My google-fu has failed me in finding info on %h and %l string
formatting codes.
>>> '%h' %'hello'
exceptions.ValueError: incomplete format
>>> '%l' %'hello'
exceptions.ValueError: incomplete format
Does anyone know what doing a "complete format" means?
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Cai Gengyang wrote:
So, I’m on section (3. The Tip) …
Instructions
1.
Set the variable tip to decimal value of 15% on line 5.
This was my input:
You’re almost there! Assign the tip variable on line 5.
meal = 44.50
tax = 6.75 / 100
tip = 15.0
But, when I tried to run the program, I don’t get a
Zubair Shaikh wrote:
What version of Python to install Windows 7 professional 64 bit, intel core i5
You're joking, right? What is your budget?
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Paul Rubin wrote:
Ben Finney writes:
I've never seen one.
who has told you... they are working on a Python 3 code base.
Just because they've told me about it doesn't mean I saw it personally.
The ones I've seen, including new ones, are Python 2.
Some people here use Py3 but I haven't heard (
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Wed, 13 Sep 2017 09:08:41 -0400, Darin Gordon wrote:
Bryan Cantrill gave an interesting talk recently at a Node conference
about "platform values" [1].
For those of us who don't have the time or inclination to watch a video,
or who are unable to, could you summarise t
santosh.yelamar...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
Can anyone help me in the below issue.
I need to convert string to dictionary
string = " 'msisdn': '7382432382', 'action': 'select', 'sessionId': '123',
'recipient': '7382432382', 'language': 'english'"
Can anyone help me with the code
I'm new to Pyt
Rick Johnson wrote:
I think for most languages an intuitive syntax is not
important -- C is such a language, Lisp is such a language,
Perl is such a language, and there are many more -- but
for Python, intuitiveness is very important.
I guess it depends on what you mean by "important" ("importan
n
the implementation. It would be interesting to compare the results if
you used the optimize option (it's either -o or -O).
Bill
C:\usr\share\robin\pythonDoc>python -m timeit -s"values=(1,2,None)"
"any(v is None for v in values)"
100 loops, best of 3: 0.62 usec p
Steve D'Aprano wrote:
In "any(v is None for v in values)", "any" probably isn't called until
its argument is (fully) known.
No, its a generator expression, so it provides the values one at a time, as
needed.
Okay, thank you for setting me straight. I'm only about 2 weeks down
this road so
Joey Steward wrote:
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From: Joey Steward
Date: Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 10:30 PM
Subject: Issues with python commands in windows powershell
To: python-list@python.org
Hello,
I've been having issues using basic python commands in windows powershell.
Did you
try calling json.loads with that as an argument.
Share with us what happens!
Good luck,
Bill
john polo wrote:
Greetings,
I am using IPython 6.1.0 with Python 3.6.2 on a Windows 7 machine. I
am not a programmer. I am using a book called Python Data Analytics to
try to learn some of Python. I
john polo wrote:
Greetings,
I am using IPython 6.1.0 with Python 3.6.2 on a Windows 7 machine. I
am not a programmer. I am using a book called Python Data Analytics to
try to learn some of Python. I am at a section for reading and writing
JSON data. The example JSON file is:
Listing 5-13.
Stefan Ram wrote:
Dennis Lee Bieber writes:
After removing all the \xa0 bytes
and trying to decode it I get...
Apparenty an \xa0 byte corresponds to a "non-breaking space". What sort
of white space characters are allowed in a json file ( tabs and
newlines?)? Just curious.
B
Ned Batchelder wrote:
On 9/20/17 8:22 PM, Bill wrote:
Apparenty an \xa0 byte corresponds to a "non-breaking space". What
sort of white space characters are allowed in a json file ( tabs and
newlines?)? Just curious.
These things can be looked up. From RFC 7159
(https://tool
Stefan Ram wrote:
bartc writes:
On 20/09/2017 02:31, Bill wrote:
it's implementation, I would say that C++ has it all over Python from
the point of view of "intuitiveness". It's much easier to tell what's
going on, at a glance, in a C++ program.
