Re: [Tutor] Learning Regular Expressions

2016-05-30 Thread Terry--gmail
Thanks Alan I noticed that I was using some double ' to encircle some things and some single ' for apostrophes in contractionsand fixed those...but apparently since you could run it, that part didn't matter. The problem was ultimately caused by a stray ''' which was a fragment of me messin

[Tutor] Learning Regular Expressions

2016-05-24 Thread Terry--gmail
Running Linux Mint The YouTube Sentdex Video tutor I am following. He is working in Python3.4 and I am running Python3.4.3 He's demonstrating some Regular Expressions which I wanted to test out. On these test scripts, for future referrence, I have been putting my notes in Tripple Quotes and nam

Re: [Tutor] Building Starships -- object of type 'int' has no len()

2014-08-20 Thread Terry--gmail
Thanks Japhy Bartlett! [[0] for i in range(5)] Works! I converted to fit into my routine as: lens = [[] for i in range(len(catalog2[0]))] << the new statement for row in catalog2: for col, item in enumerate(row): lens[col].append(len(item)) lens = [max(col) for col in lens]

Re: [Tutor] Building Starships -- object of type 'int' has no len()

2014-08-20 Thread Terry--gmail
lens = [max(col) for col in lens] --Terry IT WORKS! I just don't know how to automatically format lens with enough [] like I was able to tell On 08/20/2014 02:56 PM, Marc Tompkins wrote: On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Terry--gmail wrote: Marc, my understanding

Re: [Tutor] Building Starships -- object of type 'int' has no len()

2014-08-20 Thread Terry--gmail
Terry On 08/20/2014 02:26 PM, Marc Tompkins wrote: On Aug 20, 2014 12:07 PM, "Terry--gmail" <mailto:terry.kemme...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > Alan Gauld > > Hi! > We are not quite out of the woods on this last example you gave me. It now seems to be complaining >

Re: [Tutor] Building Starships -- object of type 'int' has no len()

2014-08-20 Thread Terry--gmail
Alan Gauld Hi! We are not quite out of the woods on this last example you gave me. It now seems to be complaining that it doesn't want to append an integer to the list or that this isn't the place to use '.append' -- I am probably interpreting it's complaint wrong: Python 3.3 If I run this

Re: [Tutor] Building Starships -- object of type 'int' has no len()

2014-08-19 Thread Terry--gmail
(semi-)decent mail client. The original poster uses NinjaIDE and Thunderbird, and his code was being persistently flattened when he copied/pasted. I believe I've just tracked it down to an incompatibility between the two (which also happens to extend to Ninja/Gmail.) I'm not sure how Google

Re: [Tutor] Building Starships -- object of type 'int' has no len()

2014-08-17 Thread Terry--gmail
I'm copy and pasting from Ninja-IDE, which I thought was created specifically to do python programming...so I never checked to see if it needs to have the tab set to enter 4 spaces, as it appeared visually to be doing that. But, I don't remember whether I used their tab or manually typed 4 spa

Re: [Tutor] Building Starships -- object of type 'int' has no len()

2014-08-17 Thread Terry--gmail
I found another place in Thunderbirdy to set 'plain text'. This is a test. Does the below code look correct now? --And did I reply correctly this time? (Reply-All and keep only tutor@python.org address...) for line_number, row in enumerate(catalog2): for col, item in enumerate(row): if le

[Tutor] Building Starships -- object of type 'int' has no len()

2014-08-17 Thread Terry--gmail
WOW! There is a lot of help on this mailing list! I want to thank everyone for their valuable input! Thanks! (I am working my way through the replies.) Sorry about the HTML. I think I have it turned off now in Thunderbirdy for this address. If so, then what follows should not be flat. If it i

[Tutor] Building Starships -- object of type 'int' has no len()

2014-08-15 Thread Terry--gmail
Thanks for your response JL. I added the following Exception to the code snippet: for line_number in range(len(catalog2)): for col in range(len(catalog2[line_number])): try: if lens[col] < len(catalog2[line_number][col]): lens[col] = len(catalog2[line_number][col]) except TypeError: print(

[Tutor] Building Starships -- object of type 'int' has no len()

2014-08-15 Thread Terry--gmail
Python 3.3 This has something to do with the nature of FOR statements and IF statements, and I am sure it must be a simple mistake...but I seem to be stumped. I am writing a starship encounter program as my first real python programwhere the user gets a random amount of credits to design

Re: [Tutor] Need Explanation...

