Hi everyone, I'm making a series of python tutorials and I've just
finished the introductory part: http://lightbird.net/larks/intro.html
Feedback is appreciated.. - mitya
http://lightbird.net/larks/intro.html
--
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
On 12/02/2012 04:39 PM, Verde Denim wrote:
I'm just getting into py coding, and have come across an oddity in a py
book - while loops that don't work as expected...
import random
MIN = 1
MAX = 6
def main():
again = 'y'
while again == 'y':
print('Rolling...')
While referencing the python tutorial, you should state how your
tutorial complement the already existing one, possibly which issues
you're trying to fix, or how different your approach is.
Cheers,
JM
Thanks for the feedback, I've added the following line to the Intro
section:
My
On 12/02/2012 09:54 AM, Mitya Sirenef wrote:
Hi everyone, I'm making a series of python tutorials and I've just
finished the introductory part: http://lightbird.net/larks/intro.html
I've just uploaded a new section -- a tictactoe game:
http://lightbird.net/larks/tictactoe.html
I've also
On 12/02/2012 09:54 AM, Mitya Sirenef wrote:
Hi everyone, I'm making a series of python tutorials and I've just
finished the introductory part: http://lightbird.net/larks/intro.html
Feedback is appreciated.. - mitya
http://lightbird.net/larks/intro.html
I've just added a new section 'blocky
On 12/02/2012 09:54 AM, Mitya Sirenef wrote:
Hi everyone, I'm making a series of python tutorials and I've just
finished the introductory part: http://lightbird.net/larks/intro.html
Feedback is appreciated.. - mitya
http://lightbird.net/larks/intro.html
I've added two more tutorials
On 12/06/2012 12:16 PM, Jean-Michel Pichavant wrote:
- Original Message -
On 12/02/2012 09:54 AM, Mitya Sirenef wrote:
Hi everyone, I'm making a series of python tutorials and I've just
finished the introductory part:
http://lightbird.net/larks/intro.html
Feedback
On 12/08/2012 04:32 PM, Graham Fielding wrote:
Hey, all!
I've managed to get my project to a semi-playable state (everything
functions, if not precisely the way I'd like it to). One small issue is
that when the player movs from one level to the next, the items and
monsters in the previous
On 12/11/2012 05:39 PM, Dave Cinege wrote:
On Tuesday 11 December 2012 16:53:12 Ian Kelly wrote:
Just out of curiosity, how old are we talking? enumerate was added in
Python 2.3, which is nearly 10 years old. Prior to 2.2 I don't think
it was even possible to subclass dict, which would
On 12/11/2012 07:53 PM, Mitya Sirenef wrote:
By the way, the Thesaurus class reminds me of using the old recipe
called 'Bunch':
http://code.activestate.com/recipes/52308-the-simple-but-handy-collector-of-a-bunch-of-named/
like this:
b = Bunch(x=1) b.stuff = Bunch(y=2)
b.stuff.y 2
Sorry
On 12/12/2012 11:48 AM, siimnur...@gmail.com wrote:
Hey, I need to write a program that prints out a square, which is empty on the inside. So far, I've
made a program that outputs a square, which is full on the inside.
P.S. Between every asterisk there needs to be a space( )
Here's my code:
On 12/13/2012 03:09 PM, Daniel Fetchinson wrote:
Hi folks, I swear I used to know this but can't find it anywhere:
What's the standard idiom for unpacking the first few items of an
iterable whose total length is unknown?
Something like
a, b, c, _ = myiterable
where _ could eat up a variable
On 12/13/2012 03:39 PM, Daniel Fetchinson wrote:
Hi folks, I swear I used to know this but can't find it anywhere:
What's the standard idiom for unpacking the first few items of an
iterable whose total length is unknown?
Something like
a, b, c, _ = myiterable
where _ could eat up a variable
On 12/16/2012 12:00 PM, Darrien Glasser wrote:
Hey guys, I'm working on a Python rock paper scissors (lizard spock) game, and the beginning is
complete. After I finished it, I thought, You know what? I think I can
make this even better, and add a score counter. And so I did.
