On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Daniel Magruder wrote:
> Dear Dave,
> I am using python 2.
> I am still confused as what return does. What does it mean if a function
> returns True to the caller? What is the caller?
>
You've defined a function - isodd - but it doesn't automatically execute.
It
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 5:13 PM, Marc Tompkins wrote:
> In fact, you could shorten your isodd() function to:
> > def isodd(candidate):
> >return candidate%2 !=0:
> and it would function identically.
>
Sorry - that should be
> def isodd(candidate):
>
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 1:51 AM, Alan Gauld wrote:
> On 14/05/13 00:01, Daniel Magruder wrote:
>
> I am still confused as what return does.
>>
>
> This isn't a direct response to Alan, but to something the OP expressed
many, many messages ago...
The OP expressed some confusion between what a fun
On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 2:26 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
I assumed Marc was talking hypothetically. A print function *could*
> return a result, even if Python's print function does not.
>
> Actually, I was mixing up my memory of an overloaded print() function with
Python's built-in print(). I _hav
On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Alan Gauld wrote:
> On 15/05/13 16:51, Marc Tompkins wrote:
>
> Actually, I was mixing up my memory of an overloaded print() function
>>
>
> And C's printf() returns the number of chars printed.
> I actually wish python had follow
On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 3:43 PM, Oscar Benjamin
wrote:
> On 15 May 2013 22:21, Marc Tompkins wrote:
> > On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Alan Gauld
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> And C's printf() returns the number of chars printed.
> >> I actually wish
On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 3:52 PM, Marc Tompkins wrote:
> I was thinking along the lines of an optional parameter ("verbose" or
> something similar), so print() would supply a return value if you asked it
> to but keep stumm if you didn't.
>
After I hit Send, I tho
On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 4:14 PM, Oscar Benjamin
wrote:
> I don't really understand what the reason for having the information
> is. Would it return the number of characters written or the number of
> bytes?
>
It's absolutely useless in an interactive session, or any time that print()
is printing
On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 5:07 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Guido's time machine strikes again.
>
>
> py> import sys
> py> sys.stdout.write('NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition!\n')
> NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition!
> 40
>
>
> The write() method of file objects in Python 3 return the num
On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 1:03 PM, Arvind Virk wrote:
import random
>
> WORDS = ('python','jumble','easy','difficult','lower','high')
> word = random.choice(WORDS)
> correct = word
> jumble = ""
>
> while word:
> position = random.randrange(len(word))
> jumble += word[position]
> word =
On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Prasad, Ramit
wrote:
> Forwarding to the list as I believe the reply was mistakenly sent only to
> me.
>
Grr. Sorry about that!
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On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 11:25 PM, Bod Soutar wrote:
> On 22 May 2013 07:20, Jim Mooney wrote:
> >> Keep the try block small. For example if it's for a call to
> >> open(filename, "r") the only possible errors (assuming correct syntax)
> >> are NameError for using an undefined variable and IOErro
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 9:50 AM, boB Stepp wrote:
> I guess I'll pick the first alternative. However, this brings to mind
> my biggest gripe as a user of software, particularly here at work
> where the programmer obviously has no medical background: cryptic
> error messages that might be meaningf
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Jim Mooney wrote:
> I made a simple ear frequency-tester, but I don't want it to go on
> forever, so I tried stopping it when I pressed a key, as below, but
> that doesn't work. I did check out keyboard interrupts but they seem
> unnecessarily complex just to sto
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 1:30 PM, Jim Mooney wrote:
> On 22 May 2013 13:24, Jim Mooney wrote:
> >> I've not used it myself, but I believe the KeyboadInterrupt is only
> >> generated by one _specific_ keypress. You mentioned that you pressed a
> key
> >> - did you try Control-C?
> >
> > Actually,
On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 3:52 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On 24/05/13 06:37, Jim Mooney wrote:
>
>> Apparently Wing isn't as savvy as IDLE when it comes to communicating
>>> with the subprocess. I've only searched for about a minute, but
>>> apparently the way this works in Wing is to "Restart She
On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 7:19 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
You can edit *other* people's questions and answers??!??!??
>
> What. The. Hell.
The idea is to build an authoritative information resource (in particular,
the goal is that the accepted answer to any given question will become the
primary r
On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 6:17 AM, eryksun wrote:
> On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 4:34 AM, Steven D'Aprano
> wrote:
> >
> > So these edits aren't default-deny, but default-accept? Worse and worse.
