Re: [Tutor] Help for to do a script

2012-03-16 Thread Joel Goldstick
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Boris Vladimir Comi gle...@comunidad.unam.mx wrote: Hello, I am writing to request your help in the realization of a script. I am new to this and I'm just learning the wonderful world of python and this has made me a little difficult. Briefly I commented what

Re: [Tutor] Help for to do a script

2012-03-16 Thread Joel Goldstick
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 2:58 PM, Joel Goldstick joel.goldst...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Boris Vladimir Comi gle...@comunidad.unam.mx wrote: Hello, I am writing to request your help in the realization of a script. I am new to this and I'm just learning the wonderful

Re: [Tutor] Help for to do a script

2012-03-16 Thread Alan Gauld
On 16/03/12 18:52, Boris Vladimir Comi wrote: *File /home/mcidasv/JYTHON/TIR.py, line 22 count = count + 1; ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax* Error messages indicate where Python found the problem. Often the real problem is a line or so before that. In your case you omitted the colon after the

Re: [Tutor] Help with Python Program

2012-02-26 Thread Carolina Dianne LaCourse
First off I want to really thank you for all of the help! I am in my first semester as I started as a non traditional student in January. Even though I am in an intro class I think that many of my class mates had more of a c/s foundation in high then I did. It took me a few tries but I did finally

Re: [Tutor] Help with Python Program

2012-02-26 Thread Robert Sjoblom
import random #import random number generator module target = random.randint(1,100) #generates random number between 1 and 100 guess = float(raw_input('pick a number between 1 and 100')) while guess != target:    if guess target: print 'too low'    elif guess target: print 'too high'    

Re: [Tutor] help writing functions

2012-02-24 Thread Wayne Werner
On Thu, 23 Feb 2012, Saad Javed wrote: I am learning python and need guidance for writing some code. I've written a simple program (with pointers from people) that parses an tv show xml feed and prints their values in plain text after performing some string operations. Unless you're really

Re: [Tutor] Help with Python Program

2012-02-24 Thread bob gailer
On 2/24/2012 10:18 PM, Carolina Dianne LaCourse wrote: Hi, I have never programed before and am brand new to python also. I am trying to create a Hi-Lo game and am not really sure where to start. These are the instructions that I have. I know that I will need to import the random number

Re: [Tutor] Help with Python Program

2012-02-24 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Carolina Dianne LaCourse wrote: [...] I understand that I need to ask for raw input from the user and that I need to be able to use the if elif else to tell the user whether their number matches or id too high or to low but am just not sure what to do first. Any advice would be greatly

Re: [Tutor] help writing functions

2012-02-23 Thread Alan Gauld
On 23/02/12 00:59, Saad Javed wrote: [CODE]feed = urllib.urlopen(rssPage) #rssPage: address of xml feed tree = etree.parse(feed) x = tree.xpath(/rss/channel/item/title/text()) x = str(x[0]) for tag in tags: #tags is a list of items like hdtv, xvid, 720p etc x = re.sub(r'\b' + tag + r'\b', '',

Re: [Tutor] help writing functions

2012-02-23 Thread Saad Javed
Sorry for the formatting. Added return statements to both functions. Adding return [x, y] to get_value func. That solved the problem. Thank you! :) Saad On Thursday, February 23, 2012, Alan Gauld wrote: On 23/02/12 00:59, Saad Javed wrote: [CODE]feed = urllib.urlopen(rssPage) #rssPage:

Re: [Tutor] Help Designing a simple Program called Life

2012-02-22 Thread bob gailer
On 2/22/2012 1:50 PM, leo degon wrote: Hello All, My name is Leo. Hi Leo Welcome to Python help. We are a few volunteers who like assisting others. A few guidelines: - always reply-all so a copy goes to the list - reply in-line rather than at the top. - if your code is large put

Re: [Tutor] Help Designing a simple Program called Life

2012-02-22 Thread Alan Gauld
On 22/02/12 18:50, leo degon wrote: Hello All, My name is Leo. I'm just beginning to learn python. I am learning on my own and have no previous programming experience. I decided to create a version of john conway's game of life as a personal project. OK, Thats quite a good project

Re: [Tutor] help writing functions

2012-02-22 Thread Andreas Perstinger
On 2012-02-23 01:59, Saad Javed wrote: I am learning python and need guidance for writing some code. I've written a simple program (with pointers from people) that parses an tv show xml feed and prints their values in plain text after performing some string operations. [CODE]feed =

Re: [Tutor] Help Glade Tutorial.

