Re: [Tutor] beginsWith multiple prefixes

2008-12-24 Thread Bill Campbell
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008, bob gailer wrote: > Emad Nawfal ( ) wrote: >> Hi Tutors, >> I want a function that acts like the startswith method, but can take >> multiple prefixes. As an amateur programmer, I came up with this one, >> and it works fine, but my experience tells me that my soluti

Re: [Tutor] beginsWith multiple prefixes

2008-12-24 Thread bob gailer
Emad Nawfal (عماد نوفل) wrote: Hi Tutors, I want a function that acts like the startswith method, but can take multiple prefixes. As an amateur programmer, I came up with this one, and it works fine, but my experience tells me that my solutions are not always the best ones around. Can you plea

[Tutor] beginsWith multiple prefixes

2008-12-24 Thread Emad Nawfal (عماد نوفل)
Hi Tutors, I want a function that acts like the startswith method, but can take multiple prefixes. As an amateur programmer, I came up with this one, and it works fine, but my experience tells me that my solutions are not always the best ones around. Can you please tell me what a better option migh

Re: [Tutor] Word Frequency Chart

2008-12-24 Thread Chris Babcock
On Tue, 23 Dec 2008 19:17:33 -0800 (PST) Ishan Puri wrote: > Hello, > I am a beginner with Python but I understand a lot of > linguistics. I am a high school student. I needed help (from the > beginning) making a word frequency chart that I can use to chart out > the numerical frequencies of

Re: [Tutor] Word Frequency Chart

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Re: [Tutor] strip function

2008-12-24 Thread Kent Johnson
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 7:25 AM, Norman Khine wrote: > > Hello, > I have difficulties in trying to stripping the following: > item_path = '/companies/company/news' item_strip = item_path.strip('/companies') item_strip > 'y/new' strip() doesn't do what you want. It removes any of th

Re: [Tutor] strip function

2008-12-24 Thread bob gailer
Norman Khine wrote: Hello, I have difficulties in trying to stripping the following: >>> item_path = '/companies/company/news' >>> item_strip = item_path.strip('/companies') >>> item_strip 'y/new' >>> I would like to return: >>> item_strip '/company/news'

[Tutor] strip function

2008-12-24 Thread Norman Khine
Hello, I have difficulties in trying to stripping the following: >>> item_path = '/companies/company/news' >>> item_strip = item_path.strip('/companies') >>> item_strip 'y/new' >>> I would like to return: >>> item_strip '/company/news' What is the best way to do this. Thanks ___

Re: [Tutor] Word Frequency Chart

2008-12-24 Thread Alan Gauld
"Ishan Puri" wrote I am a high school student. I needed help (from the beginning) making a word frequency chart that I can use to chart out the numerical frequencies of words. We are happy to help but as a rile we don;t write programs for you, we help you write your own programs. (Teach a m