On Thursday, June 2, 2011 at 10:29:48 AM UTC-5, Neeraj Agarwal wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm a newbie to Python and its my 2nd day exploring it.
>
> I was trying to use Python wrapper for Google Charts API and was
> tweaking the examples.
> https://github.com/gak/pygooglechart/raw/master/examples/p
In article ,
Maura E Monville wrote:
> My supervisor has palmed me off with a python code, written by a
> collaborator, which implements an algorithm aimed at denoising the dose
> distribution (energy per unit mass) output from a radiation transport Monte
> Carlo code.
> My task is to translate t
On Wednesday, June 18, 2014 1:50:54 PM UTC+1, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Jun 2014 05:10:03 -0700, Maura E Monville wrote:
>
>
>
> > My supervisor has palmed me off with a python code, written by a
>
> > collaborator, which implements an algorithm aimed at denoising the dose
>
> > dist
On Wed, 18 Jun 2014 05:10:03 -0700, Maura E Monville wrote:
> My supervisor has palmed me off with a python code, written by a
> collaborator, which implements an algorithm aimed at denoising the dose
> distribution (energy per unit mass) output from a radiation transport
> Monte Carlo code. My ta
On 02/28/2013 03:47 AM, Gisle Vanem wrote:
> I saw you uses Thunderbird on Windows. I'm not sure how it by default handles
> a reply-to when there is no "Reply-to" field in the header. To the address in
> "From" / "Sender" or what?
Thunderbird has a handy, "reply to list" button that works every
"Marwan Badawi" wrote:
I just noticed that my reply went to the message sender and not to the
newsgroup, so I'm posting again: thanks, I'll look into that.
Yes, I often do that too; i.e. I'm subscribed to python-list@python.org
and get all messages from comp.lang.python mirrored to the ML a b
On 27/02/2013 16:17, Christian Gollwitzer wrote:
Am 27.02.13 09:51, schrieb Marwan:
And I'd appreciate it if you could give me pointers to how to easily
call Python from C++.
Maybe you can use boost::python?
http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_53_0/libs/python/doc/
Cave: I haven't used it and do
On 27/02/2013 10:26, Ian Kelly wrote:
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 1:51 AM, Marwan wrote:
When I run the generated exe, I get errors about the functions not
existing...
TestPython.exe test Hello
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'Hello'
Cannot find function "Hello"
"test" is the na
On 2/27/2013 3:51 AM, Marwan wrote:
Hello all,
I'm new to Python and just starting to learn it. For he needs of my
project, I need to call some specific methods in Python scripts from C++.
For now, I just compiled the example in the Python documentation about
Pure Embedding to try it out (
http
Am 27.02.13 09:51, schrieb Marwan:
And I'd appreciate it if you could give me pointers to how to easily
call Python from C++.
Maybe you can use boost::python?
http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_53_0/libs/python/doc/
Cave: I haven't used it and don't know if it is up-to-date.
Christian
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 1:51 AM, Marwan wrote:
> When I run the generated exe, I get errors about the functions not
> existing...
>
> TestPython.exe test Hello
> AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'Hello'
> Cannot find function "Hello"
"test" is the name of a module in the standard
On Tuesday, February 26, 2013 11:59:51 AM UTC-7, Ethan Furman wrote:
> On 02/26/2013 10:23 AM, ru...@yahoo.com wrote:
> > On 02/26/2013 01:32 AM, Larry Hudson wrote:
> >> Python variables do NOT have any data type.
> > I have no problem interpreting the OP's statement
> > as meaning that he wanted
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 6:42 AM, Piterrr wrote:
> This reminds me, when I first started working with databases and saw an
> error msg which said that my query had "ambiguous columns" I laughed for 1/2
> hr. I found it incredibly exitaining that a 100% deterministic piece of
> hardware could have t
"Jean-Michel Pichavant" wrote in message
news:mailman.2567.1361905815.2939.python-l...@python.org...
