Op dinsdag 25 maart 2014 20:58:10 UTC+1 schreef Dave Angel: > Jean Dubois <jeandubois...@gmail.com> Wrote in message: > > Op dinsdag 25 maart 2014 15:42:13 UTC+1 schreef Dave Angel: > > >> If your instructor wanted you to copy examples, he would have > >> given you one. > > please Dave leave that belittling tone behind, there's no instructor > > whatsoever involved here. > > It wasn't my intention to belittle you; I'm sorry. But we do get a > lot of people here asking for homework help, and not saying > that's what it is. And when it's homework we do better explaining > than just writing the code. > > In fact you only needed to add a line like > data= infile.read () > to Steven's original to get a complete working example. > > > I constructed this example myself as I know very > > well I have to start with little pieces of code first to be able to master > > larger problems later. I just wanted to figure this example out first, > > and as I now learned from Peter's marvellous explanation there _is_ an > > elegant solution in Python to this kind of problem. > > So if you are irritated by newbie-questions in the future, just neglect > > them > > Not irritated, just temporarily misguided. OK, no hard feelings
kind regards, jean -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
