On 06/04/2013 07:53 AM, Carlos Nepomuceno wrote:
>On 4 Jun 2013 12:28, "Carlos Nepomuceno" wrote:
> [...]
> >> What's going on? Is there a way to make dict() to resolve the
variables?
> >Well yes.
> >dict(**{a:0,b:1})
> >The dict() constructor makes a dictionary from keyword arguments. So
y
On 04/14/2013 02:57 PM, pyth0n3r wrote:
Hi,
> I came across a problem that when i deal with int data with ',' as
thousand separator, such as 12,916, i can not change it into int() or
float().
> How can i remove the comma in int data?
> Any reply will be appreciated!!
>
> Best,
> Chen
>
>
>
I
On 04/12/2013 10:19 AM, Roy Smith wrote:
As part of our initial interview screen, we give applicants some small
coding problems to do. One of the things we see a lot is what you could
call "Java code smell". This is our clue that the person is really a
Java hacker at heart who just dabbles in P
On 04/05/2013 10:04 AM, mattgrav...@gmail.com wrote:
I am using sys to give the effect that I am typing letters slowly. Basically what I want
to have happen is have it show "Loading.." with the word loading appearing
instantly and then the periods appearing slowly, as most loading screens d
On 04/03/2013 09:36 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Although PEP 8 is only compulsory for the Python standard library, many
> users like to stick to PEP 8 for external projects.
>
> http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/
>
> With perhaps one glaring exception: many people hate, or ignore, PEP 8's
On 04/03/2013 09:59 PM, Andrew Berg wrote:
While I agree that not having a line take up hundreds of characters is a
> good thing, 80 is really arbitrary in 2013 and having any self-imposed
> hard limit is silly. When you put a single 4- or 5-character word on a
> new line because you don't want
On 03/29/2013 04:27 AM, Peter Otten wrote:
(2)
> import re
>
> class Matcher:
> def __call__(self, expr, line):
> result = self.match = expr.match(line)
> return result
> def __getattr__(self, name):
> return getattr(self.match, name)
Perhaps it's a little simpl
On 03/27/2013 05:10 AM, Michael Herrmann wrote:
At the very least, for small dialogs it's sipmpler to do:
>> >
>> > with press(CTRL + 's'):
>> > write("test.txt", into="File name")
>> > click("Save")
> I think what the context manager approach really has going for itself
> is the synt
On 03/26/2013 10:59 AM, Michael Herrmann wrote:
On Tuesday, March 26, 2013 2:41:38 PM UTC+1, Mitya Sirenef wrote:
>> ...
>> At the __exit__, further commands are no longer routed to that window;
>> if it was a nested context, window is switched to the outer context,
>>
On 03/26/2013 05:38 AM, Michael Herrmann wrote:
On Tuesday, March 26, 2013 12:40:45 AM UTC+1, Mitya Sirenef wrote:
>> ...
>>
>> I think I would prefer context managers. I don't think it's a big
>> problem for
>> win users because this behaviour woul
On 03/25/2013 03:29 PM, Michael Herrmann wrote:
Hello everyone,
my name is Michael, I'm the lead developer of a Python GUI automation library for Windows
called Automa: http://www.getautoma.com. We want to add some features to our library but
are unsure how to best expose them via our API. It
On 03/16/2013 11:16 AM, Yves S. Garret wrote:
On Saturday, March 16, 2013 11:10:07 AM UTC-4, Mitya Sirenef wrote:
On 03/16/2013 10:53 AM, Yves S. Garret wrote:
Hi all, I'm well into "Python Programming for the Absolute Beginner" in order
to
> become more acquainted
On 03/16/2013 10:53 AM, Yves S. Garret wrote:
Hi all, I'm well into "Python Programming for the Absolute Beginner" in order
to
> become more acquainted with the language. However, when I got to page
304 and
> did my first example:
>
> http://bin.cakephp.org/view/1107093008
>
> And this is the
On 03/10/2013 10:16 AM, Joseph L. Casale wrote:
I have a switch statement composed using a dict:
>
>
> switch = {
> 'a': func_a,
> 'b': func_b,
> 'c': func_c
> }
> switch.get(var, default)()
>
>
> As a result of multiple functions per choice, it migrated to:
>
>
>
> switch = {
> 'a': (func_a1,
On 02/28/2013 10:35 PM, eli m wrote:
So i have a variable called funds that i want to store the value of even after the program is
exited. My funds variable holds the total value of funds i have. I add a
certain number of funds each time i run the program by entering how much
i want to add. Ho
On 02/28/2013 02:47 PM, The Night Tripper wrote:
Hi there
> I'm being very dumb ... how can I simplify this fragment?
