Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Jan 23)

2006-01-23 Thread Magnus Lycka
QOTW: "The IEEE-754 standard doesn't wholly define output conversions, and explicitly allows that a conforming implementation may produce any digits whatsoever at and after the 18th signficant digit, when converting a 754 double to string. In practice, all implementations I know of that exploit t

Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Jan 23)

2006-01-22 Thread Magnus Lycka
QOTW: "The IEEE-754 standard doesn't wholly define output conversions, and explicitly allows that a conforming implementation may produce any digits whatsoever at and after the 18th signficant digit, when converting a 754 double to string. In practice, all implementations I know of that exploit t

Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Jan 23)

2005-01-25 Thread Josiah Carlson
QOTW: "XML with elementtree is what makes me never have [to] think about XML again." -- Istvan Albert "'Plays well with others' was a strong motivator for Python's design, and that often means playing by others' rules." -- Tim Peters Type mutability, and why some types are immutable. T

Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Jan 23)

2005-01-23 Thread Josiah Carlson
QOTW: "XML with elementtree is what makes me never have [to] think about XML again." -- Istvan Albert "'Plays well with others' was a strong motivator for Python's design, and that often means playing by others' rules." -- Tim Peters Type mutability, and why some types are immutable. T