[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to open a Netcdf file using NetcdfFile but I always get an
import error DLL failed
even though I've tried using all these:
import Numeric
from Scientific.IO.NetCDF import NetCDFFile
from Scientific.IO import NetCDF
from Scientific import *
from
Alexander Schmolck wrote:
I wanted to point
out that one could with just as much justification claim CL to be more dynamic
than python (it is in some regards, but not in others -- how to weight them to
achieve some overall score is not obvious.
I think it's worth pointing out that not all
Steve Holden wrote:
fraca7 wrote:
The memory allocation for integers is optimized. 'Small' integers
(between -5 and 100 IIRC) are allocated once and reused. The memory
for larger integers is allocated once and reused whenever possible, so
the malloc() overhead is negligible.
The
Max wrote:
But today we were discussing the problem of running externally-provided
code (e.g. add-on modules). Neither of us knew how to do it in C, though
I suggested using DLLs. However, I quickly installed python on his
laptop and coded this:
exec import %s as ext_mod %
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Anybody using Python *should* be aware of the division issue. As soon as
they see a division, it is their responsibility to *find out what it
means*. That doesn't require much work: they can scroll up to the
beginning of the module and look at the first few lines.
Erik Max Francis wrote:
If a 4-tuple is a quadruple, a 3-tuple is a triple, a
2-tuple is an pair, then I guess a 1-tuple would be a single. Granted
that's not nearly as gruesome enough a name to go with the special
lopsided Pythonic creature mentioned above. I suggest we name it a
Gregory Piñero wrote:
On 14 Feb 2006 06:44:02 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
5./2.=2.5 is floating point math, with all the round off errors that
incorporates.
Thanks Curtis, I never knew that trick. I guess for variables do have
true division you have to make them floats? e.g.
Simon Faulkner wrote:
Pardon me if this has been done to death but I can't find a simple
explanation.
I love Python for it's ease and speed of development especially for the
Programming Challenged like me but why hasn't someone written a
compiler for Python?
I guess it's not that
JerryB wrote:
Hi,
I have a dictionary, a string, and I'm creating another string, like
this:
dict = {}
dict[beatles] = need
str = love
mystr = All you %(dict[beatles])s is %(str)s % locals()
Why do I get
keyerror: 'dict[one]'?
Is there a way to reference the elements in a
Paul Boddie wrote:
With the nice font they've used, I don't understand why they didn't
turn the p into a snake itself. I'm sure I've seen that done
somewhere before.
You're probably thinking of PyPy:
http://codespeak.net/pypy/dist/pypy/doc/news.html
--
Ivan Voras wrote:
It's not a far-out idea. I stumbled about a year ago on a programming
language that INSISTED on unicode characters like ≤ as well as the rest
of mathematical/logical symbols; I don't remember its name but the
source code with characters like that looked absolutely
Terry Hancock wrote:
One thing that I also think would be good is to open up the
operator set for Python. Right now you can overload the
existing operators, but you can't easily define new ones.
And even if you do, you are very limited in what you can
use, and understandability suffers.
One
Dave Benjamin wrote:
On Thu, 26 Jan 2006, Mr.Rech wrote:
Suppose I'm writing a base class with an __eq__ special methods, using
isinstance() I would have wrote:
class foo(object):
...
def __eq__(self, other):
return isinstance(other, type(self)) and self.an_attribute ==
Peter Maas wrote:
- The logo does indeed resemble a cross. How about rotating it at 45 deg
to make it look like an x? Or give it a circular shape? Please note
that there are no religious motives in this remark :)
It looks like a plus sign to me. Do you also advocate renaming C++ to
Cxx
Mr.Rech wrote:
All in all it seems that the implementation that uses isinstance() is
better in this case...
Well what's better depends on what you want to happen when you compare
an unrelated class that also defines 'an_attribute'. Unlike in
statically typed languages, certain things are made
Giovanni Bajo wrote:
Robert Kern wrote:
I can't find ?, ?, or ? on my keyboard.
Posting code to newsgroups might get harder too. :-)
--
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Robert Kern wrote:
Rocco Moretti wrote:
[James Stroud wrote:]
I can't find ?, ?, or ? on my keyboard.
