[Tutor] reading data

2009-07-23 Thread chris Hynes
I have a data file in which the first line is made up of words. Here is the original data file: #Column density-scaled with production rate 3.16227766016838e+25 -10. 0.000e+00 0.000e+00 0.000e+00 0.000e+00 0.000e+00 0.000e+00 0.000e+00 0.000e+00 0.000e+00 0.000e+00 0.000e+00 0.000e+00 0.00

Re: [Tutor] objects becoming pointers

2009-07-16 Thread chris Hynes
need to. Thanks for your help. > To: tutor@python.org > From: alan.ga...@btinternet.com > Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:25:51 +0100 > Subject: Re: [Tutor] objects becoming pointers > > > "chris Hynes" wrote > > > I want the user to input a name, say "Chris

[Tutor] interactive naming of pointers

2009-07-16 Thread chris Hynes
Yeah, I'm not sure if I'm explaining myself well or maybe I'm just trying to make the code too interactive. in my code I would type something like: x=zeros((3,3)) so the pointer called "x" is created by the programmer, but within the code. What if I wanted to prompt my keyboard user to type i

[Tutor] objects becoming pointers

2009-07-15 Thread chris Hynes
I guess I have to start somewhere to ask I want the user to input a name, say "Chris". I know I can use the code: name=raw_input() I now want: "Chris"=zeros((3,3)) so that when I type: print Chris the return will be an array of zero's 3x3 So that I can understand this deeper, I