Paul Rubin said unto the world upon 2005-01-22 20:16:
Fredrik Lundh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
You're not making any bloody sense.
oh, I make perfect sense, and I think most people here understand
why I found your little lecture so funny. if you still don't get
it, maybe some- one can explain it
Terry Reedy said unto the world upon 2005-01-26 14:08:
Xah the arrogant wrote, among other things,
SNIP
However, there are several errors in the above that would mislead a Python
learner. I advise any such to ignore Xah's writings.
Terry J. Reedy
Hi all,
here's a thought:
There isn't any doubt
Gabriel B. said unto the world upon 2005-01-29 19:38:
Is it just me that can't find a full reference in the docs?
I wanted a list of all the methods of dict for example... where can
i find it?
Thanks, and sorry if this question is just dumb, i really can't
find it
It's just you ;-)
Try the Library
Alex Martelli said unto the world upon 2005-02-04 13:02:
Steven Bethard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have lists containing values that are all either True, False or None,
e.g.:
[True, None, None, False]
[None, False, False, None ]
[False, True, True, True ]
etc.
For a given
administrata said unto the world upon 2005-02-04 17:59:
I'm programming Car Salesman Program.
It's been 3 days learning python...
But, i got problem
Write a Car Salesman program where the user enters the base price of a
car. The program should add on a bunch of extra fees such as tax,
license,
Hi all,
IDLE refuses to launch, and I believe it is because I attempted to
define a custom key-binding that it doesn't like.
I was recently defining a custom keybinding in IDLE 1.1 under Python
2.4 on WinMe. (I was using the simpler of the two binding definition
interfaces.) When done, I hit
Fahri Basegmez said unto the world upon 2005-02-04 23:14:
Mick Krippendorf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fahri Basegmez wrote:
reduce(lambda x, y: x or y, lst)
This doesn't solve the OPs problem since
reduce(lambda x, y: x or y, [False, None])
returns None instead of
Steven Bethard said unto the world upon 2005-02-05 14:05:
Nick Coghlan wrote:
Steven Bethard wrote:
Yes -- help me rally behind my generic object PEP which proposes a
Bunch type (probably to be renamed) for the Python standard lib. =)
Did you see the suggestion of 'namespace' as a name?
Yup,
Carlos Ribeiro said unto the world upon 2005-02-05 16:35:
On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 15:59:00 -0500, Brian van den Broek
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(I'm just a hobbyist, so if this suggestion clashes with some well
established use of 'Bag' in CS terminology, well, never mind.)
There's already a well know
Daniel Bickett said unto the world upon 2005-02-05 19:46:
I was reading the Pickling and inheritance are making me hurt
thread, and the latest suggestion (as of this posting) was to do with
the __setstate__ and __getstate__ methods. They caught my attention
because I hadn't encountered them
Peter Otten said unto the world upon 2005-02-07 09:14:
Jonathan Polley wrote:
I have one account on a WindowsXP machine that refuses to run IDLE (or
any other python script that uses Tk). Other people can login to that
PC and IDLE runs just fine, so it is not an installation issue. When
the
Xah Lee said unto the world upon 2005-02-07 14:39:
is it possible to write python code without any indentation?
Xah
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://xahlee.org/PageTwo_dir/more.html
print It would seem it is indeed possible.
print
print Note: although I know this, I don't consider myself an
print
Steve Holden said unto the world upon 2005-02-07 17:51:
Alexander Zatvornitskiy wrote:
Alex!
05 2005 17:00, Alex Martelli All :
SNIP
AM to all intents and purposes working as if
AM it was a declaration. If I had to vote about the one worst formal
AM defect of Python, it would surely be
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cody Houston) said unto the world upon
2005-02-08 05:06:
Hi. What is the best way to learn Python? None of the local schools
near me teach any courses on the topic. Thanks.
