Re: [Tutor] Some questions about my yen-USD.py
At 08:13 PM 9/17/2006, Luke Paireepinart wrote:
Dick Moores wrote:
I'm bck!
I kept getting ideas for what I (and some of you) thought was a
finished yen-USD.py. And some of the good advice I got was to move
on
to other things. I did for a while, but I kept thinking up new
revisions. The script has more than doubled in length. I'd
previously
posted v4 at
http://www.rcblue.com/Python/yen-USD-v3.txt.
Here's v10:
http://www.rcblue.com/Python/yen-USD-v10.txt
New functions:
again()
divide2StringDecimals()
multiply2StringDecimals()
roundNumber() -- replaced setPrecision()
printVariablesNotChanging()
formatNumber()
removeCommasFromNumbers()
rather radically revised function:
again() -- offers several more choices
The most important change is that because I realized I wanted the
program to be a general solution and give accurate answers for even
very large amounts of Yen or USD, I decided to operate with (number)
strings only, except when necessary in getRate() and getAmount() to
error check user inputs. Those floats are not used in the
calculations of Yen or USD.
The most difficult function for me to write was roundNumber(), which
of course couldn't rely on the use of the built-in round() or the
formatting of strings (see the line format = %. +
str(precision) +
'f' in setPrecision() in v3). Lack of experience with
the slicing
of lists caused many headaches. I didn't succeed in debugging until
I
put in print statements wherever a value changes, and trying many
different integer strings and places (the arguments of
roundNumber()). A good lesson, I think.
A few notes:
1. in your roundNumber function, you define a function
incrementDigit.
I'm pretty sure that this function is destroyed and recreated every time
you call the function roundNumber.
This applies to divide2stringdecimals and other functions as well.
Is this what you want?
I don't understand. What's another way? And what's the downside of the
way I've done it? How do you keep from causing all that destruction and
recreation? And what's bad about it?
2. in your remove commas
from numbers function, you could simplify it:
#from
a = n.split(',')
n = ''.join(a)
return n
#to
return ''.join(a.split(','))
personally I like this more.
Yes, I do too.
I hope some of the Tutors
will take a look at the new functions,
especially roundNumber().
Did I just reinvent the wheel?
I'm pretty sure you could set up a Context in the decimal module
that
will round and keep the precision where you specify.
So if this is true, I guess you did reinvent the wheel.
Yes, I jut got the knew Python for Dummies, and see that I could have
greatly shortened roundNumber() if I'd used the decimal module more. I
had thought I KNEW that you couldn't multiply or divide decimal numbers
directly! I also didn't realize that I could use it for
rounding. I'll rewrite roundNumber(), divide2StringDecimals, and
multiply2StringDecimals. But I'm still shaky with the decimal module.
Don't really understand what you wrote below about a custom context. But
that's OK. I'll get it, I think, by just experimenting.
Should it be broken up into
more sub-functions (there's only one now)?
It works, but is it Pythonic? Etc.
I think you need to settle on a naming convention so your code's more
readable.
Your variables are sometimes named aRandomVariable, with the start of
each new word capitalized,
then in other places (like the variable 'slen' in numberCommas -
intCommas) they're not.
Also, it's easier to differentiate between functions and variables if
they're named a different way.
Like a_variable_name = someFunction()
That's just my opinion, of course, and you can do whatever you want
:)
No, I'll take your advice. But I hate to type underscores, so is there
another style I could use for functions that would be different from the
aRandomVariable style I like for variables? And intCommas() with its
slen--I've had that around a long time. Should be more
critical of my old stuff. I suppose I'll rename slen to lenS.
But since writing the above I remembered that Python For Dummies
references PEP 8, Style Guide for Python Code
(
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/), in which I
find
Function Names
Function names should be lowercase, with words separated by
underscores
as necessary to improve readability.
mixedCase is allowed only in contexts where that's already
the
prevailing style (e.g. threading.py), to retain backwards
compatibility.
So I guess I should start
learning to type underscores accurately.
Also, I've seen that you
call the variable you store the split value in
'splt'
Ugly, isn't it. Thanks.
Now while this approach may have
its uses, it makes it more difficult to
understand
what's going on in your code (for me).
