Re: [Tutor] Why isn't my simple if elif script not working?

2012-07-18 Thread Alexandre Zani
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 7:44 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Alexandre Zani wrote: >> >> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 6:09 AM, Steven D'Aprano >> wrote: >>> >>> Alexandre Zani wrote: >>> >>>> What you want to write i

Re: [Tutor] Why isn't my simple if elif script not working?

2012-07-18 Thread Alexandre Zani
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 6:09 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Alexandre Zani wrote: > >> What you want to write is this: >> >> elif name == "John Cleese" or name == "Michael Palin": > > > elif name in ("J

Re: [Tutor] Why isn't my simple if elif script not working?

2012-07-17 Thread Alexandre Zani
On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 10:21 PM, Andre' Walker-Loud wrote: > Hi Santosh, > > On Jul 17, 2012, at 10:09 PM, Santosh Kumar wrote: > >> Here is my script: >> >> name = raw_input("What's your name? ") >> >> if name == "Santosh": >>print "Hey!! I have the same name." >> elif name == "John Cleese"

Re: [Tutor] Why isn't my simple if elif script not working?

2012-07-17 Thread Alexandre Zani
On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 10:09 PM, Santosh Kumar wrote: > Here is my script: > > name = raw_input("What's your name? ") > > if name == "Santosh": > print "Hey!! I have the same name." > elif name == "John Cleese" or "Michael Palin": > print "I have no preference about your name. Really!!" >

Re: [Tutor] newbie Questions

2012-07-16 Thread Alexandre Zani
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 5:09 AM, Matthew Ngaha wrote: > Hi all. I'm new to Python and Programming in general. I've started out with > Python for beginners, and so far so good. My friend who i might add, is not > a programmer but has had experience in the world of programming (i dont know > how muc

Re: [Tutor] How does this tiny script works?

2012-07-14 Thread Alexandre Zani
On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 8:32 PM, Santosh Kumar wrote: > I am reading How to Think Like a Computer Scientist with Python. There > is a script in the exercise: > > if "Ni!": > print 'We are the Knights who say, "Ni!"' > else: > print "Stop it! No more of this!" > > if 0: > print "And now

Re: [Tutor] Define Build Deployment

2012-07-11 Thread Alexandre Zani
On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 8:31 AM, James Bell wrote: > I'm fairly new to software development in an enterprise environment I'm > constantly hearing the term "build deployment" and do no want to ask what it > means since it seems simple. I cannot find a definition online. > > if the word is context s

Re: [Tutor] advice on global variables

2012-07-10 Thread Alexandre Zani
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Prasad, Ramit wrote: >> You should avoid using the global statement. >> >> In your case, I would think you could just add an argument to the method: >> >> class MyObj(object): >> def __init__(self, arg): >> self.arg = arg >> def my_func(self, new_ar

Re: [Tutor] advice on global variables

2012-07-10 Thread Alexandre Zani
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 12:11 PM, Chris Hare wrote: > > I know they are bad. That is why I would prefer not to use it, but I am not > sure how else to handle this problem. > > In this app, the user must log in. Once authenticated, they have a userid > stored in the SQLite database. Before spl