--
Cody Houston
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Cody,
rec.photo.equipment.35mm? -- kind of an odd follow-up for a
Brian van den Broek said unto the world upon 2005-02-07 20:36:
Steve Holden said unto the world upon 2005-02-07 17:51:
SNIP
The reason global is a wart can clearly be seen in the following example:
x = 3
def f(tf, v):
... if tf:
... global x
... x = v
...
f(0, 5)
x
5
SNIP
Hi
BOOGIEMAN said unto the world upon 2005-02-10 16:06:
OK, thanks all
Here's presentation of my advanced programming skills :)
import os
import time
os.system(cls)
number = 78
guess = 0
while guess != number:
guess = input(Guess number: )
if
rhat said unto the world upon 2005-02-10 21:10:
Hi Everyone,
I've recently been reading some articles about unit-testing in Python
[1] [2], but I am a bit confused: where do I go to get started with
this? I tried googling for unittest but all I've found are some old
links to projects that already
administrata said unto the world upon 2005-02-16 16:11:
i'm using tutor maling...
i e-mail some questions to tutor and
get answers.
but, i frequently get mails which aren't related with my question.
how should i stop it?
You do know it's a mailing list that you've subscribed too, right?
As in,
john boy said unto the world upon 2005-11-11 22:25:
Question for the following program: sec 5.5
def factorial (n):
if n == 0:
return 1
else:
recurse = factorial (n-1)
result = n * recurse
return result
How come whenever I state the function with n given
john boy said unto the world upon 2005-11-12 19:43:
OK...I have the following program
i = 1
while i = 6:
print 2 * i,' ',
i = i + 1
print
this is supposed to give you a new blank line after the program runs
instead it just gives:
2 4 6 8 10 12
instead of:
Ben Bush said unto the world upon 2005-11-14 05:51:
I have four lists:
lisA=[1,2,3,4,5,6,9]
lisB=[1,6,5]
lisC=[5,6,3]
lisD=[11,14,12,15]
how can I write a function to compare lisB, lisC and lisD with lisA, if they
share two continuous elements (the order does not matter), then return 1,
Ben Bush said unto the world upon 2005-11-14 23:20:
trimmed and un-top-posted
On 11/14/05, Brian van den Broek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ben Bush said unto the world upon 2005-11-14 05:51:
I have four lists:
lisA=[1,2,3,4,5,6,9]
lisB=[1,6,5]
lisC=[5,6,3]
lisD=[11,14,12,15]
how can I write
Shi Mu said unto the world upon 2005-11-15 01:30:
Hey Ben,
first, as expected, the other two answers you received are better. :-)
Sets are much better optimized for things like membership testing than
are lists. I'm not competent to explain why; indeed, I keep
overlooking them myself :-(
snip
Ben Bush said unto the world upon 2005-11-15 01:24:
top posting corrected and post trimmed
Unfortunately, the indents got screwed up along the way. But the part
of my code you asked about was:
for item in list1:
if item in list2:
if item + 1 in list1 and item + 1 in list2:
Ishwor Gurung said unto the world upon 2004-12-03 03:36:
Hello all,
I am just starting out on learning Python and joined this list. I
have grabbed the Learning Perl book by Mark David. This book really
seems good so far.. the concepts are explained pretty nicely. :) I
have a background a bit in
Shawn Milo said unto the world upon 2004-12-03 09:54:
I was just wondering what the best books were for learning Python.
Which books are good for getting started, and which should be saved for
later, or or not useful except as a reference for the learned?
I have a decent programming background in
Brian van den Broek said unto the world upon 2004-12-08 03:16:
SNIP
Hi,
I don't know Tkinter past a hour of playing, so I cannot show you how. I
can, however, show you a good place to start looking:
http://www.google.com/search?num=50hl=enq=Tkinter+Python+font+widgetbtnG=Searchmeta=
Best,
Brian
Esmail Bonakdarian said unto the world upon 2004-12-12 20:45:
Greg Krohn wrote:
if you have win32all installed, you can get it from Python:
import win32api
print Uptime:, win32api.GetTickCount(), Milliseconds
Uptime: 148699875 Milliseconds
Hi Greg!
