Re: [coders] python mysql module

2008-09-05 Thread david
Jeff Waugh wrote: ALL good answers include fishing instructions. Thank you! 1) Dinghy 2) Shotgun etc. :-) you sound like Sarah Palin... do you wrastle mooses? (sorry... time for me to exit () ___ coders mailing list coders@slug.org.au http://

Re: [coders] python mysql module

2008-09-04 Thread david
Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: david wrote: g the caps must be a special secret handshake I thought I had tried all the combinations :-) I should have mentioned that I figured this out by doing: dpkg -L python-mysqldb which had amongst other things: /usr/share/python

Re: [coders] python mysql module

2008-09-04 Thread david
Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: david wrote: $ sudo apt-get install python-mysqldb python-mysqldb-dbg [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/howto$ python Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Jul 31 2008, 17:28:52) [GCC 4.2.3 (Ubuntu 4.2.3-2ubuntu7)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credi

[coders] python mysql module

2008-09-04 Thread david
mation. >>> import mysql Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in ImportError: No module named mysql >>> import mysqldb Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in ImportError: No module named mysqldb what am i doing wrong? where

Re: [coders] volunteers for coding project

2008-01-01 Thread David Smith
Hi, I'm kicking myself for writing this, because I've been known to criticise other people's motives for wanting to do something and I hate that kind of reaction, but I can't help myself it seems. I'd suggest two things: draft some screen shots (simple is fine) of what you expect the result to

[coders] HELP!! Error in GCC Stddef.h

2007-11-14 Thread David Bowskill
213: error: syntax error before "typedef"* Below is the file /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/3.3.5/include/stddef.h with an arrow pointing to line 213 in large print and in blue As a novice I am somewhat cautious of going in as root and fiddling with this file. Many thanks in anticipa

Re: [coders] Ruby problem with array.length

2006-06-19 Thread david
On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 17:11 +1000, Daniel Bush wrote: > On 18/06/06, david <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > irb(main):042:0> y > > => [88.0, 99.0, 1.0, 3.0] > > irb(main):039:0> y.length.times do puts "blah" end > > blah > > blah > >

[coders] Ruby problem with array.length

2006-06-18 Thread david
irb(main):042:0> y => [88.0, 99.0, 1.0, 3.0] irb(main):039:0> y.length.times do puts "blah" end blah blah blah blah => 4 irb(main):040:0> y.length-1.times do puts "blah" end blah => 3 I expected the last command to print "blah" 3 times. ___ coders mai

Re: [coders][NRS] 1st night

2006-06-16 Thread david
Could I very politely ask you to modify the subject? Very interesting, but somewhat off-topic ;-) I think this particular first knight has been thoroughly de-flowered. On Sat, 2006-06-17 at 01:04 +1000, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Benno wrote: > >On Fri Jun 16, 2006 at 1

Re: [coders] RubySIG Lesson Code - Night 1

2006-06-16 Thread david
On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 00:03 +1000, Graham Smith wrote: Matt asked us to comment on each others code... so I'll be the first mug to do so ;-) > #!/usr/bin/ruby > > amount=ARGV[0].to_f > > x = amount % 5.0 > y = amount - x > > puts x > 2.0 ? y+5 : y This is very elegant, but I imagined myse

Re: [coders][NRS] 1st night

2006-06-16 Thread david
On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 18:06 +1000, O Plameras wrote: > David wrote: > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/ruby $ irb > >irb(main):012:0> puts $stdin.readlines.sort_by {rand} > >1 > >2 > >3<-- c^d here > >3 > >2 > >1 > >=> nil >

Re: RE:[coders][NRS] 1st night

2006-06-15 Thread david
On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 09:58 +1000, O Plameras wrote: > Graham Smith wrote: > > >#!/usr/bin/ruby > >a=STDIN.readlines.sort_by {rand} > >puts a > So, this is how I'd code it. > > #!/usr/bin/env ruby > puts $stdin.readlines.sort_by {rand} unless $stdin.eof > > In human terms, it says 'put the lin

Re: [coders] [NRS] 1st night wrap-up, and on to next week!

2006-06-15 Thread david
On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 22:36 +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: As requested: > - Generate a set of 20 random numbers between 1 and 100, and then print only > the odd ones -- with the special caveat that your solution *must* use > Array#<< and Array#select. Don't know what they do? See the f

[coders] [NRS] - Learn Ruby - space available

2006-06-09 Thread david
, and probably NOT a hard core hacker since this is mostly for beginners. It's all happening next Tuesday night. David [NRS] == NewbieRubySIG ___ coders mailing list coders@slug.org.au http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/coders