Re: function code snippet that has function calls I have never seen before. How does it work.

2015-10-03 Thread Denis McMahon
On Sat, 03 Oct 2015 10:40:57 -0700, Ronald Cosentino wrote: > def funA(x,y,z): > return (x+y) * z > def funB(x,y): > return(x-y) > print(funA(4,funB(2,3), funB(3,2))) > > the answer is 3. I don't know how it works. def funA(x, y, z): return (x+y) * z def funB(x, y): return (x-y)

Re: function code snippet that has function calls I have never seen before. How does it work.

2015-10-03 Thread Ervin Hegedüs
hi, On Sat, Oct 03, 2015 at 10:40:57AM -0700, Ronald Cosentino wrote: > def funA(x,y,z): > return (x+y) * z > def funB(x,y): > return(x-y) > print(funA(4,funB(2,3), funB(3,2))) > > the answer is 3. I don't know how it works. it's simple: - there is a "composition of functions", generall

RE: function code snippet that has function calls I have never seen before. How does it work.

2015-10-03 Thread Joseph Lee
Hi Ronald, Answers inline. -Original Message- From: Python-list [mailto:python-list-bounces+joseph.lee22590=gmail@python.org] On Behalf Of Ronald Cosentino Sent: Saturday, October 3, 2015 10:41 AM To: python-list@python.org Subject: function code snippet that has function calls I have

Re: function code snippet that has function calls I have never seen before. How does it work.

2015-10-03 Thread Joel Goldstick
On Sat, Oct 3, 2015 at 1:40 PM, Ronald Cosentino wrote: > def funA(x,y,z): > return (x+y) * z > The above takes 3 values and returns a value > def funB(x,y): > return(x-y) > The above takes 2 values and returns a value > print(funA(4,funB(2,3), funB(3,2))) > you are printing the resu

function code snippet that has function calls I have never seen before. How does it work.

2015-10-03 Thread Ronald Cosentino
def funA(x,y,z): return (x+y) * z def funB(x,y): return(x-y) print(funA(4,funB(2,3), funB(3,2))) the answer is 3. I don't know how it works. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Pyserial and Ubuntu Linux kernel 3.13.0-65-generic

2015-10-03 Thread Laura Creighton
In a message of Sat, 03 Oct 2015 08:38:53 -0600, Michael Torrie writes: >On 10/03/2015 03:19 AM, Laura Creighton wrote: >> With better searching, I find this bug. >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-lts-trusty/+bug/1501345 >> >> Looks like that's the real one. > >This ubuntu bug and

Re: Newbie: Designer Looking to Build Graphics Editor (PS/AI)

2015-10-03 Thread Michael Torrie
On 10/02/2015 02:23 PM, Kenneth L wrote: > No don't tell me what to do. I joined the military 3 years ago. You > wouldn't believe the stuff I wasn't able to do before but now I am. > You can keep your advice to yourself. I wasn't asking for something > simple. I was asking for a starting point. The

Re: Pyserial and Ubuntu Linux kernel 3.13.0-65-generic

2015-10-03 Thread Michael Torrie
On 10/03/2015 03:19 AM, Laura Creighton wrote: > With better searching, I find this bug. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-lts-trusty/+bug/1501345 > > Looks like that's the real one. This ubuntu bug and the other bug you mention seem to be about FTDI devices. Rob said in his origi

Re: Footnotes in ReST

2015-10-03 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sat, 3 Oct 2015 10:21 pm, Laura Creighton wrote: > In a message of Sat, 03 Oct 2015 21:39:26 +1000, "Steven D'Aprano" writes: >>I have a document written in Restructured Text format, and I use lots of >>footnotes: [...] > You shouldn't have numbered them manually in the first place. > Use '#' i

Re: Check if a given value is out of certain range

2015-10-03 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sat, 3 Oct 2015 10:12 pm, Laura Creighton wrote: > People think logically LOL :-) -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Footnotes in ReST

2015-10-03 Thread Laura Creighton
In a message of Sat, 03 Oct 2015 21:39:26 +1000, "Steven D'Aprano" writes: >I have a document written in Restructured Text format, and I use lots of >footnotes: > >blah blah blah [1]_ and blah blah blah [2]_. >blah blah [3]_ blah ... blah blah >blah blah [999]_. > >.. [1] fe >..

