hi folks --
a quick python and sqlite3 performance question. i find that
inserting a million rows of in-memory data into an in-memory database
via a single executemany() is about 30% slower than using the sqlite3
CLI and the .import command (reading the same data from a disk file,
even.) i find
Hi,
I have just started writing a GUI using wxpython after finding a
limitation using Tkinter. I have read most tutorials on wxpython and
slowly becoming accustomed considering I started with the latter GUI
tool first!
I must quote first that I am a novice user of python so the issue(s) I
have may
Thanks for the feedback. It is greatly appreciated.
Let me check out your references and see where they take me.
Will post back and let you know how useful this was.
thanks! Lee
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I have a class with certain methods from which I want to select
one at random, with weighting.
The way I have done it is this
import random
def weight(value):
def set_weight(method):
method.weight = value
return method
return set_weight
class A(object):
def a
The Concepts and Confusions of Pre-fix, In-fix, Post-fix and Fully
Functional Notations
Xah Lee, 2006-03-15
Let me summarize: The LISP notation, is a functional notation, and is
not a so-called pre-fix notation or algebraic notation.
Algebraic notations have the concept of operators, meaning
Xah Lee wrote:
« The Concepts and Confusions of Pre-fix, In-fix, Post-fix and Fully
Functional Notations
http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/writ/notations.html »
A side note: the terminology “Algebraic” Notation is a misnomer. It
seems to imply that such notations have something to do with the
What is Expressiveness in a Computer Language
Xah Lee, 200502, 200603.
In languages human or computer, there's a notion of expressiveness.
English for example, is very expressive in manifestation, witness all
the poetry and implications and allusions and connotations and
dictions. There
Python has a new logo!
See http://python.org/
And it is a fantastic logo.
Xah
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is there larger versions of the logo?
and, any usage restrictions?
i also like to find out the the artist name. Any pointer is
appreciated. Thanks.
Xah
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
∑ http://xahlee.org/
Felipe Almeida Lessa wrote:
> Em Qui, 2006-03-23 às 07:43 -0800, Xah Lee escreveu:
> &g
On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 03:45:56AM -0800, Gerard Flanagan wrote:
[...]
> * If I want to do :
>
> mv mypackage-1.0.2.tar.gz subdir/mypackage-1.0.2.tar.gz
>
> then tab-completion gives me the first occurrence of the file, but I
> have to type the second occurrence - is there a way of
A Lambda Logo Tour
(and why LISP languages using λ as logo should not be looked upon
kindly)
Xah Lee, 2002-02
Dear lispers,
The lambda character λ, always struck a awe in me, as with other
mathematical symbols. In my mind, i imagine that those obscure math
symbolism are etched in stone by god
pybotwar is a fun and educational game where players
write computer programs to control simulated robots.
http://pybotwar.googlecode.com/
pybotwar uses pybox2d for the physical simulation.
It can be run in text-only mode -- useful for longer
tournaments -- or use pyqt or pygame for a graphical
t version follows.
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The Condition of Industrial Programers
Xah Lee, 2006-05
Before i stepped into the computing industry, my first industrial
programing experience was at Wolfram Research Inc as a intern in 1995.
(Wolfram Research is famously known for their highly su
> And my original problem still there : fouled up keys in interactive
> terminal.
When you first had this problem, was python3 installed from
source, or was it from the Ubuntu repository?
(ie, did you install using apt-get or synaptic or did you just start
out building from source?)
I have pyt
>> When you first had this problem, was python3 installed from
>> source, or was it from the Ubuntu repository?
> Over a month ago I downloaded the tarball Python-3.1.1 from
> the python website. Then the Synaptic Package Manager did not
> contain this ( latest ) version. There is already pytho
Dear comrades,
Hot from the press:
• Unix Pipe As Functional Language
http://xahlee.org/comp/unix_pipes_and_functional_lang.html
plain text version follows:
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Unix Pipe As Functional Language
Xah Lee, 2010-01-25
Found the following juicy
Some thoughts about Python 3 Adoption.
