Evaluate coding and style

2009-09-24 Thread Brown, Rodrick
I recently started playing with Python about 3 days now (Ex Perl guy) and wanted some input on style and structure of what I'm doing before I really start picking up some bad habits here is a simple test tool I wrote to validate home dirs on my system. Please evaluate and let me know what could

RE: Random module missing?

2009-09-23 Thread Brown, Rodrick
: Random module missing? On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Brown, Rodrick wrote: > I seen some documentation about random.random() but my version seems to be > broken? > > Python 2.3.4 (#1, Jul 16 2009, 07:03:37) [GCC 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat > 3.4.6-11)] on linux2 Type "help&quo

Random module missing?

2009-09-23 Thread Brown, Rodrick
I seen some documentation about random.random() but my version seems to be broken? Python 2.3.4 (#1, Jul 16 2009, 07:03:37) [GCC 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-11)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import random >>> dir(random) ['__builtins__', '

How can I tell if variable is defined

2009-09-22 Thread Brown, Rodrick
How could I do the following check in Python In Perl I could do something like if ((defined($a)) { ... } I tried if var is not None: However this doesn't seem to work as described. Thanks. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list