin wrote:
BTW, although I find it annoying when people say don't do that when
that is a perfectly good thing to do, and although I also find it
annoying when people tell you what not to do without telling
On Apr 7, 9:36 pm, Grant Edwards inva...@invalid.invalid wrote:
On 2010-04-08, Patrick Maupin pmau...@gmail.com wrote: On Apr 7, 4:47?pm,
Grant Edwards inva...@invalid.invalid wrote:
On 2010-04-07, J dreadpiratej...@gmail.com wrote:
Can someone make me un-crazy?
Definitely. ?Regex
On Apr 7, 9:51 pm, Steven D'Aprano
ste...@remove.this.cybersource.com.au wrote:
On Wed, 07 Apr 2010 18:03:47 -0700, Patrick Maupin wrote:
BTW, although I find it annoying when people say don't do that when
that is a perfectly good thing to do, and although I also find it
annoying when
On Apr 7, 9:51 pm, Steven D'Aprano
ste...@remove.this.cybersource.com.au wrote:
This is one of the reasons we're so often suspicious of re solutions:
s = '# 1 Short offline Completed without error 00%'
tre = Timer(re.split(' {2,}', s),
... import re; from __main__ import s)
On Apr 7, 9:51 pm, Steven D'Aprano
ste...@remove.this.cybersource.com.au wrote:
BTW, I don't know how you got 'True' here.
re.split(' {2,}', s) == [x for x in s.split(' ') if x.strip()]
True
You must not have s set up to be the string given by the OP. I just
realized there was an error in
On Apr 6, 8:39 am, Albert van der Horst alb...@spenarnc.xs4all.nl
wrote:
To a mathematician sum(set) suggest that the order of summation
doesn't matter. (So I wouldn't use sum for concatenating lists.)
Harshly, sum() should be used only for operator + both associative and
commutative.
That's
On Apr 6, 7:02 pm, James Stroud nospamjstroudmap...@mbi.ucla.edu
wrote:
I have a parser/emitter I wrote about 4 years ago for EDIF. Take a
look at the wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDIF
If that is close to you want, I can send it to you. The whole parser/
emitter/XML
On Apr 6, 10:16 pm, monkeys paw mon...@joemoney.net wrote:
I have the following acre meter which works for integers,
how do i convert this to float? I tried
return float ((208.0 * 208.0) * n)
def s(n):
... return lambda x: (208 * 208) * n
...
f = s(1)
f(1)
43264
208 * 208
On Apr 6, 11:04 pm, Patrick Maupin pmau...@gmail.com wrote:
On Apr 6, 10:16 pm, monkeys paw mon...@joemoney.net wrote:
I have the following acre meter which works for integers,
how do i convert this to float? I tried
return float ((208.0 * 208.0) * n)
def s(n):
... return
On Apr 6, 11:10 pm, Patrick Maupin pmau...@gmail.com wrote:
On Apr 6, 11:04 pm, Patrick Maupin pmau...@gmail.com wrote:
On Apr 6, 10:16 pm, monkeys paw mon...@joemoney.net wrote:
I have the following acre meter which works for integers,
how do i convert this to float? I tried
On Apr 5, 11:22 am, mcanjo mca...@gmail.com wrote:
On Apr 4, 6:32 am, Simon Brunning si...@brunningonline.net wrote:
On 3 April 2010 18:20, mcanjo mca...@gmail.com wrote:
I tried doing the following code:
from subprocess import Popen
from subprocess import PIPE, STDOUT
exefile
On Apr 5, 6:50 pm, Ethan Furman et...@stoneleaf.us wrote:
(Posted some code with a timeit...)
Well, I'm not going to debug this, but with the *original* thing you
posted, and the thing I posted, with a call and everything (more
realistic scenario), the exception version seems slower on my
On Apr 4, 4:58 am, Peter Otten __pete...@web.de wrote:
Personally, though, I prefer unit tests over assertions.
IMO, the primary use cases for assertions and unit tests are not the
same.
When I have a well-defined, clearly understood specification that I am
coding to and fully implementing
On Apr 4, 2:37 am, Steven D'Aprano st...@remove-this-
cybersource.com.au wrote:
In any case, the *right* test would be:
a = 1
assert a == 1 and a*5==5 and str(a)=='1' and [None,a,None][a] is a
You're right. I was very tired when I wrote that, and forgot the last
3 assertions...
--
On Apr 4, 9:06 am, Duncan Booth duncan.bo...@invalid.invalid wrote:
Do you have any carniverous apes? If so it's a directed acyclic graph.
Well, since he has a root node, he's really only described the *use*
of this data structure implementation for a rooted tree.
