On 04/16/2013 11:37 AM, aaB wrote:
hello,
I am a beginner programmer. I started learning programming about a year and a
half ago, using C. I picked up python a few months ago, but only wrote very few
scripts.
I am currently trying to learn more about the python way of doing things by
writing a script that generates png images using a 1D cellular automaton.
While writing preliminary code for that project, I ran into a behaviour that I
don't understand.
I am using python 2.7 on a linux system.
I represent the CA's rule with a list of integers, of value 1 or 0.
Here is the function I use to generate the list:
def get_rule(rulenum):
rule = []
while rulenum > 0:
rule.append(rulenume % 2)
rulenum /= 2
while len(rule) < 8:
rule.append(0)
rule.reverse()
return rule
if i call it by writing:
rule = getrule(int(8))
and then call:
print rule
the output is good:
[0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0]
I then tried to print each item of the list using a for loop:
There are copy/paste errors in your following pieces. Did you retype
them instead of using the clipboard?
for i in range(rule):
print rule[i]
the output is, as expected:
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
Here's what I get, and how I fix it:
>>> rule = [0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0]
>>> for i in range(rule):
... print i
...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: range() integer end argument expected, got list.
>>> for i in range(len(rule)):
... print rule[i]
...
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
but when I do:
for i in rule:
print rule[i]
You should be printing i here, not rule[i]
I get the "complement":
1
1
1
1
0
1
1
1
I don't. And don't expect to. It's nothing like the complement.
>>> for i in rule:
... print rule[i]
...
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Anyway, to fix it, just print the value, don't try to use it as a subscript.
>>> for value in rule:
... print value
...
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
There must be something I didn't understand correctly in the for statement, but
I really can't think of a reason why the output is what it is.
I tried this using the interactive console, and the results are the same,
whatever the length of the list, i always get the complement of my bit pattern.
You should never get the complement of the bit pattern with any code
you've shown above.
Hope that helps.
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