On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 10:07:08AM +1100, Daniel Williams wrote:
> Hi, I'm dw0391
> I have an issue with a class task that my teacher can't seem to fix.
Oooh, that's sad that your teacher can't fix this.
Jumping ahead to the relevant part of the code, I can see two errors
with the same line of c
On 13/11/14 23:07, Daniel Williams wrote:
Hi, I'm dw0391
I have an issue with a class task that my teacher can't seem to fix.
Please explain what the issue is, don;t make us guess.
And don't expect us to run code that you acknowledge
is buggy!
We were asked to write the code for a 'no interes
Hi, I'm dw0391
I have an issue with a class task that my teacher can't seem to fix.
We were asked to write the code for a 'no interest loan repayment
calculator'. I tried, but it did not work.
Attached is the relevant file, 'Prog 6'
Could you please tell me what I am doing wrong?
Thanks.
# No Inter
On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 12:16:19PM -0800, Danny Yoo wrote:
> > Unlike some languages, which choose confusing and arbitrary sets of
> > values that count as truthy or falsey, Python encourages a simple
> > distinction, something versus nothing. Values which represent some kind
> > of "nothing" are f
On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 03:08:23PM -0800, Clayton Kirkwood wrote:
> Also of confusion, the library reference says:
>
> Match objects always have a boolean value of True. Since match() and
> search() return None when there is no match, you can test whether there was
> a match with a simple if stat
On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 12:40 PM, Ben Finney
wrote:
> Danny Yoo writes:
>
> > >> To quote: "Let your statement be: 'Yes, yes', or "no, no': anything
> > >> beyond these is of evil."
> > >
> > > "Have you stopped abusing small children yet?"
> >
> > :(
> >
> > I don't understand what your respons
Danny Yoo writes:
> >> To quote: "Let your statement be: 'Yes, yes', or "no, no': anything
> >> beyond these is of evil."
> >
> > "Have you stopped abusing small children yet?"
>
> :(
>
> I don't understand what your response here means.
He's pointing out that many questions that ask a yes-or-no
> Unlike some languages, which choose confusing and arbitrary sets of
> values that count as truthy or falsey, Python encourages a simple
> distinction, something versus nothing. Values which represent some kind
> of "nothing" are falsey:
Hi Steven,
Sure. I'm not arguing that Python's choices o
Coming in late to the conversation:
On Sun, Nov 09, 2014 at 04:34:29PM -0800, Clayton Kirkwood wrote:
> I have the following code:
>
> import urllib.request,re,string
> months = ['Jan.', 'Feb.', 'Mar.', 'Apr.', 'May.', 'Jun.', 'Jul.', 'Aug.',
> 'Sep.', 'Oct.', 'Nov.', 'Dec.']
> from urllib.reque
