[Tutor] War: The Card Game

2011-06-30 Thread Vincent Balmori
I am working on the card game of war challenge where each player is given a single card and the highest value wins. I keep getting a Type Error since for the moment since the values of the cards cannot be compared due to their types. I am thinking of creating a Card_Value class that will give each

Re: [Tutor] The Card Game

2011-06-30 Thread Alan Gauld
"Vincent Balmori" wrote I keep getting a Type Error since for the moment since the values of the cards cannot be compared due to their types. Please send the complete error text sincethat will tell us where to look etc. I am thinking of creating a Card_Value class that will give each rank a

Re: [Tutor] Trivia

2011-06-30 Thread Christopher King
Just some programming philosophy. On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 3:58 AM, Vincent Balmori wrote: > > "Your whole approach is very fragile in this respect, it only > takes one small mistake in the data to wreck your program,. > Somethjing like a config file format would be much more > robust (and readabl

Re: [Tutor] decorators

2011-06-30 Thread Christopher King
It would be cool if their where decorators that modified decorators. I know its possible, but I can't think of a use. On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 11:05 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Robert wrote: > >> Is there a good tutorial out there somewhere about decorators? Google >> doesn't bring up much. >> >>

[Tutor] Blackjack Betting

2011-06-30 Thread Vincent Balmori
I have been working on another challenge that involves improving the Blackjack program so the players can wager an amount. If a player loses they will be removed from the game. I keep getting the error: “NameError: global name 'bet' is not defined.” I know I came across this error before in a pre

[Tutor] Copying Files

2011-06-30 Thread gagnrath
I was using glob and shutil to copy logs from one location to another successfully, however, I have run into a snag when trying to copy a directory. Not sure how to fix this. Current Code is as follows: for file in glob.glob("/drbd1/monitorcenter/Apps/WEB-INF/*"): #This line is holding up

Re: [Tutor] Conceptual Question About Use of Python for Employee Training Program

2011-06-30 Thread Christopher King
What's step 4? On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 10:08 AM, Mac Ryan wrote: > On Sat, 25 Jun 2011 06:18:14 -0700 (PDT) > Adam Carr wrote: > > > Good Morning: > > > > I am very new to Python but I am enjoying the learning process. I > > have a question about the application of Python to a problem at the >

Re: [Tutor] Python GUI

2011-06-30 Thread Christopher King
dude, what are all those story comments, did you just edit the mad lib program from Python for Absolute Beginners? On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 12:28 AM, David Merrick wrote: > # Guess My Number GUI > # Create a story based on user input > > from tkinter import * > import random > class Application(Fr

Re: [Tutor] Zipping files and Mysql

2011-06-30 Thread Christopher King
/myfiles/my_db/ needs to be a string that right there is trying to divide nothing by the variable called myfiles, divided by my_db, divide by nothing On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 3:45 PM, wrote: > I am trying to write a script that will dump a mysql db and then zip the > file. > > > I do know about m

Re: [Tutor] The Card Game

2011-06-30 Thread Christopher King
I would go with __cmp__ which covers them all. 1 for greater, 0 for equal, -1 for less than. On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 5:35 AM, Alan Gauld wrote: > > "Vincent Balmori" wrote > >> I keep getting a Type Error since for the moment since the >> values of the cards cannot be compared due to their >> ty

Re: [Tutor] Blackjack Betting

2011-06-30 Thread Prasad, Ramit
>I keep getting the error: “NameError: global >name 'bet' is not defined.” I know I came across this error before in a >previous thread, but I am confused on how to solve this, since I am also >trying to juggle it with inherited methods at the same time. Telling us this without the stack trace is

Re: [Tutor] Copying Files

2011-06-30 Thread Prasad, Ramit
-Original Message- From: tutor-bounces+ramit.prasad=jpmchase@python.org [mailto:tutor-bounces+ramit.prasad=jpmchase@python.org] On Behalf Of gagnr...@verizon.net Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2011 1:03 PM To: tutor@python.org Subject: [Tutor] Copying Files I was using glob and shutil

Re: [Tutor] The Card Game

2011-06-30 Thread ALAN GAULD
I may be wrong but I thought __cmp__ was deprecated. In fact I thought it was one oof the things removed in Python v3 But I may have just imagined it! :-) Alan Gauld Author of the Learn To Program website http://www.alan-g.me.uk/ From: Christopher Ki

Re: [Tutor] The Card Game

2011-06-30 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Christopher King wrote: I would go with __cmp__ which covers them all. 1 for greater, 0 for equal, -1 for less than. So-called "rich comparisons" using __lt__, __gt__, etc. have been preferred since Python 2.1. The major advantage of them is that they can be used for more complicated data ty