On Apr 1, 12:50 am, Steve Holden wrote:
> > I can well imagine that everybody who has to work with you thoroughly
> > enjoys proving you wrong as often as possible.
>
> I am glad I wasn't drinking when I read this. Liquid in one's nose is so
> uncomfortable.
Well, in that case, I'm glad you enjo
On Apr 1, 1:54 am, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
> At the risk of offending you further, I will suggest that I'm not the
> only one who needs to apply some introspection here. If your skin is so
> thin that you react so explosively to such a minor slight, how are you
> going to react to some of the more
On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 21:54:40 -0700, Patrick Maupin wrote:
> There is a (not very subtle) difference between saying "Oh, you meant a
> list, not a string" (especially when the context was a discussion of
> list processing), and printing a traceback for something that nobody was
> discussing, based
On Wednesday 31 March 2010 22:50:02 Steve Holden wrote:
> "When I say 'use soap'
"*use* soap"? Sounds awfully Perlish to me, perhaps you meant "import soap" ;-)?
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Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 22:19:27 -0400, Steve Holden wrote:
>
>> I'm the same myself, and I know from personal experience that while I am
>> (simply?) seeking accuracy and truth it sometimes bugs the hell out of
>> people ...
>
> By the way, why are we acting as if seeking ac
Patrick Maupin wrote:
> On Mar 31, 11:28 pm, Steven D'Aprano
> wrote:
>
>> I wouldn't so much say "literal" as "precise".
>
> Being precise in your own words is an admirable trait. Asking others
> to be more precise can be done politely when necessary, but in this
> case it obviously wasn't
On Mar 31, 11:40 pm, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
> By the way, why are we acting as if seeking accuracy and truth is a bad
> thing?
I don't think anybody is acting like that is a bad thing. It's all
how you choose to interpret things.
> Personally, if I were interviewing job applicants, one of the
On Mar 31, 11:28 pm, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
> I wouldn't so much say "literal" as "precise".
Being precise in your own words is an admirable trait. Asking others
to be more precise can be done politely when necessary, but in this
case it obviously wasn't necessary, since even you, who deliberat
On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 22:19:27 -0400, Steve Holden wrote:
> I'm the same myself, and I know from personal experience that while I am
> (simply?) seeking accuracy and truth it sometimes bugs the hell out of
> people ...
By the way, why are we acting as if seeking accuracy and truth is a bad
thing?
On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 22:19:27 -0400, Steve Holden wrote:
> Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 17:21:18 -0700, Patrick Maupin wrote:
>>
>>> Doesn't matter though. The OP was sorting lists, not strings, so he
>>> knew what I meant.
>>
>> I have found that when people ask basic questions
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 17:21:18 -0700, Patrick Maupin wrote:
>
>> Doesn't matter though. The OP was sorting lists, not strings, so he
>> knew what I meant.
>
> I have found that when people ask basic questions about fundamental
> Python operations like sorting, it is risky
On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 17:21:18 -0700, Patrick Maupin wrote:
> Doesn't matter though. The OP was sorting lists, not strings, so he
> knew what I meant.
I have found that when people ask basic questions about fundamental
Python operations like sorting, it is risky to assume that they will know
wha
On Mar 31, 5:57 pm, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Did you mean list sort method?
Why, yes. Yes, I did. Yes, I'm an old forgetful man who sometimes
misspeaks or mistypes, and you're the smartest, sharpest guy in the
world. Most helpful, too. It's much more useful to show how I'm wrong
than to provi
On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:05:24 -0700, Patrick Maupin wrote:
> You can provide a cmp function to the string sort method, e.g. cmp =
> lambda x,y: -cmp(x.a, y.a) or cmp(x.b, y.b)
String sort method?
>>> ''.sort
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
AttributeError: 'str' object ha
On Mar 31, 10:08 am, Chris Curvey wrote:
> I must be having a brain cramp. Given a list of objects, how can I
> sort the list on one attribute in descending order, then sort within
> each group in ascending order on another attribute.
>
> For example:
>
> class Foo:
> def __init__(self, a, b,
On Mar 31, 12:08 pm, Chris Curvey wrote:
> I must be having a brain cramp. Given a list of objects, how can I
> sort the list on one attribute in descending order, then sort within
> each group in ascending order on another attribute.
>
> For example:
>
> class Foo:
> def __init__(self, a, b,
Chris Curvey wrote:
> I must be having a brain cramp. Given a list of objects, how can I
> sort the list on one attribute in descending order, then sort within
> each group in ascending order on another attribute.
>
> For example:
>
> class Foo:
> def __init__(self, a, b, c):
> self
On 31/03/2010 18:08, Chris Curvey wrote:
I must be having a brain cramp. Given a list of objects, how can I
sort the list on one attribute in descending order, then sort within
each group in ascending order on another attribute.
For example:
class Foo:
def __init__(self, a, b, c):
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