Thanks, that was usefull, esp since I had
Mark Devine said unto the world upon 2004-12-16 10:49:
Hi I'm brand new to python and I was wondering if anybody knew of a
easy way to change every character in a list into its lower case
form.
The list is like so: commands = ['CLASS-MAP MATCH-ALL cmap1', 'MaTch
Ip AnY', 'CLASS-map Match-Any
Hi all,
There have been a few posts over the last month or so expressing a bit
of exasperation with the rising tide of newbie's. (Or, more
accurately, the rising tide of questions from newbie's not trying to
follow ESR's advice.)
A month or so ago (in a thread found here:
Peter Hansen said unto the world upon 2004-12-15 17:39:
Martijn Faassen wrote:
Jive wrote:
Isn't there a comp.lang.flame or something?
I've doublechecked, but I didn't see any significant flaming in this
article (and I'm generally not very tolerant of it). My PSU posting
was certainly not
Doug Holton said unto the world upon 2004-12-20 18:45:
Peter Hansen wrote:
Doug Holton wrote:
Peter Hansen wrote:
Virtually identical indeed. :-)
SNIP
I gave such a short answer because the way you framed your questions
and the context of your post made it clear you are a troll. Your reply
here
John Machin said unto the world upon 2004-12-21 18:20:
Subtle distinction: A metER is a measuring device. A MetRE is a unit of
distance.
Not everyone agrees http://www.bartleby.com/61/18/M0251800.html. I do,
but then I think it ought be spelled 'colour', too.
Best,
Brian vdB
--
Fernando Perez said unto the world upon 2004-12-23 14:42:
Alex Martelli wrote:
I don't know what it IS about lambda that prompts so much dubious to
absurd use, but that's what I observed. I don't know if that plays any
role in Guido's current thinking, though -- I have no idea how much
dubious
Alex Martelli said unto the world upon 2005-01-04 11:15:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But then I have THREE published recipes!!
Does that mean that I get three free copies of the cookbook ? ;-)
...ti piacerebbe eh...?-) Sorry, one each, even though you have
_five_ credits. For the curious, here's
Gavin Bauer said unto the world upon 2005-01-07 15:47:
My DOS window (running in windows ME) closes the second it finishes
running my programs. As you can imagine, this makes it hard to see the
SNIP
Thank you, and please make all answers simple enough to be understood
by a highschool student and
Hi all,
I've the following code snippet that puzzles me:
class Base(object):
__v, u = Base v, Base u
def __init__(self):
print self.__v, self.u
class Derived(Base):
__v, u = Derived v, Derived u
def __init__(self):
print self.__v, self.u
James Stroud said unto the world upon 2005-12-09 20:39:
Brian van den Broek wrote:
Hi all,
I've the following code snippet that puzzles me:
class Base(object):
__v, u = Base v, Base u
def __init__(self):
print self.__v, self.u
class Derived(Base):
__v, u = Derived v
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said unto the world upon 2005-12-13 15:05:
I'm reading van Rossum's tutorial. Mostly it is well written and
examples are given. However sometimes I get lost in a text, when it
doesn't give any examples and no clues. There are several examples of
this in chapter 9 about
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said unto the world upon 2005-12-13 15:44:
This is from 9.6 (Private variables). I quote
- Notice that code passed to exec, eval() or evalfile() does not
consider the classname of the invoking class to be the current class;
this is similar to the effect of the global
Peter Decker said unto the world upon 2005-12-14 07:03:
On 12/13/05, Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why this need to have everyone do things the way you do?
Whatever makes you think I have this need? I said I hated them. I'm
pretty sure I didn't say everyone should have to use them.
SeNTry said unto the world upon 2005-12-15 10:25:
Hello,
Are there any good active python forums online? Especially any forum that
has an uber-noob section!
