On 3 Apr 2011, at 15:30, harrismh777 wrote:
Brian Quinlan wrote:
I suspect that this debate is a sink hole that I won't be able to
escape
from alive but...
... live long and prosper my friend.
Something to consider is that OOP philosophy is technically one of
the most aest
On 3 Apr 2011, at 16:22, geremy condra wrote:
I think we're talking at cross purposes. The point I'm making is that
there are lots of issues where popularity as a third party module
isn't really a viable test for whether a feature is sufficiently
awesome to be in core python. As part of determini
I suspect that this debate is a sink hole that I won't be able to
escape from alive but...
On 2 Apr 2011, at 19:29, harrismh777 wrote:
In other words, does the PSF have a responsibility to maintain the
L.sort(cmp= key= reverse=) interface for strictly *philosophical*
principle based on e
On 18 Sep 2010, at 09:57, k3xji wrote:
Hi,
Is there any work on porting PEP 3148 back to 2.x series. That is a
wonderful PEP, any many long-running applications are really in need
of some stable library for handling stuff in async way just as
proposed in this PEP.
I'll probably port 3148 to P
On 24 Jul 2010, at 23:19, Thomas Jollans wrote:
"Support heterogeneous lists" ==> "Yes (array)"
This is nonsense, and has always been.
Python lists (not arrays) have always been heterogeneous. They store
objects and don't care about the type. Python arrays (from the array
module) are homogeneo
On 10 Jul 2010, at 16:21, John Nagle wrote:
On 7/9/2010 11:08 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
On Sat, 10 Jul 2010 06:56:13 +0200, Rene Veerman
declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general:
hi.
i'm using this function;
def dbCacheGet(self, appParams):
results =
On Mar 14, 2010, at 12:14 AM, ahmet erdinc yilmaz wrote:
Hello,
Recenetly we are developing a senior project and decide to use
xmlrpclib.
However I have some questions. In the documentation I could not find
any clue about
handling requests? Does the server handles each request in a
separ
Hi Robert,
help() is just a regular function that must be called with correct
Python syntax and the import keyword is not allowed in an argument list.
The correct syntax is:
help('import')
Cheers,
Brian
On 6 Nov 2009, at 20:56, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
i'm sure there's a painfully obviou
Hey all,
I recently implemented a package that I'd like to have include in the
Python 3.x standard library (and maybe Python 2.x) and I'd love to
have the feedback of this list.
The basic idea is to implement an asynchronous execution method
patterned heavily on java.util.concurrent (but
On 24 Oct 2009, at 21:37, larudwer wrote:
"Brian Quinlan" schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:mailman.1895.1256264717.2807.python-l...@python.org...
Any ideas why this is happening?
Cheers,
Brian
IMHO your code is buggy. You run in an typical race condition.
consider following pa
On 24 Oct 2009, at 19:49, Gabriel Genellina wrote:
En Sat, 24 Oct 2009 02:48:38 -0300, Brian Quinlan
escribió:
On 24 Oct 2009, at 14:10, Gabriel Genellina wrote:
En Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:18:32 -0300, Brian Quinlan > escribió:
I don't like a few things in the code:
I'm actuall
On 24 Oct 2009, at 14:10, Gabriel Genellina wrote:
En Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:18:32 -0300, Brian Quinlan
escribió:
I don't like a few things in the code:
def _do(i):
print('Run:', i)
q = multiprocessing.Queue()
for j in range(30):
q.put(i*30+j
On 24 Oct 2009, at 06:01, paulC wrote:
Hey Paul,
I guess I was unclear in my explanation - the deadlock only happens
when I *don't* call join.
Cheers,
Brian
Whoops, my bad.
Have you tried replacing prints with writing a another output Queue?
I'm wondering if sys.stdout has a problem.
