[Tutor] What is a Python "project"?

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Re: [Tutor] Number guessing game

Christopher Hatherly wrote: > Hi, > I'm brand new to Python, and almost brand new to programming. I'm > teaching myself slowly through a 'Python Programming for the Absolute > Beginner' book, which is great so far. Awesome, I'm always happy to hear of budding pythonistas :D > One of the challeng

[Tutor] Number guessing game

Hi, I'm brand new to Python, and almost brand new to programming. I'm teaching myself slowly through a 'Python Programming for the Absolute Beginner' book, which is great so far. One of the challenge problems though, was to write a script for a number guessing game, where you pick a number and the

[Tutor] [Fwd: Re: database web app, what tool?]

Original Message Subject:Re: [Tutor] database web app, what tool? Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 09:33:28 +0100 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Liam Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thank you Liam, O

Re: [Tutor] timeit at the command line

At 01:50 PM 10/2/2006, John Fouhy wrote: >On 02/10/06, Dick Moores <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>C:\>python -m timeit -s"for x in range(100):" "x+=1" >>Traceback (most recent call last): > >The -s option specifies the setup code. In this case, you don't have >any setup code. Try this: > >pytho

Re: [Tutor] My number-guessing program

On 03/10/06, Luke Paireepinart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Note that the random.randint function includes both endpoints (I.E. the > numbers are 1-10 including 10) > but the range() function doesn't include the last endpoint. Which is why (in my not-so-humble opinion :-) ) we should tell people t

Re: [Tutor] One of my 'baby step' programs

On 03/10/06, Alan Gilfoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > for i in range(10): > > ... break > > ... else: > > ... print 'foo' > > ... > for i in range(10): > > ... pass > > ... else: > > ... print 'foo' > > ... > > foo > > > pardon the newb question, but what do these code lines do

Re: [Tutor] Python code to split and reassemble files

Andrew Robert wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Never mind.. :) > > > found it at http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/224800 > > However, if someone has something better, I would be very interested. Hi Andrew, If you are on a *nix machine you cou

Re: [Tutor] database web app, what tool?

Hey Paulino, I'm a Django fan but from your description, a simple CGI app might do nicely. Heck, you've already got the code written, just wrap it in a CGI script that formats your list of records in HTML and serve the script from your (already setup?) apache or even from your workstation wit

Re: [Tutor] how to make a reference to part of list?

> for example, I want to mutate part of a list, of course, I can achieve > this by passing the pair list and (begin, end) as parameters. but in > some case, this manner is quite tedious and in efficient I'm not sure what you mean by "inefficient". What do you think a "pointer" is, if not wha

Re: [Tutor] My number-guessing program

> > > My line: number = 3 > Would I use 'number = random.randint()' in place of that, to have the > relevant number be random? yes, but remember that random.randint takes 2 arguments, the endpoints. E.G. random.randint(1,10) would be equivalent to random.choice(range(1,11)) or random.choice([1,2,

Re: [Tutor] how to make a reference to part of list?

Xie Chao wrote: >3Q very much! >What I really want to get is a c-style array, a pointer to the > beginning of part of a list (or whatever alike). for example, I want to > mutate part of a list, of course, I can achieve this by passing the pair > list and (begin, end) as parameters. but i

Re: [Tutor] how to make a reference to part of list?

   3Q very much!    What I really want to get is a c-style array, a pointer to the beginning of part of a list (or whatever alike). for example, I want to mutate part of a list, of course, I can achieve this by passing the pair list and (begin, end) as parameters. but in some case, this manner is q

Re: [Tutor] how to make a reference to part of list?

Xie Chao wrote: > Namely, if list1 = {1, 2, 3}, and I wanna make a reference, say > "ref", to list1's sublist (which is also of type list), say {2, 3}, so > that when I make change to ref[0], then list1[1] will be changed! > But how can I make such a reference, 3x! There is nothi

Re: [Tutor] My number-guessing program

Yeah, that's what the wiki-based tutorial mentioned. In fact, Lee Harr (my community adviser) also suggested using a random number. Quoting Luke Paireepinart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Alan Gilfoy wrote: (the start of the code for my number-guessing thingamajig) >> >> else: >>print "The number-gu

[Tutor] how to make a reference to part of list?

  Namely, if  list1 = {1, 2, 3}, and I wanna make a reference, say "ref",  to list1's sublist (which is also of type list), say {2, 3}, so that when I make change to ref[0], then list1[1] will be changed!   But how can I make such a reference, 3x!    

Re: [Tutor] timeit at the command line

At 03:08 AM 10/2/2006, Kent Johnson wrote: >Dick Moores wrote: > > C:\>python -m timeit -s"x=0" "while x<100:" " x+=1" > > 1000 loops, best of 3: 0.123 usec per loop > > > > C:\>python -m timeit -s"for x in range(100):" "x+=1" > > Traceback (most recent call last): > >File "E:\Python2

Re: [Tutor] timeit at the command line

Dick Moores wrote: > C:\>python -m timeit -s"x=0" "while x<100:" " x+=1" > 1000 loops, best of 3: 0.123 usec per loop > > C:\>python -m timeit -s"for x in range(100):" "x+=1" > Traceback (most recent call last): >File "E:\Python25\lib\runpy.py", line 95, in run_module > filename

Re: [Tutor] senior project

Alan Gilfoy wrote: > I am a senior at the School Without Walls in Rochester, NY. As such, I > get to do a senior project. I decided to work on computer programming, > since that is sometihng that I certianly think can hold my interest > throughout the school year. > > (despite my compute rinter

Re: [Tutor] One of my 'baby step' programs

Luke Paireepinart wrote: > Alan Gilfoy wrote: >> -code block- >> >> number = 3 >> running = True >> >> while running: >>guess = int(raw_input("Please enter a number : ")) #lets user guess a >> number >> >>if guess == number: >>print "Yay, you got the right number, good for you. But