[Tutor] Need help solving this problem

2009-06-10 Thread Raj Medhekar
I have been teaching myself Python using a book. The chapter I am on currently, covers branching, while loops and program planning. I am stuck on on of the challenges at the end of this chapter, and I was hoping to get some help with this. Here it is: Write a program that flips a coin 100 times

[Tutor] Need a solution.

2009-06-11 Thread Raj Medhekar
I have been having some difficulty modifying this program to where a player has limited number of guesses and if he fails to guess correctly within that number he is asked to "Try Again" The original program code and the code that I modified are given below. Thanks for your help. Sincerely, Raj

Re: [Tutor] Need a Solution!

2009-06-11 Thread Raj Medhekar
This email contains another modified code that I tried working with but still doesn't do the job right, although performs closer to what i want. I have been having some difficulty modifying this program to where a player has limited number of guesses and if he fails to guess correctly within that

[Tutor] Help Needed

2009-06-15 Thread Raj Medhekar
I am looking to build a program that gets a message from the user and then prints it backward. I 've been at it for hours now but I can't seem to figure it out. I've been having trouble trying to index the message so I can print it out backwards. I would've posted my code but I really haven't go

Re: [Tutor] Help Needed

2009-06-16 Thread Raj Medhekar
I had previously emailed y'all regarding inverting a message input by the user of the program backwards. After much contemplation on your earlier replies I came up with the code I have included in this email. The problem I am having with this code is that the the first character of the message t

Re: [Tutor] Help needed

2009-06-16 Thread Raj Medhekar
So I figured out the solution to the missing letter and I will post my code here. But I still need help figuring out the other stuff (please see my original message included in this email)! Thanks for putting up with me. Python is slowly but surely coming to me! I am psyched since this is the fi

[Tutor] Need help with code.

2009-06-19 Thread Raj Medhekar
Hi, I need help with the code below. I am trying to pair the list in the hint with the list of words. However, the list is not matching up correctly. Also when the correct guess is entered the program just continues without acknowledging the right answer. Please could y'all test this out and let

[Tutor] Using insert method on a list matrix

2009-07-19 Thread Raj Medhekar
I would like to know how I could use the insert method in a List matrix eg. for the matrix below M=[[1,2,3], [3,2,1], [4,3,2]] if wanted to insert the string 'pod' in list [0] before [1] in list [0] in M using the built in method insert How would I go about doing this? I've tried may List Comp

Re: [Tutor] Using insert method on a list matrix

2009-07-20 Thread Raj Medhekar
Thanks that works! But what if I wanted to modify 2 of the three lists in 2 different positions? Could you please let me know how I would go about doing that? Thanks! -Raj From: Ken Oliver To: Raj Medhekar ; Python Tutor Sent: Sunday, July 19, 2009 8:16:11

[Tutor] Web crawling!

2009-07-29 Thread Raj Medhekar
Does anyone know a good webcrawler that could be used in tandem with the Beautiful soup parser to parse out specific elements from news sites like BBC and CNN? Thanks! -Raj ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/