On Apr 1, 11:29 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Apr 1, 12:17 pm, Paul Rubin http://[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I don't necessarily want the answers, but need help on how to approach
it/the steps i need to solve the problems
What parts are you having difficulty
On Feb 22, 5:21 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I imported two modules (random and matplotlib), and found that the
functions available to me from the random module depended on the order
in which the imports occured. In particular, if I import random first,
[...]
import random
from pylab
On Dec 13, 5:45 pm, Breal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a list that looks like the following
[(10, 100010), (15, 17), (19, 100015)]
I would like to be able to determine which of these overlap each
other. So, in this case, tuple 1 overlaps with tuples 2 and 3. Tuple
2
On Sep 12, 5:21 am, Charles Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've just started playing around with Python, as a possible
replacement for a mix of C++, Matlab and Lisp. The language looks
lovely and clean with one huge exception: I do a lot of numerical
modeling, so I deal with objects (like
On Sep 11, 12:42 pm, Zentrader [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snip
What is it about please do not top-post that you have difficulty
understanding? Or do MVPs feel that their time is so much more
valuable than anyone else's that they are free to ignore the norms?
Who made this the norm?
On Aug 21, 2:57 am, Dennis Lee Bieber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
pay = min(num, 22) * 0.4 + max(num-22, 0) * 1.4
pay = num*0.4 + (num22)*(num-22)
;-)
-=Dave
--
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
On Aug 3, 4:41 pm, Ehsan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I want to find http://www.2shared.com/download/1716611/e2000f22/
[...]
I use this pattern :
http.*?\.(wmv|3gp).*
but it returns only 'wmv' and '3gp' instead of http://www.2shared.com/
download/1716611/e2000f22/Jadeed_Mlak14.wmv?
On Jun 21, 9:49 am, Robert Uhl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Twisted [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Given that in its out-of-the-box configuration it's well-nigh unusable
without a printed-out cheat sheet of some kind, of the sort that
were supposed to have died out in the 80s, getting it customized
On Jun 20, 8:28 am, David Kastrup [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Actually, the E in Emacs stands for extensible. Part of the
appeal of Emacs is that you can change it to accommodate you.
Actually, though Emacs is the epitome of extensibility, the E stands
for Editor. EMACS is simply short for
Apologies for jumping into the thread late.
On May 27, 3:25 pm, Roy Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ben Finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is C no longer a major language? The long-standing convention there
is for lower_case_with_underscores.
Which dates back to the days of ASR-33's which only
On May 8, 3:00 pm, John Salerno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote:
I think I have vague idea how the input looks like, but it would be
helpful if you show some example input and wanted output.
Good idea. Here's what it looks like now:
1. Levy, S.B. (1964) Isologous
On Mar 16, 8:39 am, Paul McGuire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
Stop thinking about *how* to start and *just start*. Python is pretty
Indeed. Of all the fortune cookies I've eaten over the years, I've
saved (and taped to my monitor) only one fortune. It reads:
Begin...the rest is easy.
On 21 Jul 2006 07:51:15 -0700 in comp.lang.python, T
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am using an optparse to get command line options, and then pass them
to an instance of another class:
# Class that uses optparse.OptionParser
foo = Parse_Option()
# Class that does the real work
bar = Processor()
On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 17:09:32 +0100 in comp.lang.python, Simon
Brunning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
lst = [1,2,3,4,5]
while lst:
lst.pop()
Or even just:
lst = []
del lst[:]
is probably closer to what the OP wants...
Regards,
-=Dave
--
Change
On 12 Jul 2006 18:09:42 -0700 in comp.lang.python, Wesley Henwood
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
To capture output from python scripts run from a C++ app I've added the
following code at the beggening of the C++ app:
PyRun_SimpleString(import grabber);
PyRun_SimpleString(import sys);
On 11 Jul 2006 10:19:22 -0700 in comp.lang.python, Paul Rubin
http://[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
K.S.Sreeram [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Java is not the only restricted execution environment around.
Javascript, as implemented by most browsers, is an excellent lightweight
restricted execution
On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 17:12:26 GMT in comp.lang.python, John Salerno
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I know there's a request for a good IDE at least once a week on the ng,
but hopefully this question is a little different. I'm looking for
suggestions for a good cross-platform text editor (which the
On 19 May 2006 07:18:03 GMT in comp.lang.python, Duncan Booth
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
My experience of programming with either spaces or tabs has taught me
that tabs are evil not for themselves, but simply because no matter how
hard you try they always end up being mixed with spaces.
