Re: [Tutor] "Print" behaviour inside a loop?

2005-06-11 Thread Chinook
On Sat, 11 Jun 2005 19:42:27 -0400, Simon Gerber wrote (in article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>): > Hullo, > > Firstly, thanks to everyone who helped me find my own IP address. That > was a big help. That bit is working now, and working very nicely. I am > now stuck on something purely aesthetic - print

[Tutor] Using code objects?

2005-06-20 Thread Chinook
Using code objects? === As an OO exercise I have a factory pattern that returns class objects that each have an "action" method. ClassObj.action() in turn returns a code object in my recursive process loop. I create the code objects as a one time step outside my factory pattern

Re: [Tutor] Class vs. Static Methods

2005-06-21 Thread Chinook
On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 16:52:09 -0400, Chuck Allison wrote (in article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>): > Sorry for the elementary question: I was wondering if someone could > explain the difference to me between class and static methods. Coming > from other languages, I'm used to static methods, but not "class

Re: [Tutor] Class vs. Static Methods

2005-06-21 Thread Chinook
On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 17:58:09 -0400, Chuck Allison wrote (in article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>): > Hello Chinook, > > So is the main motivation for class methods so that you can have the > class object available? It seems you can have that anyway in a static > method by just askin

[Tutor] OO refactoring trial ??

2005-06-27 Thread Chinook
OO refactoring trial Following is a simple trial structure of a refactoring (top-down to OO) learning exercise I'm doing. Whether you call it a Factory pattern, COR pattern, or some hinze 57, I don't know what class to use till run time and I'm trying to avoid a lengthy "if

Re: [Tutor] OO refactoring trial ??

2005-06-28 Thread Chinook
[[ This message was both posted and mailed: see the 'To' and 'Newsgroups' headers for details. ]] Clarifications: 1) Truth test simplified after a %) by Peter Otten - thanks. In reality the "testit" methods will all be quite different as you might imagine (as will the "doit" methods). 2) A

Re: [Tutor] OO refactoring trial ??

2005-06-28 Thread Chinook
Clarifications: 1) Truth test simplified after a %) by Peter Otten - thanks. In reality the "testit" methods will all be quite different as you might imagine (as will the "doit" methods). 2) A final subclass will always return True, so there will always be a valid result.

Re: [Tutor] OO refactoring trial ??

2005-06-28 Thread Chinook
On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 07:31:43 -0400, Chinook wrote (in article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>): > [[ This message was both posted and mailed: see >the 'To' and 'Newsgroups' headers for details. ]] > Sorry for the duplication. I'm trying Hogwasher on OS X and

[Tutor] String to List and back?

2005-07-02 Thread Chinook
I'm missing something simple again. The simplified issue is: Python 2.4.1 (#2, Mar 31 2005, 00:05:10) >>> mystr = 'abc' # I can create a list of the string characters # with list comprehension >>> [c for c in mystr] ['a', 'b', 'c'] # Or just a simple builtin conversion function >>> l

Re: [Tutor] String to List and back?

2005-07-02 Thread Chinook
Just the thing Light and Chuck - I thought there might be something simple (and I've used the join method before duh). Thanks, Lee C ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] Sudoku puzzle implementation

2005-07-03 Thread Chinook
Liam, I couldn't get "into" your approach at the moment, but I was wondering if you have looked at the following: First, the Reverse Puzzle section of: http://cs.gettysburg.edu/~tneller/resources/ai-search/uninformed-java/ and secondly more generally: http://www.gamedev.net/reference/articles/a

Re: [Tutor] Single Underscore

2005-07-10 Thread Chinook
Kevin Reeder wrote: >What's the significance of naming a variable with a single >underscore as its first character? For example, I'm looking at >find.py in the standard library and it has variables named _debug >and _prune. > >Kevin >___ >Tutor maillist