Re: [Tutor] Turtle Issues

2018-03-06 Thread Alan Gauld via Tutor
On 06/03/18 18:12, Roger Lea Scherer wrote: > I know I don't have to apologize, but I am so independent I hate asking for > help and you guys and gals have been so helpful that now that I'm stuck > again I'm sorry I have to. Thats not a problem and, in programming, is usually seen as a strength n

Re: [Tutor] Regex not working as desired

2018-03-06 Thread Alan Gauld via Tutor
On 06/03/18 22:17, Albert-Jan Roskam wrote: > But the way you wrote it, the generator expression just "floats" Any expression can be used where a value is expected provided that e3xpression produces a value of the required type. A generator expression effectively produces a sequence and the type

[Tutor] Turtle Issues

2018-03-06 Thread Roger Lea Scherer
I know I don't have to apologize, but I am so independent I hate asking for help and you guys and gals have been so helpful that now that I'm stuck again I'm sorry I have to. I've looked on StackOverflow and followed their advice (which I can't make work) and went to the python/turtle documentation

Re: [Tutor] Regex not working as desired

2018-03-06 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Tue, Mar 06, 2018 at 10:17:20PM +, Albert-Jan Roskam wrote: > > >>> all(c.isdigit() for c in '12c4') > > False > > I never understood why this is syntactically correct. It's like two > parentheses are missing. > > This I understand: > all((c.isdigit() for c in '12c4')) > Or this: > all([

Re: [Tutor] Regex not working as desired

2018-03-06 Thread Albert-Jan Roskam
On Feb 27, 2018 09:50, Alan Gauld via Tutor wrote: > > On 27/02/18 05:13, Cameron Simpson wrote: > > > hard to debug when you do. That's not to say you shouldn't use them, but > > many > > people use them for far too much. > > > > Finally, you could also consider not using a regexp for this part