- Original Message -
Hi guys,
Question. Have this code
intX = 32 # decl + init int var
intX_asString = None # decl + init with NULL string var
On 02/26/2013 10:23 AM, ru...@yahoo.com wrote:
On 02/26/2013 01:32 AM, Larry Hudson wrote:
Python variables do NOT have any data type.
I have no problem interpreting the OP's statement
as meaning that he wanted to use a Python variable to
consistently reference a particular type and wanted a n
- Original Message -
> Hi guys,
>
> Question. Have this code
>
> intX = 32 # decl + init int var
> intX_asString = None # decl + init with NULL string var
>
> intX_asString = intX.__str__ ()# convert int to string
>
> What are these ugly under
On 02/26/2013 01:32 AM, Larry Hudson wrote:
> On 02/24/2013 02:43 PM, piterrr.dolin...@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> ... But for the moment I am trying to imitate familiar ground.
>
> This is EXACTLY why you're having trouble grasping Python. Python is a
> different language and
> requires a differen
On 2013-02-23, 18:44 GMT, jmfauth wrote:
> Very easy to explain: wrong, incorrect, naive unicode
> handling.
PLONK!
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On 2013-02-23, 15:51 GMT, Chris Angelico wrote:
> When you learn your first language, you think you're learning to
> program, but that's not really accurate. Once you've learned half a
> dozen, you begin to understand something of the art of coding as
> distinct from any particular language; after
On 02/24/2013 02:43 PM, piterrr.dolin...@gmail.com wrote:
... But for the moment I am trying to imitate familiar ground.
This is EXACTLY why you're having trouble grasping Python. Python is a different language and
requires a different mind-set and different approach. In this, it is NO dif
Hi Piterr,
It's interesting how strong our habits are, isn't it? It's most likely you've
just got a bit of culture shock.
I've used C# quite a bit as well as Python. I like them both.
What I like about Python is how it manages to be clear and terse at the same
time.
if (flag==1) {
code
}
On 24.02.13 17:52, Chris Angelico wrote:
By the way, when you're asking a completely new question, it usually
helps to do so as a brand new thread (not a reply) and with a new
subject line. Otherwise, you risk people losing the new question among
the discussion of the old.
You risk people losin
On 02/24/2013 05:53 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 12:44 PM, Oscar Benjamin
wrote:
On 25 February 2013 01:24, Chris Angelico wrote:
Once again, Ethan gets the short end of the citations stick...
'twarn't me wrote that, he did. Not that it's at all contrary to my
views, and
On 25 February 2013 02:08, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Feb 2013 21:58:36 +, Joshua Landau
> declaimed the following in
> gmane.comp.python.general:
>
>
> >
> > condition1 = long_condition_expression_1
> > condition2 = long_condition_expression_2
> > condition3 = long_condition_expr
On 24/02/2013 23:03, Roy Smith wrote:
In article ,
"J.R." wrote:
PS.: JavaScript is a trademark, and the actual language name is
specified as ECMAScript.
The decision whether to call it JavaScript or ECMAScript really comes
down to, "Do you want to be correct, or do you want people to know
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 1:03 PM, Roy Smith wrote:
> In article ,
> "J.R." wrote:
>
>> PS.: JavaScript is a trademark, and the actual language name is
>> specified as ECMAScript.
>
> The decision whether to call it JavaScript or ECMAScript really comes
> down to, "Do you want to be correct, or do
On 2013-02-25 01:53, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 12:44 PM, Oscar Benjamin
wrote:
On 25 February 2013 01:24, Chris Angelico wrote:
Once again, Ethan gets the short end of the citations stick...
'twarn't me wrote that, he did. Not that it's at all contrary to my
views, and I m
In article ,
"J.R." wrote:
> PS.: JavaScript is a trademark, and the actual language name is
> specified as ECMAScript.
The decision whether to call it JavaScript or ECMAScript really comes
down to, "Do you want to be correct, or do you want people to know what
you're talking about?"
