Re: Interesting talk on Python vs. Ruby and how he would like Python to have just a bit more syntactic flexibility.

2010-02-23 Thread Timothy N. Tsvetkov
On Feb 16, 10:41 pm, Andrej Mitrovic andrej.mitrov...@gmail.com wrote: On Feb 16, 7:38 pm, Casey Hawthorne caseyhhammer_t...@istar.ca wrote: Interesting talk on Python vs. Ruby and how he would like Python to have just a bit more syntactic flexibility.

Re: Python and Ruby

2010-02-03 Thread Timothy N. Tsvetkov
On Jan 28, 2:29 am, Jonathan Gardner jgard...@jonathangardner.net wrote: On Jan 27, 5:47 am, Simon Brunning si...@brunningonline.net wrote: I think Python is a little cleaner, but I'm sure you'd find Ruby fans who'd argue the complete opposite. Are you sure about that? There's a lot of

Re: What python can NOT do?

2009-08-29 Thread Timothy N. Tsvetkov
On Aug 29, 4:26 am, qwe rty hkh00...@gmail.com wrote: On Aug 29, 3:14 am, Tim Chase python.l...@tim.thechases.com wrote: what else can NOT be done in python? what are the limitations of the language? I understand there's a little trouble getting Python to prove that P=NP  You'll

Re: speeding up reading files (possibly with cython)

2009-03-08 Thread Timothy N. Tsvetkov
If that's the problem, the solution is: get more memory. Or maybe think about algorithm, which needs less memory... My experience tells me, that each time when you want to store a lot of data into dict (or other structure) to analyze it then, you can find a way not to store so much amount of