Re: pygame.Rect question

2012-04-09 Thread Pekka Karjalainen
On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 3:29 AM, Dave Angel wrote: > I don't know about pygame, but almost everywhere in the standard > library, ranges are closed at the begin and open at the end.  For > example, if you have range(30, 50), there are 20 items, numbered 30 > through 49.  I expect the same will be tr

Re: merits of Lisp vs Python

2006-12-12 Thread Pekka Karjalainen
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul Rubin wrote: >Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> So there seems to be something macro-like for Haskell. > >I think that's some kind of proposed or experimental Haskell feature, >not in the current standard, but I'm not sure. I'm barely even

Re: alternate language

2006-12-11 Thread Pekka Karjalainen
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Pekka Karjalainen wrote: Sorry, I messed up the attribution when editing and decided not to post. Accidentally did post an empty message anyway. I was going to recommend Haskell for the original poster too, and I wanted to answer that I did indeed (st

Re: alternate language

2006-12-11 Thread Pekka Karjalainen
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Aahz wrote: >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>On 2006-12-11, Aahz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> Um... I think the original poster is saying that he already knows Python >>> and wants to learn another language. He par

Re: Remarkable results with psyco and sieve of Eratosthenes

2006-11-30 Thread Pekka Karjalainen
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve Bergman wrote: >BTW, can this code be made any more efficient? >def primes(): >primes=[3] >for x in xrange(5,1000,2): >maxfact = int(math.sqrt(x)) >flag=True >for y in primes: >if y > maxfact: >br

Re: help() on stdout.closed

2006-06-21 Thread Pekka Karjalainen
On 2006-06-21, Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > have you tried things like [...] I have now. I'm not sure what the results are supposed to tell me, but I am not going to press the issue. Suppose I had no idea what sys.stdout.closed was and wanted to find out. Where would I look it up?

help() on stdout.closed

2006-06-21 Thread Pekka Karjalainen
Python 2.4.1 (#1, May 16 2005, 15:19:29) [GCC 4.0.0 20050512 (Red Hat 4.0.0-5)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> from sys import stdout >>> help (stdout.closed) If I do this, it gives me help on the bool object. Also: >>> stdout.closed.__doc__

Tail recursion Re: list of polynomial functions

2006-06-20 Thread Pekka Karjalainen
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matteo wrote: >This last approach could, at least theoretically, create an arbitrarily >long list of polys, without overflowing any kind of stack. In practice, >python does not seem to perform tail recursion optimizations, and conks >out after makepolys(997) on my m

Re: Not defined

2005-10-01 Thread Pekka Karjalainen
I looked around a bit and found the answer. At least the change I recommend below worked for me. In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rob wrote: >When trying the basic tutorial for cgkit I always seem to get a not defined >error as follows. > >Pythonwin GUI > from cgkit import * This is "from cg

Re: Not defined

2005-10-01 Thread Pekka Karjalainen
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rob wrote: >Forgive me please if this is not the proper place for this ? I am trying to >keep an active brain :) Seems proper to me :) You can see what you've just imported by using the built-in dir() function. Here's an example from my PyWin window: >>> dir() [

Re: New Python chess module

2005-09-30 Thread Pekka Karjalainen
> Its still rough around the edges and not fully tested. I'll eventualy > release a more polished version and possibly put it on Sourceforge. In > the meantime I would be grateful for any feedback.. Somebody ought to comment this in more detail... I have one minor point. It looks like your test

Re: Graphics files & Python

2005-07-30 Thread Pekka Karjalainen
too. Thanks to both for helpful replies. -- Pekka Karjalainen - Oulu, Finland -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Graphics files & Python

2005-07-28 Thread Pekka Karjalainen
le slow, but it still runs fast enough for me at the moment. I have no intention of writing a major new fractal exploring software after all, so I'm not worried about execution time, I'm worried about my own programmer's time (which I want to save for other things). Any sugges

Re: Favorite non-python language trick?

2005-07-01 Thread Pekka Karjalainen
's plain annoying to go back, even if it's just a couple of letters that're lacking in my case. -- Pekka Karjalainen - Oulu, Finland -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Wxpython demo crashes

2005-06-08 Thread Pekka Karjalainen
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Greg Krohn wrote: > Do you have the unicode version of wxPython? > > http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wxpython/wxPython2.6-win32-unicode-2.6.1.0-py24.exe I think I do, because it shows the Unicode demo correctly, and I recall that I specifically chose that fro

Wxpython demo crashes

2005-06-07 Thread Pekka Karjalainen
I'm using WinXP (Finnish), Python 2.4.1 (#65, Mar 30 2005, 09:13:57) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 and wxPython 2.6.0.1. When I go to the Process and Events section in the wxDemo and run the Process demo, bad things can happen. It crashes. I think the crash is caused by characters outside t