--
htt
On 21/02/2013 19:40, piterrr.dolin...@gmail.com wrote:
I am nervous about using variables "out of the blue", without having
to declare them. For example, when I write "i = 0" it is perfectly OK
to Python without 'i' being declared earlier. How do I know that I
haven't used this variable earlie
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 12:44 PM, Oscar Benjamin
wrote:
> On 25 February 2013 01:24, Chris Angelico wrote:
>> Once again, Ethan gets the short end of the citations stick...
>> 'twarn't me wrote that, he did. Not that it's at all contrary to my
>> views, and I might well have said it if he hadn't,
On 02/24/2013 03:43 PM, piterrr.dolin...@gmail.com wrote:
> I wanted Python to register what type of variable I'm after. So I
> init my vars accordingly, int might be 0, float 0.0 and string with
> null, err... None.
As several people on the list have pointed out, there are no variables
in Python.
On 25 February 2013 01:24, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 11:45 AM, Oscar Benjamin
> wrote:
>> On 25 February 2013 00:08, wrote:
>> Chris Angelico wrote:
For example (I believe it's already been mentioned) "declaring" intX with
some integer value does *nothing* to ma
On 02/24/2013 06:04 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Variables do not have types in Python.
>
> Reset your thinking. Python is a dynamic language with name bindings and
> strongly-typed objects, not a static language with strongly-typed
> variables. If you don't understand the difference, ask. But s
On 02/24/2013 03:40 PM, Mitya Sirenef wrote:
> But if block doesn't have to be inside a function, right? It needs
> to be inside a module, but then again everything is inside a module, but
> it wouldn't be very object-oriented if the module was the only object in
> Python :-).
A module indeed fits
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 12:04 PM, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
> Not at all. The only difference is whether you get a compiler error or a
> runtime error. Instead of:
>
> 10 Write code.
> 20 Compile.
> 30 If compiler error, GO TO 10.
> 40 REM code compiles, but it still needs to be tested
> 50 Test code
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 11:45 AM, Oscar Benjamin
wrote:
> On 25 February 2013 00:08, wrote:
> Chris Angelico wrote:
>>> For example (I believe it's already been mentioned) "declaring" intX with
>>> some integer value does *nothing* to maintain
>>>
>>> X as an integer:
>>>
>>> --> intX = 32
>>>
On Sun, 24 Feb 2013 17:40:54 -0500, Mitya Sirenef wrote:
> But if block doesn't have to be inside a function, right? It needs to be
> inside a module, but then again everything is inside a module, but it
> wouldn't be very object-oriented if the module was the only object in
> Python :-).
Python
On Sun, 24 Feb 2013 16:08:06 -0800, piterrr.dolinski wrote:
>> For example (I believe it's already been mentioned) "declaring" intX
>> with some integer value does *nothing* to maintain
>>
>> X as an integer:
>>
>> --> intX = 32
>>
>> --> intX = intX / 3.0
>>
>> --> intX
>>
>> 10.66
>
On Sun, 24 Feb 2013 11:40:05 -0800, piterrr.dolinski wrote:
>> > if (some statement): # short form
>> >
>> > rather than
>> >
>> > if (some statement == true): # long form
>>
>>
>> What all those ugly brackets are for?
>>
>>
> Mark,
>
> Back in the day when C was king, or
In article ,
piterrr.dolin...@gmail.com wrote:
> Yes I did see that it is possible to redefine the type of a variable. But I
> don't think I would ever do this intentionally
One does not need language features to protect themselves against things
they do intentionally. They need language feat
On 25 February 2013 00:08, wrote:
Chris Angelico wrote:
>> For example (I believe it's already been mentioned) "declaring" intX with
>> some integer value does *nothing* to maintain
>>
>> X as an integer:
>>
>> --> intX = 32
>>
>> --> intX = intX / 3.0
>>
>> --> intX
>>
>> 10.66
>>
>
> Y
In article ,
Ethan Furman wrote:
> On 02/24/2013 03:38 PM, piterrr.dolin...@gmail.com wrote:
> >
> >>> intX = 32 # decl + init int var
> >> How is it not obvious that "intX" is an integer *without* the comment?
