Re: My first ever Python program, comments welcome

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Date	2012-07-22 20:17 +1000
Subject	Re: My first ever Python program, comments welcome
From	Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 6:49 PM, Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8825@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/22/2012 3:37 AM, Lipska the Kat wrote:
>> Many in
>> the Linux world seem to use git. Seeing as I've been using Linux at home
>> since the early days of slackware I suppose I'd better look into it.
> There are Mercurial (aka Hg) and Bazaar as well for DVCS. AFAIK, git,
> Mercurial, and Bazaar are all fine choices and the one to use will
> mainly boil down to personal preference. I prefer Mercurial myself.

Agreed. I poked around with Bazaar a bit this year, and it seems to
lack some features. But certainly hg and git are both excellent
choices, with bzr not significantly far behind. I prefer git,
personally; on Windows, though, I would recommend hg.

Probably the best feature of any of them (one which, I believe, is now
standard in all three) is 'bisect' with a command. It's "git bisect
run", or "hg bisect -c", or "bzr bisect run". You can search back
through a huge time period without any human interaction. I did that a
while ago with a docs-building problem; the current state wouldn't
successfully generate its docs from a fresh start, even though it
could update them from a previous state. It took 45 minutes (!) of
chuggity-chug compilation to find the actual cause of the problem, and
no effort from me (since "make doc" already gave the right exit
codes). Use source control now; you'll reap the benefits later!

ChrisA

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My first ever Python program, comments welcome Lipska the Kat <lipska@lipskathekat.com> - 2012-07-21 20:08 +0100
  Re: My first ever Python program, comments welcome Ian Foote <ian@feete.org> - 2012-07-21 20:34 +0100
  Re: My first ever Python program, comments welcome MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2012-07-21 20:40 +0100
    Re: My first ever Python program, comments welcome Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-07-22 00:32 +0000
      Re: My first ever Python program, comments welcome MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2012-07-22 02:56 +0100
      Re: My first ever Python program, comments welcome Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-07-22 11:59 +1000
      Re: My first ever Python program, comments welcome Dave Angel <d@davea.name> - 2012-07-21 22:01 -0400
  Re: My first ever Python program, comments welcome Dave Angel <d@davea.name> - 2012-07-21 16:10 -0400
    Re: My first ever Python program, comments welcome Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-07-22 00:56 +0000
    Re: My first ever Python program, comments welcome rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2012-07-21 19:55 -0700
      Re: My first ever Python program, comments welcome Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-07-22 09:14 +0100
      Re: My first ever Python program, comments welcome Lipska the Kat <lipska@lipskathekat.com> - 2012-07-22 10:20 +0100
        Re: My first ever Python program, comments welcome rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2012-07-22 09:18 -0700
          Re: My first ever Python program, comments welcome Lipska the Kat <lipska@lipskathekat.com> - 2012-07-22 18:23 +0100
            Re: My first ever Python program, comments welcome rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2012-07-23 22:13 -0700
              Re: My first ever Python program, comments welcome Lipska the Kat <lipskathekat@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-07-24 12:34 +0100
    Re: My first ever Python program, comments welcome Lipska the Kat <lipska@lipskathekat.com> - 2012-07-22 09:37 +0100
      Re: My first ever Python program, comments welcome Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8825@gmail.com> - 2012-07-22 03:49 -0500
      Re: My first ever Python program, comments welcome Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-07-22 20:17 +1000
        Re: My first ever Python program, comments welcome Lipska the Kat <lipska@lipskathekat.com> - 2012-07-22 13:36 +0100
      Re: My first ever Python program, comments welcome David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2012-07-22 20:46 +1000
  Re: My first ever Python program, comments welcome Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2012-07-22 09:56 +0200
  Re: My first ever Python program, comments welcome "Ivan@work" <ivan.cvetkovic@pakel.hr> - 2012-07-23 09:12 +0200

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