Re: Atoms, Identifiers, and Primaries

On Apr 18, 4:40 am, Mark Janssen wrote: > On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 8:55 PM, rusi wrote: > > Circular just means recursive and recursion is the bedrock for > > language-design. > > Rercursion the "bedrock" of language-design.  I don't think so. Imperative programmers may be forgiven for not unders

Re: Encoding NaN in JSON

On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 11:46:37AM +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > Wait... you can do that? It's internal to iterencode, at least in > Python 3.3 and 2.7 that I'm looking at here. In Python 2.6 it wasn't internal to iterencode; in Python 2.7 and 3.x you probably would have to monkey-patch iterencode

Re: Novice Issue

Bradley Wright gmail.com> writes: > > Good Day all, currently writing a script that ask the user for three things; > 1.Name > 2.Number > 3.Description > I've gotten it to do this hurah! > > print "Type \"q\" or \"quit\" to quit" > while raw_input != "quit" or "q": > > print "" > name =

Re: Novice Issue

On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 6:58 PM, Wolfgang Maier wrote: > There are two solutions for that: > the obvious: while not (raw_input == "quit" or raw_input == "q") That has another problem: Once that's changed to raw_input() so it actually requests input, it will do so twice, compare the first line aga

Good python testing book

Hi All, Greetings.. can anyone please suggest me good python automation testing book . to develop automation tests. Thanks, -Bhanu -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Good python testing book

On Thursday, April 18, 2013 4:46:16 PM UTC+8, BhanuKumarRamappa wrote: > Hi All, > > > Greetings.. > can anyone please suggest me good python automation testing book . to > develop automation tests. > > > Thanks, > > -Bhanu Maybe you can try "Python Testing Cookbook" for a basic test

Re: Novice Issue

On 18/04/2013 05:06, Bradley Wright wrote: Good Day all, currently writing a script that ask the user for three things; 1.Name 2.Number 3.Description I've gotten it to do this hurah! print "Type \"q\" or \"quit\" to quit" You've had a couple of answers already so I'll just point out that the

Re: Parsing soap result

Hi Burak, Team, Your solution worked perfectly thanks. Could you share the logic of this solution? Saludos Ombongi Moraa Faith On 18 April 2013 00:41, Burak Arslan wrote: > On 04/17/13 16:50, Ombongi Moraa Fe wrote: > > My > > client.service.gere(ri) > > method call logs the below soap re

Re: Parsing soap result

Hi, On 04/18/13 13:46, Ombongi Moraa Fe wrote: Hi Burak, Team, Apparently I was too deep in answering support questions for my company :) This is python-list, so It's just me here :) Your solution worked perfectly thanks. Could you share the logic of this solution? You're using suds.

Re: Novice Issue

On Thursday, April 18, 2013 12:06:59 AM UTC-4, Bradley Wright wrote: > Good Day all, currently writing a script that ask the user for three things; > > 1.Name > > 2.Number > > 3.Description > > I've gotten it to do this hurah! > > > > print "Type \"q\" or \"quit\" to quit" > > while raw_inp

Re: Novice Issue

On 04/18/2013 08:18 AM, Bradley Wright wrote: Secondly, thanks Wolfgang while raw_input not in ("quit", "q") - genius, i get your point clearly But you have to combine his point with Chris's, don't forget the parens on the call to raw_input. And if it were I, I'd also put a prompt

Re: Novice Issue

On Thursday, April 18, 2013 12:06:59 AM UTC-4, Bradley Wright wrote: > Good Day all, currently writing a script that ask the user for three things; > > 1.Name > > 2.Number > > 3.Description > > I've gotten it to do this hurah! > > > > print "Type \"q\" or \"quit\" to quit" > > while raw_inp

Re: dynamic forms generation

On Tue, 16 Apr 2013, andrea crotti wrote: This is not really scalable, and we want to make the whole thing more generic. So ideally there could be a DSL (YAML or something else) that we could define to then generate the forms, but the problem is that I'm quite sure that this DSL would soon beco

