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thread by: John Salerno |
last post Oct 30 '06 by: Antoon Pardon
I'm a little confused. Why doesn't s evaluate to True in the first part,
but it does in the second? Is the first statement something different?
False
print 'hi'
hi
Thanks.
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thread by: Reed L. O'Brien |
last post Jul 18 '05 by: Nick Craig-Wood
I see rotor was removed for 2.4 and the docs say use an AES module
provided separately... Is there a standard module that works alike or
an AES module that works alike but with better encryption?
cheers,
reed
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thread by: Ray |
last post Aug 18 '06 by: aaronwmail-usenet
I just moved to another company that's mainly a Java/.NET shop. I was
happy to find out that there's a movement from the grassroot to try to
convince the boss to use a dynamic language for our development!
Two of the senior developers, however, are already rooting for Ruby on
Rails--although they haven't tried RoR themselves. When I...
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thread by: ureuffyrtu955 |
last post Dec 8 '07 by: Jan Claeys
Python is a good programming language, but "Python" is not a good
name.
First, python also means snake, Monty Python. If we search "python" in
google, emule, many results are not programming resource. If we search
PHP, all results are programming resource.
Second, python also means snake, snake is not a good thing in western
culture....
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thread by: Gabriel Zachmann |
last post Jul 18 '05 by: Carl Banks
Is it correct to say that strong/weak typing does not make a difference
if one does not use any pointers (or adress-taking operator)?
More concretely, I am thinking particularly of Python vs C++.
So, are there any examples (without pointers, references, or adress-taking),
which would have a different result in Python and in C++?
I would...
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thread by: Gustav Hållberg |
last post Nov 22 '05 by: bearophileHUGS
I tried finding a discussion around adding the possibility to have
optional underscores inside numbers in Python. This is a popular option
available in several "competing" scripting langauges, that I would love
to see in Python.
Examples:
1_234_567
0xdead_beef
3.141_592
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thread by: zzbbaadd |
last post Sep 5 '07 by: Steve Holden
What's with the index() function of lists throwing an exception on not
found? Let's hope this is rectified in Python 3. If nothing else, add
a function that doesn't throw an exception. There are a million
situations where you can have an item not be in a list and it is not
an exception situation.
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thread by: Kjetil Torgrim Homme |
last post Jul 18 '05 by: Antoon Pardon
often when re-factoring code, I need to change the indent level of
some chunk of code. due to the lack of an end marker, my Emacs has to
use heuristics when re-indenting, and this will occasionally lead to
mistakes. of course this is really _my_ fault, not Emacs', but it's
annoying all the same.
a colleague uses #fi, #yrt etc. to mark the...
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thread by: Cameron Laird |
last post Dec 8 '05 by: BartlebyScrivener
QOTW: "Python makes it easy to implement algorithms." - casevh
"Most of the discussion of immutables here seems to be caused by
newcomers wanting to copy an idiom from another language which doesn't
have immutable variables. Their real problem is usually with binding,
not immutability." - Mike Meyer
Among the treasures available in The...
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thread by: xahlee |
last post Sep 2 '08 by: Martin Gregorie
I'd like to introduce a blog post by Stephen Wolfram, on the design
process of Mathematica. In particular, he touches on the importance of
naming of functions.
• Ten Thousand Hours of Design Reviews (2008 Jan 10) by Stephen
Wolfram
http://blog.wolfram.com/2008/01/10/ten-thousand-hours-of-design-reviews/
The issue is fitting here today,...
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thread by: David MacQuigg |
last post Jul 18 '05 by: Duncan Booth
I'm not getting any feedback on the most important benefit in my
proposed "Ideas for Python 3" thread - the unification of methods and
functions. Perhaps it was buried among too many other less important
changes, so in this thread I would like to focus on that issue alone.
I have edited the Proposed Syntax example below to take out the...
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thread by: Paul McGuire |
last post Jul 18 '05 by: Avner Ben
There are a number of messages on the python-dev mail list that indicate
that Guido is looking for some concensus to come from this list as to what
*one* alternative syntax for decorators we would like him to consider in
place of the @ syntax that is currently in 2.4a2.
I think special thanks are due to:
- Anthony Baxter for his continuing...
