Re: [Tutor] Storing dictionary value, indexed by key, into a variable

2014-04-05 Thread John Aten
I read the article on data driven programming that Danny linked too, and did some additional looking around. I couldn't find anything directly using Python, but I got an idea of the concept and went crazy with it. This may still be off the mark, but I created a complex combination of lists and d

Re: [Tutor] Storing dictionary value, indexed by key, into a variable

2014-04-03 Thread John Aten
I apologize for the omissions, I thought that I had isolated the problem, but I was way off the mark. The problem was, as suggested by Danny and Peter, in the function where the dictionary is assigned. I ran the type function, as Alex advised, and lo and behold the function was returning a strin

[Tutor] Storing dictionary value, indexed by key, into a variable

2014-03-31 Thread John Aten
Hey all, I am writing a program to drill the user on Latin demonstrative pronouns and adjectives (DPA). It displays a description, and the user has to enter the DPA that corresponds to the description. DPA vary for gender, number and case, and there are 3 separate DPA. I have these stored in a

Re: [Tutor] basic function concept

2013-11-17 Thread John Aten
Too bad that doesn't work. On Nov 16, 2013, at 11:16 PM, Alex Kleider wrote: > On 2013-11-16 13:20, Byron Ruffin wrote: >> def main(x, y, z): >> print (x, y, z) >> def funct(): >> x = 1 >> y = 2 >> z = 3 >> return x, y, z >> main() >> Can someone tell me why main is not being