Re: Learning Python: Code critique please

2008-06-22 Thread William McBrine
On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 08:44:25 -0500, Saul Spatz wrote: > macoovacany wrote: >> http://macoovacany.wordpress.com/ > When I tried to run it, I got all kinds of syntax errors because of > non-ASCII characters; namely, you have fancy left and right single and > double quotes. That's probably WordPress

Re: Learning Python: Code critique please

2008-06-22 Thread Saul Spatz
macoovacany wrote: http://macoovacany.wordpress.com/ When I tried to run it, I got all kinds of syntax errors because of non-ASCII characters; namely, you have fancy left and right single and double quotes. Once I replaced these with the ASCII equivalents, it worked fine. I suggest you use a

Re: Learning Python: Code critique please

2008-06-21 Thread macoovacany
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Learning Python: Code critique please

2008-06-20 Thread macoovacany
Hello all, I'm trying to learn various programming languages (I did MATLAB at uni), and have decided to start with Python. The programming exercises are derived from Larry O'brien's http://www.knowing.net/ PermaLink,guid,f3b9ba36-848e-43f8-9caa-232ec216192d.aspx">15 Programming Exercises . First