You're being se
Stefan Ram wrote:
Bill writes:
Stefan Ram wrote:
bartc writes:
On 20/09/2017 02:31, Bill wrote:
it's implementation, I would say that C++ has it all over Python from
the point of view of "intuitiveness". It's much easier to tell what's
going on, at a glance,
Stefan Ram wrote:
Just as Python's »string[::-1]« appears "obfuscated"
to readers who don't know Python.
I understand string[::-1] after only studying python for a day or two
(I've only been studying it for 2 weeks at this point). A student could
study C++ for a semester or more and not e
Stefan Ram wrote:
Bill writes:
I understand string[::-1] after only studying python for a day or two
(I've only been studying it for 2 weeks at this point). A student could
study C++ for a semester or more and not encounter templates until they
studied data structures. So in short, I
Stefan Ram wrote:
Bill writes:
"Essential Reference", and I would say that Python is definitely a
bigger, and more complicated language than C++. In some aspects it has
simpler syntax. But consider all of the ways that you can pass
arguments to a function, for instance. There are
Steve D'Aprano wrote:
On Fri, 22 Sep 2017 02:57 pm, Bill wrote:
I find Python to be more more
like Java, with regard to "passing objects by reference".
Which is not a surprise, since both Python and Java use the same value passing
style: pass by object reference, or pass by
Stefan Ram wrote:
Bill writes:
Stefan Ram wrote:
bartc writes:
On 20/09/2017 02:31, Bill wrote:
it's implementation, I would say that C++ has it all over Python from
the point of view of "intuitiveness". It's much easier to tell what's
going on, at a glance,
Bill wrote:
Stefan Ram wrote:
Bill writes:
Stefan Ram wrote:
bartc writes:
On 20/09/2017 02:31, Bill wrote:
it's implementation, I would say that C++ has it all over Python
from
the point of view of "intuitiveness". It's much easier to tell
what's
goin
Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
Bill :
I figure that, internally, an address, a pointer, is being passed by
value to implement pass by reference. Why do you say "they are right"
above? Are you saying it's not pass by reference?
Thank you for your examples. I studied them careful
Mark Lawrence wrote:
On 22/09/2017 08:01, Bill wrote:
Steve D'Aprano wrote:
On Fri, 22 Sep 2017 02:57 pm, Bill wrote:
I find Python to be more more
like Java, with regard to "passing objects by reference".
Which is not a surprise, since both Python and Java use the same
value
Bill wrote:
Mark Lawrence wrote:
On 22/09/2017 08:01, Bill wrote:
Steve D'Aprano wrote:
On Fri, 22 Sep 2017 02:57 pm, Bill wrote:
I find Python to be more more
like Java, with regard to "passing objects by reference".
Which is not a surprise, since both Python and Java use
be removed.
I am new to Python. Maybe someone here is familiar with an elegant way
to get the the value of b directly from the string s? Hmm... It appears
that eval() would work (see "Python: Essential Reference", p. 115). I
just read about that for the first time last night! I
Bill wrote:
Cai Gengyang wrote:
Hey guys, I'm testing this on CodeAcademy, but I cant get the program
to output a result even after pressing the run button. Just wanted to
check if my logic is correct. Thanks alot
Your answers appear correct, but you could write Python statements to
test
Steve D'Aprano wrote:
On Sat, 23 Sep 2017 03:01 pm, Bill wrote:
s='(20 - 10) > 15'
b=(20 - 10) > 15
print(s, " is ", ("true" if b else "false") ); ## inside parentheses
may be removed.
I am new to Python. Maybe someone here is fam
validationma...@gmail.com wrote:
i have a code in python to search and replace what i need though is to replace
the first say 10 instances of the number 1 with 2 and the second 10 instances
with the number 3. anybody knows how to do that?
Do you mean the (integer) number 1 or the character '1'?
Bill wrote:
validationma...@gmail.com wrote:
i have a code in python to search and replace what i need though is
to replace the first say 10 instances of the number 1 with 2 and the
second 10 instances with the number 3. anybody knows how to do that?
