Re: Converting a float to a formatted outside of print command

On Nov 23, 3:17 pm, Dan Bishop danb...@yahoo.com wrote: You meant: x = '%.1f' % y Thanks, I'm a dufus today. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Converting a float to a formatted outside of print command

I'd like to convert a list of floats to formatted strings. The following example raises a TypeError: y = 0.5 x = '.1f' % y -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Help with OS X installation

Thanks all. That did it. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Help with OS X installation

I have python 2.6 on OS X 10.5.8: $ python --version Python 2.6.2 $ which python /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/bin/python When installing an egg, python 2.5 shows up: $ sudo easy_install ipython-0.10-py2.6.egg Password: Processing ipython-0.10-py2.6.egg removing

List comprehension and string conversion with formatting

I'd like to convert a list of floats to a list of strings constrained to one .1f format. These don't work. Is there a better way? [.1f % i for i in l] or [(.1f % i) for i in l] StephenB -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: List comprehension and string conversion with formatting

On Jun 9, 10:43 am, Carl Banks pavlovevide...@gmail.com wrote: You need a % in there, chief. Carl Banks You are so right. Thanks. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Default location of python on OS X

I've installed the latest 2.5 python today from python.org, and I think it ended up in /Applications/MacPython 2.5. I also have a /Applications/MacPython 2.4 and a /Applications/ MacPython-2.4. Can I delete these, or did one of them come with Leopard? I still have a /Library/Python/2.3 and a

Re: Default location of python on OS X

On Jan 8, 11:33 pm, Tommy Nordgren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I still have a /Library/Python/2.3 and a /Library/Python/2.5. Thanks. Stephen Leopard INCLUDES Python 2.5, there is no need to install it. Thanks -- that made the decision easy. I didn't need all those MacPythons.

Clearing a DOS terminal in a script

This doesn't seem to work in a dos terminal at the start of a script: from os import popen print popen('clear').read() Any idea why not? Thanks. Stephen -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Clearing a DOS terminal in a script

On Dec 13, 11:21 am, Chris Mellon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It opens clear with it's own virtual terminal and clears that instead. Even when I launch the script from a cmd shell with python myscript.py? There's an ANSI control code you can use to reset the screen, try printing that. I

pyshell and unum hint

I like to have unum units imported automatically on my PYTHONSTARTUP since I'm always converting things, and I also like to use pyshell. They conflict for some reason I don't understand (pyshell doesn't like the Unum.as method, maybe since it will be a keyword): 1.0*IN.as(M) File input, line 1

Help with 'popen'

Can someone let me know why this won't work? Thanks. from os import popen popen('export asdfasdf=hello').read() '' popen('echo $asdfasdf').read() '\n' Thanks. Stephen -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list