On 28 Okt., 05:59, Kushal Kumaran
wrote:
> Using code someone else has already written would qualify as pythonic, IMO.
>
> http://pypi.python.org/pypi/vobject
That seems to do what I need, thank you. I seem to have been a bit
blind when I looked for existing packages. Of course, using vobject
"o
Hi all,
I have to parse a file containing (slightly erroneous) vCal data. The
format of vCal/iCal is that of a structured ASCII file, not unlike XML
in a way. A vCal block contains information on a line-by-line basis,
with the possibility of sub-blocks (for events).
BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:1.0
BE
And thus spake "Alf P. Steinbach"
Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:40:22 +0200:
>
> From a usability standpoint, the braces go with the lines to print out the
> stanza rather than the for statement or the code after, so the following is
> best:
>
> for(i = 99; i > 0; ++i)
> {
> printf("%d slabs
And thus spake MRAB
Tue, 30 Mar 2010 22:43:04 +0100:
> I think you mean that it's very _un-Pythonic_ (perhaps because it's very
> very Pythonesque)! :-)
Yes. Of course. What was I thinking. ;-)
Regards,
Robert
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And thus spake John Bokma
Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:19:19 -0600:
> And
>
> a == b and 'Yes' or 'No'
>
> isn't a Perl-ism?
I never said that this would be better. I don't even get the
point of what the advantage is supposed to be of inverting the
order of the return statement and the conditional ch
And thus spake Steve Holden
Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:56:04 -0400:
> >> Yes, Python has ternary operator-like syntax:
> >> return ('Yes' if a==b else 'No')
> >>
> >> Note that this requires a recent version of Python.
> >
> > Who let the dogs in? That's awful syntax.
>
> Yes, that's deliberately
