Re: [Tutor] how to accept an integer?

2007-12-05 Thread Alan Gauld
"Mahesh N" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > More over i find python to be a little sluggish after having worked > with C > and Java. If you translate C or Java code into python you will usually get a less than optimal implementation. Python should be barely slower than Java and often faster. Compared

Re: [Tutor] how to accept an integer?

2007-12-05 Thread Alan Gauld
"Mahesh N" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > PS : I understand that i can do type conversion after getting input > thru > raw_input(). But how does input() function work? > prompt="temme a number\n" speed =input(prompt) > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "", line 1, in >spe

Re: [Tutor] how to accept an integer?

2007-12-05 Thread Kent Johnson
Bryan Fodness wrote: > speed = int(raw_input(prompt)) > > > Is this how ALL known integers should be input? Yes, with probably a try/except block and a while loop around it to handle invalid input. There are two good reasons for doing this instead of using input: - it guarantees that the

Re: [Tutor] how to accept an integer?

2007-12-05 Thread Jerry Hill
On Dec 5, 2007 4:46 PM, Bryan Fodness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 5, 2007 4:16 PM, Jerry Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > speed = int(raw_input(prompt)) > > > Is this how ALL known integers should be input? I don't think I understand the question. If you are prompting your user to ente

Re: [Tutor] how to accept an integer?

2007-12-05 Thread Bryan Fodness
On Dec 5, 2007 4:16 PM, Jerry Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 5, 2007 4:01 PM, Mahesh N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I dun understand the mistake. My aim is to accept an integer number. The > > python lookup in IDLE asks for a string object but the interpreter > returns > > with the fol

Re: [Tutor] how to accept an integer?

2007-12-05 Thread Mahesh N
On Dec 6, 2007 2:31 AM, Mahesh N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I dun understand the mistake. My aim is to accept an integer number. The > python lookup in IDLE asks for a string object but the interpreter returns > with the following error message. Some one pls explain. > Thank You > > PS : I under

Re: [Tutor] how to accept an integer?

2007-12-05 Thread Kent Johnson
Mahesh N wrote: > I dun understand the mistake. My aim is to accept an integer number. The > python lookup in IDLE asks for a string object but the interpreter > returns with the following error message. Some one pls explain. > Thank You > > PS : I understand that i can do type conversion after

Re: [Tutor] how to accept an integer?

2007-12-05 Thread Jerry Hill
On Dec 5, 2007 4:01 PM, Mahesh N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I dun understand the mistake. My aim is to accept an integer number. The > python lookup in IDLE asks for a string object but the interpreter returns > with the following error message. Some one pls explain. > Thank You > > PS : I under

Re: [Tutor] how to accept an integer?

2007-12-05 Thread Mahesh N
On Dec 6, 2007 2:37 AM, Eric Brunson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mahesh N wrote: > > I dun understand the mistake. My aim is to accept an integer number. > > The python lookup in IDLE asks for a string object but the interpreter > > returns with the following error message. Some one pls explain.

Re: [Tutor] how to accept an integer?

2007-12-05 Thread Eric Brunson
Mahesh N wrote: > I dun understand the mistake. My aim is to accept an integer number. > The python lookup in IDLE asks for a string object but the interpreter > returns with the following error message. Some one pls explain. > Thank You > > PS : I understand that i can do type conversion after g

[Tutor] how to accept an integer?

2007-12-05 Thread Mahesh N
I dun understand the mistake. My aim is to accept an integer number. The python lookup in IDLE asks for a string object but the interpreter returns with the following error message. Some one pls explain. Thank You PS : I understand that i can do type conversion after getting input thru raw_input()