What's ActivePython actually about? From what I've read it's just standard Python with openssl and pyWin32 (on Win). No big deal I guess, I could install them in matter of minutes, and most people don't need them anyway. All other mentioned libraries (zlib, bzip2, sqlite3, Tkinter, ElementTree, ctypes, multiprocessing) are part of core...
Can somebody perhaps explain here why on earth CakePHP has a convention of using plural names for db tables and controllers and singular for models? Why not always use singular terms, or always plural? For me it seems confusing to always have to think "now do I use plural or singular here?" (Or is there an easy way to remember??) And th...
I'm teaching my self python and I was translating some sample code into this class Student(object): def __init__( self, name, a,b,c ): self.name = name self.a = a self.b = b self.c = c def average(self): return ( a+b+c ) / 3.0 Which is pretty much my intended class definition Later in...
According to Generalized Constant Expressions—Revision 5 the following is illegal. constexpr int g(int n) // error: body not just ‘‘return expr’’ { int r = n; while (--n > 1) r *= n; return r; } This is because all 'constexpr' functions are required to be of the form { return expression; }. I can't see any reason that this...
The standard does not allow code like this: namespace Hello::World { //Things that are in namespace Hello::World } and instead requires namespace Hello { namespace World { //Things that are in namespace Hello::World }} What is the rationale? Was this simply not thought of at the time, or is there a specific reason it is not inc...
In C++0x (n3126), smart pointers can be compared, both relationally and for equality. However, the way this is done seems inconsistent to me. For example, shared_ptr defines operator< be equivalent to: template <typename T, typename U> bool operator<(const shared_ptr<T>& a, const shared_ptr<T>& b) { return std::less<void*>()(a.get(...