On 16/10/2017 18:53, Stefan Ram wrote:
Ian Kelly writes:
I honestly can't remember the last time I programmed an endless loop,
and I also can't remember the last time I used a while loop.
Those two things are probably related.
My Python installation has a "Lib" directory.
»^ +\bwhile\b
On Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 8:10 PM, Stefan Ram wrote:
> I made an error I made a thousand times before.
>
> I had programmed an endless loop.
>
> But never did I see before so clear why it's called
> an endless loop. (Tested in IDLE.)
>
> from turtle import *
>
> reset(); reset(); shape( 'tur
On Mon, 16 Oct 2017 01:38 am, Ned Batchelder wrote:
> We've covered this before. A challenge for the group: let's not create
> yet another 100-reply thread rehashing the design of Python looping...
> Please? :)
Certainly!
So... who thinks that Python should implement tail recursion optimization
On 10/15/17 9:59 AM, bartc wrote:
On 15/10/2017 12:20, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 9:15 PM, bartc wrote:
I assume you're talking about the while-loop (because on my machine, it
hangs just using 'from turtle...' or 'import turtle').
(Machine was screwed up I think, as I ha
On 15/10/2017 12:20, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 9:15 PM, bartc wrote:
I assume you're talking about the while-loop (because on my machine, it
hangs just using 'from turtle...' or 'import turtle').
(Machine was screwed up I think, as I had to restart it shortly after
for
On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 9:15 PM, bartc wrote:
> On 15/10/2017 03:10, Stefan Ram wrote:
>>
>>I made an error I made a thousand times before.
>>
>>I had programmed an endless loop.
>>
>>But never did I see before so clear why it's called
>>an endless loop. (Tested in IDLE.)
>>
>> fro
On 2017-10-15 10:15, bartc wrote:
> On 15/10/2017 03:10, Stefan Ram wrote:
>>I made an error I made a thousand times before.
>>
>>I had programmed an endless loop.
>>
>>But never did I see before so clear why it's called
>>an endless loop. (Tested in IDLE.)
>>
>> from turtle imp
On 15/10/2017 03:10, Stefan Ram wrote:
I made an error I made a thousand times before.
I had programmed an endless loop.
But never did I see before so clear why it's called
an endless loop. (Tested in IDLE.)
from turtle import *
reset(); reset(); shape( 'turtle' ); showturtle()
d
On Sun, 15 Oct 2017 01:43 pm, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On 15 Oct 2017 02:10:15 GMT, r...@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) declaimed
> the following:
[...]
>>def poly( n, length ):
>>i = 0
>>while i < n:
>>forward( length )
>>left( 360/n )
>>
>
> A clear example of why a p