Re: a couple of things I don't understand wrt lists

Hello, I am still in the process of writing preliminary code for my CA project. I am now running into a behavior that I can't explain. Here is a script which, at least on my system, shows the issue (python2.7 on a linux system). The final project will be wrapping these functions (and others) into

Re: a couple of things I don't understand wrt lists

On 04/18/2013 09:01 AM, aaB wrote: Hello, I am still in the process of writing preliminary code for my CA project. I am now running into a behavior that I can't explain. Here is a script which, at least on my system, shows the issue (python2.7 on a linux system). The final project will be wrapp

Re: anyone know pandas ? Don't understand error: NotImplementedError...

On Wed, 17 Apr 2013, someone wrote: File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/pandas/tseries/offsets.py", line 214, in rule_code raise NotImplementedError NotImplementedError Can anyone tell why this error appears and how to fix it? I don't know anything about pandas, but m

Re: a couple of things I don't understand wrt lists

> The second guess, more likely, is that you're using "is" to compare > numbers, and that's never a safe idea. It might happen to work for > small numbers, but you should be using ==. The second guess was right, changing "is" for "==" solved it, thanks. I still have a lot to learn about python sem

Re: Encoding NaN in JSON

On Wed, 17 Apr 2013, Miki Tebeka wrote: I'm trying to find a way to have json emit float('NaN') as 'N/A'. No. There is no way to represent NaN in JSON. It's simply not part of the specification. I know that. I'm trying to emit the *string* 'N/A' for every NaN. Why not use `null` instead? I

Working with lists within Dictionaries

Hello Everyone, I am trying to work with lists and dictionaries together. In the following code I have to access pixels in a segmented image through a dictionary. But the problem is when I am trying to update the list through dict it is giving me this error of tuple, ofcourse because list indices

Re: anyone know pandas ? Don't understand error: NotImplementedError...

On 2013-04-18, Wayne Werner wrote: > On Wed, 17 Apr 2013, someone wrote: > >> File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/pandas/tseries/offsets.py", line 214, in >> rule_code >>raise NotImplementedError >> NotImplementedError >> >> >> Can anyone tell why this error appears and h

Re: Novice Issue

In <0fa050c1-3a00-4c17-9fa6-b79a22485...@googlegroups.com> Bradley Wright writes: > while raw_input != "quit" or "q": Others have pointed out flaws in this statement. However, even if you had written the loop the 'correct' way: user_input = raw_input() while user_input != "quit" or us

Re: a couple of things I don't understand wrt lists

On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 11:01 PM, aaB wrote: > def get_index(thisgen, i): > n = len(thisgen)-1 > cell = thisgen[i] > if i is 0: > print "i==0" > prev, next = thisgen[n], thisgen[i+1] > elif i is n: > print "i==%d" % n > prev, next = thisgen[i-1], thisgen[0] > else: >

Re: Preparing sqlite, dl and tkinter for Python installation (no admin rights)

Thanks so much Chris. This is part of a super computer and I am afraid I don't have access to a machine with sudo permissions and similar architecture & OS. Is there any way to active higher level of verbosity during the build process to identify what is failing? Or anything specifically I should

Re: Working with lists within Dictionaries

On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 11:58 PM, inshu chauhan wrote: > segments.setdefault(reg_num, [])[point] += point Not sure what your desired structure is. This is seeking to add the point to something indexed by the point; perhaps you simply want to append to the list itself? segments.setdefault(reg_num

Re: Preparing sqlite, dl and tkinter for Python installation (no admin rights)

On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 12:37 AM, James Jong wrote: > Thanks so much Chris. This is part of a super computer and I am afraid I > don't have access to a machine with sudo permissions and similar > architecture & OS. Do you know what the OS is, at least? Can you, for instance, create a virtual mach

Re: Preparing sqlite, dl and tkinter for Python installation (no admin rights)

On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 10:37 AM, James Jong wrote: > Thanks so much Chris. This is part of a super computer and I am afraid I > don't have access to a machine with sudo permissions and similar > architecture & OS. > > Is there any way to active higher level of verbosity during the build > proces