The problem is
On 12/16/2012 01:17 PM, tbg wrote:
On Sunday, December 16, 2012 1:07:16 PM UTC-5, Mitya Sirenef wrote:
On 12/16/2012 12:00 PM, Darrien Glasser wrote:
Hey guys, I'm working on a Python rock paper scissors (lizard spock) game, and
the beginning is
complete. After I finished it, I thought
On 12/16/2012 01:07 PM, Mitya Sirenef wrote:
On 12/16/2012 12:00 PM, Darrien Glasser wrote:
Hey guys, I'm working on a Python rock paper scissors (lizard spock)
game, and the beginning is
complete. After I finished it, I thought, You know what? I think I
can make this even better, and add
On 12/17/2012 12:27 PM, Gnarlodious wrote:
Hello. What I want to do is delete every dictionary key/value of the name
'Favicon' regardless of depth in subdicts, of which there are many. What is the
best way to do it?
-- Gnarlie
Something like this should work:
def delkey(d, key):
if
On 12/17/2012 01:30 PM, Tim Chase wrote:
On 12/17/12 11:43, Mitya Sirenef wrote:
On 12/17/2012 12:27 PM, Gnarlodious wrote:
Hello. What I want to do is delete every dictionary key/value
of the name 'Favicon' regardless of depth in subdicts, of which
there are many. What is the best way to do
On 12/17/2012 05:00 PM, Dave Angel wrote:
On 12/17/2012 04:33 PM, Mitya Sirenef wrote:
On 12/17/2012 01:30 PM, Tim Chase wrote:
On 12/17/12 11:43, Mitya Sirenef wrote:
On 12/17/2012 12:27 PM, Gnarlodious wrote:
Hello. What I want to do is delete every dictionary key/value
of the name
On 12/20/2012 08:46 PM, larry.mart...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thursday, December 20, 2012 6:17:04 PM UTC-7, Dave Angel wrote:
On 12/20/2012 07:19 PM, larry.mart...@gmail.com wrote:
I have a list of tuples that contains a tool_id, a time, and a message. I want
to select from this list all the
On 12/20/2012 09:39 PM, Mitya Sirenef wrote:
On 12/20/2012 08:46 PM, larry.mart...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thursday, December 20, 2012 6:17:04 PM UTC-7, Dave Angel wrote:
On 12/20/2012 07:19 PM, larry.mart...@gmail.com wrote:
I have a list of tuples that contains a tool_id, a time, and a
message
On 12/21/2012 12:23 AM, iMath wrote:
Pass and return
Are these two functions the same ?
def test():
return
def test():
pass
I believe they are the same, but these statements have
different meanings in other circumstances, e.g.:
Class A(object): pass
def test():
if x:
On 12/21/2012 12:23 AM, iMath wrote:
Pass and return
Are these two functions the same ?
def test():
return
def test():
pass
From the point of style, of course, the latter is
much better because that's the idiomatic way
to define a no-op function. With a return, it
looks
On 12/21/2012 03:52 AM, Duncan Booth wrote:
Mitya Sirenef msire...@lightbird.net wrote:
On 12/21/2012 12:23 AM, iMath wrote:
Pass and return
Are these two functions the same ?
def test():
return
def test():
pass
From the point of style, of course, the latter is
much
On 12/23/2012 08:46 AM, KarlE wrote:
On Saturday, December 22, 2012 9:36:41 PM UTC+1, KarlE wrote:
Hi!
Im totally new to Python, and im using it on my Raspberry pi. I found a program
that sends an email, and one that checks the temperature of my CPU, but i cant
seem to combine the to into
On 12/26/2012 01:17 AM, Kevin Anthony wrote:
Hello,
I'm writing a file processing script(Linux), and i would like to have
a progress bar. But i would also like to be able to print messages.
Is there a simple way of doing this without implementing something
like ncurses?
--
Thanks
Kevin
On 12/26/2012 04:40 PM, bobflipperdoo...@gmail.com wrote:
I really hope you can help!
