On Mon, 06 Oct 2014 22:06:09 -0400, Seymore4Head wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Oct 2014 01:46:37 + (UTC), Denis McMahon
> wrote:
>
>>On Sun, 05 Oct 2014 19:02:31 -0400, Seymore4Head wrote:
>>
>>> For the record, I don't want a hint. I want the answer.
>>>
On Wednesday, October 8, 2014 9:58:11 PM UTC+5:30, Skip Montanaro wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 11:14 AM, Rustom Mody wrote:
> > So pushing beginners away from print can push them up the learning
> > curve more quickly
> Or more quickly discourage them. I still use print for all sorts of
> thin
On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 11:14 AM, Rustom Mody wrote:
> So pushing beginners away from print can push them up the learning
> curve more quickly
Or more quickly discourage them. I still use print for all sorts of
things. In my opinion, there is often no need for fancy loggers,
str.format, or the wri
On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 3:14 AM, Rustom Mody wrote:
> The issue is not only that print is bad but that the interpreter is
> good for learning and trying out.
>
> Are these two really unconnected. Lets see... One can
>
> - use print without the interpreter
> - use the interpreter without print
> - u
On Tuesday, October 7, 2014 2:19:39 AM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> I have fewer issues with your conclusion and analogy than I do with the
> basic premise that there is a connection between Seymore's problem here
> and the use, or non-use, of print in the interactive interpreter. I don't
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>>With two numbers, 15 and 30, all you really need is five test cases:
My solution assumed integers also, but after I posted it, I thought:
"What about floating points?"
On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 1:48 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Sun, 05 Oct 2014 20:18:13 -0400, Seymore4He
On Sun, 05 Oct 2014 20:18:13 -0400, Seymore4Head wrote:
> I think I get it now. You are using a sample of answers. So you could
> actually just run through them all. (I haven't tried this yet)
>
> for x in range(lo,hi)
> print((15 <= x < 30) == (15<= x and x <30))
Yes, except using print
On Sun, 05 Oct 2014 20:07:50 -0400, Seymore4Head wrote:
> Here is the exact question, I was trying to post something similar. I
> failed.
>
> http://i.imgur.com/iUGh4xf.jpg
Please don't post screen shots if you can avoid it. You almost certainly
can copy and paste the text from the web page. A
On Tue, 7 Oct 2014 01:46:37 + (UTC), Denis McMahon
wrote:
>On Sun, 05 Oct 2014 19:02:31 -0400, Seymore4Head wrote:
>
>> For the record, I don't want a hint. I want the answer.
>> I see a practice question is similar to this.
>> 15 <= x < 30 And it
On Sun, 05 Oct 2014 19:02:31 -0400, Seymore4Head wrote:
> For the record, I don't want a hint. I want the answer.
> I see a practice question is similar to this.
> 15 <= x < 30 And it wants a similar expression that is equivalent.
I think part of the problem here is that
> On Oct 6, 2014, at 4:49 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 06 Oct 2014 10:05:40 -0700, Rustom Mody wrote:
>>
>>> On Monday, October 6, 2014 10:22:27 PM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 3:23 AM, Rustom Mody wrote:
Consider the sequence:
1. Drives on th
On Mon, 06 Oct 2014 10:05:40 -0700, Rustom Mody wrote:
> On Monday, October 6, 2014 10:22:27 PM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 3:23 AM, Rustom Mody wrote:
>> > Consider the sequence:
>> > 1. Drives on the wrong side of the road 2. Has no clue that there's
>> > such a con
On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 4:05 AM, Rustom Mody wrote:
> On Monday, October 6, 2014 10:22:27 PM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 3:23 AM, Rustom Mody wrote:
>> > Consider the sequence:
>> > 1. Drives on the wrong side of the road
>> > 2. Has no clue that there's such a concept
On Monday, October 6, 2014 10:22:27 PM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 3:23 AM, Rustom Mody wrote:
> > Consider the sequence:
> > 1. Drives on the wrong side of the road
> > 2. Has no clue that there's such a concept as 'wrong side of road'
> > 3. Teaches people to drive wi
On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 3:23 AM, Rustom Mody wrote:
> Consider the sequence:
>
> 1. Drives on the wrong side of the road
> 2. Has no clue that there's such a concept as 'wrong side of road'
> 3. Teaches people to drive without conveying anything about 'wrong side of
> road'
>
> Hopefully you will
On Monday, October 6, 2014 6:34:27 PM UTC+5:30, Skip Montanaro wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 9:47 PM, Rustom Mody wrote:
> > Sorry Seymore if this sounds condescending -- its not a complaint
> > against you but against those who treat the print statement/expression as
> > kosher for newbies.
