Re: "private" class attributes

2013-06-26 Thread wgtrey
good question -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: FACTS: WHY THE PYTHON LANGUAGE FAILS.

2013-06-26 Thread Ben Finney
Thrinaxodon writes: > [… strange fictitious dialogue …] > THRINAXODON IS NOW ON TWITTER. Thrinaxodon should not bother to post such hostility here again. -- \ “I don't want to live peacefully with difficult realities, and | `\ I see no virtue in savoring excuses for avoiding a sear

Re: re.finditer() skips unicode into selection

2013-06-26 Thread darpan6aya
Thanks MRAB your alternative regex implementation worked flawlessly. It works now. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

FACTS: WHY THE PYTHON LANGUAGE FAILS.

2013-06-26 Thread Thrinaxodon
= >MESSAGE FROM COMPUTER GEEK. = > THRINAXODON HAS RECENTLY RECEIVED THIS MESSAGE FROM THE PYTHON FOUNDER: Oh my God! It's hard to program with, it`s troubling for so many people! I call for the cancellation of the Python programming language. > THRINAXODON: Wow!

Re: re.finditer() skips unicode into selection

2013-06-26 Thread darpan6aya
[IMG]http://i41.tinypic.com/35002rr.png[/IMG] Heres a screenshot http://i41.tinypic.com/35002rr.png -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: re.finditer() skips unicode into selection

2013-06-26 Thread darpan6aya
Thanks MRAB, your suggestion worked. But then it brought an error 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 0-1: ordinal not in range(128) I corrected this by encoding it to 'utf-8'. The code looks like this now. pattern = ur'(?u)\w+' def __init__(self, *args):

Re: Need help removing trailing zeros

2013-06-26 Thread PyNoob
I get it now! Thank you so much for your help, I really appreciate it. :) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: What is the semantics meaning of 'object'?

2013-06-26 Thread Ethan Furman
On 06/26/2013 04:54 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Wed, 26 Jun 2013 13:14:44 -0700, Ethan Furman wrote: On 06/23/2013 11:50 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: What else would you call a function that does lookups on the current object's superclasses? Well, I would call it super(). Trouble is, that

Re: What is the semantics meaning of 'object'?

2013-06-26 Thread Ian Kelly
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 5:54 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > No. But "the current object" is not Base1, but an instance of Derived, > and Base2 *is* an ancestor of Derived. Perhaps if I had said "self" > instead of current object, you wouldn't have made this error. If so, I > apologise for confusing

Re: Limit Lines of Output

2013-06-26 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Wed, 26 Jun 2013 10:09:13 -0700, rusi wrote: > On Wednesday, June 26, 2013 8:54:56 PM UTC+5:30, Joshua Landau wrote: >> On 25 June 2013 22:48, Gene Heskett wrote: >> > On Tuesday 25 June 2013 17:47:22 Joshua Landau did opine: >> >> I did not. > > I guess Joshua is saying that saying ≠ opinin

Re: What is the semantics meaning of 'object'?

2013-06-26 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Wed, 26 Jun 2013 13:14:44 -0700, Ethan Furman wrote: > On 06/23/2013 11:50 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> What else would you call a function that does lookups on the current >> object's superclasses? > > Well, I would call it super(). Trouble is, that is not all that super() > does. Going b

Re: class factory question

2013-06-26 Thread Fábio Santos
On 26 Jun 2013 14:14, "Tim" wrote: > > I am extending a parser and need to create many classes that are all subclassed from the same object (defined in an external library). When my module is loaded I need all the classes to be created with a particular name but the behavior is all the same. Curr

Re: SQL code generation from table-free boolean queries?

2013-06-26 Thread Tim Chase
On 2013-06-26 16:17, Foo Stack wrote: > Given string input such as: > foo=5 AND a=6 AND date=now OR date='2013/6' AND bar='hello' > > I am going to implement: > > - boolean understanding (which operator takes precendence) > - spliting off of attributes into my function which computes their >

Re: class factory question

2013-06-26 Thread Joshua Landau
On 26 June 2013 16:40, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote: > Joshua Landau wrote: > >> I would say if a dict isn't good, there are still some cases where you >> might not want to use globals. >> >> I _might_ do: > >> # Make a module >> module_for_little_classes = ModuleType("module_for_little_cla

SQL code generation from table-free boolean queries?

