On Thursday, September 18, 2014 9:38:00 AM UTC-7, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 2:19 AM, wrote:
> > So: there are way too many ways to open a simple file to read or write a
> > bit of text (or binary):
> > open()
>
> Personally, I'd just use this, all the way through - and not
On Wednesday, September 17, 2014 11:22:42 PM UTC-7, wxjm...@gmail.com wrote:
> >>> 1e300*1e300
>
> inf
>
> >>> exp(1e300)
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>
> File "", line 1, in
>
> OverflowError: math range error
FWIW, numpy is a bit more consistent:
In [89]: numpy.exp(1e300)
Out[
Folks,
I'm in the position of teaching Python to beginners (beginners to Python,
anyway).
I'm teaching Python2 -- because that is still what most of the code "in the
wild" is in. I do think I"ll transition to Python 3 fairly soon, as it's not
too hard for folks to back-port their knowledge, bu
On Tuesday, May 20, 2014 5:51:27 AM UTC-7, Frank Millman wrote:
> I used it to install IPython, with the following results.
>
> First I ran 'pip install ipython', which worked.
>
> Then I read the IPython docs, which gave the following command to install
>
> Notebook -
>
> 'pip install ip
On Friday, August 16, 2013 11:51:49 AM UTC-7, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> > The trick here is that numpy really is the "right" way to do this stuff.
> Numpy does not have a monopoly on the correct algorithms for statistics
> functions,
indeed not -- in fact, a number of them are quite lame, either
On Friday, August 16, 2013 10:15:52 AM UTC-7, Oscar Benjamin wrote:
> On 16 August 2013 17:31, wrote:
> Although it doesn't mention this in the PEP, a significant point that
>
> is worth bearing in mind is that numpy is only for CPython, not PyPy,
>
> IronPython, Jython etc. See here for a rece
> > I am seeking comments on PEP 450, Adding a statistics module to Python's
The trick here is that numpy really is the "right" way to do this stuff.
I like to say:
"crunching numbers in python without numpy is like doing text processing
without using the string object"
What this is really an
