On 11/23/2012 1:10 PM, Brett Ritter wrote:
On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 10:39 PM, Peter O'Doherty
mailto:m...@peterodoherty.net>> wrote:
Judging by the volume of replies, is it fair to say that this
problem was much too advanced for page 16 of an introductory text?
That is a matter of tast
On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 10:39 PM, Peter O'Doherty wrote:
> Judging by the volume of replies, is it fair to say that this problem was
> much too advanced for page 16 of an introductory text?
That is a matter of taste. There are two things you need to learn:
1) the syntax of the language
2) how t
On Nov 22, 2012, at 9:48 PM, Jan Karel Schreuder wrote:
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> On Nov 22, 2012, at 5:47 PM, Don Jennings wrote:
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>> On Nov 22, 2012, at 8:11 AM, Waters, Mike [ITSCA Non-J&J] wrote:
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>>> Hi Don, first thanks for the support on Python, I find the information very
>>> helpful.
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>> You
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On 23/11/12 01:56, Peter O'Doherty wrote:
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>> This code appears to work although it's very cumbersome. Is
>>there a better way to do it?
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> Of course it is cumbersome, that's because of the artificial
> constraints set on the problem. I quote from your description