> >
> > Indeed the assignment is enough to deduce "intX" is
On Sun, 24 Feb 2013 16:08:01 -0500, Roy Smith wrote:
> In article ,
> Chris Angelico wrote:
>
>> > no need to remember what's an object and what's not -- everything is
>> > an object
>
> Well, not quite everything. If I write:
>
> if foo:
>do_this()
>and_this()
>
> the code block ma
On 02/24/2013 04:08 PM, piterrr.dolin...@gmail.com wrote:
For example (I believe it's already been mentioned) "declaring" intX with some
integer value does *nothing* to maintain
X as an integer:
--> intX = 32
--> intX = intX / 3.0
--> intX
10.66
Yes I did see that it is possible
On 25/02/2013 00:08, piterrr.dolin...@gmail.com wrote:
For example (I believe it's already been mentioned) "declaring" intX with some
integer value does *nothing* to maintain
X as an integer:
--> intX = 32
--> intX = intX / 3.0
--> intX
10.66
Yes I did see that it is possible to
On 25 February 2013 00:08, wrote:
> > For example (I believe it's already been mentioned) "declaring" intX
> with some integer value does *nothing* to maintain
> >
> > X as an integer:
> >
> > --> intX = 32
> >
> > --> intX = intX / 3.0
> >
> > --> intX
> >
> > 10.66
> >
>
> Yes I did see
> For example (I believe it's already been mentioned) "declaring" intX with
> some integer value does *nothing* to maintain
>
> X as an integer:
>
> --> intX = 32
>
> --> intX = intX / 3.0
>
> --> intX
>
> 10.66
>
Yes I did see that it is possible to redefine the type of a variable
On 02/24/2013 03:38 PM, piterrr.dolin...@gmail.com wrote:
intX = 32 # decl + init int var
How is it not obvious that "intX" is an integer *without* the comment?
Indeed the assignment is enough to deduce "intX" is an int. The comment is
there to let me know it is unl
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 10:38 AM, wrote:
>
>>> intX = 32 # decl + init int var
>> How is it not obvious that "intX" is an integer *without* the comment?
>
> Indeed the assignment is enough to deduce "intX" is an int. The comment is
> there to let me know it is unlikely i
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 9:33 AM, Ethan Furman wrote:
> On 02/24/2013 12:58 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 7:34 AM, Ethan Furman wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>- no variable declarations, just use 'em
>>
>>
>> Variable declarations can go either way; Python requires you to name
>>
>> intX = 32 # decl + init int var
> How is it not obvious that "intX" is an integer *without* the comment?
Indeed the assignment is enough to deduce "intX" is an int. The comment is
there to let me know it is unlikely intX appears earlier in the code. Please,
let me do
> Most of what gets hung in art galleries these days is far less
> visually pleasing than well-written code.
+1 QOTW
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On 24 February 2013 23:18, Oscar Benjamin wrote:
> On 24 February 2013 21:35, Joshua Landau
> wrote:
> >
> > determinant = b**2 - 4*a*c
>
> It's called the discriminant. A determinant is something altogether
> different.
*cries at own idiocy*
Thank you.
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On 24 February 2013 22:08, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 8:35 AM, Joshua Landau
> wrote:
> > def solve_quadratic(a, b, c):
> > """Solve a quadratic equation of the form ax² + bx + c = 0
> >
> > The result will be a tuple of the two results; the results can be equal
> if
> > the
On 24 February 2013 22:43, wrote:
> Josh,
>
> Not thank you for your malicious post.
>
Be careful, us programmers do *eventually* catch on to who is a troll, and
if you say things like that we may eventually mark you off as just to
hostile.
I *honestly* meant no malice or insult. If you can't ta
On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 5:43 PM, wrote:
> Josh,
>
> Not thank you for your malicious post.
> I think you are missing the point here.
