On 12/05/2015 1:39 AM, zipher wrote:
On Monday, May 11, 2015 at 10:34:24 AM UTC-5, Grant Edwards wrote:
That Python, like COBOL, is an eminently practical language.
LOL! Good one.
I would make an incredibly substantial wager that you've never developed
anything of note in either Python or
On 23/04/2015 2:18 AM, subhabrata.bane...@gmail.com wrote:
I have a list of file names of a directory, I want to read each one of them.
After reading each one of them, I want to put the results of each file in a
list.
These lists would again be inserted to create a list of lists.
While there's
On 23/03/2015 1:43 PM, Michael Torrie wrote:
As near as I can tell the standard go-to utility for this is a program
called AutoIt. https://www.autoitscript.com/site/autoit/
Nothing to do with Python, and its scripting language is maybe not that
appealing to many, but it does the job, and does i
On 28/01/2015 10:24 AM, Mario Figueiredo wrote:
In other words, the object know as "Sub class" is not an instance
object. True, it is an instance of the object 'type'.
>>> class Foo:
... pass
...
>>> isinstance(Foo, type)
True
>>> isinstance(Foo, object)
True
A
On 28/01/2015 10:35 AM, Mario Figueiredo wrote:
I admit it was a contrived example. I couldn't think of a way to
demonstrate that a class object does not participate in its own
inheritance rules. Only instances of it can.
A class object isn't an instance of itself, it's an instance of the
Clas
On 22/01/2015 7:37 PM, Nicholas Cole wrote:
Still, it would have been nicer to be able to write something like
this (where the Unions are implicit):
Coincidentally, you also demonstrate what makes this a lesser idea :)
def handle_employees(employees, rasie):
On 22/01/2015 1:23 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Modern games *are* part of "today's complex application systems", and games
developers may need the same skills used by "serious developers"
I wish more game developers would understand this. I've lost count of
the number of games that have failed
On 22/01/2015 11:45 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
It's not a terrible justification for getting into programming. But
writing games is (almost always) a terrible way to start programming.
However, modifying games, I would argue, is a great way. The
ComputerCraft mod for Minecraft, for example, add
On 17/01/2015 1:03 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
Scenario: You're introducing someone to Python for the first time.
S/he may have some previous programming experience, or may be new to
the whole idea of giving a computer instructions. You have a couple of
minutes to show off how awesome Python is. Wh
On 14/01/2015 7:33 PM, Albert-Jan Roskam wrote:
You say "Python 2.7.9 and 3.x comes with an easy way to install pip. Run python -m
ensurepip and pypi is at your service." .
But here https://docs.python.org/3/library/ensurepip.html it says that "This module
does not access the internet. All of t
On 11/01/2015 7:31 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
If that isn't a form of stupidity, I don't know what is.
Maybe you're just eternally optimistic that people can change for the
better.
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On 26/12/2014 1:37 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
One approach is to use a function in the condition to do the assignment:
Let me fix that for you:
/s/approach/bad idea/
I never said it was a _good_ approach ;)
And you don't even save any lines! Instead of a one-liner, you have six
lines!
Wh
On 26/12/2014 1:18 AM, JC wrote:
Is it possible in python:
if ((x = a(b,c)) == 'TRUE'):
print x
One approach is to use a function in the condition to do the assignment:
x = None
def assign_to_x(val):
global x
x = val
return val
def a(x, y):
On 24/12/2014 9:50 PM, alister wrote:
what feels like 3 or 4 chapters in & it is still trying to set the scene,
an exercise in stylish writing with very little content so far.
even early scifi written for magazines on a per word basis were not this
excessive (because if they were they would proba
On 24/12/2014 2:20 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
And even _with_ all the technical jibber-jabber, none of it explained
or justified the whole "writing a virus to infect the brain through
the optic nerve" thing which might just have well been magick and
witches.
While I love SNOW CRASH, I do think it
On 19/11/2014 1:40 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 2:02 PM, alex23 wrote:
The first time I got a T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM error, I just about flipped my
desk in rage.
If that were Hebrew for "scope resolution operator", would it be less
rage-inducing?
Not esp
On 16/11/2014 3:01 PM, Rick Johnson wrote:
Python's attempt to solve the "external dependencies problem"
has yet to produce the results that many people, including
myself, would like.
I'd say this was an argumentum ad populum, only you didn't cite anything
that shows the "many" you claim you s
On 17/11/2014 1:06 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
You could then name it in Hebrew: Paamayim Nekudotayim. There is
excellent precedent for this - it's done by a language in whose
footsteps Python strives to follow.
