Re: Programming Idiomatic Code

2007-07-03 Thread Douglas Woodrow
On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 10:19:07, Nathan Harmston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote i m in the UK and dont have the experience but hey 10 minutes of programming python beats 12 hours of programming in Clipper-derived unreadable drivel (you dont know how much I appreciate Python atm). Clipper-derived

Re: Python's only one way to do it philosophy isn't good?

2007-06-27 Thread Douglas Woodrow
On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 01:45:44, Douglas Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote A chaque son gout I apologise for this irrelevant interruption to the conversation, but this isn't the first time you've written that. The word chaque is not a pronoun.

Re: Strange behavior in Windows

2007-06-05 Thread Douglas Woodrow
On Mon, 4 Jun 2007 21:34:36, David Stockwell wxp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in DOS you can try this to see what your path is: echo My path is %PATH% or more simply: , | C: path ` -- Doug Woodrow -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: int vs long

2007-06-04 Thread Douglas Woodrow
On Mon, 4 Jun 2007 10:50:14, Peter Otten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote This is fixed in Python2.5: Hm, my test above was from 2.5!? Then your installation is broken. What does import itertools itertools module 'itertools' from '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/lib-dynload/itertools.so' print? Maybe

Re: c[:]()

2007-06-01 Thread Douglas Woodrow
On Thu, 31 May 2007 18:42:05, Warren Stringer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote They were copied from working code. Copied *badly*? Yes. Running python via: Windows - start - run - python doesn't allow cut and paste Hi Warren, Actually you can copy and paste from a Windows cmd/command shell:

Re: c[:]()

2007-06-01 Thread Douglas Woodrow
On Fri, 1 Jun 2007 07:23:16, Steve Holden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote Actually you can copy and paste from a Windows cmd/command shell: right-click the title-bar of the window, select Edit from the pop-up menu, then Mark from the sub-menu to copy whatever you want to select into the Windows

Re: c[:]()

2007-05-31 Thread Douglas Woodrow
On Wed, 30 May 2007 23:23:22, Warren Stringer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote def a(): return 'b' def b(): print 'polly! wakey wakey' c = {} c['a'] = b c[a()]() #works! (typo correction for other easily-confused newbies like myself) I think you mean , | c['a']() #works! ` -- Doug Woodrow

Re: c[:]()

2007-05-31 Thread Douglas Woodrow
On Thu, 31 May 2007 08:57:56, Douglas Woodrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote On Wed, 30 May 2007 23:23:22, Warren Stringer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote def a(): return 'b' def b(): print 'polly! wakey wakey' c = {} c['a'] = b c[a()]() #works! (typo correction for other easily-confused newbies like myself

Re: c[:]()

2007-05-31 Thread Douglas Woodrow
On Thu, 31 May 2007 07:49:22, Warren Stringer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote def a(): return 'b' def b(): print 'polly! wakey wakey' c = {} c['a'] = b c[a()]() #works! (typo correction for other easily-confused newbies like myself) I think you mean [...] Hey Douglas, Perhaps I was being

Re: python shell

2007-05-20 Thread Douglas Woodrow
On Sat, 19 May 2007 21:42:27, Steve Holden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctest Since you claim to be exercising your pedantry, I wonder why I get the results I do. Since we *are* being pedantic, by the way, surely the name is actually doctest, not Doctest. Yes, as

Re: Execute commands from file

2007-05-18 Thread Douglas Woodrow
On Fri, 18 May 2007 04:45:30, Dennis Lee Bieber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote On 17 May 2007 13:12:10 -0700, i3dmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: 'b' is generally useful on systems that don't treat binary and text files differently. It will improve portability.

Re: Execute commands from file

2007-05-17 Thread Douglas Woodrow
On Thu, 17 May 2007 00:30:23, i3dmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote f = open(file,'rb') for i in f: exec i Why are you opening the file in binary mode? -- Doug Woodrow -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list