Re: [Tutor] new to programming and wondering about an IDE for Python on Linux (Robert Sjoblom)

2012-02-28 Thread Joaquim Santos
-- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 20:10:42 +0100 From: Robert Sjoblom robert.sjob...@gmail.com To: Alan Gauld alan.ga...@btinternet.com Cc: tutor@python.org Subject: Re: [Tutor] new to programming and wondering about an

[Tutor] initialising all elements of a matrix

2012-02-28 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
I was wondering whether there is a faster/better/cleaner way of element wise operations of arbitrarily nested list. I wrote something like this for 1 level nested lists and am wondering whether there are any good idioms in python. I did this after a ridiculous amount of bad thinking/missteps in

Re: [Tutor] initialising all elements of a matrix

2012-02-28 Thread Peter Otten
Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: I was wondering whether there is a faster/better/cleaner way of element wise operations of arbitrarily nested list. I wrote something like this for 1 level nested lists and am wondering whether there are any good idioms in python. I did this after a ridiculous

Re: [Tutor] initialising all elements of a matrix

2012-02-28 Thread bob gailer
On 2/28/2012 11:40 AM, Peter Otten wrote: def product(factors, product=1): for factor in factors: product *= factor return product can be simplified def product(factors): import operator return reduce(operator.mul, factors) -- Bob Gailer 919-636-4239 Chapel Hill NC

Re: [Tutor] initialising all elements of a matrix

2012-02-28 Thread Peter Otten
bob gailer wrote: On 2/28/2012 11:40 AM, Peter Otten wrote: def product(factors, product=1): for factor in factors: product *= factor return product can be simplified def product(factors): import operator return reduce(operator.mul, factors) If I had used

[Tutor] python questions about dictionary loops

2012-02-28 Thread justin fargus
Hello, I'm new to Python. Just started a few weeks ago and I've been learning some basic things that I would like to put together but I don't even know where to began. I am trying to do the following: Make a program using two sentences of about 8 words (total between the two sentences). I

[Tutor] python dictionary and loop

2012-02-28 Thread justin fargus
Hello, I am trying to do the following: Make a program using two sentences of about 8 words (total between the two sentences). I would then like to create a dictionary {} and split the words of each sentence using one sentence as a dictionary key and using the other sentence for the dictionary

Re: [Tutor] python questions about dictionary loops

2012-02-28 Thread Prasad, Ramit
Justin wrote: I'm new to Python. Just started a few weeks ago and I've been learning some basic things that I would like to put together but I don't even know where to began. I am trying to do the following: Make a program using two sentences of about 8 words (total between the two

Re: [Tutor] python questions about dictionary loops

2012-02-28 Thread Steven D'Aprano
justin fargus wrote: Hello, I'm new to Python. Just started a few weeks ago and I've been learning some basic things that I would like to put together but I don't even know where to began. I am trying to do the following: Make a program using two sentences of about 8 words (total between the

Re: [Tutor] python dictionary and loop

2012-02-28 Thread Prasad, Ramit
The two sentences I would like to use in the program is the following: This is line one\nThis is line two! so I write: text_message = This is line one\nThis is line two! The dictionary name and key/value pairs will be: my_sentences {'This':'This','is':'is','line':'line','one':'two'}   # Does this