On Thu, 18 May 2006 21:29:59 +0200 in comp.lang.python, Ronny Mandal
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi!
Assume we have a list l, containing tuples t1,t2...
i.e. l = [(2,3),(3,2),(6,5)]
And now I want to sort l reverse by the second element in the tuple,
i.e the result should ideally be:
l =
On Wed, 17 May 2006 17:28:26 GMT in comp.lang.python, Edward Elliott
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sybren Stuvel wrote:
Andy Sy enlightened us with:
Like I said, you'll *NEVER* get that fancy shmancy 'semantic
indentation' idea to work properly in the most basic utilities which
have the 8-space
On Wed, 17 May 2006 12:02:46 -0700 in comp.lang.python, Carl J. Van
Arsdall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Andy Sy wrote:
Carl J. Van Arsdall wrote:
Next major objection then, how can one practically use 'tabs as
semantic indentation' without screwing up formatting of code like
the below??
On 17 May 2006 16:13:54 -0700 in comp.lang.python, achates
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Carl J. Van Arsdall wrote:
The converse can also be said, it's difficult to make sure everyone
uses spaces and not tabs.
I think we've just about beat this discussion to death... nice work
everyone!
Yeah -
On Wed, 10 May 2006 06:44:27 GMT in comp.lang.python, Edward Elliott
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Would I recommend perl for readable, maintainable code? No, not when better
options like Python are available. But it can be done with some effort.
I'm reminded of a comment made a few years ago by
On Wed, 10 May 2006 13:56:52 GMT in comp.lang.python, John Salerno
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
bruno at modulix wrote:
Why not trying by yourself ?-)
Doh! I always forget I can do this! :)
Mmm. Not good. Let's try again:
print textwrap.dedent(s).strip()
this is a multiline
triple-quted
On Wed, 10 May 2006 15:50:38 GMT in comp.lang.python, John Salerno
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dave Hansen wrote:
print textwrap.dedent(s).strip().replace('\n',' ')
this is a multiline triple-quted string with indentation for nicer
code formatting
But I have some newlines that are already
On 5 May 2006 05:23:24 -0700 in comp.lang.python, vdrab
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Are you telling us that you *had* read that doc,
and tripped because it says depending on the implementation,
when it should say at the choice of the implementation ?
no.
let's see, where to start ... ?
let's say
On Tue, 02 May 2006 18:52:48 GMT in comp.lang.python, John Salerno
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
Yeah, after trying some crazy things, I just wrote it this way:
def truth_test(seq):
truth = 0
for item in seq:
if item:
truth += 1
if truth == 1:
On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 10:20:57 -0400 in comp.lang.python, Don Taylor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Found in a style guide (http://www.artlogic.com/careers/styleguide.html)
---
Another case where unnecessary braces should be used is when
On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 22:41:04 +0200 in comp.lang.python, Marc
'BlackJack' Rintsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], ? wrote:
suggest add do while loop in later version
Please also suggest a clean syntax for this. :-)
while 1:
do_loop_stuff()
if time_to_leave(): break
On 21 Apr 2006 12:50:38 -0700 in comp.lang.python,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't get it (the Elliot solution)... How is it that the first value
is repeated once times, and the remaining values are repeated twice
times?
Integer division truncates. 200/2 - 100, 199/2 - 99, 198/2 - 99,
etc.
On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 08:17:22 -0700 (PDT) in comp.lang.python, Anthony
Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- bayerj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
1 2 3 4 5
0 7 8 9 10
0 0 13 14 15
0 0 0 19 20
0 0 0 0 25
Look at the triangle represented by the
On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 17:19:25 +1200 in comp.lang.python, Lawrence
D'Oliveiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Terry Reedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sybren Stuvel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in
I don't care about how people see my tabs. I use one tab for every
indent level, so
On 12 Apr 2006 06:53:23 -0700 in comp.lang.python, robin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hi,
i'm doing some udp stuff and receive strings of the form '0.87
0.25 0.79;\n'
what i'd need though is a list of the form [0.87 0.25 0.79]
i got to the [0:-3] part to obtain a string
On 5 Apr 2006 13:44:48 -0700 in comp.lang.python, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
bruno at modulix wrote:
There's a Kant generator example in Dive Into Python:
http://diveintopython.org/xml_processing/index.html
Thanks Bruno! Perhaps I could modify it to throw in some Hume and
Wittgenstein, mix it
On 3 Apr 2006 10:37:11 -0400 in comp.lang.python, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Roy
Smith) wrote:
Adam DePrince [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It just happens that the
logical operation
(a is b ) - (a == b )
is always True.
