Terry Reedy wrote:
It does not matter how Python stored the unicode internally. Does this
help? Your intent is signalled by how you open the file.
Very much, actually, thanks. I was missing the 'internal' piece, and
did not realize that if I didn't specify the encoding on the open that
pytho
Ben Finney wrote:
I'd phrase that as:
* Text is a sequence of characters. Most inputs to the program,
including files, sockets, etc., contain a sequence of bytes.
* Always know whether you're dealing with text or with bytes. No object
can be both.
* In Python 2, ‘str’ is the type f
Hi All,
I'm new bie to python thread programming and would like to assistance on the
attached code.
In this, I'm calling a thread to invoke a command prompt and would like to
print the "Thread as alive" as long as the command prompt is opened and
would like to print "Thread is Dead" only when the
On Wed, 11 May 2011 20:31:45 -0700 (PDT), alex23
wrote:
: On May 12, 7:24 am, harrismh777 wrote:
: > We need to move away from 'canned apps' to a new day where
: > the masses can sit down to their computer and solve new problems with it
: > through intuitive language skills. Why not?
:
: Be
On 11 May 2011 21:42:10 GMT, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
: *Potentially* different tests. Which is exactly the point. Given an
: arbitrary object, the developer doesn't know what test is appropriate.
: Should I write len(x) == 0 or list(x) == [] or x.next is None or
: something else? How can I
On Thu, 12 May 2011 01:49:05 -0400, D'Arcy J.M. Cain
wrote:
: That's not programming. That's using a canned app that a programmer
: wrote that takes your unstructured input and does something useful with
: it. Spreadsheets are a primitive example of that. Google is a more
: advanced examp
John Machin wrote:
On Thu, May 12, 2011 2:14 pm, Benjamin Kaplan wrote:
If the file you're writing to doesn't specify an encoding, Python will
default to locale.getdefaultencoding(),
No such attribute. Perhaps you mean locale.getpreferredencoding()
>>> import locale
>>> locale.getpreferred
On Wed, 11 May 2011 22:53:45 -0500, harrismh777 wrote:
> alex23 wrote:
>>> through intuitive language skills. Why not?
>> Because the vast majority of them don't seem to want to be bothered?
>>
>>
> That could very well be... but I have a hope for them. I honestly think
> its not because they don
On Thu, 12 May 2011 17:44:07 +1200, Gregory Ewing
wrote:
: Roy Smith wrote:
: > Hans Georg Schaathun wrote:
: >>If both are numbers, they are converted to a common type. Otherwise,
: >>objects of different types always compare unequal
Actually, I did not.
:-- hg
--
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On Wed, 11 May 2011 20:16:01 -0700 (PDT), alex23
wrote:
: Hans Georg Schaathun wrote:
: > Revolutionary indeed, so why don't we exploit the revolution
: > and write the programs to be as accessible as possible?
:
: Where do you draw the line, though?
I said that, "as possible". You draw it
On 11 May 2011 21:47:27 GMT, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
: On Wed, 11 May 2011 20:13:35 +0100, Hans Georg Schaathun wrote:
: > One principle of object oriented programming is to bestow the objects
: > with properties reflecting known properties from the domain being
: > modelled. Lists do not have
On Wed, 11 May 2011 16:24:47 -0500
harrismh777 wrote:
> D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
> Non-programmers should not be expected to program in 'C' nor in lisp...
>
> ... but non-programmers were able to program in BASIC jes fine...
They still had to learn the language.
> I contend that non-prog
Roy Smith wrote:
Hans Georg Schaathun wrote:
If both are numbers, they are converted to a common type. Otherwise,
objects of different types always compare unequal
That's just the default treatment for unrelated types that don't
know anything about each other.
I would guess that the list's =
I tried using QThread as well.. But the problem is, on the run method when i
invoke the command prompt, it sends out the finished signal... I want it to
send out the finished signal only on closing the command prompt that is
invoked earlier in my process.
guess some logic to be implement inside r
On Thu, May 12, 2011 2:14 pm, Benjamin Kaplan wrote:
>
> If the file you're writing to doesn't specify an encoding, Python will
> default to locale.getdefaultencoding(),
No such attribute. Perhaps you mean locale.getpreferredencoding()
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On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 8:44 PM, harrismh777 wrote:
> Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>>>
>>> You need to understand the difference between characters and bytes.
>>
>> http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html
>>
>> is also a good resource.
>
> Thanks for being patient guys, here's what I've done
On Thu, May 12, 2011 1:44 pm, harrismh777 wrote:
> By
> default it looks like Python3 is writing output with UTF-8 as default...