The first time I got a T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM error, I just about
flipped my desk in
On 11/04/2014 08:52 AM, Roberto Martínez wrote:
I am trying to replace dinamically the __call__ method of an object
using setattr.
Example:
$ cat testcall.py
class A:
def __init__(self):
setattr(self, '__call__', self.newcall)
def __call__(self):
print("OLD")
d
On 29/10/2014 2:41 PM, satishmlm...@gmail.com wrote:
> kindly let me know what is $ROWS$ along with % symbol's meaning
It's a token, a static value added to the template to indicate where
additional data will be added.
So $ROW$ in this section:
key
$ROWS$
>
Will be replaced by wh
On 29/10/2014 11:28 AM, Anton wrote:
Can you elaborate why it is an NP-complete problem or maybe a link to
description of problem you are referring to?
While not the exact problem, it's tangentially related to:
http://kenlevine.blogspot.com.au/2011/03/reducing-humor-to-equation.html
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On 28/10/2014 1:10 AM, emmanuel...@gmail.com wrote:
Write a program that reads the contents of the two files into two separate
lists. The user should be able to enter a boy's name, a girl's
name or both, and the application will display messages indicating whether
the names wer
On 23/10/2014 10:02 AM, Seymore4Head wrote:
On Thu, 23 Oct 2014 00:44:01 +0100, Mark Lawrence
wrote:
One more question.
if y in str(range(10)
Why doesn't that work.
I suggest you try str(range(10)) from the interactive prompt and see
exactly what you get, as it's nothing like what you expect :
On 16/10/2014 12:32 AM, Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick wrote:
It should parse this as
else:
print 'false'
print 'done'
Why? Because things like `print 'done'` usually have an empty line before it:
if True:
print 'true'
else:
print 'false'
print 'done'
That should be parsed the way you w
On 15/10/2014 12:23 PM, Juan Christian wrote:
Using PyCharm is easy:
File > Settings > (IDE Settings) Editor > Smart Keys > Reformat on paste
> choose "Reformat Block"
This isn't as straight forward as you imply. Say I have misindented code
like this:
if True:
print 'true'
els
On 13/10/2014 8:04 PM, Dave Angel wrote:
It would also help to spell it the same. In the OP's
implementation, he defined kwargs, and tried to use it as
kwarg.
That's perfectly okay, though: if `kwargs` is the name used to reference
the dictionary of keyword arguments, `kwarg` would be an
On 14/10/2014 11:47 AM, Sagar Deshmukh wrote:
I have a log file which has lot of information like..SQL query.. number of
records read...records loaded etc..
My requirement is i would like to read the SQL query completly and write it to
another txt file..
Generally we encourage people to post
On 23/09/2014 4:25 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 4:24 AM, Chris Kaynor wrote:
But the thing that requires the comment is the "2", not the "print" or the
"cells". And that comes to a more common issue: any number other than 0 or 1
in code most likely needs a comment (that com
On 26/08/2014 6:12 PM, Amirouche Boubekki wrote:
2014-08-26 6:02 GMT+02:00 Ian Kelly mailto:ian.g.ke...@gmail.com>>:
It would be just as easy or easier in Python, or one could save a
lot more effort by just using RPG Maker like every other indie RPG
developer seems to do.
I don't thi
On 26/08/2014 6:12 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote:
Whatever happened to "There
should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it."? :)
Ignoring for a moment that "one obvious way" only applies to
Python-the-language, when it comes to libraries, there's a few factors
(IMO) that affect th
On 26/08/2014 3:55 AM, Seymore4Head wrote:
I changed the program just a little to give myself a little practice
with number formats. The main thing I wanted to do was make the
decimal points line up. The problem I am having is with the print
(count)(payment)(balance) line.
While I don't want
On 23/08/2014 1:17 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Luofeiyu, you are getting stuck on basic questions. Before working with
advanced features like properties, you should learn the simply features.
Has luofeiyu ever actually acknowledged any such comment or request
people have made? I see we've given
On 24/08/2014 7:14 PM, Robert Kern wrote:
On 2014-08-22 01:26, Chris Angelico wrote:
Every time Cython gets discussed, I get a renewed desire to learn it.
