Re: [Tutor] Unpack requires a string argument of length 8

2011-05-03 Thread Jim Richardson
On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Marc Tompkins wrote: > On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Susana Iraiis Delgado Rodriguez > wrote: >> >> I'm working on getting information that comes from a dbf file (database), >> this dbf file is related to another file in the system, a shapefile. My code >> is tr

Re: [Tutor] Medical Decision-Making Question

2011-06-13 Thread Jim Richardson
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 7:22 AM, Fred G wrote: > Hello-- > I'm a pre-med student interested in decision-making as applied to medical > decisions.  I am trying to build a medical decision-making algorithm and am > pretty stuck on a few things. > I've built a file that contains a list of many diseas

Re: [Tutor] Medical Decision-Making Question

2011-06-13 Thread Jim Richardson
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Fred G wrote: > Thanks guys for all the feedback. > re Jim's comments: I completely agree that the difference b/t "slight" fever > and "returning" fever, etc will pose some problems.  My hunch is that > initially I'll just do something like make "fever" be the only