It is not a forum, but if you are looking for a newbie-tailored venue,
the python tutor list
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said unto the world upon 2005-12-15 07:50:
obvious). It is just like there are language on this planet that reads
from right to left horizontally, as well as top to bottom, then right
to left. And you are trying to tell them that English way is the right
way or the obvious
Hi all,
I know that this is something for which I could (keep) STFW, but I'm
mostly ignorant of the subject area and under a bit of a deadline. So
I hope people won't mind if I truncate my search and ask here.
I've tried solo and failed a few times to install various Linux
distros on Intel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said unto the world upon 2005-12-19 02:27:
Steve Holden wrote:
Kevin Yuan wrote:
How to remove duplicated elements in a list? eg.
[1,2,3,1,2,3,1,2,1,2,1,3] - [1,2,3]?
Thanks!!
list(set([1,2,3,1,2,3,1,2,1,2,1,3]))
[1, 2, 3]
Would this have the chance of changing the
Alex Martelli said unto the world upon 2005-12-19 10:48:
Brian van den Broek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
orig_list = [3,1,2,3,1,2,3,1,2,1,2,1,3]
new_list = list(set(orig_list))
new_list.sort(cmp= lambda x,y: cmp(orig_list.index(x),
orig_list.index(y)))
new_list
[3, 1, 2]
A better
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said unto the world upon 2005-12-19 00:36:
Brian van den Broek wrote:
snip
I've tried solo and failed a few times to install various Linux
distros on Intel x86 laptops. (The software modem was always the
sticking point.) A recent acquaintance has volunteered to guide me
Marian said unto the world upon 2005-12-19 10:58:
Can you pleae help me with this task. I have really hard time with
my textbook desolving this problem. The Task: Write a program that
will create a text file, print the contents of the text file as you
create the file. Read the contents of the
Graham Fawcett said unto the world upon 2005-12-22 08:18:
Steve Holden wrote:
Nicola Musatti wrote:
Of course, I'm going on vacation next week and there was talk
about a one-way ticket to Mexico. The real question is will they let me
*back* in? :-)
I would be careful coming back across the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said unto the world upon 29/12/05 10:43 AM:
The following code:
numbers = [1, 2, 3]
for value in numbers:
value *= 2
print numbers
results in the following output:
[1, 2, 3]
The intent of the code was to produce this output:
[2, 4, 6]
What is the reason
jeremito said unto the world upon 29/12/05 11:39 AM:
I am learning how to extend Pythong with C++. I have will be writing
some code in C++ and want/need Python to interact with it. I am not
having success following the online documentation from
http://docs.python.org/ext/ext.html. I have
Brian van den Broek said unto the world upon 29/12/05 12:03 PM:
jeremito said unto the world upon 29/12/05 11:39 AM:
I am learning how to extend Pythong with C++. I have will be writing
some code in C++ and want/need Python to interact with it. I am not
having success following the online
Gary Herron said unto the world upon 30/12/05 08:03 PM:
newbie wrote:
Hello,
I have questions about global variables in OOP (in general) and Python
(in specific). I understand (I think) that global variables are
generally not a good idea. However, if there are variables that need to
be
Eddy Ilg said unto the world upon 02/01/06 05:43 PM:
Hi,
I have a class and I am trying to set the instance varirable 'variables'
(also tried different names). The variable gets initialized by
default-value parameter of the constructor. When I change the variable and
call the constructor
Karlo Lozovina said unto the world upon 04/01/06 04:19 PM:
Here is it:
---
class Human:
def __init__(self, eye_one, eye_two):
self.eye_one = eye_one
self.eye_two = eye_two
class Population:
def __init__(self):
self.house = []
Gerard Brunick said unto the world upon 08/01/06 01:27 PM:
My way is ugly. These has to be a better way.
