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Dark Mirror

23:00

Ok here is my code:

Jimmy Hoffa

print "hello world 2048";

AwesomeUser

Does anyone online know how to work with JSON in python?

Jimmy Hoffa

@DarkMirror good code!

Dark Mirror

lol it just disappeared

lmao

sorry

user55340

printf("%d",42); /* This will print 42 to the screen */
char buffer [64];
sprintf(buffer,"%d",42); /* this will store "42\0" in buffer */

Dark Mirror

23:01

const int MAX_MESSAGE_LENGTH = 4;
char message[ MAX_MESSAGE_LENGTH ];
sprintf( message, "%d", this->getScore());

i think it works yea?

Jimmy Hoffa

@DarkMirror ...dunno... does it?

Dark Mirror

eww got an error

warning C4996: 'sprintf': This function or variable may be unsafe.

user55340

And its true... it may be.

user55340

What happens if score is greater than 4?

Dark Mirror

YES

It worked

Yee haw!

user55340

23:03

That said, if you can't use itoa, I doubt you'll be able to use sprintf.

Dark Mirror

I don't really care anymore lol

AwesomeUser

@MichaelT do you know much python?

Dark Mirror

as long as my game works.. XD

user55340

@AwesomeUser It uses spaces to indent...

user55340

Just wait till someone has a 5 digit score. Then you'll be unhappy.

Robert Harvey

23:04

How do SQL Server and Oracle programmers deal with nested queries? In Access, I could save separate SELECT queries, and reference those saved queries as if they were tables or views in new queries. In ordinary SQL, it seems like you need subqueries.

Dark Mirror

haha it will never be

user55340

hint: log(2048) is greater than 4 but less than 5. Well, log base 10.

Dark Mirror

4096

is max i can think right now

what?

I never thought of that =S

const int MAX_MESSAGE_LENGTH = 100;

woo saved my day

user55340

And don't forget the space for the null.

Dark Mirror

oh i said 0

If it's zero don't draw anything

user55340

23:06

Note: You'll never need more than 20 if its an integer.

Dark Mirror

make sense

user55340

log(2^64) = 19.26

Dark Mirror

2^64

yea

Zeroth

@MichaelT Who doesn't indent their code? (You can use tabs with python)

Dark Mirror

isn't 2^63

user55340

23:07

@Zeroth Its more a what I know about it... granted, I do know a bit more, I can look at it and see whats going on... but its not in my top 5 list for go-to code languages.

Zeroth

Ahh, sorry, misinterpreted.

Dark Mirror

I have one question what's the difference between char and char*?

Zeroth

I'm used to people ragging on Python for indentation being important

user55340

(I want to say Thank you to ChrisF for the close on that old name bikeshed question)

Zeroth

which I tell them Python does support ; and {}. You just have to prepend them with #

(# = //)

AwesomeUser

23:09

So if I'm using US data from earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/feed/v1.0/summary/…

user55340

If I really wanted to write python, it would start out:

user55340

#!/usr/bin/perl

use Acme::Pythonic;

user55340

search.cpan.org/~fxn/Acme-Pythonic-0.47/lib/Acme/Pythonic.pm

Dark Mirror

I am thinking of using 2D arrays

Zeroth

ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

AwesomeUser

23:10

and using node = data['type']

Dark Mirror

But, I don't know how to declar 2D arrays of pointers

Zeroth

@MichaelT

AwesomeUser

I can get that to work. But it doesn't seem to want me to put in mag

user55340

Or maybe SuperPython search.cpan.org/~mjd/SuperPython-0.91/SuperPython.pm

user55340

> SuperPython brings to Perl all the benefits of Python's vaunted whitespace-sensitivity, including readability, maintainability, less punctuation, and all that other great crap. In fact, it goes several steps further than Python in this direction. However, SuperPython retains Perl's powerful and flexible underlying semantics.

AwesomeUser

23:12

It would be running on a RPi

Can it support super python?

user55340

Note: SuperPython is a perl joke.

user55340

package SuperPython;

$VERSION = 0.91;

use Filter::Simple sub
{
    s/( *)	/chr(length($1))/ge;
};

1;

user55340

Getting back to serious python though, the questions you have are ones I can't answer. I could look at something see the algorotihim and give you an idea about how it works and whats wrong with the algorothim (you've got a loop here that is unnecessary type things)

user55340

But once you get to the data types and debugging at that level, I'm out without spending a long time looking at it with a debugger in a nice IDE.

Zeroth

Yeah, normally I could help you AwesomeU, but I

m about to log off after a long work day. :(

AwesomeUser

23:20

Ok thanks

user55340

This room is rather 9-5 ish.

user55340

@AwesomeUser you might try asking in the SO Python room:

user55340

chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/info/6/python

user55340

though it looks like they might be spinning down for the evening too... still, a better chance of getting someone to look at the python code in depth than here.

user55340

(we're a hodgepodge of Java, C#, haskell... and one guy even admits to VBA... and we can dredge up C if asked to...) But we tend to prefer to deal with the higher level architectural and methodology issues that transcend language choice.

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