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thread by: Shi Mu |
last post Dec 1 '05 by: Mike Meyer
Got confused by the following code:
>>> a
>>> b
>>> c
{1: , ], 2: ]}
>>> c.append(b.sort())
>>> c
{1: , ], 2: , None]}
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thread by: Xah Lee |
last post Mar 12 '06 by: dcrockett355
i had the pleasure to read the PHP's manual today.
http://www.php.net/manual/en/
although Pretty Home Page is another criminal hack of the unix lineage,
but if we are here to judge the quality of its documentation, it is a
impeccability.
it has or possesses properties of:
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thread by: aboxylica |
last post Dec 20 '07 by: bvdet
hey!
I have a program that takes two input files(one in the matrix form) and one in the sequence form.Now my problem is that i have to give the matrix file(containing many matrices) and sequence file containing many sequences and calculate the same log score as I did for one matrix file and one sequence file.
how it should exactly work is...
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thread by: Peter Hickman |
last post Jul 18 '05 by: Courageous
Well after all this discussion it would appear that a 'Python like'
language has appeared => Prothon. http://www.prothon.org/index.html
Very alpha, sort of like Python (if you consider the indenting is what
makes Python unique) and sort of Ruby in its use of prefixes to define
scoping etc (although there is no reference to this trait being...
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thread by: Christoph Zwerschke |
last post Dec 3 '05 by: Donn Cave
Sometimes I find myself stumbling over Python issues which have to do
with what I perceive as a lack of orthogonality.
For instance, I just wanted to use the index() method on a tuple which
does not work. It only works on lists and strings, for no obvious
reason. Why not on all sequence types?
Or, another example, the index() method has...
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thread by: Zooko O'Whielacronx |
last post Jul 18 '05 by: Carlos Ribeiro
I'm a fan of Greg Ewing's PyGUI . I used it to code a simple game
for my son , and enjoyed it. Programming with wxPython feels like
programming with a C++ tool that has been wrapped in Python.
Programming with PyGUI feels like programming with a real Python tool.
If you're developing a commercial application in Python, wxPython is...
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thread by: Bryan Olson |
last post Sep 3 '05 by: Terry Reedy
The Python slice type has one method 'indices', and reportedly:
This method takes a single integer argument /length/ and
computes information about the extended slice that the slice
object would describe if applied to a sequence of length
items. It returns a tuple of three integers; respectively
these are the /start/ and /stop/ indices and...
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thread by: JB |
last post Dec 30 '05 by: John J. Lee
It seems that our master Guido van Rossum had an offer from google and
he accepted it!!
long life to Guido & Goole ! many things to come ;)
ju²
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thread by: mystilleef |
last post Jul 21 '06 by: Ed Jensen
Hello,
What is the Pythonic way of implementing getters and setters. I've
heard
people say the use of accessors is not Pythonic. But why? And what is
the alternative? I refrain from using them because they smell
"Javaish."
But now my code base is expanding and I'm beginning to appreciate the
wisdom behind them. I welcome example code and...
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thread by: John Nagle |
last post Feb 7 '07 by: azrael
The major complaint I have about Python is that the packages
which connect it to other software components all seem to have
serious problems. As long as you don't need to talk to anything
outside the Python world, you're fine. But once you do, things
go downhill. MySQLdb has version and platform compatibility
problems. So does M2Crypto. ...
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thread by: Maurice LING |
last post Jul 18 '05 by: JanC
This may be a dumb thing to ask, but besides the penalty for dynamic
typing, is there any other real reasons that Python is slower than Java?
maurice
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thread by: muldoon |
last post Oct 16 '05 by: Dennis Lee Bieber
Americans consider having a "British accent" a sign of sophistication
and high intelligence. Many companies hire salespersons from Britain to
represent their products,etc. Question: When the British hear an
"American accent," does it sound unsophisticated and dumb?
Be blunt. We Americans need to know. Should we try to change the way we...
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thread by: Andy |
last post Nov 10 '08 by: Andy O'Meara
Dear Python dev community,
I'm CTO at a small software company that makes music visualization
software (you can check us out at www.soundspectrum.com). About two
years ago we went with decision to use embedded python in a couple of
our new products, given all the great things about python. We were
close to using lua but for various...
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