On 26/9/23 22:27, Abdelkhelk ashref salay eabakh via Python-list wrote:
Dear Python team,
This is my not first time using Python, I tried to launch Python and it showed
I'm no expert but
"Python 3.11.3 (tags/v3.11.3:f3909b8, Apr 4 2023, 23:49:59) [MSC v.1934 64 bit
(AMD64)] on win
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On 31/12/22 16:45, Goran Ikac wrote:
Happy New Year, everybody!
I'm new in the Python List, new in Python world, and new in coding.
A few days (weeks?) ago, I faced a problem trying to write a program for an
exercise. I asked for help and nobody answered.
In the meantime, I found a part of the so
" NOT "reply"
Sorry I can't help you on your initial problem
Regards,
Chris Roy-Smith
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On Sun, 09 Jul 2017 21:47:58 -0500, John Black wrote:
> In article <477bde19-0653-4e41-a717-0efe90ac5...@googlegroups.com>,
> timetowal...@gmail.com says...
>>
>> I use https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/comp.lang.python to look
>> over message posts.
>>
>> What's with all of the Case Solut
In article ,
Johannes Bauer wrote:
> so that textwrap.wrap() breks non-breaking spaces, is this a bug or
> intended behavior?
I opened http://bugs.python.org/issue16623 on this a couple of years
ago. Looks like it was being worked (http://bugs.python.org/issue20491)
but got stalled in the te
In article <550bbfc1$0$13010$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>,
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> I cannot remember the details, and I don't have my copy of the Apple
> Standard Numerics manual here to look it up
Amongst the details you don't remember is the correct name :-) It was
Standard Apple N
In article ,
Mario Figueiredo wrote:
> What makes you think your anedoctal bugs constitute any sort of
> evidence this programming language isn't ready to be used by the
> public?
There's several levels of "ready".
I'm sure the core language is more than ready for production use for a
project
In article <8c09473e-92df-40ac-b083-d2b3a2b75...@googlegroups.com>,
Xrrific wrote:
> Guys, please Help!!!
>
> I am trying to impress a girl who is learning python and want ask her out at
> the same time.
>
> Could you please come up with something witty incorporating a simple python
> line l
In article ,
Gregory Ewing wrote:
> But in documentation, in contexts where it's not critical,
> I'm more likely to use the spelling I'm most familiar
> with, which is "colour". I can't imagine any English
> speaker, native or otherwise, being unable to cope with
> that.
What abut people who ca
In article ,
Sturla Molden wrote:
> On 24/02/15 22:34, Roy Smith wrote:
> > http://envisage-project.eu/proving-android-java-and-python-sorting-algorithm
> > -is-broken-and-how-to-fix-it/
> >
>
> This is awful. It is broken for arrays longer than 2**49 elements. W
http://envisage-project.eu/proving-android-java-and-python-sorting-algorithm-is-broken-and-how-to-fix-it/
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In article ,
Mario Figueiredo wrote:
> It's not been an easy ride trying to decide whether or not to use super.
> I started learning python from a Mark Lutz book that advised me against
> it.
I'm curious, what were the arguments against it?
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In article <54ceda0b$0$12977$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>,
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> What is the plural of octopus?
It's a trick question. Octopus is already plural. Monopus is singular.
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In article ,
Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 1:35 PM, Matthew Barnett
> wrote:
> > And the plural of "virus" is "viruses", not "viri" (that's the plural of
> > "vir") or "virii" (that would be the plural of "virius", if it existed).
>
> Yes indeed."Virii" and "octopi" are as wro
In article <54c3a0c1$0$13013$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>,
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Tim Chase wrote:
>
> > On 2015-01-24 17:21, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> >> # Cobra
> >> def sqroot(i as int) as float
> >>
> >> # Python
> >> def sqroot(i:int)->float:
> >>
> >>
> >> Cobra's use of "as" c
In article <54bb2c5f$0$12977$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>,
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> You know that two-factor authentication doesn't offer any real security
> against Man In The Middle attacks?
The fact that TFA doesn't solve all problems doesn't change the fact
that it solves some of th
In article <54bb1c83$0$12979$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>,
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Even that doesn't protect you, because your security is controlled by
> websites and banks etc. with stupid security policies. E.g. I am forced to
> deal with one bank that uses a cryptographic key to sign
In article <54ba5a25$0$12991$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>,
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Whitespace is significant in nearly all programming languages, and so it
> should be. Whitespace separates tokens, and lines, and is a natural way of
> writing (at least for people using Western languages)
In article ,
Skip Montanaro wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 5:59 AM, Jussi Piitulainen
> wrote:
> > How far do you want to go? Is "a b + c" the same as "a(b) + c" or the
> > same as "a(b + c)"?