>
>
> if arglist:
> arglist.pop(0)
> if arglist:
> self.myparm1 = arglist.pop(0)
> if arglist:
> self.myparm2 = arglist.pop(0)
> if arglist:
> self.myparm3 = arglist.pop(0)
> if
On 02/27/2013 08:22 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
Mitya Sirenef lightbird.net> writes:
>> I think the issue with python documentation is that it ignores the 95/5
>> rule: 95% of people who land on a module's page are only looking for 5%
>> of its information.
>
&
On 02/26/2013 10:09 PM, Mitya Sirenef wrote:
(As a side note, I think it would be better if sections in datetime were
> in separate pages, it would be easier to google and the navbar on the
> left side is very crowded and rather hard to read - often I find myself
> missing stuff
Subject: Re: Do you feel bad because of the Python docs? To:
python-list@python.org Cc:Bcc:
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=# Don't remove this line #=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- On
02/26/2013 09:00 PM, Terry Reedy wrote:
On 2/26/2013 1:58 PM, Mitya Sirenef wrote:
>
>> I think the iss
On 02/26/2013 07:54 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
One week ago, "JoePie91" wrote a blog post challenging the Python
> community and the state of Python documentation, titled:
>
> "The Python documentation is bad, and you should feel bad".
>
> http://joepie91.wordpress.com/2013/02/19/the-python-doc
On 02/24/2013 04:44 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 8:08 AM, Roy Smith wrote:
>> In article ,
>> Chris Angelico wrote:
>>
no need to remember what's an object and what's not -- everything
is an
object
>
> Careful on the citations - Ethan Furman said that, I just
On 02/24/2013 02:40 PM, piterrr.dolin...@gmail.com wrote:
if (some statement): # short form
>>>
>>> rather than
>>>
>>> if (some statement == true): # long form
>>
>>
>> What all those ugly brackets are for?
>>
>
> Mark,
>
> Back in the day when C was king, or take many newer long established
>
On 02/24/2013 01:23 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Sun, 24 Feb 2013 13:09:56 -0500, Mitya Sirenef wrote:
>
>> On 02/24/2013 12:29 PM, Michael Torrie wrote:
>
>> > Another way to explain the double underscore methods is that they are
>> > how things like oper
On 02/24/2013 12:29 PM, Michael Torrie wrote:
> I think he's maintaining existing code. It's unfortunate that his first
> exposure to python is code written by someone else in such a poor style,
> and in a way that definitely isn't pythonic. No wonder he's struggling
> to like python! Though I'
On 02/22/2013 09:18 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Steven D'Aprano
> wrote:
>> On Fri, 22 Feb 2013 20:47:20 -0500, Mitya Sirenef wrote:
>>
>>> It's been used for many important projects by a huge number of big
>>> com
On 02/22/2013 04:37 PM, piterrr.dolin...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks to everyone for all the posts, some friendly some not. I read all of
them with genuine interest.
>
> So I am continuing to learn Python, here are my new observations for
your consideration.
>
> There seems to be a "heated" argu
On 02/22/2013 06:58 AM, Rui Maciel wrote:
Mitya Sirenef wrote:
>
>> Looks very unclear and confusing to me. Whether it's C# or ruby or
>> anything else, most devs don't indent like that;
>
> The Go programming language makes that style mandatory.
>
>
> R
On 02/21/2013 04:26 PM, Piterrr wrote:
Hi folks.
