Re: [Tutor] Select a string

2017-09-06 Thread Ben Southwell
May I suggest you use regular expressions? You can check it out here (take note of the difference between search, findall etc): https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html Essentially it is a standard library built for matching patterns in strings. It is a powerful tool that is kind of it's own lan

[Tutor] Help

2017-09-06 Thread edmundo pierre via Tutor
Hi Python, I am trying to make a french to English dictionary. First of all, I made a dictionary with keys and values. Then I asked the user to enter a letter. If the letter correspond to the Keys, my print function should display the Key and value. But my code below, could not . Thank you! Lis

[Tutor] Fw: I want to display Integral symbols

2017-09-06 Thread edmundo pierre via Tutor
So show us what you did. Its hard to figure out what's gone wrong when we can't see your code:That is what I did: from sympy import*from tkinter import*from sympy import init_printing root = Tk()root.geometry("450x350+500+500")root.title("Factorisations/Simplifications")root.configure(background

Re: [Tutor] Select a string

2017-09-06 Thread Alan Gauld via Tutor
On 06/09/17 06:34, Pat Martin wrote: > but my script returns 0. Since they want it to find 2 from the bobob in the > string using "bob in s" doesn't work (it only returns 1). Your code has bugs and Cameron has addressed those along with general advice on how to debug your code in future. However

Re: [Tutor] Help

2017-09-06 Thread Chris Warrick
On 6 September 2017 at 08:39, edmundo pierre via Tutor wrote: > Hi Python, > I am trying to make a french to English dictionary. First of all, I made a > dictionary with keys and values. Then I asked the user to enter a letter. If > the letter correspond to the Keys, my print function should dis

Re: [Tutor] Fw: I want to display Integral symbols

2017-09-06 Thread Alan Gauld via Tutor
On 06/09/17 08:09, edmundo pierre via Tutor wrote: > So show us what you did. Its hard to figure out what's > gone wrong when we can't see your code:That is what I did: > from sympy import*from tkinter import*from sympy import init_printing > root = > Tk()root.geometry("450x350+500+500")root.titl

Re: [Tutor] Select a string

2017-09-06 Thread Pat Martin
I knew it was an assignment I just couldn't see it no matter how hard I looked at the code. Thanks for the tips on printing the variables, I was printing them right after the if statements not at the beginning and ending of the loop. I will remember that about True/False and comparisons thanks for

Re: [Tutor] Select a string

2017-09-06 Thread Pat Martin
I got it working for all the tests, but the code is ugly. I think regex or using string methods would have been easier and neater but like I said we hadn't covered it in the class yet so didn't think I should use it. I am embarrassed by how bad the code looks to me. I am self taught and have writt

Re: [Tutor] Select a string

2017-09-06 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 06Sep2017 09:12, Pat Martin wrote: I got it working for all the tests, but the code is ugly. I think regex or using string methods would have been easier and neater but like I said we Always go for string methods first. Regexps are cryptic and easy to get wrong, and relatively hard to debu