2012-01-29 Thread Chris Fuller
Which ones did you look at, and why did you not like them? Keep in mind that Glade is an interface builder, and hasn't got anything much to do with the target language, other than requiring there be a libglade library to read the XML files. I actually got started with some articles in Linux

Re: [Tutor] help with program from learning python the hard way

2012-01-19 Thread vishwajeet singh
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 6:32 PM, Jason Loeve jasonlo...@gmail.com wrote: good day i seem to be stuck, my code is from sys import argv script, user_name = argv Are you passing an additional parameter while executing the script ?? you must execute it passing an additional parameter which

Re: [Tutor] help with program from learning python the hard way

2012-01-19 Thread bodsda
If I say that sys.argv is a list, does that help you? Also, run things from a command prompt for this kind of thing, at least then you can guarantee what args get passed Bodsda Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device -Original Message- From: Jason Loeve jasonlo...@gmail.com Sender:

Re: [Tutor] help with program from learning python the hard way

2012-01-19 Thread Walter Prins
Hi Jason, On 19 January 2012 13:02, Jason Loeve jasonlo...@gmail.com wrote: good day i seem to be stuck, my code is from sys import argv script, user_name = argv and i get an error ValueError: need more than 1 value to unpack The implication of this message is that the value of argv

Re: [Tutor] Help with lag

2012-01-10 Thread Hugo Arts
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 9:45 PM, Nate Lastname defens...@gmail.com wrote: Hello! The attached file 'cameramovement.py' is very laggy. Could someone help me out by telling me what part of this is slowing it down so much?  I've checked the whole file through, and I can't see why it's so slow.

Re: [Tutor] help with script

2011-12-28 Thread Alan Gauld
On 28/12/11 01:31, nickto...@comcast.net wrote: hello, my name is nick. i got python for software design by Allen B. Downey as a gift for christmas. i am completely new to programming Welcome, we are here to help :-) 5 x=5 x+1 im ok when it comes to using python so far. but it has asked me

Re: [Tutor] help with script

2011-12-27 Thread James Reynolds
On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 8:31 PM, nickto...@comcast.net wrote: hello, my name is nick. i got python for software design by Allen B. Downey as a gift for christmas. i am completely new to programming and i am having trouble figuring out how to do an exercise concerning script.. my problem 5

Re: [Tutor] Help with update_wrapper

2011-12-10 Thread Peter Otten
Emeka wrote: Could someone explain functools.update_wrapper with simple examples? Since this is not for the absolute beginner I'm assuming you are already familiar with decorators. In their most common form these are functions that take a function and wrap that function into another

Re: [Tutor] Help with error in ski game

2011-11-20 Thread bodsda
Just a guess but take a look at the spelling. centerx Or centrex Bodsda Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device -Original Message- From: Chloe Beck chloeb...@hotmail.com Sender: tutor-bounces+bodsda=googlemail@python.org Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 11:58:25 To: tutor@python.org

Re: [Tutor] Help with error in ski game

2011-11-20 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Chloe Beck wrote: Traceback (most recent call last): File /Users/Chloe/Documents/SKI SKI/ski ski ski, line 99, in module skier.move(speed) File /Users/Chloe/Documents/SKI SKI/ski ski ski, line 28, in move if self.rect.centerx 20: self.rect.centrex = 20 AttributeError:

Re: [Tutor] Help with re in Python 3

2011-11-05 Thread Andreas Perstinger
On 2011-11-04 20:59, Albert-Jan Roskam wrote: It seems that you are not opening the file properly. You could do f = file('///Users/joebatt/Desktop/python3.txt','r') or: withfile('///Users/joebatt/Desktop/python3.txt','r') as f: OP is using Python 3, where file is removed. Thus, you have to use

Re: [Tutor] Help with re in Python 3

2011-11-04 Thread Joel Goldstick
On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Joe Batt joeb...@hotmail.co.uk wrote: Hi all, Still trying with Python and programming in general…. I am trying to get a grip with re. I am writing a program to open a text file and scan it for exactly 3 uppercase letters in a row followed by a lowercase

