On Sat, 15 Oct 2005, Dave Shea wrote:
> Python installed without a complaint. However, when I fire up IDLE,
> there is an hour glass shown for a couple of seconds, then nothing else
> happens. When I fire up Python (command line) no problem, the DOS box
> opens and Python starts. I've tried re-s
> Having studied the examples given here, I am beginning to get some
> understanding of what is going on. If only I could find many more
> examples like these, in simple English, I would be a very happy student.
[Note: this is a fairly long post. Didn't know how to do the subject
justice withou
Dear Norman,
You can reuse function, this make your code more easy to handle.
Suppose you have code to calculate area of rectangle, but this time you like to calculate 3 times:
width = 3; length = 2
print 'area', width * length
width = 1; length =32
print 'area', width * length
width =
On 16/10/05, Dave Shea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Adam,Thanks for your reponse. I tried your suggestion of starting IDLE via thecommand line.Using the command and parameter line that install created behind the Python(IDLE) icon on my Start menu:
C:\WINDOWS\DESKTOP>"C:\Program Files\Python24\pyth
At 08:11 AM 10/16/2005, Norman Silverstone wrote:
>I am an elderly person somewhat physically handicapped with some
>experience programming in basic and pascal, many years ago. In order to
>keep myself mentally active I decided to have a look once again at
>programming and chose python as a good l
> I apologize to the list again for the noisy contentless ranting I made
> yesterday, so I'll try making it up by doing concrete demos of a
> function-focused approach. This will critique Zelle's Chapter Two and
> Chapter Five, and see what things would look like if under a function
> regime.
>
