Re: [Tutor] python books

2009-04-14 Thread Ian Egland
I know it's not in PDF, but I thought it would be worth mentioning Python for Software Design: How to Think Like a Computer Scientisthttp://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/index.html. I discovered this exactly a week after it was released, ordered it, and have been extremely happy with it so

Re: [Tutor] Inspiration/examples

2009-03-22 Thread Ian Egland
I am just as interested in this. So far I've found http://openbookproject.net/pybiblio/practice/ from the openbookproject. -Ian On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Mathias Andersson zep...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all! Im currently trying to learn how to use python. But my only problem seems to be

[Tutor] Simple User Entry Verification

2009-03-14 Thread Ian Egland
Newbie here who can't figure out why this doesn't work: start = input(Please enter the starting number.\n) print(type(start)) while type(start)!=float: start = input(Sorry, that number was invalid.\nPlease enter the starting number.\n) print(type(start))

Re: [Tutor] Simple User Entry Verification

2009-03-14 Thread Ian Egland
I'm sorry I wasn't more specifc. I will try to next time. Thanks Alan for you help. (Both of you.) -Ian On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 9:13 PM, R. Alan Monroe amon...@columbus.rr.comwrote: Success (as in number is entered) = Success Failure (as in a letter is entered) = failure Working as

Re: [Tutor] Convert String to Int

2009-01-18 Thread Ian Egland
at 5:15 PM, Ian Egland echol...@gmail.com wrote: I know that, should you want to get an int from the user, you use int(input(Question!)). However, what if the user wasn't that savvy and didn't realize he/she HAD to enter a number? Program crash. Is there a way that I can get the input as a string

[Tutor] Best Python3000 Tutorial for Beginner

2009-01-17 Thread Ian Egland
Hello all, I just joined this mailing list. I am a beginner to programming in general and would really appreciate a tutorial for Python3000 that at least covers the basics. I have tried reading the manual, but I think it was written for more experienced programmers wishing to switch to python

[Tutor] Help with elif

2009-01-17 Thread Ian Egland
. print([Temperature Converter, First Edition]) print(Created on January 17th, 2009 by Ian Egland) temp1 = int(input(Please enter a temperature: )) scale = input(Convert to (F)ahrenheit or (C)elcius?) if scale == F: temp2 = (9/5)*temp1+32 print(temp1, C =, temp2, F elif scale == C: # Error

[Tutor] Fixed

2009-01-17 Thread Ian Egland
Found it- wasn't closing the ()'s in the print()'s. Thanks anyway, sorry for filling your inbox. -Ian ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

[Tutor] New 2 Python- Script 'kill' function/Ubuntu File Browser hide hidden files

2008-01-13 Thread Ian Egland
Hello, I am new to Python (and OO programming in general) and I have a script that I made through a tutorial. # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- # Copyright (C) 2007-2008 Ian Egland # From the Non-Programmer's Guide to Python By Josh Cogliati # 5.3 Exercise 1 # Modify the password guessing program to keep

Re: [Tutor] New 2 Python- Script 'kill' function/Ubuntu File Browser hide hidden files

2008-01-13 Thread Ian Egland
Thanks, you helped more than you know. -Ian On Jan 13, 2008 3:58 PM, bob gailer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ian Egland wrote: Hello, I am new to Python (and OO programming in general) and I have a script that I made through a tutorial. # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- # Copyright (C) 2007-2008

[Tutor] How to stop a script.

2007-12-28 Thread Ian Egland
Hi everyone... I litterally just started python and did the following 'hello world' related tutorial. http://hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu/~dyoo/python/idle_intro http://hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu/%7Edyoo/python/idle_intro Being the kind of person who like to experiment, I tried changing the following script

[Tutor] Fwd: How to stop a script.

2007-12-28 Thread Ian Egland
Thanks, I will keep that in mind the next time I experiment. :-P -Ian -- Forwarded message -- From: Tiger12506 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Dec 28, 2007 5:42 PM Subject: Re: [Tutor] How to stop a script. To: tutor@python.org Ctrl+c will issue a KeyboardInterrupt which breaks out of