Do you mean the (integer) number 1 or the
d seeing s)---if you had 5 or more statements a in a row like that,
you would "miss" seeing the string s! : )
Bill
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Stephan Houben wrote:
Op 2017-09-23, Rick Johnson schreef :
These pissing contests over how values are passed in Python
are totally irrelevant. What does it matter? Nothing will be
gained or lost by arguing over which is true, or not. Unless
the distinction is preventing you from doing something
Chris Angelico wrote:
On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 8:18 AM, Bill wrote:
Stephan Houben wrote:
Op 2017-09-23, Rick Johnson schreef :
These pissing contests over how values are passed in Python
are totally irrelevant. What does it matter? Nothing will be
gained or lost by arguing over which is true
Steve D'Aprano wrote:
On Sun, 24 Sep 2017 08:18 am, Bill wrote:
All one has to do, I think, is consider (1) that passing objects by
"making copies" of them, would be prohibitively expensive
Swift passes certain values (but not others!) by value and makes a copy. Tha
Chris Angelico wrote:
On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 5:35 AM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
Chris Angelico :
On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 12:26 AM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
Sorry, that was my bad in the terminology. But where do you get that
all Python expressions evaluate to pointers?
What do they evaluate to if
Tim Golden wrote:
On 25/09/2017 20:40, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
Rhodri James :
On 25/09/17 15:26, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
That's not what I said. I said all expressions *evaluate to* pointers.
This may well be true in particular implementations, but it is an
implementation detail so Chris' point
Steve D'Aprano wrote:
On Wed, 27 Sep 2017 02:03 am, Stefan Ram wrote:
Steve D'Aprano writes:
On Tue, 26 Sep 2017 03:26 am, Antoon Pardon wrote:
at that moment, but it still needed correction. If the assignment is
an alias operator then after the statements
Here's some C++ code that demonstr
"--but that was a while back. I can still see their
use causing potential trouble in (really-long) real-world code.
Bill
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Thank you for all of the feedback provided! It was just what I was
looking for. : )
I'm going to go back and read some of the links more carefully.
Bill
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Steve D'Aprano wrote:
Similarly for break and continue.
I can still see their
use causing potential trouble in (really-long) real-world code.
How so?
Besides, if your code is "really long", you probably should factorise it into
smaller, meaningful chunks.
I worked in maintenance programm
Paul Moore wrote:
On 27 September 2017 at 17:41, leam hall wrote:
Hehe...I've been trying to figure out how to phrase a question. Knowing I'm
not the only one who gets frustrated really helps.
I'm trying to learn to be a programmer. I can look at a book and read basic
code in a few languages b
Chris Angelico wrote:
On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 5:45 AM, Bill wrote:
Paul Moore wrote:
On 27 September 2017 at 17:41, leam hall wrote:
Hehe...I've been trying to figure out how to phrase a question. Knowing
I'm
not the only one who gets frustrated really helps.
I'm trying t
Chris Angelico wrote:
On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 6:59 AM, Bill wrote:
Chris Angelico wrote:
Be careful with this one. For anything other than trivial errors (and
even for some trivial errors), finding the bug is basically searching
through a problem space of all things that could potentially
Steve D'Aprano wrote:
On Thu, 28 Sep 2017 03:56 pm, Bill wrote:
I worked in maintenance programming. You got the hand you were dealt!
And you weren't allowed to "improve" the code unless the customer
contracted you to do so.
How do you tell the difference between a
Steve D'Aprano wrote:
(say). Reading error messages is a skill that must be learned, even in Python.
Let alone (say) gcc error messages, which are baroque to an extreme. The other
day I was getting an error like:
/tmp/ccchKJVU.o: In function `__static_initialization_and_destruction_0(int,
int)'
Stefan Ram wrote:
The customer pays for the solution. The software
manufacturer does the refactoring for it's own sake,
because when it's a longer running project, the
refactorings will pay for themself.
The customer owns the source code (at least where I was). YMMV
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Chris Angelico wrote:
On Sat, Sep 30, 2017 at 2:42 AM, Steve D'Aprano
wrote:
Oh, and I'd like to make a (moderate) defense of a kind of "bug fixing by random
perturbation". Obviously making unrelated, arbitrary changes to code is bad.
