On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Carsten Haese <carsten.ha...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Victor Subervi wrote: > > Well, if you could point me in the right direction, it would be > > appreciated. I've tried googling this with no luck. Apparently, "expand" > > is not a well-documented term in python and, of course, it's an > > often-used term in English, which further confuses the issue. Yes, I > > would like to understand this code. > > If I remember correctly from one of your earlier posts, "expand" is a > name of a function that's actually defined in your code. Understanding > its name won't help you understand what it does. It would do exactly the > same if it were called "frobnicate" and all instances of "expand" in > your code were replaced with "frobnicate". > > To understand what the function does, look at the function definition > and pretend that you're the Python interpreter: Follow the code one > instruction at a time and imagine what each instruction does. If you do > this correctly, you will understand what the code does. This won't tell > you *why* it does it, but it's your code, and you put it there to serve > a particular purpose. If you don't understand its purpose, you shouldn't > be using it at all. > <:-} Right again. V
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