Re: Controlling the passing of data

2016-04-29 Thread Sayth Renshaw
> because a set avoids duplicates. If you say "I want to document my > achievements for posterity" I would recommend that you print to a file > rather than append to a list and the original code could be changed to > > with open("somefile") as f: > for achievement in my_achievements: >

Re: Controlling the passing of data

2016-04-29 Thread Peter Otten
Sayth Renshaw wrote: > >> >> Your actual problem is drowned in too much source code. Can you restate >> it in English, optionally with a few small snippets of Python? >> >> It is not even clear what the code you provide should accomplish once >> it's running as desired. >> >> To give at least

Re: Controlling the passing of data

2016-04-29 Thread Peter Otten
Sayth Renshaw wrote: > >> >> Your actual problem is drowned in too much source code. Can you restate >> it in English, optionally with a few small snippets of Python? >> >> It is not even clear what the code you provide should accomplish once >> it's running as desired. >> >> To give at least

Re: Controlling the passing of data

2016-04-28 Thread Sayth Renshaw
On Friday, 29 April 2016 01:19:28 UTC+10, Dan Strohl wrote: > If I am reading this correctly... you have something like (you will have to > excuse my lack of knowledge about what kinds of information these actually > are): > > > 1234 > first > > > 5678 > second > > > > And

RE: Controlling the passing of data

2016-04-28 Thread Dan Strohl via Python-list
meeting_list.append((id, meeting)) > -Original Message- > From: Python-list [mailto:python-list-bounces+d.strohl=f5@python.org] > On Behalf Of Sayth Renshaw > Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2016 7:00 AM > To: python-list@python.org > Subject: Re: Controlling the passin

Re: Controlling the passing of data

2016-04-28 Thread Rustom Mody
On Thursday, April 28, 2016 at 8:11:26 PM UTC+5:30, Dan Strohl wrote: > In addition to Peter's points, > - I would suggest breaking out the list comprehensions into standard for > loops and/or functions. That makes it easier to read and troubleshoot. (you > can always re-optimize It if needed.

RE: Controlling the passing of data

2016-04-28 Thread Dan Strohl via Python-list
r your problem. Dan Strohl > -Original Message- > From: Python-list [mailto:python-list-bounces+d.strohl=f5....@python.org] > On Behalf Of Peter Otten > Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2016 6:40 AM > To: python-list@python.org > Subject: Re: Controlling the passing of data >

Re: Controlling the passing of data

2016-04-28 Thread Sayth Renshaw
> > Your actual problem is drowned in too much source code. Can you restate it > in English, optionally with a few small snippets of Python? > > It is not even clear what the code you provide should accomplish once it's > running as desired. > > To give at least one code-related advice: You

Re: Controlling the passing of data

2016-04-28 Thread Peter Otten
Sayth Renshaw wrote: > In my file here I needed to traverse and modify the XML file I don't want > to restore it or put it in a new variable or other format I just want to > alter it and let it flow onto the list comprehensions as they were. That looks like an arbitrary limitation to me. It's a b

Controlling the passing of data

2016-04-28 Thread Sayth Renshaw
Hi This file contains my biggest roadblock with programming and that's the abstract nature of needing to pass data from one thing to the next. In my file here I needed to traverse and modify the XML file I don't want to restore it or put it in a new variable or other format I just want to alter