Re: Survey: improving the Python std lib docs

2017-05-12 Thread dieter
Steve D'Aprano writes: > One of the more controversial aspects of the Python ecosystem is the Python > docs. Some people love them, and some people hate them and describe them as > horrible. > > Here are a couple of suggestions for improving(?) the docs. What do you > think? > > (They're not my id

Re: Need help on a project To :"Create a class called BankAccount with the following parameters "

2017-05-12 Thread Jason Friedman
> > >> The first section does not do what I think you want: a list with 7 > options. It makes a list with one option, then overwrites it with a new > list with one option, and so on. You want something like: > menu_list = [ > "O - open account" > "L - load details" > "D - display det

Re: Need help on a project To :"Create a class called BankAccount with the following parameters "

2017-05-12 Thread Jason Friedman
> > menu_list = ["O -open account"] > menu_list =["l - load details"] > menu_list =["D- display details"] > menu_list =["A - Make deposit"] > menu_list =["W- Make withdraw",] > menu_list =["S - save"] > menu_list =["Q - quit"] > > command = input("command:") > if command.upper() == "O": > open_() >

Re: Need help on a project To :"Create a class called BankAccount with the following parameters "

2017-05-12 Thread saisurya . ssa
On Saturday, December 12, 2015 at 2:35:29 PM UTC+5:30, Harbey Leke wrote: > Create a class called BankAccount > > .Create a constructor that takes in an integer and assigns this to a > `balance` property. > > .Create a method called `deposit` that takes in cash deposit amount and > updates the

Re: Out of memory while reading excel file

2017-05-12 Thread codewizard
On Thursday, May 11, 2017 at 5:01:57 AM UTC-4, Mahmood Naderan wrote: > Excuse me, I changed > > csv.writer(outstream) > > to > > csv.writer(outstream, delimiter =' ') > > > It puts space between cells and omits "" around some content. However, > between two lines there is a new empty line.

Re: Out of memory while reading excel file

2017-05-12 Thread eryk sun
On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 8:03 PM, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote: > I don't have a Windows system to test, but doesn't that mean that on Windows > > with open("tmp.csv", "w") as f: > csv.writer(f).writerows([["one"], ["two"]]) > with open("tmp.csv", "rb") as f: > print(f.read()) > > wo

Re: Out of memory while reading excel file

2017-05-12 Thread Peter Otten
Pavol Lisy wrote: > On 5/11/17, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote: >> Mahmood Naderan via Python-list wrote: >>> between two lines there is a new empty line. In other word, the first >>> line is the first row of excel file. The second line is empty ("\n") and >>> the third line is the second r

Re: import docx error

2017-05-12 Thread johnshivjo
On Wednesday, May 10, 2017 at 12:48:36 PM UTC-4, RRS1 wrote: > Hi, > > > I am very new to Python, have only done simple things >>>print("hello > world") type things. I've really been looking forward to using Python. I > bought Two books, downloaded Python 3.6.1 (32 & 64) and each time I t

Re: Survey: improving the Python std lib docs

2017-05-12 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sat, May 13, 2017 at 4:05 AM, wrote: > On Friday, May 12, 2017 at 3:02:58 AM UTC-7, Steve D'Aprano wrote: > >> (1) Table of functions/classes at the start of each module doc >> >> The docs for builtins starts with a table of built-in functions: >> >> https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions

Re: Out of memory while reading excel file

2017-05-12 Thread Pavol Lisy
On 5/11/17, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote: > Mahmood Naderan via Python-list wrote: > >> Excuse me, I changed >> >> csv.writer(outstream) >> >> to >> >> csv.writer(outstream, delimiter =' ') >> >> >> It puts space between cells and omits "" around some content. > > If your data doesn't conta

Re: Survey: improving the Python std lib docs

2017-05-12 Thread Ethan Furman
On 05/12/2017 03:02 AM, Steve D'Aprano wrote: Here are a couple of suggestions for improving(?) the docs. What do you think? (1) Table of functions/classes at the start of each module doc I like this idea. Even if I don't know the exact thing I am looking for I can usually get close from

Re: Survey: improving the Python std lib docs

2017-05-12 Thread jladasky
On Friday, May 12, 2017 at 3:02:58 AM UTC-7, Steve D'Aprano wrote: > (1) Table of functions/classes at the start of each module doc > > The docs for builtins starts with a table of built-in functions: > > https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html > > > Docs for other modules should do s

EuroPython 2017 Keynote: Armin Ronacher

2017-05-12 Thread Alexander Hendorf
We are pleased to announce our next keynote speaker for EuroPython 2017: * Armin Ronacher * About Armin Ronacher Armin Ronacher has founded a number of Python open source projects. Most notably, he is the creator of Flask, a popular

Re: Survey: improving the Python std lib docs

2017-05-12 Thread Dan Sommers
On Fri, 12 May 2017 21:14:01 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 8:02 PM, Steve D'Aprano > wrote: >> (2) The PHP documentation allows you to search for a term by typing it into >> the URL after the domain, e.g. to search for "split", go to: >> >> http://php.net/split >> >> >> I

Re: Survey: improving the Python std lib docs

2017-05-12 Thread Chris Angelico
On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 8:02 PM, Steve D'Aprano wrote: > (2) The PHP documentation allows you to search for a term by typing it into > the URL after the domain, e.g. to search for "split", go to: > > http://php.net/split > > > If you try the same thing with the Python docs: > > http://python.org/s

Survey: improving the Python std lib docs

2017-05-12 Thread Steve D'Aprano
One of the more controversial aspects of the Python ecosystem is the Python docs. Some people love them, and some people hate them and describe them as horrible. Here are a couple of suggestions for improving(?) the docs. What do you think? (They're not my ideas, the originated on Reddit.) (1)