Ah! After another long break from coding, I resume a pattern of one
step forward, who knows how many steps back, as I forget what I once
remembered and understood.
It is the wee morning hours where I am at, so I don't think I will
make it through everything, but I will make a start...
On Sun, Ma
Discussion below your post here, since I feel I should quote it all:
On 23Mar2019 22:15, boB Stepp wrote:
I have just written a small program earlier today to allow the user
(me) to enter a date by which I wish to finish reading a book (=
massive programming-related book) and calculate how many
I have just written a small program earlier today to allow the user
(me) to enter a date by which I wish to finish reading a book (=
massive programming-related book) and calculate how many pages I need
to read each day (starting today) in order to finish the book by the
target date. Looking over
On 23Mar2019 11:04, ingo janssen wrote:
One thing I often struggle with is how to deal with exceptions,
especially when I have a chain of functions that use each others
output and/or long running processes. As the answer will probably be
"it depends"
Oh yes!
The core rule of thumb is "don't
On 3/23/19 3:16 AM, Peter Otten wrote:
> Personally I would use a try...except clause because with that you can
> handle invalid dates like _etc.xls gracefully. So
>
> ERASED = "erased_"
>
>
> def strip_prefix(name):
> if name.startswith(ERASED):
> name = name[len(ERASED):]
On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 12:50 PM anand warik wrote:
>
> I had installed Python on Ubuntu 14.04 using Anaconda package long back
> after failing to install independently for a long time. I was quietly using
> it's packaged ide Spyder and had no troubles, in fact I love spider more
> then atom. I re
I had installed Python on Ubuntu 14.04 using Anaconda package long back
after failing to install independently for a long time. I was quietly using
it's packaged ide Spyder and had no troubles, in fact I love spider more
then atom. I recently learned how to setup a virtual environment though,
which
One thing I often struggle with is how to deal with exceptions,
especially when I have a chain of functions that use each others output
and/or long running processes. As the answer will probably be "it
depends" take for example this program flow:
open a file and read into BytesIO buffer
get a
Matthew Herzog wrote:
> I have a Python3 script that reads the first eight characters of every
> filename in a directory in order to determine whether the file was created
> before or after 180 days ago based on each file's name. The file names all
> begin with MMDD or erased_MMDD_etc.xls.