>
> My source code was just a dummy to offer context for the question I wanted
> to ask. Further down the line, if I ever feel I don't need to
> pseudo-declare vari
On 02/24/2013 10:46 AM, piterrr.dolin...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi guys,
Question. Have this code
intX = 32 # decl + init int var
intX_asString = None # decl + init with NULL string var
None is not a str, and it's not a "NULL string var" Perhaps what you
wa
Josh,
Not thank you for your malicious post.
I think you are missing the point here.
My source code was just a dummy to offer context for the question I wanted to
ask. Further down the line, if I ever feel I don't need to pseudo-declare
variables I will stop doing it. But for the moment I am tr
On 02/24/2013 12:58 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 7:34 AM, Ethan Furman wrote:
- no variable declarations, just use 'em
Variable declarations can go either way; Python requires you to name
all globals that you mutate
I'm not sure what you mean -- example?
--
~Ethan~
On 02/24/2013 04:44 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 8:08 AM, Roy Smith wrote:
>> In article ,
>> Chris Angelico wrote:
>>
no need to remember what's an object and what's not -- everything
is an
object
>
> Careful on the citations - Ethan Furman said that, I just
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 8:35 AM, Joshua Landau
wrote:
> def solve_quadratic(a, b, c):
> """Solve a quadratic equation of the form ax² + bx + c = 0
>
> The result will be a tuple of the two results; the results can be equal if
> the determinant is 0.
> This supports imaginary results for if the det
On 24 February 2013 20:48, Roy Smith wrote:
> In article ,
> Chris Angelico wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 7:34 AM, MRAB
> wrote:
> > > Some languages require parentheses, others don't.
> > >
> > > C does. C++, Java and C# are descended from, or influenced by, C.
> > >
> > > Algol didn't
On 24 February 2013 19:29, wrote:
> Hi. Steve, I don't know where you have been over the past couple of days
> but it is widely known (if the thread title is any indication) that I am
> indeed very new to Python, but not new to programming in general.
>
> To give a bit of background where I found
In article ,
Chris Angelico wrote:
> > no need to remember what's an object and what's not -- everything is an
> > object
Well, not quite everything. If I write:
if foo:
do_this()
and_this()
the code block making up the body of the "if" statement is not an
object. In some languages,
In article ,
Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 7:34 AM, MRAB wrote:
> > Some languages require parentheses, others don't.
> >
> > C does. C++, Java and C# are descended from, or influenced by, C.
> >
> > Algol didn't (doesn't?). Pascal, Modula-2, Oberon, Ada, and others
> > don't.
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 7:34 AM, Ethan Furman wrote:
> One of the things I love about Python is its ability to get out of the way
> and let me work:
>
> - no variable declarations, just use 'em
> - no type declarations, just use 'em
> - no need to remember what's an object and what's not --
On 02/24/2013 11:40 AM, piterrr.dolin...@gmail.com wrote:
Back in the day when C was king, or take many newer long established languages (C#,
Java), the use of () has been widespread and mandated by the compilers. I have never
heard anyone moan about the requirement to use parentheses. Now come
On 24/02/2013 19:40, piterrr.dolin...@gmail.com wrote:
if (some statement):# short form
rather than
if (some statement == true):# long form
What all those ugly brackets are for?
Mark,
Back in the day when C was king, or take many newer long established languages (C#,
Jav
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 7:34 AM, MRAB wrote:
> Some languages require parentheses, others don't.
>
> C does. C++, Java and C# are descended from, or influenced by, C.
>
> Algol didn't (doesn't?). Pascal, Modula-2, Oberon, Ada, and others
> don't.
>
> Parentheses are used where required, but not us
On 2013-02-24 19:40, piterrr.dolin...@gmail.com wrote:
if (some statement):# short form
rather than
if (some statement == true):# long form
What all those ugly brackets are for?
Mark,
Back in the day when C was king, or take many newer long established
languages (C#, Java
On Sun, 24 Feb 2013 20:40:05 +0100, wrote:
> if (some statement): # short form
>
> rather than
>
> if (some statement == true): # long form
What all those ugly brackets are for?