Xah Lee, 2010-01-26
Some notes of Wikipedia readings related to Python.
Unladen Swallow, a new project from Google. It is a new python
compiler with the goal of 5 times faster than the de facto standand
implementation CPython. Also note Stackless Python
e_dir/why_cant_you_be_normal.html
Xah
On Jan 26, 7:12 pm, "Alf P. Steinbach" wrote:
> * John Bokma:
>
> > "Alf P. Steinbach" writes:
>
> >> Please don't post more noise and ad hominem attacks to the group,
> >> Steve.
>
> > Funny that you
On Jan 26, 3:47 pm, Xah Lee wrote:
> * Many functions that return lists now returns “Views” or
> “Iterators” Instead. A fucking fuck all fucked up shit. A extraneous
> “oop engineering” complication. (See: Lambda in Python 3000)
See also:
“Iterators: Signs of Weakness in Object
> I am trying to think of things to do with the turtle module
> 1) is there a way to determine the current screen pixel color?
This would not use the included turtle module, but you could use
the turtle module from the pygsear collection:
http://www.nongnu.org/pygsear/
It requires pygame, but
Haskell has a new logo. A fantastic one. Beautiful. For creator,
context, detail, see bottom of:
• A Lambda Logo Tour
http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/lambda_logo.html
this is posted here because it relates to various computer software/
language's logo, a subject discussed by me several times
Acromania is a word game of acronyms.
This program is a computer moderator for networked
games of acromania. It can connect to a channel on
IRC, or start a standalone server which can be
accessed much like a MUD.
http://acromania.googlecode.com/
Acromania uses Twisted and SQLite. Optionally, i
ht cause a 4000 seconds
backwards jump on March 9th of last year? I would have expected 3600
seconds.
Thanks,
Lee
P.S. A full program demonstrating the question:
#!/usr/bin/env python
import time, datetime
d1 = datetime.datetime(2008, 3, 9, 2, 59, 0).timetuple()
#!/usr/bin/env python
import time,
And I can't do arithmetic, it is actually about 3600--never mind!
On Nov 17, 10:37 am, Lee Merrill wrote:
> I'm seeing an anomaly in the python time function on March 9, 2008
> (the "spring foward" time):
>
> >>> time.mktime((2008, 3, 9, 2, 59, 59, 0,
This is a short complaint on admin abuse on #python irc channel on
freenode.net.
Here's a log:
2010-02-02
(12:11:57 PM) The topic for #python is: NO LOL | http://pound-python.org/
| It's too early to use Python 3.x | Pasting > 3 lines? Pastebin:
http://paste.pocoo.org/ | Tutorial: http://docs.py
just wrote this essay. Comment & feedback very welcome.
Python's Reference And Internal Model Of Computing Languages
Xah Lee, 2010-02-02
In Python, there are 2 ways to clear a hash: âmyHash = {}â and
âmyHash.clear()â. What is the difference?
â
The difference is that âm
()On Feb 2, 6:46Â pm, Ryan Kelly wrote:
> > On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 17:28 -0800, Xah Lee wrote:
>
> I know, I know, do not feed the trolls. Â But this is just so *wrong*
> that I can't help myself.
>
> > In Python, there are 2 ways to clear a hash:
>
> No, n
ank you.
For anyone reading this thread and interested in my opinions, i have
written many essays related to this and netiquette. Many of which
detail other similar incidences that i personally experienced, such as
freenode's irc ban in #emacs channel. If you are interested, they can
be
pynguin is a python-based turtle graphics application.
It combines an editor, interactive interpreter, and
graphics display area.
It is meant to be an easy environment for introducing
some programming concepts to beginning programmers.
http://pynguin.googlecode.com/
This is the in
ng.
So, i thought i'd post here to solicit some opinins from the programer
community i know.