Re
On 24 Oct 2009, at 00:02, paulC wrote:
On Oct 23, 3:18 am, Brian Quinlan wrote:
My test reduction:
import multiprocessing
import queue
def _process_worker(q):
while True:
try:
something = q.get(block=True, timeout=0.1)
except queue.Empty
My test reduction:
import multiprocessing
import queue
def _process_worker(q):
while True:
try:
something = q.get(block=True, timeout=0.1)
except queue.Empty:
return
else:
print('Grabbed item from queue:', something)
def _make_som
Do you have some code that we could see that provokes the problem?
Cheers,
Brian
Joseph Turian wrote:
I was having a mysterious problem with SimpleXMLRPCServer. (I am using
Python 2.5.2)
The request handlers were sometimes failing without any error message
to the log output.
What I discovered
You could start by reading this:
http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
Cheers,
Brian
Pegasus wrote:
I need help with an implementation of your
interpreter under PSPE/PSP.
I need to know something about the C
functions that are recalled by the interpreter
when it executes a .pyc file.
Hey Hans,
Try reversing the list of numbers and see if anything changes.
Cheers,
Brian
Hans Müller wrote:
Hello,
I found a timing problem while playing with the xmlrpx stuff.
I created a very simple server, running on a network node on windows.
The client runs on windows or linux. It runs a
MRAB wrote:
Brian Quinlan wrote:
kj wrote:
In Nick Craig-Wood
writes:
However I can't think of the last time I wanted to do this - array
elements having individual purposes are usually a sign that you should
be using a different data structure.
In the case I was working with,
kj wrote:
In Nick Craig-Wood
writes:
However I can't think of the last time I wanted to do this - array
elements having individual purposes are usually a sign that you should
be using a different data structure.
In the case I was working with, was a stand-in for the value returned
by some_
kj wrote:
Switching from Perl here, and having a hard time letting go...
Suppose I have an "array" foo, and that I'm interested in the 4th, 8th,
second, and last element in that array. In Perl I could write:
my @wanted = @foo[3, 7, 1, -1];
Could you explain your use case? It could be that
Ned Deily wrote:
In article <4a28903b.4020...@sweetapp.com>,
Brian Quinlan wrote:
Scott David Daniels wrote:
[snipped]
When you evaluate a lambda expression, the default args are evaluated,
but the expression inside the lambda body is not. When you apply that
evaluated lambda expr
Scott David Daniels wrote:
[snipped]
When you evaluate a lambda expression, the default args are evaluated,
but the expression inside the lambda body is not. When you apply that
evaluated lambda expression, the expression inside the lambda body is
is evaluated and returned.
But that's not real
Gabriel Genellina wrote:
En Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:40:07 -0300, Brian Quinlan
escribió:
This is from Python built from the py3k branch:
It's not new; same thing happens with 2.x
A closure captures (part of) the enclosing namespace, so names are
resolved in that environment even afte
This is from Python built from the py3k branch:
>>> c = (lambda : i for i in range(11, 16))
>>> for q in c:
... print(q())
...
11
12
13
14
15
>>> # This is expected
>>> c = (lambda : i for i in range(11, 16))
>>> d = list(c)
>>> for q in d:
... print(q())
...
15
15
15
15
15
>>> # I was ver
named the module "futures" (plural) to try to reduce the potential
confusion with the "__futures__" module.
The concept of a future is fairly well known in CS
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_(programming)] so giving it a
completely different name would be a bit annoying.
C
Hey all,
I've been working on an Java-style futures implementation in Python.
Futures are a way of representing asynchronous operations e.g.
operations that are run in another thread or process. The are are a easy
but powerful way of parallelizing sequential operations. The also
provide a con
Demidov Andrey wrote:
class MyClass:
def __init__(self, a):
self.a = a
# and some heavy works which I would like to do once
def say(self):
return a
Change:
def say(self):
return a
to:
def say(self):
return self.a
Cheers,
Brian
-
Hey Helmut,
Did you try just:
print("Hallo, Süßes Python")
Cheers,
Brian
Helmut Jarausch wrote:
Hi,
do I miss something (I do hope so) or is switching to Python3
really hard for Latin1-users?