Re: Preparing sqlite, dl and tkinter for Python installation (no admin rights)

Thanks Jason. I have pinpointed the location of the error to a very specific gcc line. I am reproducing the error below (very easy to read): I run: == export CPPFLAGS='-I/opt/sqlite-3.7.16.2/include -I/opt/tk8.6.0/include -I/opt/tcl

Re: The type/object distinction and possible synthesis of OOP and imperative programming languages

On 04/16/2013 04:38 PM, Mark Janssen wrote: > (Note this contrasts starkly with Java(script), which doesn't seem > to be based on anything -- can anyone clarify where Java actually > comes from?) Java is not equal in any way with JavaScript. The only thing they share are semicolons and braces.

Re: Atoms, Identifiers, and Primaries

On Apr 17, 11:43 pm, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > You won't gain that from the *grammar* of the language. Grammar is only part > of the story, and in some ways, the least important part. If I tell you > that the grammar of English includes: > > ADJECTIVE NOUN > > that alone is not going to help you

equivalent to C pointer

Hi everybody, I am new to python and I am discovering it. I know C well, and want to know if python knows how to manage Pointers like pointer to function here is a C example how to write it in python Intergration with trapeze method When we write Trapeze ( at the compilation level) we don't k

Re: equivalent to C pointer

Hello, There is no such notion in python. But the closest are iterators and generator functions. Cheers Karim On 18/04/2013 19:06, abdelkader belahcene wrote: Hi everybody, I am new to python and I am discovering it. I know C well, and want to know if python knows how to manage Pointers lik

Re: equivalent to C pointer

While Python does not have pointers, Python functions are objects, and they may be passed like any other object: def F1(x): return x * x def Trapeze(Fonc, left, right, step): ...code... Y1 = Fonc(X1) ...code... def main(): ...code... y = Trapeze(F1, -2.5, 3.2, 0.1) ...co

Re: equivalent to C pointer

Thanks for answer, but with C we can compile the trapeze function and put it in librairy, If we try to save the trapeze alone in package to import it later, I think, I am not sure it will be refused because F1 and sin are not define !!! this is the power of the C pointers !!! the link is dyn

Re: The type/object distinction and possible synthesis of OOP and imperative programming languages

On 2013-04-18, Michael Torrie wrote: > On 04/16/2013 04:38 PM, Mark Janssen wrote: >> (Note this contrasts starkly with Java(script), which doesn't seem >> to be based on anything -- can anyone clarify where Java >> actually comes from?) > > Java is not equal in any way with JavaScript. The onl

Re: equivalent to C pointer

On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 1:06 PM, abdelkader belahcene wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I am new to python and I am discovering it. > I know C well, > and want to know if python knows how to manage Pointers > like pointer to function here is a C example how to write it in python > Intergration with tra

Re: Preparing sqlite, dl and tkinter for Python installation (no admin rights)

All I finally solved the problem. The problem was that setup.py tests loading the dynamic library libtk (this I don't understand, since I though Python would statically link against TCL, TK and SQLITE. Either way, I have updated the thread at StackOverflow with the answer: http://stackoverflow.co

Re: equivalent to C pointer

On 2013-04-18, abdelkader belahcene wrote: > Thanks for answer, > but with C we can compile the trapeze function and put it in > librairy, If we try to save the trapeze alone in package to > import it later, I think, I am not sure it will be refused > because F1 and sin are not define !!! t

Re: equivalent to C pointer

On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 1:50 PM, abdelkader belahcene wrote: > Thanks for answer, > but with C we can compile the trapeze function and put it in librairy, > If we try to save the trapeze alone in package to import it later, I > think, I am not sure > it will be refused because F1 and sin are no

Re: equivalent to C pointer

On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 11:50 AM, abdelkader belahcene wrote: > Thanks for answer, > but with C we can compile the trapeze function and put it in librairy, > If we try to save the trapeze alone in package to import it later, I > think, I am not sure > it will be refused because F1 and sin are n

Re: anyone know pandas ? Don't understand error: NotImplementedError...