Posting code to newsgroups might get harder too. :-)
His post made it through fine. Your newsreader messed it up.
I'm not exactally sure what happened - I can see the three
Antoon Pardon wrote:
Well we could have list(a) return [a], and have a list_from_iterable.
Although I would prefer a different name.
Or reverse it - list() always takes a single iterable, and
list_from_scalars() is defined something like follows:
def list_from_scalars(*args):
return
Johannes Zellner wrote:
Hi,
can I make an object read-only, so that
x = new_value
fails (and x keeps it's orginal value)?
Simon gave you a way of doing it when x is an attribute access (e.g.
p.x). I am unaware of a way of doing it when x is a straight global or
local. Unlike other
Alex Martelli wrote:
Terry Hancock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
due to the Evil Conspiracy of region-coding, I couldn't
watch the British DVD even if I were to import it (Well,
yeah I could, but it would be painful, and probably illegal,
I have a region-free DVD player here in CA --
LordLaraby wrote:
If 'bankers rounding' is HALF_ROUND_EVEN, what is HALF_ROUND_UP? I
confess to never having heard the terms.
There was a Slashdot article on rounding a short while back:
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/01/05/1838214
--
Roy Smith wrote:
Steve Holden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://beta.python.org
All I can say is, Wow!. If nothing else, it will forever eliminate the
idea that the web site doesn't look professional. It's almost *too* slick.
I agree with the too slick impression. The learn why pictures
Max wrote:
Harlin Seritt wrote:
How can I take a time given in milliseconds (I am doing this for an
uptime script) and convert it to human-friendly time i.e. 4 days, 2
hours, 25 minutes, 10 seonds.? Is there a function from the time
module that can do this?
Thanks,
Harlin Seritt
Riko Wichmann wrote:
hi everyone,
I'm googeling since some time, but can't find an answer - maybe because
the answer is 'No!'.
Can I call a function in python inline, so that the python byte compiler
does actually call the function, but sort of inserts it where the inline
call is
Rocco Moretti wrote:
Damien Wyart wrote:
* Efrat Regev [EMAIL PROTECTED] in comp.lang.python:
Suppose I have some non-numerical Foo and would like to create a list
of 20 Foo-s. Is there a one-step method (not a loop) of doing so?
Maybe :
[ Foo ] * 20
or, more verbose,
[ Foo
Damien Wyart wrote:
* Efrat Regev [EMAIL PROTECTED] in comp.lang.python:
Suppose I have some non-numerical Foo and would like to create a list
of 20 Foo-s. Is there a one-step method (not a loop) of doing so?
Maybe :
[ Foo ] * 20
or, more verbose,
[ Foo for _ in range(20) ]
If
rbt wrote:
The TV show on NBC in the USA running this week during primetime (Deal
or No Deal). I figure there are roughly 10, maybe 15 contestants. They
pick a briefcase that has between 1 penny and 1 million bucks and then
play this silly game where NBC tries to buy the briefcase from
Jack Diederich wrote:
On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 01:36:42PM -0500, rbt wrote:
Alex Martelli wrote:
I don't think there was any official announcement, but it's true -- he
sits about 15 meters away from me;-).
For Americans: 15 meters is roughly 50 feet.
Right, so that is about three and a
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Chris Mellon wrote:
Any time you want to write something in any way other than the obvious
way, ask yourself why? Is it more obvious *to you*, which is a good
reason as long as you're only writing code for yourself? Or is it just
to be different, or because you think
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
thisisastring = 1
thisisanint = 1
type(thisisastring)
type 'str'
type(thisisanint)
type 'int'
thisisastring = int(thisisastring)
thisisanint = str(thisisanint)
type(thisisastring)
type 'int'
type(thisisanint)
type 'str'
print repr(thisisastring)
1
Fredrik Lundh wrote:
Rocco Moretti wrote:
Insert punctuation capitalization to make the following a correct and
coherent (if not a little tourtured).
fred where guido had had had had had had had had had had had a better
effect on the reader
punctuation, including quote marks, I presume
A.M. Kuchling wrote:
There's another struggle within the LibRef: is it a reference or a
tutorial? Does it list methods in alphabetical order so you can look
them up, or does it list them in a pedagogically useful order? I
think it has to be a reference; if each section were to be a
One of my favourite examples of obfuscated English is this grammatically
correct sentence:
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
The punctuation is important.
