Re: [Tutor] dont understand part of a code

2016-07-06 Thread Michael Selik
On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 5:36 PM Michael Selik wrote: > On Sat, Jul 2, 2016 at 8:29 AM Alan Gauld via Tutor > wrote: > >> There are arguably easier ways of doing this >> > > I think you'll find that for-loops are preferable to while-loops. Here's > an alternative implementation. > > https://gist.g

Re: [Tutor] dont understand part of a code

2016-07-05 Thread Michael Selik
On Sat, Jul 2, 2016 at 8:29 AM Alan Gauld via Tutor wrote: > There are arguably easier ways of doing this > I think you'll find that for-loops are preferable to while-loops. Here's an alternative implementation. https://gist.github.com/selik/d8e0a7622ceff0fe8984a7d19d44bfca import random

Re: [Tutor] dont understand part of a code

2016-07-02 Thread Alan Gauld via Tutor
On 02/07/16 11:46, Minhaj Ahmed via Tutor wrote: > have underlined the part of code I do not understand and why it is there. The mailing list is plain text so formatting like underline doesn't show up. Fortunately you added a comment too... > so_far = "-" * len(word) so_far is whats printed as