On Thursday 19 April 2007, Steven Howe wrote:
> > ((int(3) > int(4)) == True) == True
> >
> > Explicit is better than sensible, yes?
> >
> > *wink*
>
> Your example, even with the *wink*, is stupid. The language requires 3
> to be an integer, 4 to be an integer.
Incidentally, the language also req
On Thursday 19 April 2007, S.Mohideen wrote:
> 2) Making the program to run at par with the compiled version of C/C++
> program- this is the main benefit which can be derived out of this.
Python is a rather slow language because of how it works. Even if you got rid
of the VM (as noted by others
On Thursday 19 April 2007, Bill Jackson wrote:
> I have a dictionary of dictionaries where the keys are typically very
> long tuples and repeated in each inner dictionary. The dictionary
> representation is nice because it handles sparseness well...and it is
> nice to be able to look up values bas
On Thursday 19 April 2007, Bill Jackson wrote:
> Martin v. Löwis wrote the following on 04/19/2007 02:43 PM:
> > Bill Jackson schrieb:
> >> I have a dictionary of dictionaries where the keys are typically very
> >> long tuples and repeated in each inner dictionary.
> >
> > What I don't understand h
On Thursday 19 April 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Howdy, a (possibly) quick question for anyone willing to listen.
> I have a question regarding lists and Classes; I have a class called
> "gazelle" with several attributes (color, position, etc.) and I need
> to create a herd of them. I want to
On Thursday 19 April 2007, Paddy wrote:
> Martins earlier local_intern function would work for tuples as well as
> strings.
It certainly would. I had written that class, though, primarily to offer a
performance improvement in the __eq__ and perhaps __hash__ methods. However,
I ended up being r
On Saturday 14 April 2007, James Stroud wrote:
> I think that after a += 1, a memory location with a 6 is created and now
> a points to that because += has assignment buried in it.
Bingo.
a+=1 will (basically) translate to either "a=a.__iadd__(1)"
or "a=a.__add__(1)" depending on whether __ia
