Thanks, this looks like it might do what I want. I have some
questions for below on exactly what you are doing.
On Jan 22, 10:30 am, Luiz Felipe Martins
<luizfelipe.mart...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This worked for me, but it is definitely hackish and cumbersome. You
> basically define the function in a string, exec the string to create
> the function, and then use the function interact, instead using the
> decoration @interact. (I've read it is frowned up, but...)
>
> # first cell
> fields = ['a','b','c','d','e']
> init_values = [10,15,31,14,-5, 6]
> fields_def = ','.join(['%s=%d' % t for t in zip(fields,init_values)])
What is the zip(...) doing? Does this change the type of the values
or is it a sneaky way of
indexing both values at once?
> fdef= 'def _(' + fields_def + '):\n' \
> + '\tprint sum([' + ','.join(fields) + '])\n'
> print fdef # just to check
>
> # second cell
> exec(fdef)
> interact(_)
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 9:39 AM, Jonathan Gutow <gu...@uwosh.edu> wrote:
>
> > I'm probably being dense here....But would appreciate any suggestions/
> > help. What I want to do is ask students to interactively input a
> > variable number of expressions based on some randomly generated
> > 'story' problems (actually chemical kinetic mechanisms). I can
> > generate the problems and check them, but cannot figure out how to
> > make the @interact construct accept a variable number of
> > input_boxes. Is it possible, and, if so, how?
>
> > thanks,
> > Jonathan
>
> > Dr. Jonathan H. Gutow
> > Chemistry Department gu...@uwosh.edu
> > UW-Oshkosh Office:920-424-1326
> > 800 Algoma Boulevard FAX:920-424-2042
> > Oshkosh, WI 54901
> > http://www.uwosh.edu/faculty_staff/gutow/
>
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> -Bertrand Russell
>
> L. Felipe Martins
> Department of Mathematics
> Cleveland State University
> luizfelipe.mart...@gmail.com
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