Re: [Tutor] need advice about a dictionary ({})

2011-09-10 Thread Jack Trades
> > Using Python 2.7 for it, it seems to work fine, except that I can't > see how the GUI helps. It opens only when I use the g option to find > an entry already made. Useful for editing an entry, though. > Well the idea would be to build the app as a full-blown GUI. The GUI search and edit funct

Re: [Tutor] need advice about a dictionary ({})

2011-09-10 Thread Jack Trades
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 4:36 PM, Richard D. Moores wrote: > Your idea doesn't seem efficient for me -- > lots of typing and editing. > Not sure what you mean by that? I've updated the gist with a quick 5min implementation of a GUI using Tkinter and the approach I outlined. I think using a GUI i

Re: [Tutor] need advice about a dictionary ({})

2011-09-10 Thread Jack Trades
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 1:08 PM, Richard D. Moores wrote: > So I've done quite a bit more work. With phone_book.py the user can > not only access phone numbers by the person's initials, but can add > items to the data file. I've also solved the problem of adding a > person who's initials have alre

Re: [Tutor] python

2011-08-14 Thread Jack Trades
se enter (g)ood, (o)k or (b)ad: b Oh dear >>> ask() Please enter (g)ood, (o)k or (b)ad: o Good good >>> ask() Please enter (g)ood, (o)k or (b)ad: ok Good good Or you could also use something a bit more general like this... def ask(question, list_of_responses): ans

Re: [Tutor] Print/Loop Question

2011-03-17 Thread Jack Trades
r when you tried your code? Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in NameError: name 'guess' is not defined >From your question it sounds like I might be missing something though. If that didn't help, please provide more details. -- Jack Trades Pointless Programming Blog <http://pointlessprogramming.wordpress.com> ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] time taken to execute certain task

2011-03-16 Thread Jack Trades
one's best? I don't know. I know there are some profiling tools that will give you a better idea about the performance of a function, but I rarely use them so I'll let someone else give you advice on this. For a quick-n-dirty test, either will work just fine. I usual

Re: [Tutor] Boolean question

2011-03-15 Thread Jack Trades
e (for example if you had (True and False and True)) and returns False, which is then negated by 'not'. -- Jack Trades Pointless Programming Blog <http://pointlessprogramming.wordpress.com> ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] Boolean question

2011-03-15 Thread Jack Trades
alse, obviously, evaluates to False, which causes 'and' to stop and return False. This reduces the expression to... not False > 2)However, the "not" outside the parentheses flips the meaning of what > is inside the parentheses, so false becomes "True." ? >