Re: Name of IDLE on Linux

Edward Diener wrote: Thomas Rast wrote: Edward Diener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: It is a pity the Python Linux binary installations do not create folders on the desktop or in the Gnome menu system with links to the Python to the documentation and a readme telling me what executables were installe

Re: Docorator Disected

Ron_Adam wrote: > > So I didn't know I could do this: > > def foo(a1): > def fee(a2): > return a1+a2 > return fee > > fum = foo(2)(6) <-- !!! Ah, so you did not know functions are objects just like numbers, strings or dictionaries. I think you may have been influenced by othe

Re: Lambda: the Ultimate Design Flaw

Torsten Bronger wrote: HallÃchen! Daniel Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Shriram Krishnamurthi has just announced the following elsewhere; it might be of interest to c.l.s, c.l.f, and c.l.p: http://list.cs.brown.edu/pipermail/plt-scheme/2005-April/008382.html The Fate Of LAMBDA in

Re: Finding attributes in a list

> class Player(object): >def __init__(self, **kw): self.__dict__.update(kw) >def __repr__(self): return ''%getattr(self, 'name', > '(anonymous)') > > import operator > [p.name for p in sorted(players, key=operator.attrgetter('attacking'), > reverse=True)] Just happened to read this threa

Re: Docorator Disected

On 2 Apr 2005 20:02:47 -0800, "El Pitonero" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Ron_Adam wrote: >> >> So I didn't know I could do this: >> >> def foo(a1): >> def fee(a2): >> return a1+a2 >> return fee >> >> fum = foo(2)(6) <-- !!! > >Ah, so you did not know functions are objects just

Re: Finding attributes in a list

On Saturday 02 April 2005 08:44 pm, Marcus Goldfish wrote: >(2) The Player class looks like a nice model for a data table when one > wants to sort by arbitrary column. Would you agree? The Player class is (and any class) is absolutely fabulous when you have heterogenous data (string,

Re: Finding attributes in a list

On Saturday 02 April 2005 09:51 pm, James Stroud wrote: > where team could be initialized by a tuple: > >   class Team(list): >     def __init__(self, azip): >       for azip in alist: >         self.data.append(Player(atup)) Sorry, this should read: where team could be initialized by a list of t

Re: Decorator Dissection

Ron_Adam wrote: I wasn't aware that the form: result = function(args)(args) Was a legal python statement. So python has a built in mechanism for passing multiple argument sets to nested defined functions! (click) Which means this is a decorator without the decorator syntax. No. There is no

Re: Lambda: the Ultimate Design Flaw

Artie Gold wrote: > Torsten Bronger wrote: >> Hallöchen! >> >> Daniel Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> >>>Shriram Krishnamurthi has just announced the following elsewhere; it >>>might be of interest to c.l.s, c.l.f, and c.l.p: >>>http://list.cs.brown.edu/pipermail/plt-scheme/2005-April/0

Re: Docorator Disected

Ron_Adam wrote: Ah, so you did not know functions are objects just like numbers, strings or dictionaries. I think you may have been influenced by other languages where there is a concept of static declaration of functions. No, I did not know that you could pass multiple sets of arguments to nested

Re: testing -- what to do for testing code with behaviour dependant upon which files exist?

"Brian van den Broek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi all, > > I'm just starting to employ unit testing (I'm using doctest), and I am > uncertain how to handle writing tests where the behaviour being tested is > dependant on whether certain file paths point to ac

threading.Event file descriptor

Hi, Is there any way to get the file descriptor on Unix or handle on Windows associated internally with a threading.Event object? So that it can be used in a call to select or WaitForMultipleObjects. Thx and regards, Nicolas -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Finding attributes in a list

On Sat, 2 Apr 2005 23:44:11 -0500, Marcus Goldfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> class Player(object): >>def __init__(self, **kw): self.__dict__.update(kw) >>def __repr__(self): return ''%getattr(self, 'name', >> '(anonymous)') >> >> import operator >> [p.name for p in sorted(players, key

Re: Docorator Disected

On Sun, 03 Apr 2005 05:09:07 GMT, Ron_Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 2 Apr 2005 20:02:47 -0800, "El Pitonero" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: > >>Ron_Adam wrote: >>> >>> So I didn't know I could do this: >>> >>> def foo(a1): >>> def fee(a2): >>> return a1+a2 >>> return fee >>> >>>

python-dev Summary for 2005-03-16 through 2005-03-31 (my last)

[The HTML version of this Summary is available at http://www.python.org/dev/summary/2005-03-16_2005-03-31.html] = Summary Announcements = --- My last summary --- So, after nearly 2.5 years, this is my final python-dev Summary. Ste

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