I need to create a program where the user can order any combination and quantity of 3 products. I then offer a 10% discount if the customer correctly answers a trivia question. After that, there are 3
On 12/26/2012 06:21 PM, bobflipperdoo...@gmail.com wrote:
Thank you very much for your reply. I actually just deleted this post as you
were replying! I had figured out a few things and then got confused about a
few others :/ If you have a chance, can you look at the other post? Thank
On 12/26/2012 07:04 PM, bobflipperdoo...@gmail.com wrote:
First, sorry for starting a new post - I didn't want anyone to have to read
through the whole first one when the questions were completely different :/
Second, I honestly have no idea how to answer your questions. I am a sophomore
in
On 12/26/2012 08:00 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Joshua Landau
joshua.landau...@gmail.com wrote:
FINALLY:
When you use Google Groups, your quotations look to us like this:
This is something I said
with lots of extra
lines in the middle
for no reason. Google
On 12/26/2012 08:23 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Mitya Sirenef msire...@lightbird.net wrote:
I have to agree - I saw that howto as well and it occurred to me
that if we have to delete blank lines manually we might
as well use postal pigeons with tiny little
On 12/26/2012 10:09 PM, Gnarlodious wrote:
This is problem that has unduly vexed me. When you start learning
Python they don't tell you about these sharp edges. Someone needs to
explain. -- Gnarlie
In fact, if there were no bugs, there would be no need to explain nor to
pick the
right time
On 12/27/2012 02:45 AM, Abhas Bhattacharya wrote:
On Thursday, 27 December 2012 10:22:15 UTC+5:30, Tim Roberts wrote:
Abhas Bhattacharya abhasbhattachar...@gmail.com wrote:
While I am defining a function, how can I access the name (separately as
string as well as object) of the function
On 12/27/2012 03:26 AM, Abhas Bhattacharya wrote:
On Thursday, 27 December 2012 13:33:34 UTC+5:30, Mitya Sirenef wrote:
How about defining a function that prints value and then calls a function?
def call(func_name):
print(mydict[func_name])
globals()[func_name]()
You could
On 12/28/2012 12:33 PM, alankrin...@gmail.com wrote:
I think 396 just comes from the end of the Python loop, without indicating which line in the loop is
at issue.
Here is the full code from this section of the loop:
for (
msr, brk, dmn, src, dspd1, dspd2, dspd3, dspd4, dspd5, dspd6,
On 12/28/2012 12:55 PM, Mitya Sirenef wrote:
On 12/28/2012 12:33 PM, alankrin...@gmail.com wrote:
I think 396 just comes from the end of the Python loop, without
indicating which line in the loop is
at issue.
Here is the full code from this section of the loop:
for (
msr, brk, dmn, src
On 12/28/2012 01:05 PM, Mitya Sirenef wrote:
On 12/28/2012 12:55 PM, Mitya Sirenef wrote:
On 12/28/2012 12:33 PM, alankrin...@gmail.com wrote:
I think 396 just comes from the end of the Python loop, without
indicating which line in the loop is
at issue.
Here is the full code from
On 12/29/2012 12:44 PM, Monte Milanuk wrote:
Maybe its because I'm still just a hobbyist when it comes to coding, but I spend far more time
'thinking' about what I'm doing than typing things in... so shaving a
few seconds here and there are less important to me.
I think the general idea is
On 12/29/2012 02:48 PM, Quint Rankid wrote:
Newbie question. I've googled a little and haven't found the answer.
Given a list like:
w = [1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 4, 4, 5, 6, 1]
I would like to be able to do the following as a dict comprehension.
a = {}
for x in w:
a[x] = a.get(x,0) + 1
results in a
On 12/29/2012 03:01 PM, Mitya Sirenef wrote:
On 12/29/2012 02:48 PM, Quint Rankid wrote:
Newbie question. I've googled a little and haven't found the answer.
Given a list like:
w = [1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 4, 4, 5, 6, 1]
I would like to be able to do the following as a dict comprehension
On 12/29/2012 03:50 PM, Morten Engvoldsen wrote:
Hi Dave,
It is able to log the message with:
logger.debug(value of payment_line is +repr(payment_line))
The output is:
value of payment_line is []
So it means payment_line is an empty list, so may be it could be
reason it's not able to
On 12/29/2012 03:15 PM, Joel Goldstick wrote:
On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Mitya Sirenef msire...@lightbird.net
mailto:msire...@lightbird.net wrote:
On 12/29/2012 03:01 PM, Mitya Sirenef wrote:
On 12/29/2012 02:48 PM, Quint Rankid wrote:
Newbie question. I've
On 12/29/2012 04:52 PM, Roy Smith wrote:
In the big for loop, a couple of lines down, no, not there, the other
for loop, yeah, now go down a couple of lines, no that's too far, back
up one. Yeah there. On that line, why do you ...
with:
On line 647, why do you ...
