Re: [Tutor] Program gets stuck after a creating a list from dictinary items!

2012-07-07 Thread Alan Gauld
On 07/07/12 04:35, Steven D'Aprano wrote: I find it ironic that you are suggesting removing the debugger to make it easier to debug the code :) But the pdb.trace() calls are not needed for debugging. The interactive debugger will work just fine without them. They are for very specialised use.

Re: [Tutor] Program gets stuck after a creating a list from dictinary items!

2012-07-07 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 07/07/2012 09:34, Alan Gauld wrote: On 07/07/12 04:35, Steven D'Aprano wrote: I find it ironic that you are suggesting removing the debugger to make it easier to debug the code :) But the pdb.trace() calls are not needed for debugging. The interactive debugger will work just fine without

[Tutor] While loops

2012-07-07 Thread myles broomes
I am currently coding a 'text-based adventure game', and im having a bit of trouble with while loops. Here is my code so far: #Text-based Adventure RPG #The player travels through different towns and dungeons #The overall goal of the game is simple; the player must make it to the final town,

Re: [Tutor] While loops

2012-07-07 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 7/7/2012 5:57 AM myles broomes said... I am currently coding a 'text-based adventure game', and im having a bit of trouble with while loops. Here is my code so far: Please paste in the traceback you're getting, and please set your mail client program for plain text when posting. What I

Re: [Tutor] While loops

2012-07-07 Thread Alan Gauld
On 07/07/12 13:57, myles broomes wrote: I am currently coding a 'text-based adventure game', and im having a bit of trouble with while loops. Here is my code so far: What kind of trouble? You have lots of while loops, which loop? And do you get an error message? If so please post it - all of

[Tutor] The Best Way to go About with Self Modifying Code/Code Generation?

2012-07-07 Thread Aaron Tp
Hey all, I have a question on using self-modifying code/code generation in Python; namely how to do it. I've posted on Stack Overflow and a python forum on this topic, and apparently the current approach I'd devised wastoo difficult. The idea was, for every Python operator and statement

Re: [Tutor] The Best Way to go About with Self Modifying Code/Code Generation?

2012-07-07 Thread Alan Gauld
On 07/07/12 22:19, Aaron Tp wrote: Hey all, I have a question on using self-modifying code/code generation in Python; namely how to do it. Self generating code is hard to do. Writing code is hard for intelligent humans, writing code to generate code is even harder. To write code that

Re: [Tutor] The Best Way to go About with Self Modifying Code/Code Generation?

2012-07-07 Thread Stefan Behnel
Aaron Tp, 07.07.2012 23:19: I have a question on using self-modifying code/code generation in Python; namely how to do it. Don't. Seriously, the answer you should ask yourself is: why do you think the genetic algorithm (or whatever you are trying to do exactly) would come up with any