If I were writing this software I might misread (or mistype!) split
instead of splt, and not be able to figure out
what the problem was while I was debugging, whereas if the variable were
named
[Tutor] Fw: i just cant do it
Forwarding to the list - Original Message - From: federico ramirez [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Alan Gauld [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 12:43 AM Subject: Re: [Tutor] i just cant do it Nope...sorry i tried what they said in that article but it didnt work :( _ 2006/9/17, Alan Gauld [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sorry, in the first code i set the cookie and then display it but in the second i assume that the cookie is created and just want to read it, but nothing happens Correct. I notice Luke also sent a reply. Between the two replies do you understand what you now need to do differently in the second case to recreate the cookie from its file? Alan G. #!/usr/bin/python import Cookie C = Cookie.SimpleCookie() C['adminuser'] = 'fedekiller' C['adminuser']['max-age'] = 60*60*24*7 print C print Content-Type: text/html\n\n print Bienvenido,C['adminuser'].value,'!' but when i try this it doesnt Can you explain why you think it should work? What do yopu think it is doing? The code below is very obviously completely different to the code above, so what makes you think it should work? #!/usr/bin/python import Cookie print Content-Type: text/html\n\n print Bienvenido,C['adminuser'].value,'!' What is C? Where is it defined? i know the cookie exists because firefox display it where all the cookies of that domains are. Cookies exist as small files on your PC. A Python program needs to be given a clue as to which cookie you are interested in so that it can access that file. That's what the Cookie module helps you to do, but it needs to be more than simply imported. That just makes the tools available, it doesn't actually turn them on. HTH, Alan G. -- Best Regards. fedekiller -- Best Regards. fedekiller ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
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Re: [Tutor] Some questions about my yen-USD.py
1. in your roundNumber function, you define a function incrementDigit. I'm pretty sure that this function is destroyed and recreated every time you call the function roundNumber. I don't understand. What's another way? def f(): def g(): return 42 return g() def g(): return 42 def f() return g() The two bits of code do the same thing but the first constructs/deletes g() each time. And what's the downside of the way I've done it? Its slow... How do you keep from causing all that destruction and recreation? See above And what's bad about it? Its slow But sometimes defining a function inside another function is what you want, because you need to limit visibility, or it needs to access variables that are local to the outer function. But unless you have a very clear idea of why you want to define a nested function its better to make them global. No, I'll take your advice. But I hate to type underscores, so is there another style I could use for functions that would be different from the aRandomVariable style I like for variables? Personally I don't differentiate variables and functions in Python (partly because Python doesn't - they are all just names) mainly because functions are usually obvious by dint of the parentheses used to call them. Function Names Function names should be lowercase, with words separated by underscores as necessary to improve readability. It may be the official style but in practice its not that widely followed. So I guess I should start learning to type underscores accurately. Me too, I guess :-) Alan G. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] folder and module
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Re: [Tutor] From byte[] to Image
I do the following: file = StringIO.StringIO(buffer) img = Image.open(file) img.save(file, 'JPEG') I get this error: img = Image.open(file) File /home/rahhal/python/lib/python2.4/site-packages/PIL/Image.py, line 1745, in open raise IOError(cannot identify image file) IOError: cannot identify image file Yes I printed the contents of Buffer but how can I make sure if it is all there since the type I am receiving is different (temporarly, until I form the Image) from the original content of the Image itself. I will attach the buffer I am receiving and the original Image I am sending. On 9/17/06, Alan Gauld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Note that this function decodes pixel data only, not entire images. If you have an entire image file in a string, wrap it in a *StringIO* object, and