It's even better when
On 12/29/2012 05:30 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
In the big for loop, a couple of lines down, no, not there, the other
for loop, yeah, now go down a couple of lines, no that's too far, back
up one. Yeah there. On that line, why do you ...
with:
On line 647, why do you ...
Absolutely! Though
On 12/31/2012 06:42 PM, worldsbiggestsabres...@gmail.com wrote:
Hey :)
I'm trying to help my son with an assignment and spending hours
making an inch of progress. I know nothing about programming and I'm
trying to learn, on my own, at a rate faster than possible. I would love
a little
On 12/31/2012 07:29 PM, Mitya Sirenef wrote:
Hi! First I want to note that this task would be easier and better to do
with a break statement, so it's quite unfortunate that the teacher did
not cover the right tools (and very basic ones, in fact) and yet given
this task.
Another question
On 12/31/2012 08:30 PM, worldsbiggestsabres...@gmail.com wrote:
Here is what I've learned:
1) There's a bunch of extremely helpful and wonderful people here.
2) There's a bunch of very intelligent people here.
3) I still don't have any idea what I'm doing.
4) It's New Year's Eve and I'm
On 12/31/2012 10:46 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Sat, 29 Dec 2012 14:00:23 -0500, Mitya Sirenef wrote:
I think the general idea is that with editors like Vim you don't get
distracted by having to do some kind of an editor task, letting you keep
your full attention on the code logic
On 01/01/2013 02:02 PM, Roy Smith wrote:
In article mailman.1528.1357065822.29569.python-l...@python.org,
Mitya Sirenef msire...@lightbird.net wrote:
Clunky is the last word I'd use to describe it (ok maybe for Emacs :-)
I probably remember about 200 commands, plus or minus, but a lot
On 01/02/2013 04:33 PM, Michael Torrie wrote:
On 01/01/2013 11:43 AM, Mitya Sirenef wrote:
Therefore, deleting 3 WORDs is 3daW (mnemonic: del a WORD 3 times).
Interesting. I typically use just d3w. 3daW seems to delete 3 lines
for me, the same result as d3enter. Another favorite command
On 01/02/2013 10:17 PM, Wayne Werner wrote:
On Tue, 1 Jan 2013, Mitya Sirenef wrote:
On 01/01/2013 02:02 PM, Roy Smith wrote:
That's true with Vim, as well, especially when I'm making a custom
mapping and I can NEVER remember what some combination does, even though
if I actually needed to use
On 01/02/2013 11:32 PM, Kene Meniru wrote:
This sounds so simple but being new to python I am finding it hard to get
started. I want to create a module which I will call B. There will be
other modules called C, D, etc, which will most likely be
imported in
B. Then I want the user to import
On 01/03/2013 12:32 AM, Kene Meniru wrote:
Mitya Sirenef wrote:
Where is snap_size from? Where is LinearMark from? You don't need to
instantiate LinearMark in B, do it in A.
I want to hide as much of the python syntax from the file A so the
user
just concentrates on using the classes
On 01/03/2013 07:53 AM, Kene Meniru wrote:
Mitya Sirenef wrote:
So, how many instances do you want to make.. what kind of different
functionality / properties they will have?
- mitya
I am porting a modeling system I created using POV-Ray scene description
language available
On 01/03/2013 02:30 PM, Kene Meniru wrote:
Mitya Sirenef wrote:
I'm not familiar with POV-Ray. I want to note that with python standard
style, class names look like this: ClassName, instances look like this:
instance_name; it sounds like you want LMark to be an instance? Or you
want
On 01/03/2013 07:08 PM, Kene Meniru wrote:
LinearSide.put(Dining, (x,y,z)) # moves 'Dining' to x,y,z location
The put function of the LinearSide boundary class finds Dining (which is
an entity class called LinearSideData) in the dictionary and then allows
this LinearSideData class to calculate
On 01/03/2013 07:43 PM, Kene Meniru wrote:
Mitya Sirenef wrote:
That's what I thought, just wanted to confirm.