> I am a long time C sharp dev, just learning Python now due to job
> requirements. My initial impression is that Python has got to be the
> most ambiguous and vague language I have seen to date. I have major
> issues with the fact that white spac
On 02/18/2013 10:14 PM, Dave Angel wrote:
On 02/18/2013 09:54 PM, Mitya Sirenef wrote:
>> On 02/18/2013 09:17 PM, Jon Reyes wrote:
>>> Thanks Dave and Mitya for enlightening me about dictionaries. I'm
>>> still confused about this though:
>> >
>> &
On 02/18/2013 09:17 PM, Jon Reyes wrote:
Thanks Dave and Mitya for enlightening me about dictionaries. I'm still
confused about this though:
>
> " so that if two
> key objects are equal, they stay equal, and if they differ, they stay
> different. "
>
> What does this mean? I won't be comparing
On 02/18/2013 08:38 PM, Jon Reyes wrote:
Hi Mark. Well, doesn't iteritems() work the same? or am I missing something? By the way I'm
sure I read the dictionaries part of Python but I'm unsure if it would
take int's as a key for dictionaries. I've been weaned on Java where the
keys of hashmaps
On 02/18/2013 07:52 PM, Jon Reyes wrote:
So I have a dictionary and the key is a number. The values are either a single tuple or a tuple of
tuples. Is there a better way to go about accessing the values of the
dictionary? All the tuples contain four elements.
>
> So say:
> col = {"1": (0,1,2,3
On 02/15/2013 10:57 PM, eli m wrote:
On Friday, February 15, 2013 7:52:57 PM UTC-8, Mitya Sirenef wrote:
On 02/15/2013 10:22 PM, eli m wrote:
Any small program ideas? I would prefer to stick to command line ones. Thanks.
How about these two:
- simulation of a street crossing with
On 02/15/2013 10:22 PM, eli m wrote:
Any small program ideas? I would prefer to stick to command line ones. Thanks.
How about these two:
- simulation of a street crossing with green/red lights allowing cars
and pedestrians to pass in one direction then another
- simulation of an elevator
On 02/10/2013 05:44 PM, ISE Development wrote:
Is it considered acceptable practice (e.g. not confusing, not
> surprising or not Pythonic) to allow multiple ways to access
> the same attributes?
>
> For example, supposing I am providing access to external
> devices, that these parameters may va
On 01/29/2013 09:55 PM, Daniel W. Rouse Jr. wrote:
Hi all,
>
> I have recently started learning Python (2.7.3) but need a better
explanation of how to use tuples and dictionaries.
>
> I am currently using "Learning Python" by Mark Lutz and David Ascher,
published by O'Reilly (ISBN 1-56592-464
On 01/28/2013 09:09 PM, iMath wrote:
what is the difference between commenting and uncommenting the __init__ method
in this class?
>
>
> class CounterList(list):
> counter = 0
>
> ## def __init__(self, *args):
> ## super(CounterList, self).__init__(*args)
>
> def __getitem__(self, index):
>
>
On 01/27/2013 03:24 PM, Κώστας Παπαδόπουλος wrote:
Τη Κυριακή, 27 Ιανουαρίου 2013 9:12:16 μ.μ. UTC+2, ο χρήστης ru...@yahoo.com
έγραψε:
>>
>
> Yes indeed, there is no need to use a loop since i know the exact
number of items i'am expecting. Thanks you very much for clarifying this
to me:
>
On 01/22/2013 12:33 PM, rusi wrote:
On Jan 22, 8:59 pm, Ferrous Cranus wrote:
>> I just need a way to CONVERT a string(absolute path) to a 4-digit
unique number with INT!!!
>> That's all i want!! But i cannot make it work :(
>
> I just need a way to eat my soup with a screwdriver.
> No I WONT
On 01/21/2013 06:30 AM, Franck Ditter wrote:
In article ,
> Mitya Sirenef wrote:
>
>> > - To use the software outside Python, we need to have proper
indentation
>> > as real spaces. We should be able to distinguish Arial type for usual
>> > text and fixed f
On 01/21/2013 03:07 AM, Franck Ditter wrote:
Ok I can make my way with jstmovie. Some remarks and questions :
>
> - Use encoding='utf-8' inside open of method __init__ of class Tutorial
> in jstmovie.py. Otherwise foreign languages are stuck.
>
Thanks, will fix this.. -m
--
Lark's Tongue Gu
On 01/21/2013 03:07 AM, Franck Ditter wrote:
Ok I can make my way with jstmovie. Some remarks and questions :
>
> - Use encoding='utf-8' inside open of method __init__ of class Tutorial
> in jstmovie.py. Otherwise foreign languages are stuck.
