[Tutor] Closing triple quotation marks.

2011-06-18 Thread Lisi
I have left the program intact below* because I am afraid that if I cut it I may cut out something that is essential. I am working from an existing program that I have typed out under instructions, but am now trying to replace the commented out section with just one command. The program with

Re: [Tutor] Closing triple quotation marks.

2011-06-18 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Lisi wrote: [...] Fair enough. the closing quotation marks are not there. But when they _are_ there, i.e. when that stanza reads: target.write line1\nline2\nline3\n This is not the problem, but I just thought I'd mention that it's a bit silly to go to the trouble of using newline escape

Re: [Tutor] Closing triple quotation marks.

2011-06-18 Thread Lisi
On Saturday 18 June 2011 13:37:38 Steven D'Aprano wrote: Lisi wrote: [...] Fair enough. the closing quotation marks are not there. But when they _are_ there, i.e. when that stanza reads: target.write line1\nline2\nline3\n This is not the problem, but I just thought I'd mention

Re: [Tutor] Closing triple quotation marks.

2011-06-18 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Lisi wrote: But I still can't write to the file. If I do: target.write(line1) The value of the variable line1 is written to the file. But if I put the three variables into the write command, what gets printed is the name of the variables, not their values. I am clearly still doing

Re: [Tutor] Closing triple quotation marks.

2011-06-18 Thread Alan Gauld
Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote But I still can't write to the file. If I do: target.write(line1) The value of the variable line1 is written to the file. That will work provided line1 is a string. But if I put the three variables into the write command, what gets printed is the name of

[Tutor] Communicating Between Programs Using Raw Inputs (con'd)

2011-06-18 Thread Jacob Bender
Dear Tutors, Alright, I'm using linux (ubuntu) and I took all of your advice and I got something that works and doesn't work at the same time. Here's the source code for my two programs called Lock and Key: *Lock.py: * password = a psswd_try = raw_input(What's the password? ) if psswd_try ==

[Tutor] BF Program hangs

2011-06-18 Thread Kaustubh Pratap chand
Hello i made this program which interprets brainf*** But i don't understand why it doesn't endsand also it doesn't print anything import sys cell=[0] * 3 code_pointer=0 cell_pointer=0 close_brace_pos=0 open_brace_pos=0 bf=raw_input(Input bf program:) while

Re: [Tutor] BF Program hangs

2011-06-18 Thread wesley chun
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 10:02 PM, Kaustubh Pratap chand warr...@programmer.net wrote: Hello i made this program which interprets brainf*** But i don't understand why it doesn't endsand also it doesn't print anything can you tell us more about the code other than it doesn't end and it

Re: [Tutor] Communicating Between Programs Using Raw Inputs (con'd)

2011-06-18 Thread Alan Gauld
Jacob Bender benderjaco...@gmail.com wrote *Lock.py: * password = a psswd_try = raw_input(What's the password? ) if psswd_try == password: print correct!!! raw_input() else: print wrong raw_input() * Key.py*: import sys sys.stdout.write(a) And all went well except for an EOF

[Tutor] using configobj package to output quoted strings

2011-06-18 Thread Alex Hall
Hello all, I am using the configobj package to handle a ridiculously simple ini file, which takes the form: [favorites] search name = search terms, search type for any number of searches stored in the favorites section. I need the search type, term, and name to be read in as strings, but they

Re: [Tutor] Communicating Between Programs Using Raw Inputs (con'd)

2011-06-18 Thread aditya
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 9:35 PM, Jacob Bender benderjaco...@gmail.comwrote: Dear Tutors, Alright, I'm using linux (ubuntu) and I took all of your advice and I got something that works and doesn't work at the same time. Here's the source code for my two programs called Lock and Key:

Re: [Tutor] using configobj package to output quoted strings

2011-06-18 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Alex Hall wrote: Hello all, I am using the configobj package to handle a ridiculously simple ini What's configobj? import configobj Traceback (most recent call last): File stdin, line 1, in module ImportError: No module named configobj It's not in the 3.1 standard library. Is it a

Re: [Tutor] using configobj package to output quoted strings

2011-06-18 Thread Alex Hall
On 6/18/11, Steven D'Aprano st...@pearwood.info wrote: Alex Hall wrote: Hello all, I am using the configobj package to handle a ridiculously simple ini What's configobj? import configobj Traceback (most recent call last): File stdin, line 1, in module ImportError: No module named

Re: [Tutor] using configobj package to output quoted strings

2011-06-18 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Alex Hall wrote: Still, it is odd (well, to me at least) that when I write the string to the file with no quotes, I get no quotes, but using double quotes in the string's value gives me both single and double quotes. Sounds to me like bad design on the part of configobj, but perhaps I'm