> and I thought that by default Python3 was using either UTF-16 or UTF-32.
> So, I'm confused here... also, I used the character sequence \u00A3
> which I thought was UT
On 5/11/2011 11:44 PM, harrismh777 wrote:
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
You need to understand the difference between characters and bytes.
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html
is also a good resource.
Thanks for being patient guys, here's what I've done:
astr="pound sign"
asym="
MRAB writes:
> You need to understand the difference between characters and bytes.
Yep. Those who don't need to join us in the third millennium, and the
resources pointed out in this thread are good to help that.
> A string contains characters, a file contains bytes.
That's not true for Python
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 4:34 AM, Jonathan Hartley wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I'm looking for a quick way to create new Python projects from a template.
>
> I understand that 'Paste' (http://pythonpaste.org/) is one way to do this,
> but I find Paste very intimidating because of all the functionality it
> in
alex23 wrote:
through intuitive language skills. Why not?
Because the vast majority of them don't seem to want to be bothered?
That could very well be... but I have a hope for them. I honestly think
its not because they don't want to be bothered, rather they just think
its too far past the
On Thu, May 12, 2011 11:22 am, harrismh777 wrote:
> John Machin wrote:
>> (1) You cannot work without using bytes sequences. Files are byte
>> sequences. Web communication is in bytes. You need to (know / assume /
>> be
>> able to extract / guess) the input encoding. You need to encode your
>> outp
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 7:02 AM, Ian wrote:
> In the "real world" lists of zero items do not exist.
> You don't go shopping with a shopping list of zero items.
Actually, yes you do. You maintain your shopping list between trips;
whenever you need something, you put it on the list immediately. Th
In article <4dc6a39a$0$29991$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>In English, [the word "not"] negates a word or statement:
>
>"the cat is not on the mat" --> "the cat is on the mat" is false.
As a mostly off topic aside, English is considerably more complicated
than that.
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
You need to understand the difference between characters and bytes.
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html
is also a good resource.
Thanks for being patient guys, here's what I've done:
astr="pound sign"
asym=" \u00A3"
afile=open("myfile", mode='w')
afil
* 2011-05-11T20:26:48+01:00 * Hans Georg Schaathun wrote:
> On Wed, 11 May 2011 14:44:37 -0400, Prasad, Ramit
>wrote:
>> I claim to be able to program (Java/Python), but would be absolutely
>> lost programming in Lisp. It is more than just "learning the syntax",
>> it includes a thought paradi
On May 12, 7:24 am, harrismh777 wrote:
> We need to move away from 'canned apps' to a new day where
> the masses can sit down to their computer and solve new problems with it
> through intuitive language skills. Why not?
Because the vast majority of them don't seem to want to be bothered?
--
h
Hans Georg Schaathun wrote:
> Revolutionary indeed, so why don't we exploit the revolution
> and write the programs to be as accessible as possible?
Where do you draw the line, though?
No decorators, as they're not intuitively obvious? No custom
descriptors, as that requires a deeper knowledge o
On Thu, 12 May 2011 03:31:18 +0100, MRAB wrote:
>> Another question... in mail I'm receiving many small blocks that look
>> like sprites with four small hex codes, scattered about the mail...
>> mostly punctuation, maybe? ... guessing, are these unicode code points,
>> and if so what is the best w
On 12/05/2011 02:22, harrismh777 wrote:
John Machin wrote:
(1) You cannot work without using bytes sequences. Files are byte
sequences. Web communication is in bytes. You need to (know / assume / be
able to extract / guess) the input encoding. You need to encode your
output using an encoding tha
John Machin wrote:
(1) You cannot work without using bytes sequences. Files are byte
sequences. Web communication is in bytes. You need to (know / assume / be
able to extract / guess) the input encoding. You need to encode your
output using an encoding that is expected by the consumer (or use an
On Wed, 11 May 2011 17:38:58 -0500, harrismh777 wrote:
> Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>>> modelled. Lists do not have truth values in the application domain
>> Yes they do. Empty lists are nothing, ergo false, and non-empty lists
>> are something, ergo true.
>>
>>
> No they don't. Empty lists are empt
A couple of years back Oscar Lindberg wrote a program called pymultimouse,
which has a homepage at http://code.google.com/p/pymultimouse/. I've been using
the file rawinputreader.py, which is avaliable in the zipped folder in the
downloads section of the above link.
