Re: Sending changed parameters into nested generators

2010-11-18 Thread cbr...@cbrownsystems.com
On Nov 12, 10:52 pm, John O'Hagan resea...@johnohagan.com wrote: On Sat, 13 Nov 2010, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 09:47:26 +, John O'Hagan wrote: I have a generator function which takes as arguments another generator and a dictionary of other generators like this:

Re: IDLE debugger questions

2010-11-13 Thread cbr...@cbrownsystems.com
On Oct 23, 7:29 am, Roger Davis r...@hawaii.edu wrote: snip Are there any Python debuggers with a decent GUI out there at all that will work on a Mac with the following features: (i) ability to pass in a sys.srgv[] list that the program would otherwise see without the debugger, (ii) display

Re: multiple discontinued ranges

2010-11-11 Thread cbr...@cbrownsystems.com
On Nov 10, 10:02 am, Mel mwil...@the-wire.com wrote: xoff wrote: I was wondering what the best method was in Python programming for 2 discontinued ranges. e.g. I want to use the range 3 to 7 and 17 to 23. Am I obliged to use 2 for loops defining the 2 ranges like this: for i in range

Re: text file reformatting

2010-11-01 Thread cbr...@cbrownsystems.com
On Oct 31, 11:46 pm, iwawi iwawi...@gmail.com wrote: On 31 loka, 21:48, Tim Chase python.l...@tim.thechases.com wrote: PRJ01001 4 00100END PRJ01002 3 00110END I would like to pick only some columns to a new file and put them to a certain places (to match previous data) -

Re: text file reformatting

2010-11-01 Thread cbr...@cbrownsystems.com
On Nov 1, 1:58 am, iwawi iwawi...@gmail.com wrote: On 1 marras, 09:59, cbr...@cbrownsystems.com cbr...@cbrownsystems.com wrote: On Oct 31, 11:46 pm, iwawi iwawi...@gmail.com wrote: On 31 loka, 21:48, Tim Chase python.l...@tim.thechases.com wrote: PRJ01001 4 00100END PRJ01002

Re: text file reformatting

2010-10-31 Thread cbr...@cbrownsystems.com
On Oct 31, 12:48 pm, Tim Chase python.l...@tim.thechases.com wrote: PRJ01001 4 00100END PRJ01002 3 00110END I would like to pick only some columns to a new file and put them to a certain places (to match previous data) - definition file (def.csv) could be something like this:

Re: Pythonic way of saying 'at least one of a, b, or c is in some_list'

2010-10-31 Thread cbr...@cbrownsystems.com
On Oct 31, 4:27 pm, Lawrence D'Oliveiro l...@geek- central.gen.new_zealand wrote: In message 687bcb76-0093-4d68-ba56-0390a3e1e...@30g2000yql.googlegroups.com, cbr...@cbrownsystems.com wrote: I should note that efficiency is not an issue to me here; this is for when you have, say, a list

Re: Pythonic way of saying 'at least one of a, b, or c is in some_list'

2010-10-29 Thread cbr...@cbrownsystems.com
On Oct 28, 11:56 am, Arnaud Delobelle arno...@gmail.com wrote: cbr...@cbrownsystems.com cbr...@cbrownsystems.com writes: It's clear but tedious to write: if 'monday in days_off or tuesday in days_off:     doSomething I currently am tending to write: if any([d for d in ['monday

Re: Pythonic way of saying 'at least one of a, b, or c is in some_list'

2010-10-29 Thread cbr...@cbrownsystems.com
On Oct 29, 2:43 am, Steven D'Aprano st...@remove-this- cybersource.com.au wrote: On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 09:16:42 -0700, cbr...@cbrownsystems.com wrote: It's clear but tedious to write: if 'monday in days_off or tuesday in days_off:     doSomething I currently am tending to write: if any

Pythonic way of saying 'at least one of a, b, or c is in some_list'

