Kent Johnson said unto the world upon 28/12/05 07:06 AM:
> Brian van den Broek wrote:
>
>>def punctuation_split(sequence):
>> '''returns list of character sequences separating punctuation
>>characters'''
>> for mark in punctuation:
>> sequence = sequence.replace(mark, ' %s ' %mark
Kent Johnson wrote:
> BTW thinking of writing this as a loop brings to mind some problems -
> what will your program do with 'words' such as 555-1212 or "Ha!" ?
Hmm, on reflection I don't thing "Ha!" will be a problem, but a 'word'
with no letters will cause an IndexError.
Your test for 4 lette
Danny Yoo wrote:
> Similarly, the try/except for IndexError seems too pervasive: rather than
> wrap it around the whole program, we may want to limit its extent to just
> around the sys.argv access. Otherwise, any other IndexError has the
> potential of being misattributed. Much of the program do
Brian van den Broek wrote:
> def punctuation_split(sequence):
> '''returns list of character sequences separating punctuation
> characters'''
> for mark in punctuation:
> sequence = sequence.replace(mark, ' %s ' %mark)
> return sequence.split(' ')
You should look at re.spl
Eakin, W said unto the world upon 27/12/05 09:59 AM:
> Hello,
> Although I've been coding in PHP and ASP and JavaScript for a couple of
> years now, I'm relatively new to Python. For learning exercises, I'm writing
> small Python programs that do limited things, but hopefully do them well.
>
>
Eakin, W wrote:
> The code follows, so any comments and/or suggestions as to what I did
> right or wrong, or what could be done better will be appreciated.
> def fileScramble(fileName):
> newFile = file('scrambled.txt', 'w')
> newRow = ''
> for line in fileName:
> newRow = ''
Hi William,
Here are some constructive comments on the program; if you have questions
on any of it, please feel free to ask.
> def fileScramble(fileName):
We may want to rename "fileName" to something else, as it isn't being
treated as a filename, but more like a file-like object. Good names
Hello,
Although I've been coding in PHP and ASP and
_javascript_ for a couple of years now, I'm relatively new to Python. For
learning exercises, I'm writing small Python programs that do limited
things, but hopefully do them well.
The following program takes a text file, reads through it, and
