Programming is indeed tough ... I wish I had picked up this skill much earlier in life.
But true, I will try to research my questions more in depth before posting here. My goal eventually is to build a successful YCombinator based web-based startup. On Wednesday, November 25, 2015 at 12:59:36 AM UTC+8, Ned Batchelder wrote: > On Tuesday, November 24, 2015 at 9:29:30 AM UTC-5, Mark Lawrence wrote: > > On 24/11/2015 14:07, Denis McMahon wrote: > > > On Tue, 24 Nov 2015 02:04:56 -0800, Cai Gengyang wrote: > > > > > >> Here's a dictionary with 3 values : > > >> > > >> results = { > > >> "gengyang": 14, > > >> "ensheng": 13, "jordan": 12 > > >> } > > >> > > >> How do I define a function that takes the last of the 3 items in that > > >> list and returns Jordan's results i.e. (12) ? > > > > > > You open a web browser and google for "python dictionary" > > > > > > > Ooh steady on old chap, surely you should have fitted the bib, done the > > spoon feeding and then changed the nappy? That appears to me the > > preferred way of doing things nowadays on c.l.py, rather than bluntly > > telling people not to be so bloody lazy. > > Mark and Denis, if you are having a hard time with newcomers to this list, > perhaps you need to find another list to read? > > Yes, Cai Gengyang could do more research before asking questions. But > your response does nothing to improve the situation. It's just snark > and bile, and does not exemplify the Python community's culture. > > > My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask > > what you can do for our language. > > What you can do for our language is put a better foot forward. > > --Ned. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list