Re: [Tutor] Help with re in Python 3

2011-11-04 Thread Albert-Jan Roskam
It seems that you are not opening the file properly. You could do f = file('///Users/joebatt/Desktop/python3.txt','r') or: withfile('///Users/joebatt/Desktop/python3.txt','r') as f:   for line in f:     m = re.search([A-Z]{3}[a-z][A-Z]{3}, line)     if m:   print(Pattern found)  

Re: [Tutor] Help with re in Python 3

2011-11-04 Thread Prasad, Ramit
m = re.search([A-Z]{3}[a-z][A-Z]{3}, line) That is the expression I would suggest, except it is still more efficient to use a compiled regular expression like the original version. Ramit Ramit Prasad | JPMorgan Chase Investment Bank | Currencies Technology 712 Main Street | Houston, TX

Re: [Tutor] Help with re in Python 3

2011-11-04 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Prasad, Ramit wrote: m = re.search([A-Z]{3}[a-z][A-Z]{3}, line) That is the expression I would suggest, except it is still more efficient to use a compiled regular expression like the original version. Not necessarily. The Python regex module caches recently used regex strings, avoiding

Re: [Tutor] Help

2011-11-01 Thread Dave Angel
(Pleas put your reply after the part you're quoting. What you did is called top-posting, and makes reading the messages very confusing) On 11/01/2011 12:10 AM, Chris Kavanagh wrote: I'm going to thank Steven once again, and answer my own question in the 2nd paragraph directly below (Steven

Re: [Tutor] Help

2011-11-01 Thread Alan Gauld
On 01/11/11 04:10, Chris Kavanagh wrote: before. In other languages, ala C++, don't global variables have to be declared at the 'top' of the code?? No, that's just common usage. You can declare a variable anywhere in C/C++ provided it's before it is used. But that can lead to hard to read

Re: [Tutor] Help

2011-10-31 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Chris Kavanagh wrote: However, I'm confused on Line 30 {if chosenCave== str(friendlyCave)}. Here's the description of this line the author gives: Here we check if the integer of the cave we chose ('1' or '2') is equal to the cave randomly selected to have the friendly dragon My question

Re: [Tutor] Help

2011-10-31 Thread Chris Kavanagh
Yes Steven, that solved my question(s). It also cleared up what was to be my next question! Thanks so much. You might not realize how grateful I am to be able to have you others on the list answer my questions. Just trust me when I say, I am grateful. And I apologize for the code being

Re: [Tutor] Help

2011-10-31 Thread Chris Kavanagh
I'm going to thank Steven once again, and answer my own question in the 2nd paragraph directly below (Steven hasn't had a chance to respond yet). I just learned that the Function definitions are not read by the interpreter UNTIL they are called. I was reading them and assuming they were

Re: [Tutor] help

2011-10-10 Thread Alan Gauld
On 10/10/11 20:23, George Nyoro wrote: On 10/10/2011, tutor-requ...@python.orgtutor-requ...@python.org wrote: Send Tutor mailing list submissions to tutor@python.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit snip When replying, please edit your Subject

Re: [Tutor] Help refactoring this code

2011-10-09 Thread Alan Gauld
On 09/10/11 23:41, D. Guandalino wrote: Hi, in this class many methods share common code. class Foo(object): def m1(self): if self.foo: pass # m1 do something elif self.bar: pass # m1 do something else else: pass # m1 do

Re: [Tutor] Help refactoring this code

2011-10-09 Thread Steven D'Aprano
D. Guandalino wrote: Hi, in this class many methods share common code. Given your example, I wouldn't bother refactoring it. There's not enough code in common to matter. -- Steven ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: [Tutor] Help!

2011-10-07 Thread Alex Hall
On 10/7/11, rmntcver...@aol.com rmntcver...@aol.com wrote: I need serious help with this Rock, Paper, Scissors program. The program runs smoothly but I can't get the score to print. Please help me with this one aspect! Here is my code right now: import random def

Re: [Tutor] Help!