>
> I think there is only one practical interpretation, the one that all
> shells I'm familiar wit
In article <54ba39e0$0$13008$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>,
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Every time I think I would like to learn a new language, I quite quickly run
> into some obvious feature that Python has but the newer language lacks, and
> I think "bugger this for a game of soldiers" and
In article <54ba3654$0$13008$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>,
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Good reasons for using global variables are few and far between. Just about
> the only good reason for using global variables that I can think of is if
> you have one or more settings/preference that get s
In article <87zj9kb2j0@elektro.pacujo.net>,
Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> Skip Montanaro :
>
> > Beautiful is better than ugly.
>
> Yes, our job is to increase the Harmony of the Universe. Useful
> applications are happy side effects.
>
> > Explicit is better than implicit.
>
> Corollary: Cons
yawar.a...@gmail.com wrote:
> I have implemented what I believe is a
> fairly robust, if ugly-looking, native Python module
I don't know which zen this is, but "Beauty is important".
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In article ,
Tim Chase wrote:
> On 2014-12-22 19:05, MRAB wrote:
> > On 2014-12-22 18:51, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> > > I'm having wonderful thoughts of Michael Palin's favourite Python
> > > sketch which involved fish slapping.
> > >
> > Well, ChrisA _has_ mentioned Pike in this thread. :-)
>
> B
In article <87egrrrf2i@elektro.pacujo.net>,
Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> Roy Smith :
>
> > If I really didn't trust something, I'd go to AWS and spin up one of
> > their free-tier micro instances and run it there :-)
>
> Speaking of trust and AWS, Am
In article <5497e1d5$0$12978$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>,
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Steve Hayes wrote:
>
> > Yes, my initial reaction was "that's awesome".
> >
> > And my second thought was that it was scary.
> >
> > I ran it. It worked, and printed "Hello world". I was awed.
> >
> >
In article <0udf9a1m3n02rt06a5ib58mvifm7sde...@4ax.com>,
Steve Hayes wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Dec 2014 09:51:02 +1100, Steven D'Aprano
> wrote:
>
> >Tony the Tiger wrote:
> >
> >> On Sat, 20 Dec 2014 23:57:08 +1100, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> >>
> >>> I am in total awe.
> >>
> >> I'm not. It has no
In article ,
Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 4:42 PM, Ganesh Pal wrote:
> > (a) I was trying to reduce the below piece of code using List comprehension
> > ? Any suggestion please let me know
> >
> >
> > for opt in options:
> > opt['result'] = Queue.Queue()
> >
In article ,
Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 10:50 AM, Roy Smith wrote:
> > Heh. I once worked on a C++ project that included its own crypo code
> > (i.e. custom implementations of things like AES and SHA-1). The person
> > who wrote some particula
In article <54974ed7$0$12986$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>,
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Obviously you don't write obfuscated code like this for production use,
> except in such cases where you deliberately want to write obfuscated code
> for production use.
Heh. I once worked on a C++ proje
On 15/12/14 10:21, Simon Evans wrote:
Dear Jussi, and Billy
I have changed the input in accordance with your advice, re:
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here the user
In article ,
"" <1248283...@qq.com> wrote:
> I want to delete the file "names.txt" if it exits in "/home/names.txt" in my
> remote vps server.
> import paramiko
> host = "vps ip"
> port = 22
> transport = paramiko.Transport((host, port))
> password = "key"
> username = "root"
> transport.co
In article ,
Ian Kelly wrote:
> I never said that functions can't be used as namespaces. I said that
> functions are *bad* namespaces, and I gave reasons why I think this is true.
An excellent example of functions acting as namespaces is nosetest's
@attr() decorator. We use this, for example,
In article <54878f8a$0$13010$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>,
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> I really think you guys are trying too hard to make this function seem more
> complicated than it is. If you find it so hard to understand a simple
> function with four short lines, one wonders how you wou
In article <5485721c$0$2817$c3e8da3$76491...@news.astraweb.com>,
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Mon, 08 Dec 2014 11:35:36 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 11:27 AM, Roy Smith wrote:
> >> Although, to be honest, I'm wondering if thi
In article ,
Chris Angelico wrote:
> > Next problem, what the heck is "res"? We're not back in the punch-card
> > days. We don't have to abbreviate variable names to save columns.