>
On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 9:47 PM, Rustom Mody wrote:
> Sorry Seymore if this sounds condescending -- its not a complaint
> against you but against those who treat the print statement/expression as
> kosher for newbies.
So if you're not griping about Seymore's original post, are you
griping about my
14 wrote:
> On 10/5/14 7:02 PM, Seymore4Head wrote:
>>
>> For the record, I don't want a hint. I want the answer.
>> I see a practice question is similar to this.
>> 15 <= x < 30 And it wants a similar expression that is equivalent.
>> So the right
On Monday, October 6, 2014 5:04:11 AM UTC+5:30, Skip Montanaro wrote:
> On Oct 5, 2014 6:07 PM, Seymore4Head wrote:
> > For the record, I don't want a hint. I want the answer.
> > I see a practice question is similar to this.
> > 15 <= x < 30 And it wants a simil
On 10/5/14 8:07 PM, Seymore4Head wrote:
On Sun, 05 Oct 2014 19:14:27 -0400, Ned Batchelder
wrote:
On 10/5/14 7:02 PM, Seymore4Head wrote:
For the record, I don't want a hint. I want the answer.
I see a practice question is similar to this.
15 <= x < 30 And it wants a similar
On Sun, 05 Oct 2014 19:47:40 -0400, Terry Reedy
wrote:
>On 10/5/2014 7:02 PM, Seymore4Head wrote:
>> For the record, I don't want a hint. I want the answer.
>> I see a practice question is similar to this.
>> 15 <= x < 30 And it wants a similar expression tha
On Sun, 05 Oct 2014 19:14:27 -0400, Ned Batchelder
wrote:
>On 10/5/14 7:02 PM, Seymore4Head wrote:
>> For the record, I don't want a hint. I want the answer.
>> I see a practice question is similar to this.
>> 15 <= x < 30 And it wants a similar expression tha
On 10/5/2014 7:02 PM, Seymore4Head wrote:
For the record, I don't want a hint. I want the answer.
I see a practice question is similar to this.
15 <= x < 30 And it wants a similar expression that is equivalent.
So the right answer is 15<= x or x <30
but one of the other answe
On Oct 5, 2014 6:07 PM, "Seymore4Head" wrote:
>
> For the record, I don't want a hint. I want the answer.
> I see a practice question is similar to this.
> 15 <= x < 30 And it wants a similar expression that is equivalent.
Maybe
30 > x >= 15
On 10/5/14 7:02 PM, Seymore4Head wrote:
For the record, I don't want a hint. I want the answer.
I see a practice question is similar to this.
15 <= x < 30 And it wants a similar expression that is equivalent.
So the right answer is 15<= x or x <30
No, "15 <= x < 3
In article ,
Seymore4Head wrote:
> For the record, I don't want a hint. I want the answer.
42.
--
https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
For the record, I don't want a hint. I want the answer.
I see a practice question is similar to this.
15 <= x < 30 And it wants a similar expression that is equivalent.
So the right answer is 15<= x or x <30
but one of the other answers is
not (15<= x and x <30)
But i
- Original Message -
>
> [...]
> > By the way, did someone ever notice that r'\' fails ? I'm sure
> > there's a
> > reason for that... (python 2.5) Anyone knows ?
