Re: [Tutor] is the the two style of writting the same?

2013-08-21 Thread tan Sikonai
Oh,I have just thinked that the max index equals the length of the list, but python supports more index. 2013/8/21 eryksun eryk...@gmail.com On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 3:31 PM, Walter Prins wpr...@gmail.com wrote: On 20 August 2013 10:20, sikonai sikonai tanjyu...@gmail.com wrote:

[Tutor] library:

2013-08-21 Thread William Crowder
I am reading posts and watching videos. I am following along with the shell, i am retaining the info. But WHAT is a library? Thanks, everyone. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: [Tutor] library:

2013-08-21 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 10:00:24PM -0500, William Crowder wrote: I am reading posts and watching videos. I am following along with the shell, i am retaining the info. But WHAT is a library? In English, a library is a collection of books, or magazines. A software library is a

Re: [Tutor] Runestone Python Course

2013-08-21 Thread Omar Abou Mrad
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 7:52 AM, Jim Mooney cybervigila...@gmail.comwrote: http://interactivepython.org snip Would be nice if it worked though, logged in through my google account, now i get this error which I can do nothing about: Sorry, Something went wrong The error is: invalid request

Re: [Tutor] [OT] Replies go to individuals, not the list?

2013-08-21 Thread Chris Down
On 2013-08-21 10:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote: - If there is nowhere I can reasonably trim their comments to establish context, and my response is just a general reply rather than specifically responding to specific comments (e.g. if my reply is thanks for your email, I'll consider it for the

Re: [Tutor] Runestone Python Course

2013-08-21 Thread Chris Down
On 2013-08-20 21:52, Jim Mooney wrote: This is rather like W3 Schools That doesn't exactly fill me with confidence about the quality of it considering W3Schools is literally the cesspit of web standards misinformation... pgpV6o9SkFJaD.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [Tutor] Coursera Python Course starts today

2013-08-21 Thread Nick Raptis
On 20/08/13 03:02, Leam Hall wrote: https://class.coursera.org/programming1-002/class/index Leam Leam, your link for some reason redirects on a default coursera page, probably cause I'm not enlisted. I think a better link for the course would be https://www.coursera.org/course/programming1

Re: [Tutor] library:

2013-08-21 Thread Joel Goldstick
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 4:29 AM, Steven D'Aprano st...@pearwood.info wrote: On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 10:00:24PM -0500, William Crowder wrote: I am reading posts and watching videos. I am following along with the shell, i am retaining the info. But WHAT is a library? In python

Re: [Tutor] library:

2013-08-21 Thread Chris Down
On 2013-08-21 13:31, Joel Goldstick wrote: In python libraries are called modules I believe. So you may see either term, and unless someone here corrects me, they are the same. They are often interchangeable, but they do not have to be the same (for example, it is perfectly imaginable that a

Re: [Tutor] Runestone Python Course

2013-08-21 Thread Jim Mooney
That doesn't exactly fill me with confidence about the quality of it considering W3Schools is literally the cesspit of web standards misinformation... I meant that it was like it in that it had an interactive interpreter, but it was much better. So far the info is detailed and

Re: [Tutor] library:

2013-08-21 Thread Alan Gauld
On 21/08/13 04:00, William Crowder wrote: I am reading posts and watching videos. I am following along with the shell, i am retaining the info. But WHAT is a library? It varies but in general programming terms is a collection of functions or classes that can be reused by programmers. Most

Re: [Tutor] library:

2013-08-21 Thread Chris Down
On 2013-08-21 23:30, Alan Gauld wrote: It varies but in general programming terms is a collection of functions or classes that can be reused by programmers. Most languages have a standard library and a collection of additional proprietary libraries. Unless I'm misunderstanding, don't you mean

Re: [Tutor] library:

2013-08-21 Thread Alan Gauld
On 21/08/13 23:39, Chris Down wrote: On 2013-08-21 23:30, Alan Gauld wrote: It varies but in general programming terms is a collection of functions or classes that can be reused by programmers. Most languages have a standard library and a collection of additional proprietary libraries. Unless