So I've recently had a stroke of insanity, deciding that what the
open-source Quake III engine *really* needs is a good, healthy dose of
Python.
Here's the quick version: The Q3 engine is split into the engine
(responsible for rendering, sound, networking, input, and collision
detection) and t
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> I'd love to say it has been fun, but it has been more frustrating than
> enjoyable. I don't mind an honest disagreement between people who
Honest disagreement requires parties who are reasonably informed, and
who are willing not to form opinions about things that they have
Russ wrote:
> If a debugger could tell you how many references exist to an object,
> that would be helpful.
import sys
sys.getrefcount(a)
But I doubt it would be very helpful.
Carl Banks
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"Alex Mizrahi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> PR> I don't see how to implement coroutines with CL macros. Maybe I'm
> PR> missing something.
>
> read the book.
Which book?
> but once you convert it to CPS, you just operate with closures. stack is
> just a lexical variables caught into closure
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Well, having read a lot of this thread, I can see one of the
> reasons why the software profession might want to avoid
> lispies. With advocacy like this, who needs detractors?
And thus your plan for breaking into the software profession is ... to
develop Usenet advocac
Leanne wrote:
> I have been using Python for only a few months part-time and have
> recently had my first encounter with retrieving user input from
> checkboxes. I have a problem with the way Python reads the input
> values from a set of checkboxes on a webpage.
>
> The values assigned to the che
Niels L Ellegaard wrote:
> Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote:
> > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Niels L
> > Ellegaard wrote:
> > > I have been using scipy for some time now, but in the beginning I made
> > > a few mistakes with copying by reference.
> > But "copying by reference" is the way Python works.
Paul Rubin wrote:
> "Kaz Kylheku" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > Lisp just seems hopelessly old-fashioned to me these days. A
> > > modernized version would be cool, but I think the more serious
> > > Lisp-like language designers have moved on to newer ideas.
> >
> > What are some of their name
what is a good alternate language to learn? i just want something to expand
my mind and hopefully reduce or delay any chance of alzheimer's. i would
especially like to hear from those of you who learned python _before_ these
languages.
haskell, erlang, ocaml, mozart/oz, rebel, etc.
i don't requir
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Python has to rely more on using the right algorithm...
>
> This sound familiar: "Macros are dangerous!"
Yes. I changed my opinion on advocating Python having macros in one
of our long threads on the subject. Maintainance counts.
> "Compilers make you lazy."
This is n
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
> I find it amusing that most of the arguments that python-people are
> making in this thread are actually the arguments that C++ and Java make
> against Python. "Who needs dynamic typing?", "Who needs closures?",
> "The idea of using whitespace for syntax is beyond stup
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