2011-10-07 Thread bob gailer
On 10/7/2011 12:32 PM, rmntcver...@aol.com wrote: I need serious help with this Rock, Paper, Scissors program. The program runs smoothly but I can't get the score to print. Please help me with this one aspect! Here is my code right now: Welcome to Python Help. In future please use a

Re: [Tutor] Help me in this programme

2011-10-06 Thread Alan Gauld
On 06/10/11 08:15, Praveen Singh wrote: CountWords(google) [('e',1),('g',2),('l',1),('o',2)] by the level of this question you can easily understand i am new in python.the problem i am facing is how to make set of word and count(e,1) and add this to list?? Some clues: a for loop will

Re: [Tutor] help with a recursive function

2011-09-27 Thread Mac Ryan
On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 14:32:00 -0400 c smith illusiontechniq...@gmail.com wrote: hi list, i understand the general idea of recursion and if I am following well written code I can understand how it works, but when I try to write it for myself I get a bit confused with the flow. I was trying to

Re: [Tutor] help with a recursive function

2011-09-27 Thread Steven D'Aprano
c smith wrote: hi list, i understand the general idea of recursion and if I am following well written code I can understand how it works, but when I try to write it for myself I get a bit confused with the flow. Your flow is fine. You just forget to return anything in two of the three

Re: [Tutor] help with a recursive function

2011-09-27 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Mac Ryan wrote: raise BaseException('Something is wrong here!') Never raise BaseException directly! BaseException is the very top of the exception hierarchy, you should raise the *most* specific exception you can, not the least specific. BaseException isn't even just for errors, it's

Re: [Tutor] help with a recursive function

2011-09-27 Thread Alan Gauld
On 27/09/11 19:32, c smith wrote: i understand the general idea of recursion and if I am following well written code I can understand how it works, but when I try to write it for myself I get a bit confused with the flow. Others have dealt with the specifics. If you really want to learn how

Re: [Tutor] Help!

2011-09-22 Thread Prasad, Ramit
From: tutor-bounces+ramit.prasad=jpmorgan@python.org [mailto:tutor-bounces+ramit.prasad=jpmorgan@python.org] On Behalf Of Joseph Shakespeare Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2011 12:05 PM To: tutor@python.org Subject: [Tutor] Help! Hello, I am new Python (about 2 weeks) and need some

Re: [Tutor] Help!

2011-09-22 Thread xDog Walker
Move the following two lines to immediately follow the while. player=raw_input(Please pick your throw: (r,s,p):) computer= random.choice(['r','s','p']) -- I have seen the future and I am not in it. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To

Re: [Tutor] Help with if-elif-else structure

2011-08-27 Thread Peter Otten
Robert Sjoblom wrote: #assuming target number 15 roll = (result, initial_mins, initial_max) if roll[0] 15: if roll[1] = 2: print(Success) elif roll[2] = 2: print(Critical failure!) else: print(Failure.) elif roll[0] = 15: if roll[1] = 2:

Re: [Tutor] Help with if-elif-else structure

2011-08-27 Thread TheIrda
: Friday, August 26, 2011 8:55 AM To: Christopher King Cc: python mail list Subject: Re: [Tutor] Help with if-elif-else structure Hello, I'm quite new on python, so don't hit too hard if I'm wrong ;) A question on the logic... Does this means if roll[0] 15: if roll[1] = 2

Re: [Tutor] Help with if-elif-else structure

2011-08-27 Thread Emile van Sebille
Subject: Re: [Tutor] Help with if-elif-else structure Hello, I'm quite new on python, so don't hit too hard if I'm wrong ;) A question on the logic... Does this means if roll[0] 15: if roll[1]= 2: print(Success) elif roll[2]= 2: print(Critical failure!) that rolling

Re: [Tutor] Help with if-elif-else structure

2011-08-26 Thread TheIrda
Hello, I'm quite new on python, so don't hit too hard if I'm wrong ;) A question on the logic... Does this means if roll[0] 15: if roll[1] = 2: print(Success) elif roll[2] = 2: print(Critical failure!) that rolling multiple 1's get the priority on rolling multiple 6's? I

