On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 19:46:32 +0200, "Diez B. Roggisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>As a rule of thumb, don't return objects you didn't create inside a
>function from scratch.
I wish I'd had that advice when I started learning python. It would have
sav
])
>[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
Ah. I had no luck with sum, but I hadn't realised it needed the "[]" term. I
must read about it again.
>It doesn't get any easier than that.
Not only that, but it's exactly what I was after - and fastest, too,
although speed isn't really an issue. Thank you.
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in this situation:
a = [1,2,3]
def foo(x):
do_something_with_x
return x
...
Then when I call foo(a), a gets changed. It just isn't the effect I expect
from changing a local.
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On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 16:57:14 +0200, "Diez B. Roggisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch schrieb:
>> On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 16:41:19 +0200, Diez B. Roggisch wrote:
>>
>>> DaveM schrieb:
>>>> Getting back to the
d fastest by a trivial amount, I can't
remember which). Along the way, I must have tried/used half a dozen methods,
...which brings me back my initial PERL comment. There's more than one way
to do it in Python, too.
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On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 03:18:01 +0200, Michiel Overtoom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>Many major text/word processing programs (Emacs, vi, MS-Word) are also
>written in C.
I thought Emacs was written in Lisp.
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On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:32:30 -0400, Terry Reedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>> *x, = [3]
> >>> x
>[3]
What does *x signify?
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ly if we replace 'philosopher' by 'man'
>and 'attractive lady' by 'woman'.
The version I prefer has the woman asking, "What sort of woman do you take
me for?"
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On Sat, 08 Sep 2007 14:04:55 -0700, John Zenger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> In an ideal world, my IDE would do this with a red wavy line.
I can't help with your problem, but this is the first thing I turn off in
Word. It drives me _mad_.
Sorry - just had to share that.
and _bot_ the same way, too?
No - but I would pronounce "lever" and "fever" the same way, if that helps.
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nalytics? SEO? Digital art?
I'm a hobbyist. No, that's not right - I run a course and I learnt the
language writing a program to allocate tutors and students to tutorial
groups over a three day course I run. I don't know what that makes me - and,
no, I don't want any helpful answers!
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sent?
Wow. Maybe I have thicker skin than you, or perhaps you're a professional
whose self-worth has been damaged, but I would have been grateful for that
critique, not angry. To each his own, I suppose.
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ematically, any finite integer is able to be
>counted, so "countless" is equivalent to "infinite in number".
While we're being pedantic, there are many more ways to be "too many to
count" than infinity. Counting is a physical process that depends as much on
the
On Fri, 2 Jun 2006 18:41:53 -0400, RJ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm trying to teach myself Python (probably running into the old dog
>new tricks issue) and I'm trying to start with the very basics to get a
>handle on them.
>
> I'm trying to write code to get the computer to flip a coin 100
On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 13:34:14 +0100, "Méta-MCI"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Après, vous pourrez aussi fréquenter le newsgroup :
>fr.comp.lang.python
>qui a l'avantage d'être en français.
But perhaps he's a Flemish speaker - are you trying to start a
ythonw.exe still running and terminating the
process allows IDLE to start normally. Easier than rebooting. PythonWin
doesn't suffer this problem, btw.
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Thanks very much for the help to all who replied.
I'd completely missed the difference between:
class Foo:
i = 12345
a = Foo()
b = Foo()
a.i = 678
and Foo.i = 678
Yeah, I know...
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. What's the difference
between the following?:
class Foo:
i = 12345
...
class Foo:
self.i = 12345
...
class Foo:
def __init__(self):
self.i = 12345
...
class Foo:
def __init(self):
i = 12345
...
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etty much match the
qualification numbers. Sure, which HO post you get can give your career a
head start, but that advantage is evanescent if you can't cut the mustard.
Fouling your career by upsetting the wrong people is, OTOH, easy to do.
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m sure I'll work out an effective algorithm eventually, but I suspect I'm
re-inventing the wheel, so any hints on the best way to tackle this would be
appreciated!
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nd "his or her" is "PC" (and therefore a great sin ;-) ).
Working in a hospital, it always jars when a patient of unknown sex is
referred to as "It". I always use they/them/their, so it's not unique to
Texas.
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On Fri, 07 Oct 2005 00:33:43 -, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On 2005-10-06, DaveM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>>Frankly, I can't watch Shakespeare or movies like "the full
>>>monty" or "trainspotting" because I can&#
sh to me for the most part.
Not just you. It always amuses me in trips to the US that British voices
(outside of the movies) are often subtitled, while first-generation
Americans whose English is. um, limited, are not.
Try pretending the British accents are from naturalised US citizen
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