2013-06-26 Thread Foo Stack
Given string input such as: foo=5 AND a=6 AND date=now OR date='2013/6' AND bar='hello' I am going to implement: - boolean understanding (which operator takes precendence) - spliting off of attributes into my function which computes their table in the SQL database - piece everything together

Re: Need help removing trailing zeros

2013-06-26 Thread Joshua Landau
On 26 June 2013 23:21, PyNoob wrote: > Sorry about that... And thanks for your help, but I don't quite understand. That's fine, but... > Would that make it off your example print("{:g}".format(1.0))? I don't understand this sentence. But, hey, I forgot to check what level you were working at --

Re: Need help removing trailing zeros

2013-06-26 Thread PyNoob
Sorry about that... And thanks for your help, but I don't quite understand. Would that make it off your example print("{:g}".format(1.0))? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Need help removing trailing zeros

2013-06-26 Thread Joshua Landau
On 26 June 2013 23:02, wrote: > Hello, i'm making a calculator and I want to be able to use decimals but I > don't like it when it comes out as ex.12.0 when it should be 12. I tried > using .rstrip("0".rstrip(".") but that never seemed to work. If anyone has a > solution please let me know, al

Re: Limit Lines of Output

2013-06-26 Thread Joshua Landau
On 26 June 2013 17:46, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Wed, 26 Jun 2013 16:24:56 +0100, Joshua Landau wrote: > >> On 25 June 2013 22:48, Gene Heskett wrote: >>> On Tuesday 25 June 2013 17:47:22 Joshua Landau did opine: >> >> I did not. > > Unless there are two people called "Joshua Landau" with email

Need help removing trailing zeros

2013-06-26 Thread bandcamp57
Hello, i'm making a calculator and I want to be able to use decimals but I don't like it when it comes out as ex.12.0 when it should be 12. I tried using .rstrip("0".rstrip(".") but that never seemed to work. If anyone has a solution please let me know, all help is greatly appreciated. Code: d

Re: What is the semantics meaning of 'object'?

2013-06-26 Thread Ethan Furman
On 06/23/2013 11:50 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Sun, 23 Jun 2013 12:04:35 -0600, Ian Kelly wrote: On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 11:36 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Sun, 23 Jun 2013 11:18:41 -0600, Ian Kelly wrote: Incidentally, although super() is useful, it's not perfect, and this is one of my

Re: Is this PEP-able? fwhile

2013-06-26 Thread Jan Riechers
On 26.06.2013 16:28, William Ray Wing wrote: On Jun 26, 2013, at 7:49 AM, Fábio Santos mailto:fabiosantos...@gmail.com>> wrote: On 26 Jun 2013 11:45, mailto:jim...@aol.com>> wrote: > > On Tuesday, June 25, 2013 9:30:54 PM UTC+5:30, Ian wrote: > > In my experience the sorts of people who preach

Re: What is the semantics meaning of 'object'?

2013-06-26 Thread Ethan Furman
On 06/23/2013 12:05 PM, Ian Kelly wrote: On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 12:46 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: All is not lost, there are ways to make your classes cooperative. The trick is to have your classes' __init__ methods ignore keyword arguments they don't know what to do with. object used to do the

Re: re.finditer() skips unicode into selection

2013-06-26 Thread MRAB
On 26/06/2013 20:18, akshay.k...@gmail.com wrote: I am using the following Highlighter class for Spell Checking to work on my QTextEdit. class Highlighter(QSyntaxHighlighter): In Python 2.7, the re module has a somewhat limited idea of what a "word" character is. It recognises 'DEVANAGARI LET