On 04/18/2013 03:44 PM, Wayne Werner wrote: On Wed, 17 Apr 2013, someone wrote: File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/pandas/tseries/offsets.py", line 214, in rule_code raise NotImplementedError NotImplementedError Can anyone tell why this error appears and how to fix it?

Re: equivalent to C pointer

On 2013-04-18 18:07, Neil Cerutti wrote: > There's no linking stage in Python. Everything you use must be > defined before you use it. "must be defined", only if you don't want an error. But in python, it isn't even REQUIRED that it be defined: some_undefined_function("args go here") will bom

Re: [TYPES] The type/object distinction and possible synthesis of OOP and imperative programming languages

Warning, this is a bit of a rant. That paragraph from Wikipedia seems to be confused. It gives the fourth paradigm as "declarative" but then says "first order logic for logic programming". It seems somebody did an incomplete replacement of "declarative" for "logic". Wikipedia is often schizophr

Re: Preparing sqlite, dl and tkinter for Python installation (no admin rights)

On 4/18/2013 12:24 PM, James Jong wrote: After compiling, you might want to run the test suite. libtk8.6.so I do not know that Python/_tkinter/tkinter has been very well tested, certainly not on all systems, with the newish tcl/tk 8.6, as opposed to 8.5.z used for sever

Re: Preparing sqlite, dl and tkinter for Python installation (no admin rights)

Thanks Terry. I run the tcl tests and passed them all. There was only one tk test that I think I didn't pass. One thing I don't understand is that I thought that Python would statically link against sqlite and tcl/tk (I presume that this is the reason why you said I could build it in a similar sy

Re: anyone know pandas ? Don't understand error: NotImplementedError...

On 04/18/2013 04:07 PM, Neil Cerutti wrote: On 2013-04-18, Wayne Werner wrote: On Wed, 17 Apr 2013, someone wrote: Go to line 214, and take a look-see at what you find. My guess is it will be something like: def rule_code(): raise NotImplementedError() Which is terribly unhelpfu

Re: equivalent to C pointer

Thanks a lot, I think this does the task cheers On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 7:14 PM, David Robinow wrote: > On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 1:50 PM, abdelkader belahcene < > abelahc...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Thanks for answer, >> but with C we can compile the trapeze function and put it in librairy, >> I

Strange behavior for a 2D list

Hello, I tried out the following code: y=[range(0,7),range(7,14),range(14,21),range(21,28),range(28,35)] >>> y [[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6], [7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13], [14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20], [21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27], [28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34]] >>> y[1:5:2][::3] [[7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12,

Re: Strange behavior for a 2D list

Robrecht W. Uyttenhove wrote: > Hello, > > I tried out the following code: > y=[range(0,7),range(7,14),range(14,21),range(21,28),range(28,35)] y > [[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6], > [7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13], > [14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20], > [21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27], > [28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 3

Re: Strange behavior for a 2D list

In "Robrecht W. Uyttenhove" writes: > I tried out the following code: > y=[range(0,7),range(7,14),range(14,21),range(21,28),range(28,35)] > >>> y > [[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6], > [7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13], > [14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20], > [21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27], > [28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33,

Re: Strange behavior for a 2D list

Robrecht W. Uyttenhove gmail.com> writes: > > Hello, > I tried out the following code:y=[range(0,7),range(7,14),range(14,21),range(21,28),range(28,35)] > >>> y[[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6],  [7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13], > [14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20],  [21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27],  [28, >

How to set my gui?

Hi all! I'm trying to make a simple program that essentially do this: 1) open a html file (extracted epub file) 2) search for occurrences like "ita-ly" 3) put them on a simple GUI: 1 text field and two buttons: keepy it and correct it (i.e. it will become italy) now this is quite simple but ho

Re: How to set my gui?

