Re: python only prints integers

In article , Ian wrote: > >In Python 3, the '/' operator always performs true division. How can I get integer division? -- -Ed Falk, f...@despams.r.us.com http://thespamdiaries.blogspot.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: That interesting notation used to describe how long a loop will take.

In article , Roy Smith wrote: >In article , > Tobiah wrote: > >Google for "Big-O notation". Depending on your level of interest, >expect to spend anywhere from an hour to the next four years reading >what pops out :-) Yeah, that's my problem with Wikipedia too. Plus, they like to just roll

Re: urgent requirement at Hyderabad

In article , Stefan Behnel wrote: >In case anyone wondered: Hyderabad is likely referring to some place in Asia: It's one of the high-tech cities in India. A lot of out-sourcing winds up there. -- -Ed Falk, f...@despams.r.us.com http://thespamdiaries.blogspot.com/ -- http://m

Re: why is this group being spammed?

In article , Alf P. Steinbach /Usenet wrote: > >Consider, there would be almost no spam if spamming didn't pay. Or if ISPs refused to tolerate it from their customers. -- -Ed Falk, f...@despams.r.us.com http://thespamdiaries.blogspot.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listi

Re: why is this group being spammed?

In article <334170d5-a336-4506-bda1-279b40908...@k1g2000prl.googlegroups.com>, be.krul wrote: >why is this group being spammed? They're *all* being spammed. Why? Because they can, and because Google doesn't care. -- -Ed Falk, f...@despams.r.us.com http://thespamdiaries.blogspo

Re: I strongly dislike Python 3

In article , Stephen Hansen wrote: >> >> Uhmm, just add the parenthesis to your old scripts. You can >> do that without breaking on 2.x. > >Only sort of. But in Python 2.6+, you only need to "from __future__ >import print_function" to make code work in both 2.x and 3.x (at least >insofar as the

Re: I strongly dislike Python 3

In article , Stephen Hansen wrote: > >Any other use, I basically operate on a file object. I use file objects all the time. I use print with them. -- -Ed Falk, f...@despams.r.us.com http://thespamdiaries.blogspot.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: I strongly dislike Python 3

In article , Stephen Hansen wrote: > >No one said otherwise, or that print was useless and never used in such >contexts. I was responding to the question "Also, do you use print *that* much? Really?" The implication being that in the majority of useful python programs, you don't really need to

Re: I strongly dislike Python 3

In article , Grant Edwards wrote: > >Maybe it's just me, but I find both debugging and small scripts to be >very useful. Ditto. I've also written a number of large scripts, and I *always* use print in them. -- -Ed Falk, f...@despams.r.us.com http://thespamdiaries.blogspot.com/

Re: I strongly dislike Python 3

In article , Thomas Jollans wrote: >There is no reason for print not being a function. Also, do you use >print *that* much? Really? I use it all the time. Who doesn't? What do you use instead? -- -Ed Falk, f...@despams.r.us.com http://thespamdiaries.blogspot.com/ -- http://

Re: INCONTROVERTIBLE PROOF of the Incompetence of FBI

In article <25a8c044-c361-4851-bbb4-58c195733...@g19g2000yqc.googlegroups.com>, nanothermite911fbibustards wrote: >This is all due to DISINFORMATION - FBI bustards are the cause of it. Dude, seriously. Get your dosage adjusted. And find a different newsgroup. -- -Ed Falk, f...@despams

Re: DOS Follies (Was: Docstrings...)

In article , D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote: >On Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:44:08 +0100 >mk wrote: >> It reminds me of why Windows uses backslashes for path separation >> instead of slashes: what I've *heard*, and do not know if it's true, >> it's because Gates fancied using / for options switch instead of -,

Re: When will Python go mainstream like Java?

You mean it's not? -- -Ed Falk, f...@despams.r.us.com http://thespamdiaries.blogspot.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: myths about python 3

In article , Grant Edwards wrote: > >That said, I don't expect to start using Python 3 until library >availability or my Linux distro forces me to. If python 3 is much more efficient than python 2, or it has features I really need for some application I'll write in the future, I might be tempted

Re: myths about python 3

In article , Daniel Fetchinson wrote: >Hi folks, > >1. Print statement/function creates incompatibility between 2.x and 3.x! > >Certainly false or misleading, if one uses 2.6 and 3.x the >incompatibility is not there. Print as a function works in 2.6: Yes, but does print as a statement work? Yo

Re: When will Python 3 be fully deployed

In article , vsoler wrote: >I recently read that many libraries, including Numpy have not been >ported to Python 3. > >When do you think that Python 3 will be fully deployed? It will never be fully deployed. There will always be people out there who haven't felt it necessary to upgrade their sy

Re: Which is more pythonic?

