RE: Well, another try Re: while c = f.read(1)

2005-08-23 Thread Delaney, Timothy (Tim)
Robert Kern wrote: > James asked a question in such a way that I didn't think it would get > answered. Judging from the other non-responses to his post, I was > right. I showed him the way to ask questions such that they *will* get > answered, and he came back, did so, and got his questions answer

Re: Well, another try Re: while c = f.read(1)

2005-08-22 Thread Robert Kern
Steve Holden wrote: > Robert Kern wrote: >>Coincidentally, those are exactly the reasons why I posted it in the >>first place. I care not a whit about decluttering the newgroup, an >>impossible task. > > It's clear that you care not a whit about it. Unfortunately the only way > to preserve ban

Re: Well, another try Re: while c = f.read(1)

2005-08-22 Thread Steve Holden
Robert Kern wrote: > Paul Rubin wrote: > >>Robert Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> >http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Is it a *smart* way or *necessary* way? >>> >>>It's the polite way. And probably the only way you're going to get >>>your questions actually ans

Re: Well, another try Re: while c = f.read(1)

2005-08-20 Thread Paul Rubin
James Sungjin Kim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Now I realized that Command 'lambda' is a similar to Command 'inline' > in C++. In addition, Command 'iter' is something new but not much new > to c engineers, since it is related to 'for loops', e.g., Actually not related at all. Nothing like lambd

Re: Well, another try Re: while c = f.read(1)

2005-08-20 Thread James Sungjin Kim
Robert Kern 쓴 글: > > Now go read the documentation. > Thanks to your comments, I read the corresponding helps searched by Google. (Sorry to say a specific search engine here, but I must say that it is really convinient.) Now I realized that Command 'lambda' is a similar to Command 'inline' in

Re: Well, another try Re: while c = f.read(1)

2005-08-20 Thread Bengt Richter
On 19 Aug 2005 23:13:44 -0700, "James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> for data in iter(lambda:f.read(1024), ''): >> for c in data: > >What are the meanings of Commands 'iter' and 'lambda', respectively? I >do not want you to indicate merely the related help pages. Just your >ituitive and short

Re: Well, another try Re: while c = f.read(1)

2005-08-20 Thread Robert Kern
Paul Rubin wrote: > Robert Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html >>> >>>Is it a *smart* way or *necessary* way? >> >>It's the polite way. And probably the only way you're going to get >>your questions actually answered. > > I wonder if there's a

Re: Well, another try Re: while c = f.read(1)

2005-08-20 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2005-08-20, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> for data in iter(lambda:f.read(1024), ''): >> for c in data: > > What are the meanings of Commands 'iter' and 'lambda', respectively? I > do not want you to indicate merely the related help pages. Rude much? If somebody is kind enough to poin

Re: Well, another try Re: while c = f.read(1)

2005-08-20 Thread Paul Rubin
Robert Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html > > Is it a *smart* way or *necessary* way? > > It's the polite way. And probably the only way you're going to get > your questions actually answered. I wonder if there's a way to killfile posts that co

Re: Well, another try Re: while c = f.read(1)

2005-08-20 Thread Robert Kern
James Kim wrote: > Robert Kern wrote: > >>http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html > > Is it a *smart* way or *necessary* way? It's the polite way. And probably the only way you're going to get your questions actually answered. Read the documentation. If you still don't understand so

Re: Well, another try Re: while c = f.read(1)

2005-08-20 Thread Jeremy Jones
James Kim wrote: >Robert Kern wrote: > > >>http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html >> >> > >Is it a *smart* way or *necessary* way? > > Of course it's not *necessary*. I mean, the world isn't going to come to an end if it doesn't happen. There is no logical contingency making

Re: Well, another try Re: while c = f.read(1)

2005-08-20 Thread James Kim
Robert Kern wrote: > http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Is it a *smart* way or *necessary* way? Plus, my question was not for the detail description but for the intuitive guide leading the beginner's further study. I understand that too many repeated talks make cyberian tired. H

Re: Well, another try Re: while c = f.read(1)

2005-08-19 Thread Robert Kern
James wrote: >>for data in iter(lambda:f.read(1024), ''): >>for c in data: > > What are the meanings of Commands 'iter' and 'lambda', respectively? I > do not want you to indicate merely the related help pages. Just your > ituitive and short explanations would be enough since I'm really newbie

Re: Well, another try Re: while c = f.read(1)

2005-08-19 Thread James
> for data in iter(lambda:f.read(1024), ''): > for c in data: What are the meanings of Commands 'iter' and 'lambda', respectively? I do not want you to indicate merely the related help pages. Just your ituitive and short explanations would be enough since I'm really newbie to Python. -James