>
> It shows who made the edit and when they edited it, which links to the
> revision history. When a quest
On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 9:56 AM, Jim Mooney wrote:
> I still sometimes type input instead of that annoying raw_input and get a
> weird error.
Here's a nifty tip to get around that - and to eliminate one more thing
you'd have to change later, if you switch back to 3. Put this near the top
of yo
On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 4:52 PM, Jim Mooney wrote:
> Well, I thought
>
> if num > 10:
> return num
>
> Was a return statement. Num does become > 10. You mean I need more than
> one?
>
It is, and you actually have more than one. All functions return None,
unless you explicitly spec
On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 3:31 PM, Dave Angel wrote:
> >>> cmath.sqrt(float((math.e **(i * math.pi)).real))
> 1j
>
Sh*t just got real.
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On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 6:41 PM, Jim Mooney wrote:
> Is there a way to unstring something? That is str(object) will give me
> a string, but what if I want the original object back, for some
> purpose, without a lot of foofaraw?
>
Unless you're storing them in a dictionary and the string is the ke
On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Matt D wrote:
> > def __init__(self, data):
> > wx.PyEvent.__init__(self)
> > # this line *binds* this class to a certain type of event,
> > wxDATA_EVENT
> > self.SetEventType (wxDATA_EVENT)
> > # and this is the actual data
>
On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 6:12 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Why do you want to see rubbish like that inside your log file? Surely
> something like this is better?
>
> log.write("data = %r" % data)
>
> which will give you a line like this:
>
> data = {'a': None, 'b': 42}
>
>
> in your log, which is
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 11:23 AM, Jack Little wrote:
> In a combat system, how would I have a certain raw_input repeat until the
> enemy is dead?
>
Sounds like a classic case for a "while" loop.
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On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 1:45 PM, kdarroud wrote:
> In our Windows machine, we have several windows open.
> Using Python, how can I type 'h', 'e', 'l', 'p', 'Enter' in a specific
> window that is open?
>
In general, Python out-of-the-box doesn't know about OS-specific things
like interacting with
On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 12:25 AM, Dave Angel wrote:
> On 06/27/2013 11:16 AM, Jack Little wrote:
>
>> Is there a way to save a players progress in a game using python without
>> any modules
>>
>> Jack
>>
>>
> If you organize the game in such a way that a relatively few variables
> holds the state,
On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Albert-Jan Roskam wrote:
> haha, I hadn't even noticed the 'speling eror'. I was just thinking 'what
> the heck is a desert spoon'? ;-)
>
Many years ago, I saw this painted on the side of a pie shop:
"My favorite people are the people of the dessert", said Lawrenc
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 3:45 AM, Dave Angel wrote:
>
> Get rid of the BOM from the data file, and it'll work fine. You don't
> specify what version of Python you're using, so I have to guess. But
> there's a utf-8 BOM conversion of a BOM at the beginning of that file, and
> that's not numeric.
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 1:41 AM, Phil wrote:
> Thank you for reading this.
>
> Kububtu 13.04 Python 3
>
> I'm attempting to read a configuration file that will restore my program
> to the state that it was in when it was closed. Ideally the config file
> would be human readable.
>
>
Python actual
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Alan Gauld wrote:
> On 08/07/13 06:43, Nathan Schlaffer wrote:
>
> Second, I tried to run my Python programs today via IDLE but when I
>> checked the Edit Menu I couldn't find a Run Menu
>>
>
> IDLE has two modes: Shell and Edit. Shell mode is an interactive P
On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 4:18 PM, Jim Mooney wrote:
> I prefer import antigravity , but then I lose the rest of the day ;')
>
Pretty sure that comes from sampling everything in the medicine cabinet for
comparison...
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On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 7:38 PM, Jim Mooney wrote:
> I am seriously considering the subway tour of North America:
> http://xkcd.com/1196/large/
>
I rather like the Anagram Tube Map:
http://www.anagramtubemap.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/
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On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 4:37 PM, Jim Mooney wrote:
> If only Bill Gates hadn't chosen '\', which is awkward to type and
> hard to make compatible - but I think he figured his wonderful DOS
> would be a Unix-killer, reign supreme, and there would be no
> compatibility problem. All I can say to tha
On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 7:41 PM, Jim Mooney wrote:
> On 21 July 2013 18:18, Marc Tompkins wrote:
>
> > But back in the late 1970s, no way in Hell did Gates see Linux on the
> > horizon. He saw CP/M, and the choices that he (and MS in general) made
> at
> > th
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 10:47 AM, Jim Mooney wrote:
I forgot about TREE. But figured piping C:\Python27>tree /f > pytree.txt
> might be illuminating. I piped since it took forever to print because I
> have python(x,y). Unfortunately, I got tiny numbers and A with umlauts
> instead of the nice path
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 11:30 AM, Jim Mooney wrote:
> On 22 July 2013 11:26, Marc Tompkins wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>
>> If you haven't already read it, may I suggest Joel's intro to Unicode?
