On 04/03/2014 16:26, Alan Gauld wrote:
My turn to ask a question.
This has me pulling my hair out. Hopefully it's something obvious...
I'm trying to pull some dates out of an HTML web page generated
from an Excel spreadsheet.
I've simplified things somewhat so the file(sample.htm) looks like:
On 04/03/14 18:19, spir wrote:
As you can see I'm picking up the class attribute and
its value but the conditional test for x165 is failing.
It's "x L 65", not "x ONE 65".
I'm curious what font you use such that you even _can_ confuse '1' and
'l' in reading (modern fonts are made to avoid su
On 03/04/2014 05:38 PM, Alan Gauld wrote:
On 04/03/14 16:31, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 04:26:01PM +, Alan Gauld wrote:
My turn to ask a question.
This has me pulling my hair out. Hopefully it's something obvious...
[...]
And the output looks like:
start test
Class Va
My turn to ask a question.
This has me pulling my hair out. Hopefully it's something obvious...
I'm trying to pull some dates out of an HTML web page generated
from an Excel spreadsheet.
I've simplified things somewhat so the file(sample.htm) looks like:
style='border-collapse:
collapse;ta
On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 04:26:01PM +, Alan Gauld wrote:
> My turn to ask a question.
> This has me pulling my hair out. Hopefully it's something obvious...
[...]
> And the output looks like:
>
> start test
> Class Value: 'xl66'
> Class Value: 'xl66'
> Class Value: 'xl66'
> Class Value: 'xl
On 04/03/14 16:31, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 04:26:01PM +, Alan Gauld wrote:
My turn to ask a question.
This has me pulling my hair out. Hopefully it's something obvious...
[...]
And the output looks like:
start test
Class Value: 'xl66'
Class Value: 'xl66'
Class Val
On 04/03/14 02:29, Scott W Dunning wrote:
I’ve made some changes and have a couple questions, I’ll speak in
between the code.
from random import randrange
randrange(1, 101)
This call to randrange() doesn't do anything because you
don't store the return value. You need to create a variable
t
> If not, then you might even try something like:
>
> #
> def maybe_print_cold():
> if guess < (secret - 10) or guess > (secret - 10):
> print "You are cold!"
> print
> print "Please play again!”
> #
... Ooops. You proba
Once a function gets beyond about six or seven lines long, it's a bit
hard to read, and harder to get the indentation right. You're having
difficulty with the indentation, but that's often a sign that the
function is too big to read comfortably.
Can you break the function down into a few pieces?
On Mar 3, 2014, at 3:29 AM, spir wrote:
I have another question in regard to this guess the number script I’m working
on. I’m banging my head over why this isn’t working….
def print_hints(secret, guess):
if guess < 1 or guess > 101:
print
print "Out of range!"
prin
On Mar 3, 2014, at 3:27 AM, spir wrote:
>
> There are 2 user guesses here, and only 1 variable, thus 1 name. The name
> should say what (idea) the variable represents in the program; this should be
> said by the name's *meaning*. It is one of the greatest difficulties in
> programming. How wo
On Mar 3, 2014, at 1:51 AM, Ben Finney wrote:
> "Bold” assumes that markup of text will survive; that's not reliable,
> since this is a text-only medium and only the plain text will reliably
> survive to all readers.
Sorry, I didn’t realize. I’m still new to this.
>
> You're creating a prompt s
Gabriele Brambilla wrote:
> for example I read this:
>
> On Pythons prior to 2.7 and 3.1, once you start experimenting with
> floating-point numbers, you're likely to stumble across something that may
> look a bit odd at first glance:
3.1415 * 2 # repr: as code (Pythons < 2.7 and 3.1)
> 6.28
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