cubits did compass it round about. . So pi=3. End Of.
RIIght. What's a cubit?
I use cubits all the time. The distance from my elbow to my finger tips equals
one cubit. When you don't have a proper measuring tape, it can be pretty
accurate for comparing two measurements.
Kee Nethery
My favorite approximation is: 355/113 (visualize 113355 split into two 113 355
and then do the division). The first 6 decimal places are the same.
3.141592920353982 = 355/113
vs
3.1415926535897931
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. The O'Reilly books talk about the
language but are scarce on actual code.
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On Nov 2, 2010, at 11:07 AM, Ian wrote:
On 02/11/2010 14:47, jk wrote:
I think the key difference is that I don't want to have to *read*
the
python docs - I want to be able to scan for what I'm looking for and
find it easily. That makes me productive.
Hi jk,
I totally agree. But you
tried and what ultimately worked. The suggestion was
made that people create their own documentation if they don't like the official
documentation, and that does seem to be a good source for python documentation.
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results. He's
8 years old.
http://scratch.mit.edu
For introducing kids to programming, I recommend Scratch.
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, the text
could be interpreted as SQL and that is what you must avoid.
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I string together a bunch of elif statements to simulate a switch
if foo == True:
blah
elif bar == True:
blah blah
elif bar == False:
blarg
elif
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On Nov 3, 2009, at 5:27 PM, John Machin wrote:
On Nov 4, 11:01 am, Kee Nethery k...@kagi.com wrote:
Having an issue with elementtree XML() in python 2.6.4.
This code works fine:
from xml.etree import ElementTree as et
getResponse = u'''?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8
it down to just what is failing. Hopefully I have
not removed something essential.
Why is this not working and what do I need to do to use Elementtree
with unicode?
Thanks, Kee Nethery
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On Nov 3, 2009, at 4:44 PM, Gabriel Genellina wrote:
En Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:01:46 -0300, Kee Nethery k...@kagi.com
escribió:
I've removed all the stuff in my code and tried to distill it down
to just what is failing. Hopefully I have not removed something
essential.
Sounds like I did
On Nov 3, 2009, at 7:06 PM, Gabriel Genellina wrote:
En Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:06:58 -0300, Kee Nethery k...@kagi.com
escribió:
If there was a place in the official docs for me to append these
nuggets of information to the sections for
xml.etree.ElementTree.XML(text
I just noticed the tag line a place for Python. Looked it up online (http://pyfora.org/
) and it will be interesting to see if it can fill the void that I
experience (no centralized place to post and view user submitted
sample code) in the existing Python community.
As for user community
used to test code changes to the
various modules?
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On Oct 19, 2009, at 12:06 PM, Paul Rubin wrote:
Kee Nethery k...@kagi.com writes:
do not appear to contain examples for each object, interface or
function. Where would I find examples that use each elementtree
function, interface and object?
effbot.org has a few.
yes I agree it has a few
On Oct 19, 2009, at 1:02 PM, Robert Kern wrote:
On 2009-10-19 14:50 PM, Kee Nethery wrote:
Am looking for that level of documentation for each function,
interface
and object listed in the official docs for elementtree.
Does it exist?
No.
Thank you.
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and open the file, as UTF8 looks just like ASCII --
until it contains characters that can't be expressed in ASCII. But I
don't know what type of file it is you're saving.
We found that UTF-16 was required for Excel. It would not do the
right thing when presented with UTF-8.
Kee Nethery
in checkPrime what do you return when x is less than 2?
On Sep 12, 2009, at 8:46 AM, Someone Something wrote:
But, I'm returning true or false right?
On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 11:32 AM, MRAB pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com
wrote:
Someone Something wrote:
Project euler (in case you don't know:
I am in 2.x because the IDE I am using does not support stepping
through my code when in 3.x. As soon as the IDE I use supports
debugging in 3.x, I'm moving up to 3.x.
I would prefer to be in 3.x because all the inconsistencies of how you
do things in 2.x make it harder than it needs to be
kee nethery k...@kagi.com added the comment:
No problem. I can parse text in an automated manner very easily. So if
you need someone to take the doc files and add in wiki URLs for each
section, I can do that. Happy to volunteer. Worst case is you look at
what I do and reject it. Best case
On Aug 21, 2009, at 7:15 PM, joy99 wrote:
Dear Group,
I like to convert some simple strings of natural language to XML. May
I use Python to do this? If any one can help me, on this.
