Re: [Tutor] (no subject)

2010-05-11 Thread spir ☣
On Wed, 12 May 2010 00:35:27 -0500 Luke Paireepinart wrote: > I'd have rather you top-posted, then I wouldn't have wasted 30 seconds > scrolling past a bunch of irrelevant crap that I just gloss over > anyway. > If I want context I'll read the previous messages in the thread. > but that's just MH

Re: [Tutor] (no subject)

2010-05-11 Thread Luke Paireepinart
I'm just not going to quote previous threads because with my top-posting and dave's bottom-posting and whatever the heck Siva's posting was... whatever. Read previous e-mails if you need context. Siva is it possible that you accidentally installed the 64-bit version of python 3.1? ___

Re: [Tutor] (no subject)

2010-05-11 Thread Luke Paireepinart
I'd have rather you top-posted, then I wouldn't have wasted 30 seconds scrolling past a bunch of irrelevant crap that I just gloss over anyway. If I want context I'll read the previous messages in the thread. but that's just MHO. -Luke On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 9:28 PM, Dave Angel wrote: > (1. Plea

Re: [Tutor] (no subject)

2010-05-11 Thread ramya natarajan
I really thank you all for the quick response, It was really helpful!! On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 7:28 PM, Dave Angel wrote: > (1. Please don't top-post. It gets everything out of sequence, and is the > wrong convention for this forum > 2. Be sure and do a reply-all, so that the message goes to

Re: [Tutor] (no subject)

2010-05-11 Thread Dave Angel
(1. Please don't top-post. It gets everything out of sequence, and is the wrong convention for this forum 2. Be sure and do a reply-all, so that the message goes to the forum. I'm not here to give private advice. 3. Use your editor's reply-quoting so that we can tell who wrote which parts. No

Re: [Tutor] Help required to count no of lines that are until 1000 characters

2010-05-11 Thread Dave Angel
ramya natarajan wrote: Hello, I am very beginner to programming, I got task to Write a loop that reads each line of a file and counts the number of lines that are read until the total length of the lines is 1,000 characters. I have to read lines from files exactly upto 1000 characters. Her

Re: [Tutor] (no subject)

2010-05-11 Thread Dave Angel
Sivapathasuntha Aruliah wrote: Hi I am learning Python. When I tried to run any of the program for example csv2html1_ans.py it displays the following message. This error is coming on both Python24 & Python 31. That is whether i give the any one of the following command COMMAND GIVEN 1.C:\pyt

Re: [Tutor] Help required to count no of lines that are until 1000 characters

2010-05-11 Thread Alan Gauld
"spir ☣" wrote Either you read line per line, but then you cannot stop exactly at the 1000th character; or you traverse the text char per char, but this is a bit picky. Or you could just read 1000 chars from the file then pick out the lines from that. But that requires you to count newlin

Re: [Tutor] An interesting situation befalls me

2010-05-11 Thread Eric Dorsey
> On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 5:31 PM, Kirk Z Bailey wrote: >> >>> An instructor of mine is about to teach the FIRST EVER class in Python at >>> Saint Petersburg College; knowing I am a snakecharmer, he asked me for >>> referrals to online resources. >>> >>> Oh my. >>> >> > > Here is another resource, t

Re: [Tutor] (no subject)

2010-05-11 Thread Alan Gauld
"Sivapathasuntha Aruliah" wrote I am learning Python. When I tried to run any of the program for example csv2html1_ans.py it displays the following message. This error is coming on both Python24 & Python 31. That is whether i give the any one of the following command COMMAND GIVEN 1.C:\pyt

Re: [Tutor] Help required to count no of lines that are until 1000characters

2010-05-11 Thread Alan Gauld
"ramya natarajan" wrote characters.But the problem is its reading entire line and not stopping excatly in 1000 characters. Do you really need to stop reading the file at 1000 characters rather than the line containing the 1000th character? That seems a very arbitrary sort of thing to do.

Re: [Tutor] Help required to count no of lines that are until 1000 characters

2010-05-11 Thread शंतनू
On 12-May-2010, at 12:32 AM, spir ☣ wrote: > On Tue, 11 May 2010 11:00:20 -0700 > ramya natarajan wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I am very beginner to programming, I got task to Write a loop that reads >> each line of a file and counts the number of lines that are read until the >> total length of

Re: [Tutor] Help required to count no of lines that are until 1000 characters

2010-05-11 Thread spir ☣
On Tue, 11 May 2010 11:00:20 -0700 ramya natarajan wrote: > Hello, > > I am very beginner to programming, I got task to Write a loop that reads > each line of a file and counts the number of lines that are read until the > total length of the lines is 1,000 characters. I have to read lines fro

Re: [Tutor] Help required to count no of lines that are until 1000 characters

2010-05-11 Thread Luke Paireepinart
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 1:00 PM, ramya natarajan wrote: > Hello, I have to read lines from > files exactly upto 1000 characters. >But the problem is its reading entire line and not stopping > excatly in 1000 characters. Can some one help what mistake i am doing here?. > >    log = open('/tmp/new.t

[Tutor] Help required to count no of lines that are until 1000 characters

2010-05-11 Thread ramya natarajan
Hello, I am very beginner to programming, I got task to Write a loop that reads each line of a file and counts the number of lines that are read until the total length of the lines is 1,000 characters. I have to read lines from files exactly upto 1000 characters. Here is my code: I created fil

Re: [Tutor] (no subject)

2010-05-11 Thread Vincent Davis
probably need to do something like python C:\py3eg\quadratic.py your cmd prompt/shell should know "python" is a command On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 2:43 AM, Sivapathasuntha Aruliah < sivapathasuntha.arul...@amkor.com> wrote: > > Hi > I am learning Python. When I tried to run any of the program for

[Tutor] (no subject)

2010-05-11 Thread Sivapathasuntha Aruliah
Hi I am learning Python. When I tried to run any of the program for example csv2html1_ans.py it displays the following message. This error is coming on both Python24 & Python 31. That is whether i give the any one of the following command COMMAND GIVEN 1.C:\python24\python.exe C:\py3eg\quadrati

Re: [Tutor] displaying clock and/or elapsed time

2010-05-11 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Tue, 11 May 2010 11:54:13 pm Art Kendall wrote: > I am learning python and I want to see how long parts of of a process > take. Are there system variables that can just be displayed? > how do I get variables that contain the wall time (x) and the elapsed > time (y)? Get the current time in sec

[Tutor] displaying clock and/or elapsed time

2010-05-11 Thread Art Kendall
I am learning python and I want to see how long parts of of a process take. Are there system variables that can just be displayed? how do I get variables that contain the wall time (x) and the elapsed time (y)? I would like to put little messages on the screen while I am developing a python s