[Tutor] Scrabble Help

2010-09-05 Thread William Allison
I'd like to write a program to help find words for Scrabble but I've been having trouble right from the beginning. tiles = 'aeirstw' dictionary = ['aardvark', 'cat', 'dog', 'taste', 'stare', 'wrist'] for word in range(len(dictionary)): for letter in range(len(dictionary[word])): if d

Re: [Tutor] How Compute # of Days between Two Dates?

2008-09-01 Thread William Allison
Wayne Watson wrote: > That's the question in Subject. For example, the difference between > 08/29/2008 > and 09/03/2008 is +5. The difference between 02/28/2008 and 03/03/2008 is 4, > leap year--extra day in Feb. I'm really only interested in years between, > say, > 1990 and 2050. In other wor

Re: [Tutor] Need a Clean Start

2007-04-06 Thread William Allison
Keegan Johnson wrote: > I need to get the pygames, py2app, etc on my computer > (I have a Macintosh). Is there any way to clean up all these files > that I've accrued trying to get things to work? I've been able to do > a little bit but nothing more than that. Also, what should I use? > Th

Re: [Tutor] datetime.timedelta Output Format

2007-04-02 Thread William Allison
Kent Johnson wrote: > > It looks like Gustavo Niemeyer's dateutil module will at least do the > year/month/day calculation if not the formatting: > > In [1]: from datetime import date > In [2]: from dateutil import relativedelta > In [3]: now = date.today() > In [9]: rd = relativedelta.relativedel

Re: [Tutor] datetime.timedelta Output Format

2007-04-02 Thread William Allison
Alan Gauld wrote: > "R. Alan Monroe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > >>> Is there a way to have the output of "print tis" in the same format >>> as >>> "print now" and "print tafmsd" in the code below? >>> > > >>> >>> now = datetime.date.today() >>> >>> print now >>> 2007-04-01 >>> >

[Tutor] datetime.timedelta Output Format

2007-04-01 Thread William Allison
Is there a way to have the output of "print tis" in the same format as "print now" and "print tafmsd" in the code below? Thanks, Will savage:~ wallison$ python Python 2.5 (r25:51918, Sep 19 2006, 08:49:13) [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5341)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits

Re: [Tutor] question

2007-02-14 Thread William Allison
Caicedo, Richard IT2 NSWC wrote: > > I am trying to get the $ python promt I can't seem to get it. I can > get the python shell but when I press enter I don't get the $ python? > > > > ___

Re: [Tutor] Better way to substitute text?

2006-09-30 Thread William Allison
open('test_highlight.html', 'a').write(in_put) > > > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of William Allison > Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2006 8:10 AM > To: tutor@python.org > Subject: Re: [Tuto

Re: [Tutor] Better way to substitute text?

2006-09-30 Thread William Allison
Shantanoo Mahajan wrote: > +++ William Allison [29-09-06 18:55 -0400]: > | Hi, > | Just learning Python, on chapter 6 of Learning Python 2nd Ed. So, on to > | the question. Is there a better way to > | implement the code below? It scans a saved html file and highlights > | c

[Tutor] Better way to substitute text?

2006-09-29 Thread William Allison
Hi, Just learning Python, on chapter 6 of Learning Python 2nd Ed. So, on to the question. Is there a better way to implement the code below? It scans a saved html file and highlights certain keywords is a bold, red font. It works, but I suppose I'm wondering if it's the "Pythonic" way. Thanks

[Tutor] <> and chomp

2006-09-14 Thread William Allison
Hi, I'm new to programming and started with Perl but have been reading a lot of good things about Python. Thought I would switch before I have too much time invested in Perl. Anyway, my question is, is there something in Python similar to the diamond operator and chomp from Perl? I'm trying to re

Re: [Tutor] Upgrade to 2.4

2004-12-05 Thread William Allison
Danny Yoo wrote: On Sat, 4 Dec 2004, William Allison wrote: I compiled Python 2.3.4 from source, but now I would like to upgrade to 2.4. There doesn't seem to be a "make uninstall" target for 2.3.4. Will compiling 2.4 overwrite the older version, or will I have two versions

[Tutor] Upgrade to 2.4

2004-12-04 Thread William Allison
I compiled Python 2.3.4 from source, but now I would like to upgrade to 2.4. There doesn't seem to be a "make uninstall" target for 2.3.4. Will compiling 2.4 overwrite the older version, or will I have two versions of Python on my system? Thanks, Will __