On 04/08/2016 00:25, Paul Rubin wrote:
BartC writes:
sometimes you try to find a .py import module and it
doesn't seem to exist anywhere. (sys.py for example).
I would like to see how such references are translated to Lisp.
(require 'sys)
What does that do?
Don't tell me
On 03/08/2016 23:31, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 8:21 AM, BartC wrote:
But is this a generic mechanism that works for /any/ .dll file, or does
there have to be dedicated support for each of the 60 built-in modules?
I'm talking about the former.
Frankly, I don't
On 04/08/2016 04:23, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Wed, 3 Aug 2016 08:16 pm, BartC wrote:
So the idea that remembering 'repeat N' is a cognitive burden, and the
myriad string operations for example are not, is ridiculous.
Who says it isn't a cognitive burden? Of course it is
refers to both 32-bit and 64-bit APIs.
Apart from which, Win64 will still run 32-bit applications.
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rogramming languages use English
keywords.
It's more like why US English uses words like "windshield", "hood" and
"trunk" instead of the proper "windscreen", "bonnet" and "boot".
Oddly, for all its dynamism, Python doesn't allow aliases for its
keywords to allow for personal taste.
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ariable 'belongs' to this command
window and may not be seen by PyCharm if started from elsewhere. Setting
it more globally is fiddly but there is plenty of info out there. The
problem could be something else of course...)
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ds for switch - one idea is to use an
if-elseif chain, but that's just what it tries to avoid. Switch is
attractive for an interpreted language because - provided all cases are
constants, a bit of a problem in Python, because as soon as you give a name
to something, it's no longer consta
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AFAIK, we do not have "postfix conditionals"
h (perhaps not
for just 3 elements).
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ple or a list, or something
else entirely (my date example above I think needs to be a class in
Python, so that's a third way of doing things. Plus there is something
called a 'set' that I haven't played with yet).
> or use something else.
Python isn't as bad as some
pecially they don't have the truly bizarre one that a
function definition is itself a piece of code that is executed. Or maybe
not executed, if it's inside a conditional statement! And therefore does
not exist. This is an extra hurdle with learning or even using this
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On 25/11/2015 13:06, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
BartC :
Then, from the point of view of a beginner, you have two distinct ways
of representing a list of objects: a tuple and a list. Exactly why
there have to be two is never really made clear beyond the inadequate
explanation that one is immutable
On 25/11/2015 13:53, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
BartC :
Using tuples in the same way that other languages implement records is
going to be difficult if you can't change the values of the fields!
Guido could decide tomorrow that tuples are mutable.
(Could that be done without breaking exi
On 25/11/2015 15:13, Ned Batchelder wrote:
On Wednesday, November 25, 2015 at 8:20:59 AM UTC-5, BartC wrote:
Accept that some things /are/ a source of confusion. When, in writing
documentation, I find something hard to explain something, then I try
and make it simpler in the program. But not
On 25/11/2015 18:03, Ian Kelly wrote:
On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 10:18 AM, BartC wrote:
We have no way of evaluating their power or simplicity,
since they are not available to us.
I'll see if I can rustle up a comparison so that Python users can see what
they're missing!
Unless yo
On 25/11/2015 20:50, Mark Lawrence wrote:
On 25/11/2015 17:18, BartC wrote:
Can you please let us know what you're taking, what it costs and where
we can get it, as we would also like to live in cloud cuckoo land,
provided that The Price Is Right™.
And I would really like to know what
On 25/11/2015 22:16, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
BartC :
I'm interested in language design because that's what I've done on and
off for over 30 years. And I'm discussing some design decisions in
Python.
That *is* a fun ambition, useful or not.
(At the moment, it's most
On 26/11/2015 00:31, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Thu, 26 Nov 2015 09:41 am, BartC wrote:
Maybe you're too familiar with it. But the idea of executing the
function and other definitions in a file, instead of they just being
there, is novel.