But making non-arbitrary but not fully understood changes to
I spent a few hours experimenting with @property. To my mind it seems
like it would be preferable to just define (override) instance methods
__get__(), __set__(), and possibly __del__(), as desired, as I could
easily provide them with "ideal" customization. Am I overlooking somethi
Ned Batchelder wrote:
On 9/30/17 5:47 PM, Bill wrote:
I spent a few hours experimenting with @property. To my mind it seems
like it would be preferable to just define (override) instance
methods __get__(), __set__(), and possibly __del__(), as desired, as
I could easily provide them with
Steve D'Aprano wrote:
On Sun, 1 Oct 2017 08:47 am, Bill wrote:
I spent a few hours experimenting with @property. To my mind it seems
like it would be preferable to just define (override) instance methods
__get__(), __set__(), and possibly __del__(), as desired, as I could
easily provide
Ned Batchelder wrote:
On 9/30/17 7:18 PM, Bill wrote:
Ned Batchelder wrote:
On 9/30/17 5:47 PM, Bill wrote:
I spent a few hours experimenting with @property. To my mind it
seems like it would be preferable to just define (override)
instance methods __get__(), __set__(), and possibly __del__
u think are good, I would
be interested.
Thanks,
Bill
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Steve D'Aprano wrote:
[1] Technically, the interpreter knows nothing about properties. What it cares
about is *descriptors*. Properties are just one kind of descriptor, as are
methods. But I'm intentionally not talking about the gory details of
descriptors. Feel free to ask if you care, but hone
Steve D'Aprano wrote:
On Sun, 1 Oct 2017 05:46 pm, Bill wrote:
If you were going to show non-Python users, say science undergraduates
and faculty, that Python is an interesting tool (in 45 minutes), would
one delve into descriptors?
Hell no :-)
Oops, I see I used the word "descript
Stephan Houben wrote:
Op 2017-10-01, Bill schreef :
I watched an example on YouTube where someone wrote a simple descriptor
("@Time_it) to output the amount of time that it took ordinary functions
to complete.To be honest, I AM interested in descriptors.
Are you sure you are not conf
Steve D'Aprano wrote:
The definitive explanation of descriptors is here:
https://docs.python.org/3/howto/descriptor.html
Thank you! It is next on my list. Then I'll try that Circle problem
you mentioned as an exercise last night! I don't expect run into any
difficulties. : )
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n exercise :-)
It WAS a good exercise!! I was concerned about "infinite recursion"
between my two property setters.. Thanks! Next? :)
Bill
import math
class Circle(object):
""" Define a circle class with radius and diameter""" def __i
Chris Angelico wrote:
On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 6:23 AM, Larry Hudson via Python-list
wrote:
On 10/01/2017 03:52 PM, Bill wrote:
Steve D'Aprano wrote:
The definitive explanation of descriptors is here:
https://docs.python.org/3/howto/descriptor.html
Thank you! It is next on my list.
Steve D'Aprano wrote:
There's no need to set the radius and the diameter, as one is completely derived
from the other
Good point; I'm glad I submitted my code for grading. Sort of a "trick
question" to ask me to add diameter and then take off points becaus
eason I might do that yet (first things first... ).
Thanks!
Bill
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Bill wrote:
Chris Angelico wrote:
Decorators are fairly straight-forward if you understand higher-order
functions.
ChrisA
I was just minding my own business, and thought to write my first
decorator for a simple *recursive* function f. The decorator WORKS if
f does not make a call to
Steve D'Aprano wrote:
On Tue, 3 Oct 2017 06:51 am, Bill wrote:
Can you inspire me with a good decorator problem (standard homework
exercise-level will be fine)?
Here is a nice even dozen problems for you. Please ask for clarification if any
are unclear.
Thank you for sharing the pro
Stefan Ram wrote:
Is this the best way to write a "loop and a half" in Python?
Is your goal brevity or clarity, or something else (for instance, what
does the code written by the other members of your "team" look
like--woudn't it be nice if it matched)?
Bill
Leam Hall wrote:
A while back I pointed out some challenges for the Python community's
intake of new coders. Mostly focusing on IRC and the Python e-mail list.
What is the Python e-mail list?
Thanks,
Bill
Several people have stepped up their "welcome" game and I've
Stefan Ram wrote:
One might wish to implement a small language with these commands:
Explain why. What is the advantage?
F - move forward
B - move backward
L - larger stepsize
S - smaller stepsize
. One could start with the following pseudocode for a dictionary:
{ 'F': lambda: myturtl
n shown so far.
As long as I have two teachers here, which textbooks are you using? I am
hoping to teach a college course in Python next fall.