However, if your objective to make it as easy for the user as possible,
is it not easier to bind dining to a name and then do this?:
dining.move(x, y, z)
Absolutely. I just found
On 01/05/2013 03:35 AM, Sia wrote:
I have strings such as:
tA.-2AG.-2AG,-2ag
or
.+3ACG.+5CAACG.+3ACG.+3ACG
The plus and minus signs are always followed by a number (say, i). I
want python to find each single plus or minus, remove the sign, the
number after it and remove i characters
On 01/06/2013 01:32 AM, Mitya Sirenef wrote:
On 01/05/2013 03:35 AM, Sia wrote:
I have strings such as:
tA.-2AG.-2AG,-2ag
or
.+3ACG.+5CAACG.+3ACG.+3ACG
The plus and minus signs are always followed by a number (say, i). I
want python to find each single plus or minus, remove the sign
On Sun 06 Jan 2013 04:38:29 PM EST, andydtay...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
I'm trying to create a process which will create a new table and populate it.
But something is preventing this from working, and I don't know enough to
figure it out, despite having spent most of today reading up. The
On Sun 06 Jan 2013 04:53:32 PM EST, andydtay...@gmail.com wrote:
Wow it's as simple as that! I'm afraid my database experience is in Microsoft
Access in Windows and not at the command line, so that wasn't intuitive for me.
Thanks again,
Andy
IIRC I made the same mistake when I was using
On Tue 08 Jan 2013 07:19:59 PM EST, andydtay...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi!
I might be missing the obvious, or I may have found something more complicated
than the VBA I am used to. Could it be I need to use a maths library?
For a given list of k items I'd like to turn it into an k*k matrix of item
On Wed 09 Jan 2013 03:23:56 AM EST, skyworld wrote:
Hi,
I see someone's code as this:
class ABC:
def __init__(self, env):
...
self.jmpTable['batchQ']['submit_job'] = self.lsf_submit
...
def lsf_submit(self, cmd,env):
.
what
On Wed 09 Jan 2013 07:19:10 PM EST, andydtay...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi John,
He're the code I would like to see work. The cursor_to is an oversight. I
extracted this element from some other code in an attempt to isolate/resolve
the problem myself, hence having a simplified table version. Which
On Wed 09 Jan 2013 09:20:10 PM EST, andydtay...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks for your help guys.
I was actually doing a few things wrong, but I have got this script to work by
declaring fields as varchar and all values as strings. But I would like to log
journey time values in hours/minutes, so I
On 01/11/2013 09:24 AM, Matt Jones wrote:
Pay isn't linked to the people in any way. A dictionary would serve
this purpose better (at least in this simple example).
database = {
'Mac' : 1000,
'Sam' : 2000
}
name = raw_input('Enter your name:')
if name in database.keys(): print your
On 01/13/2013 01:35 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Sun, 13 Jan 2013 00:11:53 -0500, AK wrote:
I don't know what to call these, so for now I'll call them training
text movies until I come up with a better name..
I hope these will be helpful, especially to new students of Python.
On 01/13/2013 02:28 AM, Terry Reedy wrote:
On 1/13/2013 2:08 AM, Mitya Sirenef wrote:
On 01/13/2013 01:35 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Sun, 13 Jan 2013 00:11:53 -0500, AK wrote:
I don't know what to call these, so for now I'll call them training
text movies until I come up
On 01/13/2013 07:45 AM, subhabangal...@gmail.com wrote:
Dear Group,
I have a list like,
list1=[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12]
Now, if I want to take a slice of it, I can.
It may be done in,
list2=list1[:3]
print list2
[1, 2, 3]
If I want to iterate the list, I may do as,
for i in list1:
On 01/14/2013 01:34 AM, Franck Ditter wrote:
In article mailman.469.1358088303.2939.python-l...@python.org,
Jason Friedman ja...@powerpull.net wrote:
That is right; I would also add that it may be overwhelming for a newbie
to be reading through a large wall of text -- here you have blank
On 01/19/2013 02:27 AM, Vito De Tullio wrote:
Chris Rebert wrote:
How can I add a key in a thread-safe manner?
I'm not entirely sure, but have you investigated dict.setdefault() ?
but how setdefault makes sense in this context? It's used to set a default
value when you try to retrieve an
On 01/19/2013 02:35 AM, Mitya Sirenef wrote:
On 01/19/2013 02:27 AM, Vito De Tullio wrote:
Chris Rebert wrote:
How can I add a key in a thread-safe manner?
