cm_gui wrote:
You guys are living in denial.
Python is SLOW, especially for web apps.
Instead of getting mad, why don't get together and come up with a
faster VM/interpreter?
The emperor doesn't like to be told he is not wearing any clothes?
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The one in denial is the one without any eviden
simonh write:
In my attempt to learn Python I'm writing a small (useless) program to
help me understand the various concepts. I'm going to add to this as I
learn to serve as a single place to see how something works,
hopefully. Here is the first approach:
name = input('Please enter your name:
James Stroud wrote:
Rasmus
Fogh wrote:
Current behaviour is both inconsistent and counterintuitive, as these
examples show.
x = float('NaN')
x == x
False
Perhaps this should raise an exception? I think the problem is not
with comparisons in general but with the fact that nan is type float:
Russ P. wrote:
Python already uses shorthand extensively. How about "def"? For people
who are so worried about self-explanatory symbols, what the heck does
that stand for? Default? Defeat? Defect? Defunct? Defer?
I think the difference here is that those other abbreviations are
mostly fa