[Tutor] Need a little help in formatting print statement

2014-12-07 Thread Anubhav Yadav
I am trying to solve the CS1 Python http://cse.msu.edu/~cse231/PracticeOfComputingUsingPython/ Exercises. The first exercise calculates the energy released from an earthquake based on it's ritcher scale. I wrote the code. Here http://pastebin.com/nXjxCZWJ is the code. I am supposed to get this

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2014-12-07 Thread Bo Morris
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Re: [Tutor] Need a little help in formatting print statement

2014-12-07 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Hello Anubhav and welcome! On Sun, Dec 07, 2014 at 07:54:53PM +0530, Anubhav Yadav wrote: I am trying to solve the CS1 Python http://cse.msu.edu/~cse231/PracticeOfComputingUsingPython/ Exercises. The first exercise calculates the energy released from an earthquake based on it's ritcher

[Tutor] Coding

2014-12-07 Thread Awais Idris
Hi there, I'm currently in secondary school yr 11 studying the computing course and I've been set a task in creating a vending machine code. I found some coding online and I have changed some of it, but it still doesn't work. I think theres a problem with the loops and a few other things that I

Re: [Tutor] Need a little help in formatting print statement

2014-12-07 Thread Anubhav Yadav
If your code is short enough, say, less than 50 lines, please include it directly in your email. Some of us are reading and replying to posts at a time where it is inconvenient to access the web, or at least parts of the web. Yes sure, next time I will keep that in mind. Try using the %r

[Tutor] getting input for stdin

2014-12-07 Thread diliup gabadamudalige
Dear alll, my code is given below if __name__ == '__main__': p = os.getcwd() filename = \get scale of choice.txt filepath = p + filename sys.stdout = open(filepath, w) os.startfile(filepath) for i in data.info: # print all the scale info to window print i

Re: [Tutor] Coding

2014-12-07 Thread Alan Gauld
On 07/12/14 15:27, Awais Idris wrote: found some coding online and I have changed some of it, but it still doesn't work. I think theres a problem with the loops and a few other things that I cant put my finger on. First, Please post the code into your message rather than as an attachment.

Re: [Tutor] getting input for stdin

2014-12-07 Thread Danny Yoo
I need to get the stdin input from the text I type into the same text file that I have stdout at. How do I do that. None of the answers at stackoverflow got me going. Any help on a code snippet would be appreciated. In-place edits of a file are dangerous, especially as a beginner. This is

Re: [Tutor] Coding

2014-12-07 Thread Danny Yoo
On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 7:27 AM, Awais Idris 2010-3...@slougheton.com wrote: Hi there, I'm currently in secondary school yr 11 studying the computing course and I've been set a task in creating a vending machine code. I found some coding online and I have changed some of it, but it still doesn't

Re: [Tutor] getting input for stdin

2014-12-07 Thread Alan Gauld
On 07/12/14 17:38, diliup gabadamudalige wrote: if __name__ == '__main__': You don't really need that unless your code can be treated as a module, which yours can't. p = os.getcwd() filename = \get scale of choice.txt filepath = p + filename sys.stdout = open(filepath,

Re: [Tutor] Coding

2014-12-07 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 01:47:39AM +, Alan Gauld wrote: FirstChoice = input (Enter the item of your choice: ) if FirstChoice == 'Coke' or 'Pepsi' or 'Water': print (That will be a total of £,drinks) The or statements don't do what you think. Python sees it like: if