Category Archives: Python

How far is it from point a to point b? There are complicated ways to answer this question, that e.g. takes into account whether you’re walking or driving etc. However, if you only need the approximate distance “as the crow … Continue reading →

It looks like Python is getting tuples with named members in 2.6 (http://www.oluyede.org/blog/2007/03/11/updates-from-python-svn-part-2/ and http://docs.python.org/dev/lib/named-tuple-factory.html). I suspect many of us have implemented similar functionality ourselves, e.g. Shannon -jj Behrens describes how he sometimes uses dictionaries to return composite polymorphic values … Continue reading →

Although it can seem like a CS excercise, everyone will sooner or later have to write a “flatten” function — a function that takes a nested “list” and makes it one-dimensional: it should also handle Python data types in a … Continue reading →