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2012-08-25 Thread Victoria Homsy
Thank you everyone for your help with my question - I understand what I was doing wrong now. I know I'm posting wrongly so I'm going to go and figure out how to do it properly for the future. Have a great day. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To

[Tutor] Error message...

2012-08-23 Thread Victoria Homsy
Dear All - sorry to bother you. I just tried to run this program: def isPalindrome(s): if len(s) <= 1: return True  else: return s[0] == s[-1] and isPalindrome (s[1:-1]) isPalindrome('aba') However when I run it in terminal it doesn't give me any answer - True or False. (I want the program

Re: [Tutor] Error message...

2012-08-23 Thread Victoria Homsy
Excellent - thank you so much everyone. All is clear now!!  From: Mark Lawrence To: tutor@python.org Sent: Thursday, 23 August 2012, 15:29 Subject: Re: [Tutor] Error message... On 23/08/2012 15:17, Victoria Homsy wrote: > Dear all, > > Sorry to b

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2012-08-23 Thread Victoria Homsy
Dear all,  Sorry to bother you with a beginner's problem again...  I have tried to write a program that can check if a string is a palindrome. My code is as follows: def isPalindrome(s): if len(s) <= 1: return True else: return s(0) == s(-1) and isPalindrome (s[1:-1]) isPalindrome('aba') How

[Tutor] Help please!

2012-07-30 Thread Victoria Homsy
Hello all! I have a very simple question but I'm very new to python. Could you describe to me what the following piece of Python code says in English please?  def print_a_line(line_count, f): print line_count, f.readline() I understand that line_count counts the number of lines in the Python pro

[Tutor] Help please!

2012-07-30 Thread Victoria Homsy
Hi! I am a new Python user, and would really appreciate some help. My code is as follows: from sys import argvs script, mum_mood, dad_mood = argvs # my own function def dad_and_mum_mood(mum_mood, dad_mood): print "If both mum and dad are in a good mood, all is good." print "If one is and one isn