Re: Unrecognised Arguments

2018-12-02 Thread brunnre8
> I have been running twitterscraper yesterday with no real problems > encountered. I came home and tried to run a twitterscraper command in cmd – > without success. Are you running it on the same system as where it was working when you get the error? > It said the following for these argument

AW: Unrecognised Arguments

2018-12-02 Thread Lutz Horn
Hi, you use the `--lang` option wrongly. Fails: $ twitterscraper -bd 2015-01-01 -ed 2016-01-01 –lang en usage: twitterscraper [-h] [-o OUTPUT] [-l LIMIT] [-a] [-c] [-u] [--lang LANG] [-d] [-bd] [-ed] [-p] query twitterscraper: error: unrecognized argume

dealing with infinite generators

2018-12-02 Thread Avi Gross
[SPECULATION ALERT] I found it interesting as people discussed how one gets the length of something set up to follow the iterator protocol and especially anything that is effectively infinite. It is possible in python to set a value of "inf" using methods like this: >>> x = float("inf") >>> x i

Re: Unrecognised Arguments

2018-12-02 Thread dieter
fergalbell Bell writes: > I have been running twitterscraper yesterday with no real problems > encountered. I came home and tried to run a twitterscraper command in cmd > $(G!9(B without success. > > It said the following for these arguments: -bd 2015-01-01 -ed 2016-01-01 > $(G!9(Blang en u

Re: Injecting methods into instance / class

2018-12-02 Thread duncan smith
On 02/12/2018 18:36, Peter Otten wrote: > duncan smith wrote: > >> Hello, >> I have a lot of functions that take an instance of a particular >> class as the first argument. I want to create corresponding methods in >> the class. I have tried the following, which (when called from __init__) >

Re: Injecting methods into instance / class

2018-12-02 Thread Thomas Jollans
On 02/12/2018 18:56, duncan smith wrote: > Hello, > I have a lot of functions that take an instance of a particular > class as the first argument. I want to create corresponding methods in > the class. I have tried the following, which (when called from __init__) > creates the relevant method

Re: Unrecognised Arguments

2018-12-02 Thread fergalbell Bell
Dear Sir/Madam, I have been running twitterscraper yesterday with no real problems encountered. I came home and tried to run a twitterscraper command in cmd – without success. It said the following for these arguments: -bd 2015-01-01 -ed 2016-01-01 –lang en unrecognised. Regards, Fergal Bell

Re: What Python books to you recommend to beginners?

2018-12-02 Thread boB Stepp
On Sun, Dec 2, 2018 at 1:51 PM songbird wrote: > my goal in learning python was to use it as a way of > picking up OOP concepts in a more concrete way (theory > alone doesn't give me enough hands on the bits i need so > i tend to just do other things instead). > > now that i've used python for

Re: Injecting methods into instance / class

2018-12-02 Thread duncan smith
On 02/12/2018 18:26, Stefan Ram wrote: > duncan smith writes: >> I have tried to find examples of injecting methods into classes without > > Wouldn't the normal approach be to just define a > class with your functions as instance methods? > > main.py > > class C(): > def __init__( sel

Re: What Python books to you recommend to beginners?

2018-12-02 Thread songbird
Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > On Sun, 2 Dec 2018 12:40:44 -0500, songbird > declaimed the following: > >> as references those are useful, but howabout >>something a bit more conceptual or design oriented? >> > > At that level, you are not looking for "Python" books but rather > software engi

Re: Injecting methods into instance / class

2018-12-02 Thread Peter Otten
duncan smith wrote: > Hello, > I have a lot of functions that take an instance of a particular > class as the first argument. I want to create corresponding methods in > the class. I have tried the following, which (when called from __init__) > creates the relevant methods in an instance (Py

Re: ValueError vs IndexError, unpacking arguments with string.split

2018-12-02 Thread Morten W. Petersen
On Sun, Dec 2, 2018 at 1:20 PM Chris Angelico wrote: > On Sun, Dec 2, 2018 at 11:08 PM Morten W. Petersen > wrote: > > > > On Sun, Dec 2, 2018 at 12:49 PM Chris Angelico wrote: > >> To my knowledge, len(x) == len(list(x)) for any core data type that > >> has a length. > > > > >>> len(range(0,10

Re: Injecting methods into instance / class

2018-12-02 Thread Morten W. Petersen
Hi Duncan. On Sun, Dec 2, 2018 at 7:02 PM duncan smith wrote: > Hello, > I have a lot of functions that take an instance of a particular > class as the first argument. I want to create corresponding methods in > the class. I have tried the following, which (when called from __init__) > cre

Re: What Python books to you recommend to beginners?

2018-12-02 Thread songbird
Stefan Ram wrote: ... thank you. :) as references those are useful, but howabout something a bit more conceptual or design oriented? i have a pretty good idea about various language features or things to try, but i need a little more higher level view of how to go about building a python

Injecting methods into instance / class

2018-12-02 Thread duncan smith
Hello, I have a lot of functions that take an instance of a particular class as the first argument. I want to create corresponding methods in the class. I have tried the following, which (when called from __init__) creates the relevant methods in an instance (Python 3.6). def init_methods(s

Re: ValueError vs IndexError, unpacking arguments with string.split

2018-12-02 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sun, Dec 2, 2018 at 11:08 PM Morten W. Petersen wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 2, 2018 at 12:49 PM Chris Angelico wrote: >> To my knowledge, len(x) == len(list(x)) for any core data type that >> has a length. > > >>> len(range(0,100,3)) > 34 > >>> range(0,100,3).__len__ > > >>> range(0,100,3).__len__

Re: ValueError vs IndexError, unpacking arguments with string.split

2018-12-02 Thread Morten W. Petersen
On Sun, Dec 2, 2018 at 12:49 PM Chris Angelico wrote: > On Sun, Dec 2, 2018 at 10:36 PM Morten W. Petersen > wrote: > > While we're on the subject, I did a test in my Python interpreter: > > > > Python 3.6.7 (default, Oct 22 2018, 11:32:17) > > [GCC 8.2.0] on linux > > Type "help", "copyright",

Re: ValueError vs IndexError, unpacking arguments with string.split

2018-12-02 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sun, Dec 2, 2018 at 10:36 PM Morten W. Petersen wrote: > While we're on the subject, I did a test in my Python interpreter: > > Python 3.6.7 (default, Oct 22 2018, 11:32:17) > [GCC 8.2.0] on linux > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. > >>> range(0,3,100) > ra

Re: ValueError vs IndexError, unpacking arguments with string.split

2018-12-02 Thread Morten W. Petersen
On Sun, Dec 2, 2018 at 2:23 AM Chris Angelico wrote: > On Sun, Dec 2, 2018 at 11:55 AM Morten W. Petersen > wrote: > > > > On Sat, Dec 1, 2018 at 1:11 AM Chris Angelico wrote: > >> > >> On Sat, Dec 1, 2018 at 10:55 AM Morten W. Petersen > wrote: > >> > But this raises the question of how to wr