Re: re.finditer() skips unicode into selection

2013-06-26 Thread Terry Reedy
On 6/26/2013 3:18 PM, akshay.k...@gmail.com wrote: I am using the following Highlighter class for Spell Checking to work on my QTextEdit. class Highlighter(QSyntaxHighlighter): pattern = ur'\w+' def __init__(self, *args): QSyntaxHighlighter.__init__(self, *args) self

Re: Is this PEP-able? fwhile

2013-06-26 Thread Jerry Peters
Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > On Mon, 24 Jun 2013 19:01:11 -0700 (PDT), rusi > declaimed the following: > >>On Tuesday, June 25, 2013 3:08:57 AM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote: >>> On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 5:52 AM, <> wrote: >>> >>> > (NOTE: Many people are being taught to avoid 'break' and 'cont

Re: Don't feed the troll...

2013-06-26 Thread Antoon Pardon
Op 25-06-13 17:56, ru...@yahoo.com schreef: On 06/24/2013 07:37 AM, Antoon Pardon wrote: Op 23-06-13 16:29, ru...@yahoo.com schreef: On 06/21/2013 01:32 PM, Antoon Pardon wrote: Op 19-06-13 23:13, ru...@yahoo.com schreef: [...] I put forward what I thought was a rational way of thinking abou

re.finditer() skips unicode into selection

2013-06-26 Thread akshay . ksth
I am using the following Highlighter class for Spell Checking to work on my QTextEdit. class Highlighter(QSyntaxHighlighter): pattern = ur'\w+' def __init__(self, *args): QSyntaxHighlighter.__init__(self, *args) self.dict = None def setDict(self, dict): self.d

Re: Limit Lines of Output

2013-06-26 Thread rusi
On Wednesday, June 26, 2013 8:54:56 PM UTC+5:30, Joshua Landau wrote: > On 25 June 2013 22:48, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Tuesday 25 June 2013 17:47:22 Joshua Landau did opine: > > I did not. I guess Joshua is saying that saying ≠ opining [Or is he opining?] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/l

Re: Limit Lines of Output

2013-06-26 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Wed, 26 Jun 2013 16:24:56 +0100, Joshua Landau wrote: > On 25 June 2013 22:48, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Tuesday 25 June 2013 17:47:22 Joshua Landau did opine: > > I did not. Unless there are two people called "Joshua Landau" with email address , I'm afraid that you did. Here's the email t

Re: Limit Lines of Output

2013-06-26 Thread Chris Angelico
On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 1:24 AM, Joshua Landau wrote: > On 25 June 2013 22:48, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Tuesday 25 June 2013 17:47:22 Joshua Landau did opine: > > I did not. Beg pardon? It looked like an accurate citation to me - you quoted the OP's second post, then added the line beginning "S

Re: class factory question

2013-06-26 Thread Peter Otten
Joshua Landau wrote: > I would say if a dict isn't good, there are still some cases where you > might not want to use globals. > > I _might_ do: > # Make a module > module_for_little_classes = ModuleType("module_for_little_classes", > "All the things") > module_for_little_classes.__dict__.update

Re: What is the semantics meaning of 'object'?

2013-06-26 Thread Chris Angelico
On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 1:16 AM, Rotwang wrote: > On 25/06/2013 23:57, Chris Angelico wrote: >> >> On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 8:38 AM, Mark Janssen >> wrote: >>> >>> Combining integers with sets I can make >>> a Rational class and have infinite-precision arithmetic, for example. >> >> >> Combining t

Re: Limit Lines of Output

2013-06-26 Thread Joshua Landau
On 25 June 2013 22:48, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 25 June 2013 17:47:22 Joshua Landau did opine: I did not. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: What is the semantics meaning of 'object'?