2010-10-28 Thread cbr...@cbrownsystems.com
It's clear but tedious to write: if 'monday in days_off or tuesday in days_off: doSomething I currently am tending to write: if any([d for d in ['monday', 'tuesday'] if d in days_off]): doSomething Is there a better pythonic idiom for this situation? Cheers - Chas --

Re: Pythonic way of saying 'at least one of a, b, or c is in some_list'

2010-10-28 Thread cbr...@cbrownsystems.com
On Oct 28, 9:23 am, John Posner jjpos...@optimum.net wrote: On 10/28/2010 12:16 PM, cbr...@cbrownsystems.com wrote: It's clear but tedious to write: if 'monday in days_off or tuesday in days_off:      doSomething I currently am tending to write: if any([d for d in ['monday

Re: Pythonic way of saying 'at least one of a, b, or c is in some_list'

2010-10-28 Thread cbr...@cbrownsystems.com
On Oct 28, 10:05 am, Chris Rebert c...@rebertia.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 9:33 AM, cbr...@cbrownsystems.com cbr...@cbrownsystems.com wrote: On Oct 28, 9:23 am, John Posner jjpos...@optimum.net wrote: On 10/28/2010 12:16 PM, cbr...@cbrownsystems.com wrote: It's clear

Re: lists and list item matches (ghost wodgame)

2010-09-22 Thread cbr...@cbrownsystems.com
On Sep 22, 3:39 pm, Baba raoul...@gmail.com wrote: On Sep 22, 9:18 pm, Baba raoul...@gmail.com wrote: On Sep 22, 3:38 pm, nn prueba...@latinmail.com wrote: On Sep 21, 6:39 pm, Baba raoul...@gmail.com wrote: Hi query level: beginner as part of a learning exercise i have

Re: looping through possible combinations of McNuggets packs of 6, 9 and 20

2010-08-18 Thread cbr...@cbrownsystems.com
On Aug 17, 2:44 pm, Baba raoul...@gmail.com wrote: On Aug 16, 6:28 pm, cbr...@cbrownsystems.com cbr...@cbrownsystems.com wrote: First, suppose d = gcd(x, y, z); then for some x', y', z' we have that x = d*x', y = d*y', z = d*z'; and so for any a, b, c:    could you explain the notation

Re: looping through possible combinations of McNuggets packs of 6, 9 and 20

2010-08-18 Thread cbr...@cbrownsystems.com
On Aug 18, 10:52 am, Baba raoul...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Chas Thanks for that and i agree on your last remark :) re the number of required consecutive passes required: The number of required consecutive passes is equal to the smallest number because after that you can get any amount of

Re: looping through possible combinations of McNuggets packs of 6, 9 and 20

2010-08-18 Thread cbr...@cbrownsystems.com
On Aug 18, 11:50 am, John Posner jjpos...@optimum.net wrote: On 8/18/2010 1:38 PM, cbr...@cbrownsystems.com wrote: To go the other way, if d = 1, then there exists integers (not neccessarily positive) such that a*x + b*y + c*z = 1 That fact is non-trivial, although the proof isn't *too

Re: looping through possible combinations of McNuggets packs of 6, 9 and 20

2010-08-16 Thread cbr...@cbrownsystems.com
On Aug 16, 1:23 am, Roald de Vries downa...@gmail.com wrote: On Aug 15, 2010, at 11:51 PM, Ian Kelly wrote: On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Baba raoul...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Mel, indeed i thought of generalising the theorem as follows: If it is possible to buy n, n+1,…, n+(x-1) sets

Re: looping through possible combinations of McNuggets packs of 6, 9 and 20

2010-08-16 Thread cbr...@cbrownsystems.com
On Aug 16, 11:04 am, Baba raoul...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Chas, Roald, These are all complicated formula that i believe are not expected at this level. If you look at the source (see my first submission) you will see that this exercise is only the second in a series called Introduction to