I'm not entirely sure, but have you investigated dict.setdefault() ?
but how setdefault makes sense in this context? It's used to set
On 01/19/2013 04:32 AM, Franck Ditter wrote:
In article mailman.488.1358146579.2939.python-l...@python.org,
Mitya Sirenef msire...@lightbird.net wrote:
On 01/14/2013 01:34 AM, Franck Ditter wrote:
In article mailman.469.1358088303.2939.python-l...@python.org,
Jason Friedman ja
On 01/19/2013 05:13 AM, Santosh Kumar wrote:
I have a working script which takes argv[1] as an input, deassembles
each line, and then each word. Then after it capitalizes all its word
(upcases the first letter) and then prints it out on the stdout.
That script does the capitalization work fine,
...@python.org,
Mitya Sirenef msire...@lightbird.net wrote:
On 01/19/2013 04:32 AM, Franck Ditter wrote:
In article mailman.488.1358146579.2939.python-l...@python.org,
Mitya Sirenef msire...@lightbird.net wrote:
On 01/14/2013 01:34 AM, Franck Ditter wrote:
In article mailman.469.1358088303.2939
On 01/20/2013 05:04 PM, Garry wrote:
I'm trying to manipulate family tree data using Python.
I'm using linux and Python 2.7.3 and have data files saved as Linux formatted
cvs files
The data appears in this format:
Marriage,Husband,Wife,Date,Place,Source,Note0x0a
Note: the Source field or the
On 01/20/2013 09:24 PM, alex23 wrote:
On Jan 21, 9:32 am, Dave Angel d...@davea.name wrote:
On 01/20/2013 06:14 PM, alex23 wrote:
On Jan 20, 7:23 pm, Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 8:17 PM, iMath redstone-c...@163.com wrote:
so what is your opinion about
On 01/20/2013 11:40 PM, eli m wrote:
an else statement is running when it shouldnt be. It is on the last line. Whenever i am in the math
or game function, when i type in main, it goes back to the start of the
program, but it also says not a valid function. I am stumped!
Here is my code:
On 01/20/2013 11:59 PM, eli m wrote:
Your else is lined up with while, not with if.
-m
--
Lark's Tongue Guide to Python: http://lightbird.net/larks/
When a friend succeeds, I die a little. Gore Vidal
Its lined up. It got messed up when i copied the code into the post.
I
On 01/21/2013 02:30 AM, rusi wrote:
On Jan 13, 12:08 pm, Mitya Sirenef msire...@lightbird.net wrote:
Sure: they play back a list of instructions on use of string methods and
list comprehensions along with demonstration in a mock-up of the
interpreter with a different display effect
On 01/21/2013 03:07 AM, Franck Ditter wrote:
Ok I can make my way with jstmovie. Some remarks and questions :
- Use encoding='utf-8' inside open of method __init__ of class Tutorial
in jstmovie.py. Otherwise foreign languages are stuck.
- To use the software outside Python, we need to
On 01/21/2013 03:07 AM, Franck Ditter wrote:
Ok I can make my way with jstmovie. Some remarks and questions :
- Use encoding='utf-8' inside open of method __init__ of class Tutorial
in jstmovie.py. Otherwise foreign languages are stuck.
Thanks, will fix this.. -m
--
Lark's Tongue Guide
On 01/21/2013 06:30 AM, Franck Ditter wrote:
In article mailman.731.1358757093.2939.python-l...@python.org,
Mitya Sirenef msire...@lightbird.net wrote:
- To use the software outside Python, we need to have proper
indentation
as real spaces. We should be able to distinguish Arial type
On 01/22/2013 12:33 PM, rusi wrote:
On Jan 22, 8:59 pm, Ferrous Cranus nikos.gr...@gmail.com wrote:
I just need a way to CONVERT a string(absolute path) to a 4-digit
unique number with INT!!!
