> On Monday, August 13, 2012 at 7:53:32 PM UTC+3, andrea crotti wrote:
>> I am in the situation where I am working on different projects that
>> might potentially share a lot of code.
>>
>> I started to work on project A, then switched completely to project B
>> and in the transiction I copied ove
Steve D'Aprano wrote:
Similarly for break and continue.
I can still see their
use causing potential trouble in (really-long) real-world code.
How so?
Besides, if your code is "really long", you probably should factorise it into
smaller, meaningful chunks.
I worked in maintenance programm
On Wed, 27 Sep 2017 05:50 pm, Bill wrote:
[...]
> If you are teaching beginning students, do you expect them to try to
> follow these sorts of conventions?
Yes, but not to the point of being a dick about it. It is better to learn good
habits first, rather than to learn bad habits then unlearn the
On Wed, 27 Sep 2017 12:41:24 -0400, leam hall wrote:
> The question is, what should a person "know" when hiring out as a
> programmer? What is 'know" and what should be "known"? Specifically
> with Python.
The longer I claim to be a programmer, the more I discover how wide a
net that is. Web sit
On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 11:18 AM, Larry Hudson via Python-list
wrote:
>
> It had turned out his company had paid for him to take the course. Since he
> failed, it suddenly came to the attention of his employer that he didn't
> know how to program, and now his job was in jeopardy. As I hung up the
On 09/27/2017 09:41 AM, leam hall wrote:
On Sat, Sep 23, 2017 at 5:26 PM, Ned Batchelder
wrote:
[snip]
The question is, what should a person "know" when hiring out as a
programmer? What is 'know" and what should be "known"? Specifically with
Python.
Hopefully NOT like this person...
(Sourc
On 9/27/17 6:55 PM, Rob Gaddi wrote:
Anyone have any good references on using Sphinx to generate a mix of
autogenerated API docs and hand-written "Yeah, but this is what you DO
with it" docs? Free is good but I'm happy to drop money on books if
they're worthwhile.
I can offer you an exampl
Anyone have any good references on using Sphinx to generate a mix of
autogenerated API docs and hand-written "Yeah, but this is what you DO
with it" docs? Free is good but I'm happy to drop money on books if
they're worthwhile.
--
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E
On 09/27/2017 01:05 PM, Sayth Renshaw wrote:
Hi
I have got a successful script setup to rotate through dates and download json
data from the url.
As the api returns 200 whether successful I want to check if the file returned
is not successful.
when a file doesn't exist the api returns
{'Race
Sayth Renshaw writes:
> When I call data = r.json() it says its type is None if it is not
> successful so I thought it easier to check that.
Can you show the interactive session where you do that check?
>>> data = r.json()
>>> data is None
True
That's what I understand your stateme
Il 27/09/2017 22:05, Sayth Renshaw ha scritto:
Hi
I have got a successful script setup to rotate through dates and download json
data from the url.
As the api returns 200 whether successful I want to check if the file returned
is not successful.
when a file doesn't exist the api returns
{'Ra
Hi
I have got a successful script setup to rotate through dates and download json
data from the url.
As the api returns 200 whether successful I want to check if the file returned
is not successful.
when a file doesn't exist the api returns
{'RaceDay': None, 'ErrorInfo': {'SystemId': 200, 'Err
Thank you for all of the feedback provided! It was just what I was
looking for. : )
I'm going to go back and read some of the links more carefully.
Bill
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On Wed, 27 Sep 2017 at 14:48 Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote:
> > Reproducing the original string exactly the best I've managed is 260:
>
> That's a bit long, don't you think, as it can be beaten even by plain old
> zipping:
>
ha! tbh yes It's longer than I was expecting to manage.
$ cat bo
On 09/27/2017 09:50 AM, Paul Moore wrote:
>>> What you could do is pip install your binary dependencies into a
>>> directory in $TEMP using --target, then add that directory to
>>> sys.path. Probably easier than building a full virtualenv. Bundle pip
>>> with your app if you can't assume your user
On 2017-09-27 16:38, Matt Wheeler wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Sep 2017 at 13:58 Thomas Jollans wrote:
>
>>> Reproducing the original string exactly the best I've managed is 260:
>>>
>>> t,f,a,o,n='True','False','and','or','not'
>>
>> The Not is capitalized in the original string.