>
> - To use the software outside Python, we need to
On 01/21/2013 02:30 AM, rusi wrote:
On Jan 13, 12:08 pm, Mitya Sirenef wrote:
>> Sure: they play back a list of instructions on use of string methods and
>> list comprehensions along with demonstration in a mock-up of the
>> interpreter with a different display effect for c
On 01/20/2013 11:59 PM, eli m wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> Your else is lined up with while, not with if.
>>
>>
>>
>> -m
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Lark's Tongue Guide to Python: http://lightbird.net/larks/
>>
>>
>>
>> When a friend succeeds, I die a little. Gore Vidal
> Its lined up. It got messed up wh
On 01/20/2013 11:40 PM, eli m wrote:
an else statement is running when it shouldnt be. It is on the last line. Whenever i am in the math
or game function, when i type in main, it goes back to the start of the
program, but it also says not a valid function. I am stumped!
> Here is my code:
> #C
On 01/20/2013 09:24 PM, alex23 wrote:
On Jan 21, 9:32 am, Dave Angel wrote:
>> On 01/20/2013 06:14 PM, alex23 wrote:
>>
>>> On Jan 20, 7:23 pm, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 8:17 PM, iMath wrote:
> so what is your opinion about single leading underscore and
private
On 01/20/2013 05:04 PM, Garry wrote:
I'm trying to manipulate family tree data using Python.
I'm using linux and Python 2.7.3 and have data files saved as Linux formatted
cvs files
The data appears in this format:
Marriage,Husband,Wife,Date,Place,Source,Note0x0a
Note: the Source field or the No
On 01/20/2013 12:54 PM, Franck Ditter wrote:
In article ,
> Franck Ditter wrote:
>
>> In article ,
>> Franck Ditter wrote:
>>
>>> In article ,
>>> Mitya Sirenef wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 01/19/2013 04:32 AM, Franck Ditter wrote:
>&
On 01/19/2013 05:13 AM, Santosh Kumar wrote:
I have a working script which takes argv[1] as an input, deassembles
each line, and then each word. Then after it capitalizes all its word
(upcases the first letter) and then prints it out on the stdout.
That script does the capitalization work fine,
On 01/19/2013 04:32 AM, Franck Ditter wrote:
In article ,
Mitya Sirenef wrote:
On 01/14/2013 01:34 AM, Franck Ditter wrote:
In article ,
Jason Friedman wrote:
That is right; I would also add that it may be overwhelming for a newbie
to be reading through a large "wall of text&quo
On 01/19/2013 02:35 AM, Mitya Sirenef wrote:
On 01/19/2013 02:27 AM, Vito De Tullio wrote:
Chris Rebert wrote:
How can I add a key in a thread-safe manner?
I'm not entirely sure, but have you investigated dict.setdefault() ?
but how setdefault makes sense in this context? It's use
On 01/19/2013 02:27 AM, Vito De Tullio wrote:
Chris Rebert wrote:
How can I add a key in a thread-safe manner?
I'm not entirely sure, but have you investigated dict.setdefault() ?
but how setdefault makes sense in this context? It's used to set a default
value when you try to retrieve an elem
On 01/14/2013 01:34 AM, Franck Ditter wrote:
In article ,
Jason Friedman wrote:
That is right; I would also add that it may be overwhelming for a newbie
to be reading through a large "wall of text" -- here you have blank
space after the current paragraph so the attention is focused even more
On 01/13/2013 07:45 AM, subhabangal...@gmail.com wrote:
Dear Group,
I have a list like,
list1=[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12]
Now, if I want to take a slice of it, I can.
It may be done in,
list2=list1[:3]
print list2
[1, 2, 3]
If I want to iterate the list, I may do as,
for i in list1:
On 01/13/2013 02:28 AM, Terry Reedy wrote:
On 1/13/2013 2:08 AM, Mitya Sirenef wrote:
>> On 01/13/2013 01:35 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>>> On Sun, 13 Jan 2013 00:11:53 -0500, AK wrote:
>> >
>> >> I don't know what to call these, so for now I
On 01/13/2013 01:35 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Sun, 13 Jan 2013 00:11:53 -0500, AK wrote:
>
>> I don't know what to call these, so for now I'll call them "training
>> text movies" until I come up with a better name..
>>
>> I hope these will be helpful, especially to new students of Python.
