On May 21, 5:36 pm, Christian Heimes wrote:
> seanm...@gmail.com schrieb:
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> > The explaination in my introductory Python book is not very
> > satisfying, and I am hoping someone can explain the following to me:
>
> 4 / 5.0
> > 0.80004
>
> > 4 / 5.0 is 0.8. No more, no less. So w
The explaination in my introductory Python book is not very
satisfying, and I am hoping someone can explain the following to me:
>>> 4 / 5.0
0.80004
4 / 5.0 is 0.8. No more, no less. So what's up with that 4 at the end.
It bothers me.
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On May 3, 12:22 am, CM wrote:
> On May 2, 4:36 pm, seanm...@gmail.com wrote:
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> > I am going to try posting here again with more detail to see if I can
> > finally get my first program to work.
>
> > I am working on a MacBook Pro with OS X 10.4.11. I opened a new window
> > in IDLE to create
On May 2, 6:25 pm, John Machin wrote:
> On May 3, 7:46 am, Dave Angel wrote:
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>
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> > seanm...@gmail.com wrote:
> > > I am going to try posting here again with more detail to see if I can
> > > finally get my first program to work.
>
> > > I am working on a MacBook Pro with OS X 10.4.11. I opene
On May 2, 5:30 pm, Ned Deily wrote:
> In article
> <8f6634a2-c977-430a-b9f2-90ef9356d...@x6g2000vbg.googlegroups.com>,
>
> seanm...@gmail.com wrote:
> > Thank you for both for the help. I still cannot get the program to run
> > though. Below I've copied my commands and the error messages for you
On May 2, 4:30 pm, Arnaud Delobelle wrote:
> seanm...@gmail.com writes:
> > sean-marimpietris-computer:~ seanmarimpietri$ python
> > Python 2.6.2 (r262:71600, Apr 16 2009, 09:17:39)
> > [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5250)] on darwin
> > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for
I am going to try posting here again with more detail to see if I can
finally get my first program to work.
I am working on a MacBook Pro with OS X 10.4.11. I opened a new window
in IDLE to create a file. The file had only one line of code and was
saved as module1.py. I saved it to Macintosh HD. T
On May 1, 6:10 pm, Ned Deily wrote:
> In article <7618rjf1a3t8...@mid.uni-berlin.de>,
> "Diez B. Roggisch" wrote:
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>
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> > seanm...@gmail.com schrieb:
> > > I think this is maybe the most basic problem possible, but I can't get
> > > even the most basic Python to run on OS X using Terminal or I
I think this is maybe the most basic problem possible, but I can't get
even the most basic Python to run on OS X using Terminal or IDLE. I
used the IDLE editor to create a file with one line of code
print 'text string'
and I saved the file as module1.py. When using terminal I entered
"python" to
