On 24 February 2013 22:43, <piterrr.dolin...@gmail.com> wrote: > Josh, > > Not thank you for your malicious post. >
Be careful, us programmers do *eventually* catch on to who is a troll, and if you say things like that we may eventually mark you off as just to hostile. I *honestly* meant no malice or insult. If you can't take my word, you can point out what I said that was otherwise. (Then again, you'll have about a week before we really start to notice :P) > I think you are missing the point here. > > My source code was just a dummy to offer context for the question I wanted > to ask. Further down the line, if I ever feel I don't need to > pseudo-declare variables I will stop doing it. But for the moment I am > trying to imitate familiar ground. > > My code as written has no syntax errors, so what's the problem? It is > highly unlikely you will ever read any of my Python code - no need to get > excited over a few of my lines. > You said "Any comments on this before I quit my job?". I commented on how I think you should approach Python in order to appreciate its virtues rather than get stuck in its differences. Again, I am no good programmer, but I think these methods will help you. > And you don't need to answer questions which were not posed, thank you. > Nor do I need to answer questions which were posed. > I wanted Python to register what type of variable I'm after. So I init my > vars accordingly, int might be 0, float 0.0 and string with null, err... > None. > You seem to think that a "null" version of a type is the falsy version. Then: int -> 0 float -> 0. tuple -> () list -> [] And then (*dun dun duuun!*): str -> "" (NOT None, which is a different type) Other people have commented on whether this is a good idea (it's not), so I'll suggest you read those, too. In practice, I wouldn't define an intX_asString var, I would do "str (num)" > every time a string representation is needed, provided it isn't a loop, as > in that context the expression would probably negatively impact performance > in an interpreted language. PS: Guess what str(None) is.
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