Xah Lee wrote:
>
> so recently i switched to a Windows version of python. Now, Windows
> version takes path using win backslash, instead of cygwin slash. This
> fucking broke my find/replace scripts that takes a dir level as input.
> Because i was counting slashes.
Slashes can work under windows
Xah Lee wrote:
> fun example.
>
> in-place algorithm for reversing a list in Perl, Python, Lisp
> http://xahlee.org/comp/in-place_algorithm.html
>
> plain text follows
>
>
> What's In-place Algorithm?
>
> Xah Lee, 2012-02-29
>
> This page tells you w
Xah Lee wrote:
> fun example.
>
> in-place algorithm for reversing a list in Perl, Python, Lisp
> http://xahlee.org/comp/in-place_algorithm.html
>
> plain text follows
>
>
> What's In-place Algorithm?
>
> Xah Lee, 2012-02-29
>
> This page tells you w
Petter Gustad wrote:
> Xah Lee writes:
>
> > it's funny, in all these supposedly modern high-level langs, they
> > don't provide even simple list manipulation functions such as union,
> > intersection, and the like. Not in perl, not in python, not in lisps.
>
> In Common Lisp you have:
>
> CL-
Xah Lee wrote:
> it's funny, in all these supposedly modern high-level langs, they
> don't provide even simple list manipulation functions such as union,
> intersection, and the like. Not in perl, not in python, not in lisps.
Ruby has them.
Intersection:
[2,3,5,8] & [0,2,4,6,8]
==>[2, 8]
U
Xah Lee wrote:
> here's a interesting toy list processing problem.
>
> I have a list of lists, where each sublist is labelled by
> a number. I need to collect together the contents of all sublists
> sharing
> the same label. So if I have the list
>
> ((0 a b) (1 c d) (2 e f) (3 g h) (1 i j) (2 k
Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:
> Xah Lee writes:
>
>
> > here's a interesting toy list processing problem.
> >
> > I have a list of lists, where each sublist is labelled by
> > a number. I need to collect together the contents of all sublists
> > sharing
> > the same label. So if I have the list