>
On 01/11/2013 09:24 AM, Matt Jones wrote:
Pay isn't linked to the "people" in any way. A dictionary would serve
this purpose better (at least in this simple example).
database = {
'Mac' : 1000,
'Sam' : 2000
}
name = raw_input('Enter your name:')
if name in database.keys(): print "your
On Wed 09 Jan 2013 09:20:10 PM EST, andydtay...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks for your help guys.
I was actually doing a few things wrong, but I have got this script to work by
declaring fields as varchar and all values as strings. But I would like to log
journey time values in hours/minutes, so I w
On Wed 09 Jan 2013 07:19:10 PM EST, andydtay...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi John,
He're the code I would like to see work. The cursor_to is an oversight. I
extracted this element from some other code in an attempt to isolate/resolve
the problem myself, hence having a simplified table version. Which wo
On Wed 09 Jan 2013 03:23:56 AM EST, skyworld wrote:
Hi,
I see someone's code as this:
class ABC:
def __init__(self, env):
...
self.jmpTable['batchQ']['submit_job'] = self.lsf_submit
...
def lsf_submit(self, cmd,env):
.
what co
On Tue 08 Jan 2013 07:19:59 PM EST, andydtay...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi!
I might be missing the obvious, or I may have found something more complicated
than the VBA I am used to. Could it be I need to use a maths library?
For a given list of k items I'd like to turn it into an k*k matrix of item
On Sun 06 Jan 2013 04:53:32 PM EST, andydtay...@gmail.com wrote:
Wow it's as simple as that! I'm afraid my database experience is in Microsoft
Access in Windows and not at the command line, so that wasn't intuitive for me.
Thanks again,
Andy
IIRC I made the same mistake when I was using psy
On Sun 06 Jan 2013 04:38:29 PM EST, andydtay...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
I'm trying to create a process which will create a new table and populate it.
But something is preventing this from working, and I don't know enough to
figure it out, despite having spent most of today reading up. The cod
On 01/06/2013 01:32 AM, Mitya Sirenef wrote:
On 01/05/2013 03:35 AM, Sia wrote:
I have strings such as:
>
> tA.-2AG.-2AG,-2ag
> or
> .+3ACG.+5CAACG.+3ACG.+3ACG
>
> The plus and minus signs are always followed by a number (say, i). I
want python to find each single plus or
On 01/05/2013 03:35 AM, Sia wrote:
I have strings such as:
>
> tA.-2AG.-2AG,-2ag
> or
> .+3ACG.+5CAACG.+3ACG.+3ACG
>
> The plus and minus signs are always followed by a number (say, i). I
want python to find each single plus or minus, remove the sign, the
number after it and remove i character
On 01/03/2013 07:43 PM, Kene Meniru wrote:
Mitya Sirenef wrote:
That's what I thought, just wanted to confirm.
However, if your objective to make it as easy for the user as possible,
is it not easier to bind dining to a name and then do this?:
dining.move(x, y, z)
Absolutely. I just
On 01/03/2013 07:08 PM, Kene Meniru wrote:
LinearSide.put("Dining", (x,y,z)) # moves 'Dining' to x,y,z location
The put function of the LinearSide boundary class finds "Dining" (which is
an entity class called LinearSideData) in the dictionary and then allows
this LinearSideData class to calcul
On 01/03/2013 02:30 PM, Kene Meniru wrote:
Mitya Sirenef wrote:
>
>>
>> I'm not familiar with POV-Ray. I want to note that with python standard
>> style, class names look like this: ClassName, instances look like this:
>> instance_name; it sounds like you want
On 01/03/2013 07:53 AM, Kene Meniru wrote:
Mitya Sirenef wrote:
>
>
>> So, how many instances do you want to make.. what kind of different
>> functionality / properties they will have?
>>
>> - mitya
>>
>
> I am porting a modeling system I created
On 01/03/2013 12:32 AM, Kene Meniru wrote:
Mitya Sirenef wrote:
>
>
>>
>> Where is snap_size from? Where is LinearMark from? You don't need to
>> instantiate LinearMark in B, do it in A.
