Re: [Tutor] is it possible to call a setter property during classinstantiation?

2010-08-14 Thread ALAN GAULD
so we don't usually care too much about types. Are you sure you really need all that type checking code? ...I included a type check for a string to make sure that a future programmer (or myself) wouldn't try to pass in a list of lines after a text has been split. Other code internal to the

Re: [Tutor] Tutor Digest, Vol 78, Issue 68

2010-08-14 Thread Stephen Farthing
Guys, Thanks for all the helpI am working my way through Snake wrangling for kids as a start. I downloaded Netbeans and installed the plug in as Idle will not load on my 64 bit Windows 7. And I have WXPython 2.8 plus the examples to play with. Life is good in rainy England, Steve

Re: [Tutor] Tutor Digest, Vol 78, Issue 68

2010-08-14 Thread Bill Allen
On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 4:29 AM, Stephen Farthing squir...@gmail.comwrote: Thanks for all the helpI am working my way through Snake wrangling for kids as a start. I downloaded Netbeans and installed the plug in as Idle will not load on my 64 bit Windows 7. And I have WXPython 2.8 plus the

[Tutor] my Python learning exercise

2010-08-14 Thread Bill Allen
In the process of learning Python, I have given myself a programming exercise to do. This is a standard thing I do whenever learning a new programming language and I have used this same exercise several times before with other programming languages. It is a simple text based game that simply