Re: A question of style (finding item in list of tuples)

2012-05-21 Thread David Lambert
One suggestion is to construct the dictionary first: CHOICES = dict( NONE = 'No experience required', SAIL = 'Sailing experience, new to racing', RACE = 'General racing experience', GOOD = 'Experienced racer', ROCK = 'Rock star' ) def experience_text(self): try:

Re: add two strings

2012-01-30 Thread David Lambert
On 01/30/2012 07:02 AM, contro opinion wrote: >>> s1='\x45' >>> s2='\xe4' >>> s1+s2 'E\xe4' >>> print s1+s2 E why s1+s2 not = '\x45\xe4'?? It is, but '\x45' is ASCII 'E', and '\xe4' is not a printable character: >>> print '\x45' E >>> print '\xe4' >>> Try printing s1 and s2 separately i

Questions regarding the daemon module.

2012-01-28 Thread David Lambert
I was looking for a simple way to daemonize a Python process, and found: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3143/ I used easy_install to add this package (I thought), but when I attempted to use the example in the above link, I got the error: AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute