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"Risk -- If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he doesn't know how wide it is, he'll jump and six times out of ten he'll make it." -- Persian proverb

"Goodfellas". If you like gangster-movies, this is definately one of the best, if not [B]the[/B] best. "The Prestige" too.

Hi Please take a look at [CODE=python] class ShortInputException(Exception): #QUESTION: Why do I have to inherit from the "Exception" class? def __init__(self, length, atleast): Exception.__init__(self) #QUESTION: Why do I have to add this? self.length = length self.atleast = atleast try: s = raw_input('Enter something --> ') if len(s) < 3: …

Hi OK, so I am reading on OOP in Python, and I am an old C/C++ programmer so I have somewhat high expectations :). My question is regarding private/public variables. Per default, all class data members are public, but if we precede them with a double underscore, they become private. …

Vodka + orangejuice. Now, that's healthy! :-)

Hi Everything in Python is treated as an object, so [CODE] i=5 i.imag [/CODE] makes sense, i.e. the variable [I]i[/I] has some associated methods. But why doesn't the following example work? [CODE] 5.imag #error [/CODE] One would think that it should work, since the integer "5" is an object just …