kgm

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1. 31.▲
   by kgm 11y ago

   The intention is to default-initialize values to things that are invalid. There's no obvious "invalid" value for a plain integer, so they get zero. But char gets 0xFF, because a char is defined to hold UTF-8 code units, and 0
2. 32.▲
   “Let's talk about a hypothetical public-facing service”(reddit.com)

   439 points by kgm 11y ago|67 comments
3. 33.▲
   by kgm 12y ago

   A while back I hacked up a script for doing digraphs in tmux. It's not precisely equivalent to screen's digraph support, but it does the job and (given that it's just a Python script) can be easily extended. http:/&#x2F
4. 34.▲
   by kgm 13y ago

   The built-in profiler can be told to dump the results of the profile to a "pstats" file. A simple way to do this is to run your code under the module itself, as in: $ python -mcProfile -o foo.pstats foo.py This will run you
5. 35.▲
   by kgm 13y ago

   Some of these quirks are explained incorrectly. I find the real explanations interesting, so please allow me to provide them. > 999+1 is not 1000 The examples given in this section do not actually show what the poster thinks! Python&#x27