Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: Ben Finney Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: need help understanding a python program Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2015 05:45:15 +1100 Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de NaCQJcqnOrbqGLz3MJE2Dg6Ajn2rrTbkMwBNVhe9WUXA== Cancel-Lock: sha1:/WSsjPF5QdlMLSigP1Lr3ffsYb0= Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.034 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.93; '*S*': 0.00; 'context': 0.05; 'subject:help': 0.07; 'of)': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'subject:python': 0.14; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:io': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'received:psf.io': 0.16; 'subject:program': 0.16; 'subject:need': 0.18; 'plain': 0.24; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.26; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.26; 'far,': 0.29; 'lifetime': 0.29; 'subject:skip:u 10': 0.29; 'code': 0.30; 'could': 0.35; 'text': 0.35; 'expected': 0.35; 'but': 0.36; 'hosted': 0.36; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.36; 'subject:: ': 0.37; 'really': 0.37; 'received:org': 0.37; 'someone': 0.38; 'enough': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.40; 'your': 0.60; 'discuss': 0.61; 'here': 0.66; 'worth': 0.67; 'money': 0.71; 'services.': 0.72; 'million': 0.74; 'sale': 0.75; '*get': 0.84; '_o__)': 0.84; 'impressions': 0.84; 'received:125': 0.84 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: jigong.madmonks.org X-Public-Key-ID: 0xAC128405 X-Public-Key-Fingerprint: 517C F14B B2F3 98B0 CB35 4855 B8B2 4C06 AC12 8405 X-Public-Key-URL: http://www.benfinney.id.au/contact/bfinney-pubkey.asc X-Post-From: Ben Finney User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20+ Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:98113 Lee Bradley writes: > http://pastebin.com/ndDYjYe1 We much prefer to discuss code in the context of plain text messages right here, because this forum is archived longer than the expected lifetime of content hosted on other services. > For now I am looking for someone who can dig into this code and > explain what's going on. I understand a lot of it but not enough to > really *get it*. Could you discuss your own impressions of it so far, with (parts of) the code pasted here as plain text for context of your commentary? -- \ Moriarty: “Forty thousand million billion dollars? That money | `\ must be worth a fortune!” —The Goon Show, _The Sale of | _o__) Manhattan_ | Ben Finney