On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 10:44 PM, Ombongi Moraa Fe
wrote:
> My first language was Pascal. It was at a time in 2005 when computers were
> finally becoming popular in Africa and our year was the first time a girls
> school from our Province did a computer coursework for National Exams. (That
> was su
On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 4:10 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> On 07/05/2013 01:17, alex23 wrote:
>>
>> On May 6, 10:37 pm, Mark Lawrence wrote:
>>>
>>> One of these days I'll work out why some people insist on using
>>> superfluous parentheses in Python code. Could it be that they enjoy
>>> exercising
On 07/05/2013 01:17, alex23 wrote:
On May 6, 10:37 pm, Mark Lawrence wrote:
One of these days I'll work out why some people insist on using
superfluous parentheses in Python code. Could it be that they enjoy
exercising their fingers by reaching for the shift key in conjunction
with the 9 or 0
On Mon, 06 May 2013 17:17:01 -0700, alex23 wrote:
> One of these days I'll work out why some programmers consider typing to
> be "effort".
An ironic comment from someone who goes by the moniker wu wei! ;-)
The effort, of course, comes in determining what to type, and often how to
type less.
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In article
,
alex23 wrote:
> On May 6, 10:37 pm, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> > One of these days I'll work out why some people insist on using
> > superfluous parentheses in Python code. Could it be that they enjoy
> > exercising their fingers by reaching for the shift key in conjunction
> > with
On May 6, 10:37 pm, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> One of these days I'll work out why some people insist on using
> superfluous parentheses in Python code. Could it be that they enjoy
> exercising their fingers by reaching for the shift key in conjunction
> with the 9 or 0 key?
One of these days I'll w
On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 6:11 AM, Terry Jan Reedy wrote:
> On 5/6/2013 11:31 AM, Roy Smith wrote:
>>
>> In article ,
>> Chris Angelico wrote:
>>> If I ever have even the slightest doubt, I just go ahead and type
>>> " operator precedence" into a web search and check it :)
>>
>>
>> Well, that solve
On 5/6/2013 11:31 AM, Roy Smith wrote:
In article ,
Chris Angelico wrote:
On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 11:08 PM, Roy Smith wrote:
On the other hand, I've long since given up trying to remember operator
precedence in various languages. If I ever have even the slightest
doubt, I just go ahead and p
In article ,
Chris Angelico wrote:
>On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 11:08 PM, Roy Smith wrote:
>> On the other hand, I've long since given up trying to remember operator
>> precedence in various languages. If I ever have even the slightest
>> doubt, I just go ahead and put in the extra parens.
>
>If I e
On May 6, 6:08 pm, Roy Smith wrote:
> BTW, in C, I used to write:
>
> return (foo)
>
> for years until somebody pointed out to me that
>
> return foo
>
> works. I just assumed that if I had to write:
>
> if (foo)
> while (foo)
> for (foo; bar; baz)
>
> then
>
> return (foo)
>
> made sense too.
On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 11:08 PM, Roy Smith wrote:
> On the other hand, I've long since given up trying to remember operator
> precedence in various languages. If I ever have even the slightest
> doubt, I just go ahead and put in the extra parens.
If I ever have even the slightest doubt, I just g
In article ,
Mark Lawrence wrote:
> > while (number != guess) and (tries < 5):
>
> One of these days I'll work out why some people insist on using
> superfluous parentheses in Python code. Could it be that they enjoy
> exercising their fingers by reaching for the shift key in conjunction
>
On 2013-05-06, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> On 06/05/2013 13:06, Neil Cerutti wrote:
>> On 2013-05-03, John Gordon wrote:
>>> In Neil Cerutti
>>> writes:
>>>
Not quite yet. Players who guess correctly on the fifth try don't
get credit.
>>>
>>> Are you sure? tries is initialized to zero an
On 06/05/2013 13:06, Neil Cerutti wrote:
On 2013-05-03, John Gordon wrote:
In Neil Cerutti writes:
Not quite yet. Players who guess correctly on the fifth try don't
get credit.
