Paul,
Python does not allow mixing variable length arguments and keyword arguments in
that way. To accomplish what you want, you must add an argument preceded by a
"**" which will be a dict containing all of the keyword arguments as key, value
pairs. You then have to retrieve the arguments from
It appears to me that the following line would not work:
>Circle = Oval(points)
The variable "points" is a list of six points, and I don't know how one
would define a circle or oval with 6 points. At the top part of your
program, an oval is defined using two points, which makes sense.
Maybe
Dinesh wrote:
> I've avoided it as long as possible but I've reached a stage where I
have to
> start using Python objects! The primary reason is that the web
framework uses
> objects and the second is to eliminate a few globals. Here is example
pseudo
> code followed by the question (one of many
Lawrence Wang wrote:
> >>> struct.calcsize('hq')
> 12
> >>> struct.calcsize('qh')
> 10
>
> why is this? is it platform-dependent? i'm on mac os x.
This has to do with data alignment and is platform-dependent. Are you on
a PowerPC Macintosh? On my Intel Windows XP box, I get the following:
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One idea has to do with the fact that there are only 26 (assuming Latin
alphabet) possible first letters, so I would try splitting up the list
of 10,000 into 26 lists in a dictionary indexed by the first letter.
Just doing that is a big reduction of your search space. That way you
won't be doing th