Thanks,
Gerard
If you'd posted your way, I might well have seen if I could do it in a
nicer fashion. But, since for all I know, my best efforts would result
in the approach you already
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said unto the world upon 12/01/06 03:15 AM:
I can think of several messy ways of making a dict that sets a flag if
it's been altered, but I have a hunch that experienced python
programmers would probably have an easier (well maybe more Pythonic)
way of doing this.
It's
Brian van den Broek said unto the world upon 12/01/06 03:42 AM:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said unto the world upon 12/01/06 03:15 AM:
I can think of several messy ways of making a dict that sets a flag if
it's been altered, but I have a hunch that experienced python
programmers would probably have
Hi all,
The code below exhibits an attempt to refer to the type of a __Class
from within a method of that class. I've been unable to figure out how
to make it work as I want, and would appreciate any insight.
The problem emerged out of a bad design that the good folks on the
tutor list helped
Fredrik Lundh said unto the world upon 2005-10-09 17:49:
Brian van den Broek wrote:
But the academic issue How/Can it be done? still itches.
class __TwoUnderBase(object):
def __init__(self):
if self.__class__.__name__ == __TwoUnderBase:
print From
Duncan Booth said unto the world upon 2005-05-27 04:24:
snip
There are arguments that, especially for beginners, case sensitivity
introduces an extra level of complexity, but the cost of losing this
complexity would be to make Python a poor relation amongst programming
languages.
Well,
lostinpython said unto the world upon 2005-05-30 02:50:
It is a homework assignment from a book but not for a class. I'm
trying to teach my self some basic programming before I have to take it
in college. If I show enough understanding of the subject, my advisor
will let me forgo Intro. to
Chinook said unto the world upon 18/06/2005 02:17:
OO approach to decision sequence?
-
In a recent thread (Cause for using objects?), Chris Smith replied with (in
part):
If your table of photo data has several types of photos, and you find
yourself
Xah Lee said unto the world upon 18/06/2005 03:49:
Python documentation,
http://python.org/doc/2.4.1/lib/typesfunctions.html
-
2.3.10.3 Functions
Function objects are created by function definitions. The only
operation on a function object is to call it:
Xah Lee said unto the world upon 18/06/2005 04:11:
i wanted to find out if Python supports eval. e.g.
somecode='3+4'
print eval(somecode) # prints 7
in the 14 hundred pages of python doc, where am i supposed to find this
info?
Xah
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://xahlee.org/
TPJ said unto the world upon 21/06/2005 02:00:
First I have to admit that my English isn't good enough. I'm still
studying and sometimes I just can't express what I want to express.
I've graded essays in Philosophy at my university that were written by
native speakers of English yet were
Michele Simionato said unto the world upon 21/06/2005 07:58:
qwwee:
for a certain argument I'd prefer an application fully
explained (also if not covering all the features) to a more general
tutorial with only brief and unrelated code snippets.
Unfortunately, that's not the way things are
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said unto the world upon 25/06/2005 01:41:
Wait... so this means it is impossible to write a function that
increments an integer without turning the integer into a list?
Well, one of these options will probably suit:
def increment_counter(data):
... data += 1
...
Brian said unto the world upon 25/06/2005 10:50:
Do Re Mi chel La Si Do wrote:
rather... super troll
100% Agreed.
Can anyone say, This looks like spam... Feels like spam... and is about
as useful here in the Python forums as spam -- therfore my conclusion is
that his VB message
James Dennett said unto the world upon 26/06/2005 03:51:
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 21:21:50 +0300, Konstantin Veretennicov wrote:
On 6/16/05, Vibha Tripathi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I need sets as sets in mathematics:
That's tough. First of all, mathematical sets can be
BORT said unto the world upon 27/06/2005 23:16:
Please forgive me if this is TOO newbie-ish.
I am toying with the idea of teaching my ten year old a little about
programming. I started my search with something like best FREE
programming language for kids. After MUCH clicking and high-level
could ildg said unto the world upon 28/06/2005 03:29:
but the file is just stored,
and not compressed.
