Re: Finally had to plonk google gorups.

2008-04-16 Thread lbonafide
On Apr 16, 11:06 am, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not saying people shouldn't use Google Groups. I'm saying that > Google can "justify" providing customer "support" that lives somewhere > between zero and extremely crappy by not charging for the service. It's even worse than that

Re: Java or C++?

2008-04-15 Thread lbonafide
On Apr 15, 11:55 am, egbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is the role or position of C# in this context ? > If I remember well, some people have said that C# is an improved > C++ or Java. C# is more similar to Java than C++. Neither is very similar to C++, except in some cosmetic syntactic wa

Re: Java or C++?

2008-04-15 Thread lbonafide
On Apr 15, 3:07 am, Paul Anton Letnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > but C bogs you down with administrative stuff (try converting an int   > to a string; I found myself googling for an hour!). It took an hour to find sprintf()? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How to make python run faster

2008-04-14 Thread lbonafide
On Apr 14, 8:48 am, 一首诗 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But, it is still not as fast as 1. So if speed is the #1 design goal, use pure C. If not, develop in pure Python and, if the application is too slow, profile the code and look for bottlenecks that can be optimized. There's a good chance that

Re: Java or C++?

2008-04-14 Thread lbonafide
On Apr 14, 1:44 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, I was hoping to get some opinions on a subject. I've been > programming Python for almost two years now. Recently I learned Perl, > but frankly I'm not very comfortable with it. Now I want to move on > two either Java or C++, but I'm not sure wh

Re: Java or C++?

2008-04-14 Thread lbonafide
On Apr 14, 2:24 am, bdsatish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Apr 14, 12:21 pm, Bob Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > in 342367 20080414 074410 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >Hello, I was hoping to get some opinions on a subject. I've been > > >programming Python for almost two years now. Rec

Re: Looking for Advanced Python Tutorials

2008-04-04 Thread lbonafide
On Apr 4, 6:58 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I was wondering if anyone knew of some online (free if possible) > advanced tutorials, especially ones that provides tasks and ideas for > small projects. The issue for myself is I want to improve my python > programming level, and my ability to program

Re: Where can I find :

2008-04-02 Thread lbonafide
On Mar 30, 1:22 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > That's weird. I feel like I could go on about an introductory program > for days and days, la. > > I usually start (both times) with interpreted vs. compiled. It's a > layer of abstraction. But it's very weird; the layers can't tell > either of ea

Re: Where can I find :

2008-04-02 Thread lbonafide
On Mar 31, 11:07 am, Laurent Pointal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You may look at "Dive into Python", there is an online version, > translation in some languages other than english (if needed). It propose > a line by line explanation on many scripts targetting language and > libraries usage. > > h

Re: the scaling of pics in pygame

2008-04-01 Thread lbonafide
On Apr 1, 9:44 pm, Jimmy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, everyone > > I am using Pygame to write a small program. I tried to load a .jpg > picture into > the screen, however, the size of the pic doesn't fit into the window > properly. Can > anyone tell me how to scale the picture into the window?

Re: Is this a good time to start learning python?

2008-04-01 Thread lbonafide
On Apr 1, 2:42 pm, "Eduardo O. Padoan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 4:20 PM,  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >  You misunderstand.  C++ has a lot of "warts" to maintain backwards > >  compatibility with C.  The standards committee could eliminate these > >  warts to make the l

Re: Is this a good time to start learning python?

2008-04-01 Thread lbonafide
On Apr 1, 2:11 pm, "Eduardo O. Padoan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 3:57 PM,  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Apr 1, 12:47 pm, "Gabriel Genellina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >  wrote: > >  > En Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:57:55 -0300, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > >  > > On Mar 31,

Re: Is this a good time to start learning python?

2008-04-01 Thread lbonafide
On Apr 1, 12:47 pm, "Gabriel Genellina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > En Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:57:55 -0300, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > > On Mar 31, 1:36 pm, "Gabriel Genellina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > >> Don't be scared by the "backwards incompatible" tag - it's the way to   > >> get

Re: Is this a good time to start learning python?

2008-04-01 Thread lbonafide
On Mar 31, 1:36 pm, "Gabriel Genellina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Don't be scared by the "backwards incompatible" tag - it's the way to get   > rid of nasty things that could not be dropped otherwise. I would consider breaking production code to be "nasty" as well. -- http://mail.python.org/m

Re: Pycon disappointment

2008-03-16 Thread lbonafide
On Mar 16, 2:43 pm, Robert Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mar 16, 12:38 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Mar 16, 6:10 am, Bruce Eckel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I think a lot of people have been caught up in the idea that we need > > > to commercialize Python, and ride some kind

Re: Pycon disappointment

2008-03-16 Thread lbonafide
On Mar 16, 6:10 am, Bruce Eckel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think a lot of people have been caught up in the idea that we need > to commercialize Python, and ride some kind of wave of publicity the > way that Java and C# and Rails seem to have done. This coming from someone who caught the Java