Dear Guru, I have added def and it doesnt work Sincerly, F

[Federico Caboni]

On 15-03-2002 9:09, in article B8B76AE7.D16%msx at crs4.it, "Federico Caboni"
<msx at crs4.it> wrote:

> On 15-03-2002 4:01, in article slrna92leq.6n5.gerhard at lilith.my-fqdn.de,
> "Gerhard Häring" <gerhard at bigfoot.de> wrote:
> 
> [SNIP]
> 
>>>> No wonder this doesn't work, as you've apparently haven't made very
>>>> much effort to understand what you're doing here.
>>>> 
>>>> Sorry to be so blunt, but you can't write software just by guessing
>>>> about the syntax.
>>> 
>>> Really? I do some of the time, when I don't remember it and can't be
>>> bothered to look in the manual.
>> 
>> Me too, mostly by trying stuff out at Python prompt, for instance if I
>> forgot the semantics of slicing again.
>> 
> 
> I discovered "eval" by guessing....
> I thought something like "It would be cool if existed a statement like
> that".
> I guessed the name too =).
> Well...I agree that this is not the right way to learn Python anyway ;)
> 

BTW... I think that's a proof of Python's beauty.
The statement worked exactly as I espected, and had the same name I
Expected too...
I don't think I could just do the same with C pointers ;)


 
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