[Tutor] How to verify all things are equal to one another

2005-05-14 Thread Terry Carroll
Suppose I have several variables, e.g.: a, b, c, d, e, f, g. I would like to be able to see if they're all the same, I don't care what the value is, as long as they're equal. If they're all equal to 0, or to "spam", or to ["cleese", "idle", "gilliam"], as long as they're the same. Is there a mo

Re: [Tutor] map() and lambda to change class instance attribute (fwd)

2005-05-14 Thread Bernard Lebel
Thanks Alan, that clears things up quite well. Bernard On 5/14/05, Alan Gauld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So if I undestand you right, mapping a function with map() > > when it is a built-in function will/may be faster than a for > > loop, but if it's a custom function (ie. a def one), it wil

Re: [Tutor] help: space formatting for multiplication table

2005-05-14 Thread Lee Harr
>The idea is to print out a multiplication table on the command line >with numbers lining up in the ones column. I want to eventually >emulate programs like top with their spacing. But this code is mostly >for my amusement. How would you make this work? > Try print string formatting using % >>>p

Re: [Tutor] help: space formatting for multiplication table

2005-05-14 Thread Max Noel
On May 14, 2005, at 20:09, Aaron Elbaz wrote: > The idea is to print out a multiplication table on the command line > with numbers lining up in the ones column. I want to eventually > emulate programs like top with their spacing. But this code is mostly > for my amusement. How would you make this

[Tutor] help: space formatting for multiplication table

2005-05-14 Thread Aaron Elbaz
I've been racking my brain and am right now feeling nauseous from not being able to figure out such a simple problem. Here's the code: #r=10 #line=1 # #def spaces(r): #return r/10 # #while line-1 < r: #for i in range(r): #print str((i+1)*line) + ' '*spaces(r), #line=line+1 #

Re: [Tutor] Lists of files

2005-05-14 Thread Karl Pflästerer
On 14 Mai 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Here's the problem - I want a list (array) of the files in a directory, > and then I want to iterate over the list testing for image-ness (with > imghdr.what()) and put all the image filenames in a global list. > > What I've tried is this: > > files = glo

Re: [Tutor] Lists of files

2005-05-14 Thread Bernard Lebel
Hi William, First, check out the os and os.path modules. It has exactly what you need to handle files and directories. http://www.python.org/doc/2.4.1/lib/module-os.html More specifically: http://www.python.org/doc/2.4.1/lib/os-file-dir.html http://www.python.org/doc/2.4.1/lib/module-os.path.html

[Tutor] Lists of files

2005-05-14 Thread William O'Higgins
Here's the problem - I want a list (array) of the files in a directory, and then I want to iterate over the list testing for image-ness (with imghdr.what()) and put all the image filenames in a global list. What I've tried is this: files = glob.glob('*.*') for file in files: global pics