Only for small values of always. You can always do pathological
things with
On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 20:05:48 +0200 in comp.lang.python, Ilias
Lazaridis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
bruno at modulix wrote:
[...]
Look for the Python cookbook (google is your friend).
...
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pythoncook/
sorry, I've not clarified that I mean an free internet resource.
On 20 Mar 2006 12:46:43 -0800 in comp.lang.python, J Rice
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm sorry for such a basic question, but I haven't been able to phrase
a search that gets me an answer and my books are totally silent on
this. I have seen a number of python function defs that take
parameters of
On 20 Mar 2006 15:45:36 -0800 in comp.lang.python,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aahz) wrote:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Dave Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
It's harder to explain than understand. Try playing with the
following function in the python interpreter:
def test(a,b='b', *c, **d
On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 12:04:38 -0700 in comp.lang.python, Bob Greschke
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Roy Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[...]
try:
i = a.find(3)
print It's here: , i
except NotFound:
print No 3's here
Nuts. I guess you're right. It
On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 18:01:32 -0500 in comp.lang.python, Kent Johnson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
filename = open_file()
By the way 'filename' is a pretty bad name, since it contains a file
object, not a string. Maybe call it f instead. ('file' is also a bad
name because it is the name of a
On Tue, 21 Feb 2006 12:44:52 +0530 in comp.lang.python, Suresh
Jeevanandam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
# I am new to python.
In python all numbers are immutable. This means there is one object ( a
region in the memory ) created every time we do an numeric operation. I
hope there should have been
On Tue, 21 Feb 2006 08:36:50 -0600 in comp.lang.python, Chris Mellon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
When asked to name some interpreted (or scripting) languages, they'll
name some off - perl, python, ruby, javascript, basic...
They won't say Java. Ask them why Python is interpreted and Java
Caution: bunny trail ahead. Feel free to skip this message, as it
contains no useful content whatever...
On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 12:09:02 +1100 in comp.lang.python, Steven
D'Aprano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
I've never even used Matlab. But I have a calculator. (Actually I have
about half a
On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 12:51:24 -0800 in comp.lang.python, SMB
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jonathan Gardner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
codes = map(lambda x: x[0], list1)
for d in list2:
if d['code'] in codes:
d['VERIFIED'] = 1
Is this what you were looking
On 14 Feb 2006 08:42:38 -0800 in comp.lang.python, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If I un-comment any line in this program below the line where I
commented all OK up to this point This program locks up my
computer.
Hmm. Ctrl-C gets me out just fine. In Idle, at least.
Windows
On Sat, 11 Feb 2006 16:43:33 -0500 in comp.lang.python, John Salerno
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
John Salerno wrote:
Hi all. I'm just starting out with Python, so I'm a little slow right
now. :)
Can someone explain to me why the expression 5 / -2 evaluates to -3,
especially considering that
On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 23:30:25 -0500 in comp.lang.python, Steve Holden
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
John Salerno wrote:
[...]
I know it comes from the suffix -tuple, which makes me think it's
pronounced as 'toople', but I've seen (at m-w.com) that the first
pronunciation option is 'tuhple', so I
On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 22:30:43 +0100 in comp.lang.python, Peter Maas
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
John Salerno schrieb:
Terry Hancock wrote:
So what's a 1-element tuple, anyway? A mople? monople?
It does seem like this lopsided pythonic creature (1,) ought
to have a name to reflect its ugly,
On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 16:46:26 -0500 in comp.lang.python, Steve Holden
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dave Hansen wrote:
On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 23:30:25 -0500 in comp.lang.python, Steve Holden
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
Tyoople, toople or tupple depending on who you are, where you grew
up and who
On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 18:51:11 + in comp.lang.python, rtilley
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
s = list('some_random_string')
print s
s.reverse()
print s
s = ''.join(s)
print s
Surely there's a better way to do this, right?
