Re: [Tutor] Lotka-Volterra Model Simulation Questions

2012-09-30 Thread Alan Gauld
On 30/09/12 00:09, Brett Ritter wrote: agreement. Can you point to any of the research you mention? I'd like to read into to see how my personal experience equates with the overall study - I might learn something! I can probably dig out some references but a good place to start if you have

Re: [Tutor] Lotka-Volterra Model Simulation Questions

2012-09-30 Thread Alan Gauld
On 29/09/12 23:57, Oscar Benjamin wrote: On 29 September 2012 22:57, Alan Gauld alan.ga...@btinternet.com My point is that we should not choose short names just to keep an expression on a single line in written math too. (Most of the equations I remember reading from my

Re: [Tutor] Lotka-Volterra Model Simulation Questions

2012-09-30 Thread Oscar Benjamin
On 30 September 2012 09:37, Alan Gauld alan.ga...@btinternet.com wrote: On 29/09/12 23:57, Oscar Benjamin wrote: On 29 September 2012 22:57, Alan Gauld alan.ga...@btinternet.com My point is that we should not choose short names just to keep an expression on a single line

Re: [Tutor] Tutor Digest, Vol 103, Issue 145

2012-09-30 Thread Afzal Hossain
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Re: [Tutor] Tutor Digest, Vol 103, Issue 145

2012-09-30 Thread Oscar Benjamin
On 30 September 2012 12:47, Afzal Hossain afzal@gmail.com wrote: unsubscribe Apologies if we're boring you. You need to click the link at the bottom of the email to unsubscribe: ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or

Re: [Tutor] Lotka-Volterra Model Simulation Questions

2012-09-30 Thread eryksun
On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 6:50 AM, Oscar Benjamin oscar.j.benja...@gmail.com wrote: In any case I guess you won't be pleased by my discovery that, thanks to PEP 3131, the following is valid code in Python 3 (I've attached the code in case it doesn't display properly): # Parameters α = 1 β =

Re: [Tutor] Lotka-Volterra Model Simulation Questions

2012-09-30 Thread Walter Prins
Oscar, On 30 September 2012 11:50, Oscar Benjamin oscar.j.benja...@gmail.com wrote: In any case I guess you won't be pleased by my discovery that, thanks to PEP 3131, the following is valid code in Python 3 (I've attached the code in case it doesn't display properly): ''' #!/usr/bin/env

Re: [Tutor] Lotka-Volterra Model Simulation Questions

2012-09-30 Thread eryksun
On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Walter Prins wpr...@gmail.com wrote: your problem domain and hence the target audience is a group of people where a certain set of symbols have a well established conventional set of meanings [and hence will be quite readable to them] then I think it's quite

Re: [Tutor] Lotka-Volterra Model Simulation Questions

2012-09-30 Thread Alan Gauld
On 30/09/12 11:50, Oscar Benjamin wrote: ...I'm sure that the equations you're refering to would have already been using lots of symbols Yes which made them even more difficult to understand. Quantum mechanics is hard for anyone. I don't think that an alternative notation

Re: [Tutor] Help for Python Beginner with extracting and manipulating data from thousands of ASCII files

2012-09-30 Thread Alan Gauld
On 30/09/12 23:07, Cecilia Chavana-Bryant wrote: Hola again Python Tutor! With a friend's help I have the following code to extract reflectance data from an ASCII data file, do a bit of data manipulation to calibrate the data and then write the calibrated file into an out file. snip I have

Re: [Tutor] Help for Python Beginner with extracting and manipulating data from thousands of ASCII files

2012-09-30 Thread Dave Angel
On 09/30/2012 06:07 PM, Cecilia Chavana-Bryant wrote: Hola again Python Tutor! With a friend's help I have the following code to extract reflectance data from an ASCII data file, do a bit of data manipulation to calibrate the data and then write the calibrated file into an out file. import

Re: [Tutor] OT: Netiquette

2012-09-30 Thread Dwight Hutto
On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 6:38 AM, Bod Soutar bod...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sep 28, 2012 4:47 AM, Dwight Hutto dwightdhu...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 6:59 AM, Walter Prins wpr...@gmail.com wrote: Dwight, On 26 September 2012 09:26, Dwight Hutto dwightdhu...@gmail.com

Re: [Tutor] OT: Netiquette

2012-09-30 Thread Dwight Hutto
On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Wayne Werner wa...@waynewerner.com wrote: On Fri, 28 Sep 2012, Bod Soutar wrote: On Sep 28, 2012 4:47 AM, Dwight Hutto dwightdhu...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah, all up in my fucking cranium with nothing but me and God to hold on to one another. -- Best