use *open* file:///home/rahhal/Imaging-1.1.5/Docs/pythondoc-PIL.Image.html#PIL.Image.open-functionto load it.) So I guess frombuffer must not be used in my case.Looks like it, but did you try what it suggested, namely using a StringIO object and the open method?What happened? The java method is working correctly but I am not able to form the picture in the right way at the client side using the PIL library. I receive it at the client side in python: buffer = service.getFile(fileName)I assume you tried printing buffer (or at least its len) to check thatit was all there?Alan G. buffer Description: Binary data attachment: out.jpg ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] From byte[] to Image
I do the following: file = StringIO.StringIO(buffer) img = Image.open(file) img.save(file, 'JPEG') I get this error: img = Image.open(file) File /home/rahhal/python/lib/python2.4/site-packages/PIL/Image.py, line 1745, in open raise IOError(cannot identify image file) IOError: cannot identify image file Yes I printed the contents of Buffer but how can I make sure if it is all there since the type I am receiving is different (temporarly, until I form the Image) from the original content of the Image itself. I tried to attach the original image and the data (in the buffer) but the email bounced as it was too large. So I am sending the email again without attachments Regards, Ziad On 9/17/06, Alan Gauld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Note that this function decodes pixel data only, not entire images. If you have an entire image file in a string, wrap it in a *StringIO* object, and use *open* file:///home/rahhal/Imaging-1.1.5/Docs/pythondoc-PIL.Image.html#PIL.Image.open-functionto load it.) So I guess frombuffer must not be used in my case.Looks like it, but did you try what it suggested, namely using a StringIO object and the open method?What happened? The java method is working correctly but I am not able to form the picture in the right way at the client side using the PIL library. I receive it at the client side in python: buffer = service.getFile(fileName)I assume you tried printing buffer (or at least its len) to check thatit was all there?Alan G. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] Some questions about my yen-USD.py
Dick Moores wrote:
I'm bck!
I kept getting ideas for what I (and some of you) thought was a
finished yen-USD.py. And some of the good advice I got was to move on
to other things. I did for a while, but I kept thinking up new
revisions. The script has more than doubled in length. I'd previously
posted v4 at http://www.rcblue.com/Python/yen-USD-v3.txt.
Here's v10: http://www.rcblue.com/Python/yen-USD-v10.txt
New functions:
again()
divide2StringDecimals()
multiply2StringDecimals()
roundNumber() -- replaced setPrecision()
printVariablesNotChanging()
formatNumber()
removeCommasFromNumbers()
rather radically revised function:
again() -- offers several more choices
The most important change is that because I realized I wanted the
program to be a general solution and give accurate answers for even
very large amounts of Yen or USD, I decided to operate with (number)
strings only, except when necessary in getRate() and getAmount() to
error check user inputs. Those floats are not used in the
calculations of Yen or USD.
You have greatly underused Decimal - it is capable of multiplication and
division of fractional quantities directly:
In [1]: from decimal import Decimal as D
In [2]: x=D('1.23')
In [3]: y=D('4.5')
In [4]: x*y
Out[4]: Decimal(5.535)
In [5]: x/y
Out[5]: Decimal(0.2733)
The most difficult function for me to write was roundNumber(), which
of course couldn't rely on the use of the built-in round() or the
formatting of strings (see the line format = %. + str(precision) +
'f' in setPrecision() in v3). Lack of experience with the slicing
of lists caused many headaches. I didn't succeed in debugging until I
put in print statements wherever a value changes, and trying many
different integer strings and places (the arguments of
roundNumber()). A good lesson, I think.
The recipes page in the docs for Decimal include a moneyfmt() function
that rounds to a specified number of places and inserts a separator char.
Kent
I hope some of the Tutors will take a look at the new functions,
especially roundNumber().
Did I just reinvent the wheel?
Yes :-)
Should it be broken up into more sub-functions (there's only one now)?
It works, but is it Pythonic? Etc.
I'm also curious about multiply2StringDecimals() and divide2StringDecimals().
Again, am I reinventing the wheel with these?
Is there a simpler way to multiply and divide big decimals with precision?