2011-12-10 Thread Max gmail
On Dec 10, 2011, at 12:04 PM, Alan Gauld wrote: > On 10/12/11 16:46, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > >> ...the alternative would also have caught out everybody at some point. >> Consider a hypothetical Python where mutator methods returned a result: >> >> a = [1, 2, 3] >> b = a.append(4) >> >> Does t

Re: [Tutor] why doesn't python show error

2011-11-29 Thread Max gmail
In some cases, it is a useful fact that Python only shows error messages when they are encountered. For example, I can test a program while keeping away from an area that still doesn't work, rather than having to make it work flawlessly before my first test. Python *can* generate executables w

Re: [Tutor] Saving read-only or encoded text files?

2011-11-18 Thread Max gmail
Thank you. This will work perfectly. On Nov 18, 2011, at 11:58 AM, Prasad, Ramit wrote: > Hi. I've been using a lot of text files recently, and I'm starting to worry > about a user hacking some element by editing the text files. I know that I > can pickle my data instead, creating less easil

Re: [Tutor] Assigning variables with names set by other variables

2011-11-04 Thread Max gmail
Thank you, Wayne! This helps a lot. On Nov 4, 2011, at 5:38 PM, Wayne Werner wrote: > On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Max S. wrote: > Is it possible to create a variable with a string held by another variable in > Python? For example, > > >>> var_name = input("Variable name: ") > (input: 'var

Re: [Tutor] Assigning variables with names set by other variables

2011-11-04 Thread Max gmail
Thanks Steven. On Nov 4, 2011, at 6:45 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Max S. wrote: >> Is it possible to create a variable with a string held by another variable >> in Python? For example, > > Yes, but you shouldn't do it. Seriously. Don't do this, you will regret it. > >var_name = input("Var

Re: [Tutor] Python 2.7 on Ubuntu 11.10 - Do not unintall

2011-11-01 Thread Max gmail
Heh, yeah. It's usually a bad idea to do stuff like that (I know a guy (Windows) who deleted his OS of his system). On Nov 1, 2011, at 7:40 PM, Joel Montes de Oca wrote: > I just discovered that it is a bad idea to complete uninstall Python 2.7 on > Ubuntu 11.10. If you do, expect a lot of thi

[Tutor] Accessing a list inside a class...

2009-04-09 Thread Alexander Daychilde (Gmail)
I feel like I'm missing something simple, but I have now spent hours googling for an answer. I think I must not be searching for the right terms, or else this is something I'm not supposed to be doing - but it seems straightforward to me. Here's my test code (condensed from the actual much long

[Tutor] Iterating over letters or arbitrary symbols like they were numbers...

2009-03-18 Thread Alexander Daychilde (Gmail)
If there's an easy way to do this, I'd like to have a pointer to it (i.e. what functions would deal with this - not wanting my code written for me...) Right now, I have written code to generate a list of strings that happen to be a range of numbers. (The fact that they're strings is actually desir

Re: [Tutor] How to foreach over a dynamic number of levels

2009-02-12 Thread Alexander Daychilde (Gmail)
First, thank you VERY much for your help! That's amazingly much easier than I thought it would be... I was considering looping through and generating nested for loops, then exec'ing the whole mess.. UGH, and security risk, to boot... Couple of questions: > Make a list containing all the steps: >

Re: [Tutor] NetBeans IDE

2008-09-11 Thread Gmail
Hi Mike, I use Eclipse for Java development with a very nice plugin for Python programming. Check out the PyDev plugin I think its for eclipse only - not sure if there's something for Netbeans. http://pydev.sourceforge.net/ -- Evans http://www.javawug.com - Original Message - From:

Re: [Tutor] information needed to make a connection between computers

2005-12-14 Thread Tim Williams (gmail)
On 11/12/05, John Walton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:  Hello again! I'm still working on that instant messenger (for science fair), and I have been reading about networking in some Java tutorials. In one part of it, it said to have a connection with another computer, you need to know the IP name of t