Re: [perl-python] 20050115, for statement
Jeremy Bowers wrote: (Hell, five days into Python and some people are already producing working Backgammon games (I think that was the post last week), and Xah Lee here is still on for loops! Woo! Go Xah!) Mah Jongg, actually (if we're thinking of the same post), which name is often applied in the world of computer games to a what amounts to the old game of "Concentration" (rather than the real Mah Jongg which bears no more resemblance to the computerized version than Bridge bears to Go Fish). The player merely turns over cards/tiles two at a time and any identical pairs are removed. A backgammon game, with the computer actually playing against a human and all the logic that entails, would be much more sophisticated, and rather more work. ...not to diminish the impressiveness of someone new to Python building a visually attractive GUI application in only a few days and delivering it to the web which in several ways is far more than I've contributed in over five years. ;-) (Doffs hat to the former newbie who achieved this.) -Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: [perl-python] 20050115, for statement
On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 10:54:28 +, Michael Hoffman wrote: > Xah Lee wrote: > >> Â a = range(1,51) >> Â for x in a: >> Â if x % 2 == 0: >> Â print x, 'even' > > Now he's mixing tabs and spaces. Hideous. > > Are you doing things wrong on purpose? I think the most exciting thing is the breath-taking pace he has chosen. I mean, wow, we've been going for what, five days now and we're up to for loops? Woo! So far, even for his stated purpose, he's at negative value vs. just reading even the simplest tutorials for the languages. The value in Perl<->Python documentation is to help with idiom translation, syntax is truly trivial. At the rate he's going, he'll get out of Negative Value and start entering Colossal Waste Of Time in about a month. So good on you, Xah Lee. The world needs more people producing things of negative value and posting them everywhere they can. Wouldn't want The Masses (TM) to find the good resources, learn, and subsequently compete with people who know things already. (Hell, five days into Python and some people are already producing working Backgammon games (I think that was the post last week), and Xah Lee here is still on for loops! Woo! Go Xah!) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: [perl-python] 20050115, for statement
Michael Hoffman wrote: Xah Lee wrote: © a = range(1,51) © for x in a: © if x % 2 == 0: © print x, 'even' Now he's mixing tabs and spaces. Hideous. Are you doing things wrong on purpose? Actually Xah is to be commended, since he's united the Perl and Python camps. Both agree he's a nuisance who is ill-informed about Perl *and* Python ;-) I can only presume it's egocentricity that keeps him cross-posting this nonsense to c.l.py and c.l.pe.misc despite the many deficiencies that have been remarked upon in both newsgroups. fraternal-greetings-to-the-perl-wordl-ly y'rs - steve -- Steve Holden http://www.holdenweb.com/ Python Web Programming http://pydish.holdenweb.com/ Holden Web LLC +1 703 861 4237 +1 800 494 3119 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
[perl-python] 20050115, for statement
© # this is an example of for statement
© # the % symbol calculates the remainder
© # of division.
© # the range(m,n) function
© # gives a list from m to n-1.
©
© a = range(1,51)
© for x in a:
© if x % 2 == 0:
© print x, 'even'
©
© # note that in this example, for goes over a list.
© # each time making x the value of the element.
©
©
© # this is similar code in perl
©
© @a=(1..50);
© for $x (@a) {
© if ( $x%2 ==0){
© print $x, " even\n";
© }}
©
© # PS each daily tip can be run. Just
© # copy the python part and save to a
© # file and run it as "python
© # file.py". Try it.
©
©
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