[Tutor] The Game of Life question

2005-01-05 Thread Kooser, Ara S
This is most likely a silly question and me not understanding python enough. I am a mentor for some high school kids participating in a supercomputing challenge. My background in programming is F77 (yeah laugh it up) and I want the kids to learn python and use it for the challenge. They

Re: [Tutor] The Game of Life question

2005-01-05 Thread Kent Johnson
You need to include the line import random at the beginning of your program. This gives you access to the contents of the 'random' module such as random.choice(). This chapter of the tutorial talks about modules: http://docs.python.org/tut/node8.html Kent Kooser, Ara S wrote: This is most

Re: [Tutor] The Game of Life question

2005-01-05 Thread Brian van den Broek
Kooser, Ara S said unto the world upon 2005-01-05 10:15: This is most likely a silly question and me not understanding python enough. I am a mentor for some high school kids participating in a supercomputing challenge. My background in programming is F77 (yeah laugh it up) and I want the kids

Re: [Tutor] The Game of Life question

2005-01-05 Thread Danny Yoo
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Kooser, Ara S wrote: They picked a project to model the flow of smallpox in a city and surroundings areas. So I saw the game of life and thought maybe they could modify it for use as a smallpox model. Hi Ara, Oh! My apologies for not posting the file as a complete