Re: [Tutor] Help with if-elif-else structure

2011-08-26 Thread Prasad, Ramit
Of TheIrda Sent: Friday, August 26, 2011 8:55 AM To: Christopher King Cc: python mail list Subject: Re: [Tutor] Help with if-elif-else structure Hello, I'm quite new on python, so don't hit too hard if I'm wrong ;) A question on the logic... Does this means if roll[0] 15:    if roll[1] = 2

Re: [Tutor] Help with if-elif-else structure

2011-08-26 Thread Bspymaster
Well, I'm not sure what your asking for the first question, but for the second one, you would have an unhandled exception in your code if roll[0] was less than or equal to 0. Hope that helps a bit! On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 8:55 AM, TheIrda thei...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I'm quite new on

Re: [Tutor] help with a class

2011-08-25 Thread John
Thanks for the feedback. I wasn't aware about the assert usage not being intended for production code. On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 11:37 PM, Alan Gauld alan.ga...@btinternet.com wrote: On 24/08/11 21:03, Prasad, Ramit wrote: I was under the impression that asserts are more for testing than for

Re: [Tutor] Help with if-elif-else structure

2011-08-25 Thread Alan Gauld
On 25/08/11 08:51, Robert Sjoblom wrote: If I roll two sixes (on the initial roll) and below the target number (in total), it's a failure. If I roll two sixes (on the initial roll) and above the target number (in total), it's a critical failure. If I roll two ones (on the initial roll) and

Re: [Tutor] Help with if-elif-else structure

2011-08-25 Thread Robert Sjoblom
#assuming target number 15 roll = (result, initial_mins, initial_max) I'd forget the tuple and just use the names, it is more readable that way... if result 15: if initial_mins = 2:... elif initial_max =2:... But otherwise it seems to reflect the rules as you've written them...

Re: [Tutor] help with a class

2011-08-25 Thread Steven D'Aprano
John wrote: Thanks for the feedback. I wasn't aware about the assert usage not being intended for production code. That's not quite true. There is nothing wrong with using asserts in production code. The important thing is to use them *properly*. Asserts are for checking your internal

Re: [Tutor] Help with if-elif-else structure

2011-08-25 Thread Christopher King
Looks good, although I would add one or two things. #assuming target number 15 Put that in a variable for the target number roll = (result, initial_mins, initial_max) if roll[0] 15: if roll[1] = 2: You could even put all the constants in variables print(Success) elif

Re: [Tutor] help with 'organization'

2011-08-25 Thread John
Ha! Inheritance! On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 7:51 PM, John washa...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I am writing a module that will have two classes ('runners') I am calling them, as they will ultimately use subprocess to run a command line program, so they are basically option parsers, etc... As I

Re: [Tutor] help with 'organization'

2011-08-25 Thread James Reynolds
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 1:51 PM, John washa...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I am writing a module that will have two classes ('runners') I am calling them, as they will ultimately use subprocess to run a command line program, so they are basically option parsers, etc... As I wrote the second

Re: [Tutor] help with 'organization'

2011-08-25 Thread Steven D'Aprano
John wrote: I know a code example might help, so I try to show it here (my code I'm afraid is too complex and ugly at the moment). You can see the it fails because MyTools doesn't have 'this' attribute... Then give it one. class MyTools: Add an initialisation method: def

Re: [Tutor] help with a class

2011-08-24 Thread Hugo Arts
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 8:34 PM, John washa...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I have a class that has an attribute that is a dict which I fill with more dicts. I've created a function to return those dictionaries if a key is provide, otherwise, it returns the 'default' dictionary. I have the

Re: [Tutor] help with a class

2011-08-24 Thread John
Thank you. I've corrected the KeyError, and changed the function to: def overide_options(self, options, run_id=None): completely overide the options dict assert isinstance(options, dict), override options requires a dict if run_id in self.run_queue:

Re: [Tutor] help with a class

2011-08-24 Thread Prasad, Ramit
I was under the impression that asserts are more for testing than for production code (especially since they can be removed when running from python from command line). Instead I removed the assert and replaced it to raise an error. def overide_options(self, options, run_id=None):

Re: [Tutor] help with a class

2011-08-24 Thread Alan Gauld
On 24/08/11 21:03, Prasad, Ramit wrote: I was under the impression that asserts are more for testing than for production code That's true. def overide_options(self, options, run_id=None): if not isinstance(options, dict): raise TypeError(override options requires

Re: [Tutor] help in TKINTER

2011-08-16 Thread Alan Gauld
On 16/08/11 05:31, aditya wrote: Hello tutors, I wanted some help in using the Tkinter class for button creation, I am not able to add on click events i.e. when I press the button certain action should be performed for example if I press the button named 5, then it should display 5 in the text

Re: [Tutor] Help with making emacs work with python syntax checking?

