I know that there have been multiple posts in the past about Michael
Dawson's book, Python Programming for the Absolute Beginner, 3rd
ed.. Because of this I thought I might mention something my son
encountered this morning. I have finally gotten my son to start
working in this book. He came to me
On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 12:43 PM, Danny Yoo d...@hashcollision.org wrote:
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Ah ha. Escape characters. I see what you mean. :P
Just to add: there is a raw string literal syntax that will turn off
escape sequence handling. Using a raw string literal may make it
easier to type the
On 02/17/2015 02:12 PM, boB Stepp wrote:
See
https://docs.python.org/3.4/reference/lexical_analysis.html#string-and-bytes-literals
At this point in the text he is not talking about raw literal strings.
I examined the author's source and he has obviously inserted at least
one space between
Dawson) Game Over 2.0 program in chapter two on page 17. The object of
this program is to do ASCII-style art to generate a large rendition of
Game Over using the following characters: _ , \ , | , and /
. When my son tried to do his version, the Over portion did not
print correctly.
Hi boB,
On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 1:47 PM, Dave Angel da...@davea.name wrote:
On 02/17/2015 02:12 PM, boB Stepp wrote:
See
https://docs.python.org/3.4/reference/lexical_analysis.html#string-and-bytes-literals
At this point in the text he is not talking about raw literal strings.
I examined the
On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 3:34 PM, Joel Goldstick
joel.goldst...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 4:05 PM, boB Stepp robertvst...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 1:47 PM, Dave Angel da...@davea.name wrote:
On 02/17/2015 02:12 PM, boB Stepp wrote:
This seems to be the case. On a
On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 3:05 PM, boB Stepp robertvst...@gmail.com wrote:
This seems to be the case. On a related note, I wanted to copy and
paste the author's source code, showing how he generated the large,
Game Over, but my Gmail keeps collapsing the white space, making the
result look like
On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 4:05 PM, boB Stepp robertvst...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 1:47 PM, Dave Angel da...@davea.name wrote:
On 02/17/2015 02:12 PM, boB Stepp wrote:
See
https://docs.python.org/3.4/reference/lexical_analysis.html#string-and-bytes-literals
At this point in