Reminds me of this old classic:
Insert punctuation capitalization to make the following a correct and
josh wrote:
hello,
i am interested in doing an undergraduate major in computer science
that mainly focuses on python as a programming language..
It's your life, so you can live it as you choose, but I think you're
missing the point of an undergraduate education if you focus too much on
Fredrik Lundh wrote:
Rick Wotnaz wrote:
I'm sure Antoon wouldn't object if lists were to be allowed as
dictionary keys, which would eliminate the multiple castings for
that situation. I wouldn't, either.
so what algorithm do you suggest for the new dictionary im-
plementation?
Fredrik Lundh wrote:
Rocco Moretti wrote:
I'm sure Antoon wouldn't object if lists were to be allowed as
dictionary keys, which would eliminate the multiple castings for
that situation. I wouldn't, either.
so what algorithm do you suggest for the new dictionary im-
plementation
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 11:30:46 -0800, mojosam wrote:
I guess I don't care too much about how other people use it.
Then probably the best licence to use is just to follow the lead of
Python. For that sort of small program of limited value, I put something
like this in
mojosam wrote:
I've been watching the flame war about licenses with some interest.
There are many motivations for those who participate in this sector, so
disagreements over licenses reflect those agendas.
One point that frequently gets ignored in licensing debates:
The value of a license is
tim wrote:
ok, but if i do
n=66
m=hex(n)
m
'0x42'
h=int(m,16)
h
66
I end up with 66 again, back where I started, a decimal, right?
I want to end up with 0x42 as being a hex value, not a string, so i can
pas it as an argument to a function that needs a hex value.
(i am
Pierre Barbier de Reuille wrote:
Rocco Moretti a écrit :
[...]
I did, but I still don't see why it is an argument against using
strings. The point you may not appreciate is that (C)Python already uses
strings to represent names, as an important part of its introspective
abilities.
Well
marduk wrote:
On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 11:01 -0800, py wrote:
I have function which takes an argument. My code needs that argument
to be an iterable (something i can loop over)...so I dont care if its a
list, tuple, etc. So I need a way to make sure that the argument is an
iterable before using
Björn Lindström wrote:
Steven D'Aprano [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Why does the byte string \x6f\x70\x65\x6e\x65\x64 have intrinsic
meaning when the int 0 doesn't? It certainly doesn't mean anything to
non-English speakers.
If all you want is human readable byte strings, then just use them:
Pierre Barbier de Reuille wrote:
Please, note that I am entirely open for every points on this proposal
(which I do not dare yet to call PEP).
I still don't see why you can't just use strings. The only two issues I
see you might have with them are a) two identical strings might not be
Paul McGuire wrote:
Claire McLister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
We've been working with Google Maps, and have created a web service to
map origins of emails to a group. As a trial, we've developed a map of
emails to this group at:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Rocco Moretti wrote:
It's also a testament to the limited value of physically locating people
by internet addresses - If you zoom in on the San Fransico bay area, and
click on the southern most bubble (south of San Jose), you'll see the
entry for the Mountain View postal
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
i m losing my motivation with python because there are sooo many
modules, that i cant just learn them all,
As other's have said, don't bother.
If you ever need to use a module that you don't know, just go to
http://docs.python.org/lib/lib.html (easily accessable
Alex Martelli wrote:
The Eternal Squire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
2) Consider what he really wants for a supervisor of software
engineers. Ideally such a person should be a software engineer with
at least 3 times the experience of the most junior member. Such a
I like the
Sori Schwimmer wrote:
0) Sorry, I don't know how to post a reply in the same
thread.
Usually it is simply hitting the Reply button/link/key combination on
your mail/news reader when the post you want to reply to in view. (If
you want reply to multiple people, you can always reply to the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So the first thing you do when you go to a web page is to google if
they are going to redesign it?
I think the implication was The first thing to do before *suggesting
that a redesign is nessasary* is to Google to see if such a redesign is
taking place.
--
Sori Schwimmer wrote:
Hi,
I think that would be useful to have an improved
version of the try statement, as follows:
try(retrys=0,timeout=0):
# things to try
except:
# what to do if failed
and having the following semantic:
for i in range(retrys):
try:
# things to try
James Stroud wrote:
I propose that any time anyone suggests switching to Windows, the reasons for
such should be explicitly described, and not left to interpretation.