How about
s = some random string
print s
s = s[::-1]
print s
HTH,
On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 19:03:32 + in comp.lang.python, rtilley
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dave Hansen wrote:
How about
s = some random string
print s
s = s[::-1]
print s
That looks like Perl, but it works. Makes me wonder with the string
module doesn't have a reverse or invert function
On Sat, 11 Feb 2006 01:37:59 +0100 in comp.lang.python, Schüle Daniel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Lonnie Princehouse wrote:
everybody is making this way more complicated than it needs to be.
storage = list[:list.index(O)]
the question is whether the old list is needed in the future or not
if
On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 20:27:40 -0500 in comp.lang.python, Dan Sommers
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 22:29:20 GMT,
Neil Hodgson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
... I'm so used to / for division that ÷ now looks strange.
Indeed, I don't think I've used ÷ for division since about 7th grade,
On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 16:39:51 -0500 in comp.lang.python, Peter Hansen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Christopher Subich wrote:
Using English, because that's the only language I'm fluent in, consider
the sentence:
The horse raced past the barn fell.
It's just one of many garden path sentences,
On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 15:28:50 -0800 in comp.lang.python, James Stroud
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Rocco Moretti wrote:
(Not that I like the logo, mind you...)
Does anyone? There has to be a better logo! I thought the previous
requirement as established by the BDFL was no snakes. These are snakes,
Just a couple half-serious responses to your comment...
On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 11:05:15 +0100 in comp.lang.python, Magnus Lycka
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Terry Hancock wrote:
That's interesting. I think many people in the West tend to
imagine han/kanji characters as archaisms that will
disappear
On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 08:11:24 GMT in comp.lang.python, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Bengt Richter) wrote:
[...]
Maybe you would like the unambiguousness of
(+ 8 (* 6 2))
or
6 2 * 8 +
?
Well, I do like lisp and Forth, but would prefer Python to remain
Python.
Though it's hard to fit Python into 1k
On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 13:33:06 + in comp.lang.python, Steve Holden
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Shalabh Chaturvedi wrote:
[...]
2. also available as the python-list mailing list
Add or a google group (link).
It's not a Google Group, it's a Usenet newsgroup. Google merely
provides a lousy but
On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 06:39:20 GMT in comp.lang.python, Dennis Lee
Bieber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 25 Jan 2006 12:42:20 -0800, IamIan [EMAIL PROTECTED] declaimed the
following in comp.lang.python:
[...]
I tried print repr(filename) and it returned the actual filename:
'n16w099.asc' ,
On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 16:26:57 GMT in comp.lang.python, Roger L.
Cauvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Christos Georgiou [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[...]
Is this what you mean?
^[^a]*(a{3})(?:[^a].*)?$
Close, but the pattern should allow arbitrary sequence of
On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 15:21:43 - in comp.lang.python, Grant Edwards
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 2006-01-25, Magnus Lycka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
P.S. Since I was a kid, I've heard people say: So you're born
on new years day--how unusual.
Well, it happens to slightly less than 1/365th of
On 25 Jan 2006 11:32:27 -0800 in comp.lang.python, Brian
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello all,
I am a bit stuck with a float formatting issue. What I want to do is
print a float to the screen with each line showing one more decimal
place. Here is a code snip that may explain it better:
On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 16:33:16 +0200 in comp.lang.python, Juho Schultz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
Fortran 90 allowed , = instead of .GT., .GE. of Fortran 77. But F90
uses ! as comment symbol and therefore need /= instead of != for
inequality. I guess just because they wanted. However, it is
On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 04:09:00 +0100 in comp.lang.python, Christoph
Zwerschke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
Once you open your mind for using non-ascii symbols, I'm sure one can
find a bunch of useful applications. Variable names could be allowed to
be non-ascii, as in XML. Think class names in
On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 13:23:05 -0300 in comp.lang.python, Ricardo
Quesada [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
In python 2.0, this number was an integer:
0x88776655
but in python 2.4 it is a long (every number 0x7fff it is a long)
in python 2.4, is there a way to convert that number to a
On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 19:44:28 +0100 in comp.lang.python, Christoph
Zwerschke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dave Hansen wrote:
C uses ! as a unary logical not operator, so != for not equal just
seems to follow, um, logically.
Consequently, C should have used ! for = and ! for = ...
Well, actually
On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 08:26:16 +1100 in comp.lang.python, Steven
D'Aprano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 10:38:56 -0600, Dave Hansen wrote:
The latter, IMHO. Especially variable names. Consider i vs. ì vs. í
vs. î vs. ï vs. ...
