On 10 Sep, 19:59, Terry Reedy tjre...@udel.edu wrote:
On 9/10/2011 7:20 AM, Tigerstyle wrote:
Hi guys.
I'm strugglin with some homework stuff and am hoping you can help me
out here.
We appreciate you saying so instead of hiding that this is homework.
small_words = ('into',
On 10 Sep, 13:50, Thomas Jollans t...@jollybox.de wrote:
On 10/09/11 13:20, Tigerstyle wrote:
Hi guys.
I'm strugglin with some homework stuff and am hoping you can help me
out here.
All tests are failing even though I am getting the correct output on
the first two tests. And the last
On 10 Sep, 13:43, Mel mwil...@the-wire.com wrote:
Tigerstyle wrote:
Hi guys.
I'm strugglin with some homework stuff and am hoping you can help me
out here.
This is the code:
small_words = ('into', 'the', 'a', 'of', 'at', 'in', 'for', 'on')
def book_title(title):
Takes a
On 10 Sep, 17:56, Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 10:24 PM, Alister Ware
alister.w...@ntlworld.com wrote:
Ignoring the docttests my process would be to process each word then
manually capitalize he 1st word, .I would als0 use a comprehension as
makes for
On 11 Sep, 08:18, Dennis Lee Bieber wlfr...@ix.netcom.com wrote:
On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 16:25:42 -0700, Dennis Lee Bieber
wlfr...@ix.netcom.com declaimed the following in
gmane.comp.python.general:
in the language documentation... It will give you a simple way to know
if you are looking at
On 11 Sep, 04:12, t...@thsu.org wrote:
On Sep 10, 7:47 am, Peter Otten __pete...@web.de wrote:
Tigerstyle wrote:
I'm strugglin with some homework stuff and am hoping you can help me
out here.
This is the code:
small_words = ('into', 'the', 'a', 'of', 'at', 'in', 'for',
On 9/11/2011 7:46 AM, Tigerstyle wrote:
Thank you Terry,
I went for this solution as it was the easiest for me to understand
and comment myself keeping in mind what level I am at right now.
Thanks a ton to everyone for sharing so much information and making it
easy to read and understand
Chris Angelico wrote:
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 10:24 PM, Alister Ware
alister.w...@ntlworld.com wrote:
Ignoring the docttests my process would be to process each word then
manually capitalize he 1st word, .I would als0 use a comprehension as
makes for cleaner code:-
def capitalize(word):
if
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 4:43 AM, Ethan Furman et...@stoneleaf.us wrote:
Chris Angelico wrote:
And I'd do this with a lambda, but that's just me. Of course, if your
logic is more complicated, it makes more sense to keep it in a named
function, but a single conditional call can fit nicely into
Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com writes:
A lambda is basically a function defined in an expression. For instance:
def add_one(x):
return x+1
is (practically) the same as:
add_one = lambda x: x+1
Those are only practically the same if you ignore the practical worth of
a function knowing
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au wrote:
Those are only practically the same if you ignore the practical worth of
a function knowing the name it was defined with. The latter does not
have that, hence I don't see it as practically the same as the former.
I
On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 01:06 pm Chris Angelico wrote:
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au
wrote:
Those are only practically the same if you ignore the practical worth of
a function knowing the name it was defined with. The latter does not
have that, hence I
Hi guys.
I'm strugglin with some homework stuff and am hoping you can help me
out here.
This is the code:
small_words = ('into', 'the', 'a', 'of', 'at', 'in', 'for', 'on')
def book_title(title):
Takes a string and returns a title-case string.
All words EXCEPT for small words are made
Tigerstyle wrote:
Hi guys.
I'm strugglin with some homework stuff and am hoping you can help me
out here.
This is the code:
small_words = ('into', 'the', 'a', 'of', 'at', 'in', 'for', 'on')
def book_title(title):
Takes a string and returns a title-case string.
All words
Tigerstyle wrote:
I'm strugglin with some homework stuff and am hoping you can help me
out here.
This is the code:
small_words = ('into', 'the', 'a', 'of', 'at', 'in', 'for', 'on')
new_title = []
title_split = title.strip().lower().split()
for word in title_split:
On 10/09/11 13:20, Tigerstyle wrote:
Hi guys.
I'm strugglin with some homework stuff and am hoping you can help me
out here.
All tests are failing even though I am getting the correct output on
the first two tests. And the last test still gives me Of instead of
of
Cannot reproduce. I
On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 04:20:17 -0700, Tigerstyle wrote:
Hi guys.
I'm strugglin with some homework stuff and am hoping you can help me out
here.
This is the code:
small_words = ('into', 'the', 'a', 'of', 'at', 'in', 'for', 'on')
def book_title(title):
Takes a string and returns a
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 10:24 PM, Alister Ware
alister.w...@ntlworld.com wrote:
Ignoring the docttests my process would be to process each word then
manually capitalize he 1st word, .I would als0 use a comprehension as
makes for cleaner code:-
def capitalize(word):
if word in
On 9/10/2011 7:20 AM, Tigerstyle wrote:
Hi guys.
I'm strugglin with some homework stuff and am hoping you can help me
out here.
We appreciate you saying so instead of hiding that this is homework.
small_words = ('into', 'the', 'a', 'of', 'at', 'in', 'for', 'on')
def book_title(title):
On 9/10/2011 7:47 AM, Peter Otten wrote:
You can work around that with a
flag along these lines
first = True
for word in title_split:
if first:
# special treatment for the first word
first = False
else:
# put checks for all words but the first here
Terry Reedy wrote:
On 9/10/2011 7:47 AM, Peter Otten wrote:
You can work around that with a
flag along these lines
first = True
for word in title_split:
if first:
# special treatment for the first word
first = False
else:
# put checks for all
On Sep 10, 7:47 am, Peter Otten __pete...@web.de wrote:
Tigerstyle wrote:
I'm strugglin with some homework stuff and am hoping you can help me
out here.
This is the code:
small_words = ('into', 'the', 'a', 'of', 'at', 'in', 'for', 'on')
new_title = []
title_split =
test in 0.000s
OK
Thank you.
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components: Library (Lib)
files: failingdoctest.py
messages: 73882
nosy: pupeno
severity: normal
status: open
title: Doctest failing when it should pass
versions: Python 2.5
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file11624/failingdoctest.py
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