Re: Interesting talk on Python vs. Ruby and how he would like Python to have just a bit more syntactic flexibility.

2010-02-23 Thread Timothy N. Tsvetkov
On Feb 16, 10:41 pm, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: > On Feb 16, 7:38 pm, Casey Hawthorne > wrote: > > > Interesting talk on Python vs. Ruby and how he would like Python to > > have just a bit more syntactic flexibility. > > >http://blog.extracheese.org/2010/02/python-vs-ruby-a-battle-to-the-de... > > --

Re: Python and Ruby

2010-02-03 Thread Timothy N. Tsvetkov
On Jan 28, 2:29 am, Jonathan Gardner wrote: > On Jan 27, 5:47 am, Simon Brunning wrote: > > > > > I think Python is a little cleaner, but I'm sure you'd find Ruby fans > > who'd argue the complete opposite. > > Are you sure about that? > > There's a lot of line noise in Ruby. How are you supposed

Re: What python can NOT do?

2009-08-29 Thread Timothy N. Tsvetkov
On Aug 29, 4:26 am, qwe rty wrote: > On Aug 29, 3:14 am, Tim Chase wrote: > > > > > > > >> what else can NOT be done in python? what are the limitations of the > > >> language? > > > > I understand there's a little trouble getting Python to prove > > > that P=NP  You'll also find that it only com

Re: speeding up reading files (possibly with cython)

2009-03-08 Thread Timothy N. Tsvetkov
> > If that's the problem, the solution is: get more memory. > Or maybe think about algorithm, which needs less memory... My experience tells me, that each time when you want to store a lot of data into dict (or other structure) to analyze it then, you can find a way not to store so much amount of