I'm trying to get raw mou
On Thu, May 12, 2011 10:20 am, Michiel Sikma wrote:
> Hi there,
> I made a small script implementing a part of Youtube's API that allows
> you to upload videos. It's pretty straightforward and uses urllib2.
> The script was written for Python 2.6, but the server I'm going to use
> it on only has 2.
Hi there,
I made a small script implementing a part of Youtube's API that allows
you to upload videos. It's pretty straightforward and uses urllib2.
The script was written for Python 2.6, but the server I'm going to use
it on only has 2.5 (and I can't update it right now, unfortunately).
It seems t
On Thu, May 12, 2011 8:51 am, harrismh777 wrote:
> Is it true that if I am
> working without using bytes sequences that I will not need to care about
> the encoding anyway, unless of course I need to specify a unicode code
> point?
Quite the contrary.
(1) You cannot work without using bytes seque
harrismh777 wrote:
Lists by themselves, empty or not, cannot have a 'truth' in an of
themselves.
... forgot.,
Based on Ian's comment a couple of days ago...
if alist:
... is actually :
if bool(alist):
I think this is more than just semantics or silly argumentation.
Hans Georg Schaathun wrote:
0 is a number as real and existent as any other,
one would think that the empty list is also as real and existent as
any other list.
0 does have some special properties, though, such as
being the additive identity and not having a multiplicative
inverse. Adding fals
Ian Kelly wrote:
Ian, Benjamin, thanks much.
The `unicode' class was renamed to `str', and a stripped-down version
of the 2.X `str' class was renamed to `bytes'.
... thank you, this is very helpful.
> If I do not specify any code points above ascii 0xFF does any of this
> matter
Miki Tebeka wrote:
.py files from more than one source directory into a single
package when installing?
The Selenium Python bindings does something like that, have a look at
http://selenium.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/setup.py
Unless I'm missing something, nothing out of the ordinary is
happenin
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
modelled. Lists do not have truth values in the application domain
Yes they do. Empty lists are nothing, ergo false, and non-empty lists are
something, ergo true.
No they don't. Empty lists are empty lists... which just happen to
become False when type cast bool(lis
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 2:37 PM, harrismh777 wrote:
> hi folks,
> I am puzzled by unicode generally, and within the context of python
> specifically. For one thing, what do we mean that unicode is used in python
> 3.x by default. (I know what default means, I mean, what changed?)
>
> I think p
On 11/05/2011 19:08, Genstein wrote:
On 11/05/2011 19:24, Terry Reedy wrote:
writing and reading. If you want others to look at this more, you should
1) produce a minimal* example that demonstrates the questionable
behavior, and 2) show the comparative outputs that raise your question.
Thanks
On 03/05/2011 09:52, rusi wrote:
[If you believe it is, then try writing a log(n) fib iteratively :D ]
It took me a while, but this one seems to work:
from collections import namedtuple
Triple = namedtuple('Triple', 'hi mid lo')
Triple.__mul__ = lambda self, other: Triple(
self.hi * othe
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 3:37 PM, harrismh777 wrote:
> hi folks,
> I am puzzled by unicode generally, and within the context of python
> specifically. For one thing, what do we mean that unicode is used in python
> 3.x by default. (I know what default means, I mean, what changed?)
The `unicode'
On 05/11/2011 02:47 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Wed, 11 May 2011 20:13:35 +0100, Hans Georg Schaathun wrote:
One principle of object oriented programming is to bestow the objects
with properties reflecting known properties from the domain being
modelled. Lists do not have truth values in the
On Wed, 11 May 2011 20:13:35 +0100, Hans Georg Schaathun wrote:
> One principle of object oriented programming is to bestow the objects
> with properties reflecting known properties from the domain being
> modelled. Lists do not have truth values in the application domain
Yes they do. Empty list
On Wed, 11 May 2011 19:05:03 +, Chris Torek wrote:
> In article <4dcab8bf$0$29980$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com> Steven
> D'Aprano wrote:
>>When you call len(x) you don't care about the details of how to
>>calculate the length of x. The object itself knows so that you don't
>>have to. T
hi folks,
I am puzzled by unicode generally, and within the context of python
specifically. For one thing, what do we mean that unicode is used in
python 3.x by default. (I know what default means, I mean, what changed?)
I think part of my problem is that I'm spoiled (American, ascii
he
On 5/11/2011 3:08 PM, Genstein wrote:
On 11/05/2011 19:24, Terry Reedy wrote:
writing and reading. If you want others to look at this more, you should
1) produce a minimal* example that demonstrates the questionable
behavior, and 2) show the comparative outputs that raise your question.
