my perl and python tutorial http://xahlee.org/perl-python/index.html is now available for download for offline reading. Download link at the bottom. Xah ∑...
The Condition of Industrial Programers Xah Lee, 2006-05 Before i stepped into the computing industry, my first industrial programing experience is at Wolfram...
Tabs versus Spaces in Source Code Xah Lee, 2006-05-13 In coding a computer program, there’s often the choices of tabs or spaces for code indentation. There...
Python, Lambda, and Guido van Rossum Xah Lee, 2006-05-05 In this post, i'd like to deconstruct one of Guido's recent blog about lambda in Python. In Guido's...
I have a website of photo gallery. It consists of many HTML pages with inline images. There are about 400 of photos and images. However, the site lacks a...
What is Expressiveness in a Computer Language Xah Lee, 200502. In languages human or computer, there's a notion of expressiveness. English for example, is very...
The Concepts and Confusions of Pre-fix, In-fix, Post-fix and Fully Functional Notations http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/writ/notations.html A side note: the...
The Concepts and Confusions of Pre-fix, In-fix, Post-fix and Fully Functional Notations Xah Lee, 2006-03-15 Let me summarize: The LISP notation, is a...
Examples of Quality Documentation Xah Lee, 200512 I had the pleasure to read the PHP's manual today. http://www.php.net/manual/en/ Although Pretty Home Page is...
One-Liner Loop in Functional Style Xah Lee, 200510 Today we show a example of a loop done as a one-liner of Functional Programing style. Suppose you have a...
Split File Fullpath Into Parts Xah Lee, 20051016 Often, we are given a file fullpath and we need to split it into the directory name and file name. The file...
Addendum: Since Python 2.4 (released 2005-03), there's also a sorted() function, which returns the result instead of modifing the list in-place. ☄...
continued from sorting in Python at http://xahlee.org/perl-python/sort_list.html ... Sorting in Perl In Perl, to sort a list, do like this: @li=(1,9,2,3); @li2...
Perl-Python-a-Day: Sort a List Sort a List Xah Lee, 200510 In this page, we show how to sort a list in Python & Perl and also discuss some math of sort. To...
The following script takes a directory and print all the sizes of html files, counting the sizes of inline images. This script is useful in making sure that...
http://xahlee.org/perl-python/python_3000.html addendum, 20051001 here i will try to illuminate some miscellaneous things regarding the lambda in Python issue....
Lambda in Python 3000 Xah Lee, 200509 On Guido van Rossum's website: http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=98196 dated 20050826, he muses with the...
Perl and Python Documentations Xah Lee, 20050921 Perl's documentation has come of age: http://perldoc.perl.org/ Python people really need to learn: • ample...
Addendum to the Python doc problem at http://www.python.org/doc/2.4.1/lib/module-os.path.html I was working on a program where i needed to split a path into...
... Umm nearly - but the exceptions should be as follows: * If the last slash is repeated, and it is not the first set of slashes, it treated as single slash. ...
The official documentation for Python is http://docs.python.org/ The doc is downloadable. However, this official documentation is very lousy. A excellent quick...
Hi there, You could save recompressing an intermediate file on a unix system by changing your input to the gzip commnad to include the -c option This will then...
danny staple
orionrobots@...
Sep 9, 2005 10:56 pm
102
200509: Making System Calls (with unix and Python 2.4) To make a system call, use: subprocess.Popen([r"gzip","-d", "x.txt.gz"]).wait() The subprocess module is...
Here's a example script that performs a simple task. The task is: suppose you a bunch of files named access_log.1.gz access_log.2.gz access_log.3.gz these are...
Python Doc Problem Example: os.system Xah Lee, 2005-09 today i'm trying to use Python to call shell commands. e.g. in Perl something like output=qx(ls) in...
... You could shorten the Perl unix calls by using the backtick operator: `gzip x.txt` `gzip -d x.txt.gz` And for the same behaviour as the Python module,...
danny staple
orionrobots@...
Sep 2, 2005 3:55 pm
98
20050830 Here is a example of how to decompress a gzip file using Python. # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- # Python import gzip inF =...
Having problems with message search?
Fill out this form to ensure your group is one of the first to be migrated to the new message search system.
