Warning: Long Boring Anecdote: Conclusions will be drawn from a single example.
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"All your suggestions were great if I had wanted to do a systematic study and truly understand. The goal is to understand and learn as little as possible to be able to undertake the code …more ...
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...it is amazing how Windows is “special.” Back when ..., special things had to be done for Windows. Python continues the tradition w/ an entire section in its doco titled “3. Using Python on Windows”
I wasn't sure what to make of this.
It appeared that they want …
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more ...This is a common issue. We have a file which was printed for human consumption. Consequently, it has many different kinds of lines.
These are the two kinds of lines of interest:
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The core expression is similar to this
y = (f(x) for x in L if f(x) is not None)
There are a lot of variations on the filter. The point is that the function appears twice in the above expression.
We …
more ...Check out this idiocy: https://github.com/slott56/py-false
What is the point? Seriously. What. The. Actual. Heck?
I think of it this way.