On 07/10/2012 02:50, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On 07/10/12 12:08, Richard D. Moores wrote:
On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 4:42 PM, Mark
Lawrence wrote:
Use calendar.day_name.
How?
By reading the Fine Manual.
http://docs.python.org/library/calendar.html#calendar.day_name
which is so short t
different, e.g. FIFO is often used for first
in, first out.
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if '0' <= ch <= '9':
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If you want to use the offset for any reason use enumerate:-
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Create an empty list at the top of your loop. Store your b_total in the
list inside the loop with the append method. When the loop finishes use
the built-in sum function to get the final total.
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n over the list
of items. Other than setting up a counter and calling len() each loop, is
there some way to have the changing list recognized within the for loop?
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On 03/10/2012 04:15, boB Stepp wrote:
After much diddling around I have finally settled on a text to study
(Programming in Python 3, 2nd edition, by Mark Summerfield) and have
defaulted to using IDLE, deferring worrying about editors/IDEs until I
feel comfortable in Python.
I've been
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On 13/10/2012 06:54, Devin Jeanpierre wrote:
Do your own homework.
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Further to the information provided by Bob Gailer, please don't shout,
as in TYPING THINGS IN UPPERCASE, as it's considered rude, thanks.
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I found that VPython is not in PyPI(python packet index from www.python.org).
Why ?
Dae James
The author(s) have chosen not to place it there.
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For the record Access is not a database, or so some geezer called Alex
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use pip or easy_install from the command line
rather than mess around with unpacking .tar.gz files, especially if it
involves having to compile anything as opposed to having a pre-built binary.
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Could you please take a training course on how to use a search engine. First
hit on google for "python dateutils install windows" is
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See this http://docs.python.org/tutorial/modules.html specifically
section 6.1.1. "Executing modules as scripts".
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don't do that, thanks.
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big top post snipped.
Any chance of your prof teaching you *NOT* to top post and to use plain
English while you're at it?
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If you can't be bothered to check up before you post and you can't write
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[duplicate question snipped]
Thanks for asking the same question here that you asked on c.l.py 38
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process()
I'd use http://docs.python.org/library/time.html#time.strftime to do the
timestamp formatting and put some print statements into the code so you
know what's going on. Having said that it looks as
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scoresFile.read() It comes up with a blank string: ' ' Can anyone help me?
Myles Broomes
Works fine for me.
c:\Users\Mark\MyPython>type highScores.txt
120
74
57
44
12
c:\Users\Mark\MyPython>type mytest.py
from __futur
me or you're in the wrong directory surely
you'll get something like this depending on your OS.
c:\Users\Mark>MyPython\mytest.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\Mark\MyPython\mytest.py", line 2, in
scoresFile=open('highScores.txt',&#
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#3: Chris
Hurray for Chris! Hurray for John! Hurray for Lewis!
Many Thanks!
In your original getNames do something like this.
Initialise a counter to zero.
Every time you get a valid name increment the count.
If the count is three you're finished.
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the use of len().
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".format(x))
or similar, ie, that it operates only on the values I'd like output
that way.
If you're more comfortable with C you can use printf style formatting
see http://docs.python.org/2/library/stdtypes.html#string-formatting
you had to change some code and use the Decimal class from the
decimal module it would soon become a major issue as Python is case
sensitive, even on Windows. Just hoping I've got my dS in the RiGhT cAsE :)
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ppropriate than defining a new wrapper function.
Sorry, for the bad example.
Bah, that'll teach me to read more closely in the future :(
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missing something obvious here?
No, you were missing something needlessly obscured by the badly-written
code. Which book is this? I will be sure never to recommend it.
Hope that helps.
I agree entirely so a big +1 from me.
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st in Python 2 but it doesn't matter here as
sum() accepts any iterable, not just a list.
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it. Look very
carefully at "order=..." and "drink=..." and I'm sure you'll spot the
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if there is a much
better way! ~(:>))
Thanks!
This isn't a job for Bicycle Repair Man!!! It smacks to me of
dictionaries and the operator module but I'm too bone idle to look it up
myself, so try here https://docs.python.org/3/library/operator.html
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know.
I went a further step from the recipes linked to above and got here
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/readchar
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Python that hasn't had a beta release
yet? Or have you simply mistyped the version number?
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https://github.com/epsy/clize which I've never tried.
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optparse is deprecated, from
https://docs.python.org/3/library/optparse.html "Deprecated since
version 3.2: The optparse module is deprecated and will not be
developed further; development will continue with the argparse
m
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the DRY principle, see http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?DontRepeatYourself
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and/or times it's certainly far easier to use the built-in functions
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>>> sorted(student_tuples, key=itemgetter(1,2))
[('john', 'A', 15), ('dave', 'B', 10), ('jane', 'B', 12)]
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erful situations. I never use it.
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r on the next line. I'm suspicious of { "id" : "mw-pages" } as it's
a Python dict comprehension with one entry of key "id" and value "mw-pages".
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On 22/06/2015 02:41, Alex Kleider wrote:
On 2015-06-21 15:55, Mark Lawrence wrote:
On 21/06/2015 21:04, Joshua Valdez wrote:
I'm having trouble making this script work to scrape information from a
series of Wikipedia articles.
What I'm trying to do is iterate over a series of wik
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.append("www." + str(domain)) # add to the end of the list
for url in urls:
doWhatever(url)
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hat I can able to put all this
database. I need some guidance of which area of coding I should look into.
Thank you
Hank
Start here
https://docs.python.org/3/library/html.parser.html#example-html-parser-application
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On 07/07/2015 03:16, Sahil Chauhan wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to use py.test for writing some selenium webdriver tests. I
wrote my first test and
pytest is deselecting that test even though I didn't mark any test.
How can I resolve this issue? Is there some default setting used by
py.test,
Hence:-
>>> a,b,*c=[1,2]
>>> a,b,c
(1, 2, [])
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no) = xxx_todo_changeme.args
+print('Error: Could not open file to read --->', self._ifile)
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Good to hear, but would you please not top post here, it drives me
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And I've just remembered http://www.erlang.org/
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scule that possibility might actually be).
Definitely.
Thanks!
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No problem. Once again my invoice is in the post, your cheque by return
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import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
The first was designed to make matplotlib easy to use interactively,
especially in iPython, the second in a script. IIRC the former is
deprecated so I suggest you stick with the latter.
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rom iterable's items
Type: type
In [3]: help(list)
Help on class list in module builtins:
class list(object)
| list() -> new empty list
| list(iterable) -> new list initialized from iterable's items
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| Methods defined here:
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kinter and how to
desplay records on GUIs ?
Combine these two.
http://zetcode.com/gui/tkinter/
http://zetcode.com/db/sqlitepythontutorial/
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Having said that what are you trying to achieve? If you tell us we may
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means that the following slice returns a new (shallow)
copy of the list:
>>> squares = [1, 4, 9, 16, 25]
>>> squares[:]
[1, 4, 9, 16, 25]
Hence:-
for x in xlist[:]:
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Address identifies the email address with the maximum number of sends:
c...@iupui.edu.
Secondly, we are missing a count on the number of messages sent by
c...@iupui.edu, i.e., 5.
Thirdly, maxval 'none' is not defined on line # 24
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