On 07/25/2013 12:03 PM, CTSB01 wrote:
I have the following code that runs perfectly:
def psi_j(x, j):
rtn = []
for n2 in range(0, len(x) * j - 2):
n = n2 / j
r = n2 - n * j
rtn.append(j * x[n] + r * (x[n + 1] - x[n]))
print 'n2 =', n2, ': n =', n, ' r =' , r, ' rtn =', rtn
return rtn
No it doesn't run perfectly. It'll get a syntax error on the print
function call. That's assuming you're still using Python 3.3. You
really need to start by specifying your environment, without making us
look back through previous threads from you.
This code takes a string x = [0,1,1,1,2] for example
That's not a string. A string would be like
xx = psi_j("0abcd1234")
Perhaps you mean list? And is it a list of integers, or of arbitrary
numbers? Are there any constraints on the sizes or signs of those numbers?
(it must always begin with 0) and a parameter j, say 2, and outputs a string (x
= [0, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3] in this example).
It does this in two steps: First it decomposes some number m into a multiple of
j and a remainder.
Only if you replace the / with //. Or just use the function divmod():
n, r = divmod(n2, m)
Then it runs this decomposition through a function on the rtn.append line.
Notice that this has cj - 1 terms where c is the number of terms in the input
string and j is the parameter. Normally, we would like it to be able to
calculate cj terms.
This is an issue with the function that I am more than happy to put aside for
the moment.
My key interest is to be able to make this program
So far you have a function, not a program. If you put it in a text file
and run it from python, it'll do nothing but display a syntax error
message. And when you fix that, it'll just run without doing anything.
usable for someone who has no knowledge of programming. In
particular, I need some kind of user interface that prompts
the user to input a string (ideally just by putting in numbers in the form
011123334 for example) and a parameter,
and then displays the output sequence. This is essentially what the program
already does but the idea is to make it usable
for even the most technologically disinclined. Ideally it would do this
without needing to run Python at all.
Then why are you asking on the Python forum? Or perhaps you mean
without him knowing he's running Python? In that case, use a shebang
line at the beginning, which will tell Linux to automatically invoke the
specified program (or programming language in this case).
If anyone is able to make this happen in Python I would be eternally grateful.
If we assume you're running Python 3.3 on Linux, and the user is willing
to us the terminal, then how about parsing the string from the command
line he types? You can access it as011123334 a string from sys.argv,
and convert it to separate numbers. Of course as it stands now, you
cannot tell whether the user wanted
0,1,1,1,2,3,3,3,4
or
0, 111, 23, 3, 3, 4
or something else.
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