Simple question:
When lines get long, what points does splitting them make sense and what
methods are preferred?
Details.
I am used to many languages where you can continue a statement across
multiple lines. What they share in common is the fact they do not use
indenting for the use Pyt
I need help on the problem below,
Given a URL, open the webpage and save the CSV to a given file path.
def save_url_to_csv_file(url, savefile):
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I need help on how to open a webpage and save the HTML to a given file path,
given a URL.
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How do I create a python function that opens a CSV file and determines how many
columns
of data are in the file? The CSV files have been randomly generated from
https://www.mockaroo.com/
def csv_column_count(openfile):
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def save_url_to_file(url, savefile):
This is the starting code.
> On December 13, 2018 at 11:56 AM Sammy Lee wrote:
>
>
> I need help on how to open a webpage and save the HTML to a given file
> path, given a URL.
>
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I need help on the problem stated below.
Given a URL, open the webpage and return the first anchor link url (a href).
def extract_url_link(url):
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On Dec 13, 2018 1:51 PM, "Sammy Lee" wrote:
>
> I need help on the problem below,
Could you be more specific? What kind of help do you need? Have you made
any attempt to write a program?
We are happy to help but we're not going to do all the work for you. So
tell us what you do know about the va
On Dec 13, 2018 1:51 PM, "Avi Gross" wrote:
>
> Simple question:
Avi: when I see an email from you I tend to ignore it because it always
seems to lead to something that is long, time consuming and complex. Would
you consider finding ways to make your questions or comments a lot briefer?
I will b
On Dec 13, 2018 1:55 PM, "Sammy Lee" wrote:
>
> How do I create a python function that opens a CSV file and determines
how many columns
> of data are in the file? The CSV files have been randomly generated from
https://www.mockaroo.com/
>
> def csv_column_count(openfile):
Same comments as I made
On Dec 13, 2018 2:01 PM, "Sammy Lee" wrote:
>
> I need help on the problem stated below.
>
>
> Given a URL, open the webpage and return the first anchor link url (a
href).
>
>
> def extract_url_link(url):
Same comments as my other two emails.
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On 13/12/2018 17:16, Sammy Lee wrote:
I need help on the problem below,
Given a URL, open the webpage and save the CSV to a given file path.
def save_url_to_csv_file(url, savefile):
Run up your favourite text editor and type up some code. Try to run it.
Tell us what problems you get. Fai
On 13/12/2018 19:33, Bob Gailer wrote:
On Dec 13, 2018 1:51 PM, "Avi Gross" wrote:
Simple question:
Avi: when I see an email from you I tend to ignore it because it always
seems to lead to something that is long, time consuming and complex. Would
you consider finding ways to make your questi
Take a look at the book Automating the Boring Stuff with Python (free PDF):
https://automatetheboringstuff.com/
There's a couple of chapters in there for downloading CSV files and
extracting the data.
On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 1:57 PM Sammy Lee wrote:
> I need help on how to open a webpage and sa
On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 12:36:27PM -0500, Avi Gross wrote:
> Simple question:
>
> When lines get long, what points does splitting them make sense and what
> methods are preferred?
Good question!
First, some background:
Long lines are a potential code smell: a possible sign of excessively
ters
On 13/12/2018 16:56, Sammy Lee wrote:
> I need help on how to open a webpage and save the HTML to a given file path,
> given a URL.
You can use the standard library urllib module to fetch the
file but most folks find the requests module easier to use.
requests is a 3rd party module you will need
On 13/12/2018 17:21, Sammy Lee wrote:
> How do I create a python function that opens a CSV file and determines how
> many columns
> of data are in the file? The CSV files have been randomly generated from
> https://www.mockaroo.com/
>
> def csv_column_count(openfile):
You will find a bunch of s
On 13/12/2018 17:14, Sammy Lee wrote:
> I need help on the problem stated below.
>
>
> Given a URL, open the webpage and return the first anchor link url (a href).
You will find a very similar example in the Web Client
topic of my tutorial, see below...
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Alan G
Author of the Learn to Program
On 13/12/2018 17:36, Avi Gross wrote:
> When lines get long, what points does splitting them make sense and what
> methods are preferred?
Its down to personal preference and convenience
plus a smidge of idiom.
> Yes, I am aware of ways to break up something long by breaking in into
> multiple st
Just for you Bob, I will make this short.
Here is the most bizarre solution as you might agree.
Edit a file of python code. Use lines as long as it takes. Make sure it works.
Edit the file again and split lines in a way that does not mess up indentation.
Meaning, use a normal text edi
On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 01:03:55AM +, Alan Gauld via Tutor wrote:
> I'd probably suggest
>
> stgs = ''.join([
> "long string",
> "another string",
> ...
> "last string"
> ])
That's certainly better than using the + operator, as that will be quite
inefficient for large numbers of strings. Bu
On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 11:07:59PM -0500, Avi Gross wrote:
[...]
> There are cases where it may make sense to have a long like connected by AND
> or OR given how python does short-circuiting while returning the last thing
> or two it touched instead of an actual True/False. For example, you may wa
On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 11:07:59PM -0500, Avi Gross wrote:
> Python may claim to be straightforward but I can easily see ways
> to fool people in python too with dunder methods or function closures or
> decorators or ...
Dunder methods shouldn't fool anyone. Each dunder method has a
straightforw
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