> > Variable names are supposed to describe what they hold, and thus help
> > you understand the code. I have no
In article ,
Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 10:33 AM, Steven D'Aprano
> wrote:
> > How would we re-write this to work in the future Python 3.7? Unless I have
> > missed something, I think we could write it like this:
> >
> > def myzip37(*args):
> > iters = list(map(iter, arg
Chris Angelico wrote:
> > I'm actually glad PEP 479 will break this kind of code. Gives a good
> > excuse for rewriting it to be more readable.
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> What kind of code is that? Short, simple, Pythonic and elegant? :-)
>
> Here's the code again, with indentation fixed:
>
>
>
In article ,
Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 4:41 AM, Zachary Ware
> wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 11:18 AM, Roy Smith wrote:
> >> Wouldnât it be neat to write:
> >>
> >>foo == 42 or else
> >>
> >> and ha
In the process of refactoring some code, I serendipitously created what I think
is an essential new bit of Python syntax. The “or else” statement. I ended up
with:
sites_string = args.sites or else self.config['sites']
which, of course, is a syntax error today, but it got me thinking
In article <1248a112-88fd-4346-a733-7716671b8...@googlegroups.com>,
reetesh nigam wrote:
> I need to read xml attributes coming in response data. I am using Django rest
> framework.
>
> requested XML : startDate="02-02-2014"/>
>
> Response I am getting: {'xyz': None}
>
> I am using : 'DEFA
t;. I
see one of these that has my name on the commit:
report = [keys] + [[line[key] for key in keys] for line in results]
but I'm glad to report that this was merely some third-party code that I
imported into our repo. Whew, that was close!
On Nov 23, 2014, at 11:45 AM, Skip Montanaro
In article ,
Skip Montanaro wrote:
> > But it breaks all the picture that I've built in my head about comps till
> > now...
>
> Note that list comprehensions are little more than syntactic sugar for for
> loops. If you're having terrible writing or understanding one, especially a
> compound one
In article <87y4r348uf@elektro.pacujo.net>,
Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> Steven D'Aprano :
>
> > You haven't given any good reason for objecting to calling Unicode
> > strings by what they are. Maybe you think that it is an implementation
> > detail, and that some version of Python might suddenl
In article ,
Robin Becker wrote:
> I need to pack circles into a partial annulus ie part of a larger circle
> bounded by two radii [...]
> Circle packing is hard so I'm thinking of using some kind of spring/repulsion
> model to do this.
>
> Has anyone any ideas about how to do this?
This is
In article <54694389$0$13001$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>,
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Chris Angelico wrote:
>
> > You should be able to use two semicolons, that's equivalent to one colon
> > right?
> >
> > ChrisA
> > (No, it isn't, so don't take this advice. Thanks.)
>
>
> Oooh! Python-
In article ,
Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 8:32 AM, Abdul Abdul wrote:
> > from PIL import Image
> > import os
> >
> > for inputfile in filelist
> > outputfile = os.path.splitext(inputfile)[0]+".jpg"
> > if inputfile != outputfile:
> > try:
> >
In article ,
Chris Angelico wrote:
> UDP for anything more than your network's MTU is inefficient
Why do you say it's inefficient? Sure, the UDP datagram will get
fragmented and re-assembled at the other end, but it's not like TCP
would do any better. One way or another, your data is going
In article ,
Ben Finney wrote:
> satishmlm...@gmail.com writes:
>
> > import os
> > os.write(1, b'Hello descriptor world\n')
> > OSError: Bad file descriptor
>
> It works fine for me::
>
> >>> import os
> >>> os.write(1, b'Hello descriptor world\n')
> Hello descriptor world
>
In article ,
Lie Ryan wrote:
> On 13/11/14 03:57, Larry Martell wrote:
> > We were all making this much harder than it is. I ended up doing this:
> >
> > wp = urllib.request.urlopen('http://php_page/?' + request.POST.urlencode())
> > pw = wp.read()
You can do this if you want, but it's much eas
In article ,
Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 7:47 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> > My view is that if there's a main (i.e. the module implements a small app
> > all on its own, however tiny), then the main program logic should come
> > first. The details follow later.