That's all i want!! But i cannot make it work :(
I just need a way to eat my soup with a
On 01/27/2013 03:24 PM, Κώστας Παπαδόπουλος wrote:
Τη Κυριακή, 27 Ιανουαρίου 2013 9:12:16 μ.μ. UTC+2, ο χρήστης ru...@yahoo.com
έγραψε:
python code
Yes indeed, there is no need to use a loop since i know the exact
number of items i'am expecting. Thanks you very much for clarifying this
On 01/28/2013 09:09 PM, iMath wrote:
what is the difference between commenting and uncommenting the __init__ method
in this class?
class CounterList(list):
counter = 0
## def __init__(self, *args):
## super(CounterList, self).__init__(*args)
def __getitem__(self, index):
On 01/29/2013 09:55 PM, Daniel W. Rouse Jr. wrote:
Hi all,
I have recently started learning Python (2.7.3) but need a better
explanation of how to use tuples and dictionaries.
I am currently using Learning Python by Mark Lutz and David Ascher,
published by O'Reilly (ISBN
On 02/10/2013 05:44 PM, ISE Development wrote:
Is it considered acceptable practice (e.g. not confusing, not
surprising or not Pythonic) to allow multiple ways to access
the same attributes?
For example, supposing I am providing access to external
devices, that these parameters may vary
On 02/15/2013 10:22 PM, eli m wrote:
Any small program ideas? I would prefer to stick to command line ones. Thanks.
How about these two:
- simulation of a street crossing with green/red lights allowing cars
and pedestrians to pass in one direction then another
- simulation of an elevator
On 02/15/2013 10:57 PM, eli m wrote:
On Friday, February 15, 2013 7:52:57 PM UTC-8, Mitya Sirenef wrote:
On 02/15/2013 10:22 PM, eli m wrote:
Any small program ideas? I would prefer to stick to command line ones. Thanks.
How about these two:
- simulation of a street crossing
On 02/18/2013 07:52 PM, Jon Reyes wrote:
So I have a dictionary and the key is a number. The values are either a single tuple or a tuple of
tuples. Is there a better way to go about accessing the values of the
dictionary? All the tuples contain four elements.
So say:
col = {1: (0,1,2,3):
On 02/18/2013 08:38 PM, Jon Reyes wrote:
Hi Mark. Well, doesn't iteritems() work the same? or am I missing something? By the way I'm
sure I read the dictionaries part of Python but I'm unsure if it would
take int's as a key for dictionaries. I've been weaned on Java where the
keys of hashmaps
On 02/18/2013 09:17 PM, Jon Reyes wrote:
Thanks Dave and Mitya for enlightening me about dictionaries. I'm still
confused about this though:
so that if two
key objects are equal, they stay equal, and if they differ, they stay
different.
What does this mean? I won't be comparing key
On 02/18/2013 10:14 PM, Dave Angel wrote:
On 02/18/2013 09:54 PM, Mitya Sirenef wrote:
On 02/18/2013 09:17 PM, Jon Reyes wrote:
Thanks Dave and Mitya for enlightening me about dictionaries. I'm
still confused about this though:
so that if two
key objects are equal, they stay equal
On 02/21/2013 04:26 PM, Piterrr wrote:
Hi folks.
I am a long time C sharp dev, just learning Python now due to job
requirements. My initial impression is that Python has got to be the
most ambiguous and vague language I have seen to date. I have major
issues with the fact that white space
On 02/22/2013 06:58 AM, Rui Maciel wrote:
Mitya Sirenef wrote:
Looks very unclear and confusing to me. Whether it's C# or ruby or
anything else, most devs don't indent like that;
The Go programming language makes that style mandatory.
Rui Maciel
I was referring to different
On 02/22/2013 04:37 PM, piterrr.dolin...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks to everyone for all the posts, some friendly some not. I read all of
them with genuine interest.
So I am continuing to learn Python, here are my new observations for
your consideration.
There seems to be a heated argument
On 02/22/2013 09:18 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Steven D'Aprano
steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote:
On Fri, 22 Feb 2013 20:47:20 -0500, Mitya Sirenef wrote:
It's been used for many important projects by a huge number of big
companies:
http
On 02/24/2013 12:29 PM, Michael Torrie wrote:
I think he's maintaining existing code. It's unfortunate that his first
exposure to python is code written by someone else in such a poor style,
and in a way that definitely isn't pythonic. No wonder he's struggling
to like python! Though I'm
On 02/24/2013 01:23 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Sun, 24 Feb 2013 13:09:56 -0500, Mitya Sirenef wrote:
On 02/24/2013 12:29 PM, Michael Torrie wrote:
Another way to explain the double underscore methods is that they are
how things like operator overloading is performed. Want to make
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