My simplest hello world script - which uses a few German
umlaut characters - doesn't look very intu
Hey,
I'm trying to figure out how I can validate an XML file using a DTD that
isn't specified in the XML file.
My code so far is:
from xml import sax
from xml.sax import sax2exts
parser = sax2exts.XMLValParserFactory.make_parser()
parser.setContentHandler(handler)
parser.setErrorHandler(han
Dave Parker wrote:
Or just:
If command is "quit" ...
Hmmm. In Flaming Thunder, I'm using "is" (and "is an", "is a", etc)
for assigning and checking types. For example, to read data from a
file and check for errors:
Read data from "input.txt".
If data is an error then go to ...
H
Kevin Walzer wrote:
> Komodo is not a Python application. It is a Mozilla application that
> supports Python development. Komodo is more akin to Thunderbird and
> Firefox than anything else; it uses the XUL framework for rendering
> widgets, if I'm not mistaken. If you want to build an applicati
Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> well, if you're talking pure CGI, you need to start the interpreter,
> import the required modules, connect to the database, unmarshal the
> xml-rpc request, talk to the database, marshal the response, and shut
> down, in less than 30 milliseconds.
>
> just importing the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi, I'm trying to create an XMLRPC server using apache + python (cgi).
> It's not too difficult to configure everything, but I would like to
> tune it in order to receive up to 2000 calls per minute without any
> problems.
That doesn't seem like excessive volume. Why no
Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> Brian Quinlan wrote:
>
>>> 4) [] and {} always create a new object every time they're evaluated.
>> Not quite. The empty tuple is cached:
>>
>> >>> a = ()
>> >>> b = ()
>> >>> a is b
>&g
Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> 4) [] and {} always create a new object every time they're evaluated.
Not quite. The empty tuple is cached:
>>> a = ()
>>> b = ()
>>> a is b
True
Cheers,
Brian
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Jonathan Bowlas wrote:
> Ahh thanks, I'll give that a try.
>
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 16 October 2006 14:00
> To: python-list@python.org
> Subject: Re: Convert StringIO to string
>
> Jonathan Bowlas
John Bokma wrote:
>> Why cgi.escape should NOT be changed:
>> o it is current used in lots of code and changing it will almost
>>certainly break some of it, test suites at minimum e.g.
>>assert my_template_system("{foo}", foo='"') == '"'
>
> You must be kidding.
Nope. How do you write you
Jon Ribbens wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Brian Quinlan wrote:
>> Well, there are dozens (hundreds?) of templating systems for Python.
>
> I know, I wrote one of them ;-)
>
>> t = Template("test.html")
>> t['foo'] = 'Bri
u how you do it. Some of our web
applications contain 100s of script generated pages. Testing each one by
hand after making a change would be completely impossible. So we use
HTTP scripting for testing purposes i.e. send this request, grab the
results, verify that the test in the element with id
A summary of this pointless argument:
Why cgi.escape should be changed to escape double quote (and maybe
single quote) characters by default:
o escaping should be very aggressive by default to avoid subtle bugs
o over-escaping is not likely to harm most program significantly
o people who do no
Jon Ribbens wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Brian Quinlan wrote:
>> A summary of this pointless argument:
>
> Your summary seems pretty reasonable, but please note that later on,
> the thread was not about cgi.escape escaping (or not) quote
> characters (a
Paul Rubin wrote:
> Brian Quinlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> o cgi.escape is not meant for serious web application development,
>
> What is it meant for then? Why should the library ever implement
> anything in a half-assed way unsuitable for serious application
Jon Ribbens wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Fredrik Lundh wrote:
>>> It's up to me to decide whether or not an argument is good enough to
>>> convince me, thank you very much.
>> not if you expect anyone to take anything you say seriously.
>
> Now you're just being ridiculous. In this thr
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> How do I catch any reference to an instance of a class, i.e., I want to
> run some code as soon as an instance of a class is used in any way.