I propose that any time anyone suggests switching to Linux ...
I propose that any time anyone suggests switching to Mac ...
I
Laszlo Zsolt Nagy wrote:
Laszlo Zsolt Nagy wrote:
I have a program with this code fragment:
print len(data)
print data[:50]
raise SystemExit
This prints:
20381
!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN
But if I change 50 to 51
print len(data)
print data[:51]
Duncan Smith wrote:
Steve Holden wrote:
There are special rules for the monarchs, who are expected to refer to
themselves in the first person plural.
Yes, although I'm not actually sure where the 'royal we' comes from;
I was under the (probably misinformed) impression that since the
Steve Holden wrote:
On Fri, 07 Oct 2005 00:33:43 -, Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
For example: In British English one uses a plural verb when the
subject consists of more than one person. Sports teams,
government departments, states, corporations etc. are grammatically
Roel Schroeven wrote:
Peter Decker wrote:
On 10/3/05, Roel Schroeven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On lists like this, where everyone benefits by sharing information, it
seems pretty lame to hide behind purist arguments about Reply-To:
headers. The default behavior should be the one most useful to
Antoon Pardon wrote:
What if the class author removes a non-private variable or changes a
method's documented parameters in the next version of the class, because
he think it'll work better, or just because he can?
Changing an interface is different from changing the implementation.
A
Paul Rubin wrote:
I don't know of a single program that's actually relying on the
non-enforcement. I've asked for examples but have only gotten
theoretical ones. As far as I can tell, the feature is useless.
I'd like to turn the question around on you - can you come up with an
instance
Reinhold Birkenfeld wrote:
Hi,
after Guido's pronouncement yesterday, in one of the next versions of Python
there will be a conditional expression with the following syntax:
X if C else Y
Any word on chaining?
That is, what would happen with the following constructs:
A if B else C if D
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 00:16:02 +1000
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Say you have written a class, with a private variable. I decide that I
need access to that variable, for reasons you never foresaw.
What if the access to that variable was forbidden for reasons you never
fraca7 wrote:
Richie Hindle a écrit :
[Peter]
http://www.pick.ucam.org/~ptc24/yvfc.html
[Jeff]
Yuma Valley Agricultural Center?
Yaak Valley Forest Council?
I went through the same process. My guess is Yes, Very F'ing Clever.
Peter?
print ''.join(map(lambda x: chrord(x) -
Paul Dale wrote:
Hi everyone,
I'm writing an exception that will open a trouble ticket for certain
events. Things like network failure. I thought I would like to have it
only open a ticket if the exception is not caught. Is there a way to do
this inside the Exception? As far as I can
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So how do I define the function such as to discrimate wheter I call it by
f(a1) or f(a2) ?
I don't want to sound rude, but I think you'll be better served by
telling us why you would want to do such a thing - ten to one someone
can suggest a better way to acomplish
Rubinho wrote:
I can't imagine one being much faster than the other except in the case
of a huge list and mine's going to typically have less than 1000
elements.
To add to what others said, I'd imagine that the technique that's going
to be fastest is going to depend not only on the length
Terry Reedy wrote:
But that, I admit, would be an invalid conclusion. And that, I claim, is
also invalid when 'iteration' and 'recursion' are reversed, no matter how
often repeated in texts and articles. The difference is between the
algorithms, not the differing syntactic expressions
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 06 Sep 2005 12:19:21 +0200
Torsten Bronger wrote:
talin at acm dot org [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Anyway, here's an example, then, of how 'def' could be used:
add = def( a, b ):
return a + b
I'm really not an expert in functional programming, so I wonder
Colin J. Williams wrote:
Rocco Moretti wrote:
Terry Hancock wrote:
On Thursday 01 September 2005 07:28 am, Fuzzyman wrote:
What's the difference between this and ``isinstance`` ?
I must confess that an isa operator sounds like it would
have been slightly nicer syntax than the isinstance
Terry Hancock wrote:
On Thursday 01 September 2005 07:28 am, Fuzzyman wrote:
What's the difference between this and ``isinstance`` ?
