Re: [Tutor] string case manipulation in python 3.x

2010-11-27 Thread Wayne Werner
On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 10:55 PM, Rance Hall wrote: > I need to do some case manipulation that I don't see in the documented > string functions. > > I want to make sure that user input meets a certain capitalization > scheme, for example, if user input is a name, then the first letter of > each w

Re: [Tutor] string case manipulation in python 3.x

2010-11-27 Thread Hugo Arts
On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 5:55 AM, Rance Hall wrote: > I need to do some case manipulation that I don't see in the documented > string functions. > > I want to make sure that user input meets a certain capitalization > scheme, for example, if user input is a name, then the first letter of > each wor

[Tutor] string case manipulation in python 3.x

2010-11-27 Thread Rance Hall
I need to do some case manipulation that I don't see in the documented string functions. I want to make sure that user input meets a certain capitalization scheme, for example, if user input is a name, then the first letter of each word in the name is upper case, and the rest are lower. I know ho

Re: [Tutor] Is Python useful for emulating?

2010-11-27 Thread Walter Prins
On 28 November 2010 02:59, Mauricio Alejandro wrote: > I never created any emulator before, and i'm learning C++. Let's say i try > to write an emulator for... SNES. Would Python be fast enough? > Also, any useful advice you can give me? Things i should know about before > i start coding? > Beca

Re: [Tutor] %T as a strftime format identifier

2010-11-27 Thread python
32-bit Python 2.7 for Windows: >>> import time >>> time.strftime("%T") Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in time.strftime("%T") ValueError: Invalid format string Malcolm ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or

[Tutor] Is Python useful for emulating?

2010-11-27 Thread Mauricio Alejandro
I never created any emulator before, and i'm learning C++. Let's say i try to write an emulator for... SNES. Would Python be fast enough? Also, any useful advice you can give me? Things i should know about before i start coding? _

Re: [Tutor] Python Exercise

2010-11-27 Thread Kok Cheng Tan
Hi, Thanks for the feedback. I will add a trial section that doesn't require login so that new visitors are able to give the website a try. Regards, Kok Cheng -- Forwarded message -- From: Date: Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 2:41 AM Subject: Tutor Digest, Vol 81, Issue 105 To: tutor@pyth

Re: [Tutor] Reload() in v3? WAS Re: IDEs

2010-11-27 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Alan Gauld wrote: import os reload(os) Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in reload(os) NameError: name 'reload' is not defined Has reload been removed in V3? Not removed, just moved. >>> import imp >>> imp.reload The reason for moving it is that reload is quite

Re: [Tutor] %T as a strftime format identifier

2010-11-27 Thread Terry Carroll
On Sat, 27 Nov 2010, Steven D'Aprano wrote: [st...@sylar ~]$ python2.5 Python 2.5 (r25:51908, Nov 6 2007, 16:54:01) [GCC 4.1.2 20070925 (Red Hat 4.1.2-27)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. import time time.strftime("%T") '19:03:16' Interesting

Re: [Tutor] normalize an array

2010-11-27 Thread John
Thank you both! Broadcasting is a concept I hadn't yet read about, but knew was important for efficient python programming... thanks for the link! On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 6:44 PM, Eike Welk wrote: > Hello John! > > On Friday 26.11.2010 23:23:51 Peter Otten wrote: >> John wrote: >> > I know this

Re: [Tutor] Python Exercise

2010-11-27 Thread Joel Schwartz
> -Original Message- > On Sat, 27 Nov 2010 22:00:03 +0800 > Kok Cheng Tan wrote: > > > I created this website for practising python online: > > http://www.pyschools.com. Hope to gather feedback from > people here who > > are interesting in teaching and learning python. > I logged in

[Tutor] Python Exercise

2010-11-27 Thread patty
Hi - I just wanted to add to Mac's comment. I don't have Google mail/gmail and don't want to create a mail account with them. I was also wondering if I should just try clicking on links anyway and changed my mind and exited. Regards, Patty > On Sat, 27 Nov 2010 22:00:03 +0800 > Kok Cheng Ta

Re: [Tutor] normalize an array

2010-11-27 Thread Eike Welk
Hello John! On Friday 26.11.2010 23:23:51 Peter Otten wrote: > John wrote: > > I know this is a simple problem, but I want to do it the most > > efficient way (that is vectorized...) > > > > import numpy as np > > > > a = np.array(([1,2,3,4],[1,.2,3,4],[1,22,3,4])) > > b = np.sum(a,axis=1) > >

Re: [Tutor] Python Exercise

2010-11-27 Thread Mac Ryan
On Sat, 27 Nov 2010 22:00:03 +0800 Kok Cheng Tan wrote: > I created this website for practising python online: > http://www.pyschools.com. Hope to gather feedback from people here > who are interesting in teaching and learning python. Here you go with the first suggestion: remove the need to log

Re: [Tutor] Reload() in v3? WAS Re: IDEs

2010-11-27 Thread Alan Gauld
"Alan Gauld" wrote Has reload been removed in V3? Whats the alternative? Does a repeated import auto-reload? I'm surprised and confused... Found it, its been moved into the imp module. You need to import imp and then do imp.reload(foo) import os reload(os) Traceback (most recent call

[Tutor] Reload() in v3? WAS Re: IDEs

2010-11-27 Thread Alan Gauld
"Steven D'Aprano" wrote The other nine times out of ten *wink* I need to do debugging, and I swap tabs and work in my interactive Python interpreter. import filename # first time only reload(filename) # all subsequent times I'm working on the v3 version of my tutor and while testing some

[Tutor] Python Exercise

2010-11-27 Thread Kok Cheng Tan
Hi, I created this website for practising python online: http://www.pyschools.com. Hope to gather feedback from people here who are interesting in teaching and learning python. Regards, Kok Cheng ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or

Re: [Tutor] Tutor Digest, Vol 81, Issue 90

2010-11-27 Thread Alan Gauld
I have unsubscribed Joel since he seems incapable of following the instructions. Alan G. Moderator. "Wangolo Joel" wrote in message news:631794.21995...@web29702.mail.ird.yahoo.com... -- I NOLONGER WANT YOUR TUTORIALS BECAUSE OF SPAM VIRUSES THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVISES -

Re: [Tutor] Tutor Digest, Vol 81, Issue 90

2010-11-27 Thread delegbede
I am beginning to feel the name Wangolo Joel is not human. It probably could be the name of a virus. It has been said over and over how to unsubscribe to an extent that someone actually sent a link and yet, we are still getting this mail. Can anyone write a simple program to deactivate this vir

Re: [Tutor] lambda in python

2010-11-27 Thread Alan Gauld
"john tsolox" wrote seeing various examples of lambda in python being ALL one-liners. These one-liners inside a lambda seems not to have the full permissible use of the full power of python language (if,for,while). Is this correct? The lambda expression was introduced into Python by popula

Re: [Tutor] Tutor Digest, Vol 81, Issue 90

2010-11-27 Thread Wangolo Joel
-- I NOLONGER WANT YOUR TUTORIALS BECAUSE OF SPAM VIRUSES THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVISES ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] %T as a strftime format identifier

2010-11-27 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Terry Carroll wrote: My question: was %T ever a valid format specifier in Python? My best guess is that it was when Edna was written (the most current release is from 2006, and the docs say it needs at least Python 1.5.2, which gives you an example of its age). It seems odd that the format i