Re: [Tutor] Inserting long URL's into comments & docstrings?

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Re: [Tutor] Lengthy copyright notices?

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Re: [Tutor] Web framework module for Python.

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[Tutor] Installing Python on Server

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Re: [Tutor] Collating date data from a csv file

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Re: [Tutor] how to get the weeks of a month

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[Tutor] Python Help

I need to write code that runs a cost calculating program with many different variables and I honestly don't understand it, my code is: beefmeals=int(input("Enter number of beef meals: ")) shitmeals=int(input("Enter number of vegan meals: ")) party=beefmeals+shitmeals print(party) if party<=50 a=7

[Tutor] Python Help (shits killing me)

So I have to make a fibonacci sequence, and I'm not sure what is wrong with my code #This program illustrates the fibonacci sequence nterms=int(input("Please enter how many terms you would like to know: ")) n1 = 1 n2 = 1 count = 0 if nterms <= 0: print("Please enter a positive integer") elif nterms

Re: [Tutor] understanding Python naming conventions & semantics

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Re: [Tutor] Stuck on some basics re floats

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Re: [Tutor] Choice of tools

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Re: [Tutor] Python HW question

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Re: [Tutor] Select a string

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Re: [Tutor] Select a string

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Re: [Tutor] How does len() compute length of a string in UTF-8, 16, and 32?

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Re: [Tutor] setup.py "script" vs "console_scripts" Was: if __name__=='main' vs entry points: What to teach new comers?

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Re: [Tutor] setup.py "script" vs "console_scripts" Was: if __name__=='main' vs entry points: What to teach new comers?

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Re: [Tutor] setup.py "script" vs "console_scripts" Was: if __name__=='main' vs entry points: What to teach new comers?

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Re: [Tutor] if __name__=='main' vs entry points: What to teach new comers?

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Re: [Tutor] Python Daemons

that, the definition is unlikely to help because it's making distinctions below the level you're used to thinking about. Did the Wikipedia article help? > In summary, and Ben will correct me if I'm wrong, a daemon is a > computer program that runs as a background task. That&#

Re: [Tutor] What is meaning of "/" in "pow(x, y, z=None, /)"?

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Re: [Tutor] if __name__=='main' vs entry points: What to teach new comers?

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Re: [Tutor] What is meaning of "/" in "pow(x, y, z=None, /)"?

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Re: [Tutor] Python Daemons

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Re: [Tutor] Recommended Python Compiler

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Re: [Tutor] Coming from R, what's a good IDE editor? I've tried PyCharm and Spyder

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Re: [Tutor] Coming from R, what's a good IDE editor? I've tried PyCharm and Spyder

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Re: [Tutor] sub-modules and python3

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Re: [Tutor] Using venv

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Re: [Tutor] Another set question

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Re: [Tutor] Another set question

Phil writes: > Thank you Ben and Martin for your detailed replies. I was debating > whether or not to post my question at all because it looked vague, > even to me. That's not the issue; the question was posed clearly enough. The problem is that your purpose is opaque, and we

Re: [Tutor] Another set question

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[Tutor] Precision of floating-point number representation (was: Count for loops)

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Re: [Tutor] asking about run the python 3 script in terminal

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Re: [Tutor] pygrib issues involving wind

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[Tutor] The benefits of a junior programmer (was: Learning Objectives?)

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Re: [Tutor] Test for type(object) == ???

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Re: [Tutor] Syntax error while attempting to type in multiline statements in the interactive interpreter

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Re: [Tutor] Lock File Usage

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Re: [Tutor] Lock File Usage

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Re: [Tutor] file opened by open() are closed automaticaly

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Re: [Tutor] Python code

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Re: [Tutor] Python Help

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[Tutor] Call an external program and capture its output (was: Q regarding external program calling)

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Re: [Tutor] tar a directory

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Re: [Tutor] compress directory

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[Tutor] Turn off digest mode before participating in the forum (was: Module webbrowser.os)

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Re: [Tutor] Assessing local variable outside function

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Re: [Tutor] What is wrong with my Python program that causes it to run but not give results?

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Re: [Tutor] Alternative to for/while loop

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Re: [Tutor] Attaching program text to messages

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[Tutor] Attaching program text to messages (was: Python v3 Tkinter GUI program)

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[Tutor] How to employ a Python programmer to help (was: Help please)

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Re: [Tutor] Passing functions as arguments to other functions

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Re: [Tutor] Passing functions as arguments to other functions

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[Tutor] Google is not your friend (was: NumPy and SciPy)

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Re: [Tutor] python coding problem

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Re: [Tutor] Questions as to how to run the same unit test multiple times on varying input data.

