Re: [Tutor] Python Help

2013-01-26 Thread wrw
On Jan 23, 2013, at 4:37 PM, Grady Trexler wrote: > > Below is my code. I am using python 2.4 It tells me I have a syntax error. > Please help! (I think the first twenty lines have what you would be looking > for. After that it just repeats itself.) > #scenario maker > #created by: Grady T

Re: [Tutor] Learning Python through automating web application testing.

2012-12-15 Thread wrw
On Dec 7, 2012, at 5:46 PM, marcusw4...@hotmail.co.uk wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm new to posting on mailing lists so hopefully I've picked the correct one > for my question(s). > > A little about my programming experience first. > [byte] > Because of this fear I've never admitted I've got

Re: [Tutor] LCM revisited + OOP

2012-11-27 Thread wrw
On Nov 27, 2012, at 8:13 PM, Ray Jones wrote: > > Part I > I am a good way through MIT's Introduction to Computer Science and > Programming as offered through edX. I'm not certain I'm going to pass > the course this first time through, the major hangup being the > understanding of OOP. > > Part

Re: [Tutor] serial to parallel

2012-11-05 Thread wrw
On Nov 5, 2012, at 8:44 AM, Dave Angel wrote: > On 11/05/2012 06:53 AM, Bala subramanian wrote: >>> [Huge byte] >>> Thanks in advance, >>> Bala >> >> > > Before you spend too much energy on this, I'd suggest that you'll > probably see a substantial slowdown trying to write the two files in

Re: [Tutor] running multiple concurrent processes

2012-11-03 Thread wrw
On Nov 3, 2012, at 9:36 PM, Oscar Benjamin wrote: > [byte] > >> >> Bill, I appreciate your comment and have given it much thought, Ramit made >> one much the same the other day. Here lies the potential problem, though it >> might not be one at all, I need to do some experimenting. While I am

Re: [Tutor] blackJack problem

2012-10-23 Thread wrw
On Oct 23, 2012, at 11:01 PM, Matthew D wrote: > Thanks Alan Gauld for your help. After taking a little break and coming back > it all seemed to make sense...i understand why there is gonna be some really > weird outputs to the interchanging of the player1.py files...that really > could get in

Re: [Tutor] managing memory large dictionaries in python

2012-10-19 Thread wrw
On Oct 16, 2012, at 12:57 PM, Abhishek Pratap wrote: > Hi Guys > > For my problem I need to store 400-800 million 20 characters keys in a > dictionary and do counting. This data structure takes about 60-100 Gb > of RAM. > I am wondering if there are slick ways to map the dictionary to a file > o

Re: [Tutor] modulo

2012-10-07 Thread wrw
On Oct 7, 2012, at 6:49 PM, Esteban Izaguirre wrote: > Hi, I'm following coursera's learn to program: the fundamentals, which > teaches programming basics in python. Our first assignement involves the > modulo operator with a negative divident, and while I've managed to get to > understand it

Re: [Tutor] how to print array without adding newline

2012-09-28 Thread wrw
On Sep 6, 2012, at 9:49 AM, vi...@thepenguin.org wrote: > Thank you for your reply. I understand that it is odd, but my program is > being called from a hubot and returning data to it as well. I have figured > out how to make the changes to get it to output the correct data in the > correct for