2013-06-26 Thread Rotwang
On 25/06/2013 23:57, Chris Angelico wrote: On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 8:38 AM, Mark Janssen wrote: Combining integers with sets I can make a Rational class and have infinite-precision arithmetic, for example. Combining two integers lets you make a Rational. Python integers are already infinite-p

Re: class factory question

2013-06-26 Thread Joshua Landau
On 26 June 2013 15:46, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote: > The clean way to > cope with the situation is to use a dict: > > classnames = ["Vspace", ...] > classes = {name: type(name, ...) for name in classnames} > > Then you can access the Vspace class with > > classes["Vspace"] > > If that is

Re: class factory question

2013-06-26 Thread Tim
On Wednesday, June 26, 2013 10:46:55 AM UTC-4, Peter Otten wrote: > Tim wrote: > > I am not completely understanding the type function I guess. Here is an > > example from the interpreter: > > No, you are not understanding how Python namespaces work ;) > To get a Vspace in the global namespace yo

Re: class factory question

2013-06-26 Thread Peter Otten
Tim wrote: > I am not completely understanding the type function I guess. Here is an > example from the interpreter: > > In [1]: class MyClass(object): >...: pass >...: > In [2]: type('Vspace', (MyClass,), {}) > Out[2]: __main__.Vspace > In [3]: x = Vspace() > ---

Re: Is this PEP-able? fwhile

2013-06-26 Thread William Ray Wing
On Jun 26, 2013, at 7:49 AM, Fábio Santos wrote: > On 26 Jun 2013 11:45, wrote: > > > > On Tuesday, June 25, 2013 9:30:54 PM UTC+5:30, Ian wrote: > > > In my experience the sorts of people who preach "one exit point" are > > > also all about defining preconditions and postconditions and proving >

Re: io module and pdf question

2013-06-26 Thread wxjmfauth
Le mardi 25 juin 2013 06:18:44 UTC+2, jyou...@kc.rr.com a écrit : > Would like to get your opinion on this. Currently to get the metadata out of > a pdf file, I loop through the guts of the file. I know it's not the > greatest idea to do this, but I'm trying to avoid extra modules, etc. > > >

Re: class factory question

2013-06-26 Thread Tim
On Wednesday, June 26, 2013 9:39:12 AM UTC-4, Peter Otten wrote: > Tim wrote: > > I am extending a parser and need to create many classes that are all > > subclassed from the same object (defined in an external library). When my > > module is loaded I need all the classes to be created with a pa

Re: Is this PEP-able? fwhile

2013-06-26 Thread rusi
On Tuesday, June 25, 2013 10:09:53 PM UTC+5:30, jim...@aol.com wrote: > I just checked and MISRA-C 2012 now allows gotos in specific, limited > circumstances. I think it was the MISRA-C 1998 standard that caused all this > trouble. So if MISRA now allows goto, why not Python :) Not sure w

Re: class factory question

2013-06-26 Thread Peter Otten
Tim wrote: > I am extending a parser and need to create many classes that are all > subclassed from the same object (defined in an external library). When my > module is loaded I need all the classes to be created with a particular > name but the behavior is all the same. Currently I have a bunch

Re: Is this PEP-able? fwhile

2013-06-26 Thread rusi
On Wednesday, June 26, 2013 6:03:39 PM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Tue, 25 Jun 2013 12:39:53 -0400, jimjhb wrote: > > > > > I just checked and MISRA-C 2012 now allows gotos in specific, limited > > > circumstances. I think it was the MISRA-C 1998 standard that caused all > > > this

class factory question

2013-06-26 Thread Tim
I am extending a parser and need to create many classes that are all subclassed from the same object (defined in an external library). When my module is loaded I need all the classes to be created with a particular name but the behavior is all the same. Currently I have a bunch of lines like th

Re: Is this PEP-able? fwhile

2013-06-26 Thread Neil Cerutti
On 2013-06-25, rusi wrote: > On Tuesday, June 25, 2013 9:30:54 PM UTC+5:30, Ian wrote: >> In my experience the sorts of people who preach "one exit point" are >> also all about defining preconditions and postconditions and proving >> that the postconditions follow from the preconditions. I think