Here's the plain text version
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The NoSQL Movement
Xah Lee, 2010-01-26
In the past few years, there's new fashionable thinking about anti
relational database, now bl
Pynguin is a python-based turtle graphics application.
It combines an editor, interactive interpreter, and
graphics display area.
It is meant to be an easy environment for introducing
some programming concepts to beginning programmers.
http://pynguin.googlecode.com/
This release c
obably number one among the
world's user of databases, probably double or triple than the second
user with the most large datasize. At that point, it seems logical
that they need their own db, relational or not.
Xah
∑ http://xahlee.org/
☄
On Mar 4, 10:35 pm, John Nagle wrote:
> Xah Lee wr
On Mar 8, 11:14 am, Duncan Booth wrote:
> Xah Lee wrote:
> > For example, consider, if you are within world's top 100th user of
> > database in terms of database size, such as Google, then it may be
> > that the off-the-shelf tools may be limiting. But how many users
&g
scale it.
Right, but that doesn't seems to have any relevance about my point.
Many says that scalability is key to NoSQL, i pointed out that unless
you are like google, or ranked top 1000 in the world in terms data
size, the scalability reason isn't that strong.
Xah Lee wrote:
> man
I am having a great time watching videos from PyCon. Thanks to
everyone who presented, and to those who did such a great job
putting the videos up at: http://pycon.blip.tv/
My trouble is that, although most of the videos play perfectly,
there are a few that refuse to play at all. Like:
Python 10
Pynguin is a python-based turtle graphics application.
It combines an editor, interactive interpreter, and
graphics display area.
It is meant to be an easy environment for introducing
some programming concepts to beginning programmers.
http://pynguin.googlecode.com/
This release c
A essay related to the recent discussion of banning, and lisp
associated group at ycombinator.com .
-
Hacker News, Xahlee.Org, and What is Politics?
Xah Lee, 2010-03-14
Today, i noticed that someone posted one of my article “Why Emacs is
still so
2010-03-17
On Mar 10, 9:17 am, Ben Morrow wrote:
> Also, flamebait language-comparison xposts involving Lisp are one
> of Xah Lee's trademarks. You might want to look into not imitating
> him/her/it.
being a professional programer today, typically you know more than
just one language. Practical
discovered this rather late.
Google has a AI Challenge: planet wars. http://ai-contest.com/index.php
it started sometimes 2 months ago and ended first this month.
the winner is Gábor Melis, with his code written in lisp.
Congrats lispers!
Gábor wrote a blog about it here
http://quotenil.com/Pl
On Dec 20, 10:06 pm, "Jon Harrop" wrote:
> Wasn't that the "challenge" where they wouldn't even accept solutions
> written in many other languages (including both OCaml and F#)?
Ocaml is one of the supported lang. See:
http://ai-contest.com/starter_packages.php
there are 12 teams using OCaml. S
a opinion piece.
〈The Idiocy of Computer Language Docs〉
http://xahlee.org/comp/idiocy_of_comp_lang.html
--
The Idiocy of Computer Language Docs
Xah Lee, 2011-01-03
Worked with Mathematica for a whole day yesterday, after about 10
years hiatus
On Jan 4, 3:17 pm, "ru...@yahoo.com" wrote:
> On 01/04/2011 01:34 PM, Terry Reedy wrote:
>
> > On 1/4/2011 1:24 PM, an Arrogant Ignoramus wrote:
>
> > what he called
> >> a opinion piece.
>
> > I normally do not respond to trolls, but while expressing his opinions,
> > AI made statements that are
some extempore thought.
Do you know what is CGI?
Worked with Mathematica for 5 hours yesterday. Fantastic! This old
hand can still do something! lol. My plane curve packages soon to be
out n am gonna be rich.
...gosh what godly hours i've spend on Mathematica in 1990s. Surprised
to find that i e
7;s Point Of View.