In <5170648d$0$1368$4fafb...@reader2.news.tin.it> Tracubik writes: > i suppose i've to first generate the window and than populate it, but > where i've to put the "search for occurences" code? I don't think init() > is the right place.. What GUI library are you using? -- John Gordon

Re: [TYPES] The type/object distinction and possible synthesis of OOP and imperative programming languages

In short, there is no such thing as a "paradigm". I agree fully. This term is a holdover from the days when people spent time and space trying to build taxonomies based on ill-defined superficialities. See Steve Gould's essay "What, If Anything, Is A Zebra?". You'll enjoy learning that there

Re: [TYPES] The type/object distinction and possible synthesis of OOP and imperative programming languages

The term "declarative" never meant a damn thing, but was often used, absurdly, to somehow lump together functional programming with logic programming, and separate it from imperative programming. It never made a lick of sense; it's just a marketing term. Bob Harper On Apr 18, 2013, at 2:48 PM

Re: Strange behavior for a 2D list

Thank you all for your replies. I had the matrix concept in mind such as explained in the numpy example. Rob On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 3:19 PM, Wolfgang Maier < wolfgang.ma...@biologie.uni-freiburg.de> wrote: > Robrecht W. Uyttenhove gmail.com> writes: > > > > > Hello, > > I tried out the follo

Re: Preparing sqlite, dl and tkinter for Python installation (no admin rights)

On 4/18/2013 3:21 PM, James Jong wrote: Thanks Terry. I run the tcl tests and passed them all. There was only one tk test that I think I didn't pass. One thing I don't understand is that I thought that Python would statically link against sqlite and tcl/tk (I presume that this is the reason

Re: How to set my gui?

On 18/04/2013 23:27, John Gordon wrote: In <5170648d$0$1368$4fafb...@reader2.news.tin.it> Tracubik writes: i suppose i've to first generate the window and than populate it, but where i've to put the "search for occurences" code? I don't think init() is the right place.. What GUI library are

Re: Preparing sqlite, dl and tkinter for Python installation (no admin rights)

On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 6:34 AM, Terry Reedy wrote: > On 4/18/2013 3:21 PM, James Jong wrote: >> >> Thanks Terry. I run the tcl tests and passed them all. There was only one >> tk test that I think I didn't pass. >> >> One thing I don't understand is that I thought that Python would >> statically

Re: How to set my gui?

On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 7:36 AM, Tracubik wrote: > On 18/04/2013 23:27, John Gordon wrote: >> >> In <5170648d$0$1368$4fafb...@reader2.news.tin.it> Tracubik >> writes: >> >>> i suppose i've to first generate the window and than populate it, but >>> where i've to put the "search for occurences" cod

Re: [TYPES] The type/object distinction and possible synthesis of OOP and imperative programming languages

On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 2:53 AM, Moez AbdelGawad wrote: >> I'm not quite sure I understand your question, but I'll give it a shot. >> :-) > > I'm in this same camp too :) I am very thankful for the references given by everyone. Unfortunately my library does not have the titles and it will be some

Re: How to set my gui?

On Fri, 19 Apr 2013 08:00:11 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > But 1 Corinthians 13:11 You are grown up now, I surmise. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How to set my gui?

On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 8:57 AM, Walter Hurry wrote: > On Fri, 19 Apr 2013 08:00:11 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > >> But 1 Corinthians 13:11 > > You are grown up now, I surmise. :) Born in 1984, so that'll give you some idea where I was in the 1990s. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/li

Re: [TYPES] The type/object distinction and possible synthesis of OOP and imperative programming languages

On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 4:53 PM, Mark Janssen wrote: > The main thing that I notice is that there is a heavy "bias" in > academia towards mathematical models. I understand that Turing > Machines, for example, were originally abstract computational concepts > before there was an implementation in

Re: The type/object distinction and possible synthesis of OOP and imperative programming languages

On Thu, 18 Apr 2013 10:37:17 -0600, Michael Torrie wrote: > For the record, JavaScript is what they call a "prototype-based > language." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prototype-based_programming. > You can emulate an OOP system with a prototype-based language. Prototype languages *are* OOP. Note

Re: The type/object distinction and possible synthesis of OOP and imperative programming languages

