Hello All,
Programming has always been a passion of mine, however, I'm frequently
frustrated at
simple fact that I've been learning python for 8 months, and I have yet to
start, and finish, a simple
project. I find difficult to not only visualize the execution, but to
figure out when and where
a tendency to over analyze everything, and with
> programming - as we all know - there are a million ways to accomplish the
> same task.
>
On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 8:06 AM, Dave Angel wrote:
> On 12/18/2014 09:09 PM, Brandon Dorsey wrote:
>
>> Hello All,
>>
>> Pro
I know there is are easier ways to assign multiple objects to a variable,
but why, does the following code work? Why does it return a tuple versus a
list? I know it has something to do with the semi-colon, but I didn't know
it wouldn't raise an error.
greetings = "hello,", "what's", "your", "na
On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 6:34 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> The thing to remember is that *commas*, not parentheses, are used for
> making tuples. The round brackets are just for grouping.
>
That's what I was confused about. I didn't realize commas defined tuples,
not parentheses. Is this the cas
On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 6:27 AM, Dave Angel wrote:
Ben's description is very good. But I think the main thing you're missing
> is that a tuple is created by the comma, not by parentheses. In some
> contexts, parentheses need to be added to make it non-ambiguous, since
> comma is overloaded.
Th
On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 6:08 AM, Ben Finney
wrote:
> Does it help you to understand if I clarify that a tuple is one value?
> That a list is one value? That a dict is one value?
>
Well I knew that those data structures represent one value that can hold
"x" amount of objects, but what I didn't rea
