On Sun, 20 Nov 2016 08:43 pm, Peter Otten wrote:
> Thorsten Kampe wrote:
>
>> [Crossposted to tutor and general mailing list]
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'd like to extend the dictionary class by creating a class that acts
>> like a dictionary if the class is instantiated with a dictionary and
>> acts lik
Chris Torek wrote:
> Now that the exercise has been solved...
>
> Instead of "really short code to solve the problem", how about
> some "really long code"? :-)
>
> I was curious about implementing prime factorization as a generator,
> using a prime-number generator to come up with the factors, a
r wrote:
> Of the many
> things that divide us such as race, color, religion, geography, blah,
> the most perplexing and devastating seems to be why have we not
> accepted a single global language for all to speak.
I agree 1000% and obviously we should make Klingon that global language. Or
possib
r wrote:
> Abviously the OP is a python baby noob and casting your irrational
> fear (and many others irrational fears) of eval
It isn't irrational to have a healthy caution towards eval.
Apart from the security issues, running code in eval takes a massive
performance hit. Its about ten times s
r wrote:
> On Aug 8, 12:43 pm, "Jan Kaliszewski" wrote:
>> (Note that multiline-'''-strings are usless in such cases).
>>
>
> uhh? A much better way to handle such a problem is like this...
>
> prompt1 = '''
> Some people like to use %s
> ways of doing things just
> so they can support their %