>>
>
> I want to hide as much of the python syntax from the fil
On 01/02/2013 11:32 PM, Kene Meniru wrote:
This sounds so simple but being new to python I am finding it hard to get
> started. I want to create a module which I will call "B". There will be
> other modules called "C", "D", etc, which will most likely be
imported in
> "B". Then I want the user
On 01/02/2013 10:17 PM, Wayne Werner wrote:
On Tue, 1 Jan 2013, Mitya Sirenef wrote:
On 01/01/2013 02:02 PM, Roy Smith wrote:
That's true with Vim, as well, especially when I'm making a custom
mapping and I can NEVER remember what some combination does, even though
if I actually nee
On 01/02/2013 04:33 PM, Michael Torrie wrote:
On 01/01/2013 11:43 AM, Mitya Sirenef wrote:
>> Therefore, deleting 3 WORDs is 3daW (mnemonic: del a WORD 3 times).
>
> Interesting. I typically use just d3w. 3daW seems to delete 3 lines
> for me, the same result as d3. Another favo
On 01/01/2013 02:02 PM, Roy Smith wrote:
In article ,
> Mitya Sirenef wrote:
>
>> Clunky is the last word I'd use to describe it (ok maybe for Emacs :-)
>> I probably remember about 200 commands, plus or minus, but a lot of them
>> fit into a consistent scheme wh
On 12/31/2012 10:46 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Sat, 29 Dec 2012 14:00:23 -0500, Mitya Sirenef wrote:
>
>> I think the general idea is that with editors like Vim you don't get
>> distracted by having to do some kind of an editor task, letting you keep
>> your f
On 12/31/2012 08:30 PM, worldsbiggestsabres...@gmail.com wrote:
Here is what I've learned:
1) There's a bunch of extremely helpful and wonderful people here.
2) There's a bunch of very intelligent people here.
3) I still don't have any idea what I'm doing.
4) It's New Year's Eve and I'm tryin
On 12/31/2012 07:29 PM, Mitya Sirenef wrote:
Hi! First I want to note that this task would be easier and better to do
with a break statement, so it's quite unfortunate that the teacher did
not cover the right tools (and very basic ones, in fact) and yet given
this task.
Another question
On 12/31/2012 06:42 PM, worldsbiggestsabres...@gmail.com wrote:
Hey :)
>
> I'm trying to help my son with an assignment and spending hours
making an inch of progress. I know nothing about programming and I'm
trying to learn, on my own, at a rate faster than possible. I would love
a little hel
On 12/29/2012 05:30 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
"In the big for loop, a couple of lines down, no, not there, the other
>for loop, yeah, now go down a couple of lines, no that's too far, back
>up one. Yeah there. On that line, why do you ..."
>
>with:
>
>"On line 647, why do you ..."
Absolutely!
On 12/29/2012 04:52 PM, Roy Smith wrote:
"In the big for loop, a couple of lines down, no, not there, the other
> for loop, yeah, now go down a couple of lines, no that's too far, back
> up one. Yeah there. On that line, why do you ..."
>
> with:
>
> "On line 647, why do you ..."
It's even be
On 12/29/2012 03:15 PM, Joel Goldstick wrote:
On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Mitya Sirenef <mailto:msire...@lightbird.net>> wrote:
On 12/29/2012 03:01 PM, Mitya Sirenef wrote:
On 12/29/2012 02:48 PM, Quint Rankid wrote:
>> Newbie question. I've
On 12/29/2012 03:50 PM, Morten Engvoldsen wrote:
Hi Dave,
> It is able to log the message with:
> logger.debug("value of payment_line is " +repr(payment_line))
>
> The output is:
> value of payment_line is []
>
> So it means payment_line is an empty list, so may be it could be
reason it's not a
On 12/29/2012 03:01 PM, Mitya Sirenef wrote:
On 12/29/2012 02:48 PM, Quint Rankid wrote:
>> Newbie question. I've googled a little and haven't found the answer.
>>
>> Given a list like:
>> w = [1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 4, 4, 5, 6, 1]
>> I would like to be able to
On 12/29/2012 02:48 PM, Quint Rankid wrote:
Newbie question. I've googled a little and haven't found the answer.
Given a list like:
w = [1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 4, 4, 5, 6, 1]
I would like to be able to do the following as a dict comprehension.
a = {}
for x in w:
a[x] = a.get(x,0) + 1
results in a
On 12/29/2012 12:44 PM, Monte Milanuk wrote:
Maybe its because I'm still just a hobbyist when it comes to coding, but I spend far more time
'thinking' about what I'm doing than typing things in... so shaving a
few seconds here and there are less important to me.