Thanks
D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
Non-programmers should be able to program?
Should non-doctors be able to doctor? Should cars be built so that
anyone can intuitively fix them without a mechanic?
Non-programmers should not be expected to program in 'C' nor in lisp...
... but non-programmers were
Hans Georg Schaathun wrote:
Code is quite often published to document algorithms, methods and
formulæ for the purpose of scientific research. Since there is no
universal language which suits everything and everyone, this
is exactly what happens. One has to have the rudimentary knowledge
to read
Rodrick Brown wrote:
I'm having a hard time dealing with the following scenario
My class takes a hash like the following:
rdargs =
{'env:'prod','feed':'opra','hostname':'host13dkp1','process':'delta','side':'a','zone','ny'}
All the keys in this hash can be optional.
I'm having a hard time
On 11/05/2011 20:13, Hans Georg Schaathun wrote:
On Wed, 11 May 2011 12:17:33 -0700, Ethan Furman
wrote:
: 'if li' *is* KISS.
It /might/ be in some contexts, but a priori it is not, as it
superimposes a truth value on a data type which is otherwise
a pretty accurate model of real objects (
I'm having a hard time dealing with the following scenario
My class takes a hash like the following:
rdargs =
{'env:'prod','feed':'opra','hostname':'host13dkp1','process':'delta','side':'a','zone','ny'}
All the keys in this hash can be optional.
I'm having a hard time dealing with all 36 possibl
On Wed, 11 May 2011 14:44:37 -0400, Prasad, Ramit
wrote:
: > Someone who knows how to program is never clueless starting a new
: >language. Newbie, may be, but he knows most of the constructions
: >and semantic principles to look for; most of it is learning the syntax.
:
: I claim to be able
On Wed, 11 May 2011 12:17:33 -0700, Ethan Furman
wrote:
: 'if li' *is* KISS.
It /might/ be in some contexts, but a priori it is not, as it
superimposes a truth value on a data type which is otherwise
a pretty accurate model of real objects (outside python).
One principle of object oriented pr
On Wed, 11 May 2011 14:59:34 -0400, Prasad, Ramit
wrote:
: Fair enough. I am a sheep, so I do what other (more knowledgeable)
: people do. It is a fair assumption (for my specific code writing
: environments) that everyone who is going to read my code understands
: "if x:" notation or is expe
The simple but code heavy system is to create two functions. One that raises an
error and one that returns None or something that is mutually agreed to be
invalid. You can even get away with one of them doing the actual work and the
other one just as a wrapper. I feel too lazy to fix the mistak
> Someone who knows how to program is never clueless starting a new
>language. Newbie, may be, but he knows most of the constructions
>and semantic principles to look for; most of it is learning the syntax.
I claim to be able to program (Java/Python), but would be absolutely lost
programming in
On 11/05/2011 19:24, Terry Reedy wrote:
writing and reading. If you want others to look at this more, you should
1) produce a minimal* example that demonstrates the questionable
behavior, and 2) show the comparative outputs that raise your question.
Thanks for a quick response. Perhaps I was be
In article <4dcab8bf$0$29980$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>When you call len(x) you don't care about the details of how to calculate
>the length of x. The object itself knows so that you don't have to. The
>same applies to truth testing.
>
>I have a data type that
Hans Georg Schaathun wrote:
On Wed, 11 May 2011 13:50:54 -0400, Prasad, Ramit
wrote:
: I find this argument to be flawed. Should I stop using built-in
: generators instead of range/xrange for looping through lists?
: Certainly for loops with loop counting are understood more widely
: than g
>Common to what? I'd try the lowest common denominator of
>legibility and effictiveness.
>It is just KISS.
Fair enough. I am a sheep, so I do what other (more knowledgeable) people do.
It is a fair assumption (for my specific code writing environments) that
everyone who is going to read my code
Hi.
I'm looking for a quick way to create new Python projects from a template.
I understand that 'Paste' (http://pythonpaste.org/) is one way to do
this, but I find Paste very intimidating because of all the
functionality it includes. I'm not even sure whether 'creating new
projects from temp
On 5/11/2011 12:27 PM, Genstein wrote:
In py3k is it necessary to flush() a file between read/write calls in order
to see consistent results?
I ask because I have a case under Python 3.2 (r32:88445) where it does
appear to be, on both Gentoo Linux and Windows Vista.
