Re: [Tutor] help with exercise 15 of zed shaw's LPTHW

2016-07-06 Thread Alan Gauld via Tutor
On 06/07/16 15:04, loh...@tuta.io wrote: > script, filename = argv > txt = open (filename) > > print "Here's your file %r: " % filename > print txt.read() > > print "Type the filename again: " > file_again = raw_input("> ") > > txt_again = open(file_again) > print txt_again.read() > why do I

Re: [Tutor] help with exercise 15 of zed shaw's LPTHW

2016-07-06 Thread Michael Selik
On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 10:59 AM wrote: > why do I have to create a variable txt_again to assign it to the open > function and them print the file? > why is it that I can't only write something like open(file_again).read()? > Good insight. In fact you don't need to create the variable. The code `

Re: [Tutor] help with exercise 15 of zed shaw's LPTHW

2016-07-06 Thread lohecn
first, sorry everyone for having attached the file instead of just typing it here. second, thanks a lot for the replies; even though I gave you no code it was quite helpful! the code was this: from sys import argv script, filename = argv txt = open (filename) print "Here's your file %r: " % fi

Re: [Tutor] help with exercise 15 of zed shaw's LPTHW

2016-07-06 Thread Peter Otten
loh...@tuta.io wrote: > hey everyone. this is my first time trying this -- actually, I've been > studying python only for some days now, and I'm afraid my questions are > going to be rally simple, but I can't seem to understand this piece of > code and thus can't move on. You seem to be talki

Re: [Tutor] help with exercise 15 of zed shaw's LPTHW

2016-07-06 Thread Alan Gauld via Tutor
On 06/07/16 00:56, loh...@tuta.io wrote: > hey everyone. this is my first time trying this Welcome, but... > you probably know the book, Sorry, I don't and I suspect I'm not alone. It's probably a fine book, but we don't all know it. > so you know that zed always makes us write code > so tha

Re: [Tutor] help with exercise 15 of zed shaw's LPTHW

2016-07-06 Thread Michael Selik
On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 8:24 PM wrote: > I'm having trouble with most of the lines here. > It looks like you tried to attach a file. This mailing list does not allow attachments. Instead, could you paste the code into your email? > things that I don't understand: > 1. the need to put script int

Re: [Tutor] help with exercise 15 of zed shaw's LPTHW

2016-07-05 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Hi Heloisa, and welcome. Do you have a link to the code? Or better still, if it is short (say under fifty lines) can you copy it into an email and send it? On Wed, Jul 06, 2016 at 12:56:19AM +0100, loh...@tuta.io wrote: [...] > 1. the need to put script into an estipulation for argv (line 3) I

Re: [Tutor] help with exercise 15 of zed shaw's LPTHW

2016-07-05 Thread boB Stepp
Welcome! On 07/05/2016 06:56 PM, loh...@tuta.io wrote: hey everyone. this is my first time trying this -- actually, I've been studying python only for some days now, and I'm afraid my questions are going to be rally simple, but I can't seem to understand this piece of code and thus can't mov

[Tutor] help with exercise 15 of zed shaw's LPTHW

2016-07-05 Thread lohecn
hey everyone. this is my first time trying this -- actually, I've been studying python only for some days now, and I'm afraid my questions are going to be rally simple, but I can't seem to understand this piece of code and thus can't move on. you probably know the book, so you know that zed