Re: Dynamically reference member of array

2014-03-29 Thread R. Michael Weylandt
On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 7:43 AM, Ben Collier wrote: > Hi all, > > I know that I can dynamically reference a variable with locals()["i"], for > instance, but I'd like to know how to do this with a variable in an object. > > If I have an object called "device", with variables called attr1, attr2 ..

Re: Algorithm that makes maximum compression of completly diffused data.

2013-11-07 Thread R. Michael Weylandt
On Nov 7, 2013, at 22:24, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 1:43 PM, R. Michael Weylandt > wrote: >> Chris's point is more subtle: the typical computer will store the number >> 65536 in a single byte, but it will also store 4 and 8 in one byte. > &g

Re: Algorithm that makes maximum compression of completly diffused data.

2013-11-07 Thread R. Michael Weylandt
On Nov 7, 2013, at 21:25, jonas.thornv...@gmail.com wrote: > Den fredagen den 8:e november 2013 kl. 03:17:36 UTC+1 skrev Chris Angelico: >> On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 1:05 PM, wrote: >> >>> I guess what matter is how fast an algorithm can encode and decode a big >>> number, at least if you want

Re: A certainl part of an if() structure never gets executed.

2013-06-16 Thread R. Michael Weylandt
On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 2:47 PM, Ferrous Cranus wrote: > On 16/6/2013 2:13 μμ, Jussi Piitulainen wrote: >> >> If, instead of the above, you have >> >> a = 6 >> b = a >> b = 5 >> >> you will find that b == 5 and a == 6. So b is not the same as a. Else >> one would have changed when the other change

Re: A certainl part of an if() structure never gets executed.

2013-06-16 Thread R. Michael Weylandt
On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 2:38 PM, Ferrous Cranus wrote: > On 16/6/2013 3:04 μμ, R. Michael Weylandt wrote: >>>> ## CODE SNIPPET## >>>> a = 552315251254 >>>> b = a >>>> c = 552315251254 >>>> >>>> a is b # True _on my machin

Re: A certainl part of an if() structure never gets executed.

2013-06-16 Thread R. Michael Weylandt
On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Ferrous Cranus wrote: I appreciate you've returned to your Ferrous Cranus persona for this interchange. It reminds me not to get hung up on concerns of futility... > On 16/6/2013 1:42 μμ, R. Michael Weylandt wrote: >>> >> &g

Re: A certainl part of an if() structure never gets executed.

2013-06-16 Thread R. Michael Weylandt
On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 10:59 AM, Nick the Gr33k wrote: > On 16/6/2013 12:22 μμ, Denis McMahon wrote: >> >> For example, in Python >> >> a = 6 >> b = a >> c = 6 >> >> a and b point to one memory location that contains the value 6 >> c points to a different memory location that contains the value 6

Re: A certainl part of an if() structure never gets executed.

2013-06-14 Thread R. Michael Weylandt
On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 9:24 AM, R. Michael Weylandt wrote: > On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 9:03 AM, Nick the Gr33k wrote:> >> >> No clue. since the expression in parenthesis returns 'abcd' how can 'k' >> contained within 'abcd' ? > > No it&

Re: A certainl part of an if() structure never gets executed.

2013-06-14 Thread R. Michael Weylandt
On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 9:03 AM, Nick the Gr33k wrote:> name="abcd" month="efgh" year="ijkl" > print(name or month or year) > abcd > > Can understand that, it takes the first string out of the 3 strings that has > a truthy value. > print("k" in (name and month and year)) >

Re: Changing filenames from Greeklish => Greek (subprocess complain)

2013-06-07 Thread R. Michael Weylandt
On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 9:10 AM, Νικόλαος Κούρας wrote: > On 7/6/2013 10:42 πμ, Michael Weylandt wrote: > >>> os.rename( filepath_bytes filepath.encode('utf-8') > >> Missing comma, which is, after all, just a matter of syntax so it can't >> matter, right? > > I doubted that os.rename arguments must

Re: using pandoc instead of rst to document python

2013-04-24 Thread R. Michael Weylandt
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 12:14 AM, Peng Yu wrote: > I currently use sphinx to generate the doc (in rst). How to figure it > to support pandoc's markdown? If I understand the desired workflow, it's just 1) write in markdown; 2) then run pandoc to convert to rst; 3) then run Sphinx to render html or

Re: using pandoc instead of rst to document python

2013-04-23 Thread R. Michael Weylandt
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 6:36 PM, Peng Yu wrote: > Hi, > > I'm wondering if it possible to use pandoc instead of rst to document > python. Is there a documentation system support this format of python > document? Pandoc is a converter while rst is a format so they're not directly comparable; pando

Re: "monty" < "python"

2013-03-20 Thread R. Michael Weylandt
It's lexigraphic (order by first letter, but if those are the same, compare the second, but if those are same compare the third, ... if one ends while the other continues, it's considered 'lower') on the character's ASCII (binary encoding values): http://www.asciitable.com/ Note that all the uppe

Re: Division matrix

2012-11-13 Thread R. Michael Weylandt
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 1:00 AM, Cleuson Alves wrote: > Hello, I need to solve an exercise follows, first calculate the inverse > matrix and then multiply the first matrix. I would just point out that in most numerical applications, you rarely need to calculate the intermediate of the matrix inv

Re: Invalid syntax

2012-11-07 Thread R. Michael Weylandt
On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 11:17 PM, Smaran Harihar wrote: > Hi guys, > > I am stuck in one of those non identifiable error location in the code. The > code keeps giving invalid syntax. This is my code. > > I am using the same code for another code and not sure why this is not > working. This is the t