[Tutor] Write a programming language! (Was: Iterating through a list of strings)

2010-05-05 Thread Eike Welk
Hello Thomas! On Monday May 3 2010 07:16:17 Thomas C. Hicks wrote: > I am using Python 2.6.4 in Ubuntu. Since I use Ubuntu (with its every > 6 months updates) and want to learn Python I have been working on a > post-install script that would get my Ubuntu system up and running with > my favorite

Re: [Tutor] Iterating through a list of strings

2010-05-05 Thread Walter Prins
On 03/05/10 06:16, Thomas C. Hicks wrote: I am using Python 2.6.4 in Ubuntu. Since I use Ubuntu (with its every 6 months updates) and want to learn Python I have been working on a post-install script that would get my Ubuntu system up and running with my favorite packages quickly. As an aside,

[Tutor] portability of pickle and shelve across platforms and different python versions?

2010-05-05 Thread Garry Willgoose
I have seen conflicting info on this on the web and in the tutor archive and the docs don't seem to address it explicitly. How portable are files containing pickle'd and shelve'd data? I'm thinking issues like simply O/S portability, through big-end/little-end hardware (for floats/integers which

[Tutor] Newbie & Unittest ...

2010-05-05 Thread Damon Timm
Hi - am trying to write some unit tests for my little python project - I had been hard coding them when necessary here or there but I figured it was time to try and learn how to do it properly. I've read over Python's guide (http://docs.python.org/library/unittest.html) but I am having a hard time