Thanks,
Bill
The basic course may already and there after about 12 - 18 hours.
(This time includes many exercises in the classroom.)
B
Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
That's good advice, but it's not all that dangerous to express off-topic
statements in this newsgroup.
It may not be "dangerous", but I find it a little annoying. I wasn't
going to say anything, but now you are bringing it up explicitly.
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Fetchinson . wrote:
Hi folks,
I have a rather simple program which cycles through a bunch of files,
does some operation on them, and then quits. There are 500 files
involved and each operation takes about 5-10 MB of memory. As you'll
see I tried to make every attempt at removing everything at th
rankings on
Amazon.com. That doesn't mean that either of them is right for
everybody. Come back to Stroustrup's book "after" you learn C++
somewhere else, and maybe you'll enjoy it more.
Bill
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ou still need folks who can encode
data structures and write device drivers, from scratch. And "woe" if
you need performance, such as applications involving AI.
Cheers,
Bill
But even if it were the best language in the world, and Stroustrup the
greatest language designer in the
Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
On Tue, 10 Oct 2017 20:48:26 -0400, Bill
declaimed the following:
cast stones at C/C++. People started programming in C in the late 70's,
and before that some were programming in B ("B Programming Language"),
Preceded by BCPL (which leads t
Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2017-10-11, Bill wrote:
[...] I'm not here to "cast stones", I like Python. I just think
that you shouldn't cast stones at C/C++.
Not while PHP exists. There aren't enough stones in the world...
PHP seems (seemed?) popular for laying
Mikhail V wrote:
[...] I'm not here to "cast stones", I like Python. I just think
that you shouldn't cast stones at C/C++.
Not while PHP exists. There aren't enough stones in the world...
PHP seems (seemed?) popular for laying out web pages. Are their vastly
superior options?
Python? Superi
Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2017-10-11, Bill wrote:
Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2017-10-11, Bill wrote:
[...] I'm not here to "cast stones", I like Python. I just think
that you shouldn't cast stones at C/C++.
Not while PHP exists. There aren't enough stones in the wor
Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
Grant Edwards :
I like [const qualifiers] in C because it allows the linker to place
them in ROM with the code. It also _sometimes_ provides useful
diagnostics when you pass a pointer to something which shouldn't be
modified to something that is going to try to modify it.
f scope, nothing points to that newly created object
and it gets lost.
The problem and both solutions are great! Thanks for posting!
Bill
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Fabien wrote:
On 10/25/2017 03:07 PM, Thomas Jollans wrote:
What options are there for Python (that work)?
PyCharm's debugger is fine (also available in the community edition)
+1
Cheers,
Fabien
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subhendu.pand...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
Could you please help me with the below if possible:
Possible and reasonable are two different things. Why don't you try
some web searches and try to answer some of your own questions. I offer
this advice as a Python newbe myself.
Bill
1.
John Pote wrote:
Hi all,
I have successfully used Python to perform unit and integration tests
in the past and I'd like to do the same for some C modules I'm working
with at work. There seem to be a number of ways of doing this but
being busy at work and home I looking for the approach with th
I think carelessness in choosing variable names may be at the root of
the problem.
nick.martin...@aol.com wrote:
I have a question on my homework. My homework is to write a program in which
the computer simulates the rolling of a die 50
times and then prints
(i). the most frequent side of the
sooner I start doing that, the sooner my debugging
session is over. Good luck!
Bill
As you can see, I tried using globals in order use variables from previous
classes, but nothing has worked. For this specific approach, no error message
popped up, but nothing happened either. Thanks so muc
Varun R wrote:
Hi All,
I'm new to programming, can anyone guide me, how to start learning python
programming language,...plz suggest some books also.
Thanks all
Are you sure you want to learn Python first?
Python does enough things "behind the scene"
that it makes me question the wisdom of t
Chris Angelico wrote:
On Sat, Dec 16, 2017 at 8:51 AM, Bill wrote:
Varun R wrote:
Hi All,
I'm new to programming, can anyone guide me, how to start learning python
programming language,...plz suggest some books also.
Thanks all
Are you sure you want to learn Python first?
