Re: c[:]()

2007-05-31 Thread Douglas Woodrow
On Thu, 31 May 2007 07:49:22, Warren Stringer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote >> >>def a(): return 'b' >> >>def b(): print 'polly! wakey wakey' >> >>c = {} >> >>c['a'] = b >> >>c[a()]() #works! >> > >> > >> >(typo correction for other easily-confused newbies like myself) >> > >> >I think you mean [...]

Re: c[:]()

2007-06-01 Thread Douglas Woodrow
On Thu, 31 May 2007 18:42:05, Warren Stringer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote >They were copied from working code. Copied *badly*? Yes. Running python via: > Windows -> start -> run -> python >doesn't allow cut and paste Hi Warren, Actually you can copy and paste from a Windows cmd/command shell: ri

Re: c[:]()

2007-06-01 Thread Douglas Woodrow
On Fri, 1 Jun 2007 07:23:16, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote >> Actually you can copy and paste from a Windows cmd/command shell: >>right-click the title-bar of the window, select "Edit" from the pop-up >>menu, then "Mark" from the sub-menu to copy whatever you want to >>select into the

Re: int vs long

2007-06-04 Thread Douglas Woodrow
On Mon, 4 Jun 2007 10:50:14, Peter Otten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote >>> >>> This is fixed in Python2.5: >>> >> Hm, my test above was from 2.5!? > >Then your installation is broken. What does > import itertools itertools >'/usr/local/lib/python2.5/lib-dynload/itertools.so'> > >print? Mayb

Re: Strange behavior in Windows

2007-06-05 Thread Douglas Woodrow
On Mon, 4 Jun 2007 21:34:36, David Stockwell wxp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > >in DOS you can try this to see what your path is: > >echo "My path is %PATH%" or more simply: , | C:> path ` -- Doug Woodrow -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python's "only one way to do it" philosophy isn't good?

2007-06-27 Thread Douglas Woodrow
On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 01:45:44, Douglas Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote >A chaque son gout I apologise for this irrelevant interruption to the conversation, but this isn't the first time you've written that. The word "chaque" is not a pronoun. http://grammaire.reverso.net/index_alpha/Fiches/Fiche2

Re: Programming Idiomatic Code

2007-07-03 Thread Douglas Woodrow
On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 10:19:07, Nathan Harmston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > >i m in the UK and dont have the experience but hey 10 minutes of >programming python beats 12 hours of programming in Clipper-derived >unreadable drivel (you dont know how much I appreciate Python atm). "Clipper-derived unr

Re: Execute commands from file

2007-05-17 Thread Douglas Woodrow
On Thu, 17 May 2007 00:30:23, i3dmaster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote >f = open(file,'rb') >for i in f: >exec i Why are you opening the file in binary mode? -- Doug Woodrow -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Execute commands from file

2007-05-18 Thread Douglas Woodrow
On Fri, 18 May 2007 04:45:30, Dennis Lee Bieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote >On 17 May 2007 13:12:10 -0700, i3dmaster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> declaimed >the following in comp.lang.python: > >> 'b' is generally useful on systems that don't treat binary and text >> files differently. It will improve porta

Re: python shell

2007-05-20 Thread Douglas Woodrow
On Sat, 19 May 2007 21:42:27, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctest >Since you claim to be exercising your pedantry, I wonder why I get the >results I do. Since we *are* being pedantic, by the way, surely the >name is actually "doctest", not "Doctest".

Re: c[:]()

2007-05-31 Thread Douglas Woodrow
On Wed, 30 May 2007 23:23:22, Warren Stringer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > >def a(): return 'b' >def b(): print 'polly! wakey wakey' >c = {} >c['a'] = b >c[a()]() #works! (typo correction for other easily-confused newbies like myself) I think you mean , | c['a']() #works! ` -- Doug Wo

Re: c[:]()

2007-05-31 Thread Douglas Woodrow
On Thu, 31 May 2007 08:57:56, Douglas Woodrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote >On Wed, 30 May 2007 23:23:22, Warren Stringer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote >> >>def a(): return 'b' >>def b(): print 'polly! wakey wakey' >>c = {} >>c['a