It really, truly isn't. Your viewpoin
On 26/11/2015 01:52, Ned Batchelder wrote:
On Wednesday, November 25, 2015 at 8:23:36 PM UTC-5, BartC wrote:
On 26/11/2015 00:31, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
It really, truly isn't. Your viewpoint is clouded by too much immersion in
crippled languages. *Old and obsolete versions* o
On 26/11/2015 13:15, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 11:53 PM, BartC wrote:
FWIW here is that list of features that are different between Python and my
language, or that work a different way, or that I think could be a useful
addition. (Although Python's internal workings
On 26/11/2015 13:15, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 11:53 PM, BartC wrote:
http://pastebin.com/JrVTher6
#14 and #15: Are you assuming that a character is a byte and that
diacritical-free English is the only language in the world?
I don't think that need be the assum
ange your mind.
In fairness to BartC, I don't think that's malicious or trolling. I think it
is as pure an example of what Paul Graham calls the Blub Paradox as I've
ever seen.
"Well, PaulGraham has a very (very) low opinion of OO, mostly because he
does a lot of stuff that mos
On 27/11/2015 01:09, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Thu, 26 Nov 2015 12:23 pm, BartC wrote:
[First-class functions]
The names are declared, but the names are rarely bound to anything else.
Functions are just called the same boring way they are in C.
/They might as well be static defini
On 30/11/2015 17:15, Ulli Horlacher wrote:
def main():
a(1)
a(2)
a()
print(a.x)
if 'a.x' in globals(): print('global variable')
if 'a.x' in locals(): print('local variable')
Try this:
if 'x' in a.__dict__: print(
compare_results()
except Exception, e:
logging.error(e)
sys.exit("Comparing result failed")
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tatements, then why not simply
map them to x+=1? In Python, that would need to be x++ and x-- as ++x or
--x have existing meanings.
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t2():
print "two"
def print3():
print "three"
print_test = [print1,print2,print3] #NOT calling the function
for test in range(len(print_test)):
try:
print_test[test]() #calling the function
except AssertionError:
pass
The output of t
s, or you've inadvertently applied a 'shear' or 'slant'
transformation. (Maybe you can apply a reverse transform to fix it!)
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On 16/12/2015 21:53, fsn761...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thursday, December 17, 2015 at 1:36:55 AM UTC+4, BartC wrote:
You need to test step by step to see at what point it goes wrong. You're
scaling by 20 (which is a massive amount); what happens when scaling by
1? And anti-alias is turne
went tried PyPy. Using range in 2.7 instead of xrange didn't make much
difference either.)
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On 14/01/2016 01:21, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 12:02 PM, BartC wrote:
I was surprised recently by just how much incompatibility there was between
Python 2 and 3. It wasn't just about print with parentheses and range
instead of xrange.
I wanted to try out a jpeg de
7;>4B', *[1,2,3,4]))
I always end up with the following bytes on file:
!hexdump toto
000 0201 0403
Why is the hex dump doing 16-bits at a time? Get a byte dump, then it
might actually be the right output.
Anyway, this seems to work:
data=bytearray([1,2,3,4])
f = open("output"
h with the
name of a local, and screw things up.
Because of that, the Python scheme is better on the whole. The only
issue is that sometimes you think you're assigning to a global, but it's
really a local if you forget the 'global' declaration within the function.
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"But what if we pass the source code through a system that strips out
leading whitespace?"
"Then don't do that. What if you pass the source code through a system that
strips out braces?"
Python doesn't use braces, so that's not a problem!
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can't do much about it, you just need to be aware of it.
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On 19/02/2016 15:59, Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2016-02-19, BartC wrote:
On 17/02/2016 19:49, wrong.addres...@gmail.com wrote:
Could someone kindly tell me advantages and disadvantages of Python?
Something I don't think anyone has mentioned is that Python is
case-sensitive.
That
tically typed, so the language
knows what types to read into each of those variables. And the Fortran
might have a 'format' to help out, unless they've got rid of those since
1979...)
