[Tutor] An interesting situation befalls me revisited

2010-05-09 Thread Kirk Z Bailey
Well, this has been a fruitful thread! Now here's the next exciting installment; what's a good TEXTBOOK for a class to use on the subject? -- end Very Truly yours, - Kirk Bailey, Largo Florida kniht +-+

[Tutor] An interesting situation befalls me

2010-05-08 Thread Kirk Z Bailey
An instructor of mine is about to teach the FIRST EVER class in Python at Saint Petersburg College; knowing I am a snakecharmer, he asked me for referrals to online resources. Oh my. So I sent back this: " Ah, python., my fav obsession. First, the language website itself: http://www.python.o

[Tutor] sqrt?

2010-04-24 Thread Kirk Z Bailey
ok gang, My desktop runs 2.5, and for my college algebra I needed to do som quadratic equation work. This involves squareroots. So I fired uop the interactive idle and imported math. I then tried to play with sqrt. Nothing. Importing math does not import a sqrt function. Now riddle me this: i

[Tutor] length of a string? Advice saught

2010-01-27 Thread Kirk Z Bailey
I wrote a program to let me edit web-pages without bothering with ftp; it loads up a simple form with the page guts in it, and saves it through another script. Until yesterday, EditMyPage worked fine. Alas, I had a rather long winded page and it truncated it- completely omitted the last 1/4 of

[Tutor] smtp project

2010-01-17 Thread Kirk Z Bailey
I am writing a script that will send an email message. This will run in a windows XP box. The box does not have a smtp server, so the script must crete not merely a smtp client to talk to a MTA, it must BE one for the duration of sending the message- then shut off, we don't need no bloody op0en

[Tutor] Hat lands in ring

2009-12-12 Thread Kirk Z Bailey
I'm Baaacck... -- end Very Truly yours, - Kirk Bailey, Largo Florida kniht +-+ | BOX | +-+ think __

[Tutor] arrays in python

2008-06-28 Thread Kirk Z Bailey
Just wondering, if I can find a way to do a 2 dimensional array in python. 1 dimension would be a list it would seem; for 2, I could use a list of lists? Strange how I can't think of ever needing one since I discovered snake charming, but so many languages do foo dimensional arrays, it would s

Re: [Tutor] miniwiki 1.3 BETA bugs

2007-02-25 Thread Kirk Z Bailey
RE leaves me totally confuzzzeddded. Yep, so confuised I'm having trouble spelling it. Sp this one line will replace both words and give a reliable result? Barnaby Scott wrote: [snip] > No idea if it has anything to do with your problem, but it struck me > that the iswikiword() function (and pr

[Tutor] miniwiki 1.3 BETA bugs

2007-02-23 Thread Kirk Z. Bailey
ok, let's post this again. last time went into purgatory instead of the list. hmmm I am working on updating miniwiki. the current beta code has rendering problems with wikiwords and external sites under some circumstances. Here is a link to the latest code: http://www.tinylist.org/MW.t

[Tutor] It lives...

2007-02-20 Thread Kirk Z Bailey
I'm back. Melted my life, got a divorce, gutted the house, acquired true love, 2 cats, redid house, new job, and dentures. Let's see, I still need a total blood change-out, but other than that, I did it all. Now I can start paying attention to python and wiki's again. And this is good, because