[Tutor] Tutor FAQ

Mike Hansen mahansen at adelphia.net
Thu Apr 27 04:29:44 CEST 2006


Thanks Kent. I'll make those additions/corrections and rework the 
question about private and public attributes and methods.

Mike

On Apr 26, 2006, at 7:42 PM, Kent Johnson wrote:

> Mike Hansen wrote:
>> Here's the next batch of questions and answers for the tutor FAQ. If
>> you have any clarifications or corrections, please let me know. I'll
>> try to post this on the web site in a couple of days.
>
> Thanks Mike!
>
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>> What's the best editor/IDE for Python?
>>
>> It's really a matter of preference. There are many features of an
>> editor or IDE such as syntax highlighting, code completion, code
>> folding, buffers, tabs,  ... Each editor or IDE has some or all of
>> these features, and you'll have to decide which features are important
>> to you.
>> See http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonEditors for a list of editors.
>> Also http://wiki.python.org/moin/IntegratedDevelopmentEnvironments has
>> a list of IDEs.
> This question is asked every few weeks on comp.lang.python so searching
> the archives will yield many opinions.
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>> How do I make public and private attributes and methods in my classes?
>>
>> Python followws the philosophy of "we're all adults here" with respect
>> to hiding attributes and methods. i.e. trust the other programmers who
>> will use your classes. You can't really hide variables and methods in
>> Python. You can give clues to other programmers.
> By convention, a name that starts with a single underscore is an
> implementation detail that may change and should not be used by client 
> code.
> Python does do name
>> mangling. By putting two underscores before the attribute or method
>> name and not putting two underscores after the name, Python will 
>> mangle
>> the name by putting the class name in front of it.
> <IMO this needs work but not by me tonight...>
>>
>> For an short example see
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_mangling#Name_mangling_in_Python
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Why doesn't my regular expression work?
>>
>> Typically, it's an isssue between re.match and re.search. Match 
>> matches
>> the beginning only and search checks the entire string. See the 
>> regular
>> expression HOWTO for more details.
>>
>> http://www.amk.ca/python/howto/regex/
>
> Python comes with a handy program for testing regular expressions,
> Tools\Scripts\redemo.py.
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>> How do I perform matrix operations using Python?
>>
>> The Python FAQ has an entry on how to create multidimensional lists:
>> http://python.org/doc/faq/programming.html#how-do-i-create-a-
>> multidimensional-list
>>
>> You may want to look into the 'numarray' third party module:
>> http://www.stsci.edu/resources/software_hardware/numarray
> <Numarray is being replaced with numpy - we should refer people there>
> You may want to look into the 'numpy' module which contains many
> resources for scientific computing including powerful matrix 
> operations:
> http://numeric.scipy.org/
>
> Kent
>
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