[Tutor] Fwd: Fwd: Python bingo game.

2014-04-03 Thread Hardik Gandhi
Begin forwarded message: > From: Hardik Gandhi > Date: 2 April 2014 5:25:20 pm EDT > To: Danny Yoo > Subject: Re: [Tutor] Fwd: Python bingo game. > Reply-To: Hardik Gandhi > > Hello! > > I am trying to build a bingo game on command prompt. That's my task in this > semester and i have stud

Re: [Tutor] Gmane not picking up messages lately

2014-04-03 Thread Alan Gauld
On 03/04/14 05:58, DaveA wrote: Gmane doesn't seem to be getting messages from either python tutor or python list, for the last day or two. ... Anybody else want to comment? Is the gateway broken or the particular Android software? I assume gmane since I've not been seeing anything on my PC i

[Tutor] System output into variable?

2014-04-03 Thread leam hall
I've been trying to so a simple "run a command and put the output into a variable". Using Python 2.4 and 2.6 with no option to move. The go is to do something like this: my_var = "ls -l my_file" So far the best I've seen is: line = os.popen('ls -l my_file', stdout=subprocess.PIPE, shell=True) (o

Re: [Tutor] Gmane not picking up messages lately

2014-04-03 Thread Dave Angel
DaveA Wrote in message: > Gmane doesn't seem to be getting messages from either python tutor or python > list, for the last day or two. It's working again. > -- DaveA ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscriptio

Re: [Tutor] unittest decorators

2014-04-03 Thread Peter Otten
Albert-Jan Roskam wrote: > The unittest module has some really handy decorators: @unittest.skip > and @unittest.skipIf. I use the former for temporary TODO or FIXME things, > but I use the latter for a more permanent thing: > @unittest.skipif(sys.version_info()[0] > 2). Yet, in the test summary yo

Re: [Tutor] System output into variable?

2014-04-03 Thread Peter Otten
leam hall wrote: > I've been trying to so a simple "run a command and put the output into a > variable". Using Python 2.4 and 2.6 with no option to move. The go is to > do something like this: > > my_var = "ls -l my_file" > > So far the best I've seen is: > > line = os.popen('ls -l my_file', st

Re: [Tutor] System output into variable?

2014-04-03 Thread Walter Prins
Hi Leam, On 3 April 2014 15:24, leam hall wrote: > > I've been trying to so a simple "run a command and put the output into a > variable". Using Python 2.4 and 2.6 with no option to move. The go is to do > something like this: > > my_var = "ls -l my_file" > > So far the best I've seen is: > >

Re: [Tutor] System output into variable?

2014-04-03 Thread Danny Yoo
On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 10:14 AM, Walter Prins wrote: > Hi Leam, > > > On 3 April 2014 15:24, leam hall wrote: >> >> I've been trying to so a simple "run a command and put the output into a >> variable". Using Python 2.4 and 2.6 with no option to move. The go is to do >> something like this: >>

Re: [Tutor] System output into variable?

2014-04-03 Thread Danny Yoo
Oh, sorry Walter. I thought you were the original questioner. Sorry about confusing you with Learn Hall. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] System output into variable?

2014-04-03 Thread Alan Gauld
On 03/04/14 14:24, leam hall wrote: I've been trying to so a simple "run a command and put the output into a variable". Using Python 2.4 and 2.6 with no option to move. The go is to do something like this: my_var = "ls -l my_file" I'm not sure what you mean here? What should my_var contain? Th

Re: [Tutor] Storing dictionary value, indexed by key, into a variable

2014-04-03 Thread John Aten
I apologize for the omissions, I thought that I had isolated the problem, but I was way off the mark. The problem was, as suggested by Danny and Peter, in the function where the dictionary is assigned. I ran the type function, as Alex advised, and lo and behold the function was returning a strin

Re: [Tutor] Storing dictionary value, indexed by key, into a variable

2014-04-03 Thread Peter Otten
John Aten wrote: > I apologize for the omissions, I thought that I had isolated the problem, > but I was way off the mark. The problem was, as suggested by Danny and > Peter, in the function where the dictionary is assigned. I ran the type > function, as Alex advised, and lo and behold the functio

Re: [Tutor] Storing dictionary value, indexed by key, into a variable

2014-04-03 Thread Danny Yoo
>> The thing is, this looks really messy Could anyone give me some pointers >> on how this could be more elegantly done? > > Instead of the many if...elif switches try to put the alternatives into a > list, e. g. > cases = [ > ... "Nominative", > ... "Genitive", > ... "Dative", > ... "Accusati

[Tutor] Learn programming by visualizing code execution

2014-04-03 Thread Mark Lawrence
That's what this site http://pythontutor.com/ claims although I haven't tried it myself. Hopefully it's of some use to all you newbies out there :) -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence --- This email is free

Re: [Tutor] Storing dictionary value, indexed by key, into a variable

2014-04-03 Thread Alex Kleider
On 2014-04-03 13:52, Danny Yoo wrote: You'll also hear the term "Data Driven Programming" or "Table Driven Programming" to refer to this idea. For example: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericlippert/archive/2004/02/24/79292.aspx Does anyone know of a similar blog or tutorial (regarding Data Dr

Re: [Tutor] Learn programming by visualizing code execution

2014-04-03 Thread Alan Gauld
On 03/04/14 23:44, Mark Lawrence wrote: That's what this site http://pythontutor.com/ claims although I haven't tried it myself. Hopefully it's of some use to all you newbies out there :) Ooh, clever! I was expecting the code trace on the left but not the graphical data display on the right.

Re: [Tutor] Storing dictionary value, indexed by key, into a variable

2014-04-03 Thread Alan Gauld
On 04/04/14 00:09, Alex Kleider wrote: On 2014-04-03 13:52, Danny Yoo wrote: You'll also hear the term "Data Driven Programming" or "Table Driven Programming" to refer to this idea. For example: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericlippert/archive/2004/02/24/79292.aspx Does anyone know of a sim

Re: [Tutor] conditional execution

2014-04-03 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 02/04/2014 08:18, spir wrote: On 04/01/2014 06:24 PM, Zachary Ware wrote: Hi Patti, On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 11:07 AM, Patti Scott wrote: I've been cheating: comment out the conditional statement and adjust the indents. But, how do I make my program run with if __name__ == 'main': main() at

Re: [Tutor] Learn programming by visualizing code execution

2014-04-03 Thread Danny Yoo
> I don't know how good it is as a tutor but the visuals are certainly slick. > Pity I can't see the source code to see how they do it... https://github.com/pgbovine/OnlinePythonTutor/ ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subs

Re: [Tutor] Learn programming by visualizing code execution

2014-04-03 Thread Danny Yoo
By the way, the main developer on the pythontutor.org project is awesome. http://www.pgbovine.net/ ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

[Tutor] data driven programming

2014-04-03 Thread Alex Kleider
On 2014-04-03 16:36, Alan Gauld wrote: On 04/04/14 00:09, Alex Kleider wrote: On 2014-04-03 13:52, Danny Yoo wrote: You'll also hear the term "Data Driven Programming" or "Table Driven Programming" to refer to this idea. For example: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericlippert/archive/2004/02/24