Trouble is, I don't have any project that calls for it - there's
nothing I'm desperately wanting to do that involves both Python and
C/C++. A
On 21/08/2014 7:30 PM, icefap...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thursday, August 21, 2014 2:27:08 AM UTC-7, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
In practice, your proposal would not make life easier for Python
programmers.
neither did the lambda, yours truly supposes?
alex23 disagrees. alex23 finds the lambda
On 17/08/2014 4:10 AM, lavanya addepalli wrote:
Actually it is a huge project and topological overlap is one part in that
inputfile:
0_node_1 0_node_2 w0
1_node_1 1_node_2 w1
2_node_1 2_node_2 w2
3_node_1 3_node_2 w3
4_node_1 4_node_2 w4
5_node_1 5_node_2 w5
2 nodes in pair and w is the
On 13/08/2014 7:28 AM, Roy Smith wrote:
Second, if you're going to be parsing web pages, trying to use regexes
is a losing game. You need something that knows how to parse HTML. The
canonical answer is lxml (http://lxml.de/), but Beautiful Soup
(http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/) is
On 15/08/2014 5:43 AM, Eric S. Johansson wrote:
On 8/14/2014 2:37 PM, Peter Pearson wrote:
"Which of the following eight sentences are sarcastic in tone?"
and responses on this list alone show problems with detecting sarcasm
(or snark).
It can be especially difficult for people on the autism
On 10/08/2014 7:08 PM, Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick wrote:
2) the phone isn't necessarily visible on a pc as a drive at all.
For example the Samsung gs4.
This is actually true for ALL android devices, starting with Android 3.0.
This isn't true for my Samsung gs2 running Android 4.1.2.
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On 7/08/2014 1:25 PM, Seymore4Head wrote:
This part was added as an exercise.
A counter is added to give 3 tries to guess the number.
It is supposed to stop after count gets to 3. It doesn't. It just
keeps looping back and asking for another guess.
You've misread the exercise:
Modify the hig
On 6/08/2014 9:49 AM, Ben Finney wrote:
Christian Calderon writes:
I like that in ruby I don't have to type parenthesis at the end of
each function call if I don't need to provide extra arguments.
Having the same name sometimes refer to “get this as a value” and other
times “call this as a f
On 23/07/2014 10:27 AM, Terry Reedy wrote:
When you call a function, Python binds function parameter names to
argument objects in the function's local namespace, the same as in name
assignments. Given
def f(a, b): pass
a call f(1, 'x') starts by executing
a, b = 1, 'x'
in the local namespace.
On 18/07/2014 10:45 AM, Andrew Berg wrote:
Maybe he's too busy working on RickPy 4000 (or whatever it was called).
I believe the new working name is PypeDream.
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On 18/07/2014 10:26 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote:
I'm looking forward to see the massive number of fixes that come from
rr
I'm still waiting for RickPython, the One True Python.
Remember when he used to rant as if he was actually working on it and
not just pissing in the wind?
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On 17/07/2014 1:14 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
There will never be a Python 2.8. When push comes to shove, the people
bitching about Python 3 will not do the work necessary to fork Python 2.7
and make a version 2.8.
+1
The idea that forking and maintaining Python 2.8 is somehow _less
effort_ t
On 18/07/2014 9:44 AM, Roy Smith wrote:
In article ,
Ned Batchelder wrote:
Virtualenv is definitely the right way to isolate different Python
environments from each other.
Absolutely. Don't even consider any other alternative. Just do it.
Not even buildout? :)
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On 15/07/2014 11:57 PM, Kevin Walzer wrote:
The number of language revisions that result in deliberate, code-level
incompatibility out there is pretty small. People rightly expect that
code written for version 2.x of a language will continue to work with
version 3.x, even if 3.x is designed to go
On 15/07/2014 3:28 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
# === module params.py ===
class Params(object):
a = 1
b = 2
@property
def c(self):
return self.a**2 + self.b**2 - self.a + 1
params = Params()
del Params # hide the class
Then callers just say:
from params import pa
On 18/06/2014 1:32 AM, Nagy László Zsolt wrote:
Is there a library for Python that can easily create flowcharts using a
simple API?
The diagram application Dia comes with a Python API:
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Dia/Python
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On 6/06/2014 9:11 PM, Alain Ketterlin wrote:
The nice thing with optional type annotations and an hypothetical Python
compiler would be that you could, e.g., continue using the interpreter
during development and then compile for production use.
s/annotations/decorators/ and you effectively have
On 13/05/2014 11:39 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 11:18 AM, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
- have a bytes version of sys.argv (bargv? argvb?) and read
the file names from that;
argb? :)
I tried and failed to come up with an "argy bargy" joke here so decided
to go for a meta-
On 13/05/2014 1:16 AM, xs.nep...@gmail.com wrote:
> ...