Re: Check if a given value is out of certain range

2015-10-03 Thread Laura Creighton
Actually, the fact that adults have more difficulty processing negations is one of the earliest things proven experimentally in experimental psychology. Clark, H., & Chase, W. (1972). On the process of comparing sentences against pictures. Cognitive Psychology, 3, 472–517. is one of the most hea

Re: Footnotes in ReST

2015-10-03 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sat, Oct 3, 2015 at 9:39 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > I need to add a footnote between [2] and [3], but I don't want to have to > renumber the following 997 footnotes by hand. Is there something I can do, > within the syntax of ReST itself, to help? Now that they're all numbered manually? Not

Footnotes in ReST

2015-10-03 Thread Steven D'Aprano
I have a document written in Restructured Text format, and I use lots of footnotes: blah blah blah [1]_ and blah blah blah [2]_. blah blah [3]_ blah ... blah blah blah blah [999]_. .. [1] fe .. [2] fi .. [3] fo ... .. [999] fum I need to add a footnote between

Re: Instance method for converting int to str - str() and __str__()

2015-10-03 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sat, 3 Oct 2015 04:35 pm, neubyr wrote: > I was wondering if there is any resource that explains why certain methods > like str() and type() were implemented the way they are, rather than > .to_string() or .type() instance/object methods. There is a FAQ that might help with this question: htt

Re: Check if a given value is out of certain range

2015-10-03 Thread Bartc
On 03/10/2015 11:29, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Fri, 2 Oct 2015 07:45 am, John Gordon wrote: I find this discussion about the relative readability of not 0 <= x <= 10 #1 versus 0 < x or x > 10 #2 0 < x or 10 < x to be a good example of people's propensity to invent so-called "rational" ju

Re: Check if a given value is out of certain range

2015-10-03 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Fri, 2 Oct 2015 07:45 am, John Gordon wrote: > In <87r3le1ht3@elektro.pacujo.net> Marko Rauhamaa > writes: [...] >> Wouldn't > >>x < 0 or 10 < x > >> be even more visual? > > I don't know what you mean by "more visual". > > In my opinion, when comparing a variable to a constant, it

Re: Instance method for converting int to str - str() and __str__()

2015-10-03 Thread Terry Reedy
On 10/3/2015 2:35 AM, neubyr wrote: I was wondering if there is any resource that explains why certain methods like str() and type() These are classes. Calling a class calls the class construction and initialization functions. These return an instance of the class. While reading the tutoria

Re: Pyserial and Ubuntu Linux kernel 3.13.0-65-generic

2015-10-03 Thread Laura Creighton
With better searching, I find this bug. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-lts-trusty/+bug/1501345 Looks like that's the real one. Laura -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Pyserial and Ubuntu Linux kernel 3.13.0-65-generic

2015-10-03 Thread Laura Creighton
In a message of Sat, 03 Oct 2015 11:07:04 +0200, Laura Creighton writes: >In a message of Fri, 02 Oct 2015 22:36:23 -, Rob Gaddi writes: >>So, this is odd. I'm running Ubuntu 14.04, and my system did a kernel >>upgrade from the repository from 3.13.0-63-generic to 3.13.0-65-generic. >>And p

Re: Pyserial and Ubuntu Linux kernel 3.13.0-65-generic

2015-10-03 Thread Laura Creighton
In a message of Fri, 02 Oct 2015 22:36:23 -, Rob Gaddi writes: >So, this is odd. I'm running Ubuntu 14.04, and my system did a kernel >upgrade from the repository from 3.13.0-63-generic to 3.13.0-65-generic. >And pyserial (2.7, installed through pip) stopped working. > >Specifically, when I

Re: Instance method for converting int to str - str() and __str__()

2015-10-03 Thread Laura Creighton
In a message of Fri, 02 Oct 2015 23:35:28 -0700, neubyr writes: >I was wondering if there is any resource that explains why certain methods >like str() and type() were implemented the way they are, rather than >.to_string() or .type() instance/object methods. > >I find instance/object methods more