>> http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html
>>
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 11:57 AM, Jim Mooney wrote:
> I had a bad feeling I'd end up learning Unicode ;')
>
>>
>>
>> It's not as painful as you might think! Try it - you'll like it!
>> Actually, once you start getting used to working in Unicode by default,
>> having to deal with programs that are
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Jim Mooney wrote:
> Okay, I'm getting there, but this should be translating A umlaut to an old
> DOS box character, according to my ASCII table, but instead it's print
> small 'u':
>
> def main():
> zark = ''
> for x in "ÀÄÄÄ":
> print(unichr(ord(u
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Jim Mooney wrote:
> On 22 July 2013 13:45, Marc Tompkins wrote:
>
>>
>> inFileName = "/Users/Marc/Desktop/rsp/tree.txt"
>> with open(inFileName, 'r') as inFile:
>> inString = inFile.read().decode(
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Jim Mooney wrote:
> so I should just walk the python27 tree and write my own box drawing
> chars? Or is there a more global alternative to DOS box-drawing chars to
> illustrate a tree structure, other than graphic processing?
>
You could do worse... Again, my is
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 2:34 PM, eryksun wrote:
>
> Just to clarify, tree isn't completely Unicode naive. It writes
> Unicode to the console, presuming you're using a font that supports
> it, such as Consolas.
>
Interesting! Indeed - I just moved my test Cyrillic file to a different
folder (so
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 3:22 PM, Jim Mooney wrote:
> On 22 July 2013 14:11, Marc Tompkins wrote:
>
>>
>> One way to deal with this is to specify an encoding:
>> newchar = char.decode('cp437').encode('utf-8')
>>
>
> Works fine, but I
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 6:13 PM, Dave Angel wrote:
> On 07/22/2013 02:27 PM, Jim Mooney wrote:
>
>> Okay, I'm getting there, but this should be translating A umlaut to an old
>> DOS box character, according to my ASCII table, but instead it's print
>> small 'u':
>>
>> def main():
>> zark = '
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 12:09 AM, Jim Mooney wrote:
> I've noticed that when I create a number of objects from a class, one
> after another, they're at different IDs, but the IDs all appear to be
> equidistant, so that they all appear to have the same size. But what does
> that size represent? is
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 1:13 AM, Marc Tompkins wrote:
> As an experiment, I added a couple of extra methods and attributes to the
> Kronk class, but it didn't change anything - IDs still incremented by 40
> each time. eryksun will no doubt chime in to tell us exactly how ob
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 1:17 AM, Jim Mooney wrote:
> On 23 July 2013 00:40, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>
>>
>> No no no, a thousand times no!!! IDs are just numeric IDs, that is all,
>> like your social security number or driver's licence number. Don't think of
>> them as having any meaning at all, e
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 7:46 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> This is not quite as silly as saying that an English E, a German E and a
> French E should be considered three distinct characters, but (in my
> opinion) not far off it.
>
I half-agree, half-disagree. It's true that the letter "E" is used
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Dave Angel wrote:
> The three distributed version control systems I know of are:
>git, mercurial, and bazaar
>
Not to overplay my Joel Spolsky fanboiism, but are you aware of Kiln from
Fog Creek? It started out as an enterprise-friendly wrapper around
Mercu
On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 4:33 PM, Amandeep Behl wrote:
> Can anyone explain this code below:
>
>
> import sys
> import os
>
> if __name__ == '__main__':
> sys.path.insert(0, "..")
> else:
> sys.path.insert(0, os.path.join(
> os.path.split(__file__)[0], '..'))
