Re: [Tutor] Remove specific chars from a string

2008-04-16 Thread python
Ricardo, Thanks for the tip on how to use maketrans. I was trying to over-complicate things on my side. The string module lives in 3.0 ... only the duplicate methods have been removed. Regards, Malcolm ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mai

[Tutor] Help with tutor@python.org

2008-04-16 Thread bob gailer
I just changed my email address. Now when I post to tutor@python.org the posts do not show up. I have checked the mailman settings; they look OK. Have you any guidance? Did this post show up on the list? -- Bob Gailer 919-636-4239 Chapel Hill, NC __

Re: [Tutor] Help with tutor@python.org

2008-04-16 Thread bob gailer
Thanks to all. My posts do show up. Now how to get them sent to me??? -- Bob Gailer 919-636-4239 Chapel Hill, NC ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] Hoping to benefit from someone's experience...

2008-04-16 Thread Marc Tompkins
Again with the forgetting to cc the list... On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 11:33 PM, Alan Gauld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alternatively learn enough VBScript to do it all in Word itself That's exactly what I'm doing now. After mentioning in a previous email that formatting is important, I took

Re: [Tutor] Hoping to benefit from someone's experience...

2008-04-16 Thread Kent Johnson
Marc Tompkins wrote: > It's funny - years ago I used to use Visual Studio and _enjoy_ it. I'm > spoiled now, I guess. Python does that to you. The only disadvantage I know to learning Python is that you won't want to code in anything else ever again :-) Kent ___

Re: [Tutor] Hoping to benefit from someone's experience...

2008-04-16 Thread Jeff Johnson
I have done most major languages over the last thirty years of which FoxPro has been the last 16 years. I thought FoxPro was the greatest until Python. Now I code in FoxPro and Python and I wish I could just use Python. It's fun to code, everything works and it is a complete package without