Re: [Tutor] dict['_find']

2011-02-19 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Max Niederhofer wrote: Hello all, first post, please be gentle. I'm having serious trouble finding an alternative for the deprecated find module for dictionaries. What find module for dictionaries? The code (from Zed Shaw's Hard Way, exercise 40) goes something like this. Hope indentation

[Tutor] dict['_find']

2011-02-19 Thread Max Niederhofer
Hello all, first post, please be gentle. I'm having serious trouble finding an alternative for the deprecated find module for dictionaries. The code (from Zed Shaw's Hard Way, exercise 40) goes something like this. Hope indentation survives. cities = {'CA': 'San Francisco', 'MI': 'Detroit', 'FL'

Re: [Tutor] Tic-Tac-Toe

2011-02-19 Thread bob gailer
I got stimulated to create a minimal tic-tac-toe program. No functions, no classes. board = [" "]*9 player = 'X' prompt = "Player %s cell #, Q=quit, B=display board>" while True: cell = raw_input(prompt % player) if cell in 'qQ': break elif cell in 'bB': print ('+---+' + '\n|%s%s%s|'*3

Re: [Tutor] Tic-Tac-Toe

2011-02-19 Thread Alan Gauld
"Ben Ganzfried" wrote if (cell % 3 == 0) and (self.__mycells[cell] == self.__mycells[cell + 1]) and (self.__mycells[cell + 1]== self.__mycells[cell + 2]): TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for %: 'instance' and 'int' The error is in the first expression and the message tells you wha

Re: [Tutor] Tic-Tac-Toe

2011-02-19 Thread bob gailer
On 2/19/2011 3:49 PM, Ben Ganzfried wrote: Hey, I *think* that everything is working except my function gameWon. I keep getting the following error: " line 67, in gameWon if (cell % 3 == 0) and (self.__mycells[cell] == self.__mycells[cell + 1]) and (self.__mycells[cell + 1]== self.__myc

[Tutor] Tic-Tac-Toe

2011-02-19 Thread Ben Ganzfried
Hey, I *think* that everything is working except my function gameWon. I keep getting the following error: " line 67, in gameWon if (cell % 3 == 0) and (self.__mycells[cell] == self.__mycells[cell + 1]) and (self.__mycells[cell + 1]== self.__mycells[cell + 2]): TypeError: unsupported operand

Re: [Tutor] Having Troubles with For Loops

2011-02-19 Thread delegbede
To start with, you don't need to do so much for loop. You have already set the chosen word, word to correct. Every randomly selected word becomes the value of correct so, you need to only check for word in correct. So, after initiating the random selector, you print the number of letters in the

Re: [Tutor] Having Troubles with For Loops

2011-02-19 Thread Alan Gauld
"jyatesster" wrote Here is what I have so far. I think I am doing something wrong with the for loops as the program is not reading whether the letter is in the constant and giving the appropriate response. Instead of having us guess it would be useful if you told us (or better cut n paste)

Re: [Tutor] Having Troubles with For Loops

2011-02-19 Thread Corey Richardson
On 02/19/2011 01:06 PM, jyatesster wrote: > I am refreshing my memory of Python programming after taking a class this > past fall. I am using the book, *Python Programming for the absolute > beginner*. I am at chapter 4, challenge 4 which instructs me to create a > program that picks a random word

[Tutor] Having Troubles with For Loops

2011-02-19 Thread jyatesster
I am refreshing my memory of Python programming after taking a class this past fall. I am using the book, *Python Programming for the absolute beginner*. I am at chapter 4, challenge 4 which instructs me to create a program that picks a random word and the player has to guess the word. The computer