>
> Ah, I s
In article ,
Denis McMahon wrote:
> Hi
>
> Given x,y are a lists of keys and value that I wish to combine to a
> dictionary, such that x[n] is the key for value y[n], which is preferred:
>
> z = {a:b for (a,b) in zip(x,y)}
> z = {x[n]:y[n] for n in range(min(len(x),len(y)))}
>
> The zip feel
In article ,
sohcahto...@gmail.com wrote:
> Please help me this assignment is due in an hour. Don't give me hints, just
> give me the answer because I only want a grade. I'm not actually interested
> in learning how to program, but I know software engineers make lots of money
> so I want to
In article ,
Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 3:11 AM, Grant Edwards
> wrote:
> > I know, but in c.l.p, even jokes get nicely pednatic answers.
>
> And in c.l.p, odd jokes get even more pedantic spelling corrections.
>
> ChrisA
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In article ,
Steve Hayes wrote:
> I have a book on Python that advocates dividing programs into modules, and
> importing them when needed.
Yes, this is a good idea. Breaking your program down into modules, each
of which does a small set of closely related things, makes it easier to
manage.
In article <545d76fe$0$12980$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>,
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> The following list comprehension and generator expression are almost, but
> not quite, the same:
>
> [expr for x in iterable]
>
> list(expr for x in iterable)
>
>
> The difference is in the handling of
In article <54521c8f$0$12982$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>,
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Anton wrote:
>
> > Let's say I have an incoming list of values *l*. Every element of *l* can
> > be one of the following options:
> > 1) an integer value
> > 2) a string in form of '', e.g. '7'
> > 3) a
In article <544e2cf2$0$13009$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>,
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Roy Smith wrote:
>
> >> Yes and no. If something goes wrong in a .write() method,
> >> is not Python supposed to raise an error? (!)
> >
> > Define &qu
In article ,
Cameron Simpson wrote:
> The "is" test is more direct and less subject to iffiness because the longer
> expression using id() leaves more scope/time for things to change, and of
> course "id" itself can be rebound to something weird.
Not to mention that Python is case-sensitive a
In article <683c84d8-d916-4b63-b4b2-92cd2763e...@googlegroups.com>,
wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote:
> Le dimanche 26 octobre 2014 14:41:43 UTC+1, Dan Sommers a écrit :
> > On Sun, 26 Oct 2014 00:45:49 -0700, wxjmfauth wrote:
> >
> > > Ditto for .write(). Why should it return "something" ?
> > >
> >
In article ,
Shiva wrote:
> Why is the second part of while condition not being checked?
>
> while ans.lower() != 'yes' or ans.lower()[0] != 'y':
> ans = input('Do you like python?')
>
>
> My intention is if either of the conditions are true the loop should break.
> But the condition aft
In article ,
Seymore4Head wrote:
> For the record, I don't want a hint. I want the answer.
42.
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On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 1:50 PM CEST Jean-Michel Pichavant wrote:
> >I'm currently writing a presentation to help my co-workers ramp up on new
> >features of our tool (written in python (2.7)).
> >
> >I have some difficulties presenting code in an efficient way (with some
> >basic syntax highlights
In article ,
Chris Angelico wrote:
> The one thing you can rely on (and therefore must comply with, when
> you design an iterable) is that iteration will hit every element
> exactly once.
Does it actually say that somewhere? For example:
for i in bag.pick_randomly_with_replacement(n=5):
p
In article ,
Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 9:55 PM, cool-RR wrote:
> > My function gets an iterable of an unknown type. I want to check whether
> > it's ordered. I could check whether it's a `set` or `frozenset`, which
> > would cover many cases, but I wonder if I can do bet
In article ,
Chris Angelico wrote:
> You can't store a list in memory; what you store is a set of bits
> which represent some metadata and a bunch of pointers.
Well, technically, what you store is something which has the right
behavior. If I wrote:
my_huffman_coded_list = [0] * 100
I
In article ,
Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 12:24 PM, Rustom Mody wrote:
> > On Thursday, September 4, 2014 7:38:40 PM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote:
> >
> >> So a fairer comparison is: How many applications produce non-debug
> >> output on stderr or stdout? And that would be a
In article <54049ab7$0$29972$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>,
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> import tempfile
>
> def edit(editor, content=''):
> f = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(mode='w+')
> [...]
