flebber wrote:
On Sep 24, 11:10 pm, flebber <flebber.c...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sep 24, 10:58 pm, Dave Angel <da...@ieee.org> wrote:
flebber.c...@gmail.com wrote:
I am using python 2.6.2, I haven't updated to 3.0 yet. No I have no
class or instructor, I am learning this myself. I have Hetlands book
"Beginning Python Novice to Professional and online documentation
books so Dive into Python, python.org etc.
Using the SPE editor.
I have currently only fully written basic psuedocode to give me a
basic framework to guide myself.
#Basic pseudocode
#Purpose to get raw input and calculate a score for a field of options
and return that
#score in a set in descending order.
#Multiple sets sould be written to the doc
#Obtain date
#Check if txt file with same date exists. If yes apphend to results to
file.
#Obtain location
#Set Dictionary
#Event number
#Obtain set size
#Prompt first entry
#First Entry Number
#First Entry Name
#Set Blocks to obtain and calculate data
#Block 1 example - Placings Block
#Obtain number of events competed in
#Obtain how many times finished first
#Ensure this value is not greater than Number of Events
#Number of Firsts divide by Events * total by 15.
#Obtain Second finishes
#Ensure this value is not greater than Number of Events
#Number of Seconds divide by Events * total by 10.
#Continue On with this
#Block 2 - Lookup coach Dict and apply value.
#Obtain Surname of Coach
#Lookup Coach File and Match Name and get value.
#Blocks continue gaining and calculating values.
#create txt file named using date
#Sum Values Block1 + Block2 etc
#Print to file event number and field with name number individual
Block totals and Sum Total
#Arranged in descending Sum Total.
#Prompt are there any more events? Yes return to start
#Apphend all additional events to same day file seperated by blank line.
How many of these steps have you attempted actually coding? Seems to me
your first two steps are just string manipulation, and you only need to
use the datetime module if you need to validate. In other words, if the
user specifies the date as 31/09/2009, you might want to later bounce
back to him with a complaint that September only has 30 days.
So the first task is to accept input in the form ab/cd/efgh and
produce a string efgh-cd-ab.log which you will then create as a text
file. And if the file exists, you'll append to it instead of
overwriting it. Can you do that much?
DaveA
Trying but haven't got it working, thats why I started to try and use
datetime module.
Surely getting it tottally mixed up
from datetime import date
def ObtainDate(params):
date =aw_input("Type Date dd/mm/year: %2.0r%2.0r/%2.0r%2.0r/%4.0r
%4.0r%4.0r%4.0r")
print date.datetime(year-month-day)
#Check if txt file with same date exists. If yes apphend to results
to file.
date.append(datetime
and
def ObtainDate(params):
date =aw_input("Type Date dd/mm/year: ")
date.format =%4.0s%4.0s%4.0s%4.0s-%2.0s%2.0s-%2.0s)
print date.format
As Tim says, first thing you want to do is rename that variable. You've
defined two symbols with the same name.
Then I'd ask what that %2.0r.... stuff is inside the prompt to the user.
Do you understand what kind of data is returned by raw_input() ? If so,
look at the available methods of that type, and see if there's one
called split() that you can use to separate out the multiple parts of
the user's response. You want to separate the dd from the mm and from
the year.
Once you've split the text, then you want to recombine it in a different
order, and with dashes between the parts. If I were at your stage of
experience, I'd not bother with the datetime module at all. Just see if
you can rebuild the string you need, assuming the user has entered a
valid 10-character string.
Later you can go back and figure out the datetime logic.
DaveA
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