On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 8:16 AM, Julia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2008 16:39:16 -0500
From: Kent Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Tutor] self-learning Python
To: Enrique Nieves, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: tutor@python.org
Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Emad Nawfal wrote:
On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 8:16 AM, Julia [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
To be honest I truly dislike the Dawson book. I wouldn't recommend
it to anyone. It's lacks technical clarity, examples and has a messy
index. I'm going to sell my example
Dear Users,
I've been digging around to try and find a way to make python make
sound. I would either like to sound out a string of musical notes
including rests or simply have something that I set the frequency and
duration then sound and repeat for the number of notes.
If possible I would
On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 10:57 AM, Wesley Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've been digging around to try and find a way to make python make
sound. I would either like to sound out a string of musical notes [...]
Wesley, take a look at PyGame [1]. PyGame is a Python wrapper on top
of SDL [2], a
My recommendation for a book to learn to program, using Python is How
to think like a Computer Scientist: learning with Python (2nd
edition) [1]. It's a free online book, but a printed version of the
first edition is also available.
[1] http://openbookproject.net/thinkCSpy/index.xhtml
Don't let
Thanks very much. Not quite sure why I didn't find those earlier! I'll
have a look now.
Cheers,
Wesley.
On 09/03/2008, Kent Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Wesley Brooks wrote:
Dear Users,
I've been digging around to try and find a way to make python make
sound. I would either
On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 8:54 AM, Kent Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 8:16 AM, Julia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
To be honest I truly dislike the Dawson book. I wouldn't recommend
it to anyone. It's lacks technical clarity, examples and has a messy
Emad Nawfal wrote:
On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 8:16 AM, Julia [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
To be honest I truly dislike the Dawson book. I wouldn't recommend
it to anyone. It's lacks technical clarity, examples and has a messy
index. I'm going to sell my
Julia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
When I was a complete beginner I preferred Beginning Python over
Dawson and
I still do (I'm still a beginner). But that might just me be me :)
Book (and tutorial) choices are very subjective.
I know the styles of book I like and dislike.
I hate chatty, informal
Julia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Emad Nawfal wrote:
On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 8:16 AM, Julia [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
To be honest I truly dislike the Dawson book. I wouldn't recommend
it to anyone. It's lacks technical clarity, examples and has a messy
On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 5:00 PM, Lowell Tackett [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
There's an essential (in my opinion) principle of learning programming
that doesn't seem to have made its' way into this conversation. I'll
preface my thoughts by saying that in-again, my opinion- Michael Dawson's
Julia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 5:00 PM, Lowell Tackett
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There's an essential (in my opinion) principle of learning
programming...learning is not only absorbing stuff, but what I call (and I'm
certain it didn't originate with me) finger time.
Dear Tutors,
I'm trying to get the most frequent words in an Arabic text. I wrote the
following code and tried it on English and it works fine, but when I try it
on Arabic, all I get is the slashes and x's. I'm not familiar with Unicode.
Could somebody please tell me what's wrong here, and how I
Emad Nawfal wrote:
Dear Tutors,
I'm trying to get the most frequent words in an Arabic text. I wrote the
following code and tried it on English and it works fine, but when I try
it on Arabic, all I get is the slashes and x's.
import codecs
infile = codecs.open(r'C:\Documents and
Dear Tutors,
I'm trying to get the most frequent words in an Arabic text. I wrote the
following code and tried it on English and it works fine, but when I try it
on Arabic, all I get is the slashes and x's. I'm not familiar with Unicode.
Could somebody please tell me what's wrong here, and how
2008/3/9 Kent Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Emad Nawfal wrote:
Dear Tutors,
I'm trying to get the most frequent words in an Arabic text. I wrote the
following code and tried it on English and it works fine, but when I try
it on Arabic, all I get is the slashes and x's.
import codecs
Has anyone come across Python modules/libraries to perform Bag of Words text
analysis or an interface to the libbow C library? Thank-you!
Dinesh
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2008/3/9 Emad Nawfal [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Thank you so much Kent. It works. I have now realized the bad things about
self-learning.
There are bad things? Nobody told me...
--
www.fsrtechnologies.com
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On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 6:38 PM, Marc Tompkins [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
2008/3/9 Emad Nawfal [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Thank you so much Kent. It works. I have now realized the bad things
about self-learning.
There are bad things? Nobody told me...
--
www.fsrtechnologies.com
Well, there
Marc Tompkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
... I have now realized the bad things about
self-learning.
There are bad things? Nobody told me...
I appreciate the humor but seriously, yes there are bad things.
There are a lot of good things too of course, but it is easy
when self learning to
On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Alan Gauld [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Marc Tompkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
... I have now realized the bad things about
self-learning.
There are bad things? Nobody told me...
I appreciate the humor but seriously, yes there are bad things.
It was meant
On Monday 10 March 2008 01:53, Varsha Purohit wrote:
# read the ascii file
hdr = read_ascii.header(inFile)
temp= hdr[4].strip().split() # temp is a list which is
['cellsize', '127']
cellsize = temp[1]
cellsize is a character string I think! You must convert it to a
number to
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