Python
Rustom Mody (Rustom Mody) wrote:
On Saturday, December 16, 2017 at 9:45:17 AM UTC+5:30, Bill wrote:
Chris Angelico wrote:
On Sat, Dec 16, 2017 at 8:51 AM, Bill wrote:
Varun R wrote:
Hi All,
I'm new to programming, can anyone guide me, how to start learning python
programming language,.
Gregory Ewing wrote:
Bill wrote:
In my experience, if they do not have the basic (~pre-calc) math
behind them, then learning from a textbook on a programming language,
say, may be a bit beyond them.
Very little mathematical *knowledge* is needed to get started
with programming. You can do a
Rustom Mody wrote:
In response to
Rustom Mody wrote:
On Saturday, December 16, 2017 at 9:45:17 AM UTC+5:30, Bill wrote:
so it really doesn't make that much difference where one starts, just
"Do It!". : )
Really ¿?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principles_of_learning#Prim
Larry Martell wrote:
So, your experience is that the style of learning you offer is
unsuitable to anyone who doesn't have some background in algebra.
That's fine. For your course, you set the prereqs. But that's not the
only way for someone to get into coding. You do NOT have to go to
college be
Gregory Ewing wrote:
Bill wrote:
In my years of teaching experience, students who came to college
without the equivalent of "college algebra" were under-prepared for
what was expected of them.
This could be simply because it weeds out people who aren't
good at the required st
Chris Angelico wrote:
On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 6:51 AM, Bill wrote:
The point is that it takes a certain amount of what is referred to as
"mathematical maturity" (not mathematical knowledge) to digest a book
concerning computer programming.
Emphasis on *a book*.
In my years o
Chris Angelico wrote:
On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 11:31 AM, Bill wrote:
Larry Martell wrote:
So, your experience is that the style of learning you offer is
unsuitable to anyone who doesn't have some background in algebra.
That's fine. For your course, you set the prereqs. But that'
Chris Angelico wrote:
I don't know about vtables as needing to be in ANY programming course.
They're part of a "let's dive into the internals of C++" course. You
certainly don't need them to understand how things work in Python,
because they don't exist; and I'm doubtful that you need to explain
Chris Angelico wrote:
I don't know about vtables as needing to be in ANY programming course.
They're part of a "let's dive into the internals of C++" course. You
certainly don't need them to understand how things work in Python,
because they don't exist; and I'm doubtful that you need to explain
Chris Angelico wrote:
I agree with some of that, but you then take it to absurdity. You most
certainly CAN drive a car without knowing how one works; in fact, with
this century's cars, I think that's very much the case. How many
people REALLY know what happens when you push the accelerator pedal
Chris Angelico wrote:
On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 4:04 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 3:54 PM, Bill wrote:
Chris Angelico wrote:
I don't know about vtables as needing to be in ANY programming course.
They're part of a "let's dive into the internals
Chris Angelico wrote:
On Sun, Dec 17, 2017 at 12:01 PM, Bill wrote:
I think we are talking about the same people.
But in college, the prerequisite of "at least co-enrolled in pre-calc",
turned out to be the right one (based upon quite a lot of teaching
experience).
Fortunate
. ; )The point of college is
more about teaching students to think rather than in being efficient. I
have little doubt that a tech school could "get through everything" much
faster.
Bill
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bob gailer wrote:
Has any thought been given to adding elif to the for statement?
I don't think it is a good idea because it needlessly, from my point of
view, embeds too much complexity into a single construct (making it more
difficult to maintain, for instance). That's what language designe
namenobodywa...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tuesday, December 19, 2017 at 3:28:39 PM UTC-8, Steve D'Aprano wrote:
Does this have anything specifically to do with Python programming?
i'm working on a game-playing script (ie: in python), i want to incorporate
pruning into my search algorithm, and i'd l
Steve D'Aprano wrote:
On Thu, 21 Dec 2017 08:37 am, Bill wrote:
namenobodywa...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tuesday, December 19, 2017 at 3:28:39 PM UTC-8, Steve D'Aprano wrote:
Does this have anything specifically to do with Python programming?
i'm working on a game-playing script
boB Stepp wrote:
This article is written by Nathan Murthy, a staff software engineer at
Tesla. The article is found at:
https://medium.com/@natemurthy/all-the-things-i-hate-about-python-5c5ff5fda95e
Apparently he chose his article title as "click bait". Apparently he
does not really hate Pytho
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