>
When you run this
On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 7:15 PM, Joel Goldstick wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 9:52 PM, SM wrote:
>
> >
> > OP is me? Not sure what it stands for, but I am a 'she' :)
>
> FYI (For you information) OP means Original Poster. Although people
> do refer to names in replies here, the term OP is used
On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 8:59 AM, Amit Saha wrote:
> What does it mean (and will it always work?) when I don't specify any
> encoding:
>
> >>> bytearray(ssid).decode()
> u'BigPond679D85'
>
If you don't specify an encoding, then the default encoding is used; as you
point out a bit later, your loc
On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 9:45 AM, #PATHANGI JANARDHANAN JATINSHRAVAN# <
jatinshr...@e.ntu.edu.sg> wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> Sorry for the earlier mail without subject. I was in a hurry so I missed
> that
>
> I am solving problem number 5 in project euler. I think my solution
> seems logically corre
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 5:40 AM, zubair alam wrote:
> i am learning how a __class__ data member behaves in python as compared to
> static data member in java, but following code is throwing error
>
>
> class PizzaShop():
> pizza_stock = 10
> def get_pizza(self):
> while not PizzaSh
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 11:25 AM, bob gailer wrote:
> On 10/24/2013 2:09 PM, Danny Yoo wrote:
>
>> Related: I saw a picture the other day on Google+ of an mailing envelope
>> whose zip code was written in scientific notation.
>>
> That;s odd - since ZIP codes are character, not integer,
>
You'd
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 1:21 PM, Marc Tompkins wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 11:25 AM, bob gailer wrote:
>
>> On 10/24/2013 2:09 PM, Danny Yoo wrote:
>>
>>> Related: I saw a picture the other day on Google+ of an mailing envelope
>>> whose zip cod
On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 2:25 PM, donsuni wrote:
> Hi, I am new to python and i have to write a following code without using
> any
> inbuilt function or a for loop. Only while and if loops are allowed.
>
> If i input a number, i should get a perfect cube nearest to it.
> For eg: if
> input=4, outpu
On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 8:30 AM, Rafael Knuth wrote:
> Marc,
>
> great feedback - thank you very much!
> I will bear that in mind for the future.
>
> I modified my program as you suggested, but I received a runtime
> error; I tried to fix that but unfortunately I didn't succeed.
> The modified pro
On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 8:46 PM, Varuna Seneviratna <
varunasenevira...@gmail.com> wrote:
> But what is meant by "A *namespace* is a mapping from names to objects"
>
Steven touched on this, but I'd like to emphasize: in Python, EVERYTHING is
an object - variables, functions, integers, strings, you
On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 12:36 PM, NZHacker1 . wrote:
> I'm not finished with the program and I put Plays = int(x) * 100,
> plays = int(x) * 100
> on purpose.
>
>
I don't think you understood what people were trying to tell you. Python
is case-sensitive; "plays" and "Plays" are NOT the same vari
On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 3:18 PM, Joel Goldstick wrote:
> I would get a laptop with as large a screen as you can afford. Windows or
> Linux.
>
> I second that emotion, and also: try out the keyboard first (or rather,
have your kid try it out). We spend a lot of time on our laptops, and a
badly-desi
On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 1:55 PM, Sithembewena Lloyd Dube
wrote:
> Thanks, i was actually getting the error information to update the post.
> Apoligies to waste your time posting here - I could not find an appropriate
> PyCountry discussion list and my next best bet seemed to be a Python users'
> li
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 12:08 PM, Charles Agriesti
wrote:
> Is this Anaconda thing any part of being able to run the scripts from the
> textbook with time_series? Is it a complete wild goose chase?
>
First off - I know nothing about using Python in a scientific setting.
Second (before anyone el
On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 10:32 AM, Marino David wrote:
> Hi all:
> I am a newpie at python.
> I read a python toolbox in which there is code line:import cores as co. I
> wantta know what the cores is.
> When I type "import cores as co", error occur as follows:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>
On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 12:27 PM, Degreat Yartey
wrote:
> I am studying python on my own (i.e. i am between the beginner and
> intermediate level) and i haven't met any difficulty until i reached the
> topic 'Generators and Iterators'.
> I need an explanation so simple as using the expression 'pri
On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 2:41 AM, Aaron Misquith
wrote:
> Like pypdf is used to convert pdf to text; is there any library that is
> used in converting .ppt files to .txt? Even some sample programs will be
> helpful.
>
I suspect you'd need to use PowerPoint itself to do that cleanly; you can
defin
On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 10:16 PM, Ritwik Raghav
wrote:
> It has again given some error I do not understand. This time my code is:
>
> count = 0
> def getPersistence(self,n):
>
> product = 1
> if len(str(n)) == 1:
> return self.count
> else:
> a = str(n)
> for
On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 11:06 PM, Ritwik Raghav
wrote:
> That's all the code I'm writing.
