Re: [Tutor] Fwd: Learning python using Michael Dawson's book

[Alan Gauld]

I thought I had posted a reply on this but I don't see 
it in the archive...


You should make sure your font is set to a mono-spaced 
variety for this kind of thing otherwise it gets very difficult 
to align everything...



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Re: [Tutor] Fwd: Learning python using Michael Dawson's book

[Peter]

Thank you for the responses to my question. This was my first posting 
and future questions will be made "clearer" to the group.


Joseph,
I have a feeling you are correct about the spacing.  I will try that.
Its easy to just load the code file and see the result, but I will learn 
more if I type out what I see in the book then see a result.

Thank much,
Peter

On 5/19/2010 7:11 AM, Joseph Gulizia wrote:
I posted this two days ago (I thought to the list...but apparently 
not).  I'm hopeful it helps in some way.




I have the same book.

Using a text editor and the underscore and dash keys and a few 
others...the program example is creating an ASCII art version on the 
words "Game Over".


Type it manually probably means to type it out...NOT use copy and paste.

Can't get it to work probably meansit doesn't display properly (as 
the book shows).


What needs to be done is he needs to play with the spacing of the 
characters and different keys to get the "letters" drawn to display 
closer to the book's example.



"""
  ___
  |__   ___|   _ _
  |  |  /   __\   /  ___  \
 _   |  | |   |||  |  |___|  |
|  |_|  | |   |__||  |  /_
\/ \__/  \__|

"""

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 2:38 AM, Andre Engels > wrote:


On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 5:14 AM, Luke Paireepinart
mailto:rabidpoob...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> Forwarding. Peter use reply-all don't reply offlist please.
>
> -- Forwarded message --
> From: Peter mailto:cyclesp...@windstream.net>>
> Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 10:08:47 -0400
> Subject: Re: [Tutor] Learning python using Michael Dawson's book
> To: Luke Paireepinart mailto:rabidpoob...@gmail.com>>
>
> Hi,
> The result in the book has lettering like the following:
> _____   __
> |||| ||
> ||__|| ||
> |__ |  ||
> |||| ||
> |__||__| |__|

Well, that's definitely not what the code would be producing, nor does
it seem to be related to what the example claims to be doing...
Perhaps instead of

print(
  """
  """
  )

which is a very strange idiom (though valid), you should write:

print(
  """
 _____   __
 |||| ||
 ||__|| ||
 |__ |  ||
 |||| ||
 |__||__| |__|
 """
  )

or perhaps you are looking at one example and the explanation of
another?



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Re: [Tutor] Fwd: Learning python using Michael Dawson's book

[Joseph Gulizia]

I posted this two days ago (I thought to the list...but apparently not).
I'm hopeful it helps in some way.



I have the same book.

Using a text editor and the underscore and dash keys and a few others...the
program example is creating an ASCII art version on the words "Game Over".

Type it manually probably means to type it out...NOT use copy and paste.

Can't get it to work probably meansit doesn't display properly (as the
book shows).

What needs to be done is he needs to play with the spacing of the characters
and different keys to get the "letters" drawn to display closer to the
book's example.


"""
  ___
  |__   ___|   _ _
  |  |  /   __\   /  ___  \
 _   |  | |   |||  |  |___|  |
|  |_|  | |   |__||  |  /_
\/ \__/  \__|

"""

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 2:38 AM, Andre Engels  wrote:

> On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 5:14 AM, Luke Paireepinart
>  wrote:
> > Forwarding. Peter use reply-all don't reply offlist please.
> >
> > -- Forwarded message --
> > From: Peter 
> > Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 10:08:47 -0400
> > Subject: Re: [Tutor] Learning python using Michael Dawson's book
> > To: Luke Paireepinart 
> >
> > Hi,
> > The result in the book has lettering like the following:
> > _____   __
> > |||| ||
> > ||__|| ||
> > |__ |  ||
> > |||| ||
> > |__||__| |__|
>
> Well, that's definitely not what the code would be producing, nor does
> it seem to be related to what the example claims to be doing...
> Perhaps instead of
>
> print(
>   """
>   """
>   )
>
> which is a very strange idiom (though valid), you should write:
>
> print(
>   """
>  _____   __
>  |||| ||
>  ||__|| ||
>  |__ |  ||
>  |||| ||
>  |__||__| |__|
>  """
>   )
>
> or perhaps you are looking at one example and the explanation of another?
>
>
>
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Re: [Tutor] Fwd: Learning python using Michael Dawson's book

[Andre Engels]

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 5:14 AM, Luke Paireepinart
 wrote:
> Forwarding. Peter use reply-all don't reply offlist please.
>
> -- Forwarded message --
> From: Peter 
> Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 10:08:47 -0400
> Subject: Re: [Tutor] Learning python using Michael Dawson's book
> To: Luke Paireepinart 
>
> Hi,
> The result in the book has lettering like the following:
> ___    __       __
> |    |    |    |     |    |
> |    |__|    |     |    |
> |    __     |      |    |
> |    |    |    |     |    |
> |__|    |__|     |__|

Well, that's definitely not what the code would be producing, nor does
it seem to be related to what the example claims to be doing...
Perhaps instead of

print(
   """
   """
   )

which is a very strange idiom (though valid), you should write:

print(
   """
 _____   __
 |||| ||
 ||__|| ||
 |__ |  ||
 |||| ||
 |__||__| |__|
  """
   )

or perhaps you are looking at one example and the explanation of another?



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[Tutor] Fwd: Learning python using Michael Dawson's book

[Luke Paireepinart]

Forwarding. Peter use reply-all don't reply offlist please.

-- Forwarded message --
From: Peter 
Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 10:08:47 -0400
Subject: Re: [Tutor] Learning python using Michael Dawson's book
To: Luke Paireepinart 

Hi,
The result in the book has lettering like the following:
_____   __
|||| ||
||__|| ||
|__ |  ||
|||| ||
|__||__| |__|





On 5/17/2010 9:54 AM, Luke Paireepinart wrote:
> I don't see any printing of dashes whatsoever.
> can you explain in more detail what output you're getting, how it's
> different from what you expected, and why you think that happened?
>
> On 5/17/10, Peter  wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> I am at the very beginning of learning Python. If anyone is familiar
>> with Michael Dawson's book: "Python Programming for the Absolute Beginner"
>> The following script (according to the book) should create "block
>> lettering" created by dashes and vertical lines. If I could show a
>> picture of it I would. I do not get the same result as the book.
>> Thank you for any input.
>> Peter
>>
>>
>> The script goes like this:
>>
>> ---
>>
>> #Game Over- Version 2
>> #Demonstrates the use of quotes in strings
>>
>> print("Program 'Game Over' 2.0")
>>
>> print("Same", "message", "as before")
>>
>> print("Just",
>>   "a bit",
>>   "bigger")
>>
>> print("Here", end=" ")
>> print("it is...")
>>
>> print(
>>  """
>>  """
>>  )
>>
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