In article , Filip GruszczyÅ ski wrote: > >for choice in self.__choices: > choicesBox.addItem(choice) This is the easiest to read. I'm guessing that this is not inner-loop stuff that needs to be optimized, so you should favor readability over performance. -- -Ed Falk, f...@despam

Re: parsing json data

There's a json parsing library in 2.6. (Sadly, 2.6 is not out for Ubuntu yet.) -- -Ed Falk, f...@despams.r.us.com http://thespamdiaries.blogspot.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python Programming Challenges for beginners?

In article <09ea817f-57a9-44a6-b815-299ae3ce7...@x5g2000prf.googlegroups.com>, alex23 wrote: >On Nov 27, 1:24 pm, astral orange <457r0...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I would like to test out what I know so far by solving programming >> challenges. > >Project Euler can be a lot of fun: http://projecteule

Re: Code for finding the 1000th prime

In article , mrholtsr wrote: >I am absolutely new to python and barely past beginner in programming. >Also I am not a mathematician. Can some one give me pointers for >finding the 1000th. prime for a course I am taking over the internet >on Introduction to Computer Science and Programming. Thanks

Re: Language mavens: Is there a programming with "if then else ENDIF" syntax?

In article , Steve Ferg wrote: >I've often thought that a language with this kind of block-free syntax >would be nice and intuitive: > >if then >do stuff >elif then >do stuff >else >do stuff >endif > >Note that you do not need block delimiters. "then", "

Re: python simply not scaleable enough for google?

In article , Robert Brown wrote: > >It's hard to refute your assertion. You're claiming that some future >hypothetical Python implementation will have excellent performance via a JIT. >On top of that you say that you're willing to change the definition of the >Python language, say by adding type

Re: python simply not scaleable enough for google?

In article , Terry Reedy wrote: > >I can imagine a day when code compiled from Python is routinely >time-competitive with hand-written C. I can't. Too much about the language is dynamic. The untyped variables alone are a killer. int a,b,c; ... a = b + c; In C, this c

Re: transpose array

In article , yoshco wrote: >hello everyone >i have 3 arrays >xVec=[a1,a2,a3,a4,a5] >yVec=[b1.b2.b3.b4.b5] >zVec=[c1,c2,c3,c4,c5] > >and i want to output them to a ascii file like so > >a1,b1,c1 >a2,b2,c2 >a3,b3,c3 >... Elegant or obfuscated, you be the judge: vv = [xVec, yVec, zVec] for i

Re: How to set up web service by python?

In article <7kh22qf38i28...@mid.uni-berlin.de>, Diez B. Roggisch wrote: > >As you don't show us the code, I can only guess - but experience tells >me that you try & bind your service to a priviledged (<=1024) port, >which *nix only allows with root-privileges. Concur. You need root privileges

Re: very rare python expression

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul Rubin wrote: >"ðÏ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I saw a strange python code in pygame project. What does "while >> not(x&528or x in l):" mean? Below code works in python2.5, so "x&528" >> is not HTML strings. > >It parses as "x & 52

Re: Does python hate cathy?

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Patrick Mullen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Then again, I can count the number of times I have ever needed __del__ >with no fingers (never used it!). Still, quite interesting to >explore. I used it once, for an object that had a doubly-linked list. The __del__() me

Re: Does python hate cathy?

Interestingly, if you change swaroop = Person('Swaroop', 'M') swaroop.sayHi() swaroop.howMany() kalam = Person('Abdul Kalam', 'M') kalam.sayHi() kalam.howMany() cathy = Person('Catherine', 'F') cathy.sayHi() cathy.howMany() swaroop.sayHi() swaroop.howMany() to def main()

Answer: Is there a way to "link" a python program from several files?

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, George Sakkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >What's so complicated about "python setup.py install" ? Even that is >not strictly necessary for pure python packages; a user may just >unpack the archive, cd to the extracted directory and execute the >appropriate .py fil

Re: Is there a way to "link" a python program from several files?

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, BlueBird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I wrote a small wiki page to sum-up my findings about such typical >problem: > >http://www.freehackers.org/Packaging_a_python_program > Excellent references, but maybe a bit of overkill. Everybody in my target audience has py

Is there a way to "link" a python program from several files?

IOW, is there a "linker" for python? I've written a program comprised of about five .py files. I'd like to find a way to combine them into a single executable. Obviously, I could hand-edit them into a single .py file, but I'm looking for a way to keep them as seperate files for development but d