Re: Python help needed

2019-08-08 Thread Dan Sommers
On 8/8/19 12:26 PM, Paolo G. Cantore wrote: > I think the special case treatment could be avoided. > > First: Join all items with ' and ' > Second: Replace all ' and ' with ', ' except the last That works great, until one of the elements of the original list is "spam and eggs": >>> spam = [

Re: Python help needed

2019-08-08 Thread Paolo G. Cantore
Am 08.08.19 um 01:18 schrieb MRAB: On 2019-08-07 21:36, Kuyateh Yankz wrote: #trying to write a function that takes a list value as an argument and returns a string with all the items separated by a comma and a space, with and inserted before the last item. For example, passing the previous sp

Re: Python help needed

2019-08-07 Thread MRAB
On 2019-08-07 21:36, Kuyateh Yankz wrote: #trying to write a function that takes a list value as an argument and returns a string with all the items separated by a comma and a space, with and inserted before the last item. For example, passing the previous spam list to the function would return

Python help needed

2019-08-07 Thread Kuyateh Yankz
#trying to write a function that takes a list value as an argument and returns a string with all the items separated by a comma and a space, with and inserted before the last item. For example, passing the previous spam list to the function would return 'apples, bananas, tofu, and cats'. But y

Re: Newby Python help needed with functions

2011-06-03 Thread Dave Angel
On 01/-10/-28163 02:59 PM, Cathy James wrote: I need a jolt here with my python excercise, please somebody!! How can I make my functions work correctly? I tried below but I get the following error: if f_dict[capitalize]: KeyError: Code below: def capitalize (s): """capitalize accepts a

Re: Newby Python help needed with functions

2011-06-03 Thread Jonathan Gardner
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 7:42 AM, Cathy James wrote: > I need a jolt here with my python excercise, please somebody!! How can I > make my functions work correctly? I tried below but I get the following > error: > > if f_dict[capitalize]: > > KeyError: > This error is because the function capitaliz

Re: Newby Python help needed with functions

2011-06-03 Thread Tim Chase
On 06/03/2011 09:42 AM, Cathy James wrote: I need a jolt here with my python excercise, please somebody!! How can I make my functions work correctly? I tried below but I get the following error: if f_dict[capitalize]: KeyError: def capitalize (s): Here you define the variable "capitalize" as

Re: Newby Python help needed with functions

2011-06-03 Thread Andrew Berg
On 2011.06.03 09:42 AM, Cathy James wrote: > I need a jolt here with my python excercise, please somebody!! How can > I make my functions work correctly? I tried below but I get the > following error: > > if f_dict[capitalize]: > > KeyError: > ... > > def capitalize (s): > """capitalize accep

Newby Python help needed with functions

2011-06-03 Thread Cathy James
I need a jolt here with my python excercise, please somebody!! How can I make my functions work correctly? I tried below but I get the following error: if f_dict[capitalize]: KeyError: Code below: def capitalize (s): """capitalize accepts a string parameter and applies the capitalize() m