[Tutor] Newbie string & File I/O questions......

2006-11-26 Thread Moedeloos Overste
Hi everybody, I am new to python and trying to write a lottery program for a schoolproject. The program is supposed to draw the lottery any entered(user input) number of times, then store the drawing results in a file. After drawings the user should see (if he wants to) how many times each of

[Tutor] Newbie question: join() string method

2006-11-27 Thread Moedeloos Overste
Hi, I'm trying to use the join() method on a list to be able to store the contents of that list in a file. Basically I want the contents of the list stored without the []. I've tried numerous ways of using the join() method, but they all return errors. I've tried using the tutorial and document

Re: [Tutor] Newbie question: join() string method

2006-11-27 Thread Moedeloos Overste
string to file fout.close() vDraws = vDraws - 1 >From: "Andreas Kostyrka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: "Andreas Kostyrka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Moedeloos Overste" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >CC: tutor@python.org >Subje

Re: [Tutor] ashamed

2006-11-27 Thread Moedeloos Overste
r@python.org >Subject: Re: [Tutor] Newbie question: join() string method >Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 18:46:04 - > >"Moedeloos Overste" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > > One question: When I run the program from IDLE it writes the data to > > file > > but

[Tutor] Newbie question: random.sample illusion?

2006-12-07 Thread Moedeloos Overste
Hi everybody, I'm in the process of learning Python and working my way through O'Reilly's "Learning Python". As an excercise I wrote (some copy/paste as well) a small lottery program just to learn how to work with lists and dictionarys etc. The user has to enter 6 numbers from a range(1-45). Th

Re: [Tutor] Newbie question: random.sample illusion?

2006-12-07 Thread Moedeloos Overste
egards, Robert >From: Luke Paireepinart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Moedeloos Overste <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >CC: tutor@python.org >Subject: Re: [Tutor] Newbie question: random.sample illusion? >Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 12:17:23 -0600 > >Moedeloos Overste wrote: >>Hi eve