Re: [Tutor] yet another misunderstanding on my part

2014-10-23 Thread Dave Angel
Dave Angel Wrote in message: > "Clayton Kirkwood" Wrote in message: > > > Second question, why can't a numeric index be >> used to make assignment to a specific location like a[1] = "some value"? If >> the mechanism is to use a.index(1,"some value"), > > The index() method does not change th

Re: [Tutor] yet another misunderstanding on my part

2014-10-23 Thread Alan Gauld
On 22/10/14 19:48, Clayton Kirkwood wrote: Regarding the index out of range, I know what it meant, I was just kind of surprised that Python didn't automatically create the node and stuff a value in. But what should Python do in this case aNewList[100] = 42 Should Python create a 1 millio

Re: [Tutor] yet another misunderstanding on my part

2014-10-23 Thread Dave Angel
"Clayton Kirkwood" Wrote in message: (Somehow, your email program seems to be using the exclamation point to identify quoted lines, instead of the standard greater-than symbol. Is that something you can correct, prrhaps using "settings"?) > > > !-Original Message- > !From: Tuto

Re: [Tutor] yet another misunderstanding on my part

2014-10-23 Thread Clayton Kirkwood
!-Original Message- !From: Tutor [mailto:tutor-bounces+crk=godblessthe...@python.org] On !Behalf Of Steven D'Aprano !Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2014 4:03 AM !To: tutor@python.org !Subject: Re: [Tutor] yet another misunderstanding on my part ! !On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 09:54:49PM

Re: [Tutor] yet another misunderstanding on my part

2014-10-22 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 09:54:49PM -0700, Clayton Kirkwood wrote: > col_position, code, description = 0, [], [] > key_name = raw_table.replace('\t','\n') > for each_line in key_name.splitlines(): > if ':' in each_line: >code[col_position], description.append() = each_line.split(':') >

Re: [Tutor] yet another misunderstanding on my part

2014-10-22 Thread Alan Gauld
On 22/10/14 05:54, Clayton Kirkwood wrote: __author__ = 'SYSTEM' Its best not to invent your own dunder names. You might run into a problem if a future Python release decided to use the same name under the covers. import string Do you need this? Its very unusual these days to use the string

[Tutor] yet another misunderstanding on my part

2014-10-22 Thread Clayton Kirkwood
__author__ = 'SYSTEM' import string #PricingDividends raw_table = (''' a: Asky: Dividend Yield b: Bid d: Dividend per Share b2: Ask (Realtime) r1: Dividend Pay Date b3: Bid (Realtime)q: Ex-Dividend Date p: Previous Close o: Open import re,