Rather than just send an empty message, why not explain what you don't
like about pysvn so that someone could provide more pertinant advice?
But since you didn't:
https://pypi.python.org/pypi?%3Aaction=search&term=svn&submit=search
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On 11/04/2014 3:42 PM, Rustom Mody wrote:
On Friday, April 11, 2014 10:41:26 AM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 2:37 PM, Rustom Mody wrote:
Right. Its true that when I was at a fairly large corporate, I was not told:
"Please always top post!"
What I was very gently and
On 9/04/2014 6:55 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote:
And the worst thing about terrible code is when you first realise
just how bad it is and wonder why you wrote it like that in the first
place.
For me, it's nearly always due to time constraints. Usually caused by a
comment like: "we absolutely need th
On 9/04/2014 12:33 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
Unfortunately I seem to be missing antidisestablishmentarianism,
because the longest words in my dict are only 24 characters,
excluding the '\n'. Should I ask for my money back?
I think you should. That's a fundamental flaw in the dictionary.
Everyon
On 8/04/2014 6:31 PM, Frank Millman wrote:
Here is an idea, inspired by Peter Otten's suggestion earlier in this
thread.
Instead of defaultdict, subclass dict and use __missing__() to supply the
default values.
When the dictionary is set up, delete __missing__ from the subclass!
Ugly, but it see
On 8/04/2014 6:21 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Functions which are intended to return a value may be named as verbs:
[...]
or as nouns:
int
Shorthand for 'integerise'.
str
'stringify'
dict
'dictionarate'
coordinate
array
These are both verbs.
...I'll get me coat.
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On 9/04/2014 3:29 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
My code would make for terrible PHP. :)
Don't feel bad about that. It's a truism for every language, including PHP.
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On 4/04/2014 2:38 AM, Mark H Harris wrote:
If I speak of the python community, and I rarely do
Maybe you speak "of" them rarely but you claim to speak "for" them
fairly often.
Python3 is not perfect; but python3 is *way* more consistent than
python2 and consequently *way* more useful th
On 3/04/2014 11:50 PM, Marco Buttu wrote:
I prefere this one:
bar = ['a','b','c','x','y','z']
v1, _, _, v2, v3, _ = bar
I also like the solution with itemgetter:
v1, v2, v3 = itemgetter(0, 3, 4)(bar)
but I think it is less readable than the previous one
What if you wanted the 2nd, 37th, and
On 2/04/2014 3:42 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
Python 2.8 is supported only on Windows XP 64-bit, and you
should upgrade to 32-bit Python
That would be Python 1.4
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On 28/03/2014 6:56 AM, Sells, Fred wrote:
The idea is to use a nice clean syntax like Python to define form content, then
render it as HTML but only as a review tool for users, The actual rendering
would go into a database to let a vendor's tool generate the form in a totally
non-standard syn
On 25/03/2014 12:39 PM, Mark H Harris wrote:
my version semantically is "how it is perceived" by the user
Could you please stop claiming to have insight into the comprehension of
anyone other than yourself? Hasty generalisations don't help your argument.
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On 3/20/2014 3:07 PM, John Gordon wrote:
There are two ways (at least!) to run a python script:
> On 21/03/2014 8:05 AM, Terry Reedy wrote:
3. [...]
"Our chief weapon is..."
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On 11/03/2014 8:12 PM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
Python should let skilled professionals do their work. Thankfully, for
the most part, it does.
Skilled professionals don't solely rely on the standard library, either.
If you know you need a balanced tree, you'll also know where to find an
implemen
On 6/03/2014 10:52 AM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
I was just saying talking about id() as a memory address isn't all that
bad. It's a bit like rolling down your power windows or turning up the
volume, when there's nothing to roll or turn. There's no risk of getting
your program wrong.
Unless you're
On 5/03/2014 4:10 PM, Rustom Mody wrote:
A python programmer who needs/wants to think of same/is in this sense
should probably be using C or assembly
Any programmer who is obsessing about some idea of philosophical purity
should probably not be using Python.