2011-07-06 Thread col speed
=gmail@python.org Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2011 23:59:48 To: tutor@python.org Subject: Re: [Tutor] Help with making emacs work with python syntax checking? Tidal Espeon tidal.esp...@gmail.com wrote I need help with installing this setup on my emacs: Why do you want this? Are you already an emacs

Re: [Tutor] Help with making emacs work with python syntax checking?

2011-07-04 Thread Lisi
On Monday 04 July 2011 15:46:31 Tidal Espeon wrote: I need help with installing this setup on my emacs: http://hide1713.wordpress.com/2009/01/30/setup-perfect-python-environment-i n-emacs/ The problem is that I have no clue how to access any .emacs file or .emacs.d folder. I'm running linux,

Re: [Tutor] Help with making emacs work with python syntax checking?

2011-07-04 Thread Peter Otten
Tidal Espeon wrote: I need help with installing this setup on my emacs: http://hide1713.wordpress.com/2009/01/30/setup-perfect-python-environment- in-emacs/ The problem is that I have no clue how to access any .emacs file or .emacs.d folder. I'm running linux, and they are apparently

Re: [Tutor] Help with making emacs work with python syntax checking?

2011-07-04 Thread Alan Gauld
Tidal Espeon tidal.esp...@gmail.com wrote I need help with installing this setup on my emacs: Why do you want this? Are you already an emacs user? If so then fine, go ahead. But if you do not already use emacs, lerarning it will be a big effort. emacs is a big, powerful tool and once you

Re: [Tutor] Help with making emacs work with python syntax checking?

2011-07-04 Thread eire1130
To: tutor@python.org Subject: Re: [Tutor] Help with making emacs work with python syntax checking? Tidal Espeon tidal.esp...@gmail.com wrote I need help with installing this setup on my emacs: Why do you want this? Are you already an emacs user? If so then fine, go ahead. But if you do not already

Re: [Tutor] Help with understanding classes

2011-05-22 Thread Lowell Tackett
Robert...I am similarly where you are stuck, a beginner with little insight, so my perspective might have some draw to it. Try this on for size - while watching a friend stencil Christmas decorations on living room windows last year, it dawned on me that a class is quite simply - a stencil.

Re: [Tutor] Help with understanding classes

2011-05-22 Thread Robert Sjoblom
That's pretty much all you need to know to start using objects. There's a lot more though: inheritance, class methods and static methods (as opposed to ordinary methods), properties, descriptors (advanced!), slots, and more. But one step at a time. Any questions, don't hesitate to ask! Wow,

Re: [Tutor] Help with understanding classes

2011-05-21 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sat, 21 May 2011 08:24:34 pm Robert Sjöblom wrote: I'm trying to wrap my head around classes and their attributes, but am having a hard time doing so. The websites and books that I have consulted haven't been much help; most of them assume prior programming/oop experience, something I lack.

Re: [Tutor] Help with understanding classes

2011-05-21 Thread Alex Hall
On 5/21/11, Robert Sjöblom robert.sjob...@gmail.com wrote: I'm trying to wrap my head around classes and their attributes, but am having a hard time doing so. The websites and books that I have consulted haven't been much help; most of them assume prior programming/oop experience, something I

Re: [Tutor] Help with understanding classes

2011-05-21 Thread Alan Gauld
Robert Sjöblom robert.sjob...@gmail.com wrote I'm trying to wrap my head around classes ...The websites and books that I have consulted ...assume prior programming/oop experience, something I lack. Alex, and especially Steven (great job BTW!,) have given you good explanations, provided you

Re: [Tutor] Help with understanding classes

2011-05-21 Thread RL Berman
What a phenomenally clear explanation. Thank you very much, Steven. Robert Berman On 05/21/2011 07:49 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Sat, 21 May 2011 08:24:34 pm Robert Sjöblom wrote: I'm trying to wrap my head around classes and their attributes, but am having a hard time doing so. The

