[Tutor] how to compare elements of 2 lists

2007-12-25 Thread sith .
"sith ." wrote: > How can I determine if the elements in a are larger or smaller than > the elements in b. > .. > like 2 columns in excel, the third column would be > a new list of boolean values. Can someone help please? Thank you. Hi, in that case, you need to crea

[Tutor] how to compare elements of 2 lists

2007-12-25 Thread sith .
sith . wrote: > Hi, > I've read the posts on comparing 2 lists and couldn't find the answer to > my question. > I have 2 lists > a = [4,3,2,6,7,9] > b = [8,6,3,3,2,7] > How can I determine if the elements in a are larger or smaller than the > elements in b.

[Tutor] how to compare elements of 2 lists

2007-12-25 Thread sith .
Hi, I've read the posts on comparing 2 lists and couldn't find the answer to my question. I have 2 lists a = [4,3,2,6,7,9] b = [8,6,3,3,2,7] How can I determine if the elements in a are larger or smaller than the elements in b. for i in a: for u in b: i > u does not retu

[Tutor] parsing an array

2007-11-15 Thread sith .
greater !! greater !! smaller only the second and third "greater" and "smaller" output are correct as 1.5 is larger than 1 and 0 is smaller than 1.5. What is i[1] greater than?

[Tutor] parsing an array

2007-11-15 Thread sith .
a = [[1,1],[3,1.5],[5,0]] for i in range(len(a)) : if a[i][1] > a[i-1][1] : print 'greater !!' else: print "smaller" greater !! greater !! smaller Thanks for taking the time to help me Aditya. I tried the code but have encountered a problem. In this new list, [

[Tutor] parsing an array

2007-11-14 Thread sith .
a = [[1,2],[3,1.5],[5,6]] for i in a: print i if i[1]>i[0]: print "second index is larger" else: print "second index is smaller" [1, 2] second index is larger [3, 1.5] second index is small er [5, 6] second index is larger What I'd like do is compare if 1.

[Tutor] parsing an array

2007-11-12 Thread sith .
a = [[0,1,2,3,4,5],[1,2,3,4,5,6]] You cannot modify the same array when you are looping through it. You have to loop through the copy of the contents :- a[:]. # Untested code for i in a[:]: # You are looping through the copy of contents # I'm new I'm going to try and explain my und

[Tutor] parsing an array

2007-11-09 Thread sith .
newfile = open('y.txt') >>> for line in newfile: ... print line.rstrip() 3 5 7 11 8 10 Hi, I'm trying to parse an array. Now that I can open and read lines in my array, how can I access individual elements of my multidimensional array? I'd like to loop through the array and comp

[Tutor] Help with setting path

2007-11-03 Thread sith .
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[Tutor] Help with setting path

2007-11-02 Thread sith .
Hi, Thanks for your input. I'm presently downloading enthought python - no asian mirror, so it'll take a really long time to download even on broadband at 10kbps) - but I don't think it's a distro problem. I'm probably not doing it right as I'm now using IDLE and still have the same problem.

[Tutor] Help with setting path

2007-11-02 Thread sith .
hi, I'm a beginner. Can someone help me with the installation? I've read several tutorials, possess a couple of books, and have followed the instructions, but I stil face a problem. None of the online tutorials address this issue in depth maybe because it could be too simple. I'm having proble