Re: 20050111: list basics

2005-05-16 Thread Steve Holden
km wrote: > Hi all, > > >>Perl's pack function will allow you to do direct memory access if you >>ask it to via the "p" and "P" templates. > > > can we do direct memory accessing in python also ? > > regards, > KM Not, I'm happy to say, without a C extension class to allow it. regards S

Re: 20050111: list basics

2005-05-16 Thread km
Hi all, > Perl's pack function will allow you to do direct memory access if you > ask it to via the "p" and "P" templates. can we do direct memory accessing in python also ? regards, KM -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: 20050111: list basics

2005-05-15 Thread David Formosa (aka ? the Platypus)
On 12 Jan 2005 08:22:04 GMT, Abigail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > Wrong. Perl functions don't take memory addresses. Perl doesn't allow > the programmer to do direct memory access. Perl's pack function will allow you to do direct memory access if you ask it to via the "p" and "P" templates

Re: 20050111: list basics

2005-01-12 Thread Abigail
Xah Lee ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on CLII September MCMXCIII in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: :: :: # in perl, list is done with paren (). Wrong. Except in a few cases, parens don't make lists. Parens are used from precedence. *Context* makes lists. :: # the at sign in front of variable is nec

20050111: list basics

2005-01-11 Thread Xah Lee
# in Python, list can be done this way: a = [0, 1, 2, 'more',4,5,6] print a # list can be joined with plus sign b = a + [4,5,6] print b # list can be extracted by appending a square bracket with index # negative index counts from right. print b[2] print b[-2] # sublist extraction print 'element