Re: Newbie getting desperate with for

2011-02-18 Thread Werner
On 18/02/11 07:29, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 18Feb2011 08:40, I wrote: > | On 17Feb2011 18:40, Alister Ware wrote: > | | On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 16:42:05 +0800, Werner wrote: > | | > On 17/02/11 16:39, Chris Rebert wrote: > | | >> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 12:27 AM, Werner wrote: > | | >>> I have a t

Re: Newbie getting desperate with for

2011-02-18 Thread Noah Hall
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 4:54 PM, Michael Torrie wrote: > On 02/17/2011 04:10 PM, Werner wrote: > Just for your information, your code is the equivalent of: > > while True: >    temp = range(2000) > > The for loop does absolutely nothing in your case.  After the range is > computed, the for loo

Re: Newbie getting desperate with for

2011-02-18 Thread Michael Torrie
On 02/17/2011 09:15 PM, Larry Hudson wrote: > A true time waster indeed -- it's an infinite loop that will _never_ end. > > Others have already about the need of the shebang line to run as a python > script, but I'm > surprised no one mentioned how truly useless this code is. > > The i = 0 line

Re: Newbie getting desperate with for

2011-02-18 Thread Michael Torrie
On 02/17/2011 04:10 PM, Werner wrote: > It is meant to put load on a CPU, RAM and disk (swap). The code now > looks like this: > #!/usr/bin/python > while True: > i = 0 > for i in range(2000): > break Just for your information, your code is the equivalent of: while True: t

Re: Newbie getting desperate with for

2011-02-17 Thread Larry Hudson
On 02/17/2011 12:27 AM, Werner wrote: I have a trivially simple piece of code called timewaster.py: while True: i = 0 for i in range(10): break _ It runs fine with Eric bu

Re: Newbie getting desperate with for

2011-02-17 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 18Feb2011 08:40, I wrote: | On 17Feb2011 18:40, Alister Ware wrote: | | On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 16:42:05 +0800, Werner wrote: | | > On 17/02/11 16:39, Chris Rebert wrote: | | >> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 12:27 AM, Werner wrote: | | >>> I have a trivially simple piece of code called timewaster.py: |

Re: Newbie getting desperate with for

2011-02-17 Thread Werner
On 18/02/11 02:40, Alister Ware wrote: > On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 16:42:05 +0800, Werner wrote: > >> On 17/02/11 16:39, Chris Rebert wrote: >>> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 12:27 AM, Werner wrote: I have a trivially simple piece of code called timewaster.py: __

Re: Newbie getting desperate with for

2011-02-17 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 17Feb2011 18:40, Alister Ware wrote: | On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 16:42:05 +0800, Werner wrote: | | > On 17/02/11 16:39, Chris Rebert wrote: | >> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 12:27 AM, Werner wrote: | >>> I have a trivially simple piece of code called timewaster.py: | >>>

Re: Newbie getting desperate with for

2011-02-17 Thread Alister Ware
On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 16:42:05 +0800, Werner wrote: > On 17/02/11 16:39, Chris Rebert wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 12:27 AM, Werner wrote: >>> I have a trivially simple piece of code called timewaster.py: >>> >>> >>> while True: >>>i = 0

Re: Newbie getting desperate with for

2011-02-17 Thread Werner
On 17/02/11 16:39, Chris Rebert wrote: > On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 12:27 AM, Werner wrote: >> I have a trivially simple piece of code called timewaster.py: >> >> >> while True: >>i = 0 >>for i in range(10): >>break >> _

Re: Newbie getting desperate with for

2011-02-17 Thread Chris Rebert
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 12:27 AM, Werner wrote: > I have a trivially simple piece of code called timewaster.py: > > > while True: >    i = 0 >    for i in range(10): >        break > _ > > It r

Re: Newbie getting desperate with for

2011-02-17 Thread Nitin Pawar
can you share the first line of your shell (shabang) ? I think you have forgotten to tell the shell which interpreter to use if you have not put #!/usr/bin/python then its plain shell script which is incorrect On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Werner wrote: > I have a trivially simple piece o

Newbie getting desperate with for

2011-02-17 Thread Werner
I have a trivially simple piece of code called timewaster.py: while True: i = 0 for i in range(10): break _ It runs fine with Eric but when I try to run it from shell... > ./ti