Re: which one do you prefer? python with C# or java?
[becky_lewis ] > Lisp and Clojure are functional languages. No, they're not. But you can (and often will) do quite a bit of functional programming in Lisp, as it lends itself quite naturally to that way of thinking. But in (Common) Lisp you also have CLOS, which is a rather different way to do object oriented programming. It will widen your horizon in more than one way. The advice to learn just one programming language at a time seems sound, though. I would take it, if I were you. -- * Harald Hanche-Olsen http://www.math.ntnu.no/~hanche/> - It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true. -- Bertrand Russell -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Whither datetime.date ?
I'm confused. I was going to try linkchecker, and it dies with a traceback ending in File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/calendar.py", line 32, in _localized_month _months = [datetime.date(2001, i+1, 1).strftime for i in range(12)] AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'date' Sure enough, there is no datetime.date, but there is a datetime.Date: Python 2.4 (#2, Feb 19 2005, 20:35:23) [GCC 3.4.2 [FreeBSD] 20040728] on freebsd5 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import datetime >>> dir(datetime) ['Date', 'DateTime', ...] However, the Library Reference clearly states that datetime.date should exist. Granted, it's been a while since I used python in anger, but isn't this what it says? http://www.python.org/doc/2.4/lib/node243.html http://www.python.org/doc/2.4/lib/datetime-date.html Moreover, the datetime.date class is supposed to have a strftime() method. datetime.Date does not. I'm beginning to wonder if the FreeBSD python package is at fault. Or what is really going on here? -- * Harald Hanche-Olsen http://www.math.ntnu.no/~hanche/> - Debating gives most of us much more psychological satisfaction than thinking does: but it deprives us of whatever chance there is of getting closer to the truth. -- C.P. Snow -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Whither datetime.date ?
+ Tim Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: | As you've deduced, you're certainly not getting Python's builtin | datetime module. Argh. Yeah, I've had one lying around in my personal python directory since 2000, had totally forgotten it was there. This one ... *** Author: Jeff Kunce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> *** Download from: http://starship.skyport.net/crew/jjkunce Removed it, now all is well. Thanks for pointing out the blindingly obvious. -- * Harald Hanche-Olsen http://www.math.ntnu.no/~hanche/> - Debating gives most of us much more psychological satisfaction than thinking does: but it deprives us of whatever chance there is of getting closer to the truth. -- C.P. Snow -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How to Write grep in Emacs Lisp (tutorial)
[Icarus Sparry ]
> The 'modern' way to do this is
> find . -maxdepth 2 -name '*.html' -exec grep whatever {} +
Actually, I think it should be
find . -maxdepth 2 -name '*.html' -exec grep whatever /dev/null {} +
because grep behaves differently when given only one filename as opposed
to several.
--
* Harald Hanche-Olsen http://www.math.ntnu.no/~hanche/>
- It is undesirable to believe a proposition
when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true.
-- Bertrand Russell
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Re: How to Write grep in Emacs Lisp (tutorial)
[Icarus Sparry ]
> The 'modern' way to do this is
> find . -maxdepth 2 -name '*.html' -exec grep whatever {} +
Actually, I think it should be
find . -maxdepth 2 -name '*.html' -exec grep whatever /dev/null {} + \;
because grep behaves differently when given only one filename as opposed
to several.
--
* Harald Hanche-Olsen http://www.math.ntnu.no/~hanche/>
- It is undesirable to believe a proposition
when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true.
-- Bertrand Russell
--
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