Agreed, but that's the programmer's fault
On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 15:04:51 +0100 in comp.lang.python, Mikael
Olofsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Terry Hancock wrote:
Tim Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
UK:Harry smiled vaguely back
US:Harry smiled back vaguely
Terry Hancock wrote:
I know you are pointing out the triviality of
On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 08:06:50 +0100 in comp.lang.python, Fredrik
Lundh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dave Hansen wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote]
Fuzzyman wrote:
[...]
In this case :
a = ['some string']
b = ['somestring']
a == b
False (probably)
That depends, the C syntax is like
On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 11:58:27 -0600 in comp.lang.python, Terry Hancock
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
At worst, the cross might be a reference to The Spanish
Inquisition, which anyone who knows anything about Python
should know is topical.
Perhaps, but they wouldn't expect it...
Regards,
On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 10:27:58 +1300 in comp.lang.python, Carl Cerecke
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
Python has no goto.
+1
[...]
We want a goto.
-1
Regards,
-=Dave
--
Change is inevitable, progress is not.
--
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 17:03:23 +0100 in comp.lang.python, Claudio Grondi
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
a = 1L
b = 1L
a is b
False
Python fails to reuse the long integer object. It would be interesting
to know why, because it seems to be strange, that in case of integers it
does (but not
On 18 Jan 2006 08:41:00 -0800 in comp.lang.python, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Fuzzyman wrote:
I'm not familiar with the C basic datatypes - I assume it has an array
or list like object.
Would it contain a sequence of poitners to the members ? In which case
they would only be equal if the
On 16 Jan 2006 20:41:24 -0800 in comp.lang.python, thakadu
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes, thats what you have to do. And that was my original point, you
cannot just paste and go, you have to first reformat.
My heart bleeds.
Regards,
-=Dave
--
Change is
On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 11:56:05 +0800 in comp.lang.python, Jon Perez
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
Although the below does work, I believe:
Verified example:
def check_indent(n):
if n==4:
print You like four spaces
elif n==3:
print I like three
On 11 Jan 2006 21:30:11 -0800 in comp.lang.python,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aahz) wrote:
[..]
Side note: I don't have a degree, and I interviewed at Google several
years ago. I'm about 97% certain that my lack of degree played little
role (if any) in my failure to get a job offer.
Side note: I have
On 12 Jan 2006 12:20:50 -0800 in comp.lang.python, bblais
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
Let me start by saying that I am coming from a background using Matlab
(or Octave), and C++. I am going to outline the basic nuts-and-bolts
I generally write C code for embedded controllers.
of how I
On 12 Jan 2006 16:16:58 -0800 in comp.lang.python,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aahz) wrote:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Dave Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And, FWIW, I don't think I could convince my wife (or myself) to move
to CullyFORNya for any amount of money, whether there was a massage
On Sun, 08 Jan 2006 14:27:55 -0500 in comp.lang.python, Gerard Brunick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My way is ugly. These has to be a better way.
This may not be the slickest way, but I needed some practice with
list comprehensions (I've never really gotten used to them...)
This works with lists.
On 9 Jan 2006 10:09:19 -0800 in comp.lang.python, Patrick Allaire
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How to create a script that list itself ?
Stealing from the old C chestnut:
s=s=%c%s%c;print s%%(34,s,34);print s%(34,s,34)
I would like to know, where is the script's code is stored once we
start it.
On Thu, 5 Jan 2006 01:14:43 + (UTC) in comp.lang.python, Karlo
Lozovina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dave Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I'm not sure what rn is, but it looks like a standard library
random.Random object. If so, I don't think you want to seed your
You've received good answers to your original question. Just a side
issue...
On Wed, 4 Jan 2006 22:19:27 + (UTC) in comp.lang.python, Karlo
Lozovina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
def GenerateRandomColour():
rn.seed()
colour = rn.choice(['C', 'P', 'Z'])
return
On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 19:43:15 GMT in comp.lang.python, David M. Synck
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
temp = float(raw_input(Please enter the first credit \n))
while temp != 0:
credlist.append(temp)
temp = float(raw_input(Please enter the next credit \n))
Here you're
On Wed, 21 Dec 2005 19:10:21 +0530 in comp.lang.python, Suresh
Jeevanandam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[re: SI prefixes]
Exactly what I wanted.
