Re: [Tutor] Do not understand why I am getting "EOFError: EOF when reading a line".

2016-10-08 Thread Walter Prins
Hi On 8 October 2016 at 05:51, boB Stepp wrote: > I think I now understand why I am getting this EOF exception. > > On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 10:16 PM, boB Stepp wrote: >> My current get_input() function: >> >> == >> def get_input(): >> '''Get

[Tutor] Python Shell

2016-10-08 Thread Alan Clarke
Hi. I have just installed Python 2.7.12 ( i have windows xp). I created a program called HW.py that runs under a command prompt, but Python Shell gives the following error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in HW.py NameError: name 'HW' is not defined Can someone plea

[Tutor] Accessing Yahoo with Python?

2016-10-08 Thread Jim Byrnes
I realize that my question is not about the standard library. The only reason I am asking here is, if I remember correctly, a regular contributor, Danny Yoo, works at Yahoo. I am hoping he, or someone else here can help me understand what is happening. I am writing a program using the yahoo_fi

Re: [Tutor] TDD: How to test input()?

2016-10-08 Thread Alan Gauld via Tutor
On 08/10/16 07:18, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Testing code that depends on user input is always tricky. There are a > few ways to deal with it: > > (5) Or you could manually monkey-patch sys.stdin as you do. A variation on this that I have used is to read the input from stdin as usual but redirec