Is '[' a function or an operator or an language feature?
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From: Tim Chase on 16 Jul 2010 22:23 On 07/16/2010 09:08 PM, MRAB wrote: > Peng Yu wrote: >>> 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? ;-) 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... -tkc
From: python on 16 Jul 2010 22:59 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! Cheers, Malcolm [1] http://incolor.inebraska.com/bill_r/elf/html/elf-1-33.htm
From: Terry Reedy on 16 Jul 2010 23:12 On 7/16/2010 9:42 PM, 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? They are close to 100% the same. I intentionally worded the entries so one could look in the manuals for details. -- Terry Jan Reedy
From: Steven D'Aprano on 17 Jul 2010 04:03 On Fri, 16 Jul 2010 21:23:09 -0500, Tim Chase wrote: >> Is anyone /still/ using Python 2.x? ;-) > > 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, You got to use ed? Oh, we *dreamed* of using an editor! We had to edit the sectors on disk directly with a magnetised needle. A rusty, blunt needle. -- Steven
From: geremy condra on 17 Jul 2010 04:17
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 1:03 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve(a)remove-this-cybersource.com.au> wrote: > On Fri, 16 Jul 2010 21:23:09 -0500, Tim Chase wrote: > >>> Is anyone /still/ using Python 2.x? ;-) >> >> 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, > > You got to use ed? Oh, we *dreamed* of using an editor! We had to edit > the sectors on disk directly with a magnetised needle. A rusty, blunt > needle. Real programmers use butterflies. http://xkcd.com/378/ Geremy Condra |