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According to U.S. dictator Obama, the U.S. has recently legalized weed
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they don't want OUR KIDS GROWING UP IN A WORLD RUL
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> I have an unexpected display error when dealing with Unicode strings, and
> I cannot understand where the error is occurring. I suspect it's not
> actually a Python issue, but I thought I'd ask here to start.
I suppose it is a Python issue -- where Python fails to guess a
Le samedi 25 janvier 2014 05:37:34 UTC+1, Steven D'Aprano a écrit :
> I have an unexpected display error when dealing with Unicode strings, and
>
> I cannot understand where the error is occurring. I suspect it's not
>
> actually a Python issue, but I thought I'd ask here to start.
>
>
>
> U
My son is learning Python and I know nothing about computers.
He's written a simple calculator program that doesn't work. For the life of me,
I can't see why.
Any help gratefully received. Here's his code:
def a():
import sys
print("welcome to the calculation")
print("ple
Hello,
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 02:02:15AM -0800, justinpmull...@gmail.com wrote:
> My son is learning Python and I know nothing about computers.
:)
> He's written a simple calculator program that doesn't work. For the life of
> me, I can't see why.
> Any help gratefully received. Here's his co
PS: At the first statement, we've also tried
op == "d":
But that doesn't work either.
On Saturday, January 25, 2014 10:02:15 AM UTC, justinp...@gmail.com wrote:
> My son is learning Python and I know nothing about computers.
>
> He's written a simple calculator program that doesn't work. F
justinpmull...@gmail.com wrote:
> My son is learning Python and I know nothing about computers.
> He's written a simple calculator program that doesn't work.
Normally you are supposed to explain what you or your son expect and what
you get instead. If Python ends with an error you should paste
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On 2014-01-25, 07:18 GMT, Frank Millman wrote:
> I have stated that my objective is to express as little as
> possible in Python code.
Yes, and I believe that it is very wrong. But any
On Sat, 25 Jan 2014 02:02:15 -0800, justinpmullins wrote:
> def a():
> import sys print("welcome to the calculation") print("please type
a
> number")
> one = int(sys.stdin.readline()) print("type d for division,")
> print("type m for multiplication,") print("type s for
su
On Fri, 24 Jan 2014 20:58:50 -0800, theguy wrote:
> I know. I'm kind of ashamed of the code, but it does the job I need it
> to up to a certain point
OK, well first of all take a step back and look at the problem.
You have n exemplars, each from a known author.
You analyse each exemplar, and de
On 1/25/14 1:37 AM, seasp...@gmail.com wrote:
take the following as an example, which could work well.
But my concern is, will list 'l' be deconstructed after function return? and
then iterator point to nowhere?
def test():
l = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]
return iter(l)
def main():
On 1/25/14 1:37 AM, seasp...@gmail.com wrote:
take the following as an example, which could work well.
But my concern is, will list 'l' be deconstructed after function return? and
then iterator point to nowhere?
def test():
l = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]
return iter(l)
def main():
Ned Batchelder wrote:
> On 1/25/14 1:37 AM, seasp...@gmail.com wrote:
>> take the following as an example, which could work well.
>> But my concern is, will list 'l' be deconstructed after function return?
>> and then iterator point to nowhere?
>>
>> def test():
>> l = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Thanks Peter, that did the trick.
You've got here a very happy 8-year old and a mighty relieved 46-year old!!
On Saturday, January 25, 2014 10:41:20 AM UTC, Peter Otten wrote:
> justinpmull...@gmail.com wrote:
>
>
>
> > My son is learning Python and I know nothing about computers.
>
> > He's
On Saturday, January 25, 2014 8:12:20 PM UTC+5:30, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
>
> Heck, at the very least turn all those _99 variables into single
> lists The posted code looks like something from 1968 K&K BASIC.
Yes thats correct.
My suggestion of data-files is a second step.
A fir
On Sat, 25 Jan 2014 17:08:56 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 3:37 PM, Steven D'Aprano
> wrote:
>> But using Python 2.7, I get a really bad case of moji-bake:
>>
>> [steve@ando ~]$ python2.7 -c "print u'ñøλπйж'"
>> ñøλÏйж
>
> What's 2.7's default source code encoding? I
This is my first programming pet project. I have the following script that
extracts links from specific sites and display them on the web(via django).
