On Jul 16, 7:30 am, alex23 <wuwe...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Jul 15, 5:51 pm, koranthala <koranth...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I am not saying that what you said was wrong, only that I felt that > > she got tense looking up regular expressions. So a python reply which > > basically does the basic checking without going to re etc might be > > more helpful for her to start her own coding. > > Using regexps wasn't the only advice given, and string manipulation is > covered well in pretty much every tutorial I've taken a look at. The > issue is that no evidence was shown that the OP was even trying to > resolve this themself, and the new posting of the question every time > an unsatisfactory answer was provided doesn't give me any faith they > were endeavouring to do this at all. > > It's annoying seeing these "stone soup" attempts at coding come > through here, whether its to answer someone's homework or to do > someone's job for them. If the end result has value to the poster, I > expect to see either effort on their behalf or at least a nominal > attempt to reward others for their time. > > But if you want to do their work for them, I don't think anyone here > would object, especially if you both took it to private correspondence.
It is not that I do want to do the work for them. It is just that I was in the same position just 6 months back. My first pieces of code were very poor - full of errors and quite horrible indeed. I was even afraid to post it anywhere. I came here, and I found so much helpful people who helped me out so much, that I think my coding has improved a little bit. So, I just thought that we should always give people the benefit of doubt. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list