On 12/05/2019 16:10, tim wrote:
On Sun, 12 May 2019 15:43:53 +0100
Stephen Wolff wrote:
Hi there,
trying to teach myself Python at the moment and not doing to well so I have a
couple of
questions if anybody can help me.
2) Anybody recommend any good online tutorial and\or books. I have a co
On Sun, 12 May 2019 15:43:53 +0100
Stephen Wolff wrote:
> Hi there,
> >
> > trying to teach myself Python at the moment and not doing to well so I have
> > a couple of
> > questions if anybody can help me.
> >
> > 2) Anybody recommend any good online tutorial and\or books. I have a couple
> >
Hi there,
>
> trying to teach myself Python at the moment and not doing to well so I have a
> couple of questions
> if anybody can help me.
>
> 2) Anybody recommend any good online tutorial and\or books. I have a couple
> at the moment, Python
> for Kids and an old copy of Learning Python
This
Hi Ralph,
Cheers, that makes a lot of sense, thanks for explaining the use case :)
As someone who's mostly worked in Python, I guess I've never seen it used.
Hamish
On 12/05/2019 09:26, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Hi Hamish,
>
>> I've heard bad things about goto :)
> Forget all you've heard. :-)
>
On Saturday, 11 May 2019 21:19:50 BST tim wrote:
> 2) Anybody recommend any good online tutorial and\or books. I have a couple
> at the moment, Python for Kids and an old copy of Learning Python
I'm not the best person to answer questions on Python really, but I do own a
copy of
Learning Python
Hi Hamish,
> I've heard bad things about goto :)
Forget all you've heard. :-)
The problems with goto date back to languages that offered a one-line
if-statement that could goto. No other control-flow than goto existed;
no while-loop, for-loop, etc. This included very popular languages that
we
Hi Tim,
> 1) I need to understand how to use labels (which I believe is what you
> should use in Python 3 instead of goto)
I haven't paid much attention to Python 3, though used to know 2 pretty
well. I don't think either have goto, and neither have labels either.
It's always been a language fla
Hi Tim,
1)
I've been using Python for a long time and have never seen it fit to use labels
- are you sure you don't want to divide it into multiple functions or methods?
If labels are similar to goto, I would hesitate to use it - I've heard bad
things about goto :)
2)
The documentation on py
Evening all
trying to teach myself Python at the moment and not doing to well so I have a
couple of questions
if anybody can help me.
1) I need to understand how to use labels (which I believe is what you should
use in Python 3
instead of goto), I have a section where I ask a question and the
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