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On 5/03/2014 3:47 PM, Rustom Mody wrote:
That python is a hll means that machine reprs are intended to be abstracted
away. 'is' fails to do that -- proof of that being the discrepancy between
is and ==
The "discrepancy" is because _they're fundamentally different_:
>>> a = b = [1,2]
>>
On 4/03/2014 2:03 PM, Igor Korot wrote:
Hi, ALL,
I have a csv file which depending on how it was produced gives 2
different strings as shown in the example below (test1 and test2).
I am only interested in the first field in test1 and obviously in the
whole string of test2.
>>> test1 = "a"
>
On 25/02/2014 8:01 PM, Peter Otten wrote:
alex23 wrote:
No, the _easy_ solution is [find a suitable package on PyPI]
Easy? By the time I have evaluated these I've written my own ;)
It's never writing a solution that's the problem...it's maintaining it
ove
On 27/02/2014 8:41 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 9:30 PM, Peter Clark wrote:
# Dragons and dungeons, based on CP/M program messages from ca. 1966
# This version designed and produced by peter clark beginning in December 2013
def startandload(n):# introduce program and all
On 25/02/2014 12:34 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 1:24 PM, Alex Martelli wrote:
At this point, all entries in the table should be deleted; query should
return an empty list!
You can't actually depend on del resulting in __del__ being called.
Mind those attributions, Chri
On 25/02/2014 1:27 PM, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
On 02/24/2014 08:55 PM, William Ray Wing wrote:
On Feb 24, 2014, at 8:30 PM, Ronaldo wrote:
How do I write a state machine in python?
>>
Stackoverflow has a couple of compact examples here:
Now you're making it TOO easy Bill ;)
No, the _easy_ so
On 24/02/2014 11:09 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote:
On 24/02/2014 00:55, alex23 wrote:
for _ in range(5):
func()
the obvious indentation error above
Stupid cut&paste :(
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On 23/02/2014 3:43 PM, Scott W Dunning wrote:
I had a question regarding functions. Is there a way to call a function
multiple times without recalling it over and over. Meaning is there a way I
can call a function and then add *5 or something like that?
The same way you repeat anything in P
On 28/01/2014 9:45 PM, kevinglove...@gmail.com wrote:
I have downloaded and unzipped the xml dump of Wikipedia (40+GB). I want to use Python and the SAX
module (running under Windows 7) to carry out off-line phrase-searches of Wikipedia and to return a
count of the number of hits for each searc
On 24/01/2014 8:05 PM, theguy wrote:
I have a science project that involves designing a program which can examine a
bit of text with the author's name given, then figure out who the author is if
another piece of example text without the name is given.
This sounds like exactly the sort of thin
On 21/12/2013 2:00 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote:
Shall I write a PEP asking for a language change which
requires that that stupid = sign is replaced by a keyword reading
something like
thenameonthelefthandsideisassignedtheobjectontherighthandside ?
I propose:
tag with
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On 12/12/2013 4:53 PM, sal i wrote:
This is the entire testing file along with the error at the bottom.
data = load_from_yahoo()
You're _still_ not passing into `load_from_yahoo` either `indexes` or
`stocks` parameters, as I tried to point out by highlighting:
assert indexes is not None
On 12/12/2013 5:49 PM, Amjad Syed wrote:
Hello,
I have 2 counters generated from list using Collections.counter()
I want to print only key,values in Counter2 which have values > then
corresponding value in Counter1.
E.g
Counter1={97:1,99:2,196:2,198:1}
Counter2={97:1 ,99:3, 196:1,198:1}
# O
On 11/12/2013 5:28 PM, Sergey wrote:
def get_obj():
pkg = load_package_strict("tmp", basedir)
from tmp import main
return main.TTT()
It is working, but if package code changes on disc at runtime and I call
get_obj again, it returns instance of class, loaded for the first time
previous
On 11/12/2013 10:44 PM, s...@nearlocal.com wrote:
I'm a Python beginner. I want to use it for stats work, so I downloaded
Anaconda which has several of the popular libraries already packaged for Mac OS
X.
Now I'd like to use the backtesting package from zipline (zipline.io), but
while runnin
On 11/12/2013 8:45 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
A round of applause for jmf, folks,
for doing a brilliant impression of the uninformed-yet-fanatical
Knight Templar villain!
Jacques de Molay, thou are avenged!
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On 10/12/2013 7:37 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote:
One of the great joys of reading this list is how wonderfully OT it can
get. I have the right to make this statement as I started *THIS*
thread. Now what *WERE* we talking about? :)
The God Object (or Higgs Object for the non-theists).