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a particular set of types is to
imposed on the input.)
In other words, it seems this particular wheel does require re-inventing!
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On 21/02/2016 15:08, Jussi Piitulainen wrote:
BartC writes:
In other words, it seems this particular wheel does require
re-inventing!
It's hardly Python's problem if an engineer is worried about some VB not
being there in its current form in the future. The sample code upthr
On 21/02/2016 21:52, Jussi Piitulainen wrote:
BartC writes:
But this is not so much to do with VB6, but with a very fundamental
capability that seems missing in modern languages.
All that's missing is a minor convenience that turns out to be mainly
awkward. Not at all fundamental.
I
On 22/02/2016 08:50, Jussi Piitulainen wrote:
BartC writes:
Reading stuff from an interactive console or terminal, is such an
important part of the history of computing, still being used now, that
you'd think a language would provide simple, ready-to-use methods ways
to do it.
I thi
On 22/02/2016 11:16, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Mon, 22 Feb 2016 12:16 am, BartC wrote:
[...]
No need for anyone to re-invent the
wheel! ;-)
I keep seeing this in the thread. Python has all this capability, yet it
still requires a lot of fiddly code to be added to get anywhere near as
s
On 22/02/2016 10:46, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Mon, 22 Feb 2016 08:52 am, Jussi Piitulainen wrote:
BartC writes:
IIRC, the first programming exercise I ever did (in 1976 using Algol
60) involved reading 3 numbers from the teletype and working out if
those could form sides of a tri
es (which would be the
stumbling block for me), then a few hundred lines of script code isn't a
lot. And Python is a scripting language.
And once one form or part of one is done, you might able to just copy
and adapt the code instead of having to write everything from scratch.
e using
only fgetc(), compared with any buffered solutions.)
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On 27/02/2016 16:35, BartC wrote:
On 25/02/2016 06:50, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
I have a need to read to an arbitrary delimiter, which might be any of a
(small) set of characters. For the sake of the exercise, lets say it is
either ! or ? (for example).
However those aren't the ma
On 27/02/2016 20:03, BartC wrote:
On 27/02/2016 16:35, BartC wrote:
Any faster solutions would need to read more than one byte at a time.
I've done some more test using Python 3.4, with the same 200,000 line
6MB test file:
0.25 seconds Scan the file with 'for line in f
exact subcategory, size, quantity...
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On 28/02/2016 12:54, Rustom Mody wrote:
On Sunday, February 28, 2016 at 6:08:44 PM UTC+5:30, BartC wrote:
You have to give someone some shopping to do. What's quicker, jotting
down a list of milk, bread, eggs and so on, or invoking some GUI program
where you have to first look for
et start typing on a now blank
document, and it's still the wrong style!
That's what I mean by these applications having minds of their own. And
with a 300-page document you can't just start all over, you need
something reliable, and not so smart.)
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On 29/02/2016 00:49, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Mon, 29 Feb 2016 01:29 am, BartC wrote:
20 years ago, when these things were simpler, MS Word had a mind of its
own even then. I had to produce a manual of few hundred pages, with
diagrams and images, and it just wasn't going to h
;t think of enough uses for it.
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Your example would become something like:
salary = 1250.
if salary > 1200:
has_to_pay_tax = True
else:
has_to_pay_tax = False
The OP mentioned finding an expression. So perhaps:
has_to_pay_tax = salary > 1200
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d with MSVC not gcc. But it would affect 2 and 3 equally.)
([2] With larger data, PyPy gets progressively faster compared with
normal Python, as it can optimise big loops better. This test was with
0.5 Mpixels of data)
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On 07/03/2016 11:11, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
BartC :
I've also found that 3 was consistently slower than 2 on various
benchmarks. Perhaps 10 to 20% slower (also 3.4 vs. 2.7).
Python doesn't exist for performance-critical parts of your solution.
Also, Python programs tend to take hu
On 07/03/2016 12:19, Fabien wrote:
On 03/07/2016 12:38 PM, BartC wrote:
(Although competing with CPython is too easy. PyPy is more of a problem.
