[Tutor] Debugging a sort error.

2019-01-13 Thread mhysnm1964
Hello everyone. I am hoping someone can help with the below error using Python3.5 in the Windows 10 bash environment. I found the below link which I am not sure if this is related to the issue or not. As I don't fully understand the answer. https://github.com/SethMMorton/natsort/issues/7 I

Re: [Tutor] Debugging a sort error.

2019-01-13 Thread Alan Gauld via Tutor
On 13/01/2019 02:16, mhysnm1...@gmail.com wrote: > Issue, following error is generated after trying to sort a list of strings. > > description.sort() > TypeError: unorderable types: float() < str() Please send the complete error message not just the last line summary. There is a lot of potentia

Re: [Tutor] Debugging a sort error.

2019-01-13 Thread Cameron Simpson
Discussion inline below. On 13Jan2019 13:16, mhysnm1...@gmail.com wrote: I am hoping someone can help with the below error using Python3.5 in the Windows 10 bash environment. I found the below link which I am not sure if this is related to the issue or not. As I don't fully understand the answ

Re: [Tutor] Debugging a sort error.

2019-01-13 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sun, Jan 13, 2019 at 01:16:10PM +1100, mhysnm1...@gmail.com wrote: > Issue, following error is generated after trying to sort a list of strings. > > description.sort() > TypeError: unorderable types: float() < str() That tells you that you don't have a list of strings. You have a list of str

Re: [Tutor] Debugging a sort error.

2019-01-13 Thread Peter Otten
mhysnm1...@gmail.com wrote: > Issue, following error is generated after trying to sort a list of > strings. > > description.sort() > TypeError: unorderable types: float() < str() Consider >>> descriptions = ["foo", "bar", 123, 3.14, 42, 200.1, "0"] >>> sorted(descriptions) Traceback (most recen

Re: [Tutor] Debugging a sort error.

2019-01-13 Thread Stephen Nelson-Smith
Hi, On Sun, Jan 13, 2019 at 8:34 AM wrote: > description.sort() > TypeError: unorderable types: float() < str() So, fairly obviously, we can't test whether a float is less than a string. Any more than we can tell if a grapefruit is faster than a cheetah. So there must be items in description

Re: [Tutor] Python installtion

2019-01-13 Thread Stephen Nelson-Smith
Hi, On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 11:11 AM mousumi sahu wrote: > > Dear Sir, > I am trying to install python 2.7.10 on HPC. Python 2.6 has already been > install on root. I do not have root authority. Please suggest me how can I > do this. Sorry - I replied to you directly, by accident. Take 2, with r

[Tutor] Running Python 3 on Linux Mint

2019-01-13 Thread Cranky Frankie
I want to start developing an application in Python 3 on my main computer which runs Linux Mint with Python 2.7. What is the best way to work with Python 3 on this system? -- Frank L. "Cranky Frankie" Palmeri, Risible Riding Raconteur & Writer "If you have a garden and a library, you have everyth

Re: [Tutor] Debugging a sort error.

2019-01-13 Thread mhysnm1964
Everyone, I did find out the issue. When looking at the output in a spreadsheet. I was inserting floats into the description dictionary from the code I was using to extract the data. Thus I have gone back to the drawing board. Rather than extracting by columns which became difficult to achieve

Re: [Tutor] Running Python 3 on Linux Mint

2019-01-13 Thread Alan Gauld via Tutor
On 13/01/2019 14:47, Cranky Frankie wrote: > I want to start developing an application in Python 3 on my main computer > which runs Linux Mint with Python 2.7. What is the best way to work with > Python 3 on this system? You don't say which Mint version but assuming its 17 or greater then you can

[Tutor] OT: A bit of humor related to my sporadic quest to learn Python

2019-01-13 Thread boB Stepp
My son sent me this link, which I think captures my situation with Python quite nicely: https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/720/1*7RZKI-g4K_syDf6XQEGWKw.jpeg -- boB ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: [Tutor] Debugging a sort error.

2019-01-13 Thread mhysnm1964
All, Once again thanks for all the suggestions. It was the input data after all. As I am importing three sheets into python. One of the sheets had one less column. Thus how I ended up with float points. The testing for the string helped here greatly. Now things are correct again. On and forwa

Re: [Tutor] Debugging a sort error.

2019-01-13 Thread mhysnm1964
Peter, Thanks for the code for a custom key. That will come in handy later down the track. -Original Message- From: Tutor On Behalf Of Peter Otten Sent: Sunday, 13 January 2019 10:00 PM To: tutor@python.org Subject: Re: [Tutor] Debugging a sort error. mhysnm1...@gmail.com wrote: > Issu

Re: [Tutor] OT: A bit of humor related to my sporadic quest to learn Python

2019-01-13 Thread Roger B. Atkins
Ditto, but the angle is steeper, I've lost my climbing equipment, and the volcano is erupting. On Sun, Jan 13, 2019 at 5:44 PM boB Stepp wrote: > My son sent me this link, which I think captures my situation with > Python quite nicely: > > https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/720/1*7RZKI-g4K_syDf