javascript101: @ lordzouga pls do you have any comprehensive video tutorials on after effects expressions or the ebook after effects expressions by M.Geduld. Thanks in anticipation of ur kind response

do you mean tutorials on how to write scripts for After Effects or video tutorial for After Effects in general

Wow I got a quick response, thanks. I have general tutorials on AE.What I mean is tutorials on how to write scripts for After Effects, thanks.

javascript101: Wow I got a quick response, thanks. I have general tutorials on AE.What I mean is tutorials on how to write scripts for After Effects, thanks.

you have to visit adobe's site. they have an online manual on how to use AE objects and I think its available as a downloadable pdf

Ok. Thanks a lot. I'll checkirout. Thumbs up

Pythonistas, how would you suggest making this less ugly?

So I have a function which, given an integer start that represents a Tuesday for a month, returns the dates of all tuesdays and thursdays after and including that for a month.

For example, for the month of May, May 8 was a Tuesday. So this function should return 8, 10, 15, 17, etc, up to say some upper bound of 31 (we just pretend that every month has 31 days, to keep things simple.)

I have a function. But it is sort of ugly...

Is there a prettier/better way of doing this? This isn't aesthetically pleasing to me...

http://pastebin.com/HZLAKtS2

concatenate the dates into a string and return...

Eh, that won't make the function look more attractive. Makes no difference whether one returns a list or a concatenated string. In fact, the latter is worse, and doesn't make a lot of sense, since you'll then need extract the list from the string

you didn't really define 'attractive' though...

I ended up doing this:

bool1 = x >= start
bool2 = (x -start) % 7==0
bool3 = (x-start-2) % 7==0
return bool1 and (bool2 or bool3)

Makes me feel happier than what I had before.

Unnecessary parentheses removed. Extra boolean introduced.

Minor nitpick, but feels so much nicer, reads more clearly.

doctests are kinda cool...

the truth is that after looking at python for days, infact i have been scanning python ebooks since last year, i set up ruby and rail last night. I cant even write ruby codes now without looking up reference manual but my verditc is Python < PHP < Ruby. So RoR it's. Python sucks, seriously the python buzz is just hype thanks to google marketing. Till i see any reason to look it up again. Scala and Ruby are the new programming languages i'll learn. Python till next time.

megaplaza: the truth is that after looking at python for days, infact i have been scanning python ebooks since last year, i set up ruby and rail last night. I cant even write ruby codes now without looking up reference manual but my verditc is Python < PHP < Ruby. So RoR it's. Python sucks, seriously the python buzz is just hype thanks to google marketing. Till i see any reason to look it up again. Scala and Ruby are the new programming languages i'll learn. Python till next time.

Your choice then...

megaplaza: the truth is that after looking at python for days, infact i have been scanning python ebooks since last year, i set up ruby and rail last night. I cant even write ruby codes now without looking up reference manual but my verditc is Python < PHP < Ruby. So RoR it's. Python sucks, seriously the python buzz is just hype thanks to google marketing. Till i see any reason to look it up again. Scala and Ruby are the new programming languages i'll learn. Python till next time.

I feel that Ruby > Python too. But I spent a couple days this weekend writing some small python scripts. I think this is one of those things where you have to dive into the language completely...use it for any tasks you need to do.

Otherwise you'll just never find the energy/time to learn it...you'll stick with languages you like better.

ekt_bear:

I feel that Ruby > Python too. But I spent a couple days this weekend writing some small python scripts. I think this is one of those things where you have to dive into the language completely...use it for any tasks you need to do.

Otherwise you'll just never find the energy/time to learn it...you'll stick with languages you like better.

am ready to learn Ruby then RoR, simple web apps i will use PHP and complex web app(RoR or Scala Lift). Between now and december. I should finish my Scala and RoR learning experience.

ekt_bear:

I feel that Ruby > Python too. But I spent a couple days this weekend writing some small python scripts. I think this is one of those things where you have to dive into the language completely...use it for any tasks you need to do.

Otherwise you'll just never find the energy/time to learn it...you'll stick with languages you like better.

Emmm ekt_bear, please do not state that Ruby is greater than Python because you know more of Ruby than Python. How many Python libraries have you used effectively. What and What have you done in Ruby and tried to do in Python and failed?. Please, next time do not make the mistake of judging programming languages based on your personal conviction as I do not see what Ruby does that Python can not do. No insult my language again abeg...

Lol. I said "feel." I.e., it is my opinion. There is nothing that Ruby can do which Python can't, actually. In fact, the opposite is probably true...hence my attempts to transition from Ruby to Python as my main language.

However, Ruby is a more beautiful language, imo.

As a matter of fact, Python canot have blocks without very very nasty patches. Because of this, Python cannot posses tools like RSpec! Am sure we both know how awesome blocks are.
http://pastie.org/3968568

@goon, write me a tool like Rspec and I would pay you £1000. Just ONE condition, you would open source it!

Interesting. Can't anonymous functions do the trick?

In any case, I'll just continue to write my tests (even for python) using RSpec

Nope. You basically can't have something like Rspec in python except you create some nasty hacks that would allow you have nested functions(basically except you deal with the devil lool).

Python3 already has nested functions. Dunno if prior versions do too.

I finally fell in love with Python.

Anybody in AKS that can take me on tutorials. Am looking for hobby. Not to make money from though. Will pay by the way

Hello.
Am looking for a very good Phyton programmer who can work with me on my project. Here is my whatapp number 07060700122. Please contact me if you can

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