〈Avatar and District 9 Movie Review〉
http://xahlee.org/Periodic_dosage_dir/skina/avatar.html
------
Avatar and District 9 Movie Review
Xah Lee, 2010-01-07
--
Avatar
Went to watch the movie Avatar (2009 fil
might be interesting.
〈Guy Steele on Parallel Programing〉
http://xahlee.org/comp/Guy_Steele_parallel_computing.html
--
Guy Steele on Parallel Programing
Xah Lee, 2011-02-05
A fascinating talk by the well respected computer scientist Guy
Steele
On Feb 8, 9:32 am, Icarus Sparry wrote:
> On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 13:51:54 +0100, Petter Gustad wrote:
> > Xah Lee writes:
>
> >> problem with find xargs is that they spawn grep for each file, which
> >> becomes too slow to be usable.
>
> > find . -maxdepth
On Feb 11, 2:06 am, Alexander Gattin wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 05:32:05PM +, Icarus
>
> Sparry wrote:
> > The key thing which makes this 'modern' is the
> > '+' at the end of the command, rather than '\;'.
> > This causes find to execute the grep once per
> > group of files,
Hi.
I just knew what python is.
Now I'm about to write backup script.Now I got 2 scripts.
AAA : generate zip file
BBB : delete old file.
AAA is done.
Now I'm going to code BBB file. and I will fix AAA to call BBB to
delete dump file at the end.
Please let me know How can I call the BBB file from
might be interesting.
〈Problems of Symbol Congestion in Computer Languages (ASCII Jam;
Unicode; Fortress)〉
http://xahlee.org/comp/comp_lang_unicode.html
--
Problems of Symbol Congestion in Computer Languages (ASCII Jam;
Unicode; Fortress)
Xah Lee
On 2011-02-16, Xah Lee wrote:
│ Vast majority of computer languages use ASCII as its character set.
│ This means, it jams multitude of operators into about 20 symbols.
│ Often, a symbol has multiple meanings depending on contex.
On 2011-02-17, rantingrick wrote:
…
On 2011-02-17, Cthun wrote
i think for special purposes
OSes, they have quite a lot ... from Mitsubishi, NEC, etc... in their
huge robotics industry among others. (again, this is all second hand
knowledge)
... i recall having read non-english comp lang that appeared
recently...
Xah Lee
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> Another approach would be to stuff the static values in the function's
> __dict__.
That's how I did it when I wanted something similar.
I created this decorator:
def static(**kw):
'''
Used to create a decorator function that will add an
attribute to a function and initialize it.
Pynguin is a python-based turtle graphics application.
It combines an editor, interactive interpreter, and
graphics display area.
It is meant to be an easy environment for introducing
some programming concepts to beginning programmers.
http://pynguin.googlecode.com/
This release c
Hello there,
I have a 22 GB binary file, a want to change values of specific
positions. Because of the volume of the file, I doubt my code a
efficient one:
#! /usr/bin/env python
#coding=utf-8
import sys
import struct
try:
f=open(sys.argv[1],'rb+')
except (IOError,Exception):
print '
(-2,1)
f.write(struct.pack('>h',1))
f.seek(210,1)
f.seek(ns*4,1)
f.close()
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 6:04 PM, Dave Angel wrote:
> Jackie Lee wrote:
>>
>> Hello there,
>>
>> I have a 22 GB binary file, a want to change values of specific
>
Thanks to y'all. I should have be more careful reading the documentation.
Cheers
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 10:07 PM, Martin v. Loewis wrote:
>> The code works fine. I just don't know how f.write works. It says that
>> file.write won't write the file until file.close or file.flush.
>
> You are misi
Pynguin is a python-based turtle graphics application.
It combines an editor, interactive interpreter, and
graphics display area.
