Is '[' a function or an operator or an language feature?
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From: Emile van Sebille on 17 Jul 2010 13:27 On 7/17/2010 9:38 AM Gary Herron said... > and unrelated to the thread but still about python: > > http://xkcd.com/353/ ActivePython 2.6.1.1 (ActiveState Software Inc.) based on Python 2.6.1 (r261:67515, Dec 5 2008, 13:58:38) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import antigravity Nothing happens. >>> Emile
From: Emile van Sebille on 17 Jul 2010 13:28 On 7/16/2010 7:08 PM MRAB said... > Peng Yu wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy(a)udel.edu> wrote: >>> On 7/16/2010 1:01 PM, Peng Yu wrote: >>>> I mean to get the man page for '[' like in the following code. >>>> >>>> x=[1,2,3] >>> You might find my Python symbol glossary useful. >>> https://code.google.com/p/xploro/downloads/detail?name=PySymbols.html >> >> This is for Python 3. Is there one for Python 2.x? >> > Is anyone /still/ using Python 2.x? ;-) Is anyone /actually/ using Python 3.x ;-) Emile
From: Emile van Sebille on 17 Jul 2010 14:37 On 7/17/2010 10:57 AM Benjamin Kaplan said... > Try it in Python 3. > Cool. :) Although I wouldn't have been surprised had my monitor levitated. :) Emile
From: Thomas Jollans on 18 Jul 2010 06:55 On 07/17/2010 04:59 AM, python(a)bdurham.com wrote: > Tim, > >> 2.x?! You were lucky. We lived for three months with Python 1.x in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, write our 1.x code using ed, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down in machine language, fourteen hours a day, > week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home our Dad > would thrash us to sleep wi' his belt... > > Luxury. Our computers only had 256 bytes[1] of RAM and We had to enter > our code, in the dark, using loose binary toggle switches with poor > connections. We used to have to get out of the lake at three o'clock in > the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of hot gravel, go to work at > the mill every day for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would beat > us around the head and neck with a broken bottle, if we were LUCKY! > > [1] http://incolor.inebraska.com/bill_r/elf/html/elf-1-33.htm In slightly related news, I just stumbled upon this: http://catb.org/esr/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html Now of course, he had it tough.
From: python on 18 Jul 2010 12:45
Thomas, > In slightly related news, I just stumbled upon this: > http://catb.org/esr/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html > > Now of course, he had it tough. Tough??? Well we had it tough. Our computers[1][2] had 0 bytes of RAM and 0 bytes of ROM. We had to hand wire our logic and physically push data through logic gates without the benefit of transistors. We used to have to get up out of the shoebox at twelve o'clock at night, and LICK the road clean with our tongues. We had half a handful of freezing cold gravel, worked twenty-four hours a day at the mill for fourpence every six years, and when we got home, our Dad would slice us in two with a bread knife. Malcolm [1] http://totallytrygve.com/computer.php?item=188&picture=0 [2] I learned about computers through one of these kits. When I first stumbled across assembly language (6502), my first thought was, "wow, this is so much easier than what I've been doing"! <snipped> >> 2.x?! You were lucky. We lived for three months with Python 1.x in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, write our 1.x code using ed, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down in machine language, fourteen hours a day, > week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home our Dad > would thrash us to sleep wi' his belt... > > Luxury. Our computers only had 256 bytes[1] of RAM and We had to enter > our code, in the dark, using loose binary toggle switches with poor > connections. We used to have to get out of the lake at three o'clock in > the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of hot gravel, go to work at > the mill every day for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would beat > us around the head and neck with a broken bottle, if we were LUCKY! > > [1] http://incolor.inebraska.com/bill_r/elf/html/elf-1-33.htm In slightly related news, I just stumbled upon this: http://catb.org/esr/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html Now of course, he had it tough. </snipped> |