Re: Is this PEP-able? fwhile

2013-06-26 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Tue, 25 Jun 2013 12:39:53 -0400, jimjhb wrote: > I just checked and MISRA-C 2012 now allows gotos in specific, limited > circumstances. I think it was the MISRA-C 1998 standard that caused all > this trouble. So if MISRA now allows goto, why not Python :) [humour] You can! Just use the

Re: "unresolved externals" error message building pywin32 for pypy

2013-06-26 Thread joshanderson99
On Wednesday, 26 June 2013 12:57:32 UTC+10, jasonve...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi, > > > > I get an "unresolved externals" error message when building pywin32 for pypy, > as listed below. Both are the latest versions, > amauryfa-pywin32-pypy-2a1da51e8152 and pypy-2.0.2. As per build > requireme

Re: Is this PEP-able? fwhile

2013-06-26 Thread Fábio Santos
On 26 Jun 2013 11:45, wrote: > > On Tuesday, June 25, 2013 9:30:54 PM UTC+5:30, Ian wrote: > > In my experience the sorts of people who preach "one exit point" are > > also all about defining preconditions and postconditions and proving > > that the postconditions follow from the preconditions. I

Re: Limit Lines of Output

2013-06-26 Thread Alister
On Tue, 25 Jun 2013 14:39:30 -0600, Ian Kelly wrote: > On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 2:31 PM, Joshua Landau > wrote: >> On 25 June 2013 21:22, Bryan Britten wrote: >>> Ah, I always forget to mention my OS on these forums. I'm running >>> Windows. >> >> Supposedly, Windows has "more" >> [http://superus

Re: Looking for a name for a deployment framework...

2013-06-26 Thread Roy Smith
In article , xDog Walker wrote: > On Tuesday 2013 June 25 19:16, Dave Angel wrote: > > On 06/25/2013 03:38 PM, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote: > > > jonathan.slend...@gmail.com writes: > > >> Any suggestions for a good name, for a framework that does automatic > > >> server deployments? > > Yet A

Re: What is the semantics meaning of 'object'?

2013-06-26 Thread Antoon Pardon
Op 26-06-13 00:27, Mark Janssen schreef: >> The main problem is getting to the top/end of the call chain. Classic >> example is with __init__, but the same problem can also happen with >> other calls. Just a crazy theory, but would it be possible to >> construct a black-holing object that, for any

Re: Looking for a name for a deployment framework...

2013-06-26 Thread xDog Walker
On Tuesday 2013 June 25 19:16, Dave Angel wrote: > On 06/25/2013 03:38 PM, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote: > > jonathan.slend...@gmail.com writes: > >> Any suggestions for a good name, for a framework that does automatic > >> server deployments? Yet Another Deployment Framework? -- Yonder nor sorg

Re: Limit Lines of Output

2013-06-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 25 June 2013 17:47:22 Joshua Landau did opine: > On 25 June 2013 21:22, Bryan Britten wrote: > > Ah, I always forget to mention my OS on these forums. I'm running > > Windows. > > Supposedly, Windows has "more" > [http://superuser.com/questions/426226/less-or-more-in-windows], Yes, b

Re: Question about pickle

2013-06-26 Thread Phu Sam
f.seek(0) really does the trick. Danke sehr, Phu On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 6:47 AM, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote: > Phu Sam wrote: > > > I have a method that opens a file, lock it, pickle.load the file into a > > dictionary. > > I then modify the status of a record, then pickle.dump the

Re: Don't feed the troll...

2013-06-26 Thread Ian Kelly
On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 7:37 AM, Antoon Pardon wrote: > What do you mean with not a participant in the past? As far > as I can see his first appearance was in dec 2011. That is > over a year ago. It also seems that he always find people > willing to engage with him. Is how the group treats him > n

Re: What is the semantics meaning of 'object'?

