Re: [Tutor] Would somebody kindly...

2014-10-30 Thread Marc Tompkins
On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 10:39 PM, Clayton Kirkwood wrote: > When I run: > values = [ ('a', 1), ('b', 2), ('a', 5), ('c', 7)] > key = 'a' > pair=[] > You just created an empty list and called it "pair". > [pair for pair in values if key == pair[0]] > Two things to bear in mind here: - The stepper

Re: [Tutor] “has a value of True” versus “evaluates true”

2014-11-13 Thread Marc Tompkins
On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 12:40 PM, Ben Finney wrote: > Danny Yoo writes: > > > >> To quote: "Let your statement be: 'Yes, yes', or "no, no': anything > > >> beyond these is of evil." > > > > > > "Have you stopped abusing small children yet?" > > > > :( > > > > I don't understand what your respons

Re: [Tutor] GUI

2015-02-02 Thread Marc Tompkins
On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 9:13 AM, Alan Gauld wrote: > Don't expect a whole heap of support from the GUIs. A lot of the work will > have to come from you. > I suspect the standard GUI framework Tkinter is not going to be your best > bet. You might find that PyQt or PyGTK will offer better multi ling

Re: [Tutor] GUI

2015-02-02 Thread Marc Tompkins
On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 1:18 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote: > On 02/02/2015 20:59, Marc Tompkins wrote: > >> On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 9:13 AM, Alan Gauld >> wrote: >> >> Don't expect a whole heap of support from the GUIs. A lot of the work >>> will >>&

Re: [Tutor] How do we create a GUI to run a simple calculation program in Python?

2017-04-04 Thread Marc Tompkins
On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 9:55 AM, Lisa Hasler Waters wrote: > Hello Tutor, > > A middle school student of mine created a program to calculate simple and > compound interest. He built it in PyCharm EDU using a Mac running 10.11.6. > > He would like to create a GUI to run this program. Please, can yo

Re: [Tutor] Question to Phyton and XBee

2017-04-11 Thread Marc Tompkins
On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 9:12 AM, Daniel Berger wrote: >Hello, > >I have installed the modules to control xbee with Python >https://pypi.python.org/pypi/XBee). Afterwards I have set the path >variable on C:\Python27\python-xbee-master and also the subdirectories. > To >check, i

Re: [Tutor] Count for loops

2017-04-11 Thread Marc Tompkins
On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 9:48 AM, Rafael Knuth wrote: > I tested this approach, and I noticed one weird thing: > > Pi_Number = str(3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939) > Pi_Number = "3" + Pi_Number[2:] > print(Pi_Number) > > == RESTART: C:\Users\Rafael\Documents\01 - BIZ\CODING\Python >

Re: [Tutor] dictionaries are same but returning false

2017-07-05 Thread Marc Tompkins
On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 9:51 AM, Ashfaq wrote: > Hi Peter, > The way you find the issue is really cool! Very cool! :) > > I agree - that is very cool. But I have also made this sort of mistake a few times, and found it by using a very quick, low-tech method... "Unfold" the lines of the two dictio

Re: [Tutor] Am I missing something obvious about "FizzBuzz"?

2017-10-01 Thread Marc Tompkins
On Sun, Oct 1, 2017 at 12:48 PM, Alan Gauld via Tutor wrote: > But to address another issue raised by Mats: > > Probably the best programming test there is look at code > > that's already been developed, > > Very true and in an ideal world what you would do, but... > > It is what we did with the

Re: [Tutor] confused about Pypi

2017-10-29 Thread Marc Tompkins
On Sat, Oct 28, 2017 at 1:43 PM, Mark Anderson wrote: > Hello, I am currently doing an online course to learn Python. Generally > ive followed it well and am enjoying my first go at programming. However > the description of how to get modules from PyPi has left me confused. Ive > only recently do

Re: [Tutor] SSL Error

2018-07-31 Thread Marc Tompkins
This is a general Python tutor group; I'm not sure anybody here can help you with the OpenSSL package (I've definitely never used it myself.) We're all willing to help, but this might not be the right place to ask this question. More to the point, though, when you ask questions on this list it's

Re: [Tutor] SSL Error

2018-07-31 Thread Marc Tompkins
On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 10:03 AM, Alan Gauld via Tutor wrote: > On 31/07/18 03:52, Saket Mehrotra wrote: > > > error ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv23: OpenSSL.SSL.SSLv23_METHOD, > > AttributeError: module 'ssl' has no attribute 'PROTOCOL_SSLv23' > > Are you sure you spelled the attribute correctly? > > Have

Re: [Tutor] SSL Error

2018-08-01 Thread Marc Tompkins
On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 1:13 AM, Alan Gauld via Tutor wrote: > On 01/08/18 05:07, Saket Mehrotra wrote: > > Hi > > > > I am also not using any Open SSL package. > > I have just added " import requests" in py file. And when I run the > module > > I get the SSL package error ,not sure why. > > Th

Re: [Tutor] try, except syntax

2018-08-02 Thread Marc Tompkins
try... except is meant to catch errors: places where your program would otherwise crash. It does NOT work as a truth check. In your example: > try: > type(uvc) == float > except TypeError as e: > print(e, msg) > > "type(uvc)==float" resolves to a standalone True or False, not an exception

Re: [Tutor] "Python not recognized as a command"

2018-09-01 Thread Marc Tompkins
On Sat, Sep 1, 2018 at 10:40 AM, Dana O'Connor wrote: > Hi, > I've been trying to download and use Python 3.7 for the past few days and > every time I try to open it it tells me I don't have "pip" which should be > impossible because this version of Python is supposed to automatically come > with

Re: [Tutor] Looking for some direction

2019-05-11 Thread Marc Tompkins
On Sat, May 11, 2019 at 12:05 PM Cranky Frankie wrote: > 2) For wxPython I'm finding a lot of the documentation is outdated. I'm a fan of wxPython myself, for a number of reasons - it suits the way I think, and the applications it generates look native to the platform they're running on, as opp

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