It is meant to be an easy environment for introducing
some programming concepts to beginning programmers.
http://pynguin.googlecode.com/
This release c
On Jun 15, 3:22 pm, Peter wrote:
> I am puzzled by what appears to be a scope issue - obviously I have
> something wrong :-)
>
> Why does this work:
>
> if __name__ == 'main':
> execfile('test-data.py')
> print data
>
> and yet this doesn't (I get "NameError: global name 'data' not
> defined")
• Emacs Form Feed (^L) Display Suggestion and Tips
http://xahlee.org/emacs/modernization_formfeed.html
plain text version follows
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Emacs Form Feed (^L) Display Suggestion and Tips
Xah Lee, 2010-06-24
This page discusses some problems involving the Form feed
On Jun 24, 5:41 am, Xah Lee wrote:
> • Emacs Form Feed (^L) Display Suggestion and Tips
> http://xahlee.org/emacs/modernization_formfeed.html
a follow up question.
when i was learning python in ~2005, i remember seeing it in python
code, but i haven't done much python since. Does py
On Jun 24, 11:12 am, Tassilo Horn wrote:
> Xah Lee writes:
>
> Hi Xah,
>
> > also, besides emacs elisp, does anyone see the form feed char in other
> > lang source code?
>
> It's quite often used in messages in newsgroups and mailing lists. The
> Gnus n
• Famous Emacs People With Hand Injuries
http://xahlee.org/emacs/emacs_hand_pain_celebrity.html
plain text version follows.
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Famous Emacs People With Hand Injuries
Xah Lee, 2010-06-28
This page collect tales of computer programer
just discovered a blog written by a old lisper Dan Weinreb, refuting
on a story on Lisp Machine companies as told by Richard Stallman.
“Rebuttal to Stallman’s Story About The Formation of Symbolics and
LMI” (2007-11), by Dan Weinreb. At
http://danweinreb.org/blog/rebuttal-to-stallmans-story-about-
> Problem (C) is outside the realm of the C++ standard, since the C++ standard
> doesn't support shared libraries, and I've never actually used *nix shared
> libraries so I don't /know/...
>
> Is such dynamic initialization guaranteed?
>
Not guaranteed, though I think there's a combination of dlop
• Death of Newsgroups
http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/writ2/death_of_newsgroups.html
plain text version follows.
--
Death of Newsgroups
Xah Lee, 2010-07-13
Microsoft is closing down their newsgroups. See:
microsoft.public.windows.powershell
Pynguin is a python-based turtle graphics application.
It combines an editor, interactive interpreter, and
graphics display area.
It is meant to be an easy environment for introducing
some programming concepts to beginning programmers.
http://pynguin.googlecode.com/
This release h
cleaned up and extended my previous post. Sentences and ideas made
more precise and detailed.
• Emacs Idolization: Have You Read the Emacs Manual From Cover to
Cover?
http://xahlee.org/emacs/emacs_manual_cover_to_cover.html
plain text version follows:
---
Hi,
Suppose I have a string such as this
'aabccefghiiijkr'
I would like to print out all the positions that are flanked by a run
of symbols.
So for example, I would like to the output for the above input as
follows:
2 b 1 aa
2 b -1 cc
10 e -1 cc
11 f 1 g
17 h 1 iii
17
Great article.
〈Lost in Translation〉 (2010-07-23), by By Lera Boroditsky. From The
Wall Street Journal.
“New cognitive research suggests that language profoundly influences
the way people see the world; a different sense of blame in Japanese
and Spanish”
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100014240
> I'm desperate. I'm having a real application, which fails rather often
> when finishing it. I'm not sure, whether any serious problem could be
> hidden behind it
>
> The script is a pyqt script, which segfaults most of the time on my
> ubuntu 10.4 linux 64 bit and I'm having trouble to understan
some collection of math symbols in unicode.
• Math Symbols in Unicode
http://xahlee.org/comp/unicode_math_operators.html
• Arrows in Unicode
http://xahlee.org/comp/unicode_arrows.html
• Matching Brackets in Unicode
http://xahlee.org/comp/unicode_matching_brackets.html
these are grouped by
hi kenny!