On 6/28/05, could ildg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thank you,
it works~~
On 6/29/05, Peter Szinek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
What about this:
import os,zipfile
from os.path import join
Fredrik Lundh said unto the world upon 28/06/2005 08:04:
Brian van den Broek wrote:
So, it would appear that compression requires a 3rd party module, not
included in Python (and not present on my Windows box).
where did you get your Windows Python? afaik, the zlib module has been
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said unto the world upon 29/06/2005 03:11:
Code:
#The Guess My Number Game
import random
num =
guess =
counter = 7
num = random.randrange(1, 100)
print I'm thinking of a whole number from 1 to 100.
print You have , counter, chances left to guess the number.
print
Nathan Pinno said unto the world upon 30/06/2005 11:22:
Hi all,
Does Python have a random function? If so, can you show me an example
using it?
Thanks,
Nathan Pinno
http://www.npinnowebsite.ca/
import random
print It took %s seconds to find the module named random by
Peter Hansen said unto the world upon 01/07/2005 11:47:
Dan Sommers wrote:
Peter Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This problem is well suited to the abilities of genetic algorithms,
and this would probably be an excellent way to learn more about them,
even if you don't get the best solution.
Robert Kern said unto the world upon 01/07/2005 17:24:
Brian van den Broek wrote:
Well, I found it ironic, but only when you add that the genetic
algorithm approach came up in the context of a best fit problem.
Survival of the fittest indeed :-)
Optimization codes don't always succeed
Patrick Rutkowski said unto the world upon 01/07/2005 23:56:
I started reading a python book today, one example was:
4 / (2.0 + 3)
0.8
My input/output was:
4 (2.0 + 3)
0.80004
Something smells fishy here... whats up?
--python 2.4.1
Nathan Pinno said unto the world upon 02/07/2005 02:25:
Hi all.
How do I make the computer generate 4 random numbers for the guess? I want
to know because I'm writing a computer program in Python like the game
MasterMind.
Thanks.
--
Nathan Pinno
Patrick Rutkowski said unto the world upon 02/07/2005 09:25:
On 7/2/05, Brian van den Broek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Patrick Rutkowski said unto the world upon 02/07/2005 00:12:
That's... annoying, to say the least. And my number 4/5 was a rational
number too; I can understand how when doing 1
Hi all,
I guess it is more of a maths question than a programming one, but it
involves use of the decimal module, so here goes:
As a self-directed learning exercise I've been working on a script to
convert numbers to arbitrary bases. It aims to take any of whole
numbers (python ints, longs,
Terry Hancock said unto the world upon 05/07/2005 11:49:
On Monday 04 July 2005 06:11 am, Brian van den Broek wrote:
As a self-directed learning exercise I've been working on a script to
convert numbers to arbitrary bases. It aims to take any of whole
numbers (python ints, longs, or Decimals
Alessandro Brollo said unto the world upon 07/07/2005 03:24:
Far from a professional programmer, I'm simply a
newbie Python user. Two basic questions:
1. I don't want to post banal questions about Python
to main Python list. Does a banal Python questions
list or a Python beginners list
wpog said unto the world upon 10/07/2005 12:41:
Hello,
I have a question about using IDLE, and that is whenever I start write my
own program in the Python Shell it will automatically execute whatever
command I have written, for example: print 'Hello World
So, how to I get it to not
Ric Da Force said unto the world upon 12/07/2005 02:43:
Hi,
I have a string such as 'C1, C2, C3'. Without assuming that each bit of
text is of fixed size, what is the easiest way to change this list so that
it reads:
'C1, C2 and C3' regardless of the length of the string.
Regards and
Larry Bates said unto the world upon 13/07/2005 15:54:
I recently upgraded from 2.2 to 2.4 (ActiveState for Windows).
