1a) Module/class collision. I like to use the primary class in a file
as the name of the file. However this can lead to namespace collisions
between the module name and the class name. Also it means that I'm
going to be stuck with the odious and wasteful syntax foo.foo
everywhere, or forced to
On Mar 4, 2007, at 4:38 AM, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote:
> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Nicholas
> Parsons wrote:
>
>> Just from my computer science background when I see pop(), I think
>> of a
>> stack data structure.
>
> Then question your p
Hi Jordan,
That is true what you say about pop() behavior with stack-like
objects. But the definition of pop() for a stack-like structure is
stronger than that. A stack is a LIFO data structure. Therefore the
pop() operation is defined to not only mutate the receiver and return
the item
some ambiguity with the dangling if
statement. So I guess you can't win for trying :).
Just call me a purist and think of me as someone who likes
consistency. Python is here to stay and no language is perfect...
--Nick
On Mar 3, 2007, at 7:32 PM, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
> [Nichola
On Mar 3, 2007, at 3:49 PM, Paul Rubin wrote:
> Nicholas Parsons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> I was just playing around in IDLE at the interactive prompt and typed
>> in dir({}) for the fun of it. I was quite surprised to see a pop
>> method defined there. I mean
Howdy Folks,
I was just playing around in IDLE at the interactive prompt and typed
in dir({}) for the fun of it. I was quite surprised to see a pop
method defined there. I mean is that a misnomer or what? From the
literature, pop is supposed to be an operation defined for a stack
data s
Greetings,
This is just a test to see if I can post to this mailing list. Can
someone from the list please respond to this email so I know it worked?
Thanks in advance!
--Nick
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Hi Claire,
That is the beauty of using Python. You have a choice of using
classes and traditional OOP techniques or sticking to top level
functions. For short, small scripts it would probably be overkill to
use classes. Yet the programmer still has classes in his tool chest
if he/she is