Mark,
Back in the day when C was king, or take many newer long established
languages (C#,
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 5:19 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2013-02-23, Chris Angelico wrote:
>
>> It's worth noting, though, that there are self-perpetuating aspects to
>> it. I can happily distribute a .py file to a Linux audience, because
>> many Linux distros come with a Python already install
On 02/24/2013 02:40 PM, piterrr.dolin...@gmail.com wrote:
if (some statement): # short form
>>>
>>> rather than
>>>
>>> if (some statement == true): # long form
>>
>>
>> What all those ugly brackets are for?
>>
>
> Mark,
>
> Back in the day when C was king, or take many newer long established
>
> > if (some statement):# short form
> >
> > rather than
> >
> > if (some statement == true):# long form
>
>
> What all those ugly brackets are for?
>
Mark,
Back in the day when C was king, or take many newer long established languages
(C#, Java), the use of () has bee
> To demonstrate that the person who wrote this code was not a good Python
>
> programmer. I hope it wasn't you :-) This person obviously had a very
>
> basic, and confused, understanding of Python.
>
>
>
> And, quite frankly, was probably not a very good programmer of *any*
>
> language:
On 2013-02-23, Chris Angelico wrote:
> It's worth noting, though, that there are self-perpetuating aspects to
> it. I can happily distribute a .py file to a Linux audience, because
> many Linux distros come with a Python already installed, or at very
> least can grab one easily via the package ma
In article ,
Michael Torrie wrote:
> It's interesting to note that Windows NT sort of descends from VMS.
More than "sort of". Dave Cutler was the chief architect of both.
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On 02/24/2013 10:37 AM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> Decided to look up the VAX/VMS scheme...
>
> """
> If you know the condition code for a message, you can use F$MESSAGE to
> translate the code to its associated message. For example:
> $ WRITE SYS$OUTPUT F$MESSAGE(%X0001)
> %SYSTEM-S-NOR
On Sun, 24 Feb 2013 07:46:07 -0800, piterrr.dolinski wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> Question. Have this code
>
> intX = 32 # decl + init int var
> intX_asString = None # decl + init with NULL string var
>
> intX_asString = intX.__str__ ()# convert int to string
On 22/02/2013 21:37, piterrr.dolin...@gmail.com wrote:
if (some statement):# short form
rather than
if (some statement == true):# long form
What all those ugly brackets are for?
Peter
--
Cheers.
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In article ,
Chris Angelico wrote:
> The "dunder" methods ("d"ouble "under"score, leading and trailing),
> also called "magic methods", are the implementations of various
> special features. For instance, indexing foo[1] is implemented using
> the __getitem__ method. Here's a list:
>
> http://d
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 2:46 AM, wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> Question. Have this code
>
> intX = 32 # decl + init int var
> intX_asString = None # decl + init with NULL string var
>
> intX_asString = intX.__str__ ()# convert int to string
>
> What are these ug
Hi guys,
Question. Have this code
intX = 32 # decl + init int var
intX_asString = None # decl + init with NULL string var
intX_asString = intX.__str__ ()# convert int to string
What are these ugly underscores for? _str__
On 24/02/2013 04:20, Larry Hudson wrote:
On 02/23/2013 03:46 PM, piterrr.dolin...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
... I have discovered today there is no do...while type loop. [Sigh]
No biggie. This is easily simulated with:
while True:
...
if :
break
Less easily simulated i
piterrr.dolin...@gmail.com wrote:
> You see, Javascript, for one, behaves the same way as Python (no variable
> declaration) but JS has curly braces and you know the variable you have
> just used is limited in scope to the code within the { }. With Python, you
> have to search the whole file.
I d
On 02/23/2013 04:46 PM, piterrr.dolin...@gmail.com wrote:
> Yes, it's true that I am trying to write C# code in Python. It is not
> going to change any time soon, if at all - I have done too much
> C#ing, C++ing before that and C-ing earlier still.
