[Tutor] New Programmer - Designing

2013-03-07 Thread Christopher Emery
Hello All, I am new to this email list as can see from subject, my name is Christopher. I am trying to learn how to design a program but I seem not to find any resource online that will teach how to design the program before you start programming. I would like to create a program that will filte

Re: [Tutor] Need help with function coding.

2013-03-07 Thread Peter Otten
akuma ukpo wrote: > I am defining the function in one .py file and testing the function in > another .py file. > > this is my code for the test: > > def test_quantity_convert(self): > self.assertEqual(gallons_to_cups(0), 16) > self.assertEqual(gallons_to_cups(100), 1600) > >

Re: [Tutor] Need help with function coding.

2013-03-07 Thread Danny Yoo
On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 2:36 PM, akuma ukpo wrote: > I am defining the function in one .py file and testing the function in > another .py file. > > this is my code for the test: > > def test_quantity_convert(self): > self.assertEqual(gallons_to_cups(0), 16) Good, thanks for showing us

Re: [Tutor] Need help with function coding.

2013-03-07 Thread Joel Goldstick
On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 4:36 PM, akuma ukpo wrote: > I am defining the function in one .py file and testing the function in > another .py file. > > this is my code for the test: > > def test_quantity_convert(self): > self.assertEqual(gallons_to_cups(0), 16) > self.assertEqual(g

Re: [Tutor] Need help with function coding.

2013-03-07 Thread akuma ukpo
I am defining the function in one .py file and testing the function in another .py file. this is my code for the test: def test_quantity_convert(self): self.assertEqual(gallons_to_cups(0), 16) self.assertEqual(gallons_to_cups(100), 1600) this is my code for the defined functi

Re: [Tutor] Need help with function coding.

2013-03-07 Thread akuma ukpo
i now know how to define functions. My problem is i don't know what particular function that converts gallons directly to cups. However, i derived a function that converts celsius to fahrenheit (9/5 * temperature + 32) tested it using python and it passed the test. I need a function for gallons

Re: [Tutor] Need help with function coding.

2013-03-07 Thread Danny Yoo
On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 1:55 PM, akuma ukpo wrote: > i don't know how to write functions. so i guess that is where i'm stuck. i > was following a tutorial on my lab document but i still did not understand > what to do. i will attach the pdf and python files as well. I am CCing the rest of the Pyth

Re: [Tutor] Need help with function coding.

2013-03-07 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 07/03/2013 20:23, akuma ukpo wrote: I have a python lab to do but for some reason i can't understand. (a) Write a function which converts from gallons to cups2 (b) Now we’d like to be able to convert from cups to milliliters, since metric measurements are easier to convert between. Implement

Re: [Tutor] Need help with function coding.

2013-03-07 Thread Danny Yoo
> (a) Write a function which converts from gallons to cups2 Do you know how to write functions? Can you write a function that takes a number and returns twice that number, for example? Show us what you have seen already, and we may be able to start from there. The question you are asking does

Re: [Tutor] Need help with function coding.

2013-03-07 Thread Joel Goldstick
On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 3:23 PM, akuma ukpo wrote: > I have a python lab to do but for some reason i can't understand. > > > (a) Write a function which converts from gallons to cups2 > (b) Now we’d like to be able to convert from cups to milliliters, since > metric measurements > are easier to con

[Tutor] Need help with function coding.

2013-03-07 Thread akuma ukpo
I have a python lab to do but for some reason i can't understand. (a) Write a function which converts from gallons to cups2 (b) Now we’d like to be able to convert from cups to milliliters, since metric measurements are easier to convert between. Implement a function which does this. (c) We’d als

Re: [Tutor] Fwd: findall() returns tuples or string?

2013-03-07 Thread Charles Leviton
Thanks Devin. now I have a better understanding of what happens. Let me explore finditer- hearing for the first time. On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 8:47 PM, Devin Jeanpierre wrote: > On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 8:22 PM, Charles Leviton > wrote: > > I have some confusion regarding when findall returns a li

Re: [Tutor] mysqlite

2013-03-07 Thread Alan Gauld
On 07/03/13 00:35, Lolo Lolo wrote: Because i find following your tutorials very easy i have looked > at the other topics you have on your site. > i notice they are not available in Python 3 Not yet, I'm still working on them. :-) I have been very busy at work the last 2-3 years so made littl