[Tutor] Invalid Syntax

2017-02-25 Thread ehsan faraz
Hello, I am working on the following assignment where “tip” is an invalid syntax. Can someone please tell me how to fix this? Here is what it should look like: Welcome to Restaurant Helper. Enter the menu price for your meal: 100 Enter your tip percentage: 15 T he price of the meal is: 100.00

[Tutor] counting number of loops

2017-02-25 Thread Rafael Knuth
I want to compare two strings and count the number of identical letters: stringB = "ABCD" stringA = "AABBCCDDEE" for b in stringB: if b in stringA: r = 0 r += 1 print (r) How do I count the output (r) instead of printing it out? (result should be 4). Thanks! __

[Tutor] Fwd: Re: SciPy Optimize-like calling function as string

2017-02-25 Thread Alan Gauld via Tutor
Forwarding to list. Please always use reply-All or Reply-list when responding to the list. On Feb 18, 2017, at 6:21 PM, Alan Gauld via Tutor mailto:tutor@python.org>> wrote: > > On 18/02/17 21:52, Joseph Slater wrote: >> I'm trying to use the scipy.optimize code ... >> I've seen this done with di

Re: [Tutor] counting number of loops

2017-02-25 Thread Alan Gauld via Tutor
On 25/02/17 17:12, Rafael Knuth wrote: > I want to compare two strings and count the number of identical letters: > > stringB = "ABCD" > stringA = "AABBCCDDEE" > for b in stringB: > if b in stringA: > r = 0 > r += 1 > print (r) > > How do I count the output (r) instead

Re: [Tutor] Invalid Syntax

2017-02-25 Thread Alan Gauld via Tutor
On 25/02/17 10:35, ehsan faraz wrote: > ... where “tip” is an invalid syntax. You need to assign a value to tip before trying to read it, otherwise tip is undefined. Similarly you should define price before trying to use it. But those would give you a NameError not a syntax error... Can you sen

Re: [Tutor] Invalid Syntax

2017-02-25 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 02:35:21AM -0800, ehsan faraz wrote: > Hello, I am working on the following assignment where “tip” is an > invalid syntax. Can someone please tell me how to fix this? Here is > what it should look like: Hello, and welcome! Why don't you show us the actual error message

Re: [Tutor] Fwd: Re: SciPy Optimize-like calling function as string

2017-02-25 Thread Alan Gauld via Tutor
On 25/02/17 17:24, Alan Gauld via Tutor wrote: >> If you don't know that you need to optimize then your >> time is usually better spent elsewhere. Dictionaries >> are pretty fast in Python and I'd suggest you try >> that first before shaving milliseconds in places >> that may not be where you need

Re: [Tutor] Invalid Syntax

2017-02-25 Thread Peter Otten
Alan Gauld via Tutor wrote: > On 25/02/17 10:35, ehsan faraz wrote: >> ... where “tip” is an invalid syntax. Alan went one step ahead and addressed the logical errors, but the SyntaxError is caused by missing closing parentheses: >> price = int(input("Enter the menu price for your meal:") >> ti

Re: [Tutor] Matplotlib in Tkinter

2017-02-25 Thread Albert-Jan Roskam
(Sorry for top-posting) Hi, I recently ran into the same problem when I wanted to embed an interactive Matplotlib choropleth in my Tkinter app. I solved it by creating a separate class MyPlot for plot + toolbar (it inherited from Tkinter.Frame). MyPlot internally uses the pack geometry manager

[Tutor] UDP client

2017-02-25 Thread Phil
Thank you for reading this. As an exercise, and for no other purpose, I'm trying to convert some C++ code that I put together 17 years ago. I'm very rusty and hours of Internet searches have made me more confused that I was to start with. The following works under Python2 but not under Python