On 05/05/2015 11:25 AM, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
I have a file with quotes and a file with tips. I want to place random
messages from those two (without them being repeated to soon) on my
Twitter page. This I do with ‘get_random_message’. I also want to put
the first message of another file and r
Op Tuesday 5 May 2015 13:08 CEST schreef Peter Otten:
> Cecil Westerhof wrote:
>
>> I now defined get_message_slice:
>> ### Add step
>> def get_message_slice(message_filename, start, end):
>
> Intervals are usually half-open in Python. I recommend that you
> follow that convention.
I will change
Op Tuesday 5 May 2015 15:57 CEST schreef Ian Kelly:
> On May 5, 2015 5:46 AM, "Cecil Westerhof" wrote:
>>
>> Op Tuesday 5 May 2015 12:41 CEST schreef Steven D'Aprano:
>>
>>> # Untested. def get_message_slice(message_filename, start=0,
>>> end=None, step=1): real_file = expanduser(message_filename
On May 5, 2015 5:46 AM, "Cecil Westerhof" wrote:
>
> Op Tuesday 5 May 2015 12:41 CEST schreef Steven D'Aprano:
>
> > # Untested.
> > def get_message_slice(message_filename, start=0, end=None, step=1):
> > real_file = expanduser(message_filename)
> > messages = []
> > # FIXME: I assume this is expe
Op Tuesday 5 May 2015 12:41 CEST schreef Steven D'Aprano:
> On Tuesday 05 May 2015 18:52, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
>
>> I now defined get_message_slice:
>> ### Add step
>> def get_message_slice(message_filename, start, end):
>> """
>> Get a slice of messages, where 0 is the first message
>> Works wi
Cecil Westerhof wrote:
> I now defined get_message_slice:
> ### Add step
> def get_message_slice(message_filename, start, end):
Intervals are usually half-open in Python. I recommend that you follow that
convention.
> """
> Get a slice of messages, where 0 is the first m
Op Tuesday 5 May 2015 11:20 CEST schreef Chris Angelico:
> On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 6:52 PM, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
>> I now defined get_message_slice:
>
> You're doing a lot of work involving flat-file storage of sequential
> data. There are two possibilities:
>
> 1) Your files are small, so you s
On Tuesday 05 May 2015 18:52, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
> I now defined get_message_slice:
> ### Add step
> def get_message_slice(message_filename, start, end):
> """
> Get a slice of messages, where 0 is the first message
> Works with negative indexes
> The va
On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 6:52 PM, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
> I now defined get_message_slice:
You're doing a lot of work involving flat-file storage of sequential
data. There are two possibilities:
1) Your files are small, so you shouldn't concern yourself with
details at all - just do whatever look
