sunqiang's comments

On: What’s New In Python 3.3

[sunqiang]

for RHEL 5, it's Python 2.4, for RHEL 6 it's Python 2.6.

On: Research in programming languages

[sunqiang]

from http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonVsHaskell

List Comprehension Syntax:

Python's list comprehension syntax is taken (with trivial keyword/symbol modifications) directly from Haskell. The idea was just too good to pass up.

On: Why Python is Important for You

[sunqiang]

don't know for sure, it might be C++, Java, and now they have Go.

On: Why Python is Important for You

[sunqiang]

what type of paper, Google's coding policy? there is a mail-list post, https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/unladen-s...

On: Why Python is Important for You

[sunqiang]

Python 2 to Python 3 is a big jump once in a lifetime. what about ruby 1.9 to ruby 2.0?

[jshen → sunqiang]

ruby 2.0 will likely be just as easy as 1.8 to 1.9, if not easier.

[sunqiang → jshen]

so, it's not as easy as python 2.x to 2.(x+1) and python 3.x to 3.(x+1). will every version update of Ruby will suffer as mush as Ruby 1.8 to 1.9?

On: Why Python is Important for You

[sunqiang]

The PyPy team is amazing, for example Quora is now running on PyPy. and it's easy for a Python programmer run PyPy as an alternative(and hopefully fast) implementation.

On: PyCon 2011: How Dropbox Did It and How Python Helped

[sunqiang]

Python 2.5 has any (and all) Python 2.3 has itertools so Google App Engine(2.5) should have both of them.

On: Dropbox: The hottest startup you've never heard of

[sunqiang]

There is a PyCon video about Dropbox: PyCon 2011: How Dropbox Did It and How Python Helped http://pycon.blip.tv/file/4878722/

On: Python now uses Mercurial

[sunqiang]

yeah, http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0374/

On: Pixel Perfect map of china

[sunqiang]

It's Chinese, which is a three-dimensional map of GuangZhou city, the labels are the names of places. and as rywang mentioned above, there is a 3d map http://sh.o.cn/ for ShangHai too

[anactofgod → sunqiang]

Sorry. I did understand what was being shown, even though I couldn't read the language. I was just making a joke about how the map looked like a SimCity game.

Actually, I was making two jokes, the second being how the map was out of date the instance it was published, because of how quickly a city's buildings and streets can change in China.

Still, it is very nicely done!

[sunqiang → anactofgod]

Sorry for my broken English, thanks for the elaboration.