>
That can't be true - the 11 lines of code you posted doesn't include
anything that would give you "Correct Return Value: No", let alone any
reference to PersistentNumber. From the error message, it would
On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 7:53 AM, Charles Agriesti
wrote:
> Thanks all. Problem apparently solved. Shortly after that last message it
> quit working completely. Reinstall Python 2.7 + swampy -> no good;
> uninstall both 2.7 and 3.4, manually remove the folders that remained
> because of scripts tha
On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Mark Lawrence
wrote:
pip-win (https://sites.google.com/site/pydatalog/python/pip-for-windows)
>
>
> Never heard of it so thanks for the link.
>
> I don't know how long it's been around but I'll tell you this much for
free: I wish I'd known about it when I first s
On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 7:55 AM, Stephen Brazil wrote:
> Hello! I am brand new to python and need to know how to make the attached
> lines of code work. Should be pretty
>
You need quotes.
Stephen (without quotes) is an object, which you haven't previously
defined. 'Stephen' is a string, whic
On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 9:28 AM, Jon Engle wrote:
> for port in range (startingPort, 65535):
> thread.start_new_thread(setup, (port,))
> startingPort=startingPort+1
> #print startingPort
>
I think you just need this:
for port in range (startingPort, 65535):
> thread.start_new_thread(s
On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 2:00 PM, Jon Engle wrote:
> Ok, so after making the changes the code does bind the startingPort
> variable but that is the only port that gets bound. Also when connecting to
> the startingPort I receive the following error:
>
> Please enter starting port: 65520
>
>
On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 4:08 PM, Jon Engle wrote:
> Ok, so when I run the code it immediately terminates and never 'listens' to
> the ports in the loop. I have verified by running netstat -an | grep 65530
> and the startingPort is not binding.
The problem is that all threads started by a program
On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 8:34 AM, mark murphy
wrote:
> What I hope to be able to do is scan the directory, and for each instance
> where there are two files where the first 8 characters (TDDD) are
> identical, run a process on those two files and place the output (named
> TDDD) in a new
On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 1:02 PM, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote:
> Sorting is probably the approach that is easiest to understand, but an
> alternative would be to put the files into a dict that maps the 8-char
> prefix to a list of files with that prefix:
>
I was debating the virtues of th
On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 1:57 PM, Danny Yoo wrote:
> 2. Direct feedback to the Python web site maintainers so that either
they fix the problem or are at least aware that something is deficient.
Google offers a per-site custom search; it's free for very basic
functionality and not very expensive
On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 9:29 AM, Chris wrote:
> On 07/18/2014 09:44 AM, Alan Gauld wrote:
> > Are you sure thats the version of Python you are running
> > in the virtualenv?
>
> I've modified the first line to #!./bin/python (instead of
> #!/usr/bin/python).
>
> Now, there's another error message
On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 8:40 AM, LN A-go-go
wrote:
>
> States OJ
> AK 36
> AL 39
> AR 39
> AZ 45
> CA 61
> CO 54
> CT 61
> DC 93
> DE 62
> FL 51
> GA 47
> HI 72
> IA 54
> ID 36
> IL 62
> IN 50
> KS 41
> KY 41
> LA 40
> MA 62
> MD 62
> ME 58
> MI 57
> MN 54
> MO 49
> MS 43
> MT 47
> NC 50
> ND 45
On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 2:37 PM, Alan Gauld wrote:
> In fact in this case I suggested he use a for loop to iterate over
> the file and use a dictionary to store the results...
Ah. I missed that, as I've only noticed this newer thread. And I
apologize for imputing motive (a liking for "while Tr
On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 6:12 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote:
>> Ah. I missed that, as I've only noticed this newer thread. And I
>> apologize for imputing motive (a liking for "while True"); I'd just
>> noticed that you often advise it. I don't know who _does_ think this
>> is a desirable pattern; I'
On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 8:10 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
> Marc Tompkins writes:
>
>> Seriously, though, how is
>> 1) Do {this} forever, until something happens that I'll tell you about
>> later
>>
>> better than
>> 2) Do {this} until this condition, wh
On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 4:13 PM, 이명교 wrote:
> inf1 = open('first.txt')
> for line in inf1.readlines():
> list1.append(line)
So far, so good...
> list1 = line[:-1].split('\n')
...but then you do this, which wipes out list1.
> for a in list1:
> if a not in list1:
Even if you hadn't
On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 12:48 AM, Maxime Steisel wrote:
> I think this is because on windows, *.py files are associated with py.exe
> that choose the python version depending on the first line of your file.
