Re: [perl-python] 20050118 keyed list

2005-01-18 Thread Jürgen Exner
Tassilo v. Parseval wrote: > Also sprach Jürgen Exner: > >> Xah Lee wrote: > >>> © %a = ('john',3, 'mary', 4, 'jane', 5, 'vicky',7); >>> © use Data::Dumper qw(Dumper); >>> © print Dumper \%a; >> >> Wow, my compliments. The very first time that using Data::Dumper >> actually may do something useful

Re: [perl-python] 20050118 keyed list

2005-01-18 Thread Reinhold Birkenfeld
Jürgen Exner wrote: >> © # see "perldoc perldata" for an unix-styled course. > > Excuse me? Do you mind explaining where exactly perldata is "Unix-styled"? Remember: Perl == Unix == Satan. Reinhold -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: [perl-python] 20050118 keyed list

2005-01-18 Thread Reinhold Birkenfeld
Jay Tilton wrote: >: # the syntax of keyed list in Perl is too complex >: # to be covered in a short message. JFTR: "keyed lists" are called dictionaries in Python. > > [1]Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > This guy's wish-wash is starting to be funny, after all! Reinhold -- http://mail.pyth

Re: [perl-python] 20050118 keyed list

2005-01-18 Thread Tassilo v. Parseval
Also sprach Jürgen Exner: > Xah Lee wrote: >> © %a = ('john',3, 'mary', 4, 'jane', 5, 'vicky',7); >> © use Data::Dumper qw(Dumper); >> © print Dumper \%a; > > Wow, my compliments. The very first time that using Data::Dumper actually > may do something useful (formats the data more nicely). Still

Re: [perl-python] 20050118 keyed list

2005-01-18 Thread Jürgen Exner
Xah Lee wrote: > © # in perl, keyed-list is done like this: Just FYI: those thingies are called hashes. The legacy name would be associative array. > © %a = ('john',3, 'mary', 4, 'jane', 5, 'vicky',7); > © use Data::Dumper qw(Dumper); > © print Dumper \%a; Wow, my compliments. The very first ti

Re: [perl-python] 20050118 keyed list

2005-01-18 Thread Jay Tilton
"Xah Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : # the syntax of keyed list in Perl is too complex : # to be covered in a short message. You've got to be joking. You couldn't even muster enough skill to provide Perl equivalents for the four simple Python statements you showed? : # see "perldoc perldata"

[perl-python] 20050118 keyed list

2005-01-17 Thread Xah Lee
© # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- © © # in Python, there's a special type of © # data structure called keyed list. it © # is a unordered list of pairs, each © # consists of a key and a value. It is © # also known as dictionary. © © # define a keyed list © aa = {'john':3, 'mary':4, 'jane':5, 'vicky':7} © p