As you point out, the
On Apr 4, 10:41 am, Patrick Maupin pmau...@gmail.com wrote:
The primary differences between this structure and just haphazardly
wiring up random objects into a directed graph are that (1) there may
be some performance differences (but when the garbage collector has to
figure out how to break
On Apr 4, 10:00 am, rantingrick rantingr...@gmail.com wrote:
This is amazing, how can such an off topic post based completely on
lunacy exist so long here? 54 posts and counting. I think i had this
very argument in grade school. We have SD'A, Tim Chase, MSRB, and yes
even Steve Holden again
On Apr 4, 11:14 am, Alf P. Steinbach al...@start.no wrote:
He walks among you, and you don't recognize him - Old jungle proverb
Hm, interesting Google results for that phrase.
Interesting self-promotion :-)
On Apr 4, 1:57 pm, John Nagle na...@animats.com wrote:
If you want functions with state, use an object. That's what they're
for. Don't muck with the internal representation of functions.
While Don't muck with the internal representation of functions is
excellent advice over 99% of the
On Apr 3, 9:43 am, Martin P. Hellwig IMHO, the crackpot in this
regard is actually partially right,
multiplication does mean that the number must get bigger, however for
fractions you multiply four numbers, two numerators and two
denominators. The resulting numerator and denominator by this
On Apr 3, 8:00 am, superpollo ute...@esempio.net wrote:
sorry if I misunderstood.
no no you understood prfectly *but* the thing is i am a regular in an
italian language math ng which is haunted by a crackpot who insists that
1/2 * 1/2 cannot be 1/4, because multiplication means getting
On Apr 3, 4:17 am, Peter Otten __pete...@web.de wrote:
Patrick Maupin wrote:
On Apr 2, 4:32 pm, Peter Otten __pete...@web.de wrote:
_split = re.compile(r(\d+)).split
def split(s):
if not s:
return ()
parts = _split(s)
parts[1::2] = map(int, parts[1::2
On Apr 3, 11:09 am, mcanjo mca...@gmail.com wrote:
I have an executable (I don't have access to the source code) that
processes some data. I double click on the icon and a Command prompt
window pops up. The program asks me for the input file, I hit enter,
and then it asks me for and output
On Apr 3, 11:59 am, Emile van Sebille em...@fenx.com wrote:
On 4/3/2010 8:46 AM Patrick Maupin said...
On Apr 3, 9:43 am, Martin P. Hellwig IMHO, the crackpot in this
regard is actually partially right,
multiplication does mean that the number must get bigger, however for
fractions you
On Apr 3, 12:20 pm, mcanjo mca...@gmail.com wrote:
On Apr 3, 11:15 am, Patrick Maupin pmau...@gmail.com wrote:
On Apr 3, 11:09 am, mcanjo mca...@gmail.com wrote:
I have an executable (I don't have access to the source code) that
processes some data. I double click on the icon
On Apr 3, 12:39 pm, MRAB pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com wrote:
Patrick Maupin wrote:
On Apr 3, 11:59 am, Emile van Sebille em...@fenx.com wrote:
On 4/3/2010 8:46 AM Patrick Maupin said...
On Apr 3, 9:43 am, Martin P. Hellwig IMHO, the crackpot in this
regard is actually partially right
On Apr 3, 9:24 pm, Steven D'Aprano st...@remove-this-
cybersource.com.au wrote:
To put it another way, even though there are an infinite number of
rationals, they are vanishingly rare compared to the irrationals. If you
could choose a random number from the real number line, it almost
On Apr 3, 10:00 pm, Steven D'Aprano st...@remove-this-
cybersource.com.au wrote:
Tests which you know can't fail are called assertions, pre-conditions and
post-conditions. We test them because if we don't, they will fail :)
Well, yes, but that can get rather tedious at times:
a = 1
assert 0 a
On Apr 2, 6:24 am, Peter Otten __pete...@web.de wrote:
Thomas Heller wrote:
Maybe I'm just lazy, but what is the fastest way to convert a string
into a tuple containing character sequences and integer numbers, like
this:
'si_pos_99_rep_1_0.ita' - ('si_pos_', 99, '_rep_', 1, '_', 0,
On Apr 2, 1:21 pm, Ethan Furman et...@stoneleaf.us wrote:
For this type of situation, my preference would be:
class spam(object):
def __call__(self, x, y, z):
try:
mongo = self.mongo
except AttributeError:
mongo = self.mongo =
On Apr 2, 2:41 pm, Andreas Waldenburger use...@geekmail.invalid
wrote:
While everyone else is mocking you: Can you please elaborate on why you
want to know and what kind of problem you're trying to solve with this?
Also, don't you think you should have picked a maths forum for this
kind of
On Apr 2, 2:38 pm, Ethan Furman et...@stoneleaf.us wrote:
Patrick Maupin wrote:
On Apr 2, 1:21 pm, Ethan Furman et...@stoneleaf.us wrote:
For this type of situation, my preference would be:
class spam(object):
def __call__(self, x, y, z):
try:
mongo
On Apr 2, 3:33 pm, Ethan Furman et...@stoneleaf.us wrote:
My main point, though, was using __call__, and not some weird _ method. ;)
Yes, __call__ is good. In general, not naming things that don't need
to be named is good (but if you have too many of them to keep track
of, then, obviously,
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