In article <51709740$0$29977$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Thu, 18 Apr 2013 10:37:17 -0600, Michael Torrie wrote: > > > For the record, JavaScript is what they call a "prototype-based > > language." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prototype-based_programming. >

Re: The type/object distinction and possible synthesis of OOP and imperative programming languages

> One of the nice things about OOP is it means so many different things to > different people. All of whom believe with religious fervor that they > know the true answer. Here's a simple rule to resolve the ambiguity. Whoever publishes first, gets to claim origin of a word and its usage, kind o

Re: The type/object distinction and possible synthesis of OOP and imperative programming languages

On 4/18/2013 9:24 PM, Mark Janssen wrote: One of the nice things about OOP is it means so many different things to different people. All of whom believe with religious fervor that they know the true answer. Here's a simple rule to resolve the ambiguity. Whoever publishes first, gets to claim

Re: The type/object distinction and possible synthesis of OOP and imperative programming languages

On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 7:10 PM, Ned Batchelder wrote: > You won't solve the problem of confusing, ambiguous, or conflicting > terminology by making up a rule. "Object-oriented" means subtly different > things to different people. That's a problem, not a solution. > It turns out that computing

Re: The type/object distinction and possible synthesis of OOP and imperative programming languages

On 4/18/2013 10:30 PM, Mark Janssen wrote: Okay, professor is it, master? What is your provenance anyway? I'm not a professor, I'm a software engineer. I'm just trying to help. You've made statements that strike me as half-informed. You're trying to unify concepts that perhaps can't or sho

Re: The type/object distinction and possible synthesis of OOP and imperative programming languages

On Thu, 18 Apr 2013 19:30:39 -0700, Mark Janssen wrote: > On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 7:10 PM, Ned Batchelder > wrote: >> You won't solve the problem of confusing, ambiguous, or conflicting >> terminology by making up a rule. "Object-oriented" means subtly >> different things to different people. >

Re: The type/object distinction and possible synthesis of OOP and imperative programming languages

On Apr 19, 3:53 am, Mark Janssen wrote: > On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 2:53 AM, Moez AbdelGawad wrote: > >> I'm not quite sure I understand your question, but I'll give it a shot. > >> :-) > > > I'm in this same camp too :) > > I am very thankful for the references given by everyone. > Unfortunately m

Re: The type/object distinction and possible synthesis of OOP and imperative programming languages

>> The main thing that I notice is that there is a heavy "bias" in >> academia towards mathematical models. > > Yeah wonderful observation. Lets clean up! > > If I have a loop: > > while i < len(a) and a[i] != x: >i++ > > I need to understand that at the end of the loop: > i >= len(a) or a[i]

Re: Encoding NaN in JSON

Miki Tebeka wrote: > >>> I'm trying to find a way to have json emit float('NaN') as 'N/A'. >> No. There is no way to represent NaN in JSON. It's simply not part of the >> specification. > >I know that. I'm trying to emit the *string* 'N/A' for every NaN. You understand that this will result in

RE: [TYPES] The type/object distinction and possible synthesis of OOP and imperative programming languages

> Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 15:53:15 -0700 > From: dreamingforw...@gmail.com > To: types-l...@lists.seas.upenn.edu > Subject: Re: [TYPES] The type/object distinction and possible synthesis of > OOP and imperative programming languages > > I am very thankful for the references given by everyon

Re: Encoding NaN in JSON

On 2013-04-19 10:34, Tim Roberts wrote: Miki Tebeka wrote: I'm trying to find a way to have json emit float('NaN') as 'N/A'. No. There is no way to represent NaN in JSON. It's simply not part of the specification. I know that. I'm trying to emit the *string* 'N/A' for every NaN. You un

Re: [TYPES] The type/object distinction and possible synthesis of OOP and imperative programming languages

I don't quite think I understand what you are saying. Are you saying that mathematical models are not a good foundation for computer science because computers are really made out of electronic gates? All I need to do is show that my model reduces to some basic physical implementation (with perhap