Unfortunately as long as do, you'll find Python
On 02/23/2013 03:46 PM, piterrr.dolin...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
... I have discovered today there is no do...while type loop. [Sigh]
No biggie. This is easily simulated with:
while True:
...
if :
break
Less easily simulated is the lack of a switch/case structure. This
On 2013-02-23 23:18, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 9:52 AM, Michael Torrie wrote:
On 02/23/2013 02:38 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 5:29 AM, Dennis Lee Bieber
wrote:
Error codes under DEC VAX/VMS used odd integers for
"success/information" and even
On 23/02/2013 21:48, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 7:53 AM, jmfauth wrote:
On 23 fév, 20:08, Ethan Furman wrote:
On 02/23/2013 10:44 AM, jmfauth wrote:
[snip various stupidities]
jmf
Peter, jmfauth is one of our resident trolls. Feel free to ignore him.
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Hi all,
(Ethan, I like your "resident troll" statement. Highly exit-aining!)
Thanks for all the input. I did not expect to get so much constructive
feedback, the more so that my initial attitude towards Python has been less
than positive, diplomatically speaking.
Yes, it's true that I am tryin
On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 9:52 AM, Michael Torrie wrote:
> On 02/23/2013 02:38 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
>> On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 5:29 AM, Dennis Lee Bieber
>> wrote:
>>> Error codes under DEC VAX/VMS used odd integers for
>>> "success/information" and even integers for "warning/error" (b
On 02/21/2013 03:40 PM, piterrr.dolin...@gmail.com wrote:
> Chris, you are (almost) spot on with the if blocks indentation. This
> is what I do, and it has served me well for 15 years.
Most companies, development teams have unified coding style standards
that all programmers must adhere to in the
On 02/23/2013 02:38 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 5:29 AM, Dennis Lee Bieber
> wrote:
>> Error codes under DEC VAX/VMS used odd integers for
>> "success/information" and even integers for "warning/error" (been too
>> many years, I think positive integers were success/
On Saturday 23 February 2013 17:44:21 Steve Simmons did opine:
> On 23/02/2013 18:32, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > I am here because I was hoping some knowledge leakage would help me to
> > understand python, but at my age I am beginning to have to admit the
> > level of abstraction is something I may
On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 7:53 AM, jmfauth wrote:
> On 23 fév, 20:08, Ethan Furman wrote:
>> On 02/23/2013 10:44 AM, jmfauth wrote:
>>
>> [snip various stupidities]
>>
>> > jmf
>>
>> Peter, jmfauth is one of our resident trolls. Feel free to ignore him.
>>
>> --
>> ~Ethan~
>
> Sorry, what can say?
On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 5:34 AM, Dennis Lee Bieber
wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Feb 2013 13:18:56 +1100, Chris Angelico
> declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general:
>
>> awesome Fred's Awesome Internet Language is, it's not going to be as
>
> Pardon, but was that deliberate -> FAIL
:)
On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 5:29 AM, Dennis Lee Bieber
wrote:
> Error codes under DEC VAX/VMS used odd integers for
> "success/information" and even integers for "warning/error" (been too
> many years, I think positive integers were success/warning, negative
> integers were information/error;
On 23 fév, 20:08, Ethan Furman wrote:
> On 02/23/2013 10:44 AM, jmfauth wrote:
>
> [snip various stupidities]
>
> > jmf
>
> Peter, jmfauth is one of our resident trolls. Feel free to ignore him.
>
> --
> ~Ethan~
Sorry, what can say?
More memory and slow down!
If you see a progress, I'm seeing a
On 02/22/2013 02:37 PM, piterrr.dolin...@gmail.com wrote:
> Thanks to everyone for all the posts, some friendly some not. I read
> all of them with genuine interest.
I just finished reading this entire thread and I don't see any posts
that are unfriendly. Perhaps some of them are calling you on y
On 02/23/2013 10:44 AM, jmfauth wrote:
[snip various stupidities]
jmf
Peter, jmfauth is one of our resident trolls. Feel free to ignore him.
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~Ethan~
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