On Wed, 06 Nov 2013 21:42:01 -0800, Alex Kleider
wrote:
It seems then that one could be critical of the assignment in that
it is
requiring a function that has side effects which is something that
should be discouraged.
Classroom assignments are frequently like that. But without context
it's
On 2013-11-06 20:21, Dave Angel wrote:
The plus operator doesn't append to the list; it makes a new one.
Doesn't meet spec.
Right.
It seems then that one could be critical of the assignment in that it is
requiring a function that has side effects which is something that
should be discouraged
Alex Kleider wrote:
On 2013-11-06 01:52, Oscar Benjamin wrote:
>
> I'll give one suggestion which is that to concatenate one list onto
> the end of another you would use the .extend() method rather than the
> .append() method.
What would be the advantage/disadvantage of what you suggest vs u
On 2013-11-06 01:52, Oscar Benjamin wrote:
I'll give one suggestion which is that to concatenate one list onto
the end of another you would use the .extend() method rather than the
.append() method.
What would be the advantage/disadvantage of what you suggest vs using
the plus (+) operand as
On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 6:19 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 03:55:05PM -0800, Johan Martinez wrote:
> > I need help in modifying my program. Right now it looks as follows:
> [snip code]
> > Can someone help me in improving my code?
>
> Yes! The first thing to do is get rid of
On 06/11/13 03:10, Anton Gilb wrote:
This is what I've come up with so far, it looks like garbage I know.
On the contrary its not too far away.
But we'd rather see a garbage first attempt than no attempt
at all, at least we then know where the problems lie!
list1 = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9]
list2
On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 10:10 PM, Anton Gilb wrote:
> Write a function named transform that takes as arguments
> list1, list2, r1, and r2, that removes items from list1 in the slice r1:r2,
> appends them onto list2 in reverse order, and returns the resulting list.
> For example, in this case, the f
On 6 November 2013 03:10, Anton Gilb wrote:
> Hi everyone, I'm a novice student struggling through my first python course.
> Currently stuck on how to tackle this exercise. Any input would be
> appreciated, and I know you guys can not just give me the answer, I'm just
> looking for help to underst
Hi,
On 6 November 2013 08:58, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> On 06/11/2013 02:19, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 03:55:05PM -0800, Johan Martinez wrote:
>>
>>> I need help in modifying my program. Right now it looks as follows:
>>>
>> [snip code]
>>
>>> Can someone help me in impro
On 06/11/13 02:19, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Yes! The first thing to do is get rid of the unnecessary class. This is
not Java where you have to write classes for everything. From the sample
code that you show below, using OOP here accomplishes nothing except
making the code more complicated and les
On 06/11/2013 02:19, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 03:55:05PM -0800, Johan Martinez wrote:
I need help in modifying my program. Right now it looks as follows:
[snip code]
Can someone help me in improving my code?
Yes! The first thing to do is get rid of the unnecessary class
Hi everyone, I'm a novice student struggling through my first python
course. Currently stuck on how to tackle this exercise. Any input would be
appreciated, and I know you guys can not just give me the answer, I'm just
looking for help to understand how to work through this.
This is the exercise:
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