> command = editor + " " + f.name
> status = os.system(command)
Hmmm. Didn't we jus
In article ,
Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 5:02 AM, Ethan Furman wrote:
> > Speaking of suckitude, we could classify technologies that way:
> >
> > xml: major suckitude
> >
> > rpc: no suckitude
> >
> > python: negative suckitude
>
> I disagree with your last two qualificatio
In article ,
"Frank Millman" wrote:
> The project is inherently database-driven. The python code expects to find
> certain tables and columns in the database. As I develop new features, I
> sometimes need to modify the database structure. In the bad old days (like
> yesterday) I would just ma
In article <63bdccb4-9e34-4e40-b07d-14342e218...@googlegroups.com>,
peter wrote:
> I used to struggle with the concept of ''.join(('hello ','world')) - it
> seemed so convoluted compared with the intuitive 'hello '+'world', and I
> could never remember the syntax. Also, for the strings I was
In article ,
Rustom Mody wrote:
> On Monday, August 25, 2014 5:36:25 PM UTC+5:30, Roy Smith wrote:
> > Rustom Mody wrote:
>
> > > Heh! You make it sound that the character model is the most important
> > > thing
> > > in choosing a language!
> >
In article ,
Rustom Mody wrote:
> Heh! You make it sound that the character model is the most important thing
> in choosing a language!
> There are people using Fortran -- with not intention of finding
> an alternative.
Different people have different needs. If I was writing code to do
number
In article <53eee06a$0$29984$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>,
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Russell E. Owen wrote:
>
> > I realize the logging module supports this and has a syslog writer, so
> > that's a fallback. But we were hoping to use the syslog module for
> > performance.
>
> Have you be
In article ,
Philipp Kraus wrote:
> The code works till last week correctly, I don't change the pattern.
OK, so what did you change? Can you go back to last week's code and
compare it to what you have now to see what changed?
> My question is, can it be a problem with string encoding? Did I
In article ,
Philipp Kraus wrote:
> found = re.search( " href=\"/projects/boost/files/latest/download\?source=files\"
> title=\"/boost/(.*)",
> Utilities.URLReader("http://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost/";)
> )
> if found == None :
> raise MyError.StopError("Boost Download U
In article ,
Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Aug 2014 17:47:00 +1000, Cameron Simpson
> declaimed the following:
>
> >
> >Your Android phone will be running some flavour of Linux I believe. Someone
> >who
> >has used one may correct me here.
> >
> "Android" /is/ the flavor
>
>
In article <53ec2453$0$2299$426a7...@news.free.fr>,
YBM wrote:
> Le 14/08/2014 04:16, Tim Chase a écrit :
> > On 2014-08-13 21:01, Tim Chase wrote:
> >> On 2014-08-14 09:46, luofeiyu wrote:
> >>> s="Aug"
> >>>
> >>> how can i change it into 8 with some python time module?
> >>
> >> >>> import
In article ,
Chris Angelico wrote:
> I like to look at SQL as a language that specifies an end result
> without specifying how to get there
Well, sure, but sometimes the how to get there is a matter of 10x, or
100x, or 1000x in performance.
I'm currently migrating a 3 TB database to a new 5
In article <53eaab7d$0$29979$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>,
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> By studying how other scraping programs work, and studying how your racing
> pages store data, you should be able to put the two together and see how to
> get the data you want.
It's also worth mentioning
In article ,
Simon Evans wrote:
> Dear Programmers,
> I have been looking at the You tube 'Web Scraping Tutorials' of Chris Reeves.
> I have tried a few of his python programs in the Python27 command prompt, but
> altered them from accessing data using links say from the Dow Jones index, to
>
In article ,
Rustom Mody wrote:
> A C programmer asked to swap variables x and y, typically writes something
> like
>
> t = x; x = y; y = t;
>
> Fine, since C cant do better.
Sure C can do better.
x = x ^ y
y = y ^ x
x = x ^ y
Any self-respecting C hacker would write it this way :-)
--
ht
In article ,
Mark Lawrence wrote:
> On 10/08/2014 19:26, Rustom Mody wrote:
> >
> > Its when we have variables that are assigned in multiple places that
> > we start seeing mathematical abominations like
> > x = x+1
> >
>
> I'm not bothered about it being a mathematical or any other type of
>
In article <154cc342-7f85-4d16-b636-a1a953913...@googlegroups.com>,
Rustom Mody wrote:
> >>> l= [6,2,9,12,1,4]
> >>> sorted(l,reverse=True)[:5]
> [12, 9, 6, 4, 2]
>
> No need to know how sorted works nor [:5]
>
> Now you (or Steven) can call it abstract.
