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> a 0.0680 s, a 1.2040 s, a 9.5823 s, a 81.9688 s,
My times are very nearly linear:
a 0.0280 s, a 0.2931 s, a 2.9006 s, a 29.4318 s,
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> else:
> numbers.append(chip)
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> print(sum(numbers))
Why would you not keep a running total, rather than list of the numbers?
I've not been following assiduously, so maybe I missed some other
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Bart writes:
> On 07/02/2019 20:45, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
>> Ian Clark writes:
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>>> This is my whack at it, I can't wait to hear about it being the wrong big o
>>> notation!
>>>
>>> numbers=[]
>>>
>>> while len(numbers)
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> On 2019-02-07, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
>> Ian Clark writes:
>>
>>> This is my whack at it, I can't wait to hear about it being the wrong big o
>>> notation!
>>>
>>> numbers=[]
>>>
>>> while len
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The material I cut did include the explanation so go back and read the
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Michael Torrie writes:
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> >> If I call `_c_to_f`, `_f_to_c` methods on `self` instead of
> >> `RefrigeratedShippingContainer` class object, still it works.
> >
> > That's right, and is inde
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what to do with duplicates. The question should be worded so that it's
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r...@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes:
> Ben Bacarisse writes:
>>Ranjith Bantu writes:
>>>can I solve any problems like this by learning python?
>>You need to learn how to solve problems as well as learning Python --
>
> I do not separate "solv
r?
> PS Since I am going through the list fully the only optimisation I can
> think of a generator to feed it seems sort of redundant. Unless of
> course it was a list of 10,000 numbers then maybe its useful.
I'm not sure what was meant here. I can think of one micro-optimisation
but I'd want to test to see if really makes and difference.
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d, of course, be loads of /other/ things
that would be potential "gotcha"s.)
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you need to know at least one actual age, rather
than just the age gaps. Maybe the exercise is to write a function that
takes the age of, say, the youngest child and then calculates the
inheritances?
Anyway, your starting point will be to work through an example on paper
so you are clear abo
uot;:
> print("Integer")
>
> Why isn't this working? Advance thanks for your time.
See if this helps...
>>> type(5)
>>> type(type(5))
>>> type("")
so you are comparing two things with different types. An analogous
situation w
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ry limited way, fudge it like this:
def myrepr(e):
if isinstance(e, types.BuiltinFunctionType):
return e.__name__
return repr(e)
The trouble is that print does not always mean print because that
identifier can be rebound. Python could try to provide some /other/
name for every object, one that can't be rebound (something like an
environment + string lookup) but it's probably not worth it.
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do you need to also have them bound to separate names; what problem
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The above code produces this output, without any need for binding new
names. So what is it you are actually trying to achieve, and why do you
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, 'b', 'c', 'd']
>
> But my question is: Is there any good reason why the split function
> should give an "empty separator" error? I think the meaning of trying
> to split a string into a list using the empty string as a delimiter is
> unambi
Danilo Coccia writes:
> Il 18/07/2019 12:27, Ben Bacarisse ha scritto:
>> Irv Kalb writes:
>>
>>> I have always thought that split and join are opposite functions. For
>>> example, you can use a comma as a delimiter:
>>>
>>>>>> m
is duplicated in IDL?
If the second one were not there, this:
JMP: IF WK(L-1,K-1) EQ 0 THEN BEGIN
L=L+1
GOTO, JMP
ENDIF
would just be a while loop:
while WK[L-1,K-1] == 0:
L=L+1
By the way, all those -1s suggest that the IDL was itself a translation
from a language with 1-based array indexing. All that might be able to
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OC SQL;', '')]
Your main issue is that | binds weakly. Your whole pattern tries to
match any one of just four short sub-patterns:
PROC SQL;
proc sql;(.*?)RUN;
quit;
QUIT;
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A S writes:
> On Thursday, 12 December 2019 02:28:09 UTC+8, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
>> A S writes:
>>
>> > I would like to extract all words within specific keywords in a .txt
>> > file. For the keywords, there is a starting keyword of "PROC SQL;" (I
J.Staaf - ¡Móchate! _PromoMix_.wav
?
^
What am I missing when it comes to unquoting the string, or should I do some
other fancy operation on the drive string?
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On Saturday, 21 December 2019 21:46:43 UTC, Ben Hearn wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I am having a bit of trouble with a string mismatch operation in my tool I am
> writing.
>
> I am comparing a database collection or url quoted paths to the paths on the
> users drive.
&g
moi writes:
>>>> 'ÿ'.encode('utf-8')
> b'\xc3\xbf'
>>>> 'ÿ'.encode('utf-16-le')
> b'\xff\x00'
>>>> 'ÿ'.encode('utf-32-le')
> b'\xff\x00\x00\x00'
That all lo
moi writes:
> Le jeudi 5 mars 2020 13:20:38 UTC+1, Ben Bacarisse a écrit :
>> moi writes:
>>
>> >>>> 'ÿ'.encode('utf-8')
>> > b'\xc3\xbf'
>> >>>> 'ÿ'.encode('utf-16-le')
>> >
moi writes:
> Le jeudi 5 mars 2020 13:20:38 UTC+1, Ben Bacarisse a écrit :
>> moi writes:
>>
>> >>>> 'ÿ'.encode('utf-8')
>> > b'\xc3\xbf'
>> >>>> 'ÿ'.encode('utf-16-le')
>> >
moi writes:
> Le jeudi 5 mars 2020 13:20:38 UTC+1, Ben Bacarisse a ÄCcrit :
>> moi writes:
>>
>> >>>> 'Ä¿'.encode('utf-8')
>> > b'\xc3\xbf'
>> >>>> 'Ä¿'.encode('utf-16-le')
>&g
uage will
> start to work properly.
