Re: non-copy slices

2009-11-19 Thread Themis Bourdenas
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Ethan Furman wrote: > Please don't top post. :) > > So "shallow copy" == "new label created for existing object". > > So is your desired behavior to write back to the original list if your > sub-list is modified? In other words, you are creating a window onto an

Re: non-copy slices

2009-11-18 Thread Themis Bourdenas
Sth else that I noticed as I started using islice. The name is somewhat misleading. Having the slice part in the name I would expect it to imitate the functionality of normal slices. Random access, sub-slicing etc. However, it is only iteratable. Any particular reasons for that? My guess is that it

Re: method decorators and more on decorators

2008-07-29 Thread Themis Bourdenas
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Gabriel Genellina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > En Sun, 27 Jul 2008 15:26:39 -0300, Themistoklis Bourdenas < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > > On a related note, as the actual instance method of myclass is not foo > but > > decorate(foo), why are they called meth

Re: Module clarification

2008-07-28 Thread Themis Bourdenas
I would recommend dive into python. Its available free online (just google it) and it tries to teach you python, not programming which unfortunately many books try to do. It assumes that you already have some experience with C++ or Java and contradicts python syntax/semantics to those languages. Ve