I've naturally read http://
On Wed, 11 May 2011 13:50:54 -0400, Prasad, Ramit
wrote:
: I find this argument to be flawed. Should I stop using built-in
: generators instead of range/xrange for looping through lists?
: Certainly for loops with loop counting are understood more widely
: than generators. Should I stop using
On 2011.05.11 12:57 PM, Patty wrote:
> Hi Andrew -
>
> Sometimes you want an exception come up and then use that information to
> take your
> program in some direction.
Right, but I'm wondering how I should handle errors in a module, where
different people will want their programs to do different
On Wed, 11 May 2011 10:31:59 -0600, Ian Kelly
wrote:
: (x + 3 for x in xs if x % 2 == 1)
Interesting. Thanks. That might come in handy some time.
--
:-- Hans Georg
--
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On Wed, 11 May 2011 10:27:49 -0400, D'Arcy J.M. Cain
wrote:
: When did we come to the idea that people should be able to program in a
: language without actually learning it? The fact that Python comes so
: close to that possibility is nothing short of revolutionary.
Revolutionary indeed, s
On Thu, 12 May 2011 02:05:21 +1000, Chris Angelico
wrote:
: In a Bourne shell script, if ends with fi... case ends with esac... so
: file would end with... hmm. Yeah, I think it's best to know the
: language you're trying to comprehend, and/or actually look at context
: instead of shoving a
On 11 May 2011 16:26:40 GMT, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
: > 1. My concern was not about clueless newbies. They need to
: > learn. My concern is about experienced scientists and engineers who
: > are simply new to python.
:
: Which makes them clueless newbies *about Python*. I don't care how
On Wed, 11 May 2011 10:33:51 -0400, D'Arcy J.M. Cain
wrote:
: Non-programmers should be able to program?
That was not really what I suggested; I was primarily talking
about reading programs and commenting on formulæ and algorithms.
: Should non-doctors be able to doctor?
If I were God, I mi
In article ,
Andrew Berg wrote:
> I'm a bit new to programming outside of shell scripts (and I'm no expert
> there), so I was wondering what is considered the best way to handle
> errors when writing a module. Do I just let exceptions go and raise
> custom exceptions for errors that don't trigge
On 11/05/2011 18:29, Andrew Berg wrote:
I'm a bit new to programming outside of shell scripts (and I'm no expert
there), so I was wondering what is considered the best way to handle
errors when writing a module. Do I just let exceptions go and raise
custom exceptions for errors that don't trigger
- Original Message -
From: "Andrew Berg"
To:
Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 10:29 AM
Subject: Proper way to handle errors in a module
I'm a bit new to programming outside of shell scripts (and I'm no expert
there), so I was wondering what is considered the best way to handle
errors
On 5/11/2011 12:27 PM, TheSaint wrote:
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Before you re-write it, you should run 2to3 over it and see how much it
can do automatically:
Widely done, only the results from some query has radically changed on
favour of unicode. Errors raising about results which are not stri
>The audience I am concerned about is the ones who are over-educated
>into using and having used a score of different meanings of the same
>symbols. They will be used to their intuition being wrong when they
>move into a new context. Being explicit will help them.
I find this argument to be fla
> I don't mean to insult anyone, but I've heard and read all the arguments
> against Python's truth-testing, and they
>don't impress me in the slightest. Most of them strike me as silly. The only
>argument that carries any weight to me is
>one which I haven't seen anyone raise:
>"if x:" turns so
I'm a bit new to programming outside of shell scripts (and I'm no expert
there), so I was wondering what is considered the best way to handle
errors when writing a module. Do I just let exceptions go and raise
custom exceptions for errors that don't trigger a standard one? Have the
function/method
All of this just boils down to Python providing an implicit bool cast in
syntactic situations that expect conditional expressions, including if [1].
So "if x:" is equivalent to "if bool(x)". Perhaps that is the part that is
not immediately obvious, being implicit to Python conditional syntax.
Py
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 8:34 AM, Hans Georg Schaathun
wrote:
> E.g. Anyone who has used list/set comprehension in Z, haskell, set theory,
> or whereever will understand python list comprehension immediately.
They would understand the underlying concept. But would somebody who
is not a Python pr
Hey all,
Apologies if this is a dumb question (self = Python noob), but under
py3k is it necessary to flush() a file between read/write calls in order
to see consistent results?
I ask because I have a case under Python 3.2 (r32:88445) where it does
appear to be, on both Gentoo Linux and Wind
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Before you re-write it, you should run 2to3 over it and see how much it
> can do automatically:
Widely done, only the results from some query has radically changed on
favour of unicode. Errors raising about results which are not strings
anymore.
