Re: [Tutor] How do I add an argument too...

2005-07-18 Thread Jeffrey Maitland
Well I use the getopt module. so in my foo.py it would be something like. import getopt try: opts, args = getopt.getopt(sys.argv[1:], "U:u:P:p:H:h:?", ["Username=", "username=", "Password=", "password=", "Help=","help="]) except getopt.GetoptError: print :nothing specila just an error"

[Tutor] Re: New to programming question

2005-04-12 Thread Jeffrey Maitland
Ben Markwell writes: This is an exercise from "How to think like a Computer Scientist." The following example shows how to use concatenation and a for loop to generate an abecedarian series. "Abecedarian" refers to a series or list in which the elements appear in alphabetical order. For examp

[Tutor] Re: Defining a function (Joseph Q.)

2005-04-12 Thread Jeffrey Maitland
Brian van den Broek writes: Joseph Quigley said unto the world upon 2005-04-11 20:23: Well, now I've learned what def is good for. But what could I put in the parenthesis of def foo():? Of course self is always available, but what would maybe def foo(number1): do? An error right? So I now repe

[Tutor] Re: Support

2005-04-08 Thread Jeffrey Maitland
Alberto Troiano writes: ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor I would personally use a blob. That is why they are there. To store that binary data. I am sure you could use a longtext but this way space

[Tutor] Re: Recursive list checking

2005-04-08 Thread Jeffrey Maitland
Jeffrey Maitland writes: joe_schmoe writes: Dear Pythonites I am looking for a more elegant solution to a piece of code that is too unwieldy and reptitive. The purpose of the code is for a new addition to a list to check whether it is a duplicate of a list element already a member of

[Tutor] Re: Recursive list checking

2005-04-08 Thread Jeffrey Maitland
joe_schmoe writes: Dear Pythonites I am looking for a more elegant solution to a piece of code that is too unwieldy and reptitive. The purpose of the code is for a new addition to a list to check whether it is a duplicate of a list element already a member of that list, and if so to regenera

[Tutor] Re: Might be a silly question!

2005-02-11 Thread Jeffrey Maitland
ten before me (mind you it's C++) and the authors seemed to follow what ever style they wished to that day. Oh well that's the nature of the beast. Thanks again for clearing that up for me. Jeff Bill Mill writes: Jeff, On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 10:03:30 -0500, Jeffrey Maitland <[

[Tutor] Might be a silly question!

2005-02-11 Thread Jeffrey Maitland
Hello all, I am drawing a blank right now and can't seem to find anything on it and I am sure this issue has been addressed before, so here is the question. Can and if you can how do you set a variable as a constant? Example of what I mean: (this is loose and not python since variable type