[Tutor] Amara pushbind to retrieve data from Xml Doc

2006-05-18 Thread kieran flanagan
Hey I am pretty new to Python ( about a day old ). I am currently writing a small script to just cycle through an XML page and retrieve data if it exists. So for example an extract from the Xml page will have an element tagged entry like so I want this data I can use the following loop to list

[Tutor] New Programmer using Python and ArcGIS

2006-05-18 Thread MATATA EMMANUEL
Hi there, I don't have a lot of experience programming and have to be writing Python scripts for ArcGIS 9.X. and would like to know if someone up there is working in this area so that I can be asking for some advises and help. Tkx Mat ___ Tutor maillist

Re: [Tutor] New programmer, need some help getting started on my first project

2006-05-18 Thread Chris Delgado
Kent, Thanks once again."I wonder if maybe you need to write some code? You talk about *reading* but you haven't mentioned *writing*. You can't learn to program without writing programs - that would be like learning to write a foreign language by reading books in the language - it helps but it won'

Re: [Tutor] New programmer, need some help getting started on my first project

2006-05-18 Thread Chris Delgado
Kent, Thanks once again."I wonder if maybe you need to write some code? You talk about *reading* but you haven't mentioned *writing*. You can't learn to program without writing programs - that would be like learning to write a foreign language by reading books in the language - it helps but it won'

Re: [Tutor] New programmer, need some help getting started on my first project

2006-05-18 Thread johnf
On Thursday 18 May 2006 16:19, Chris Delgado wrote: > import random > > heads = 0 > tails = 0 > flips = 0 > > if flips <= 100: > >     coin = random.randrange(2) > >     if coin = 0: >         heads += >     elif coin = 1: >         tails += > >     flips +=1 > > print "The coin was flipped 100 tim

Re: [Tutor] New programmer, need some help getting started on my first project

2006-05-18 Thread Chris Delgado
johnf, Yup, I actually thought that might be my mistake but I forgot to actually try it. So I did and revised the code (which I'll post below) and now get a syntax error after my heads += line..yikes .# A program that simulates flipping a coin 100 times and the reports the number of heads and tails

Re: [Tutor] New programmer, need some help getting started on my first project

2006-05-18 Thread Bob Gailer
Chris Delgado wrote: > johnf, > > Yup, I actually thought that might be my mistake but I forgot to > actually try it. So I did and revised the code (which I'll post below) > and now get a syntax error after my heads += line..yikes . > > # A program that simulates flipping a coin 100 times and the

Re: [Tutor] New programmer, need some help getting started on my first project

2006-05-18 Thread Chris Delgado
Bob et al, Ok guys, program is all fixed up and runs well. HEre is the final code. Thanks for the help and its on to the next prog.  Thanks for the patience and help!Chris# A program that simulates flipping a coin 100 times and the reports the number of heads and tails that were flipped#import rand

Re: [Tutor] New programmer, need some help getting started on my first project

2006-05-18 Thread Bob Gailer
Chris Delgado wrote: > Bob et al, > > Ok guys, program is all fixed up and runs well. HEre is the final > code. Thanks for the help and its on to the next prog. Thanks for the > patience and help! > > Chris > > # A program that simulates flipping a coin 100 times and the reports > the number of

Re: [Tutor] New programmer, need some help getting started on my first project

2006-05-18 Thread Chris Delgado
Bob, Thanks for the input. I was trying to stick to the lessons in the chapter whose problems I was working on and so I knew using a for loop might be a bit better, I decided to stick with the stuff from the chapter. I do like the way you simplified using the random function, very clever. I need to