Re: [Tutor] Problem with code interating thri a list

2016-08-03 Thread Peter Otten
Chris Clifton via Tutor wrote: > I have been practicing with strings. Splitting them, joining them, > changing case. All has been going well but came across a exercise in one > of the code practice sites that has you changing the case of different > characters in a string. Anything in upper cas

Re: [Tutor] Problem with code interating thri a list

2016-08-02 Thread Alan Gauld via Tutor
On 03/08/16 00:30, Alan Gauld via Tutor wrote: >> if item == item.lower(): I meant to add that the string islower() method is probably more readable: if item.islower() Also that you could use a list comprehension to do this without converting to a list initially: def conveert(text):

Re: [Tutor] Problem with code interating thri a list

2016-08-02 Thread Danny Yoo
On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 7:59 AM, Chris Clifton via Tutor wrote: > My Logic: Since a string is immutable, I converted it to a list to separate > out the characters and keep them in order. Idea is to change the case of the > characters in the list then run a join to convert it back to a string.

Re: [Tutor] Problem with code interating thri a list

2016-08-02 Thread Alan Gauld via Tutor
On 02/08/16 15:59, Chris Clifton via Tutor wrote: > My Logic: Since a string is immutable, I converted it to a list That is certainly one approach but your solution has some snags. In fact its probably not necessary unless you want to play with big strings. You could just build a new string from

[Tutor] Problem with code interating thri a list

2016-08-02 Thread Chris Clifton via Tutor
Hello Everyone,    I have been practicing with strings.  Splitting them, joining them, changing case.  All has been going well but came across a exercise in one of the code practice sites that has you changing the case of different characters in a string.  Anything in upper case is converted to

Re: [Tutor] Problem with code

2016-07-05 Thread Alan Gauld via Tutor
On 05/07/16 04:36, Frank Lawrence wrote: > Hello, I have a code here that I’m having a problem with. Unfortunately we can't see it. Now, I could see it among a bunch of HTML when I checked it in the moderator queue, so I'm guessing you sent it as some kind of attachment and the server has stripp

[Tutor] Problem with code

2016-07-05 Thread Frank Lawrence
Hello, I have a code here that I’m having a problem with. It’s supposed to be a pizza ordering simulator, as you can tell by the title, but I keep trying to add music to it and whenever I try to play the music with the program running, it always freezes up and crashes. Can someone help me with t

Re: [Tutor] problem with code

2015-09-01 Thread Alan Gauld
On 01/09/15 14:07, Nathan Clark wrote: I have written another basic program out of python, please could you instruct me on how to fix it question= input("What is your question) print("Let me think about that") time.sleep(10) #10 seconds wait print (question) print ("lol")

Re: [Tutor] problem with code

2015-09-01 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 02:07:51PM +0100, Nathan Clark wrote: > I have written another basic program out of python, please could you > instruct me on how to fix it I assume you are using Python 3, is that correct? > question= input("What is your question) > print("Let me think about that")

Re: [Tutor] problem with code

2015-09-01 Thread Nathan Clark
I have written another basic program out of python, please could you instruct me on how to fix it question= input("What is your question) print("Let me think about that") time.sleep(10) #10 seconds wait print (question) print ("lol") On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 4:08 PM, Job wrote:

Re: [Tutor] problem with code

2015-08-21 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 20/08/2015 15:49, Aravind Jaya wrote: time = input("How long on average do you spend on the computer per day?") if time <= 2: print "Message1" else: print "Message2" If you insist on top posting you could at least get your response correct. The comparison will fail in Python 3.3

Re: [Tutor] problem with code

2015-08-21 Thread Timo
Op 20-08-15 om 16:49 schreef Aravind Jaya: time = input("How long on average do you spend on the computer per day?") if time <= 2: print "Message1" else: print "Message2" This will raise 2 errors: - time will be a string. So time <= 2 is invalid. - print is a function. Updated co

Re: [Tutor] problem with code (Alan Gauld)

2015-08-20 Thread Joel Goldstick
On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 2:12 PM, Freddy wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to make Hangman. But main part of the game i.e. comparing user > input with secret word is not working properly. > > Can you have a look where am I going wrong? > > > Thank you > > Attachment: Python code file. > No attachment

Re: [Tutor] problem with code

2015-08-20 Thread Alan Gauld
On 20/08/15 18:07, Alan Gauld wrote: (print("that seems reasonable")) if time<=2 else print ("get a life") There is an alternative way of writing what you want but it's not very commonly used: print("that seems reasonable" if time <=2 else "get a life") I just realized that the OP's versi

[Tutor] problem with code (Alan Gauld)

2015-08-20 Thread Freddy
Hello, I am trying to make Hangman. But main part of the game i.e. comparing user input with secret word is not working properly. Can you have a look where am I going wrong? Thank you Attachment: Python code file. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@py

Re: [Tutor] problem with code

2015-08-20 Thread Aravind Jaya
time = input("How long on average do you spend on the computer per day?") if time <= 2: print "Message1" else: print "Message2" On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 3:20 PM, Nathan Clark <26110...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have written a basic program out of python and it is not functioning, > please c

Re: [Tutor] problem with code

2015-08-20 Thread Alan Gauld
On 20/08/15 10:50, Nathan Clark wrote: I have written a basic program out of python and it is not functioning, please could you proof read my code and tell me how to fix it.It is in python 3.3 time=int(input("How long on average do you spend on the computer per day?") (print("that seems reasonab

Re: [Tutor] problem with code

2015-08-20 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 8/20/2015 2:50 AM, Nathan Clark wrote: I have written a basic program out of python and it is not functioning, please could you proof read my code and tell me how to fix it.It is in python 3.3 time=int(input("How long on average do you spend on the computer per day?") (print("that seems reaso

[Tutor] problem with code

2015-08-20 Thread Nathan Clark
I have written a basic program out of python and it is not functioning, please could you proof read my code and tell me how to fix it.It is in python 3.3 time=int(input("How long on average do you spend on the computer per day?") (print("that seems reasonable")) if time<=2 else print ("get a life"