I don't get why this doesn't work. Its a very small program to read in a group
of numbers. I've attached the the python file and my test file. The test file
just contains one line. The error I get is that it can't convert the string to
a float, but its a valid number.# Test for string
On 28 Jun 2013 08:33, Peter Otten __pete...@web.de wrote:
Whatever approach you pick, unittest, doctest, or a combination, your code
will improve -- not just because you are verifying its correctness to some
extent, but also because the inherent question How can I test it? will
lead to a
Thanks to the OSA library, which works for SOAP requests with Python
3.x, I can now use SOAP services at http://www.chemspider.com.
The result is a list of accession numbers (which correspond to chemical
compounds) and I get them in the following format:
|(ArrayOfInt){
int[] = [
What is the difference between max(one, two) and max((one, two)) ?
Thanks
Aman
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Hi,
So I am able to read in a file, and write out a file from python. I have
some question about the text manipulation that I need to do between reading
in a file and spitting out another. Couple of things I would like to do,
are: if the first character of a line is a comma, I would like to
I'm reading the book Programming Collective Intelligence by Toby Segaran.
I'm having a lot of difficulty understanding the some of the code from
chapter four (the code for this chapter is available online at
and why with sum(one, two) we get an error whereas not with sum((one, two))
?
On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Amandeep Behl amandeep...@gmail.comwrote:
What is the difference between max(one, two) and max((one, two)) ?
Thanks
Aman
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Dear Tutor,
I have a Windows 7 Laptop. I installed Python Version 3.3.2 this morning
and it worked fine. Then I tried to run a program someone else wrote (see
below), and Python closed. Then I couldn't get Python to restart even after
rebooting several times. I then uninstalled Python, rebooted,
This is what I have to do :
On a standard telephone, the alphabetic letters are mapped
to numbers in the following fashion:
A, B, AND C=2
D, E, AND F=3
G, H, AND I=4
J, K, AND L=5
M, N, AND O=6
P, Q, R, AND S=7
T, U, AND V=8
W, X, Y AND Z=9
Write a program that asks the user to enter a
I am tryng to figure out the best way to do Unit Testing for all my
projects going forward. I am using the unittest framework. For execution I
am executing the test cases by either directly using python or by using the
nose test runner. I found the following 3 types of how this can be setup.
Type
so do i include a path?
or some other global directive to make the module
linked or
what?
using idle
here is a copy of the screen
i will read docs if i get links...
thanx for any guidance
i found this
but i have not used sudo
sudo python setup.py install
Once installed
Hello,
I discovered this list while doing research about the book Programming
Collective Intelligence by Toby Segaran. In the archives, a few of the
members wanted to create a group to discuss the code and algorithms
further. Those threads were a few years old, and unfortunately I'm just now
Tutor-
Ok newbie to coding here attempting to build controlled web scraper and
have followed several books-tutorials and am failing at step one.
This is the 3.3.1 code I am trying to run..
===
import urllib.request
htmltext = urllib.request.urlopen(http://google.com;).read
print htmltext
===
On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 8:26 AM, Tim Hanson tjhan...@yahoo.com wrote:
In the first Lutz book, I am learning about nested functions.
Here's the book's example demonstrating global scope:
def f1():
x=88
def f2():
print(x)
f2()
f1()
88
No
On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 10:00 PM, Paul Smith paulrsmith7...@gmail.comwrote:
Tutor-
Ok newbie to coding here attempting to build controlled web scraper and
have followed several books-tutorials and am failing at step one.
This is the 3.3.1 code I am trying to run..
===
import urllib.request
On 06/28/2013 07:08 PM, grub...@roadrunner.com wrote:
I don't get why this doesn't work. Its a very small program to read in a group
of numbers. I've attached the the python file and my test file. The test file
just contains one line. The error I get is that it can't convert the string to
a
On 07/05/2013 02:37 PM, Amandeep Behl wrote:
and why with sum(one, two) we get an error whereas not with sum((one, two))
?
When replying to a message, your new text should go AFTER the quote.
Putting it first is called top-posting, and it's a Microsoft-introduced
abomination that's not
On 07/05/2013 05:10 PM, Ashley Fowler wrote:
HOMEWORK
This is what I have so far. Can anyone make suggestions or tell me what I need
to correct?
*
*
First thing to correct is the notion that you're due an instant answer.
You get frustrated after 3 minutes, and post a
On 07/08/2013 02:26 AM, Tim Hanson wrote:
In the first Lutz book, I am learning about nested functions.
Here's the book's example demonstrating global scope:
def f1():
x=88
def f2():
print(x)
f2()
f1()
88
But that's not global scope,
On 07/06/2013 11:18 PM, bluepresley wrote:
I'm reading the book Programming Collective Intelligence by Toby Segaran.
I'm having a lot of difficulty understanding the some of the code from
chapter four (the code for this chapter is available online at
On 07/08/2013 01:43 AM, Nathan Schlaffer wrote:
Dear Tutor,
I have a Windows 7 Laptop. I installed Python Version 3.3.2 this morning
and it worked fine. Then I tried to run a program someone else wrote (see
below), and Python closed.
What's that mean? HOW did you try to run the other
On 07/09/2013 04:04 PM, HRK wrote:
Hello,
I'm pretty new to Python so while I can make some basic stuff work, it doesn't
look particularly pretty. I wanted to find better ways to solve the following
two problems (the current code works, but is clunky.) Any tips or help
appreciated. Thanks!
