Re: help on import libxml2

Paul, Thanks. This helped. Jianbing On Aug 14, 4:10 pm, Paul Boddie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 14 Aug, 22:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > Traceback (most recent call last): > >   File "", line 1, in > >   File "/sea/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/libxml2.py", line 1, in > > > >

help on import libxml2

Hi, I have this weird situation where on the same machine(solaris 8, python 2.5), one user can do this with no problem: >>> import libxml2 >>> libxml2 >>> While the another one get this: >>> import libxml2 Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in File "/sea/local/lib/python2

default method parameter behavior

I ran into a similar situation like the following (ipython session). Can anyone please explain why the behavior? Thanks in advance. In [11]: def foo(b=[]): : b.append(3) : return b : In [12]: foo() Out[12]: [3] In [13]: foo() Out[13]: [3, 3] In [14]: foo([]) Out[14]

Re: behavior difference for mutable and immutable variable in function definition

On May 4, 5:14 pm, Carsten Haese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 14:30 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > > Can anyone explain the following: > > > Python 2.5 (r25:51908, Apr 9 2007, 11:27:23) > > [GCC 4.1.1 20060525 (Red Hat 4.1.1-1)] on linux2 > > Type "help", "copyri

behavior difference for mutable and immutable variable in function definition

Hi, Can anyone explain the following: Python 2.5 (r25:51908, Apr 9 2007, 11:27:23) [GCC 4.1.1 20060525 (Red Hat 4.1.1-1)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> def foo(): ... x = 2 ... >>> foo() >>> def bar(): ... x[2] = 2 ... >>> >>> bar()