I must confess that an isa operator sounds like it would
have been slightly nicer syntax than the isinstance() built-in
function. But not enough nicer to
Steve Holden wrote:
Every page of the docs links to About this document, which contains
the following: If you are able to provide suggested text, either to
replace existing incorrect or unclear material, or additional text to
supplement what's already available, we'd appreciate the
wen wrote:
due to the work reason, i have to learn python since last month. i have
spent 1 week on learning python tutorial and felt good. but i still don't
understand most part of sourcecode of PYMOL(http://pymol.sourceforge.net/)
as before.
Well, last time I checked, a good chunk of PyMol
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a java program in a package called 'cmd'. This of course
conflicts with the builtin python package of the same name. The thing
is, I need to be able to import from both of these packages in the same
script. I can import either one first, but any future attempt
Simon Brunning wrote:
On 8/15/05, Terry Hancock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Monday 15 August 2005 09:54 am, Simon Brunning wrote:
If you call its code, it's a library. If it calls yours, it's a framework.
Such concision deserves applause. ;-)
Thank you. ;-)
As others have pointed out,
Cameron Laird wrote:
Andy Smith rails against frameworks:
http://an9.org/devdev/why_frameworks_suck?sxip-homesite=checked=1
Slapdash Summary: Libraries good, frameworks bad - they are a
straightjackets and limit sharing.
Which lead me to the question - what's the
Simon Brunning wrote:
On 8/15/05, Rocco Moretti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Which lead me to the question - what's the difference between a library
and a framework?
If you call its code, it's a library. If it calls yours, it's a framework.
Although that definition probably makes sense from
Christopher Subich wrote:
Gregory Piñero wrote:
Hey guys, would someone mind giving me a quick rundown of how
references work in Python when passing arguments into functions? The
code below should highlight my specific confusion:
This URL is always tossed out:
Gregory Piñero wrote:
Ahh, so it's a mutable thing. That makes sense that I can't change a
mutable object and thus can't affect it outside of the function.
If you meant immutable for the second mutable, you're right.
Does
that mean Python functions aren't always byref, but are sometimes
Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
On Tue, 09 Aug 2005 10:39:29 -0500, Rocco Moretti
[EMAIL PROTECTED] declaimed the following in comp.lang.python:
Change it to the object referenced by y is assigned to the name of x,
and you're closer to the truth.
In a more simplistic view, I'd reverse
Christopher Subich wrote:
Rocco Moretti wrote:
Variables in Python are names. They aren't the cubbyholes into which
you put values, they are sticky notes on the front of the cubby hole.
+1 MOTW (Metaphor of the Week)
Thanks, but please note it's not really mine - I've seen it somewhere
Adriano Varoli Piazza wrote:
As far as I recall from Math Analysis, which I studied two months ago,
you can't sort complex numbers. It makes no sense. The reason being
(reading from my book), it's not possible to define an order that
preserves the properties of arithmetical operations on
Asad Habib wrote:
Well, even if you are a hobbyist, that does not excuse you from being
civil. After all, we are all humans beings that deserve to be treated with
respect. Professional, hobbyist, vagabond, ogre, instigator, troll ...
THERE IS NO EXCUSE ... please treat others with respect.
I
projecktzero wrote:
but..but...It's so much more fun to unleash your anger and fire back
with all guns blazing fanning the flame war that most discussion groups
degenerate into after a couple of responses. =)
Actually, I had some self restraint yesterday. I wanted to write a
ripping
Asad Habib wrote:
I agree with Mustafa. After all, we are a bunch of professionals and not
vagabonds hired to take pot shots at one another.
Except that we're not all professionals. There are a large number of
hobbyists who use Python and this list.
At any rate, my suggestion was not to
Scott Kilpatrick wrote:
So wherever pycdf does a:
from Numeric import *
what is the equivalent for SciPy? i.e. where is the full Numeric module
in SciPy?
Python packages are in a pretty flat hierarchy. There really isn't a
SciPy Numeric and a pycdf Numeric - Numeric, as an independant
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am going to be doing a lot of work with large data sets stored in
various netCDF files, and after checking out the alternatives, I would
really like to go with SciPy. The problem is that SciPy offers no
native netCDF support.
