I've finally found a use for Python.
When, in the course of my genealogy research, I look at census or burial
records, I often want to work out a person's date of birth from their age.
It's a simple matter of mental arithmetic, but I sometimes get it wrong, and
mislead myself. There are
On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 7:35 PM, Steve Hayes hayes...@telkomsa.net wrote:
This Python script does it for me.
year = input(Year: )
age = input(Age: )
born = year-age
print 'Year of birth:', born
One thing to be careful of: The input() function in Python 2 should be
avoided. Instead, use
On 11/21/2014 12:35 AM, Steve Hayes wrote:
I've finally found a use for Python.
When, in the course of my genealogy research, I look at census or burial
records, I often want to work out a person's date of birth from their age.
It's a simple matter of mental arithmetic, but I sometimes get it
On Fri, 21 Nov 2014 19:40:22 +1100, Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 7:35 PM, Steve Hayes hayes...@telkomsa.net wrote:
This Python script does it for me.
year = input(Year: )
age = input(Age: )
born = year-age
print 'Year of birth:', born
One thing to be
On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 9:15 PM, Steve Hayes hayes...@telkomsa.net wrote:
On Fri, 21 Nov 2014 19:40:22 +1100, Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 7:35 PM, Steve Hayes hayes...@telkomsa.net wrote:
This Python script does it for me.
year = input(Year: )
age =
On 21/11/2014 08:50, Gary Herron wrote:
On 11/21/2014 12:35 AM, Steve Hayes wrote:
I've finally found a use for Python.
When, in the course of my genealogy research, I look at census or burial
records, I often want to work out a person's date of birth from their
age.
It's a simple matter of
On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 9:20 PM, Mark Lawrence breamore...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
As we're now firmly heading into the Python 3 era would people please be
kind enough to use the Python 3 links. I know it's only a single character
change but it's the principle to me. TIA.
The OP was clearly using
On Fri, 21 Nov 2014 12:15:03 +0200, Steve Hayes wrote:
On Fri, 21 Nov 2014 19:40:22 +1100, Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 7:35 PM, Steve Hayes hayes...@telkomsa.net
wrote:
This Python script does it for me.
year = input(Year: )
age = input(Age: )
born =
On Fri, 21 Nov 2014 10:20:06 +, Mark Lawrence wrote:
On 21/11/2014 08:50, Gary Herron wrote:
On 11/21/2014 12:35 AM, Steve Hayes wrote:
I've finally found a use for Python.
When, in the course of my genealogy research, I look at census or
burial records, I often want to work out a
On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 9:33 PM, alister
alister.nospam.w...@ntlworld.com wrote:
the data entered by the user is processed as if it was python code, this
means the user could enter a command (or sequence of commands) that cause
serious problems to you computer including but not limited to:-
On Fri, Nov 21, 2014, at 05:33, alister wrote:
the problem with input is code-injection which is very similar to sql
injection (httpd://xkcd.com/327).
the data entered by the user is processed as if it was python code, this
means the user could enter a command (or sequence of commands)
On Fri, Nov 21, 2014, at 05:47, Chris Angelico wrote:
Now, maybe you want it to eval. There are times when I conceptually
want enter an integer, but it makes good sense to be able to type
1+2 and have it act as if I typed 3. That's fine... but if you
want eval, write eval into your code. Be
On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 12:58 AM, random...@fastmail.us wrote:
On Fri, Nov 21, 2014, at 05:47, Chris Angelico wrote:
Now, maybe you want it to eval. There are times when I conceptually
want enter an integer, but it makes good sense to be able to type
1+2 and have it act as if I typed 3.
On Fri, 21 Nov 2014 08:54:23 -0500, random832 wrote:
On Fri, Nov 21, 2014, at 05:33, alister wrote:
the problem with input is code-injection which is very similar to sql
injection (httpd://xkcd.com/327).
the data entered by the user is processed as if it was python code,
this means the
random...@fastmail.us wrote:
Out of curiosity, is there a way to use eval safely (i.e. strictly
limiting what it has access to) across a privilege boundary? This also
comes up for pickle and other serialization formats that can store
arbitrary classes (i.e. call arbitrary constructors).
Not
On 11/21/14 9:55 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
- Use your OS facilities to run that process in a chroot jail.
If you are interested, this is the facility that edX uses to run
untrusted Python code on the servers: https://github.com/edx/codejail
--
Ned Batchelder, http://nedbatchelder.com
--
On Fri, 21 Nov 2014 10:20:06 +, Mark Lawrence breamore...@yahoo.co.uk
wrote:
On 21/11/2014 08:50, Gary Herron wrote:
On 11/21/2014 12:35 AM, Steve Hayes wrote:
I've finally found a use for Python.
When, in the course of my genealogy research, I look at census or burial
records, I often
On 21/11/2014 15:50, Steve Hayes wrote:
On Fri, 21 Nov 2014 10:20:06 +, Mark Lawrence breamore...@yahoo.co.uk
As I'm using Python 2 and I asked the question, I'm grateful that the answer
was given in my dialect.
Luddite :)
--
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for
On 21/11/14 08:35, Steve Hayes wrote:
I've finally found a use for Python.
When, in the course of my genealogy research, I look at census or burial
records, I often want to work out a person's date of birth from their age.
It's a simple matter of mental arithmetic, but I sometimes get it
On Fri, 21 Nov 2014 17:03:12 +, duncan smith buzzard@invalid.invalid
wrote:
On 21/11/14 08:35, Steve Hayes wrote:
I've finally found a use for Python.
When, in the course of my genealogy research, I look at census or burial
records, I often want to work out a person's date of birth from
On 22-Nov-2014 6:35 am, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
On Fri, 21 Nov 2014 10:35:19 +0200, Steve Hayes hayes...@telkomsa.net
declaimed the following:
This Python script does it for me.
year = input(Year: )
age = input(Age: )
born = year-age
print 'Year of birth:', born
It's so simple, so
On Fri, 21 Nov 2014 14:50:36 -0500, Dennis Lee Bieber wlfr...@ix.netcom.com
wrote:
On Fri, 21 Nov 2014 12:15:03 +0200, Steve Hayes hayes...@telkomsa.net
declaimed the following:
On Fri, 21 Nov 2014 19:40:22 +1100, Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 7:35 PM, Steve
On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 4:07 PM, Steve Hayes hayes...@telkomsa.net wrote:
On Fri, 21 Nov 2014 14:50:36 -0500, Dennis Lee Bieber wlfr...@ix.netcom.com
wrote:
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declaimed the following:
On Fri, 21 Nov 2014 19:40:22 +1100, Chris
On Sat, 22 Nov 2014 06:51:15 +1100, Paul Blair p.bl...@internode.on.net
wrote:
On 22-Nov-2014 6:35 am, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
On Fri, 21 Nov 2014 10:35:19 +0200, Steve Hayes hayes...@telkomsa.net
declaimed the following:
This Python script does it for me.
year = input(Year: )
age =
On Fri, 21 Nov 2014 15:07:39 -0500, Denis Beauregard
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On Fri, 21 Nov 2014 14:35:14 -0500, Dennis Lee Bieber
bieber.geneal...@earthlink.net wrote in soc.genealogy.computing:
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