Re: [Tutor] Re: Are you allowed to shoot camels? [kinda OT]

2005-02-03 Thread Patrick Hall
Beware! Overcome the temptation! Try this: http://kodos.sourceforge.net/ While I have no problem personally with Perl or PHP, I'll second the recommendation for kodos -- it's very useful for learning to use regexes in Python. ___ Tutor maillist -

Re: [Tutor] simple list query

2005-01-02 Thread Patrick Hall
Hi Dave, I have a list consisting of about 250 items, I need to know if a particular item is in the list. I know this is better suited to a dictionary but thats not the way it ended up ;-) I could do a for loop to scan the list compare each one, but I have a suspission that there is a

[Tutor] Non-escaped utf-8 rendering in the interactive shell under XP?

2004-12-13 Thread Patrick Hall
Hi folks, Being a Linux guy, I don't know my way around Windows software too well. I've been trying to help some friends learn a bit of Python, and they use OSX and XP. OSX is close enough to Linux that I've not run into many barriers, but I'm having a specific problem with the XP users: Is