Thanks in advance,
Dick Moores
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Re: [Tutor] Some questions about my yen-USD.py
Alan Gauld wrote: 1. in your roundNumber function, you define a function incrementDigit. I'm pretty sure that this function is destroyed and recreated every time you call the function roundNumber. I don't understand. What's another way? def f(): def g(): return 42 return g() def g(): return 42 def f() return g() The two bits of code do the same thing but the first constructs/deletes g() each time. And what's the downside of the way I've done it? Its slow... Actually it is not particularly slow. The actual function code is created once, when the module is compiled; creating a function object and binding it to a name is pretty fast. There is a good discussion here: http://tinyurl.com/gzfyl Kent ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] Some questions about my yen-USD.py
At 01:00 AM 9/18/2006, Alan Gauld wrote: 1. in your roundNumber function, you define a function incrementDigit. I'm pretty sure that this function is destroyed and recreated every time you call the function roundNumber. I don't understand. What's another way? def f(): def g(): return 42 return g() def g(): return 42 def f() return g() The two bits of code do the same thing but the first constructs/deletes g() each time. Hm. That's what I get for knowing little computer science. And what's the downside of the way I've done it? Its slow... Doesn't seem slow to me. But I take your point. How do you keep from causing all that destruction and recreation? See above And what's bad about it? Its slow But sometimes defining a function inside another function is what you want, because you need to limit visibility, or it needs to access variables that are local to the outer function. But unless you have a very clear idea of why you want to define a nested function its better to make them global. No, I'll take your advice. But I hate to type underscores, so is there another style I could use for functions that would be different from the aRandomVariable style I like for variables? Personally I don't differentiate variables and functions in Python (partly because Python doesn't - they are all just names) mainly because functions are usually obvious by dint of the parentheses used to call them. Function Names Function names should be lowercase, with words separated by underscores as necessary to improve readability. It may be the official style but in practice its not that widely followed. So I guess I should start learning to type underscores accurately. Me too, I guess :-) Thanks, Alan. Dick ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] Some questions about my yen-USD.py
At 05:20 AM 9/18/2006, Kent Johnson wrote:
You have greatly underused Decimal - it is capable of multiplication and
division of fractional quantities directly:
In [1]: from decimal import Decimal as D
In [2]: x=D('1.23')
In [3]: y=D('4.5')
In [4]: x*y
Out[4]: Decimal(5.535)
In [5]: x/y
Out[5]: Decimal(0.2733)
And sqrt() as well, which I definitely thought was not possible.
http://www.python.org/dev/doc/maint24/lib/node178.html
Well, you settled that. I don't know why I didn't see it.
of course couldn't rely on the use of the built-in round() or the
formatting of strings (see the line format = %. + str(precision) +
'f' in setPrecision() in v3). Lack of experience with the slicing
of lists caused many headaches. I didn't succeed in debugging until I
put in print statements wherever a value changes, and trying many
different integer strings and places (the arguments of
roundNumber()). A good lesson, I think.
The recipes page in the docs for Decimal include a moneyfmt() function
that rounds to a specified number of places and inserts a separator char.
I'd seen the recipes in the docs, but couldn't make much sense out of
them. I think I can now. Or at least more sense than before.
http://docs.python.org/lib/decimal-recipes.html
Thanks, Kent.
Dick
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Re: [Tutor] Some questions about my yen-USD.py
Dick Moores wrote: At 01:00 AM 9/18/2006, Alan Gauld wrote: 1. in your roundNumber function, you define a function incrementDigit. I'm pretty sure that this function is destroyed and recreated every time you call the function roundNumber. I don't understand. What's another way? def f(): def g(): return 42 return g() def g(): return 42 def f() return g() Alan meant 'def f(): return g()' on that last line there I think :) Doesn't seem slow to me. But I take your point. Well, there's the whole Python idiom of 'readability speed'. It really doesn't matter how fast something is if it increases readability (unless the slower speed really makes a difference, like that guy's program that used range() instead of xrange() and crashed the computer!) However, nested functions are not very common, so for me, they are just distracting. As Kent said, it may not be that slow to do this, either, and in your particular program, if you choose to use nested functions it shouldn't make any noticeable speed difference. If you were going to parse 100,000 text files and change any occurrences of $xx.xx into Yen from a given conversion rate, then you'd probably want it to be as efficient as possible, but if someone's just converting one value, they're not really going to notice if it's .001 seconds slower, right? No, I'll take your advice. But I hate to type underscores, so is there another style I could use for functions that would be different from the aRandomVariable style I like for variables? Yeah, underscores are kind of bothersome. That's what I usually end up using, though. Function Names Function names should be lowercase, with words separated by underscores as necessary to improve readability. It may be the official style but in practice its not that widely followed. Yeah, I haven't seen too much of that going on. Most pieces of Python code I read have some crazy syntax that I've never seen before. I learn new things every day :D -Luke ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] Some questions about my yen-USD.py
Dick Moores wrote:
At 05:20 AM 9/18/2006, Kent Johnson wrote:
You have greatly underused Decimal - it is capable of multiplication and
division of fractional quantities directly:
In [1]: from decimal import Decimal as D
In [2]: x=D('1.23')
In [3]: y=D('4.5')
In [4]: x*y
Out[4]: Decimal(5.535)
In [5]: x/y
Out[5]: Decimal(0.2733)
And sqrt() as well, which I definitely thought was not possible.
