Re: [Tutor] problem reading script

2011-07-02 Thread R. Alan Monroe
> Suggestions for "a programmers font" gratefully received. DejaVu Sans Mono ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] problem reading script

2011-07-01 Thread Steve Willoughby
On 01-Jul-11 10:56, Corey Richardson wrote: Excerpts from Alan Gauld's message of Fri Jul 01 13:03:40 -0400 2011: I use and love inconsolata[0], it's a great font for programming, and looks great as well (both on screen and off). I like inconsolata and Envy Code R, although just to be weird I t

Re: [Tutor] problem reading script

2011-07-01 Thread Corey Richardson
Excerpts from Alan Gauld's message of Fri Jul 01 13:03:40 -0400 2011: > > "Lisi" wrote > > > Suggestions for "a programmers font" gratefully received. > > I generally use Courier. > > Its ugly and old fashioned but it clearly shows > the differences between i,l, | and 1 and '' and " > and

Re: [Tutor] problem reading script

2011-07-01 Thread Alan Gauld
"Lisi" wrote Suggestions for "a programmers font" gratefully received. I generally use Courier. Its ugly and old fashioned but it clearly shows the differences between i,l, | and 1 and '' and " and between ' and ` etc. and spaces are big enough to "see" clearly. :-) But I could copy a

Re: [Tutor] problem reading script

2011-07-01 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Lisi wrote: On Friday 01 July 2011 14:26:07 Steven D'Aprano wrote: If they look the same to you, then you need to increase your font size, change to a programmers font, or possible clean your glasses :) Thanks for the reply, Steven. Suggestions for "a programmers font" gratefully received.

Re: [Tutor] problem reading script

2011-07-01 Thread Lisi
On Friday 01 July 2011 14:26:07 Steven D'Aprano wrote: > If they look the same to you, then you need to increase your font size, > change to a programmers font, or possible clean your glasses :) Thanks for the reply, Steven. Suggestions for "a programmers font" gratefully received. I do have p

Re: [Tutor] problem reading script

2011-07-01 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Lisi wrote: I am supposed to be looking at scripts on-line, reading them and making sure that I understand them. I think taht most of teh things I can't make more than a guess at, are modules taht I don't know, and I can mostly make them out. But the unpaired double quotation mark, " , in the

Re: [Tutor] problem reading script

2011-07-01 Thread Martin A. Brown
Greetings Lisi, : I am supposed to be looking at scripts on-line, reading them and : making sure that I understand them. When you see an example that you don't understand, consider trying to do something similar in an interactive Python interpreter. This is a simple way to learn in Python

Re: [Tutor] problem reading script

2011-07-01 Thread Lisi
On Friday 01 July 2011 10:15:08 Lisi wrote: > I am supposed to be looking at scripts on-line, reading them and making > sure that I understand them. I think taht most of teh things I can't make > more than a guess at, are modules taht I don't know, and I can mostly make > them out. But the unpair