2013-06-26 Thread Chris Angelico
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 9:19 AM, Mark Janssen wrote: > Did you ever hear of the Glass Bead Game? Yeah, it's Magic: The Gathering and its counters. http://www.wizards.com/magic/magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtgcom/daily/mr195 :) ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Is this PEP-able? fwhile

2013-06-26 Thread jimjhb
On Tuesday, June 25, 2013 9:30:54 PM UTC+5:30, Ian wrote: > In my experience the sorts of people who preach "one exit point" are > also all about defining preconditions and postconditions and proving > that the postconditions follow from the preconditions. I think that > the two are linked, becau

problem with pyinstaller: packaging multiple python scripts under Mac

2013-06-26 Thread Boxuan Cui
This is my first time using pyinstaller. My goal is to build an .app in Mac. The app is basically a GUI written in PySide, and I have about 7 different Python scripts + 1 .png file. The main file calls 4 of the files, and the 4 files will call the rest of the 2 files repeatedly. The .png file is

Re: Is this PEP-able? fwhile

2013-06-26 Thread jfharden
On Wednesday, 26 June 2013 01:40:22 UTC+1, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > (hmmm, does any > language have a continue that can go to the next iteration of an outer > loop?) Perl allows next with a label: > perldoc -f next next LABEL nextThe "next" command is like the "continue" statement i

Re: A certainl part of an if() structure never gets executed.

2013-06-26 Thread Thomas Rachel
Am 12.06.2013 03:46 schrieb Rick Johnson: On Tuesday, June 11, 2013 8:25:30 PM UTC-5, nagia@gmail.com wrote: is there a shorter and more clear way to write this? i didnt understood what Rick trie to told me. My example included verbatim copies of interactive sessions within the Python co

Re: What is the semantics meaning of 'object'?

2013-06-26 Thread Ian Kelly
On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 7:07 PM, Mark Janssen wrote: >> When you inherit a "set" to make a Rational, you're making the >> statement (to the interpreter, if nothing else) that a Rational is-a >> set. > > No you don't *inherit* a set to make a Rational, although you gain a > set to make it. Okay, t

Re: What is the semantics meaning of 'object'?

2013-06-26 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Tue, 25 Jun 2013 16:19:08 -0700, Mark Janssen wrote: > Well you've been spoiled by all the work that came before you. The > issue now is not to go "back to the machine" so much as to tear down and > build up again from raw materials, objects of more and more complexity > where very complex "me

Re: Returned mail: Data format error

2013-06-26 Thread noreply
This email was blocked due to unallowed file attachment. From: python-list@python.org Recipient: jbee...@lakeport.k12.ca.us Subject: Returned mail: Data format error Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 16:30:55 +0800 powered by mxHero -- http://mail.pytho

Re: newbie EOL while scanning string literal

2013-06-26 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Tue, 25 Jun 2013 17:05:50 -0700, willlewis965 wrote: > thanks man you answered my questions very clear, btw do you know of a > place where I can learn python I know some tutorials but are 2. > something and I'm using 3.3 and I've been told they are different. Try here: http://mail.python.org/

Re: Variables versus name bindings [Re: A certainl part of an if() structure never gets executed.]

2013-06-26 Thread 88888 Dihedral
Michael Torrie於 2013年6月20日星期四UTC+8下午2時01分11秒寫道: > > But since the LISP never really got a form beyond S-expressions, > > leaving us with lots of parenthesis everywhere, Python wins much as the > > Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy wins. Yep, a list is mutable even it's empty. But constant integ

Re: Is this PEP-able? fwhile

2013-06-26 Thread Chris Angelico
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 10:47 AM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > On Tue, 25 Jun 2013 17:20:43 +1000, Neil Hodgson > declaimed the following: > >>jim...@aol.com: >> >>> Syntax: >>> fwhile X in ListY and conditionZ: >> >>There is precedent in Algol 68: >> >>for i from 0 to n while safe(i) do .. od

Re: What is the semantics meaning of 'object'?

2013-06-26 Thread Chris Angelico
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 11:07 AM, Mark Janssen wrote: Combining two integers lets you make a Rational. >>> >>> Ah, but what is going to group them together? You see you've already >>> gotten seduced. Python already uses a set to group them together -- >>> it's called a Dict and it's in ever