I think the general idea is t
On 12/28/2012 01:05 PM, Mitya Sirenef wrote:
On 12/28/2012 12:55 PM, Mitya Sirenef wrote:
>> On 12/28/2012 12:33 PM, alankrin...@gmail.com wrote:
>>> I think 396 just comes from the end of the Python loop, without
indicating which line in the loop is
>> at issue.
>&
On 12/28/2012 12:55 PM, Mitya Sirenef wrote:
On 12/28/2012 12:33 PM, alankrin...@gmail.com wrote:
I think 396 just comes from the end of the Python loop, without
indicating which line in the loop is
at issue.
>
> Here is the full code from this section of the loop:
>
>
> f
On 12/28/2012 12:33 PM, alankrin...@gmail.com wrote:
I think 396 just comes from the end of the Python loop, without indicating which line in the loop is
at issue.
>
> Here is the full code from this section of the loop:
>
>
> for (
> msr, brk, dmn, src, dspd1, dspd2, dspd3, dspd4, dspd5, dspd6
On 12/27/2012 03:26 AM, Abhas Bhattacharya wrote:
On Thursday, 27 December 2012 13:33:34 UTC+5:30, Mitya Sirenef wrote:
How about defining a function that prints value and then calls a function?
def call(func_name):
print(mydict[func_name])
globals()[func_name]()
You could
On 12/27/2012 02:45 AM, Abhas Bhattacharya wrote:
On Thursday, 27 December 2012 10:22:15 UTC+5:30, Tim Roberts wrote:
Abhas Bhattacharya wrote:
While I am defining a function, how can I access the name (separately as
string as well as object) of the function without explicitly naming
it(hard
On 12/26/2012 10:09 PM, Gnarlodious wrote:
This is problem that has unduly vexed me. When you start learning
Python they don't tell you about these sharp edges. Someone needs to
explain. -- Gnarlie
In fact, if there were no bugs, there would be no need to explain nor to
pick the
right time
On 12/26/2012 08:23 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Mitya Sirenef wrote:
I have to agree - I saw that howto as well and it occurred to me
that if we have to delete blank lines manually we might
as well use postal pigeons with tiny little papyrus scrolls -
at least
On 12/26/2012 08:00 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Joshua Landau
wrote:
FINALLY:
When you use Google Groups, your quotations look to us like this:
This is something I said
with lots of extra
lines in the middle
for no reason. Google
Groups sucks, basically.
S
On 12/26/2012 07:04 PM, bobflipperdoo...@gmail.com wrote:
First, sorry for starting a new post - I didn't want anyone to have to read
through the whole first one when the questions were completely different :/
Second, I honestly have no idea how to answer your questions. I am a sophomore
in h
On 12/26/2012 06:21 PM, bobflipperdoo...@gmail.com wrote:
Thank you very much for your reply. I actually just deleted this post as you
were replying! I had figured out a few things and then got confused about a
few others :/ If you have a chance, can you look at the other post? Thank
you!!
On 12/26/2012 04:40 PM, bobflipperdoo...@gmail.com wrote:
I really hope you can help!
I need to create a program where the user can order any combination and quantity of 3 products. I then offer a 10% discount if the customer correctly answers a trivia question. After that, there are 3 choice
On 12/26/2012 01:17 AM, Kevin Anthony wrote:
Hello,
I'm writing a file processing script(Linux), and i would like to have
a progress bar. But i would also like to be able to print messages.
Is there a simple way of doing this without implementing something
like ncurses?
--
Thanks
Kevin Ant
On 12/23/2012 08:46 AM, KarlE wrote:
On Saturday, December 22, 2012 9:36:41 PM UTC+1, KarlE wrote:
Hi!
Im totally new to Python, and im using it on my Raspberry pi. I found a program
that sends an email, and one that checks the temperature of my CPU, but i cant
seem to combine the to into t
On 12/21/2012 03:52 AM, Duncan Booth wrote:
Mitya Sirenef wrote:
On 12/21/2012 12:23 AM, iMath wrote:
Pass and return
Are these two functions the same ?
def test():
return
def test():
pass
From the point of style, of course, the latter is
much better because that'
On 12/21/2012 12:23 AM, iMath wrote:
Pass and return
Are these two functions the same ?
def test():
return
def test():
pass
From the point of style, of course, the latter is
much better because that's the idiomatic way
to define a no-op function. With a return, it
looks li
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