I am using primarily UTF-8 based strings, like Hindi or Bengali. Can I
use Python to help me in this regard?
On Aug 22, 2009, at 3:32 AM, Stefan Behnel wrote:
You can use both, but I suspect parsing from StringIO to be slower
than
parsing from the string directly. That's the case for lxml, at least.
Note that fromstring() behaves the same as XML(), but it reads
better when
parsing from a
On Aug 14, 2009, at 1:55 PM, William wrote:
Personally, I rather like Wing
I tried Wing and basically as a newbie, there were too many setup
parameters that I did not know how to set correctly and I could never
get it to work for me. It runs under X11 and I guess that was just a
bit
From the web site it looks like the free version does not include the
debugging stuff.
I've been using the paid version with the debugger functionality and I
find it easy to use and incredibly nice for trying to understand what
the code is doing. The built-in debugger has saved me tons of
kee nethery k...@kagi.com added the comment:
Is there anything I can do to help this happen? Am thinking that these
are the steps to the process.
1. Create wiki.docs.python.org using the wiki setup template already
used by wiki.python.org.
2. Lock page creation except for one specific
a user contributions resource tied to the main official
docs to allow newbies to teach each other what they have learned. The
desire is for python.org to have the same kind of support resource so
that us newbies can self support each other.
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During all this conversation there was a ticket posted in the bug
tracking system with the suggestion of each section in the official
docs linking to a fixed wiki page that can contain user contributions.
The ticket has been closed because this addition to the official docs
is already in
On Aug 7, 2009, at 10:48 AM, alex23 wrote:
Kee Nethery k...@kagi.com wrote:
I'm looking forward to the acceleration of improvements to the
official docs based upon easy to provide user feedback. Glad to see
that the bug tracking system is going to not be the primary means for
documentation
kee nethery k...@kagi.com added the comment:
awesome. looking forward to it.
Kee
On Aug 6, 2009, at 3:38 PM, Georg Brandl wrote:
Georg Brandl ge...@python.org added the comment:
There will be comments for each function/class etc., as well as a
feature to suggest a change for the proper
with newbie questions and a need for
examples can get out of your way and do it ourselves.
Thanks,
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New submission from kee nethery k...@kagi.com:
Proposal: For each permalink headline in the official documentation,
link to a wiki page specific to that headline. Allow users to easily
view and contribute comments and examples around that specific
documentation headline. For example:
http
kee nethery k...@kagi.com added the comment:
Georg,
So there will be a link next to each numbered section in the
documentation that links to a user editable wiki page about that
section?
That will be highly useful. Glad to hear it. I know I'd like to
contribute the gotchas I was confused
detailed docs with lots of examples be written against the
latest python version.
Just a thought.
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into the
parts of arrays and dictionaries to see what the (for example) 5th
item of the 4th item named blah is set to and what type of data
element it is (int, unicode, etc). I find it tremendously useful as a
newbie to Python.
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the fact that you felt compelled to explain the one minor point in
the first snippet tells me that the second snippet does not need that
explanation and will be easier for someone (like you for example) to
maintain in the future.
Second snippet would be my choice.
Kee Nethery
On Jul 2
language) and I'm way past the 10,000 hour usage level on the
HyperTalk language. I'm barely at 100 hours with Python so right now
everything is a struggle. But I like Python and plan to stick with it.
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I'm a newbie and I need examples and I find that Python for Dummies is
my best paper source for examples.
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Until I'm an experience Python coder, I'm sticking with built-in
packages only. My simple CGI is:
#!/usr/bin/env python
# this simple CGI responds to a GET or a POST
# send anything you want to this and it will parrot it back.
# a line that starts with #2 is the old-style code you should
First, thanks to everyone who responded. Figured I'd test all the
suggestions and provide a response to the list. Here goes ...
On Jun 25, 2009, at 7:38 PM, Nobody wrote:
Why do you need an ElementTree rather than an Element? XML(string)
returns
the root element, as if you had used
(makeThisUnicodeStringLookLikeAFileSoParseWillDealWithIt(theXmlData))
Thanks in advance,
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normal.
Results tomorrow, thanks everyone for the assistance.
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New submission from kee nethery [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
issue: We spent quite a bit of time trying to figure out why EasyDialogs
was not working, no dialogs were appearing. Eventually I had to check an
AIM and noticed several icons bouncing in the dock. Scrolled over one
and it claimed
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