With the Jpeg benchmark I mentioned, I can beat PyPy up to 6Mpix, but
then PyPy starts to get faster. At 80Mpix, PyPy is 60% faster.)
Just out of
On 07/03/2016 15:31, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 12:25 AM, BartC wrote:
(The Python version of that program is here:
http://pastebin.com/cHx3UhQb. It should work with any Python.)
Actually, it won't work with any Python - not if it gets a broken
file. Your abor
On 07/03/2016 19:10, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 5:34 AM, BartC wrote:
def abortjpeg(mess):
print ("Error:",mess)
raise
Here's my Python:
RuntimeError: No active exception to reraise
OK I'll have a look. (Or maybe just change 'rai
On 07/03/2016 20:47, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 7:19 AM, BartC wrote:
What can be more perfect for comparing two implementations?
rosuav@sikorsky:~$ python2 -m timeit -s 'from fp import Float'
'Float("1234.567")'
100 loops, best o
On 07/03/2016 23:40, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 9:39 AM, BartC wrote:
I'm using it because this kind of file reading in Python is a mess. If I do
a read, will I get a string, a byte sequence object, a byte-array, or
array-array, or what?
Uhh you'll get eit
On 08/03/2016 00:05, Ben Finney wrote:
BartC writes:
On 07/03/2016 20:47, Chris Angelico wrote:
Look! Creating a floating-point value is faster under Python 2 than
Python 3. What could be more perfect?
This is like a microbenchmark in that it doesn't tell you anything
about real-
On 08/03/2016 01:23, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 12:00 PM, BartC wrote:
Yes of course it does. As does 'being slow'. Take another microbenchmark:
def whiletest():
| i=0
| while i<=1:
| | i+=1
whiletest()
Python 2.7: 8.4 seconds
Python 3.1:
On 08/03/2016 01:19, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Tue, 8 Mar 2016 07:19 am, BartC wrote:
I don't have to hand a jpeg file that it can't
decode.
Run this under Python 2:
from random import randint
blob = [randint(0, 256) for i in range(16*1024)]
with open('bro
On 08/03/2016 01:12, Mark Lawrence wrote:
On 08/03/2016 01:00, BartC wrote:
If your efforts manage to double the speed of reading file A, then
probably the reading file B is also going to be improved! In practice
you use a variety of files, but one at a time will do.
What is the difference
On 08/03/2016 01:40, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 12:33 PM, BartC wrote:
Let me ask you a follow-on question first: how slow does a new Python
version have to be before even you would take notice?
Compared with 2.7, 3.4 above is spending nearly an extra ten seconds doing
On 08/03/2016 02:45, Mark Lawrence wrote:
On 08/03/2016 01:47, BartC wrote:
The Python timing for that file is around 20 seconds, time enough to
read 1 copies from the disk.
And a C program reads /and decodes/ the same file from the same disk in
between 0.1 and 0.2 seconds.
So how
On 08/03/2016 02:47, MRAB wrote:
On 2016-03-08 01:33, BartC wrote:
Compared with 2.7, 3.4 above is spending nearly an extra ten seconds
doing what? I can't understand why someone just wouldn't care.
Part of it will be that Python 2 has 2 integer types: 'int' (fix
On 08/03/2016 02:12, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Tue, 8 Mar 2016 09:39 am, BartC wrote:
I'm using it because this kind of file reading in Python is a mess. If I
do a read, will I get a string, a byte sequence object, a byte-array, or
array-array, or what?
Calling it &quo
On 08/03/2016 11:45, Jussi Piitulainen wrote:
BartC writes:
On 08/03/2016 02:47, MRAB wrote:
On 2016-03-08 01:33, BartC wrote:
Compared with 2.7, 3.4 above is spending nearly an extra ten seconds
doing what? I can't understand why someone just wouldn't care.
