Re: Very, Very Green Python User

2006-03-17 Thread hanumizzle
Dhanyavaad (thank you) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Very, Very Green Python User

2006-03-15 Thread hanumizzle
Scott David Daniels wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Is the Python debugger fairly stable? Yes, but it is not massively featured. The Pythonic way is to rarely use a debugger (test first and straightforward code should lead to shallow bugs). Often for most of us judiciously placed

Re: Very, Very Green Python User

2006-03-15 Thread hanumizzle
Exactly...this is how most of my Perl modules are written and tested, actually. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Very, Very Green Python User

2006-03-15 Thread Fredrik Lundh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nobody likes long-winded, abstract philosophical discussions on a technology NG. not even on comp.lang.python ? ;-) /F -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Very, Very Green Python User

2006-03-15 Thread Steve Holden
Fredrik Lundh wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nobody likes long-winded, abstract philosophical discussions on a technology NG. not even on comp.lang.python ? ;-) I wish :-) regards Steve -- Steve Holden +44 150 684 7255 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC/Ltd

Re: Very, Very Green Python User

2006-03-15 Thread Scott David Daniels
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scott David Daniels wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Is the Python debugger fairly stable? Yes, but it is not massively featured. The Pythonic way is to rarely use a debugger (test first and straightforward code should lead to shallow bugs). Often for most of us

Re: Very, Very Green Python User

2006-03-15 Thread hanumizzle
Scott David Daniels wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scott David Daniels wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Is the Python debugger fairly stable? Yes, but it is not massively featured. The Pythonic way is to rarely use a debugger (test first and straightforward code should lead to

Re: Very, Very Green Python User

2006-03-15 Thread hanumizzle
Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: On 12 Mar 2006 17:58:43 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: Double-underscore methods are rewritten with the class name? That's an ugly hack, but remember I'm coming from Perl. If the language doesn't pull many other hijinks,

Re: Very, Very Green Python User

2006-03-15 Thread hanumizzle
bruno at modulix wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have used Perl for a long time, but I am something of an experimental person and mean to try something new. Most of my 'work' with Vector Linux entails the use of Perl (a bit of a misnomer as it is not now a paid position -- I am not yet

Re: Very, Very Green Python User

2006-03-15 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : bruno at modulix wrote: (snip) You don't even need this to use callbacks. Remember, functions and methods are objects, and other objects can be callable too... Eh?? I need an example. Of callables ? class FuncInDisguise(object): def __init__(self, name):

Re: Very, Very Green Python User

2006-03-14 Thread jalanb
Scott David Daniels wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The one you get with Perl stinks on ice. More than anything else, I would like to have a powerful OO environment where I do not have to worry about the debugger sucking Do watch your language on this newsgroup. Lots of people read

Re: Very, Very Green Python User

2006-03-14 Thread bruno at modulix
Scott David Daniels wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Is the Python debugger fairly stable? Yes, but it is not massively featured. The Pythonic way is to rarely use a debugger (test first and straightforward code should lead to shallow bugs). Often for most of us judiciously placed

Re: Very, Very Green Python User

2006-03-14 Thread bruno at modulix
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have used Perl for a long time, but I am something of an experimental person and mean to try something new. Most of my 'work' with Vector Linux entails the use of Perl (a bit of a misnomer as it is not now a paid position -- I am not yet even out of K-12), and there

Re: Very, Very Green Python User

2006-03-13 Thread Scott David Daniels
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Is the Python debugger fairly stable? Yes, but it is not massively featured. The Pythonic way is to rarely use a debugger (test first and straightforward code should lead to shallow bugs). Often for most of us judiciously placed print statements suffice. The one

Re: Very, Very Green Python User

2006-03-13 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Scott David Daniels wrote: ... Is the Python debugger fairly stable? Yes, but it is not massively featured. The Pythonic way is to rarely use a debugger (test first and straightforward code should lead to shallow bugs). Often for most of us judiciously placed print statements suffice.

Re: Very, Very Green Python User

2006-03-13 Thread Lonnie Princehouse
Python closures are apparently very poor, but from what I can surmise of the PyGTK2 page, instances of objects are dynamic enough to add new methods, so you get your callbacks, at least. It's true that Python's lambda is somewhat limited, but this is rarely a problem because you can define

Re: Very, Very Green Python User

2006-03-13 Thread Terry Hancock
On 12 Mar 2006 17:58:43 -0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Double-underscore methods are rewritten with the class name? That's an ugly hack, but remember I'm coming from Perl. If the language doesn't pull many other hijinks, that's OK. This is GvR's way of saying do not use double-underscore

Very, Very Green Python User

2006-03-12 Thread hanumizzle
I have used Perl for a long time, but I am something of an experimental person and mean to try something new. Most of my 'work' with Vector Linux entails the use of Perl (a bit of a misnomer as it is not now a paid position -- I am not yet even out of K-12), and there a lot of things I love about