On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 4:42 PM, Mark Lawrence <breamore...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> This isn't a job for Bicycle Repair Man!!! <chuckle!> Not even if we only use the latest, greatest, computer-aided bicycle repair technology??? > ... It smacks to me of dictionaries > and the operator module but I'm too bone idle to look it up myself, so try > here https://docs.python.org/3/library/operator.html > D'oh :) So little time, so much Python standard library! I *do* search and search and ... search before I ask, but my Google-fu is often weak, especially when I am searching for hints as to how to solve a problem where I am unsure of the correct technical terminology to use in the search. OTH, I have sometimes spent hours searching, both online and in what books I have, and thus spared y'all many, ... , many other questions that I might have otherwise asked! One problem I have with searching the Python documentation is this: https://docs.python.org/release/2.4.4/lib/lib.html I never would have guessed beforehand that I would be needing to look under: "3. Python Runtime Services! I spend most of my time on this page as this is my most limiting version of Python that I must deal with. This page is *not* well-formatted and it all runs together. Even when I *know* something is there, I find myself having to Ctrl-F and entering the term I am looking for. And when I am not sure what I am looking for, I don't usually come up with the correct term. The later Python docs are much easier on the eyes, I do say! Anyway, Mark, thanks for the link! This looks quite straightforward and I will be able to side-step the evils of eval() once again. -- boB _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor