On Thursday, Apr 14, 2005, D. Hartley wrote:
and a question about sorting (either way):
I am trying it out with a list of tuples right now. The first problem
I ran into is that when i sort it (scorelist.sort(reverse=True)), it
sorts by the person's name (the first entry), and not by the score.
On Thursday, Apr 14, 2005, I wrote:
which gives
200 Nina
20 Ben
2 Raj
oops, copy and paste error...should be:
200 Nina
20 Ben
2 Raj
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On Friday, Apr 15, 2005, at 14:31 America/Chicago,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So I'm sure that's probably way too much information for most of you!!
But my remaining questions are these:
1. what is/where can i get the "pickle" module for storing/saving
changes to the high score list?
2. tabs/aligni
On Friday, Apr 15, 2005, at 20:40 America/Chicago, Jacob S. -
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Great. len is a function though. Why use a second layer of function
when len is a function in itself?
l = ['d','sea','bee']
l.sort(key=len)
l
['d', 'bee', 'sea']
LOL :-) Oooh, that's nice! OK, instead of w
On Friday, Apr 15, 2005, at 18:46 America/Chicago,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I did look at your example about using the longest number, but I
couldnt really understand all of the code, and ended up deciding to
arrange it so that the two columns were left-aligned: it looked like
it would align them
In a recent post, I believe it was D Hawksworth that noted,
So I imported it, asked the shell window for 'help' (egad, technical
jargon!) and did a search on python, same result. None of my
beginners' tutorials have anything about pickle, unfortunately (very
frustrating!)
Does anyone know if there
I sent the following to the mac-sig without reply (except for an
autoresponder telling me that a person was out of the office :-)). Is
there anyone with a mac that could test this code in the IDE to see if
you have the same problems? (I don't have problems running it through
the 2.4 version of
On Tuesday, Apr 19, 2005, Lee Cullens wrote:
I assume you mean PythonIDE for Python 2.3 (I usually use 2.4 and
WingIDE). Here it is (indents screwed up with var font):
HTH,
Lee C
import timeit
def y1():
print ’y1 executed’
def y2():
print ’y2 executed’
for f in [y1,y2]:
n
###
def y1():
pass
def foo():
from __main__ import y1
pass
foo()
###
Here is a version of the code, stripped of the timeit code. The above
segment exhibits the same symptoms as the previously submitted one.
Even though I am running this as "__main__" it behaves as though it is
not _
From: Kent Johnson
Is it possible that the script is not running as __main__? Add
print __name__
to the script and see what it says...
It says '__main__'. Here is the end of the output after printing
vars() if that helps:
'__file__': '/Users/csmith/Desktop/misc python/timeit eg.py',
't': ,
'y1'
On Friday, Apr 22, 2005, at 03:52 America/Chicago, Just van Rossum -
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Importing __main__ is a very silly thing to do anyway, if you ask me.
All comments from you, Bob, and Jack have been *very* helpful. I think
I understand better what is going on. What's got me scratch
I have this in my misc library. It was my last attempt at unifying the
cls function snippets that I got when I asked about this question some
time ago (check the ASPN tutor archives for 'cls'). After adding
"darwin" to the test for the system (instead of just 'mac') I got it to
work from a sc
On Friday, Apr 22, 2005, at 10:00 America/Chicago, Max Noel wrote:
Do you have a suggestion as to what can I give a module so it has
enough information to execute a function that resides in __main__?
Here is a visual of what is going on:
--__main__
def y1():
pass
import foo
foo.run(string
On Friday, Apr 29, 2005, at 09:48 America/Chicago,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello and thanks in advance.
I am trying to prompt the user for some input. I need three values
from the user so,I used input() like so;
Matrix = input("Matrix=")
error=input("error=")
alpha= input("alpha=")
us
I got over my intimidation with tokenize and learned to use it to strip
comments from code files. In the process, I learned that the tuples
that it returns for the position in the code of various tokens is
1-based in the row rather than 0-based, so the tuple pair (3,1),(3,2)
would be the start
Does anybody else ever run into the case of using enumerate on a slice
but then wish that the original list indices were being returned
instead of the ones starting at zero?
I would like to see an offset argument that could be used with
enumerate:
###
l=range(5)
for i,li in enumerate(l[3:]):
I found a work around for the terminal it appears that the message in
the input("message") was being assigned to the next variable making
Matrix=error=alpha
It's good to see that you got this working. Just a couple notes:
1) Regarding your comment above, it just *looks* like it was doing an
ass
> From: Andrei
>> ###
>> # line 1 according to tokenize tuple
>> # line 2
>> a=b #line 3
>> ###
>>
>> Does anyone have an idea of *why* the rows/physical lines of code
>> beginning their count at 1 instead of 0? In order to process the code
>> I
>
> The snippet above shows that numbering begins
> From: Joseph Quigley
> What is the secret to have the user press the "Q" key, and the program
> exits without pressing the "Enter" key?
> Or the "Control" and "Q" keys to exit?
> For the Macintosh, would the same command/s for "Control Q" keys be the
> same as the "Apple Q" key?
>
I see that Di
On Thursday, May 5, 2005, at 19:33 America/Chicago,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Anyone have a gentle hint, or pointer to another 'beginner' tutorial
> to regular expressions?
>
> Thanks! I dont want to get stuck here in the riddles!
>
How about counting how many times each character is used and
>
>> Anyone have a gentle hint, or pointer to another 'beginner' tutorial
>> to regular expressions?
>>
>> Thanks! I dont want to get stuck here in the riddles!
>>
>
> How about counting how many times each character is used and look for
> the ones that are used infrequently (like only once). Dict
> while x < 26:
> new_alph = alph[1:] + alph[:1]
> print new_alph
> print "\n"
> x += 1
>
> But this has the drawback of not progressing with my
> newly create alphabet, it just returns:
> abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
The reason that new_alph never changes is that you are calculating
On Monday, May 9, 2005, at 15:45 America/Chicago,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Actually, perhaps this is something you guys would know about! In your
> own learning python (or as you watched others learn, if you're one of
> the resident experts), have you come across some good challenges for
> pyt
> Am I looking for something like this -
>
> XXXjXXX? or something like XjXX or XXjX?
The former: 3 on each side. Exactly 3.
BTW , you can check your understanding by saving the image you
get from riddle 6, compressing it with zlib, filtering out all but
string.letters and looking for the same
On Wednesday, May 11, 2005, at 08:09 America/Chicago,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> hi
> i'm trying to extend a list program by adding a test, problem is after
> getting the menu of taking the test i can't seem to get the test
> running
> i.e viewing of questions and answers. here's what i tried t
On Wednesday, May 11, 2005, at 20:43 America/Chicago,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I believe Max's guess was that the file is compressed with bzip (the
> first
> two characters will be BZ, as you found). Try doing:
>
import bz2
print bz2.decompress(data)
>
> Where data is a string co
On Tuesday, May 17, 2005, at 08:35 America/Chicago,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have a string table (don't recall the right word used in Python
> right now) and would like to remove every 'cell' that contains a
> string '_thumb.jpg'. There are 1-> digits before the string if that
> matters. I m
Howdy,
I am working on some research. I'm trying to optimize the performance of
an antenna. For the simulation of the antenna it would be easiest to use
an antenna software package that I have in my lab. I know that Matlab
can call the antenna software through a command called system. Matlab
a
Howdy,
I am working on some research. I'm trying to optimize the performance of
an antenna. For the simulation of the antenna it would be easiest to use
an antenna software package that I have in my lab. I know that Matlab
can call the antenna software through a command called system. Matlab
a
ne tell me why I'm having these error or what I can do to get
around them?
Chris Smith
#Functions for Numerical Program
#--
### The sine and cosine integrals are taken from Abramowitz and Stegun.
### Only use the first 6 terms of the summatio
Thanks for the help. That was the problem. I guess I'd been looking at
it so long I missed that. The error message wasn't helping me either.
Chris Smith
Geoframer wrote:
> The main problem from what i can tell is that the number of '(' and ')'
> you
Howdy,
I'm a college student and for one of we are writing programs to
numerically compute the parameters of antenna arrays. I decided to use
Python to code up my programs. Up to now I haven't had a problem,
however we have a problem set where we are creating a large matrix and
finding it's i
I'm trying to learn how to use Pmw.BLT to have plotting in some GUIs I
would like to create. I have a book with some examples but when I run
the code I get this error message which seems to be related to the
packages I installed and not my code:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Do
Alan Gauld wrote:
> "Chris Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
>
>
>>I'm trying to learn how to use Pmw.BLT
>
>
>>line 16, in __init__
>>self.vector_x = Pmw.Blt.Vector()
>> File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\Pmw\Pmw
Hi all,
I'm wondering if anyone has seen or knows of a good way to do a lazily
decorated sort. I was reading about how good the DSU (decorate, sort,
undecorate) approach is but the problem that we are running into in
SymPy is that we want to get by with a fast hash sort if possible, and
only decor
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