>>
>
> I guess you didn
On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 12:41 PM, leam hall wrote:
> The question is, what should a person "know" when hiring out as a
> programmer? What is 'know" and what should be "known"? Specifically with
> Python.
Fake it till you make it!
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On Sat, Sep 23, 2017 at 5:26 PM, Ned Batchelder
wrote:
> On 9/23/17 2:52 PM, Leam Hall wrote:
>
>> On 09/23/2017 02:40 PM, Terry Reedy wrote:
>>
>>> https://nedbatchelder.com//blog/201709/beginners_and_experts.html
>>>
>>> Great post.
>>>
>>
>> Yup. Thanks for the link. I often have that "I bet >
Besides being easy to learn and develop, there is a large number of dev
supporters. Which it makes it more compelling.
Thank You,
Irving Duran
On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 9:27 AM, wrote:
> On Wednesday, September 27, 2017 at 3:10:30 PM UTC+1, darwi...@gmail.com
> wrote:
> > Whats the reason that
On Wed, 27 Sep 2017 at 13:58 Thomas Jollans wrote:
> > Reproducing the original string exactly the best I've managed is 260:
> >
> > t,f,a,o,n='True','False','and','or','not'
>
> The Not is capitalized in the original string.
>
I guess you didn't try it? (or see `upper()` in the body of the `for
On Wednesday, September 27, 2017 at 3:10:30 PM UTC+1, darwi...@gmail.com wrote:
> Whats the reason that python is growing fast?
It would be growing faster but it is only the second best language in the
world. Please see
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-November/141486.html
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On Monday, August 13, 2012 at 7:53:32 PM UTC+3, andrea crotti wrote:
> I am in the situation where I am working on different projects that
> might potentially share a lot of code.
>
> I started to work on project A, then switched completely to project B
> and in the transiction I copied over a lot
On 20/09/2017 10:54, Chris Angelico wrote:
What, you take silicon that someone else created?!
ChrisA
well I had germanium for flipflops and dekatron tubes with neon for counters
never built anything digital with valves though
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Matt Wheeler wrote:
> With deepest apologies to all involved...
>
> On Tue, 26 Sep 2017 at 08:42 Gregory Ewing
> wrote:
>
>> Ben Bacarisse wrote:
>> > Think functional! This is 257 characters:
>>
>> 250 chars, 17 shorter than the text it produces:
>>
>> a=[];o=[];n=[];A=list.append
>> for b in
On 2017-09-27 13:51, Matt Wheeler wrote:
> With deepest apologies to all involved...
>
> On Tue, 26 Sep 2017 at 08:42 Gregory Ewing
> wrote:
>
>> Ben Bacarisse wrote:
>>> Think functional! This is 257 characters:
>>
>> 250 chars, 17 shorter than the text it produces:
>>
>> a=[];o=[];n=[];A=list
On Sep 27, 2017, at 12:50 AM, Bill wrote:
>
> Ever since I download the MyCharm IDE a few days ago, I've been noticing all
> sort of "spacing conventions (from PEP) that are suggested. How do folks
> regard these in general?
>
> For instance, the conventions suggest that
>
> if x>y :
>
With deepest apologies to all involved...
On Tue, 26 Sep 2017 at 08:42 Gregory Ewing
wrote:
> Ben Bacarisse wrote:
> > Think functional! This is 257 characters:
>
> 250 chars, 17 shorter than the text it produces:
>
> a=[];o=[];n=[];A=list.append
> for b in range(3,-1,-1):
> x=bool(b>>1);y=bo
On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 11:00 PM, Steve D'Aprano
wrote:
>
The critical distinction here is whether the names refer to each other:
>
>a <---> b
>
>or whether they merely refer to the same value:
>
>a ---> [ value ] <--- b
>
>
>Python uses the second model. Var parameters in Pascal and references in C
Bill wrote:
> Ever since I download the MyCharm IDE a few days ago, I've been noticing
> all sort of "spacing conventions (from PEP) that are suggested. How do
> folks regard these in general?
>
> For instance, the conventions suggest that
>
> if x>y :
> pass
>
> should be written
> if
On Wednesday, September 27, 2017 at 1:01:50 PM UTC+8, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> On 26Sep2017 20:55, Cai Gengyang wrote:
> >On Wednesday, September 27, 2017 at 6:45:00 AM UTC+8, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> >> On 26Sep2017 14:43, Cai Gengyang wrote:
> >> >C) Set bool_three equal to the result of
> >> >
Op 27-09-17 om 09:38 schreef Steven D'Aprano:
No, the model that C++ and Pascal use is not different in this aspect.