>
> And yet its
> 1. Actual running c
In article ,
Rustom Mody wrote:
> > They haven't figured out yet that the
> > first step to solving a problem is to decide what algorithms you're
> > going to use, and only then can you start translating that into code.
> > They need to be led in small steps towards basic knowledge.
> [...]
In article ,
Dave Angel wrote:
> Your simplest answer is probably to write a function that converts
> a string like you have into a datetime object, say call it
> converter (). Then after testing it, you call
>
> min (dates, key = converter)
Wow, after all these years, I didn't know min() to
In article <338e8fb0-c9ec-462a-b560-1c1ff77de...@googlegroups.com>,
Rustom Mody wrote:
> [To the OP]
> Yeah I am in the minority at least out here in considering
> comprehensions simpler than loops. Take your pick
When comprehensions first came out, I stubbornly refused to get my head
around t
In article ,
Tim Chase wrote:
> On 2014-08-07 08:19, Roy Smith wrote:
> > > My glob.iglob() uses os.listdir() behind the scenes (see glob1()
> > > in glob.py)
> > >
> > > -tkc
> >
> > In which case, the documentation for iglob() is broken.
In article ,
Tim Chase wrote:
> On 2014-08-07 07:54, Roy Smith wrote:
> > I wonder if glob.iglob('*') might help here?
>
> My glob.iglob() uses os.listdir() behind the scenes (see glob1() in
> glob.py)
>
> -tkc
In which case, the documentation for iglob(
In article ,
Gregory Ewing wrote:
> Virgil Stokes wrote:
> > How can I
> > determine if the directory is empty WITHOUT the generation of a list of
> > the file names
>
> Which platform?
>
> On Windows, I have no idea.
>
> On Unix you can't really do this properly without access
> to opendir
In article ,
Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote:
> os.fork()
> Fork a child process.
> ...
> Availability: Unix.
> """
>
> You are using the wrong operating system ;)
To be honest, this could be considered a buglet in the os module. It
really should raise:
NotImplementedError("fork() is on
In article <53ded02e$0$29980$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>,
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
>
> > I've reached a point where I think classes are a superfluous OO concept.
> > You only need objects.
>
> I don't know whether "superfluous" is correct, but they certainly are
>
In article ,
Mark Lawrence wrote:
> On 02/08/2014 20:58, Ben Finney wrote:
> > Steven D'Aprano writes:
> >
> >> If you need instances which carry state, then object is the wrong
> >> class.
> >
> > Right. The âtypesâ module provides a SimpleNamespace class for the
> > common âbag of attri
In article ,
Mark Lawrence wrote:
> How to go about this is at "Short, Self Contained, Correct (Compilable),
> Example" at http://sscce.org/
It says there, "most readers will stop reading by 100 lines of code". I
guess I have a short attention span relative to "most readers", because
my tl;
In article <87wqaplj8h@elektro.pacujo.net>,
Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> I've reached a point where I think classes are a superfluous OO concept.
> You only need objects.
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In article ,
bruce wrote:
> I'm posting the test code I'm using. Pointers/comments would be
> helpful/useful.
It would be really helpful if you could post a minimal code example
which demonstrates the problem you're having. Leave out everything
(including the commented-out code) which isn't
In article ,
Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 11:25 PM, Roy Smith wrote:
> > in which case, I've said, "make Foos just like objects, except for, oh,
> > never mind, there aren't any differences". But, in reality, the system
> > b
In article ,
Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 10:40 PM, Roy Smith wrote:
> > I usually just do:
> >
> > class Data:
> >pass
> > my_obj = Data()
> >
> > That's all you really need. It's annoying that you can't ju
In article ,
Mark Lawrence wrote:
> On 02/08/2014 20:58, Ben Finney wrote:
> > Steven D'Aprano writes:
> >
> >> If you need instances which carry state, then object is the wrong
> >> class.
> >
> > Right. The âtypesâ module provides a SimpleNamespace class for the
> > common âbag of attri
In article ,
Gregory Ewing wrote:
> > And don't mention the menu bar across the top, separated from the
> > window to which it belonged.
>
> That seems to be a matter of taste. There are some
> advantages to the menu-bar-at-top model. It's an easier
> target to hit, because you can just flick t
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