Ian Clark wrote:
> Stef Mientki wrote:
>> hello,
>>
>> I discovered that boolean evaluation in Python is done "fast"
>> (as soon as the condition is ok, the rest of the expression is ignored).
>>
>> Is this standard behavior or is there a compiler switch to turn it
>> on/off ?
>
> It's called sho
ahlongxp wrote:
> On Jul 8, 9:54 pm, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> That's a pretty pejorative subject line for someone who's been
>> programming Python [guessing by the date of your first post] for about a
>> month.
>>
> I have to admit it that I'm quite a newbie programmer.
>> Perhap
ahlongxp wrote:
>> Post the code.
> ok.
> here is the code:
>
> # Echo server program
> import socket
>
> HOST = '' # Symbolic name meaning the local host
> PORT = 50007 # Arbitrary non-privileged port
> s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
> s.setsoc
John Nagle wrote:
> Evan Klitzke wrote:
>> On 7/2/07, Cathy Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> Is python a compiler language or interpreted language. If it is
>>> interpreter
>>> , then why do we have to compile it?
>>
> Iron Python compiles to Microsoft's byte code as used by their
> ".NE
Why might one choose to use ActivePython instead of using the free CPython?
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rtk wrote:
>
> I did look briefly at Python 1.5.2, since it is simpler, but I'm
> taking the trouble I've had as an excuse to learn a new language. So
> far, I'm liking Lua, save the big pet peeve of starting indices at 1
> and not 0 as all sane people do.
Hmm, that in and of itself sounds like
dmitrey wrote:
> Thanks all, I have solved the problem.
Why do people do this without posting what the actual solution is
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Alex Martelli wrote:
> Martin Durkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>...
> print "\n".join("spam"[::-1])
>...
OK, maybe I'm missing the point here as I'm new to Python. The first
one seems clearer to me. What am I missing?
>>> I think all you are missing is familarity wit
Neil Cerutti wrote:
> The underlying problem, of course, is the archaic flat-file
> format with fixed-width data fields. Even the Department of
> Education has moved on to XML for most of it's data files, which
> are much simpler for me to parse.
XML easier to parse than fixed position file. Wow!
Tim Roberts wrote:
> Frank Swarbrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Then you'd really love COBOL!
>>
>> :-)
>>
>> Frank
>> COBOL programmer for 10+ years
>
> Hey, did you hear about the object-oriented version of COBOL? They call it
>
Roy Smith wrote:
> I really like lisp's convention of using dashes instead of underscores,
> i.e. ip-address and snmp-manager. I think the only reason most languages
> don't use that is the parsing ambiguity, but if you required white space
> around all operators, then "ip-address" would unambi
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