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macbony

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About macbony

Software engineer at DecisionDesk.com

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    Comment #9651968

    The problem is you, like an overweight person, think that you can get by with an economy ticket. I feel bad for your knees, but I'm reclining because I paid for the ability to recl…

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    Comment #8980779

    The Super Bowl is the only "Big Game" they refer to in the ads. Sure there are other "big games", but these are Super Bowl ads pure and simple.

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    Comment #8243941

    C-a a is an extra keypress but good enough for me.

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    Comment #7721906

    No, the reason it exists is so you can override functionality of subclasses at run time, otherwise things like monkey patching would be impossible. I guess it COULD do a pass to se…

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    Comment #7720907

    I'm not really sure I understand your point. The value of x is still going to be in memory, but you may not have any references to it and it will be garbage collected. The disconne…

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    Comment #7720459

    x isn't a variable, it's a tag. Because Python is dynamically typed, x can be an int one minute and a function the next, so every attribute on a class is stored as a pointer to an …

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    Comment #7719114

    If instead of x being an integer, it were a function x(), then it makes more sense. Really, for Python, there is no difference between the two in this example. When you assign a ne…

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    Comment #7153474

    I prefer print("A {0} can be very cute!".format(pet)) .format() is very versatile. d = {'first': 'Robert', 'last': 'Paulson'} print("His name was {first} {last}!".format(**d)) >> H…

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    Comment #5179731

    That's where this one comes in?

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    Comment #4767867

    :t is the "copy" version of the command. It's shorter than :co[py].