On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 8:10 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
> Marc Tompkins writes:
>
>> Seriously, though, how is
>> 1) Do {this} forever, until something happens that I'll tell you about
>> later
>>
>> better than
>> 2) Do {this} until this condition, which I'm telling you about RIGHT
>> NOW, changes
>
On 2014-07-21, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 04:57:24PM -0400, keith papa wrote:
>
>> Am a newbie to programming and I started learning python days ago. I
>
> This sounds more like something for a database than for Python itself.
>
> You can write Python code to talk to the dat
Marc Tompkins writes:
> Seriously, though, how is
> 1) Do {this} forever, until something happens that I'll tell you about
> later
>
> better than
> 2) Do {this} until this condition, which I'm telling you about RIGHT
> NOW, changes
> ?
Here's how:
The first of them is already implemented in P
Marc Tompkins writes:
> And I apologize for imputing motive (a liking for "while True"); I'd
> just noticed that you often advise it. I don't know who _does_ think
> this is a desirable pattern; I'd love to hear their argument for it -
> it must be really good.
It works better than alternatives
>> Am a newbie to programming and I started learning python days ago. I
>> have this idea I want to execute, am a big sport and fantasy fan and I
>> wanted to create something that will make it things a little easy for
>> me. My idea is simple I want to create a program that I can enter name
>> and
On 21/07/2014 03:05, Marc Tompkins wrote:
On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 6:12 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote:
Ah. I missed that, as I've only noticed this newer thread. And I
apologize for imputing motive (a liking for "while True"); I'd just
noticed that you often advise it. I don't know who _does_ thin
On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 6:12 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote:
>> Ah. I missed that, as I've only noticed this newer thread. And I
>> apologize for imputing motive (a liking for "while True"); I'd just
>> noticed that you often advise it. I don't know who _does_ think this
>> is a desirable pattern; I'
On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 04:57:24PM -0400, keith papa wrote:
> Am a newbie to programming and I started learning python days ago. I
> have this idea I want to execute, am a big sport and fantasy fan and I
> wanted to create something that will make it things a little easy for
> me. My idea is si
On 21/07/2014 01:34, Marc Tompkins wrote:
On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 2:37 PM, Alan Gauld wrote:
In fact in this case I suggested he use a for loop to iterate over
the file and use a dictionary to store the results...
Ah. I missed that, as I've only noticed this newer thread. And I
apologize f
On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 2:37 PM, Alan Gauld wrote:
> In fact in this case I suggested he use a for loop to iterate over
> the file and use a dictionary to store the results...
Ah. I missed that, as I've only noticed this newer thread. And I
apologize for imputing motive (a liking for "while Tr
On 20/07/14 21:57, keith papa wrote:
me. My idea is simple I want to create a program that I can enter name
and some information about a player, for example:
NFL plays:
Jamaal Charles RB : ATT 259 , YDS 1,287 , AVG 5.0, TD 12, REC 70
Tony Romo QB: CMP% 63.9, YDS 3,828 , TD 31, INT 10, Rating 9
On 20.07.2014 22:37, Marc Tompkins wrote:
First of all, I would take advantage of the "with" construction, like so:
with open('C:/Python27/egund919/Program1/BOJ_B.txt','r') as infile:
#do stuff with infile
When the block of code inside of the "with" section finishes, Python
will take care
On 20.07.2014 17:40, LN A-go-go wrote:
>>> filename = "C:/Python27/egund919/Program1/BOJ.txt"
>>> myfile = open(filename,"r")
>>> newfile = "C:/Python27/egund919/Program1/BOJ_B.txt"
>>> mynewfile = open(newfile,"w")
>>> while True:
line = myfile.readline()
print line
mynewfile.write(l
Am a newbie to programming and I started learning python days ago. I have this
idea I want to execute, am a big sport and fantasy fan and I wanted to create
something that will make it things a little easy for me. My idea is simple I
want to create a program that I can enter name and some inform
On 20/07/14 21:37, Marc Tompkins wrote:
Fourth (and here I differ from some of the others on this list,
notably Alan G) - I don't like the "while True: / break" paradigm.
FWIW I don't like it either, but it has become a canonical
Python idiom.
In fact in this case I suggested he use a for loo
On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 8:40 AM, LN A-go-go
wrote:
>
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> It also appears that you are trying to write whole programs at the
> interpreter loop. This can be inconvenient for larger programs. You
> might want to use a text editor or IDE to write the program as a
> single file, and then run Python over that program file.
See:
https://hkn.eecs.berk
On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 8:40 AM, LN A-go-go
wrote:
> My apologies Python Gurus for repeating this request for read, write, split
> and append from a text file in notepad. I worked on it till late last night
> and will again today. I can't seem to get past trying to write the names to
> one list
> I'm not sure, what the error was. I had also installed another facebook
> package, not facebook-sdk. Maybe this was the reason.
I would upgrade that "maybe" to an "almost certainly". :P
You should have mentioned that detail of installing that second
facebook library. It's actually crucial to
-
On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 6:16 PM CEST Chris wrote:
>Dear Danny,
>
>thank you for your detailed reply.
>
>On 07/19/2014 03:26 AM, Danny Yoo wrote:
>> This is what piqued my concerns. As you can see from the transcript,
>> the search shows that there's not a single use of
My apologies Python Gurus for repeating this request for read, write, split and
append from a text file in notepad. I worked on it till late last night and
will again today. I can't seem to get past trying to write the names to one
list and the numbers (converted to integers) to the other. My
Dear Danny,
thank you for your detailed reply.
On 07/19/2014 03:26 AM, Danny Yoo wrote:
> This is what piqued my concerns. As you can see from the transcript,
> the search shows that there's not a single use of 'iteritems' anywhere
> in the facebook-sdk, across the entire history of that project
On 19/07/14 22:27, LN A-go-go wrote:
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# and now my newbie attempt:
# I can get this far in approach #1
>>> filename = "z:/Geog482/egund919/Program1/BOJ.txt"
>>> myfile = open(filename,"r")
>>> newfile = "z:/Geog482/egund919/Program1/BOJ_B.txt"
>>> mynewfil
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