>>> "ÿ".encode('iso-8859-1')
b'\xff'
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To:
I have
;t know your intent is far as defaults go.)
> The documentation says that an absolute path in the parameter list for
> join will discard all previous parameters but '\\' is not an absoute
> path!
I think it is. The picture is messy on Windows (because of the drive
letter) but
.
If c:\x\y is a file, calling it c:\x\y\ won't change that, but it might
give you an error when you try to access it. That may be what you want.
If so, appending '.' is likely to be more portable.
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BlindAnagram writes:
> On 27/05/2020 13:30, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
>> BlindAnagram writes:
>>
>>> The issue that I raised here was whether the behaviour of os.path.join()
>>> in treating the Windows directory separator '\\' as an absolute path
>>
BlindAnagram writes:
> On 27/05/2020 16:53, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
>> As it should. Relying on a trailing \ having the right effect is
>> brittle to say the least.
>
> In my case less brittle than leaving it out.
Brittle does not mean broken. I know you can fix it by mak
Roel Schroeven writes:
> Ben Bacarisse schreef op 27/05/2020 om 17:53:
>> There is well-known (*nix) software that relies on a/b/c/ meaning
>> something different to a/b/c but I don't know anyone who thinks this is
>> a good idea. It causes no end of confusion.
>
&
t(add)
>
> output: 9
Hint:
reduce(f, [e1, e2]) is f(e1, e2)
reduce(f, [e1, e2, e3]) is f(f(e1, e2), e3)
reduce(f, [e1, e2, e3, e4]) is f(f(f(e1, e2), e3), e4)
Replace f with a function that adds one to its first argument. Does
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> 0
> 1
> 2
def f(i = [0]):
i[0] += 1
return i[0]
print(f())
print(f())
print(f())
maybe? More than a bit yucky, though.
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u could even make
a single pattern like this:
(?=.*t.*t)(?=.*a)
While there are probably better ways in Python, this is what I'd do on
the command line. For example
$ grep -P '(?=.*t.*t)(?=.*a)' word-list | wc -l
45677
$ grep 't.*t' word-list | grep a | wc -l
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> End users HATE PDF. Why?
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> It takes so long for the reader to load.
xpdf comes up almost instantly here. Maybe end users should
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if you need to
represent bidirectional connections. Then you can perform search on
that as required. The only slight complication is avoiding infinite
loops - I might use a dictionary of address->boolean values here and
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unplugged, or a timeout along the way, etc. 5% is a high figure, but
perhaps you connect to hosts that are unreliable for some reason.
You don't have control over this really; just make sure you handle the
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thread. You could perhaps use an Event object here, which has the
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here's little Python can do about it. ;)
Which part of the code issues the overflow error? I'm guessing it's the
draw.point() call since that's the only bit I can't test.
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way to do this? I don't like the idea of
looping through 100+ sprites and test them each an arbitary number of
times every update. Is this just something unavoidable which should be
written in C for speed and included with SWIG or something similar?
Ben
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em with Python and its libraries, sadly.
The same almost certainly goes for most open source projects.
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Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If I want to implement a __repr__ that's reasonably "nice" to the
> programmer, what's the Right Way? Are there recipes I should look
> at?
As a (carefully selected) example from the code I'm writing:
;>> t2 += 12345678910
>>> # Note, both t1 and t2 have been incremented by the same amount.
>>> print t1-t2
0.0389995574951
It appears Yu-Xi Lim beat me to the punch. Using decimal as opposed to
float sorts out this error as floats are not built to handle the size of
number used here.
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On Mon, October 31, 2005 10:23, Sybren Stuvel said:
> Ben O'Steen enlightened us with:
>> Using decimal as opposed to float sorts out this error as floats are
>> not built to handle the size of number used here.
>
> They can handle the size just fine. What they can't
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Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ben Finney wrote:
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> > class Human_Sex(str):
> > def __repr__(self):
> > repr_str = "%s(name=%s)" % (
> >
Erik Max Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ben Finney wrote:
> > If I want to implement a __repr__ that's reasonably "nice" to the
> > programmer, what's the Right Way? Are there recipes I should look
> > at?
>
> I tend to use:
>
>
ot possibly suit
everybody? You can append "body { font-family: sans-serif; font-size:
10pt; }" to the CSS and make it look 'professional' but it doesn't make
it more readable. Really this just comes down to preconceptions over
how a site 'should' look based on ot
Björn Lindström wrote:
> Actually it does set some fonts ("avantgarde" and
> "lucidasomethignorother") as first choices. I guess you, like me, and
> probably most people in here, doesn't have those installed.
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> the problem is the '..' operator in perl. Is there any equivalent in
> python?
I can't think of anything with a similar operation, to be honest. I'd
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> Actually, no, it's to xor all the bits together and store them in a single
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I'd use 'or' rather than 'xor'. The or operator is more likely to yield
a '1' at the end of it, and a 1 is narrower than a 0, o
ot of refactoring later, but in Python this is rarely a
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> correct, or am I falling prey to FUD?
Python is a good language for rapid development and hence testing. So
you could probably create a quick mock-up of your system and then write
some scripts to place it under heavy stress to see how well it holds
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> of the future (hey, even *MSFT* noticed that recently, it seems...).
But they are not suitable for all applications, and probably never will
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heard, even legal fees.
I think that's a poor example - the cost hasn't come from the mere act
of adding protection, but the method in which that protection operates.
I don't think anybody here - certainly not me - is talking about
infecting a user's system to protect our
e, as Alex pointed out, all of these are just keeping honest
> people honest. The crooks have all the advantages in this game, so you
> really can't expect to win.
No, certainly not. But if you can mitigate your losses easily enough -
without infringing upon anyone else's rights, I must add - then why not
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> Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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