Are you sure? tries is initialized to zero and isn't
incremented for the initial guess.
while (number != gues
On 2013-05-03, John Gordon wrote:
> In Neil Cerutti writes:
>
>> Not quite yet. Players who guess correctly on the fifth try don't
>> get credit.
>
> Are you sure? tries is initialized to zero and isn't
> incremented for the initial guess.
while (number != guess) and (tries < 5):
Is the condi
In Neil Cerutti writes:
> Not quite yet. Players who guess correctly on the fifth try don't
> get credit.
Are you sure? tries is initialized to zero and isn't incremented for the
initial guess.
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On 2013-05-03, ryankoc...@gmail.com wrote:
> Thank you! It's 100% functional now, here's the final project:
>
> title = "Guess my number game:"
> print title.title()
> raw_input("Press any key to continue..")
>
> import random
>
> number = random.randrange(99) + 1
> tries = 0
> guess = int(r
Thank you! It's 100% functional now, here's the final project:
title = "Guess my number game:"
print title.title()
raw_input("Press any key to continue..")
import random
number = random.randrange(99) + 1
tries = 0
guess = int(raw_input("Guess my number! Secret - It is between 1 and 100 :")
In ryankoc...@gmail.com
writes:
> I've got it working! I'm really enjoying python :) But now i'd like to make
> it break out of the while loop when the user guesses more than 5 numbers and
> fails
The "Congratulations" message is inside the while loop; that's why it
always prints.
To break a
I've got it working! I'm really enjoying python :) But now i'd like to make it
break out of the while loop when the user guesses more than 5 numbers and
fails..
title = "Guess my number game:"
print title.title()
raw_input("Press any key to continue..")
import random
number = random.randra
Oh wow I can't believed I derped that hard
Thanks Lol.
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In <02b65e11-89c6-4639-9d93-27e1f90ee...@googlegroups.com> ryankoc...@gmail.com
writes:
> Okay, thank you very much for the timely replies, heres what i have now:
> title = "Guess my number game:"
> print title.title()
> raw_input("Press any key to continue..")
> import random
> number = rando
Okay, thank you very much for the timely replies, heres what i have now:
title = "Guess my number game:"
print title.title()
raw_input("Press any key to continue..")
import random
number = random.randrange(99) + 1
tries = 0
guess = int(raw_input("Guess my number! Secret - It is between 1 and 100
On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 12:18 PM, wrote:
> title = "Guess my number game:"
> print title.title()
> raw_input("Press any key to continue..")
>
> import random
>
> tries = 0
> number = random.randrange(99) + 1
> guess = int(raw_input("Guess my number! Secret - It is between 1 and 100 :")
First up,
In
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writes:
> 1. post full tracebacks.
I almost responded with the same advice, but in this case the full
traceback doesn't really tell us anything more:
File "foo.py", line 11
while guess != number:
^
SyntaxEr
On 03/05/2013 18:18, ryankoc...@gmail.com wrote:
title = "Guess my number game:"
print title.title()
raw_input("Press any key to continue..")
import random
tries = 0
number = random.randrange(99) + 1
guess = int(raw_input("Guess my number! Secret - It is between 1 and 100 :")
while (guess != n
In <24c5856e-a30a-41bd-aa4a-0e594734e...@googlegroups.com> ryankoc...@gmail.com
writes:
> title = "Guess my number game:"
> print title.title()
> raw_input("Press any key to continue..")
> import random
> tries = 0
> number = random.randrange(99) + 1
> guess = int(raw_input("Guess my number! Se
On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 7:18 PM, wrote:
> title = "Guess my number game:"
> print title.title()
> raw_input("Press any key to continue..")
>
> import random
>
> tries = 0
> number = random.randrange(99) + 1
> guess = int(raw_input("Guess my number! Secret - It is between 1 and 100 :")
>
> while (g
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