Re: Help with Iteration

2008-10-19 Thread Aaron Brady
On Oct 19, 8:47 pm, Asun Friere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Oct 20, 6:10 am, Aaron Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [snip] > > > If customers are stupid, should you sell stupid software? > > That's a hypothetical question with which we need never concern > ourselves.  After all, by definiti

Re: Help with Iteration

2008-10-19 Thread Aaron Brady
On Oct 19, 12:27 pm, "Eric Wertman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Aaron Brady wrote: > > >>> while 1: > >>>    calculate_stuff( ) > >>>    if stuff < 0.5: > >>>        break > > >> The thought police will come and get you. > > Based on Aaron's previous posting history,  I suspect this was a

Re: Help with Iteration

2008-10-19 Thread Asun Friere
On Oct 20, 6:10 am, Aaron Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > If customers are stupid, should you sell stupid software? That's a hypothetical question with which we need never concern ourselves. After all, by definition customers are not stupid, but "always right." -- http://mail.python.

Re: Help with Iteration

2008-10-19 Thread Aaron Brady
Hendrik van Rooyen wrote: > Aaron Brady wrote: > >>while 1: >>calculate_stuff( ) >>if stuff < 0.5: >>break > > The thought police will come and get you. > > You are doing things by "side effect"! > You are using a global called "stuff"! > You are relying on an implementation >

Re: Help with Iteration

2008-10-19 Thread Eric Wertman
>> Aaron Brady wrote: >> >>> while 1: >>>calculate_stuff( ) >>>if stuff < 0.5: >>>break >> >> The thought police will come and get you. Based on Aaron's previous posting history, I suspect this was a joke. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Help with Iteration

2008-10-19 Thread Steve Holden
Hendrik van Rooyen wrote: > Aaron Brady wrote: > >> while 1: >>calculate_stuff( ) >>if stuff < 0.5: >>break > > The thought police will come and get you. > > You are doing things by "side effect"! > You are using a global called "stuff"! > You are relying on an implementatio

Re: Help with Iteration

2008-10-19 Thread Hendrik van Rooyen
Aaron Brady wrote: >while 1: >calculate_stuff( ) >if stuff < 0.5: >break The thought police will come and get you. You are doing things by "side effect"! You are using a global called "stuff"! You are relying on an implementation detail! While their cudgels are bouncing off

Re: Help with Iteration

2008-10-18 Thread Aaron Brady
Chris McComas wrote: > On Oct 18, 3:46 pm, Aaron Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Chris McComas wrote: >> > actually i'm running it online, with a mysql db. so in the db there is >> > a table CollegeYear with the following fields: >> >> > name >> > rating >> > change >> > wp >> >> > then anothe

Re: Help with Iteration

2008-10-18 Thread John Machin
On Oct 19, 11:59 am, Chris McComas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Oct 18, 3:46 pm, Aaron Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Chris McComas wrote: > > > actually i'm running it online, with a mysql db. so in the db there is > > > a table CollegeYear with the following fields: > > > > name >

Re: Help with Iteration

2008-10-18 Thread Chris McComas
On Oct 18, 3:46 pm, Aaron Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris McComas wrote: > > actually i'm running it online, with a mysql db. so in the db there is > > a table CollegeYear with the following fields: > > > name > > rating > > change > > wp > > > then another table Games > > > date > > year

Re: Help with Iteration

2008-10-18 Thread Aaron Brady
Chris McComas wrote: > actually i'm running it online, with a mysql db. so in the db there is > a table CollegeYear with the following fields: > > name > rating > change > wp > > then another table Games > > date > year > team_1 > team_1_score > team_2 > team_2_score > > it goes through and calcula

Re: Help with Iteration

2008-10-18 Thread Chris McComas
On Oct 18, 12:43 am, "Aaron \"Castironpi\" Brady" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Oct 17, 10:44 pm, Chris McComas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > i have a python script that is computing ratings of sports teams. > > > what i'm trying to do is setup an iteration for the rating so that the > > pytho

Re: Help with Iteration

2008-10-17 Thread Aaron "Castironpi" Brady
On Oct 17, 10:44 pm, Chris McComas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i have a python script that is computing ratings of sports teams. > > what i'm trying to do is setup an iteration for the rating so that the > python program recomputes the rating if any of the value difference is > > > 0.5. it's c