Re: [Tutor] help with running perl script that writes to a text file

2013-02-06 Thread eryksun
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Alan Gauld wrote: > so "the DOS prompt" is both traditional and sufficiently specific making it > the most easily understandable of the likely terms. "DOS prompt" is a common idiom, but it bears mentioning now and then that the OS is NT [1], not DOS. That's all; I

Re: [Tutor] If a method has no return type?

2013-02-06 Thread Kal Sze
Dear Sunil, No method or function in Python has a *static* return type. That's because Python is by nature a dynamic language, with duck typing and dynamic dispatch. In fact, any method or function may well return any of a number of different types: def crazy_function(return_int) if r

Re: [Tutor] If a method has no return type?

2013-02-06 Thread wesley chun
On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 12:09 AM, Sunil Tech wrote: > If a method has no return type? > what will it return? > note the original question is partially invalid... Python functions and methods aren't typed. however, i imagine the OP really meant *return value* instead, so the answer is really the f

[Tutor] If a method has no return type?

2013-02-06 Thread Sunil Tech
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Re: [Tutor] Tutor Digest, Vol 108, Issue 22

2013-02-06 Thread 3n2 Solutions
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Re: [Tutor] regarding the list problem

2013-02-06 Thread bob gailer
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Re: [Tutor] help with running perl script that writes to a text file

2013-02-06 Thread Alan Gauld
On 06/02/13 10:58, eryksun wrote: and pedantic comment about the habit of saying "DOS prompt". The cmd shell is a Win32 console application, unlike DOS command.com. Yes, but the problem is that Windows now has so many command prompts (cscript, cmd, power shell etc) that "the Windows prompt"

Re: [Tutor] recursive function password check

2013-02-06 Thread Prasad, Ramit
Mara Kelly wrote: > Hi everyone, trying to write a program that has the user enter a password, > checks if it contains any vowels, and > if it does prints ' It is false that password(whatever the user enters) has > no vowels,' and if it has no vowels > prints it is True that password has no vowel

Re: [Tutor] recursive function password check

2013-02-06 Thread Dave Angel
On 02/06/2013 08:44 AM, Mara Kelly wrote: Hi everyone, trying to write a program that has the user enter a password, checks if it contains any vowels, and if it does prints ' It is false that password(whatever the user enters) has no vowels,' and if it has no vowels prints it is True that pass

Re: [Tutor] recursive function password check

2013-02-06 Thread Dave Angel
On 02/06/2013 09:26 AM, Noriko Tani wrote: Hi Mara, Several suggestions: Put the password in a list, then loop each letter to check if it is a vowel like this No need to make it a list, strings are already iterable. And you don't make it a list in the code, just in the remark above. pa

Re: [Tutor] recursive function password check

2013-02-06 Thread Noriko Tani
Hi Mara, Several suggestions: Put the password in a list, then loop each letter to check if it is a vowel like this password=[] vowels=['a','e','i','o','u']#in your message, u is missing, BTW password=input("Enter a password:") for p in password: if p in vowels: return

Re: [Tutor] recursive function password check

2013-02-06 Thread Simon Yan
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 9:44 PM, Mara Kelly wrote: > Hi everyone, trying to write a program that has the user enter a password, > checks if it contains any vowels, and if it does prints ' It is false that > password(whatever the user enters) has no vowels,' and if it has no vowels > prints it is T

Re: [Tutor] recursive function password check

2013-02-06 Thread Hugo Arts
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 1:44 PM, Mara Kelly wrote: > Hi everyone, trying to write a program that has the user enter a password, > checks if it contains any vowels, and if it does prints ' It is false that > password(whatever the user enters) has no vowels,' and if it has no vowels > prints it is T

[Tutor] recursive function password check

2013-02-06 Thread Mara Kelly
Hi everyone, trying to write a program that has the user enter a password, checks if it contains any vowels, and if it does prints ' It is false that password(whatever the user enters) has no vowels,' and if it has no vowels prints it is True that password has no vowels... Here is what I have so

Re: [Tutor] regarding the list problem

2013-02-06 Thread Hugo Arts
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 9:48 AM, Kang, Yang Jae wrote: This line: > >>> a = [[0,0]]*3 > creates a list, a, which contains the list object [0, 0] three times. What's crucial to note is that it contains *the same object* three times, not three different objects with the same value. You can verify

Re: [Tutor] help with running perl script that writes to a text file

2013-02-06 Thread eryksun
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 6:44 PM, 3n2 Solutions <3n2soluti...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I want to automate the following manual process from DOS promp: I agree with Peter's answer. I'd just like to add a generally useless and pedantic comment about the habit of saying "DOS prompt". The cmd shell is a Wi

Re: [Tutor] help with running perl script that writes to a text file

2013-02-06 Thread Peter Otten
3n2 Solutions wrote: > Hello, > > I want to automate the following manual process from DOS promp: > > c:/scripts/perl>perl fix.pl base.gtx >base.txt > > Here is my python script: > > path="c:/scripts/perl/" > subprocess.call(['perl','fix.pl','base.gtx >base.txt',path]) > > I also tried this a

[Tutor] regarding the list problem

2013-02-06 Thread Kang, Yang Jae
Hello I'm a beginner to python. I ran following code and expected [[1, 0], [0, 0], [0, 0]] However unexpected result came up. Anybody who can teach me why and how to solve? Python 3.2.3 (default, May 19 2012, 23:34:41) [GCC 4.4.3] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "licens