[Tutor] Need help with functions!

2010-01-25 Thread Raymond Kwok
Hello all, I have started to learn Python a few months ago and I'm loving it! I am creating a mini-game - the one that scrambles an English word and asks you what the originalword should be, e.g. yhptno ---> python So, I have a function called get_word() that does the random word thing and retu

Re: [Tutor] The magic parentheses

2010-01-25 Thread Lie Ryan
Do you know python's object model? A lot of these things will make much more sense once you do: http://effbot.org/zone/python-objects.htm ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailma

[Tutor] email module, convert non multipart to multipart message

2010-01-25 Thread Bill Campbell
Is there a simple way to convert a MIMENonMultipart message parsed into a MIMEMultipart message? My goal is to take a message from the TouchTerm iPhone App with an openssh public key that has been mangled by intervening mailers, and convert it into a multipart message with the original text in one

Re: [Tutor] The magic parentheses

2010-01-25 Thread Alan Gauld
"spir" wrote Lie's example actually was: a,b,c = 1,2,3 print (a,b,c) # here parenthesized (1, 2, 3) Oops, I've been using Python 3 too much, I mentally blanked out the parens! Sorry about that. Alan G. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.or

Re: [Tutor] The magic parentheses

2010-01-25 Thread spir
On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 01:06:45 - "Alan Gauld" wrote: > > "Lie Ryan" wrote > > >> and used print, I thought they would be considered the same whether as > >> a variable, or as a direct line, guess not. > > what is equivalent: > > print (a, b, c) > > > > and > > x = a, b, c > > print x > >

Re: [Tutor] Is it pythonesque

2010-01-25 Thread spir
On Sun, 24 Jan 2010 11:13:37 -0500 "Robert Berman" wrote: > Good morning, > > > > Given the following code snippets: > > > > def getuserinput(): > > while True: > > s1 = raw_input('Enter fraction as N,D or 0,0 to exit>>') > > delim = s1.find(',') > > if del

[Tutor] Python/Django issue

2010-01-25 Thread Hassan Baig
Dear List Members, I hope you're well. I was wondering if you could help out in a basic query. I'm a Facebook developer and I'm facing the following problem: I have a flash file which calls up a url say http://test.com/createXML/ which is caught and used up by a *python/django* code and it create

Re: [Tutor] The magic parentheses

2010-01-25 Thread Alan Gauld
"David Hutto" wrote >>> a = 1 >>> b = 2 >>> c = 3 >>> x = a,b,c >>> print a,b,c 1 2 3 >>> print x (1, 2, 3) So 'print a,b,c' says display the values of a,b,c in the sequence of a,b,c given. 'print x' says print the value of x, x grabs a's value, b's value, and c's value, and displays the