Part of it wi
On 08/03/2016 04:40, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Tuesday 08 March 2016 12:41, BartC wrote:
On 08/03/2016 01:19, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Tue, 8 Mar 2016 07:19 am, BartC wrote:
I don't have to hand a jpeg file that it can't
decode.
Run this under Python 2:
from random
On 08/03/2016 16:15, Mark Lawrence wrote:
On 08/03/2016 13:49, BartC wrote:
On 08/03/2016 04:40, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Tuesday 08 March 2016 12:41, BartC wrote:
Nevertheless, in the real world, you have to deal with corrupt JPGs and
files mislabelled as JPGs. And "crashing"
On 08/03/2016 16:09, Mark Lawrence wrote:
On 08/03/2016 11:09, BartC wrote:
On 08/03/2016 02:45, Mark Lawrence wrote:
On 08/03/2016 01:47, BartC wrote:
The Python timing for that file is around 20 seconds, time enough to
read 1 copies from the disk.
And a C program reads /and decodes
On 08/03/2016 20:44, Mark Lawrence wrote:
On 08/03/2016 19:15, BartC wrote:
Surely the start-up time would be the same no matter what the input.
Unless all of the background jobs are kicking in when you're testing. I
assume that you do take such factors into account, by repeating
On 08/03/2016 23:28, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Tue, 8 Mar 2016 10:53 pm, BartC wrote:
Python 2 Python 3
Text mode 'str' 'str'
Binary mode 'bytes''str'
That table is incorrect. In Python 2, bytes is just
On 09/03/2016 00:04, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Wed, 9 Mar 2016 12:49 am, BartC wrote:
Nevertheless, in the real world, you have to deal with corrupt JPGs and
files mislabelled as JPGs. And "crashing" doesn't count as "deal with"
:-)
OK, I changed the '
On 09/03/2016 08:40, Mark Lawrence wrote:
On 08/03/2016 23:59, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Wed, 9 Mar 2016 06:15 am, BartC wrote:
[...]
But this was hardly necessary as it was so obvious: it takes 150ms to
process a 300-pixel image, 20 seconds for a 2Mpixel one, and (I have to
switch to
On 09/03/2016 02:18, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Wed, 9 Mar 2016 12:28 pm, BartC wrote:
(Which wasn't as painful as I'd expected. However the next project I
have in mind is 20K lines rather than 0.7K. For that I'm looking at some
mechanical translation I think. And probably
On 09/03/2016 14:11, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 1:03 AM, BartC wrote:
I've just tried a UTF-8 file and getting some odd results. With a file
containing [three euro symbols]:
€€€
(including a 3-byte utf-8 marker at the start), and opened in text mode,
Python 3 gives me
to use to use the same directory it's just loaded a
file from as a default.
But it does have a reasonable choice of output encodings.)
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On 09/03/2016 21:13, Mark Lawrence wrote:
On 09/03/2016 12:02, BartC wrote:
On 09/03/2016 08:40, Mark Lawrence wrote:
Here's another: you have a program in Python that you'd quite like to
port to another dynamic language. Transcribing actual Python code is
straightforward. Until you
On 09/03/2016 23:35, Mark Lawrence wrote:
On 09/03/2016 23:14, BartC wrote:
(The byte-code compiler for the current version is written in itself. It
can compile itself (some 25Kloc) in about 1 second (that's running
interpreted, dynamic byte-code on a not-very-fast PC).
Please answ
On 09/03/2016 23:38, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 10:14 AM, BartC wrote:
program to be actually written in Python. Sometimes you want to understand
how code works or what it does or simply to learn from it. (Or sometimes, to
rip bits off.) Then it's frustrating when you
On 10/03/2016 07:30, Mark Lawrence wrote:
On 10/03/2016 00:58, BartC wrote:
You think a bloody great compiler is a microbenchmark?!
I have no interest in the speed of the compiler, I am interested in the
run time speed of the applications that it produces which is what has
been discussed
terest because there were some
parallels with the script language I was using for my applications (I
decided my language needed byte-arrays bolted on; Python also added
byte-arrays!)