I was accustomed to having the most recent 10 files that I had
edited show up under File menu under Recent. After upgrading
these don't seem to be saved after exiting. I
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said unto the world upon 15/07/2005 14:50:
I've noticed that the listings in help don't take you to correct topic.
anyone else have this problem? Is there a fix?
I'm not sure from your question what exact problem you are
experiencing. Do you mean:
IDLE 1.1.1
help()
Robert Kern said unto the world upon 2005-07-20 21:15:
S. M. Tuttle wrote:
I'm going to be teaching an introductory course on Python
in the Fall, so I am hurriedly trying to both learn
Python and prepare the course during the next few weeks.
I'm curious if there is a command that allows
Andrew Dalke said unto the world upon 2005-07-22 13:30:
François Pinard wrote:
There is no strong reason to use one and avoid the other. Yet, while
representing strings, Python itself has a _preference_ for single
quotes.
I use double quoted strings in almost all cases because I
think
Steve Holden said unto the world upon 11/01/06 04:44 AM:
http://beta.python.org
A few minor points about the design:
The Using Python for . . . for section on the right is expectation
violating in several ways:
1) Each two lines have 3 separate links, but all go to the same place.
Much
John Salerno said unto the world upon 16/02/06 09:18 AM:
snip
Name references search at most four scopes: local, then enclosing
functions (if any), then global, then built-in.
I understand what global and built-in are, and I thought I understood
the concept of local too, but when I got
DannyB said unto the world upon 21/02/06 06:14 PM:
I'm just learning Python. I've created a simple coin flipper program -
here is the code:
[source]
#Coin flipper
import random
heads = 0
tails = 0
counter = 0
coin = random.randrange(2)
while (counter 100):
if (coin == 0):
Steven Bethard said unto the world upon 2005-02-18 13:58:
I have two classes that implement the same interface, e.g. something like:
class C(object):
def foo(self):
Foo things
...
def bar(self):
Bar things
...
def baz(self):
Baz things in a C
Igorati said unto the world upon 2005-02-22 03:51:
#This program will ask for a user to imput numbers. The numbers will then
be calculated
#to find the statistical mean, mode, and median. Finallly the user will be
asked
#if he would like to print out the answers.
numbers = [ ]
print 'Enter
Graham said unto the world upon 2005-02-23 09:42:
Hi. I'm looking for a documentation generation tool (such as pydoc,
epydoc, happydoc, etc.) that will allow me to filter what it includes
in
it's output.
I only want the reader to know about classes and methods in my package
if if the classes have
Graham Ashton said unto the world upon 2005-02-24 04:54:
Thanks Brian, much appreciated. Looks quite straightforward.
Graham
Hi Graham,
glad it helped -- I think this marks the first time I've given a
useful answer to a non-trivial question on comp.lang.python. :-)
context for future thread
Rigga said unto the world upon 2005-02-27 15:04:
Tim Jarman wrote:
SNIP
No, the r was the point - it's there to tell Python not to do any escaping
on the string. Try it again with the r and see what happens.
Brilliant!!! that works a treat thankyou!!, where on earth did you find out
about the 'r'
Alex Le Dain said unto the world upon 2005-02-27 19:54:
Would this be for a GUI toolkit or maybe using a standard
class scheme?
Sorry, yes I should have been more specific. I meant a non-GUI, standard
class scheme. I want to use the scheme to hold a structure in memory and
retrieve/add
Steven Bethard said unto the world upon 2005-03-07 11:55:
Warren Postma wrote:
Michael Hoffman wrote:
The fact that True and False are not constants?
Yowza.
a = True
b = False
False = a
True = b
if (1==2)==True:
print Doom
Why stop there when you can really cause some doom:
py import
steve said unto the world upon 2005-03-12 00:06:
In a nutshell, my problem is that I am getting this runtime error, and
I have no clue why. Please bear in mind its my first python program:
localvariable 'currentAbility' referenced before asignment
in this function which is a callback for a
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