[Tutor] Mastering the fundamentals

2014-01-03 Thread Christian Alexander
Hello Tutorians, I've just recently acquired "Learning Python", and I must state that it is a fairly thorough book. However it seems as if I am learning at a very slow pace, so my question is, as far as setting a goal to master the basics, where should I be within a years time? Assuming I spend

[Tutor] python 3.3 split method confusion

2014-01-04 Thread Christian Alexander
ak at every ' , ' ". But why is the delimiter not printed as well? -- Regards, Christian Alexander ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] python 3.3 split method confusion

2014-01-04 Thread Christian Alexander
Thank you for clarifying my inquiry. I was just unable to find the reason as to why the built-in excludes the delimiter from the outpu. On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 9:25 AM, Alan Gauld wrote: > On 04/01/14 14:10, Christian Alexander wrote: > > I am curious to know why the split() method

Re: [Tutor] python 3.3 split method confusion

2014-01-07 Thread Christian Alexander
... else: > ... yield s[start:] > ... return > ... > >>> list(mysplit("this,is,a,test", ",")) > ['this', ',', 'is', ',', 'a', ',', 'test'] > ## > -- Regards, Christian Alexander ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

[Tutor] Interactive escape sequences

2014-01-14 Thread Christian Alexander
Hello Tutorians, Why does the interactive prompt not recognize escape sequences in strings? It only works correctly if I use the print function in python 3. >>> "Hello\nWorld" "Hello\nWorld" -- Regards, Christian Alexander _

[Tutor] Understanding Classes

2014-01-19 Thread Christian Alexander
been a graphic designer), therefore most programming concepts flow irritatingly slow for me. -- Regards, Christian Alexander ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] Understanding Classes

2014-01-20 Thread Christian Alexander
standstill. However, I understand that classes are parallel to that of a blueprint, but that is unfortunately where the buck stops. On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 6:50 PM, Alan Gauld wrote: > On 19/01/14 21:59, Christian Alexander wrote: > >> Looked all over the net for class tutorials

Re: [Tutor] Understanding Classes

2014-01-21 Thread Christian Alexander
previous def salute (self): # again with the self print ("Hello, my name is " + self.name + " and I am " + str(self.age) " years old.") On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 4:20 PM, spir wrote: > On 01/19