> (and I don't want to define all of __add__, __ge__ etc etc etc etc etc)
What do you mean by "used in any way"? Which of these a
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello,
> I have an idea for a project which involves an editor that supports
> syntax highlighting. This would be for any language, particularly php,
> html, css, etc. I would like to write this program using python. It
> would only make sense to base this upon existin
Jive Dadson wrote:
> I also found a reference to something called PIL. Maybe that's the
> ticket. If so, where can I find it (with documentation)? Thanks.
The will likely do what you want. And you can find it the same way that
you would find anything online i.e. with google. But here is the l
ynote speakers
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=
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vents
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Bruno Desthuilliers submitted this really cool rant/essay/something from
Tim Lesher that I hadn't seen before. I think that the original source is:
http://apipes.blogspot.com/2005/01/choose-python.html
Choose Python. Choose readability. Choose the
simple over the complex and the complex over the
The Vancouver Python Workshop organizers are having problems coming up
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I have a misinformed theory that I'd like to share with the list.
I believe that profiler calibration no longer makes sense in Python 2.4
because C functions are tracked and they have a different call overhead
than Python functions (and calibration is done only using Python
functions). Here is
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or con
Robert Kern wrote:
> [numpy implementation snipped]
> Ed Schofield has an implementation of an algorithm by Marsaglia[1] which turns
> sampling into a fast table lookup. If your probabilities have limited
> precision
> (2**-30 or so rather than the full double precision 2**-52 or so), then this
This is less a Python question and more a optimization/probability
question. Imaging that you have a list of objects and there frequency in
a population e.g.
lst = [(a, 0.01), (b, 0.05), (c, 0.50), (d, 0.30), (e, 0.04), (f, 0.10)]
and you want to drawn n items from that list (duplicates allowed
A.M wrote:
> Is there any built-in Hash implementation in Python? I am looking for a
> container that I can access to it's items by name. Something like this:
>
> Print container["memeberName"]
d = {"memberName" : "some value"}
print d["memberName"]
> I am asking this because I learned that DB-
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Edward Elliott wrote:
> Tab is not 4 spaces. Tab is 1 level of indentation. The confusion that
> tabs equals some fixed width, or can/should be set to some fixed width, is
> the entire problem hampering their use. It implies that conversion between
> tabs and spaces is straightforward when it is
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In addition
Recently, I became responsible for maintaining some Python code, which
was organized as follows:
user/pylib
ui
...
project2/pylib
ui
...
project3/pylib
ui
...
python-packages/user => /user/pylib
project2 => /project2/pylib
Jos Vos wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 03:30:04AM -0500, Nick Craig-Wood wrote:
>
>> UTSL ;-)
>>
>> Look at /usr/lib/python2.4/SimpleXMLRPCServer.py (adjust as per your
>> distro) and in particular the definition of the CGIXMLRPCRequestHandler
>> class.
>
> I did this before posting my questio
Jos Vos wrote:
> The problem is that I do not see how to let an SimpleXMLRPCServer
> instance *not* bind to a port or what other class I can use to just
> build a XML-RPC request handler reading/writing from stdin/stdout,
> i.s.o. carrying all the server class stuff with it.
I think that the prob
has wrote:
> Anyone know where I can find source artwork, preferably vector-based,
> for python.org's new 'ying-yang' snake icon? I think it's hiding.
> Thanks.
>
I don't know how office it is, but you can get the artwork here:
http://tinyurl.com/n4rge
Cheers,
Brian
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Jose Carlos Balderas Alberico wrote:
> I'm setting up a server accepting XML-RPC calls using the
> SimpleXMLRPCServer class. Basically, what I have to do is send a
> zip-compressed file to the server, have the server unzip it and process
> it, after processing it the server is supposed to zip th
John Salerno wrote:
> I'm working on another exercise now about generating random numbers for
> the lottery. What I want to do is write a function that picks 5 random
> numbers from 1-53 and returns them. Here's what I have so far:
>
> numbers = range(1, 54)
>
> def genNumbers():
> for x i
The new Python logo is available in high-resolution format here:
http://tinyurl.com/n4rge
Cheers,
Brian
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1. Is there on option to get cx_Oracle to return string data as unicode
rather than strings objects? XML-RPC aside, dealing with unicode objects
might be better than dealing with encoded strings.
