Re: Martijn Faassen: The Call of Python 2.8

2014-04-14 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 14/04/2014 13:56, Mark Lawrence wrote: > http://blog.startifact.com/posts/the-call-of-python-28.html so in > response to the last line, who *IS* going to do all of the required work? > On a related note, Guido announced today that there will be no 2.8 & that the eol for 2.7 will be 2020. Che

Simple question

2014-04-15 Thread Phil Dobbin
Hi, all. I've just started to learn Python (I'm reading Mark Lutz's 'Learning Python' from O'Reilly) & I'm confused as to this part: '>>> 0.1 + 0.1 + 0.1 - 0.3 5.55111.' Using 'import Decimal' you can get a much closer result i.e. 'Decimal('0.0')' What I'm wondering is why the first calcula

Re: Simple question

2014-04-15 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 15/04/2014 19:25, Zachary Ware wrote: > On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 1:18 PM, Phil Dobbin wrote: >> Hi, all. >> >> I've just started to learn Python (I'm reading Mark Lutz's 'Learning >> Python' from O'Reilly) & I'm con

Re: Simple question

2014-04-15 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 15/04/2014 19:30, Robert Kern wrote: > On 2014-04-15 19:18, Phil Dobbin wrote: >> Hi, all. >> >> I've just started to learn Python (I'm reading Mark Lutz's 'Learning >> Python' from O'Reilly) & I'm confused as to this part: >

Re: Simple question

2014-04-15 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 15/04/2014 19:41, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 4:31 AM, Phil Dobbin wrote: >> I saw the 'e-17' appended to the end but was unsure of its meaning ( >> quite a number of things are introduced in the book with clarification >> of their meanin

Re: Simple question

2014-04-15 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 15/04/2014 20:07, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 5:02 AM, Phil Dobbin wrote: >> On 15/04/2014 19:41, Chris Angelico wrote: >> >>> Recommendation: If you don't understand something, keep it there :) >>> You can just copy and paste f