Xah Lee wrote:
> some collection of math symbols in unicode.
> • Math Symbols in Unicode
> http://xahlee.org/comp/unicode_math_operators.html
Kenneth Tilton wrote:
> I am surprised you do not include the numeric character codes.
i thought about it, but the page would
On May 25, 10:35 am, LittleGrasshopper wrote:
> With so many choices, I was wondering what editor is the one you
> prefer when coding Python, and why. I normally use vi, and just got
> into Python, so I am looking for suitable syntax files for it, and
> extra utilities. I dabbled with emacs at som
is there a python image library that does pretty much what imagemagick
does?
all i need is for converting png/jpg, and scaling images. No need
other fancy things imagemagick does.
i know there's a python wrapper for imagemagick, but i need
independent ones that doesn't require shell calls. Basica
For those of you interested in the Google tech of syntax coloring
source code in html on the fly using javascript, i've spent few hours
for a evaluation. See:
• Google-code-prettify Examples
http://xahlee.org/js/google-code-prettify/index.html
Xah
∑ http://xahlee.org/
☄
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of recent talks about concurrency, this video interview would be of
interest:
http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Charles/Anders-Hejlsberg-and-Guy-Steele-Concurrency-and-Language-Design/
Anders Hejlsberg and Guy Steele: Concurrency and Language Design
Posted By: Charles | Oct 6th, 2008 @ 6:27 AM | 75,
Acromania is a word game of acronyms.
This program is a computer moderator for networked
games of acromania. It can connect to a channel on
IRC, or start a standalone server which can be
accessed much like a MUD.
http://acromania.googlecode.com/
Acromania uses Twisted and SQLite. Optionally, i
Dear unixers & lispers,
i've been using Mac for the past 19 years, and been a professional sys
admin or web app developers on the unix platform, since 1998 (maily
Solaris, Apache, Perl, Java, SQL, PHP). In june, i bought a PC (not
for the first time though), and made a switch to Windows, for the
f
Xah Lee wrote:
> • Switching from Mac/Unix To PC/Windows
> http://xahlee.org/mswin/switch_to_windows.html
Kenneth Tilton wrote:
> You just discovered PCs are cheaper?
>
> The funny thing is that that is Microsoft's answer to the Apple Mac-PC
> ads, they show people sho
a fried showed me this today:
http://xahlee.org/funny/Microsoft_eula.html
not sure which site originally reported it.
Xah
∑ http://xahlee.org/
☄
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PHP is popular because it is geared for the server-side web scripting
lang, and simpler and easy to use, than popular free alternatives at
the time (such as Perl and Java's JSP).
Python became popular primarily because its ease-to-read syntax.
Btween the two, PHP is much easier to use, and much a
pybotwar is a fun and educational game where players
create computer programs to control simulated robots
to compete in a battle arena.
http://pybotwar.googlecode.com/
pybotwar uses pybox2d for the physical simulation,
and uses pygame and pygsear for the visualization.
pybotwar is released und
pybotwar is a fun and educational game where players
create computer programs to control simulated robots
to compete in a battle arena.
http://pybotwar.googlecode.com/
pybotwar uses pybox2d for the physical simulation,
and uses pygame and pygsear for the visualization.
pybotwar is released und
google used to have a sitemap generator written in python, at:
https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/docs/en/sitemap-generator.html
but the url is gone. It seems the current version is moved here:
http://code.google.com/p/googlesitemapgenerator/
and is written in JavaScript.
is the old python
pybotwar is a fun and educational game where players
create computer programs to control simulated robots
to compete in a battle arena.
http://pybotwar.googlecode.com/
pybotwar uses pybox2d for the physical simulation,
and uses pygame and pygsear for the visualization.
pybotwar is released und
The prob with python docs is with the python priests.
there are frequent posts about python doc's poor quality, and some
efforts to improve the doc (such as wiki or seggestions), about few
times a year (in so much as i've seen), the typical response is
pissing fight, with python priests to tell th
Hi all,
I'm landing here because I need some help that I couldn't get through it.
