Re: [Tutor] Looking for a tutor to review my code and provide constructive feedback.

2010-12-17 Thread Steven D'Aprano
zicu radu wrote: Hello, How to prevent shadows a built-in in code. Please if you are kind enougth to take the time to provide feedback I would appreciate that it is constructive. The script is here: http://bpaste.net/show/12364/ Are you sure you have posted the right link? This is a functi

[Tutor] Looking for a tutor to review my code and provide constructive feedback.

2010-12-17 Thread zicu radu
Hello, How to prevent shadows a built-in in code. Please if you are kind enougth to take the time to provide feedback I would appreciate that it is constructive. The script is here: http://bpaste.net/show/12364/ ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org

Re: [Tutor] Looking for a tutor to review my code and provide constructive feedback.

2010-11-05 Thread Walter Prins
One final suggestion to add to the others: Install and use both pylint, and pychecker. That will help ensure you don't make silly errors or omissions and follow a consistent coding style that matches the generally accepted format well. PyLint: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pylint PyChecker: http://

Re: [Tutor] Looking for a tutor to review my code and provide constructive feedback.

2010-11-05 Thread Glen Clark
Thank you very much for the feedback Luke. I have taken it onboard. I especially like the .lower().strip()[0] method ^^ Regards, G On 4 November 2010 22:38, Luke Paireepinart wrote: > Also for your confirm entries read about sentinel values for while loops. > It saves you repeating the conditio

Re: [Tutor] Looking for a tutor to review my code and provide constructive feedback.

2010-11-04 Thread Luke Paireepinart
Your code is not bad overall, pretty great for a beginner actually. I would say you should read guido's style guide though; some of your variable and function naming is nonstandard python. - Sent from a mobile device with a bad e-mail client. -

Re: [Tutor] Looking for a tutor to review my code and provide constructive feedback.

2010-11-04 Thread Luke Paireepinart
Also for your confirm entries read about sentinel values for while loops. It saves you repeating the conditional in the loop body. And you might want to .lower().strip()[0] the input choice so that they can use y, Y, yes, or whatever. Remember, users suck at generating accurate and correct input

Re: [Tutor] Looking for a tutor to review my code and provide constructive feedback.

2010-11-04 Thread Luke Paireepinart
Also for your confirm entries function, read about while loops - Sent from a mobile device with a bad e-mail client. - On Nov 4, 2010, at 3:10 PM, Glen Clark wrote: > Hello, > > I have completed my first python script. This is after watc

[Tutor] Looking for a tutor to review my code and provide constructive feedback.

2010-11-04 Thread Glen Clark
Hello, I have completed my first python script. This is after watching a video guide on python and is my first attempt at writing code in python. While the code is not very useful I got the idea for it when googling "python projects for beginners". The idea was to create a script that asked the u