http://www.python.org/dev/doc/maint24/lib/node178.html
Well, you settled that. I don't know why I didn't see it.
Perhaps you had some preconceptions about the limits of the Decimal
module, and upon
preliminary investigations something confirmed this for you, so you
didn't actually look in-depth
for a way to do what you were trying to do because it seemed at first
glance like Decimal wasn't the right tool
(maybe you saw an example that didn't fully utilize Decimal or something.)
Or, alternatively, you cheated and skimmed over the docs, and didn't see
something important the first time around :)
of course couldn't rely on the use of the built-in round() or the
formatting of strings (see the line format = %. + str(precision) +
'f' in setPrecision() in v3). Lack of experience with the slicing
of lists caused many headaches. I didn't succeed in debugging until I
put in print statements wherever a value changes, and trying many
different integer strings and places (the arguments of
roundNumber()). A good lesson, I think.
The recipes page in the docs for Decimal include a moneyfmt() function
that rounds to a specified number of places and inserts a separator char.
I'd seen the recipes in the docs, but couldn't make much sense out of
them. I think I can now. Or at least more sense than before.
http://docs.python.org/lib/decimal-recipes.html
Yes, even though a portion of your program has functionality in the
Decimal module already,
coding anything is good practice. For example, my dream is to one day
write a NES emulator in Python,
and this has already been done dozens of times in C, C++, Java, even
Visual Basic. I don't care, my goal is the same
whether or not I'm reinventing the wheel. :) I know of no NES emulator
in Python, though, so I guess i'm not really
reinventing the wheel after all (if anyone asks, tell them I'm porting
that Java emulator :)
Thanks, Kent.
Dick
Have a good day!
I have to get my butt to class now. 4 minutes! eek.
-Luke
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Re: [Tutor] Some questions about my yen-USD.py
At 06:56 AM 9/18/2006, Luke Paireepinart wrote:
Dick Moores wrote:
At 05:20 AM 9/18/2006, Kent Johnson wrote:
You have greatly underused Decimal - it is capable of multiplication and
division of fractional quantities directly:
In [1]: from decimal import Decimal as D
In [2]: x=D('1.23')
In [3]: y=D('4.5')
In [4]: x*y
Out[4]: Decimal(5.535)
In [5]: x/y
Out[5]: Decimal(0.2733)
And sqrt() as well, which I definitely thought was not possible.
http://www.python.org/dev/doc/maint24/lib/node178.html
Well, you settled that. I don't know why I didn't see it.
Perhaps you had some preconceptions about the limits of the Decimal
module, and upon
preliminary investigations something confirmed this for you, so you
didn't actually look in-depth
for a way to do what you were trying to do because it seemed at
first glance like Decimal wasn't the right tool
(maybe you saw an example that didn't fully utilize Decimal or something.)
Or, alternatively, you cheated and skimmed over the docs, and didn't
see something important the first time around :)
A little of both, I think, but more of the former.
of course couldn't rely on the use of the built-in round() or the
formatting of strings (see the line format = %. + str(precision) +
'f' in setPrecision() in v3). Lack of experience with the slicing
of lists caused many headaches. I didn't succeed in debugging until I
put in print statements wherever a value changes, and trying many
different integer strings and places (the arguments of
roundNumber()). A good lesson, I think.
The recipes page in the docs for Decimal include a moneyfmt() function
that rounds to a specified number of places and inserts a separator char.
