Re: [Tutor] Diamond Equivalent

2005-09-23 Thread kim.d
Bob, Michael, my thanks to you both for answering my diamond operator question. Bob, I tried the lines you suggested and they worked just the way I wanted them to. Thanks. Michael, thanks for the user functions or subroutines: not sure what Python calls them. A lot of food for thought there. M

Re: [Tutor] Diamond Equivalent

2005-09-23 Thread kim.d
bob wrote <<>> Sorry bob, that's what comes of posting my question last thing at night when finding the way upstairs is difficult enough. In perl I can write this: @array = <>; print @array; If I save that and call it from the command line, I can include the name of a file after the script na

Re: [Tutor] Diamond Equivalent

2005-09-23 Thread kim.d
>It is included as part of the standard >library (as are all the modules in the doc >Danny referenced). Thanks, Kent. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] Diamond Equivalent

2005-09-23 Thread kim.d
>> I am coming to Python from Perl. Does Python have >>anything like the diamond operator found in Perl? >Python includes a module called 'fileinput' that does sorta this: >http://www.python.org/doc/lib/module-fileinput.html >If you have more questions, please feel free to ask. >Good luck

[Tutor] Diamond Equivalent

2005-09-22 Thread kim.d
I am coming to Python from Perl. Does Python have anything like the diamond operator found in Perl? ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] Making Applets

2005-09-08 Thread kim.d
Alan G. wrote: <<>> <<>> Thanks, Alan. I'll give it a look. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

[Tutor] Making Applets

2005-09-07 Thread kim.d
I am a complete beginner with Python, so apologies if this is a silly question with an obvious answer. I am using Python on an Apple running 10.3, and write scripts as text documents which I then call from the Terminal. I am told that the scripts can be made into applets and that documents can