Re: [Tutor] Beginner Exercise: Why Didn't I Break It?

2011-12-20 Thread Alan Gauld
On 20/12/11 18:10, Homme, James wrote: Hi Jerry, Thank you. This reminds me of single dimension arrays in VBScript. You are absolutely right, tuples are like read-only arrays in VB. We have writeable arrays in python too but we call them something else :-) BTW The list prefers bottom posting t

Re: [Tutor] Beginner Exercise: Why Didn't I Break It?

2011-12-20 Thread Homme, James
e=highmark@python.org [mailto:tutor-bounces+james.homme=highmark@python.org] On Behalf Of Jerry Hill Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2011 1:00 PM To: tutor@python.org Subject: Re: [Tutor] Beginner Exercise: Why Didn't I Break It? On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Homme, James wrote: > So f

Re: [Tutor] Beginner Exercise: Why Didn't I Break It?

2011-12-20 Thread Jerry Hill
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Homme, James wrote: > So far, the data types this little book has talked about are strings and > numbers. ... > return jelly_beans, jars, crates ... > # It returns three things in parentheses, which, I guess is one group of > things. I thought it would complain.

[Tutor] Beginner Exercise: Why Didn't I Break It?

2011-12-20 Thread Homme, James
Hi, Please don't give me the answer. Please tell me where to read to find out. So far, the data types this little book has talked about are strings and numbers. The book is here. http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/ I cut out the parts of the program I definitely understand to focus on this