No. *ix operating systems (Unix, Linux, OS X, etc.) inspect the first
line of a file to de
On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 8:23 AM, Zachary Ware
wrote:
>
> which it should be if the most recently
> installed Python was 3.3 or 3.4, installed with default options.
>
And there we have my problem with this glorious new "feature". YOU
CAN'T RELY ON IT, because it depends on the most recent version
On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 10:46 AM, Terry--gmail wrote:
(By the way - your indentation got flattened - cue the inevitable
chorus of "DON'T POST TO THIS LIST IN HTML" - so this is my best-guess
reconstruction.)
> lens = []
> # pre-format the list called lens for maximum number of columns contained i
On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 4:48 PM, Terry--gmail wrote:
> WOW! There is a lot of help on this mailing list! I want to thank everyone
> for their valuable input! Thanks! (I am working my way through the
> replies.)
>
> Sorry about the HTML. I think I have it turned off now in Thunderbirdy for
> this
On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 9:40 PM, Terry--gmail wrote:
> I found another place in Thunderbirdy to set 'plain text'.
>
> This is a test.
>
> Does the below code look correct now?
>
> --And did I reply correctly this time? (Reply-All and keep only
> tutor@python.org address...)
>
>
> for line_number,
On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 9:49 PM, Marc Tompkins wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 9:40 PM, Terry--gmail
> wrote:
>> I found another place in Thunderbirdy to set 'plain text'.
>>
>> This is a test.
>>
>> Does the below code look correct now?
>>
&
On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 10:51 PM, Terry--gmail wrote:
> I'm copy and pasting from Ninja-IDE, which I thought was created
> specifically to do python programming...
Specifically for programming, yes, and Python is among the supported
languages - but according to their web page, they support many
l
On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 12:13 AM, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> On 17Aug2014 23:51, Terry--gmail wrote:
>>
>> I'm copy and pasting from Ninja-IDE, which I thought was created
>> specifically to do python programming...so I never checked to see if it
>> needs to have the tab set to enter 4 spaces, as i
On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 1:00 AM, Marc Tompkins wrote:
> Also, looking at the Ninja-IDE website more closely I see that,
> although they do mention compatibility with multiple languages, they
> were designed by and for Python programmers - which makes the
> tab/space issue less like
On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 1:04 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> I'm not aware of any problem with Thunderbird or any (semi-)decent mail
> client.
The original poster uses NinjaIDE and Thunderbird, and his code was
being persistently flattened when he copied/pasted. I believe I've
just tracked it down to
On Aug 20, 2014 12:07 PM, "Terry--gmail" wrote:
>
> Alan Gauld
>
> Hi!
> We are not quite out of the woods on this last example you gave me. It
now seems to be complaining
> that it doesn't want to append an integer to the list or that this isn't
the place to use '.append' -- I am probably interp
On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Terry--gmail wrote:
> Marc, my understanding is, is that:
>
> lens[col].append(len(item))
>
> -should be building a mirror image of my list of lists called catalog2,
> which currently has 9 columns by x number of rows, and that we are plugging
> into these posi
On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 12:04 AM, Alex Kleider wrote:
> I appreciate your further elucidation, like your 'sledge hammer' metaphor and
> thank you for the fragility warning. I expect within such a limited scope,
> the dangers are not great.
As someone who has been burned by this sort of thinkin
On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 3:26 PM, Alan Gauld wrote:
> On 04/09/14 21:37, Najam Qasim wrote:
>> I downloaded notepad++. Can you please help me how to run python script in
>> notepad++?
>
> I only played with notepad++ briefly but I seem to recall it had a menu with
> commands to 'make' and 'run' a fi
On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 4:09 AM, Whees Northbee wrote:
> I'm really sorry if my post doesn't appropriate to the forum rule.. I
> already asked in other forums 2 months ago, but no answer or had voted down
> and closed..
It's not that you've broken a rule. It's just that you're asking on a
forum w
On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 2:32 PM, Crush wrote:
> Ok nevermind, I did not figure it out. My code...
>
> count = 0
> while count < 3:
> count += 1
> Subprocess.Popen('command')
> if count == 3:
> sys.exit()
>
> This does not work as I want it to; it consecutively executes the command
> t
On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 1:15 PM, Danny Yoo wrote:
>
> >> why is it I get this messages repeatedly despite having been reading
> and writing on the list for over a year now?
>
> This has happened to me once in a while too. I conjecture that it might
> be a bug with Mailman, but I'd have to dive i
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