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post that explains it is here: http://benlast.livejournal.com/30871.html (I've
added to it since then).
Tests are the best explanation, and they're in the __init__ at the end so
that they're self-executing if the init is executed.
I'm thinking about other features to i
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> From: "Anders J. Munch" <2...@jmunch.dk>
> Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 13:38:35 +0200
> Ben Last wrote:
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>> north_american_number_re = (RE().start
>> .literal('(
> From: Gregory Ewing
> To: python-list@python.org
> Is 'dash' the same as 'literal("-")'?
>
Yes, it's a convenience method, like 'dot' and 'underscore'. The code I
pasted is from the unit tests, where I use the different methods to push
coverage up.
> Is there any difference between 'then' and
cutems93 writes:
> I am currently doing some research on testing software for Python. I
> found that there are many different types of testing tools. These are
> what I've found.
You will find these discussed at the Python Testing Tools Taxonomy
http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonTestingToolsTaxo
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> >> My sole point, really, is that "normally", one would expect these two
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And when the real domain to be modelled almost certainly has people as a
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That's not a license for such behaviour, but an observation on its
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I'd say that so long as you phrase your assertions to indicate the level
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> >> On 23/08/12 05:14, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> >>> I think that's uncalled for.
> > […]
> >
> >> Excellent advice as usual, but I
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> to emphasise the subtle differences between Python and other
> languages, rather than the similarities.
No offense taken.
> Again, context is important:
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I don't know of any real-life code which would be significantly improved
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> > On Mon, 03 Sep 2012 15:29:05 +0200, Christian Heimes wrote:
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> > > def opener(file, flags):
> > > return os.open(file, flags | os.O_EXCL)
>
> why not c
more Pythonic, expose those numeric modes using strings:
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> open(file, 'wx')
Which is, indeed, another improvement in Python 3.3 – the ‘x’ mode for
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Howdy all,
Where can I find a standard implementation of the docstring parsing and
splitting algorithm from PEP 257?
PEP 257 describes a convention of structure and formatting for
docstrings http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0257/>. Docstrings
that conform to this convention can therefore be pa
Joel Goldstick writes:
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> > On 9/17/2012 10:03 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
> >> Where can I find a standard implementation of the docstring parsing
> >> and splitting algorithm from PEP 257?
>
> Do you know abo
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You should find a Linux job board for that.
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the assignment then fails, but succeeds when clear() is not called.
When should I be calling clear() in this case to maximize speed?
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I managed to solve this using the following method:
"""Returns a dictionary of indexes of spectra for which there are secondary
scans, along with the indexes of those scans
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context = cElementTree.iterparse(self.info['filename']
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> On Mon, 22 Oct 2012 13:51:35 +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
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> > Walter Hurry writes:
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> >> plonked posts from there ages ago, and am about to remedy that
> >> omission.
ething* before your
target into every RE implementation around.
> examples
>
> $hello$ should not be selected but
> not hello but all of the $hello$ and $hello$ ... $hello$ each one
> selected
I have taken your $s to be literal. That's not 100 obvious since $ is a
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Kind of you to single me out, but it was Janis Papanagnou who first
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