[Tutor] Help

2016-06-28 Thread Aaron Johnson
I have a program that is telling my i need your digital snake, but i dont want a snake. Help ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] OT: Recommendations for a Linux distribution to dual-boot with Win7-64 bit

2016-06-28 Thread Alan Gauld via Tutor
On 28/06/16 03:52, boB Stepp wrote: Steven has already repolied and my immediate responbse was almost word for word what he said, sop I'll start again and you can consider this an addendum to Steve's message :-) > 1) I am not ready at this time to take on the challenge of *really* > getting into

Re: [Tutor] Help

2016-06-28 Thread Alan Gauld via Tutor
On 28/06/16 06:54, Aaron Johnson wrote: > I have a program that is telling my i need your digital snake, but i dont > want a snake. Help I'm not sure what you expect us to do based on the information you've given. Can you be more specific? What OS are you running? On what platform (phone, tablet,

Re: [Tutor] Help

2016-06-28 Thread David Palao
2016-06-28 7:54 GMT+02:00 Aaron Johnson : > I have a program that is telling my i need your digital snake, but i dont > want a snake. Help > ___ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://mail.python.o

Re: [Tutor] OT: Recommendations for a Linux distribution to dual-boot with Win7-64 bit

2016-06-28 Thread Alex Kleider
On 2016-06-27 20:48, Steven D'Aprano wrote: Also Debian. Not Ubuntu. Can you elaborate why you specifically exclude Ubuntu? ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/list

Re: [Tutor] OT: Recommendations for a Linux distribution to dual-boot with Win7-64 bit

2016-06-28 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Following up from my earlier post... On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 09:52:50PM -0500, boB Stepp wrote: > 4) It would be nice if the most recent development tools were part of > the most recent OS version, such as the latest stable Python 3, gVim, > Git, etc. Generally, the major distros have something

Re: [Tutor] OT: Recommendations for a Linux distribution to dual-boot with Win7-64 bit

2016-06-28 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 07:58:22AM -0700, Alex Kleider wrote: > > > On 2016-06-27 20:48, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > >Also Debian. Not Ubuntu. > > Can you elaborate why you specifically exclude Ubuntu? I've been bitten by an Ubuntu install where half of the GUI apps were unstable and simply di

Re: [Tutor] OT: Recommendations for a Linux distribution to dual-boot with Win7-64 bit

2016-06-28 Thread boB Stepp
On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 9:52 PM, boB Stepp wrote: [...] > 10) ... I forgot one concern last night: 11) My current graphics adapter is made by NVIDIA. Their drivers are proprietary. Is this going to be a deal breaker for Linux? 12) And what about wireless networking? My ASUS motherboard h

Re: [Tutor] OT: Recommendations for a Linux distribution to dual-boot with Win7-64 bit

2016-06-28 Thread David Rock
Here’s my take on a lot of this (it’s similar to what’s been said already, so this is more of a general philosophy of distros). There are basically three types of distros (you can subdivide 100 ways, but these are the primary categories) 1. slower-moving, very stable, binary installs 2. fast-mo

Re: [Tutor] OT: Recommendations for a Linux distribution to dual-boot with Win7-64 bit

2016-06-28 Thread David Rock
> On Jun 28, 2016, at 12:49, boB Stepp wrote: > > I forgot one concern last night: > > 11) My current graphics adapter is made by NVIDIA. Their drivers are > proprietary. Is this going to be a deal breaker for Linux? Typically, no. At a minimum, you will still have native support for basic

Re: [Tutor] Most efficient way to read large csv files with properly converted mixed data types.

2016-06-28 Thread Alan Gauld via Tutor
On 26/06/16 07:21, Ek Esawi wrote: > The first step of my plan is to do basic statistical analysis. The 2nd step > is to chose a sample from each file and do more advanced statistical > analysis for which i plan to use R. If you are just extracting data and repackaging it for R then the format do

Re: [Tutor] OT: Recommendations for a Linux distribution to dual-boot with Win7-64 bit

2016-06-28 Thread Wolfgang Maier
On 28.06.2016 18:58, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 07:58:22AM -0700, Alex Kleider wrote: On 2016-06-27 20:48, Steven D'Aprano wrote: Also Debian. Not Ubuntu. Can you elaborate why you specifically exclude Ubuntu? I've been bitten by an Ubuntu install where half of the GU

Re: [Tutor] OT: Recommendations for a Linux distribution to dual-boot with Win7-64 bit

2016-06-28 Thread boB Stepp
On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 10:48 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 09:52:50PM -0500, boB Stepp wrote: >> My eyes are glazing over from hours and hours of Googling on this. I >> cannot come to a rational conclusion. Perhaps someone can help me to >> do so. I currently have a 64-b

Re: [Tutor] OT: Recommendations for a Linux distribution to dual-boot with Win7-64 bit

2016-06-28 Thread Wolfgang Maier
On 29.06.2016 01:16, boB Stepp wrote: On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 10:48 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: What about running Win7 in a virtual machine? What type of performance hit will I take when running CPU intensive processes? I don't yet have any real experiences with running virtual machines. If

Re: [Tutor] OT: Recommendations for a Linux distribution to dual-boot with Win7-64 bit

2016-06-28 Thread David Rock
> On Jun 28, 2016, at 18:16, boB Stepp wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 10:48 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> >> >> What about running Win7 in a virtual machine? > > What type of performance hit will I take when running CPU intensive > processes? I don't yet have any real experiences with r

Re: [Tutor] Coding help 1D diffusion equation

2016-06-28 Thread Oscar Benjamin
On 26 Jun 2016 13:39, "Severin Langberg" wrote: > > Hello! > > I have a problem with solving the 1D diffusion equation for Gaussian > initial using odeint. Anyone care to help? Odeint is for ordinary differential equations (ODEs). The diffusion equation is a partial differential equation (PDE).

Re: [Tutor] OT: Recommendations for a Linux distribution to dual-boot with Win7-64 bit

2016-06-28 Thread Alan Gauld via Tutor
On 29/06/16 00:34, David Rock wrote: > If you value Alan’s opinion Just to be clear, I run mint because it works but I've used many distros in the past, starting with Slackware then Red Hat then Mandrake and Ubuntu with equally good results. I don't like Ubuntu's Unity UI so switched to Mint but

Re: [Tutor] For-else... Any other handy constructs hiding in Python?

2016-06-28 Thread Fred Stluka
(Re-sending to list instead of just to Alex.) Alex, Are you aware of these? - try ... finally - try ... except ... else - continue - break - with - @decorator - x = a if b else c -- Like the ternary operator a?b:c in other languages - x = a or b -- Assigns a, defaulting to b if a is false,

Re: [Tutor] OT: Recommendations for a Linux distribution to dual-boot with Win7-64 bit

2016-06-28 Thread Alex Kleider
On 2016-06-28 11:46, David Rock wrote: Here’s my take on a lot of this (it’s similar to what’s been said already, so this is more of a general philosophy of distros). Very interesting reading for which I thank you. I'd be interested in knowing if you'd make a distinction between 'the latest

Re: [Tutor] OT: Recommendations for a Linux distribution to dual-boot with Win7-64 bit

2016-06-28 Thread Wolfgang Maier
On 29.06.2016 04:16, Alex Kleider wrote: On 2016-06-28 11:46, David Rock wrote: Here’s my take on a lot of this (it’s similar to what’s been said already, so this is more of a general philosophy of distros). Very interesting reading for which I thank you. I'd be interested in knowing if you'