What is the differences between Int and Integer in Scala?

“What are the differences between Integer and Int?” Integer is just an alias for java.lang.Integer. Int is the Scala integer with the extra capabilities. Looking in Predef.scala you can see this the alias: /** @deprecated use <code>java.lang.Integer</code> instead */ @deprecated type Integer = java.lang.Integer However, there is an implicit conversion from Int to java.lang.Integer if … Read more

Counting positive integer elements in a list with Python list comprehensions

If you want to reduce the amount of memory, you can avoid generating a temporary list by using a generator: sum(x > 0 for x in frequencies) This works because bool is a subclass of int: >>> isinstance(True,int) True and True‘s value is 1: >>> True==1 True However, as Joe Golton points out in the … Read more