I'd seen the recipes in the docs, but couldn't make much sense out
of them. I think I can now. Or at least more sense than before.
http://docs.python.org/lib/decimal-recipes.html
Yes, even though a portion of your program has functionality in the
Decimal module already,
coding anything is good practice. For example, my dream is to one
day write a NES emulator in Python,
and this has already been done dozens of times in C, C++, Java,
even Visual Basic. I don't care, my goal is the same
whether or not I'm reinventing the wheel. :) I know of no NES
emulator in Python, though, so I guess i'm not really
reinventing the wheel after all (if anyone asks, tell them I'm
porting that Java emulator :)
I learned a lot in spending the time I did on roundNumber().
Dick
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Re: [Tutor] Some questions about my yen-USD.py
And what's the downside of the way I've done it? Its slow... Actually it is not particularly slow. The actual function code is created once, when the module is compiled; creating a function object and binding it to a name is pretty fast. There is a good discussion here: http://tinyurl.com/gzfyl Absolutely, I should have said its slower, all things are relative. For this application it probably makes no difference in real terms. Alan G. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] Some questions about my yen-USD.py
thats fine its just my dad would need that and it would be easier for him if he had the exchange rate bulit inOn 9/17/06, Dick Moores [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:At 07:10 PM 9/17/2006, Amadeo Bellotti wrote:ok i jsut wanted to say great program but i would like to see an acutal exchange rate like maybe get it from a website it would be somuch nicer and easier to use also it would help linux users who runfrom console so they dont have to look up the current rate online Thanks for the great suggestion. Right now I don't have the faintestidea how to implement it, but I'm sure going to try to learn how.Give me till Tuesday? ;)Dick ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] Help with parsing
Bryan Leber wrote: Hello, I am trying to create a script that reads from the command line and puts the sysargv into a list. I have this part done. I have added code for testing and one of those testing procedures is to print the list out in a text file. Not all field are required and may not have information in them. A sample text file looks like this: PATCH_NUMBER: BUG_NUMBER: 4534 FEATURE_AFFECTED: Admin login OVERVEIW: The icon of the submit has changed Now what I need to accomplish is to search through this list and if FEATURE_AFFECTED or OVERVIEW do not have values(i.e. Admin login or The icon of the submit changed) then I need to print a message and then exit. Right now I have something like this Size = len(argsList) If size = 4 For i in argsList If i[2] == None: Print ‘please enter criteria’ Sys.exit() Elif i[3] == None: Print ‘please enter criteria’ Sys.exit() Else: Sys.exit() Any help would be appreciated. Thanks **/Bryan Leber/** Developer Fischer International Corporation www.fischerinternational.com http://www.fischerinternational.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell:(239)963-5267 Secure Your Risk. Increase Your Bottom Line. ™ This mail message may contain confidential and privileged information from Fischer International which is protected. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution by any means is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message I recommend that you check out the optparse.module from OptionParser It does what you are looking for in a concise method. See http://docs.python.org/lib/module-optparse.html ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
[Tutor] How to convert a decimal integer into binary
Can anyone help me with teh problem of converting a decimal number into its binary equivalent?? Thanks in anticipation. Regards, Asrar Kadri -- Winners are willing to do things that losers wont do. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] How to convert a decimal integer into binary
Asrarahmed Kadri wrote: Can anyone help me with teh problem of converting a decimal number into its binary equivalent?? How is your decimal number stored? Thanks in anticipation. Regards, Asrar Kadri -- Winners are willing to do things that losers wont do. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] How to convert a decimal integer into binary
Asrarahmed Kadri wrote: Can anyone help me with teh problem of converting a decimal number into its binary equivalent?? Ah, sorry, I didn't read the subject line, just the e-mail. You said a decimal integer into binary. I thought you meant any random decimal value. My bad :) You should be able to find a tutorial on this on-line somewhere. you know that decimal: 1 = binary: 0001 decimal: 2 = binary: 0010 decimal: 4 = binary: 0100 decimal: 8 = binary: 1000 Do you see the pattern here? It's powers of 2. I don't have time to write an example program, but see what you can do. Basically, if I remember correctly, you have to find the smallest power of 2 that is greater than your number, then repeatedly divide then mod the integer for each binary digit. Thanks in anticipation. sure. Regards, Asrar Kadri -Luke ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
[Tutor] wikibooks
Hi All, The following site maybe of interest: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikibooks:Computing_department Hugh ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