> I'm afraid I don't u
On Wed, 11 May 2011 15:34:28 +0100, Hans Georg Schaathun wrote:
> On 11 May 2011 13:45:52 GMT, Steven D'Aprano
>wrote:
> : Do you think that we should avoid chained comparisons, class methods,
> : closures, co-routines, decorators, default values to functions, :
> delegation, doc tests, exc
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 1:50 AM, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
> On Wed, 11 May 2011 15:05:45 +0100, Hans Georg Schaathun wrote:
>
>> My concern was with the reader and not the writer.
>>
>> What could elif mean other than else: if?
>
> The first time I read Python code, I had literally no idea what to m
2011/5/11 Chris Angelico :
> On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 1:16 AM, Wojtek Mamrak wrote:
>> Is there any special reason you don't want to use QThread?
>> http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/static/Docs/PyQt4/html/qthread.html#details
>
> Other than that QThread is part of QT and threading isn't, what ar
On Wed, 11 May 2011 15:05:45 +0100, Hans Georg Schaathun wrote:
> My concern was with the reader and not the writer.
>
> What could elif mean other than else: if?
It could mean "Oh, the author has made a stupid typo, I better fix it."
It could mean "What does the elif command do?"
The first ti
Hans Georg Schaathun wrote:
On 11 May 2011 13:36:02 GMT, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
: > In this case, the interpretation of an arbitrary object as a boolean is
: > peculiar for python.
:
: Incorrect. It is widespread among many languages. Programmers have been
: writing conditional tests usi
On Wed, 11 May 2011 10:33:51 -0400, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
> Non-programmers should be able to program?
Wasn't that sort of the premise behind Visual Basic? I don't know if that
was the intention, but it sure was the result in a lot of cases.
--
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On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 1:16 AM, Wojtek Mamrak wrote:
> Is there any special reason you don't want to use QThread?
> http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/static/Docs/PyQt4/html/qthread.html#details
Other than that QThread is part of QT and threading isn't, what are
the advantages of QThread? Is it
Is there any special reason you don't want to use QThread?
http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/static/Docs/PyQt4/html/qthread.html#details
regards
2011/5/11 Chris Angelico :
> On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 7:08 PM, vijay swaminathan wrote:
>> Sorry. My intention was not to send out a private message.
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 12:00 AM, Hans Georg Schaathun
wrote:
> The fact that you need to list language by language which objects
> evaluate as false or equivalent to false illustrates that this has
> to be learnt language by language. Allowing arbitrary objects is
> one thing, the particular in
On 11 May 2011 13:45:52 GMT, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
: Do you think that we should avoid chained comparisons, class methods,
: closures, co-routines, decorators, default values to functions,
: delegation, doc tests, exceptions, factory functions, generator
: expressions, inheritance, itera
On Wed, 11 May 2011 15:05:45 +0100
Hans Georg Schaathun wrote:
> What could elif mean other than else: if?
If run by an elf? Who knows. You do, of course, if you have learned
the basics of the language you are using.
> if x could, for instance, mean "if x is defined".
It could also mean "if
On Wed, 11 May 2011 11:47:42 +0100
Hans Georg Schaathun wrote:
> However, programming is often as much about developing ideas in a large
> and complex community, where perfect universal mastery of one language
> is not an option, because half the community do not normally use that
> language or ar
On 11 May 2011 12:14:46 GMT, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
: Not knowing that you can write "if x" instead of "if x == []" is like not
: knowing that you can write
:
: elif condition
:
: instead of
:
: else:
: if condition
My concern was with the reader and not the writer.
On 11 May 2011 13:36:02 GMT, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
: > In this case, the interpretation of an arbitrary object as a boolean is
: > peculiar for python.
:
: Incorrect. It is widespread among many languages. Programmers have been
: writing conditional tests using arbitrary values since 1958
On Wed, 11 May 2011 11:47:42 +0100, Hans Georg Schaathun wrote:
> On Sat, 07 May 2011 21:57:13 -0700, Ethan Furman
>wrote:
> : If you're going to use a language, and use it well, you have to learn
> : how that language works.
>
> And if the world evolves around the compiler and you, that ad
On Wed, 11 May 2011 16:04:13 +0800, TheSaint wrote:
> Now python 3.2 (and some version before) started to use byte, rather
> than text strings, almost for all data handling in compliance to
> unicode. My problem arise that my program handle text strings, so I'd
> like to rewrite the code
Before y
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