> >
> > r'\'
> > SyntaxError: EOL while scanning single-quoted string
> >
> >
> "Even in a raw string, string quotes can be e
On 02/05/2013 11:53 AM, Joel Goldstick wrote:
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 11:40 AM, Anthony Correia wrote:
On Tuesday, February 5, 2013 10:17:54 AM UTC-5, pytho...@tim.thechases.comwrote:
On Tue, 5 Feb 2013 15:32:32 +0100 (CET), Jean-Michel Pichavant wrote:
By the way, did someone ever notice tha
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 11:40 AM, Anthony Correia wrote:
> On Tuesday, February 5, 2013 10:17:54 AM UTC-5,
> pytho...@tim.thechases.comwrote:
> > On Tue, 5 Feb 2013 15:32:32 +0100 (CET), Jean-Michel Pichavant wrote:
> >
> > > By the way, did someone ever notice that r'\' fails ? I'm sure
> >
> > >
On Tuesday, February 5, 2013 10:17:54 AM UTC-5, pytho...@tim.thechases.com
wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Feb 2013 15:32:32 +0100 (CET), Jean-Michel Pichavant wrote:
>
> > By the way, did someone ever notice that r'\' fails ? I'm sure
>
> > there's a reason for that... (python 2.5) Anyone knows ?
>
> >
>
On Tue, 5 Feb 2013 15:32:32 +0100 (CET), Jean-Michel Pichavant wrote:
> By the way, did someone ever notice that r'\' fails ? I'm sure
> there's a reason for that... (python 2.5) Anyone knows ?
>
> r'\'
> SyntaxError: EOL while scanning single-quoted string
I hit this all the time with Vim's path
[...]
> By the way, did someone ever notice that r'\' fails ? I'm sure there's a
> reason for that... (python 2.5) Anyone knows ?
>
> r'\'
> SyntaxError: EOL while scanning single-quoted string
>
>
"Even in a raw string, string quotes can be escaped with a backslash,
but the backslash remains in
- Original Message -
> On 02/04/2013 11:23 PM, Anthony Correia wrote:
> > Just started learning Python. I just wrote a simple copy files
> > script. I use Powershell now as my main scripting language but I
> > wanted to extend into the linux platform as well. Is this the
> > best way to
On 02/04/2013 11:23 PM, Anthony Correia wrote:
Just started learning Python. I just wrote a simple copy files script. I use
Powershell now as my main scripting language but I wanted to extend into the
linux platform as well. Is this the best way to do it?
import os
objdir = ("C:\\temp2
Just started learning Python. I just wrote a simple copy files script. I use
Powershell now as my main scripting language but I wanted to extend into the
linux platform as well. Is this the best way to do it?
import os
objdir = ("C:\\temp2")
colDir = os.listdir(objdir)
for f in
distutils generates a number of files automatically in my projects,
including MANIFEST, build/* and dist/*
Is there any reason why I would want or need to track them in mercurial?
I currently have this .hgignore file:
syntax: glob
*.pyc
*~
exclude/*
build/*
dist/*
MANIFEST
Good practice or b
Sorry for pressing the send button too fast.
On 20 Set, 07:59, Frank Millman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I want to introduce an element of workflow management (aka Business
> Process Management) into the business/accounting system I am
> developing. I used google to try to find out what the curr
On 20 Set, 07:59, Frank Millman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I want to introduce an element of workflow management (aka Business
> Process Management) into the business/accounting system I am
> developing. I used google to try to find out what the current state of
> the art is. After several month
On Sep 18, 8:28 am, Frank Millman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> This is not strictly a Python question, but as I am writing in Python,
> and as I know there are some XML gurus on this list, I hope it is
> appropriate here.
>
> XML-schemas are used to define the structure of an xml documen
Frank> 1. Don't use default values - create the document with all values
Frank> filled in.
Frank> 2. Use python to check for missing values and fill in the defaults
Frank> when processing the document.
Frank> Or maybe the best practice is to *always* validate a document
Fr
On 18 Set, 08:28, Frank Millman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am thinking of adding a check to see if a document has changed since
> it was last validated, and if not, skip the validation step. However,
> I then do not get the default values filled in.
>
> I can think of two possible solutions. I
Hi all
This is not strictly a Python question, but as I am writing in Python,
and as I know there are some XML gurus on this list, I hope it is
appropriate here.
XML-schemas are used to define the structure of an xml document, and
to validate that a particular document conforms to the schema. The
43 matches
Mail list logo