Re: [Tutor] Help with exceptions please

2011-05-14 Thread Timo
On 14-05-11 05:05, Wayne Werner wrote: On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 7:48 PM, Lea Parker lea-par...@bigpond.com mailto:lea-par...@bigpond.com wrote: Hello I have another assignment I am trying to fine tune. The idea is to make sure exceptions work. I have come up with a problem when

Re: [Tutor] Help with exceptions please

2011-05-13 Thread Wayne Werner
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 7:48 PM, Lea Parker lea-par...@bigpond.com wrote: Hello I have another assignment I am trying to fine tune. The idea is to make sure exceptions work. I have come up with a problem when testing my code. When I enter a golf score for a player the program returns the

Re: [Tutor] Help with sys.argv

2011-04-29 Thread Dave Angel
On 01/-10/-28163 02:59 PM, monkey...@aim.com wrote: Hello, I am trying to learn how to use python with Facebook's Open Graph API. I am getting my feet wet with the following code authored by Matthew A. Russell. I copied it line for line for learning purposes, but I am getting the following

Re: [Tutor] help with this problem

2011-04-24 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Ratna Banjara wrote: The number 124 has the property that it is the smallest number whose first three multiples contain the digit 2. Observe that 124*1 = 124, 124*2 = 248, 124*3 = 372 and that 124, 248 and 372 each contain the digit 2. It is possible to generalize this property to be the

Re: [Tutor] Help - 2nd validator won't work

2011-04-16 Thread Noah Hall
On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 4:33 AM, Lea Parker lea-par...@bigpond.com wrote:     budget = float(raw_input('Enter the amount of your budget for the month: '))     # Validation variable for budget     while budget 0:     print 'ERROR: the budget cannot be a negative amount'     budget

Re: [Tutor] Help - accumulator not working (Lea)

2011-04-16 Thread Japhy Bartlett
I think that here:     expense = float(raw_input('Enter the next expense or 0 to finish $')) you want to use `expense +=` instead. Instead of adding it to the previous expenses, you're resetting the `expense` variable each time. I think there's some other things that won't behave as

Re: [Tutor] Help - accumulator not working (Lea)

2011-04-15 Thread Joel Goldstick
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 5:52 PM, Lea Parker lea-par...@bigpond.com wrote: Hello I am trying to create this program for a uni assignment. I cannot get it to add the expenses to the accumulator I have set. Would you mind having a look and letting me know if I have something in the wrong

Re: [Tutor] Help - accumulator not working (Lea)

2011-04-15 Thread michael scott
Hi Lea, how are you today? Well please keep in mind that nothing is wrong with your code, its doing exactly what you asked it to do. But I would call your attention to your while loop, you want to accumulate things, but may I ask exactly what are you accumulating in your loop? Also quite by

Re: [Tutor] Help - accumulator not working (Lea)

2011-04-15 Thread Alan Gauld
Lea Parker lea-par...@bigpond.com wrote I am trying to create this program for a uni assignment. I cannot get it to add the expenses to the accumulator I have set. You have to write the code to add each value to the accumulator Your loop does not do that This program is to calculate

Re: [Tutor] HELP

2011-04-02 Thread Walter Prins
2011/4/2 ISAAC Ramírez Solano danielramso...@hotmail.com Hi... My name is Isaac, I need some help to programm in python, I know some things that are really basic like lists and recursivity and with that we shoul create an GPS with a global variable, but what I'm trying to do is to make a

Re: [Tutor] HELP

2011-04-02 Thread Alan Gauld
ISAAC Ramírez Solano danielramso...@hotmail.com wrote Hi... My name is Isaac, I need some help to program in python, I know some things that are really basic like lists and recursivity I'm not sure what you mean by recursivity, but I'm betting its not what I mean by that term! :-) with

Re: [Tutor] help with user input

2011-03-21 Thread Marc Tompkins
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Donald Bedsole drbeds...@gmail.com wrote: This works fine as long as the user enters a number. However, if they enter anything else, they just get the first :else statement, You were too greedy. I think that's because you're trying to do a string

