In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Christoph Zwerschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> Simon Percivall wrote:
First: It's perfectly simple in Java to create a binary sort that
sorts all arrays that contain objects; so wrong there.
>>> My point was that the *same* Java source example, directl
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Neil Hodgson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Alan Morgan wrote:
>
>> Since Java doesn't allow function overloading that clearly can't be
>> the way. J2SE 5.0 allows generic classes and functions that operate
>> on generic
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Christoph Zwerschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Simon Percivall wrote:
> > First: It's perfectly simple in Java to create a binary sort that
> > sorts all arrays that contain objects; so wrong there.
>
>My point was that the *same* Java source example, directly conv
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jonathan Amsterdam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>If you don't want to call it deadlock, fine, but the program execution
>I describe will make no progress to the end of time. Thread 2 can never
>put anything in the queue, because Thread 1 holds M, and Thread 1 will
>nev
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Peter Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Alan Morgan wrote:
>> Right. I was wondering what would happen in this case:
>>
>> s=[1,2,3]
>> t=s
>> s.clear()
>> t # [] or [1,2,3]??
>>
>> If you know y
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 15:36:47 -0700, Alan Morgan wrote:
>
>> Serious question: Should it work more like "s=[]" or more like
>> "s[:]=[]". I'm assuming the latte
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Raymond Hettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>[Steven Bethard]
>> I think these are all good reasons for adding a clear method, but being
>> that it has been so hotly contended in the past, I don't think it will
>> get added without a PEP. Anyone out there willing t
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
SR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>As a starter project for learning Python/PostgreSQL, I am building a
>Books database that stores information on the books on my bookshelf.
>
>Say I have three tables.
>
>Table "books" contains rows for book_id, title, subtitle, ISBN.
>
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Georg Brandl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Alan Morgan wrote:
>
>>>range is giving you a real list, while xrange is giving you an xrange object.
>>>Have you tried to slice an xrange object? Or using .append on it?
>>
>
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Erik Max Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Alan Morgan wrote:
>
>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>> Giovanni Bajo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
>>>Because you assume that the only use-case of range() is
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Georg Brandl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Alan Morgan wrote:
>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>> Giovanni Bajo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>Steve R. Hastings wrote:
>>>
>>>>> in Pyth
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Giovanni Bajo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Steve R. Hastings wrote:
>
>>> in Python 2.X, range is defined to return a list. if you start
>>> returning something else, you'll break stuff.
>>
>> Perhaps I'm mistaken here, but I don't see how this optimization could
>>
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Pierre Quentel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>This is because Python has a hidden mechanism to detect programs
>generated by Perl scripts, and make them crash with no explanation
In my case it turned out to be python having a hidden method to detect when
you are using
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Bryan Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Alan Morgan wrote:
>> slogging_away wrote:
>>
>>>Hi - I'm running Python 2.4.2 (#67, Sep 28 2005, 12:41:11) [MSC v.1310
>>>32 bit (Intel)] on win32, and have a
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
slogging_away <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi - I'm running Python 2.4.2 (#67, Sep 28 2005, 12:41:11) [MSC v.1310
>32 bit (Intel)] on win32, and have a script that makes numerous checks
>on text files, (configuration files), so discrepancies can be reported.
> The scr
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Alex Martelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Alan Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ...
>> Excessive cleverness can lead to unmaintainable code. So can excessive
>> stupidity.
>
>+1 QOTW.
import blush
>> Sinc
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Sat, 28 Jan 2006 00:13:28 -0800, Kay Schluehr wrote:
>
>[snip lambda calculus stuff]
>
>> In Python you can write:
>>
>> Y = lambda g: (lambda f: g(lambda arg: f(f)(arg))) (lambda f: g(lambda
>> arg: f(f)(arg)))
>>
>>
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
projecktzero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I know this might not be the correct group to post this, but I thought
>I'd start here.
>
>A co-worker considers himself "old school" in that he hasn't seen the
>light of OOP.(It might be because he's in love with Perl...but t
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