RE: Help with code-lists and strings

2011-01-06 Thread Rob Richardson
Cathy, Please take another try at writing your program, using what advice you have received so far that you understand. I think this discussion is going rather far away from what you need, and seeing another step in the evolution of your program should help bring it back on track. I like your op

Re: Help with code-lists and strings

2011-01-06 Thread Dave Angel
On 01/06/2011 12:28 AM, Steven Howe wrote: On 01/05/2011 07:17 PM, Dave Angel wrote: On 01/-10/-28163 02:59 PM, GrayShark wrote: < In python it's best to build up you functional needs. So two steps. First a nand (negative 'and' operation). Then wrap that with a function to create two string

Re: Help with code-lists and strings

2011-01-05 Thread Chris Rebert
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 6:39 PM, Cathy James wrote: > > Thank you all for your help. > 1) I need to list words with uppercase first, then those with lower case; I > used istitle() and isupper (don't know the method for mixed case yet) > 2) Steve, it's a compliment that you though I'd undersand you

Re: Help with code-lists and strings

2011-01-05 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Apologies if this comes through twice, I'm having problems with my news client and/or provider. On Wed, 05 Jan 2011 16:56:40 -0600, GrayShark wrote: > In python it's best to build up you functional needs. So two steps. > First a nand (negative 'and' operation). Then wrap that with a function >

Re: Help with code-lists and strings

2011-01-05 Thread Dave Angel
On 01/-10/-28163 02:59 PM, GrayShark wrote: < In python it's best to build up you functional needs. So two steps. First a nand (negative 'and' operation). Then wrap that with a function to create two strings of your list element, you''re calling 'word'. By the way, list is reserved word, like

Re: Help with code-lists and strings

2011-01-05 Thread Cathy James
question (Justin Peel) > 5. Importing modules from miscellaneous folders (Jshgwave) > 6. Searching Python-list (Slie) > 7. Re: Interrput a thread (Adam Skutt) > > > ------ Forwarded message ------ > From: GrayShark > To: python-list@python.org > Date: Wed, 05

Re: Help with code-lists and strings

2011-01-05 Thread GrayShark
On Wed, 05 Jan 2011 14:58:05 -0500, Terry Reedy wrote: > On 1/5/2011 12:57 PM, Cathy James wrote: > >> I am learning python and came across an excercise where i need to use >> lists to strip words from a sentence; starting with those containing >> one or more uppercase letters, followed by words

Re: Help with code-lists and strings

2011-01-05 Thread Terry Reedy
On 1/5/2011 12:57 PM, Cathy James wrote: I am learning python and came across an excercise where i need to use lists to strip words from a sentence; starting with those containing one or more uppercase letters, followed by words with lower case letters. When writing code, it is good to start w

RE: Help with code-lists and strings

2011-01-05 Thread Rob Richardson
You take a sentence and break it up into words, storing it in a list named "list". Then, for each word in the list, you set list2 to a boolean value of true or false, depending on the result of isupper() and istitle(). Note that the variable "list2" does not refer to a list. It refers to whateve