On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 9:31 AM, John Posner <jjpos...@optimum.net> wrote: > On 7/16/2010 9:59 AM, kirby urner wrote: >> >> ... Using print as a function is optional in 2.6 without >> importing anything special. >> > > Kirby, I believe you're confusing these two invocations: >
Yes, you're correct, that's precisely what I was doing. > * Using the print *statement* with a single argument (or expression) > enclosed in parentheses. > > * Using the print *function* with a single argument > > Using multiple arguments clears things up: I'm glad we're touching on this at length, as people flooding into our pool find themselves waste deep with backward / forward compatibility issues, and may fall for the same self-deception I did for a moment. For another response, see: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/edu-sig/2010-July/010040.html Our class concluded today, although I still have some paperwork to send in, will do that in a few minutes. I've got an initial blog write-up here, planning another follow-up post likely later today, also uploading to Photostream. Today we talked about RSA a lot, played my silly Google video, a rambling blather through group theory etc. (8+ mins). We also wrote generators for cuboctahedral numbers and Fibonacci's, both times going of Encyclo- pedia for Integer Sequences. If that sounds like a total geek out, it was. Also screened two cartoons. One student got file sharing to work between his hosting and guest operating systems on VirtualBox. Another got his random forest of cylinder/cone VPython objects to work. I lectured at quite some length on the history of the Internet as a succession of protocols, though I was somewhat vague on the sequence: smtp, nntp, ftp, http... whatever (this was before screening 'Warriors of the Net', one of the two cartoons). I'll return to post a link to my followup post. Kirby Urner 4dsolutions.net/ocn/cp4e.html _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