The script work fine but I'm unable to save any stuff in my database.
Hence if I run the code, I get the output I want but then it always
extracts
On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 4:56 AM, Peter Pearson wrote:
> $ python2.7 -c "import sys; print(sys.stdin.encoding)"
> UTF-8
This isn't from stdin, though, it's about the interpretation of the
bytes of source code without a magic cookie.
According to PEP 263 [1], the default encoding should have becom
On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 6:00 AM, Max Cuban wrote:
> This is my first programming pet project. I have the following script that
> extracts links from specific sites and display them on the web(via django).
> The script work fine but I'm unable to save any stuff in my database.
>
> Hence if I run th
On 25 January 2014 04:37, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
>
> But using Python 2.7, I get a really bad case of moji-bake:
>
> [steve@ando ~]$ python2.7 -c "print u'ñøλπйж'"
> ñøλÏйж
>
> However, interactively it works fine:
>
> [steve@ando ~]$ python2.7 -E
> Python 2.7.2 (default, May 18 2012, 18:25:1
I have asked this question earlier but this should make more sense than the
earlier version and I don't want anyone who could potentially helped to be
put off by the initial mess even if I updated it with my cleaner version as
a reply
I want to save the links scraped to be save in my database so t
Hello,
using Python 2.7.6
I try to access a sqlite database using keyword lookup instead of
position (much more easy to maintain code), but it always fail, with the
error:
Index must be int or string
I have created the database, populated it, and here is the code that
tries to retrieve the
On Sat, 25 Jan 2014 17:08:56 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 3:37 PM, Steven D'Aprano
> wrote:
>> But using Python 2.7, I get a really bad case of moji-bake:
>>
>> [steve@ando ~]$ python2.7 -c "print u'ñøλπйж'" ñøλÏйж
>
> What's 2.7's default source code encoding? I t
On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 1:04 PM, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
> If there's a bug, it is that Python 2.7 doesn't
> raise SyntaxError when called with -c and there are non-ASCII literals in
> the source. Instead, it seems to be defaulting to Latin-1, hence the moji-
> bake.
That might well be a bug! I wa
On Sat, 25 Jan 2014 09:18:44 +0200, Frank Millman wrote:
> I have realised that we unlikely to come to an agreement on this in the
> near future, as our philosophies are completely different.
>
> You [Chris Angelo] have stated that your objective is to express as
> much as possible in Python code
On 26/01/2014 02:33, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Here's a simple programming expression, familiar to most people, common
to hundreds of programming languages:
3+4*5
Here it is written as XML:
345
Source:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-sbxml/index.html
More here:
http://www.codin
On 1/25/2014 2:13 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 4:56 AM, Peter Pearson wrote:
$ python2.7 -c "import sys; print(sys.stdin.encoding)"
UTF-8
This isn't from stdin, though, it's about the interpretation of the
bytes of source code without a magic cookie.
According to PEP 263
On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 1:33 PM, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
>> Here is your version -
>>
>> mainwindow = GTK2.Window(0)->add(GTK2.Vbox(0,0)
>> ->add(GTK2.Label("About Gypsum: big long multi-line string"))
>> ->add(GTK2.HbuttonBox()
>> ->add(GTK2.Button("Close"))
>> ->add(GTK2.B
On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 1:45 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> If I worked as a consultant I'd much prefer the XML version as I'd be able
> to charge much more on the grounds that I'd done much more, hoping that the
> people paying didn't bother with design reviews or the like :)
And that's very true. I
On Sunday, January 26, 2014 9:36:15 AM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote:
> Code isn't something to be afraid of. It's just text files like any
> other. After all, Python code is a config file for /usr/bin/python, so
> if you want to change what Python does, just edit its config file!
Windows stores
On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 3:47 PM, Rustom Mody wrote:
> On Sunday, January 26, 2014 9:36:15 AM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote:
>> Code isn't something to be afraid of. It's just text files like any
>> other. After all, Python code is a config file for /usr/bin/python, so
>> if you want to change wha
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> On Sat, 25 Jan 2014 09:18:44 +0200, Frank Millman wrote:
>
>> I have realised that we unlikely to come to an agreement on this in the
>> near future, as our philosophies are completely different.
>>
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