Re: [Tutor] bnf

2005-12-19 Thread Hugo González Monteverde
>>> mystring = 'laLA' >>> mystring.upper() 'LALA' >>> mystring.lower() 'lala' ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] bnf

2005-12-11 Thread Alan Gauld
> ::= is bnf notation for "is defined as" > > please spend that extra minute googling before > you bother all the nice people on this list. To be fair, unless you knew that it was BNF I doubt you'd find much by Googling. I tried several variations of '::=' etc and Google came back empty. Once

Re: [Tutor] bnf

2005-12-10 Thread Liam Clarke
> Hi Danny and all, > > I take your point about the information being available to the OP in > the docs. I was reacting to the follow up post which I read as saying > something like "Don't bug us if you are lazy". That struck me as less > friendly than the usual tone on the list. > > The mistake wa

Re: [Tutor] bnf

2005-12-10 Thread Danny Yoo
> I take your point about the information being available to the OP in the > docs. I was reacting to the follow up post which I read as saying > something like "Don't bug us if you are lazy". That struck me as less > friendly than the usual tone on the list. Hi Brian, Yes. I read the tone as tha

Re: [Tutor] bnf

2005-12-10 Thread Brian van den Broek
Danny Yoo said unto the world upon 2005-12-10 20:23: >>> hello everyone. i was looking at python docs and i came across this >>> >>> letter ::= >>> lowercase | uppercase >>> >>> >>> what does ::= mean? >> >>goodness knows, maillists and usenet would be better if more people >>(myse

Re: [Tutor] bnf

2005-12-10 Thread Danny Yoo
> > hello everyone. i was looking at python docs and i came across this > > > > letter ::= > >lowercase | uppercase > > > > > > what does ::= mean? > > goodness knows, maillists and usenet would be better if more people > (myself included) would do a better job of their own go

Re: [Tutor] bnf

2005-12-10 Thread Brian van den Broek
david said unto the world upon 2005-12-10 06:31: > ::= is bnf notation for "is defined as" > > please spend that extra minute googling before > you bother all the nice people on this list. > > - Original Message - > From: david > To: tutor@python.org > Sent: Saturday, December

Re: [Tutor] bnf

2005-12-10 Thread vikas mohan
Hi again   I have a question regarding lowercase|uppercase. How can one turn an input, and output it back in lowercase or uppercase?  cheers/V  On 12/10/05, david <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ::= is bnf notation for "is defined as"   please spend that extra minute googling before you bother all the

Re: [Tutor] bnf

2005-12-10 Thread david
::= is bnf notation for "is defined as"   please spend that extra minute googling before you bother all the nice people on this list.   - Original Message - From: david To: tutor@python.org Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2005 6:23 AM hello everyone. i was looking