On 07/09/2013 04:00 PM, Paul Smith wrote:
Tutor-
Ok newbie to coding here attempting to build controlled web scraper and
have followed several books-tutorials and am failing at step one.
This is the 3.3.1 code I am trying to run..
===
import urllib.request
htmltext =
On 7/4/2013 3:47 PM, Robert Winkler wrote:
Thanks to the OSA library, which works for SOAP requests with Python
3.x, I can now use SOAP services at http://www.chemspider.com.
The result is a list of accession numbers (which correspond to
chemical compounds) and I get them in the following
Hello,
On 29 June 2013 19:00, Makarand Datar da...@wisc.edu wrote:
Hi,
So I am able to read in a file, and write out a file from python. I have
some question about the text manipulation that I need to do between reading
in a file and spitting out another. Couple of things I would like to
On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 8:47 PM, Robert Winkler
robert.wink...@bioprocess.org wrote:
Thanks to the OSA library, which works for SOAP requests with Python
3.x, I can now use SOAP services at http://www.chemspider.com.
The result is a list of accession numbers (which correspond to chemical
Right click the msi run as admin
On Wednesday, 3 July 2013, larry seibold wrote:
I am stuck at step one, installing python-2.7.5.msi on windows XP. I
downloaded it (~16MB), but when I select it (double click), I get a windows
installer pop up with an OK button at the bottom, which when
On 03/07/13 02:32, larry seibold wrote:
I am stuck at step one, installing python-2.7.5.msi on windows XP.
Are you sure you have the right version - 32bit v 64bit?
Just a thought.
--
Alan G
Author of the Learn to Program web site
http://www.alan-g.me.uk/
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 3:45 AM, Dave Angel da...@davea.name wrote:
Get rid of the BOM from the data file, and it'll work fine. You don't
specify what version of Python you're using, so I have to guess. But
there's a utf-8 BOM conversion of a BOM at the beginning of that file, and
that's
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 1:41 AM, Phil phil_...@bigpond.com wrote:
Thank you for reading this.
Kububtu 13.04 Python 3
I'm attempting to read a configuration file that will restore my program
to the state that it was in when it was closed. Ideally the config file
would be human readable.
On 10/07/13 13:05, Dave Angel wrote:
mylist = [(row[0],0) for row in rows]
I'll guess it's the list comprehension that confuses you. That line is
roughly equivalent to:
mylist = []
for row in rows:
mylist.append( (row[0], row) )
Except the second element in the tuple to append should
On 08/07/13 06:43, Nathan Schlaffer wrote:
I have a Windows 7 Laptop. I installed Python Version 3.3.2 this morning
and it worked fine. Then I tried to run a program someone else wrote
(see below)
I didn't see anything related below. What program did you try to run?
How did you try to run
On 08/07/13 07:26, Tim Hanson wrote:
In the first Lutz book, I am learning about nested functions.
def f1():
x=88
def f2():
print(x)
x=99
print(x)
f2()
f1()
Traceback (most recent call last):
print(x)
On 09/07/13 21:04, HRK wrote:
PROBLEM #1
heights = {Mount Everest: 8848, Mount Cook: 3754, K2: 8611,
Ben Nevis: 1344, Hekla: 1488}
Since you already have a dict of heights why do you pass one in to the
function each time? Why not just pass this one in? Or use it as a global?
def
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Alan Gauld alan.ga...@btinternet.comwrote:
On 08/07/13 06:43, Nathan Schlaffer wrote:
Second, I tried to run my Python programs today via IDLE but when I
checked the Edit Menu I couldn't find a Run Menu
IDLE has two modes: Shell and Edit. Shell mode is
On 07/10/2013 03:02 PM, Jim Mooney wrote:
Boy, is the list busy. Python must have been mentioned on USA today,
or something ;')
Anyway, I was reading the datamodel, and it mentioned imported modules
going out of scope, which seemed odd, since I thought they were global
and never went out, or am
def printMax(a, b):
if a b:
print(a, 'is maximum')
elif a == b:
print(a, 'is equal to', b)
else:
print(b, 'is maximum')
printMax(3, 4) # directly give literal values
x = 5
y = 7
printMax(x, y) # give variables as arguments
How the code above values to:
On 07/10/2013 05:05 PM, s...@luo.to wrote:
def printMax(a, b):
if a b:
print(a, 'is maximum')
elif a == b:
print(a, 'is equal to', b)
else:
print(b, 'is maximum')
printMax(3, 4) # directly give literal values
x = 5
y = 7
printMax(x, y) # give variables as
On 07/10/2013 05:16 PM, eryksun wrote:
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 3:57 PM, Dave Angel da...@davea.name wrote:
Sure enough it did. The question is - does importing into a function
ever make sense? It occurred to me that if you usefrom module
import * , putting it in a function
Can't be
On 11/07/13 05:02, Jim Mooney wrote:
The question is - does importing into a function
ever make sense? It occurred to me that if you usefrom module
import * , putting it in a function protects you from invisible
namespace pollution by a big module with a lot of names. But importing
has to
On 07/10/2013 11:24 PM, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote:
I'm aware of
var1, var2 = lines.split()
kind of assignments
How do I get to do
x1..xn = lines.split()
instead of typing out n var names? Is there some pythonic way to map
all the data fields automagically given a starter var?
I have
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