You may be having an issue because
My favorite infinte loop with while is:
i = 0
while i 20:
do_process(i)
Note the prominent *lack* of any change to i here?
Oh, for:
from i = 0
invariant 0 = i = 20
variant 21 - i
until i 19
loop
do_process(i)
which throws an
Leif K-Brooks wrote:
rbt wrote:
IMO, most of the people who deride goto do so because they heard or read
where someone else did.
1 GOTO 17
2 mean,GOTO 5
3 couldGOTO 6
4 with GOTO 7
5 what GOTO 3
6 possibly GOTO 24
7 you! GOTO 21
8
Tim Golden wrote:
Usually means you have a readline package installed:
Should the readline package be twiddled to change the quit string in
builtins to document the correct behavior?
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
i want to get a small certificate or diploma in python.
it should be online cuz i live in pakistan and wont have teast centers
near me.
it should be low cost as i am not rich.
and hopefully it would be something like a a begginer certification cuz
i am new to python.
Joseph Garvin wrote:
Anand wrote:
Hi
Are there any tools that would help in porting code from
Pyton 2.3 to 2.4 ? I have gone through the whatsnew documents
and created a document comparing Python 2.4 to 2.3. But so far
has not been able to find any tool that will signal code in
Python
rbt wrote:
Say I have a list that has 3 letters in it:
['a', 'b', 'c']
I want to print all the possible 4 digit combinations of those 3
letters:
When I have occasion to do an iteration of iterations, I either use
recursion (already posted) or use an accumulator type loop:
items =
Peter Decker wrote:
On 7/12/05, Dark Cowherd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Most lists when i hit reply it puts the list address back in the To
address and some lists allow you to configure this.
But in this list reply sends the mail back as a private mail and there
seems to be no option to
vch wrote:
Here's an example from some book:
def foo(n):
s = [n]
def bar(i):
s[0] += i
return s[0]
return bar
what I don't understand is how this example works, taking into account
the LGB rule. I thought that s is not accessible from bar, but it is,
François Pinard wrote:
I once worked with a PL/I compiler (on a big IBM mainframe), which was
trying to be helpful by spitting pages of:
Error SUCH AND SUCH, assuming that THIS AND THIS was meant.
and continuing compilation nevertheless. It was a common joke to say
that PL/I would
Ert Ert wrote:
Please help me i down loaded python nd itplays on MS-DOS mode and not on
normal please help
Python itself is a command line program. MS-DOS mode *is* it's normal
mode.
As other's have mentioned, there are graphical front ends to Python
which you may be more comforatble with.
Robert Kern wrote:
Jacob Page wrote:
Does this newsgroup find attachments acceptable?
No. Please put files somewhere on the web and post a URL. This would be
a good forum to informally announce and discuss your module.
To add to what Robert said, keep in mind this newsgroup is also
Raymond Hettinger wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The problem is that questions like 'What lang is fastest to develop
in?'
are hard to answer definitively.
FWIW, Google's answer to that question is C++, Java, and Python. For
any given problem, any of the three are acceptable. Each
John Roth wrote:
Peter Maas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
George Sakkis schrieb:
Given that the latest 2.x python will be 2.9
Why not 2.13 or 2.4711? Version strings are sequences of arbitrary
integers separated by dots and not decimal numbers, or are they?
François Pinard wrote:
[Rocco Moretti]
foo, bar, _ = gen_tuple(stuff)
as '_' is already special cased (last result in interactive mode), and
is already used for don't care sematics in Prolog.
`_' is also the `gettext' function in internationalised programs. It so
seems
Jp Calderone wrote:
On Fri, 01 Jul 2005 15:02:10 -0500, Rocco Moretti
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I'm not aware of a language that allows it, but recently I've found
myself wanting the ability to transparently replace objects.
Smalltalk supports this with the become message. I have
Jan Danielsson wrote:
However, when I look at the various Python modules/libraries, I see
that there are several versions of them, for different versions of
python. I've seen everything from for python 1.5 up to for python
2.4 with all versions in between. This scares me a little bit. I
Paul Rubin wrote:
Rocco Moretti [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Except that (please correct me if I'm wrong) there is somewhat of a
policy for not including interface code for third party programs which
are not part of the operating system. (I.e. the modules in the
standard libary should all
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