Python however decided to be far more dynamic. (Making efficient
interpreters a bit harder to write.)
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On 10/03/2016 12:15, Mark Lawrence wrote:
On 10/03/2016 11:50, BartC wrote:
Suppose you were on the development team that writes the optimising
stages of a C compiler. You need to test the performance of the code it
produces so that you can compare one optimisation with another. Would
you
On 10/03/2016 13:08, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 11:47 PM, BartC wrote:
You just don't get it.
Both of you "just don't get" something that the other sees as
critically important. Before this thread gets to fisticuffs, may I
please summarize the points
On 10/03/2016 02:29, Ben Finney wrote:
BartC writes:
So long as /someone else/ uses the hard language to created the needed
libraries, the speed of pure Python is irrelevant. New version of
Python is now half the speed? Another shrug!
Citation needed. I don't know of any released ve
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t(parts)) # 'banana fries'
try:
n = names.index(name) # update existing entry
totals[n] += value
except:
names.append(name) # new entry
totals.append(value)
for i in range(len(names)):
print (names[i],totals[i])
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On 11/03/2016 01:21, Mark Lawrence wrote:
On 11/03/2016 00:05, BartC wrote:
def last(a):
return a[-1]
def init(a): # all except last element
return a[0:len(a)-1]
What is wrong with a[0:1] ?
The returns the head of the list. I need everything except the last
On 11/03/2016 02:03, Mark Lawrence wrote:
On 11/03/2016 01:45, BartC wrote:
On 11/03/2016 01:21, Mark Lawrence wrote:
On 11/03/2016 00:05, BartC wrote:
def last(a):
return a[-1]
def init(a): # all except last element
return a[0:len(a)-1]
What is wrong with a[0:1
is project seems to!
(Mine would be to design the language to be less dynamic in the first
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On 11/03/2016 21:59, Mark Lawrence wrote:
On 11/03/2016 18:57, BartC wrote:
def test():
s=""
for i in range(1000):
s+="*"
print (len(s))
test()
The minor snag that you might like to correct with your microbenchmark,
which any experienced Pyt
On 11/03/2016 21:36, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 5:57 AM, BartC wrote:
Functions are dynamic. That is, you don't know the F in F() is actually a
function, even if it was defined a few lines previously, because it could have
been rebound to something else. That me
On 12/03/2016 10:06, alister wrote:
On Fri, 11 Mar 2016 22:24:45 +, BartC wrote:
On 11/03/2016 21:59, Mark Lawrence wrote:
On 11/03/2016 18:57, BartC wrote:
def test():
s=""
for i in range(1000):
s+="*"
print (len(s))
test()
The
On 12/03/2016 01:15, Michael Torrie wrote:
On 03/11/2016 03:24 PM, BartC wrote:
On 11/03/2016 21:59, Mark Lawrence wrote:
On 11/03/2016 18:57, BartC wrote:
def test():
s=""
for i in range(1000):
s+="*"
print (len(s))
test()
The minor
TION 1
You might be right: doing an unnecessary global name lookup and
executing a function call are unlikely to have any impact on performance...
The problem here is that 'ord' is dynamic, so this operation cannot
simply be done at compile-time. Even when you try and optimise by
a
On 12/03/2016 02:20, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 12:16 PM, BartC wrote:
'Switch' testing benchmark. The little program show below reads a text file
(I used the entire CPython C sources, 6MB), and counts the number of
characters of each category in upper, lower,
On 12/03/2016 12:13, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
BartC :
If you're looking at fast processing of language source code (in a
thread partly about efficiency), then you cannot ignore the fact that
the vast majority of characters being processed are going to have
ASCII codes.
I don't kn
On 12/03/2016 11:51, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
BartC :
What's big deal with dynamism anyway? I could never understand
Python's obsession with it.
For me, 'dynamic' means that a variable has a dynamic type; that's
all. But you know at compile-time (or when looking at sourc
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