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Re: [Tutor] Running Python code without python installed

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Re: [Tutor] project directory structure

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Re: [Tutor] project directory structure

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Re: [Tutor] OOP help needed

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Re: [Tutor] Writing decorators?

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Re: [Tutor] Writing decorators?

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Re: [Tutor] Help with 'if' statement and the concept of None

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Re: [Tutor] Newcomer with organizational questions

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Re: [Tutor] Getting started in testing

Terry Carroll writes: > Thanks to Alan, Danny, Albert-Jan and Ben for their suggestions. I've > now gotten my feet wet in unittest and have gone from not quite > knowing where to start to making substantial progress, with a small > suite of tests up and running. Great start!

Re: [Tutor] Python 3: string to decimal conversion

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Re: [Tutor] Getting started in testing

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[Tutor] Never need to apologise for top-posting: just don't do it (was: Getting started in testing)

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Re: [Tutor] Python Homework

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Re: [Tutor] def __init__(self):

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Re: [Tutor] customizing dark_harvest problems

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Re: [Tutor] Declaring variables

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Re: [Tutor] Python OOP question

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Re: [Tutor] week 10 synthesizing assignment

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Re: [Tutor] Fw: About the Round Function

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Re: [Tutor] How python keeps track of data types

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Re: [Tutor] How to test function using random.randint()?

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Re: [Tutor] How to test function using random.randint()?

Steven D'Aprano writes: > On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 12:18:01AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > > No, I meant what I wrote. The ‘rng’ parameter is expected to be > > bound to a RNG. If the caller has not specified a custom RNG > > instance, we bind ‘rng’ to the stan

Re: [Tutor] How to test function using random.randint()?

boB Stepp writes: > On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 8:03 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 04:05:58PM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > >> if rng is None: > >> rng = random.random > > > > Typo: you want rng = random.

Re: [Tutor] How to test function using random.randint()?

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[Tutor] Code Problem

Hi, I'm having troubles with my code, specifically at the area with the comment mark. Basically you are to enter three sides of a triangle, and have it show if it is a equilateral, isosceles, or right triangle. I have it so that it makes s1 the longest side, and s2 and s3 the other 2 sides. The ri

Re: [Tutor] newbie in programming

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Re: [Tutor] Surprised that print("a" "b") gives "ab"

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Re: [Tutor] Surprised that print("a" "b") gives "ab"

Ben Finney writes: > The first one is defined (by the syntax for literals) to create a > *single* string object. Semantically, the fragments are specifying one > object in a single step. > > The second is semantically (i.e. by the semantics of how such > expressions are defined

Re: [Tutor] Surprised that print("a" "b") gives "ab"

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Re: [Tutor] Why does 01 give a syntax error, but 00 (or 00...0) does not?

Ben Finney writes: > Hmm. That is a confusing inconsistency, I agree. It is deliberate, and > explicitly documented: > > Note that leading zeros in a non-zero decimal number are not > allowed. This is for disambiguation with C-style octal literals, > which Python u

Re: [Tutor] Why does 01 give a syntax error, but 00 (or 00...0) does not?

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Re: [Tutor] Recommendations for best tool to write/run Python :p:

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Re: [Tutor] Recommendations for best tool to write/run Python

Ben Finney writes: > In that case, my recommendation is to learn a good programmer's > editor, and let your students gain exposure to that. > > Emacs and Vim are the unchallenged masters here […] > > They aren't a small investment, though. […] it may be too much t

Re: [Tutor] Recommendations for best tool to write/run Python

Ben Finney writes: > Short of [the heavyweights Vim and Emacs], I'd still recommend a > community-owned, free-software, highly flexible programmer's editor. > If you're on GNU+Linux, use the Kate or GEdit editors; they integrate > very nicely with the default desktop

Re: [Tutor] Recommendations for best tool to write/run Python

Lisa Hasler Waters writes: > Ben, in terms of time for learning curve, I suppose we do have some > limitations as we are up against school schedules. However, if it is > something I could learn in a reasonable time that I could then more > quickly walk my students through then I

Re: [Tutor] Recommendations for best tool to write/run Python

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Re: [Tutor] library terminology and importing

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[Tutor] Mock filesystem operations only for specific test doubles (was: mock file reader object)

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Re: [Tutor] recursion

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Re: [Tutor] recursion

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Re: [Tutor] Syntax for list comps

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Re: [Tutor] Enumerate vs DictReader object manipulation:

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