2. You might want to transmit integers as strings rather than use the
XML-RPC integer type (which i
Is the new Python logo (i.e. http://python.org/images/python-logo.gif)
available someone in a high-resolution format?
That would be nice to integrate into websites, T-shirts, etc.
Cheers,
Brian
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Paul Rubin wrote:
> Brian Quinlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>>Without a clear idea of the nature of the proposal, it is impossible
>>to assess it's costs and benefits. So could a proponent of optional
>>declarations please provide a more clear proposal?
Paul Rubin wrote:
>> Right now, the compiler DOES NOT examine the contents of the other
>> modules. All it does is generate an IMPORT_NAME instruction which is
>> evaluation during runtime.
>
>
>
> In that case the other module gets compiled when the IMPORT_NAME
> instruction is executed.
Paul Rubin wrote:
> Brian Quinlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>>OK. The Python compiler would check that the name is declared but it
>>would not check that it is defined before use? So this would be
>>acceptable:
>>
>>def foo():
>> local x
Paul Rubin wrote:
> You'd have to declare any variable global, or declare it local, or it
> could be a function name (defined with def) or a function arg (in the
> function scope), or maybe you could also declare things like loop
> indices. If it wasn't one of the above, the compiler would flag it
Paul Rubin wrote:
>>Which is evaluated at runtime, does not require that the actual global
>>variable be pre-existing, and does not create the global variable if
>>not actually assigned. I think that is pretty different than your
>>proposal semantics.
>
>
> Different how?
Aren't you looking for
Paul Rubin wrote:
> Brian Quinlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>>Have those of you who think that the lack of required declarations in
>>Python is a huge weakness given any thought to the impact that adding
>>them would have on the rest of the language? I can
Have those of you who think that the lack of required declarations in
Python is a huge weakness given any thought to the impact that adding
them would have on the rest of the language? I can't imagine how any
language with required declarations could even remotely resemble Python.
And if you wa
Mark Dufour wrote:
> You're right, I don't feel safe about that. It's a bad example. I just
> prefer error codes, because the code usually becomes cleaner (at least
> to me). I would really like it if I could do something like this:
>
> f = file(name)
> if not f:
> print 'error opening file
Mark Dufour wrote:
> The latter is certainly my goal. I just haven't looked into supporting
> exceptions yet, because I personally never use them. I feel they
> should only occur in very bad situations, or they become goto-like
> constructs that intuitively feel very ugly. In the 5500 lines of the
Sergio Rua wrote:
> Server = SimpleXMLRPCServer (('127.0.0.1',8080))
>
> Server.register_instance(MyClass1())
> Server.register_instance(MyClass2())
> Server.register_instance(MyClass3())
>
> What is seems to happen is that only the last class I register it is the
> only one being exported. How c
Michael Goettsche wrote:
> What would be a good, but still easy way to write such a server?
You could use SimpleXMLRPCServer. A client call sequence could like this:
>>> s = xmlrpclib.Server('http://...')
>>> token = s.join_game() # blocks until another player joins
>>> s.send_board(
... ['.
N.Davis wrote:
> Functions existing in a module? Surely if "everything is an object"
> (OK thats Java-talk but supposedly Python will eventually follow this
> too)
There is a difference between everything being an object and everything
being an instance of a class. In Python, every runtime ent
Tomi Kyöstilä wrote:
> Any idea when the next competition is coming? (it hasn't been quite
> weekly as you hoped, eh? ;)
Uh no. It turns out that I have less time than I thought, though a big
chunk of it should be freed-up after this weekend. I do have an idea... :-)
Cheers,
Brian
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Brian Quinlan wrote:
> Tomi Kyöstilä wrote:
>
>Why don't I see my solution (__author__ = "dOb") in the results? I'm
>sure that you got it as you replied to my mail.
