Re: [Tutor] floats

2011-06-06 Thread Christian Witts
On 2011/06/07 04:43 AM, Michael bridges wrote: i saw it somewhere, but where? i want to 10 / 1000 and get 0.01 not 0 if 1000 is made 1000.00 then 0.01 is printed but that gives 500 / 1000.00 is 0.5 not 0.50 i might be thinking C# not python. can someone till me how to get a two decimal precisi

Re: [Tutor] floats

2011-06-06 Thread Modulok
>> Can someone till me how to get a two decimal precision every time? print "%.2f" % (500/1000.0) # or... result = 500 / 1000.0 print "%.2f" % result Using 'new' style string formatting works too: print "{0:.2f}".format(500/1000.0) -Modulok- On 6/6/11, Michael bridges w

[Tutor] floats

2011-06-06 Thread Michael bridges
i saw it somewhere, but where? i want to 10 / 1000 and get 0.01 not 0 if 1000 is made 1000.00 then 0.01 is printed but that gives 500 / 1000.00 is 0.5 not 0.50 i might be thinking C# not python. can someone till me how to get a two decimal precision every time? _

Re: [Tutor] search-replace

2011-06-06 Thread davidheiserca
Or, open the file as a blob (one long string) and do a single 'replace'. fin = open("dirtyfile.txt", 'r').read().replace('## ', '#') open("dirtyfile.txt", 'w').write(fin) or, open("dirtyfile.txt", 'w').write(open("dirtyfile.txt", 'r').read().replace('## ', '#')) - Original Message --

Re: [Tutor] search-replace

2011-06-06 Thread Tommy Kaas
> -Oprindelig meddelelse- > Fra: tutor-bounces+tommy.kaas=kaasogmulvad...@python.org > [mailto:tutor-bounces+tommy.kaas=kaasogmulvad...@python.org] På vegne > af Alan Gauld > Sendt: 6. juni 2011 11:51 > Til: tutor@python.org > Emne: Re: [Tutor] search-replace > > > "Tommy Kaas" wrote >

Re: [Tutor] search-replace

2011-06-06 Thread Alan Gauld
"Tommy Kaas" wrote I'm especially interested to know how I do more than just one search-replace without having to repeat the whole step below. fin = open("dirtyfile.txt") fout = open("cleanfile.txt", "w") for line in fin: fout.write(line.replace('## ', '#')) fin.close() fout.close() Can

Re: [Tutor] about print()

2011-06-06 Thread Ryan Wu
Oh, I see! It's a little stupid question :) Thanks,Alan! On 6/6/11, Alan Gauld wrote: > "Ryan Wu" wrote > >> I am a newbie of python, and reading 'python essential reference'. >> >> Now I want to print this results >> 'a is %d' % a -> a is 42 >> >> with the code >> >> a = 42 >>> test = "'a is %

Re: [Tutor] about print()

2011-06-06 Thread Alan Gauld
"Ryan Wu" wrote I am a newbie of python, and reading 'python essential reference'. Now I want to print this results 'a is %d' % a -> a is 42 with the code a = 42 test = "'a is %d' % a" test is now a literal string print( '%20s ->' % test, test) And this inserts the literal string int

[Tutor] search-replace

2011-06-06 Thread Tommy Kaas
Hi tutors If I need to clean a textfile (perhaps after web scraping), I have used this method - without problems - but I'm sure there must be smarter and better ways. I'm especially interested to know how I do more than just one search-replace without having to repeat the whole step below.