hello
it's a perfect article all the
series really
but in the code there something wrong
in the iterator for agents
as you implemented it it will return
the first nth items in the agents list
even if they're classified
Hm. I just tested the code as implemented again, and it doesn't display the classified agents. If your tests have produced otherwise, would you mind sharing a screenshot? Thanks!
yes it'l work right
but try this
agents.add(not secret)
agents.add(secret)
agent.add(not secret)
agents.add(secret)
then
self.agents=[not secret,secret,not secret,secret]
then
self.agents-self.secret
4-2=2
then what will print is
self.agents[0] # not secret
then
self.agents[1]#secret
actually it's not big deal
not deal at all but
i read the article and when i reach that
i read it several times
because i thought may be i missed something
thanks for this series i hope
you continue it
Hey, that's pretty good. However, my only concern is that it would delete the internally stored information about the classified agent (which we don't want).
If I were going to fix this problem (which I may well do soon -- I have to take another pass through this material when writing the book), I would actually define the __getitem__() function instead, as that controls the behavior of the [] operator.
This all comes down to separation of concerns. It shouldn't be the responsibility of __next__() to mutate the internal data to obscure information. It's only job should be to determine whether it exposes that information, and how.
Of course, in all honesty, there's nothing preventing a direct call to agents._roster[1] (Python has no private variables). If we were going to obfuscate or remove classified data, that should really occur on the add_agent() function.
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hello
it's a perfect article all the
series really
but in the code there something wrong
in the iterator for agents
as you implemented it it will return
the first nth items in the agents list
even if they're classified
Hm. I just tested the code as implemented again, and it doesn't display the classified agents. If your tests have produced otherwise, would you mind sharing a screenshot? Thanks!
yes it'l work right
but try this
agents.add(not secret)
agents.add(secret)
agent.add(not secret)
agents.add(secret)
then
self.agents=[not secret,secret,not secret,secret]
then
self.agents-self.secret
4-2=2
then what will print is
self.agents[0] # not secret
then
self.agents[1]#secret
actually it's not big deal
not deal at all but
i read the article and when i reach that
i read it several times
because i thought may be i missed something
thanks for this series i hope
you continue it
Ah, I hadn't quite addressed the
[]
operator in that example. Good catch.I noticed this error case while reading through the article as well. In the sake of learning I just couldn't move on and ignore it.
Here is my fix. I am sure there are better ways to accomplish this, so please critique and let me know how I could better accomplish this.
The only thing I changed was the next method as follows:
Hey, that's pretty good. However, my only concern is that it would delete the internally stored information about the classified agent (which we don't want).
Ah, good point.
Take 2 [move classified to end of _roster]:
Thanks so much for these articles and for being so responsive. They are written very well , engaging, and a great resource.
If I were going to fix this problem (which I may well do soon -- I have to take another pass through this material when writing the book), I would actually define the
__getitem__()
function instead, as that controls the behavior of the[]
operator.This all comes down to separation of concerns. It shouldn't be the responsibility of
__next__()
to mutate the internal data to obscure information. It's only job should be to determine whether it exposes that information, and how.Of course, in all honesty, there's nothing preventing a direct call to
agents._roster[1]
(Python has no private variables). If we were going to obfuscate or remove classified data, that should really occur on theadd_agent()
function.