> that Pascal var parameters and C++ reference variables operate the same
> way as Python variable assignment, the *kindest* thing I can say is that
> you are ignorant.
The kind
On 26/09/17 17:56, Stefan Ram wrote:
> What happened? I woke up today in parens mood. So I typed:
>
> import( operator )
>
> Python told me that I should type:
>
> import operator
This is an interesting case:
>>> import (os, sys)
File "", line 1
import (os, sys)
^
SyntaxError
On 27/09/17 09:50, Bill wrote:
If you are teaching beginning students, do you expect them to try to
follow these sorts of conventions? Is it perfectly fine to let
"taste" guide you (I'm just trying to get a feel for the philosophy
here)?
I few years ago I wrote a few short blog posts about
Op 27-09-17 om 10:11 schreef Chris Angelico:
> On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 5:38 PM, Steven D'Aprano
> wrote:
>> Twice you have claimed to be able to write such a swap procedure for
>> lists. You can't. If you think you can, it is only because you have
>> misunderstood the problem and are writing somet
On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 6:10 PM, Thomas Jollans wrote:
> Personally I've found that my preferred tool, the Anaconda plugin for
> Sublime Text, sometime gets PEP 8 operator spacing wrong, and complains
> operators without spaces even where PEP8 explicitly recommends not using
> spaces. Read PEP 8,
On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 5:38 PM, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
> Twice you have claimed to be able to write such a swap procedure for
> lists. You can't. If you think you can, it is only because you have
> misunderstood the problem and are writing something else that does
> something different from what
On 27/09/17 09:50, Bill wrote:
> Ever since I download the MyCharm IDE a few days ago, I've been
> noticing all sort of "spacing conventions (from PEP) that are
> suggested. How do folks regard these in general?
PEP 8 (https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008), the officially
recommended style g
Ever since I download the MyCharm IDE a few days ago, I've been noticing
all sort of "spacing conventions (from PEP) that are suggested. How do
folks regard these in general?
For instance, the conventions suggest that
if x>y :
pass
should be written
if x > y:
pass
Personally, I l
On 26 September 2017 at 23:48, Irmen de Jong wrote:
> On 09/26/2017 10:49 PM, Paul Moore wrote:
>> On 26 September 2017 at 19:47, Irmen de Jong wrote:
>>> Any thoughts on this? Is it a good idea or something horrible? Has
>>> someone attempted something like this before perhaps?
>>
>> When I've d
On Wed, 27 Sep 2017 08:56:03 +0200, Antoon Pardon wrote:
>> But that's not enough for the variable b to be an alias for the
>> variable a.
>
> Yes it is!
Since you seem to be intent on inventing your own meanings for well
established words, for the confusion and misinformation of all, I can
o
Op 27-09-17 om 04:58 schreef Steve D'Aprano:
> A pedantic difference that makes no difference to my argument.
>
> I see that you ignored the later assignment:
>
> b = 2;
>
> which also assigned to a. *That** is the fundamental point: b is certainly an
> alias for a, and assigning to b assigns to a.
On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 5:25 PM, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote:
> If you want that level of -- let's call it consistency -- you should either
> plead for
>
> foo = import("foo")
>
> to spell an import
Yeah no thanks. I work also with JavaScript, and there is no benefit
whatsoever to having
Stefan Ram wrote:
> Why do we newbies write »print 2«? Here's another hint.
> This is an original transcript of what happened to me today:
>
> |>>> import( operator )
> | File "", line 1
> |import( operator )
> | ^
> |SyntaxError: invalid syntax
> |
> |>>> import operator
> |
>
On Wed, 27 Sep 2017 02:48:41 +, Stefan Ram wrote:
> Steve D'Aprano writes:
>>"Do What I Mean" (DWIM) programming is a terrible idea.
>
> It's an anti-pattern, when one expects the implementation to follow
> different and contradicting rules and then somehow guess what was in
> the mind
Op 27-09-17 om 04:58 schreef Steve D'Aprano:
> On Wed, 27 Sep 2017 02:03 am, Stefan Ram wrote:
>
>> Steve D'Aprano writes:
>>> On Tue, 26 Sep 2017 03:26 am, Antoon Pardon wrote:
at that moment, but it still needed correction. If the assignment is
an alias operator then after the statemen
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