Re: [Tutor] Boosts

2013-07-01 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On 02/07/13 06:41, Jack Little wrote: In my concept, when the player buys a boost, their karma (a global) is multiplied by 25% when added to. How would I do this? karma = karma * 0.25 which can be written as: karma *= 0.25 If this is inside a function (as it should be!) you will need to ind

Re: [Tutor] Boosts

2013-07-01 Thread Dave Angel
On 07/01/2013 04:41 PM, Jack Little wrote: In my concept, when the player buys a boost, their karma (a global) is multiplied by 25% when added to. How would I do this? Making a changeable global is almost certainly a mistake. But to multiply by 25%, you simply divide by 4. karma /= 4 --

[Tutor] Boosts

2013-07-01 Thread Jack Little
In my concept, when the player buys a boost, their karma (a global) is multiplied by 25% when added to. How would I do this? Thanks.___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/lis

Re: [Tutor] Test Question

2013-07-01 Thread John Steedman
Many thanks, everyone. Great answers. I decided to read the manual properly. May take some time but well worth it. On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On 01/07/13 19:58, John Steedman wrote: > >> Good morning all, >> >> A question that I am unsure about. I THINK I have t

Re: [Tutor] How to remove from mailing list when server access blocked?

2013-07-01 Thread Dave Angel
On 07/01/2013 12:26 PM, jhame...@medford.k12.ma.us wrote: Hello, Can anyone tell me how to remove myself from this mailing list? When I click on unsubscribe my browser displays a message that I can not access the unsubscribe url or server because my IP is on a blacklist at Spamhaus. I am writing

Re: [Tutor] Test Question

2013-07-01 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On 01/07/13 19:58, John Steedman wrote: Good morning all, A question that I am unsure about. I THINK I have the basics, but I am not sure and remain curious. 1. What does this mean? if my_object in my_sequence: ... Others have already answered this, but for completion, it is testing wheth

Re: [Tutor] Test Question

2013-07-01 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On 01/07/13 22:15, Oscar Benjamin wrote: On 1 July 2013 12:01, Dave Angel wrote: Third if my_object is something that doesn't equal anything else, such as a floating point NAN. Two NANs are not equal, and a NAN is not even equal to itself. Many builtin collection types do an identity 'is' ch

Re: [Tutor] Test Question

2013-07-01 Thread Hugo Arts
On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 1:01 PM, Dave Angel wrote: > On 07/01/2013 05:58 AM, John Steedman wrote: > >> >> I believe that "my_sequence" might be a either container class or a >> sequence type. An effective __hash__ function would be required for each >> "my_object". >> > > "in" doesn't care if ther

Re: [Tutor] Test Question

2013-07-01 Thread Dave Angel
On 07/01/2013 05:58 AM, John Steedman wrote: Good morning all, A question that I am unsure about. I THINK I have the basics, but I am not sure and remain curious. 1. What does this mean? if my_object in my_sequence: ... We can be sure what 'if' and 'in' mean, but not the other two items.

[Tutor] Test Question

2013-07-01 Thread John Steedman
Good morning all, A question that I am unsure about. I THINK I have the basics, but I am not sure and remain curious. 1. What does this mean? >>> if my_object in my_sequence: ... 2. What can go wrong with this? What should a code review pick up on? I believe that "my_sequence" might be a eithe