Re: why cannot assign to function call

2009-01-08 Thread Dan Esch
Absolutely. Trivially and at a high level, teaching python to kids who are learning programming as introductory material teaching python to motivated college graduate students teaching python to adult non-professional programmers with a need to learn python (like for instance, frustrated

Work with Open Office

2009-01-08 Thread Dan Esch
Okay, I'm currently stuck with VBA / Excel in work and the following paradigm: VB (6? .NET? not sure) == VBA == Excel 2003 and Access Where I'd like to be is this Python == X == Open Office / (MySQL or other) for some sufficiently useful value of X. Does it exist? Is it just a set of

Re: Work with Open Office

2009-01-08 Thread Dan Esch
Have been browsing through this list and reading documentation and tutorials for python self-study. I have, apparently, teh stupid. Google is my friend. Off I go. Thanks. On 1/8/09, Benjamin Kaplan benjamin.kap...@case.edu wrote: On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 10:07 AM, Dan Esch daniel.a.e

Re: why cannot assign to function call

2009-01-07 Thread Dan Esch
Wait a sec... I think I get this... In essence, the implication of immutability for Python is that there is only one parrot, one spam,in fact one anything. (This seems like it must hold for data primitives - does it hold for complex objects as well? It seems it must...) In addition there is only

Re: why cannot assign to function call

2009-01-07 Thread Dan Esch
...@holdenweb.com wrote: Dan Esch wrote: Wait a sec... I think I get this... In essence, the implication of immutability for Python is that there is only one parrot, one spam,in fact one anything. (This seems like it must hold for data primitives - does it hold for complex objects as well

Learning Python and the Zen of the Mailing List

2008-05-13 Thread Dan Esch
I decided to learn Python. I decided to learn Python because I hate visual basic for applications and I can feel my brain shrink everytime I invoke that freaking macro editor. It's bad enough that Mwfdg [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] had to eliminate the original simple keystroke macro