It would be nice if the standard float function takes care of these.
No, it wouldn't.
Regards,
-=Dave
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On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 22:11:01 -0500 in comp.lang.python, Eric McCoy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I ported my code from the development to
application platform, I found a type error
on a fileout statement:
outfile.write(object.id +,)
What is the type of object.id? I'm
On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 01:41:34 +1100 in comp.lang.python, Steven
D'Aprano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
Well, let's find out, shall we?
[...]
A small but consistent speed advantage to the try...except block.
Having said all that, the speed difference are absolutely trivial, less
than 0.1
On 21 Dec 2005 14:36:32 -0800 in comp.lang.python, Paul Rubin
http://[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There is a third choice which is the natural and obvious one: have the
function do what its name indicates. Return true if the arg is a
digit and false otherwise. If iterating over the whole string is
On Wed, 21 Dec 2005 16:14:16 -0600 in comp.lang.python, Rocco Moretti
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15 meters (150 decimeter, 1500 cm, etc ...)
590 inches
49 feet
16 yards
0.0093 miles
0.008 nautical miles
3 rods
0.075 furlongs
1800 barleycorns
147.63 hands
66 spans
33 cubits
13 ells
8.2 fathoms
On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 20:51:39 + in comp.lang.python, Simon Brunning
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I haven't the time (or inclination) to sort out all your problems
here, but one thing jumps out at me:
On 12/19/05, Shahriar Shamil Uulu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
class Node:
def
On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 21:16:23 +0100 in comp.lang.python, Lawrence
Oluyede [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Il 2005-12-14, Andy Leszczynski [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto:
How can do elegantly in Python:
if condition:
a=1
else:
a=2
like in C:
a=condition?1:2
There are tons of threads on
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 14:57:18 + in comp.lang.python, Steve Holden
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[...]
Would you say
do:
suite
while condition
or what? Basically do ... while and do ... until most naturally put the
Works for me, though I wouldn't cry if the while was changed
On 15 Dec 2005 09:19:37 -0800 in comp.lang.python, Tuvas
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Let's say I make a program something like follows:
x=[]
x.append([1,2,3])
x.append([4,5,6])
print x
print x[0]
print x[0][1]
x[0][1]=5
Okay, everything works here as expected except the last line. Why won't
this
On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 12:58:16 -0500 in comp.lang.python, Jean-Paul
Calderone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
It's the comma that makes it a tuple. The parenthesis are only required in
cases where the expression might mean something else without them.
That's almost true. Consider:
t2 = (1,2)
On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 08:25:08 GMT in comp.lang.python, Tim Roberts
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[...]
The design of the PHP language is not too bad, and the standard library is
extensive. It is quite possible to write well-structured, class-based web
programs with PHP.
However, it seems that almost
On 8 Dec 2005 08:17:14 GMT in comp.lang.python, Antoon Pardon
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[...]
I just think braces are the worst solution for it, as python is
concerned.
Agreed. A model like Modula-2's would be much preferable, and in fact
is supported (but not enforced) today (as long as you
On Wed, 07 Dec 2005 12:33:07 -0600 in comp.lang.python, Rocco Moretti
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
fred where guido had had had had had had had had had had had a better
effect on the reader
I've seen this before as
bill had had had but will had had had had had had or had had been
correct
On Fri, 02 Dec 2005 18:04:15 +0100 in comp.lang.python, Christophe
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infidel a écrit :
I'm using the Windows version of Python and IDLE. When I debug my .py
file, my modification to the .py file does not seem to take effect
unless I restart IDLE. Saving the file and
On 2 Dec 2005 10:08:21 -0800 in comp.lang.python, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Here it is again... Python bypassed/discounted because, of all things,
scoping by indentation!?!?
This used to surprise me. Until I hear more and more otherwise
reasonable programmers list this as their number one
On 30 Nov 2005 10:57:04 GMT in comp.lang.python, Antoon Pardon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 2005-11-29, Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Antoon Pardon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
You see, you can make languages more powerful by *removing* things
from it.
You cast this in way to general terms.
On 30 Nov 2005 09:38:44 -0800 in comp.lang.python, Tuvas
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am trying to write a function that holds a variable-length quene. The
quene has 2 bits of information. At some point, I would like to remove
bits of this quene, when they are completed. Is there a way to do this
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