Question 1.
I want to call a source command from python script. It will source
some variables enviroment for further commands. I tried the following which did
not work
os.sys('source '+source_text)
call(['source'
Lee, 2009-08-13
Just wanted to express some frustration with whitespace-mode.
Emacs 23, just released, has this whitespace-mode feature. It renders
spaces, tabs, newlines characters with a visible glyph. This feature,
is in Microsoft Word since about 1992.
This feature is important in practical
Fresh out of the oven:
• How to use and setup Emacs's whitespace-mode
http://xahlee.org/emacs/whitespace-mode.html
Xah
∑ http://xahlee.org/
☄
On Aug 13, 6:36 pm, Xah Lee wrote:
> • A Exhibition Of Tech Geekers Incompetence: Emacs whitespace-mode
> http://xahlee.org/UnixResour
Xah's Edu Corner: The importance of syntax & notations.
http://www.stephenwolfram.com/publications/recent/mathml/mathml_abstract.html
this article should teach the coding sophomorons and computer
“science” idiotic authors who harbor the notion that syntax is not
important, picked up by all the el
now valid
html. Good riddence of the fucking TeX. Also, code examples have
syntax coloring on.
Xah
â http://xahlee.org/
â
On Aug 12, 12:15 pm, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
> [Xah Lee]
>
> > i've wrote several articles about this issue, total time spend on this
> > is prob
e_dir/writ/lang_purity_cult_deception.html
Xah
∑ http://xahlee.org/
☄
On Dec 11 2008, 6:56 am, Matthias wrote:
> Xah Lee writes:
> > in programing elisp in emacs, i can press “Ctrl+h f” to lookup
> > the doc for the function under cursor. is there such facility
> > when c
gh. I was expecting he'd go
into some details about the science of math notations, or, as he put
it aptly: “linguistics of math notations”. However, he didn't touch
the subject, except saying that it haven't been studied.
Xah
On Aug 15, 10:54 pm, Xah Lee wrote:
> Xah's E
On Aug 12, 12:15 pm, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
> [Xah Lee]
>
> > i've wrote several articles about this issue, total time spend on this
> > is probably more than 2 months full-time work. See:
>
> > ⢠Python Documentation Problems
> > http://xahlee.org/p
info format for Xah Lee writes:
> in programing elisp in emacs, i can press “Ctrl+h f” to lookup
> the doc for the function under cursor. is there such facility
> when coding in perl, python, php?
On Dec 11 2008, 6:56 am, Matthias wrote:
> Yes, try C-h S (or similarly S):
2009-08-17
On Aug 16, 10:32 pm, Xah Lee wrote:
> Personally, particular interesting info i've learned is that, for all
> my trouble in the past decade expressing problems of traditional math
> notation, i learned from his article this single-phrase summary:
> “traditional math
y in commericial
software about 10 years ago.
Xah
∑ http://xahlee.org/
☄
On Aug 17, 4:32 am, "Colin S. Miller" wrote:
> Xah Lee wrote:
> > btw, is there still info format for python doc?
>
> > i feel kinda sad that emacs info format has pretty much been
> > d
he date of this speech also explains parts of the writings about some
mysterious “fundamental science work”, which now we know is his
controversial book A New Kind Of Science (2002).
Xah
∑ http://xahlee.org/
☄
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Personally, particular interesting info i
Hi all,
I write a small script
texts = os.popen('top').readlines()
print texts
It calls the command line "top" and will print out some texts.
But first I have to press the keyboard "q" to quit the subprocess "top", then
the texts will be printed, otherwise it just stands by with blank.
Questio
Hi all,
I write a small script
status = os.popen('top').readlines()
print status
It calls the command line "top" and will print out the status.
But I have to press the keyboard "q" to quit "top", then the status will be
printed, otherwise it just stands by with blank.
Question is. Do you know
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