Re: [Tutor] help with user input

2011-03-21 Thread Donald Bedsole
Thank you, Marc On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Marc Tompkins marc.tompk...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Donald Bedsole drbeds...@gmail.com wrote: This works fine as long as the user enters a number.  However, if they enter anything else, they just get the first :else

Re: [Tutor] Help with python-gnupg

2011-03-12 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Becky Mcquilling wrote: If anyone is familiar with python-gnupg, I am having some difficulty with the syntax. I've tried the following: When dealing with third party packages, unless it is an extremely well-known package like numpy or nltk, it is usually a good idea to link to the project's

Re: [Tutor] Help with python-gnupg

2011-03-12 Thread Becky Mcquilling
Thanks, everyone: Your suggestions worked. I will make sure to include full information next time. Becky On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 12:14 AM, Steven D'Aprano st...@pearwood.infowrote: Becky Mcquilling wrote: If anyone is familiar with python-gnupg, I am having some difficulty with the

Re: [Tutor] Help on reading a plain file of names

2011-03-11 Thread Alan Gauld
apple owner smer...@aol.com wrote I am new to python and I am trying to open a plain text file of names and to see the number of names that start with specific letters and display them in a bar graph. OK, Lets break that down so that we can understand what exactly puzzles you: 1) Can you

Re: [Tutor] Help on reading a plain file of names

2011-03-11 Thread Tiago Cunha
I would suggest to use the NLTK package. Try methods like nltk.endswith() or nltk.startswith() On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 5:36 AM, Alan Gauld alan.ga...@btinternet.comwrote: apple owner smer...@aol.com wrote I am new to python and I am trying to open a plain text file of names and to see

Re: [Tutor] Help on reading a plain file of names

2011-03-11 Thread Alan Gauld
Tiago Cunha tiago...@gmail.com wrote I would suggest to use the NLTK package. Try methods like nltk.endswith() or nltk.startswith() NLTK is probably overkill. The standard string methods startswith() and endswith() are probably adequate for this case. Alan G.

Re: [Tutor] Help with python-gnupg

2011-03-11 Thread David Hutto
On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 1:39 AM, Becky Mcquilling ladymcse2...@gmail.com wrote: If anyone is familiar with python-gnupg, I am having some difficulty with the syntax.  I've tried the following: f = open('c:/test/filename.txt', 'r') datae = gpg.encrypt_file(f.read(), 'ladym...@gmail.com',

Re: [Tutor] Help with python-gnupg

2011-03-11 Thread David Hutto
On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 2:07 AM, David Hutto smokefl...@gmail.com wrote: As a matter of fact, looking at them with know *no* knowledge of the module, it says it's a typeerror, and that it expects string or buffer, but gets file. If this is the same error in both instances, then it's that

Re: [Tutor] help

2011-03-08 Thread Noah Hall
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 6:38 PM, Vickram vick1...@intnet.mu wrote: The python result is wrong because I may have misread the C++ code Well, really, I suggest you read a tutorial on Python - you don't seem to be getting a hang on the basics, for example, there's no need for to use the float()

Re: [Tutor] help

2011-03-08 Thread David Hutto
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Re: [Tutor] help

2011-03-08 Thread Alan Gauld
Vickram vick1...@intnet.mu wrote I need help in translating a C++ code into python.. Can you help please? The python result is wrong because I may have misread the C++ code The C++ code is really just C code, there is virtualy no C++ stuff there. But that aside your translation is pretty

Re: [Tutor] help with re module and parsing data

2011-03-07 Thread Kushal Kumaran
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 1:24 PM, vineeth vineethrak...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all I am doing some analysis on my trace file. I am finding the lines Recvd-Content and Published-Content. I am able to find those lines but the re module as predicted just gives the word that is being searched. But I

Re: [Tutor] help with re module and parsing data

2011-03-07 Thread wesley chun
import re file = open('file.txt','r') file2 = open('newfile.txt','w') LineFile = ' ' for line in file:    LineFile += line StripRcvdCnt = re.compile('(P\w+\S\Content|Re\w+\S\Content)') FindRcvdCnt = re.findall(StripRcvdCnt, LineFile) for SrcStr in FindRcvdCnt:    file2.write(SrcStr)

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