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On 3/12/2013 5:13 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
You poor fools you, this is what happens when you give control of the
tools you use to a (near) monopolist whose incentives are not your
incentives.
To paraphrase Franklin: those who would give up control to purchase
convenience deserve neither. A l
On 3/12/2013 11:17 AM, Michael Torrie wrote:
And Gmail is also becoming less useful to me. I don't want to use
hangouts; xmpp and google talk worked just fine. But alas that's
disappearing.
I really hate Hangouts. If I wanted to use Skype I would be using Skype.
I'm also still unable to unde
On 2/12/2013 5:18 AM, G. wrote:
Hi, I can't figure out how I can extend the 'function' built-in class. I tried:
class test(function):
def test(self):
print("test")
but I get an error. Is it possible ?
Others have pointed out that you cannot subclass the function type.
Could you
On 27/11/2013 7:12 PM, Antoon Pardon wrote:
However that there is no perfect solution doesn't imply
we can't expect some effort from those with english as a mother
tongue to search for ways in which to express themselves that are
more likely to be understood by those who had to learn english
as a
On 27/11/2013 1:41 AM, andonefi...@gmail.com wrote:
I also want to be able to read the length of the mp3.
For this, try the eyed3 library:
>>> import eyed3
>>> mp3 = eyed3.load(r'pygame\examples\data\house_lo.mp3')
>>> mp3.info.time_secs
7
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/eyeD3/0.
On 20/11/2013 12:12 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 12:50 AM, Annmarina Nagy wrote:
the command label gets "stuck"
A bit of context would help hugely. Are you replying to someone else's
post? All we have is a subject line.
They appear to be resurrecting a 12 year old threa
On 19/11/2013 2:15 AM, Ferrous Cranus wrote:
[...]
Any chance you could stop acting like a troll and generating new email
addresses in an apparent attempt to get around people's filters?
You claim you're acting in good faith, so stop appearing to do otherwise.
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On 19/11/2013 9:56 AM, Ed Taylor wrote:
This will be very simple to most of you I guess but it's killing me!
print ("Please type in your age")
age = input ()
leave = 16
print ("You have" + leave - age + "years left at school")
I want to have an input where the users age is inserted and then su
On 14/11/2013 9:48 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
I believe that whatever
negative effect Nikos the help-vampire is having, it is long ago
overwhelmed by the negative of the anti-Nikos vigilantes.
I don't know, the anti-Nikos-vigilante vigilantes are beginning to give
them a run for their money, e
On 12/11/2013 2:49 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
Don't forget that there are also some differences between American and
Imperial whitespace. Since it's ASCII whitespace, you should probably
assume American...
>>> sys.getsizeof(' ')
34
>>> sys.getsizeof(u' ')
52
bad by design
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On 12/11/2013 6:32 AM, Tony the Tiger wrote:
May your woman betray you, your son be gay, and your daughter screw pigs
for a living. Now go eat some pork and choke on it, like a good little
terrorist.
This is completely unacceptable and has no place on this list.
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On 11/11/2013 11:19 AM, Robert Kern wrote:
On 2013-11-11 00:49, alex23 wrote:
The random module uses os.urandom,
No, it doesn't. random.random() is an alias to the random() method on
the random.Random class, which uses the Mersenne Twister to generate
values. os.urandom() gets called i
On 9/11/2013 3:48 AM, Pascal Bit wrote:
from random import random
> [...]
Running on win7 python 2.7 32 bit it uses around 30 seconds avg.
Running on xubuntu, 32 bit, on vmware on windows 7: 20 seconds!
The code runs faster on vm, than the computer itself...
The python version in this case is
On 8/11/2013 11:54 AM, Roy Smith wrote:
Dead code doesn't count.
Neither do shifting goalposts.
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On 8/11/2013 11:02 AM, Roy Smith wrote:
Well, if you want to be truly pedantic about it (*), this defines a
function without an explicit return and which does not return None:
def foo():
raise Exception
In [2]: import dis
In [3]: dis.dis(foo)
2 0 LOAD_GLOBAL 0 (Ex
On 8/11/2013 7:39 AM, Ian Kelly wrote:
Unless the Python installation on Nikos' system has become self-aware
and is actively objecting to his code, I think that messages like
"Read a manual" and "Learn to code" inserted into a database (as seen
in the images that Nikos linked earlier) would norma
On 4/11/2013 12:06 PM, yungwong@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, who has some problems to practice using Python?
Try http://projecteuler.net/
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