[Tutor] range function and floats?

2011-01-05 Thread Joel Knoll
I'm new to Python and to programming in general. I'm trying to write a simple program to give the sine of each of a range of numbers, including multiples of pi. I keep getting a syntax error, highlighting my use of 2pi as an argument in the range, saying something like "expected integers,

[Tutor] Python on Ubuntu 10.10?

2011-01-14 Thread Joel Knoll
Hello, I am new to programming and to Python. I've been using Python with IDLE on Windows Vista for a few weeks now. (And I'm loving it!) However, I'm thinking about switching to Ubuntu 10.10. If I download Ubuntu, will I still be able to use the IDLE environment? I am really quite fond

[Tutor] range question

2011-09-22 Thread Joel Knoll
Given a range of integers (1,n), how might I go about printing them in the following patterns: 1 2 3 4 ... n2 3 4 5 ... n 13 4 5 6 ... n 1 2 etc., e.g. for a "magic square". So that for the range (1,5) for example I would get 1 2 3 42 3 4 13 4 1 24 1 2 3 I just cannot figure out how to make the