I am interested in helping Python, however my knowledge of Abstract
Syntax Trees is lacking. Where should I turn to educate myself? Any
books or websites would be appreciated.
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[Tim Peters]
> The methods on mutable sequence types are documented in the Library
> manual's section on mutable sequence types:
>
>http://docs.python.org/lib/typesseq-mutable.html
>
And like -many- python programmers, when he thinks "List" he doesn't
immediately think "Mutable Sequence Type.
> I don't care much for "parallel tracks" myself, because I want to hear
> basically everything. But we had more proposals of higher quality
> this year than ever before, so it came down to scheduling more talks
> in parallel than ever before too, or rejecting perfectly good
> proposals.
Will t
On 19 Jan 2005 15:24:10 -0800, Carl Banks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The gist of "Flat is better than nested" is "be as nested as you have
> to be, no more," because being too nested is just a mess.
Which I agree with, and which makes sense. However your "gist" is a
different meaning. It's not t
While I agree that the Zen of Python is an amazingly concise list of
truisms, I do not see any meaning in:
Flat is better than nested.
I strive for balance between flat and nested. Does anyone have a good
example of where this is applied? (specifically to python, or in
general)
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[ http://www.python.org/moin/PythonSpeed ]
"Starting with Py2.3, the interpreter optimizes 'while 1' to just a
single jump. In contrast "while True" takes several more steps. While
the latter is preferred for clarity, time-critical code should use the
first form."
Out of pure curiousity,
Why wasn'