Your solution is now included. See:
http://www.sweetapp.com/pycontest/contest1/results.html
G
Tomi Kyöstilä wrote:
> Why don't I see my solution (__author__ = "dOb") in the results? I'm
> sure that you got it as you replied to my mail.
Ahhh...sorry. I have your solution and I timed it but I don't have the
results here so I can't add it to the website. I'll do it tomorrow.
> Where do the
Here are the results for the first problem in the Python Programming
Contest.
I haven't been able to find as much time as I excepted, so my analysis
is not very in depth.
You can find the results here:
http://www.sweetapp.com/pycontest/contest1/results.html
And the problem definition here:
htt
This is just a reminder that the deadline for my little programming
competition is Monday.
Original E-mail
---
I've decided that it would be be fun to host a weekly Python programming
contest. The focus will be on algorithms that require a bit of thought
to design but not much code to
Raymond Hettinger wrote:
> I'm curious about the stability of your timing setup. If you run your
> own version of fly.py several times with the same starting seed, how
> much variation do you see between runs?
There is very little variation (about 0.1%) but my solution is over an
order of magnit
ThanhNam Nguyen wrote:
>>>1st day: A --> B 100 bucks
>>>2nd day: A --> B 60 bucks
>>>3rd day: A --> B 40 bucks
>>>What would the solution be? And for how much in total?
>>>
>>
>>There are two correct solutions:
>>
>>["A", "B"] # spend one night in A, then fly to B on day two (cost 80)
>>["A", "A",
ThanhNam Nguyen wrote:
> Since my NNTP server doesnt allow posting, I'll ask you directly
> instead.
>
> Must I start from the first day?
No.
> For example:
>
> 1st day: A --> B 100 bucks
> 2nd day: A --> B 60 bucks
> 3rd day: A --> B 40 bucks
>
> What would the solution be? And for how much i
John Hazen wrote:
> I have one question about the problem. Is the cost we are to minimize
> the cost of arriving in the target city at all, or the cost of arriving
> at the target city at the end of the final day of the schedule?
Minimize the arrival cost. The arrival day is not relevant.
> (If
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Brian> This contest is for people who like thinking about algorithms.
>
> Surely you must have missed the smiley...
No, I saw it but it just confused me as I have no sense of humor.
Cheers,
Brian
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Bill Mill wrote:
> On 7/15/05, Brian Quinlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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>>>Brian> I've decided that it would be be fun to host a weekly Python
>>>Brian> programming contest. The focus will be on algo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Brian> I've decided that it would be be fun to host a weekly Python
> Brian> programming contest. The focus will be on algorithms that require
> Brian> a bit of thought to design but not much code to implement.
>
> For some of us that's what we do day-in, day
James wrote:
> I am not sure if it is a good idea to use a LiveCD for OS when you are
> testing for speed. CD access speeds fluctuate and may even impact
> performance even if you start measuring after the module loading is
> complete.
It didn't seem to matter in my testing. Module loading is done
I've decided that it would be be fun to host a weekly Python programming
contest. The focus will be on algorithms that require a bit of thought
to design but not much code to implement.
I'm doing to judge the solutions based on execution speed. It sucks but
that is the easiest important considerat
Bengt Richter wrote:
> If you make your console 96 wide and set the font to Lucida Console Bold
> 24point,
> it will probably expand to near full screen on 1024x768. You can set the
> scroll buffer
> to a couple hundred lines and adjust console widow height to suit. Use the
> properties
> from t
Ville Vainio wrote:
> Hmm, do you consider the fonts in a console window unreadable?
In fullscreen mode, yes (you get no choice of font size in Windows XP).
In Windowed mode you still only get a limited font selection (only two
fonts and only a few type sizes [most of which are small]).
> I've
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