Re: Small Troll on notation of variables over time

2006-08-21 Thread Hendrik van Rooyen
"Jeremy Sanders" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Hendrik van Rooyen wrote: | | > What do you guys think? | | You could get something similar using an object, such as | | class Hist(object): | | def __init__(self): | self.vals = [None] | | def __call__(self, index=-1): | r

Re: Small Troll on notation of variables over time

2006-08-21 Thread Hendrik van Rooyen
"Piet van Oostrum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wrote: | You are about 7 months early. | -- Am I? - Early for what - a seven months premature baby is small indeed... - Hendrik -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Small Troll on notation of variables over time

2006-08-21 Thread Piet van Oostrum
You are about 7 months early. -- Piet van Oostrum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL: http://www.cs.uu.nl/~piet [PGP 8DAE142BE17999C4] Private email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Small Troll on notation of variables over time

2006-08-21 Thread Jeremy Sanders
Hendrik van Rooyen wrote: > What do you guys think? You could get something similar using an object, such as class Hist(object): def __init__(self): self.vals = [None] def __call__(self, index=-1): return self.vals[index] def set(self, val): self.vals.appen

Re: Small Troll on notation of variables over time

2006-08-19 Thread Hendrik van Rooyen
"John Machin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | | Hendrik van Rooyen wrote: | [snip] | > What do you guys think? | | The subject said it all. You should find some other way of entertaining | yourself on the weekends :-) This is the right answer... *grin* - well - at least you *were* warned... -

Re: Small Troll on notation of variables over time

2006-08-19 Thread Gabriel Genellina
At Saturday 19/8/2006 07:49, Hendrik van Rooyen wrote: Now how about introducing an index that works over time, such that s{0} (the default so as to not break any existing code) implies the current object bound to the name s, with s{1} being the previous one, and so on... Doing that *always* f

Re: Small Troll on notation of variables over time

2006-08-19 Thread John Machin
Hendrik van Rooyen wrote: [snip] > What do you guys think? The subject said it all. You should find some other way of entertaining yourself on the weekends :-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Small Troll on notation of variables over time

2006-08-19 Thread Chris Johnson
Hendrik van Rooyen wrote: > Hi there, > > I can write: > > s = 'some string' > then print s[1] will be the string 'o' > > and a while later I can write: > > s = 'other some string' > then print s[1] will be the string 't' > > and then: > > s = [1,2,3,4] > then print s[1] will be the number 2 > > a

Small Troll on notation of variables over time

2006-08-19 Thread Hendrik van Rooyen
Hi there, I can write: s = 'some string' then print s[1] will be the string 'o' and a while later I can write: s = 'other some string' then print s[1] will be the string 't' and then: s = [1,2,3,4] then print s[1] will be the number 2 and still later: s = {1:'boo',2:'foo',3:'shoo'} when pri