feet wet, and I'll try not to ask too many
silly questions!
First impressions are: (1) Python seems both elegant and practical;
and (2) Beazley seems a pleasantly unfussy introduction for someone
with at least a little programming experience in other languages.
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tp://www.python.org/doc/2.4/whatsnew/>
<http://www.python.org/doc/2.5/whatsnew/>
... although there doesn't seem to be any
<http://www.python.org/doc/2.2/whatsnew/>
... ah! ...
<http://www.python.org/doc/2.2.3/whatsnew/>
"What's New in Python 2.2"
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On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:40:29 -0400, "J. Cliff Dyer"
wrote:
>On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 20:53 +0100, Angus Rodgers wrote:
>> [...]
>> from types import StringType # Is this awkwardness necessary?
>
>Not anymore. You can just use str for this.
>
>> detab =
clear, I'm sure, especially after I have written more
than one one-line program!)
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On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:10:54 -0700, Scott David Daniels
wrote:
>Angus Rodgers wrote:
>
>> from types import StringType # Is this awkwardness necessary?
>Nope
I'm starting to see some of the mental haze that was confusing me.
>Also, expandtabs is an instance method, s
7;ll try to work through a textbook with exercises.
But I thought I'd better try to get some quick feedback at the
start, because I knew that I was fumbling around, and that it
was unlikely to be necessary to use such circumlocutions.)
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Someone has gently directed me to the Tutor mailing list:
<http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor>
which I hadn't known about. I've joined, and will try to
confine my initial blundering experiments to there. Sorry
about the spam spam spam spam, lovely spam, wonderful
On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:53:51 +0100, I wrote:
>On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:31:47 -0500, Kirk Strauser
> wrote:
>
>>At 2009-06-24T19:53:49Z, Angus Rodgers writes:
>>
>>> print ''.join(map(detab, f.xreadlines()))
>>
>>An equivalent in modern Pythons
;t mentioned in the index to the
2nd edition of Beazley's book)". Something like that! 8-P
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On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:31:47 -0500, Kirk Strauser
wrote:
>At 2009-06-24T19:53:49Z, Angus Rodgers writes:
>
>> print ''.join(map(detab, f.xreadlines()))
>
>An equivalent in modern Pythons:
>
>>>> print ''.join(line.expandtabs(3) for line in
On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:56:47 +0100, I found a new way to disgrace
myself, thus:
>[...] something like x.readlines()?
^
I don't know how that full stop got in there. Please ignore it!
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On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:22:48 +0100, MRAB
wrote:
>Angus Rodgers wrote:
>> On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:31:47 -0500, Kirk Strauser
>> wrote:
>>
>>> At 2009-06-24T19:53:49Z, Angus Rodgers writes:
>>>
>>>> print ''.join(map(detab, f.xreadli
ot;Among its chief virtues are the following four -- no, five
-- no, six -- points: [...]"
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is my solution:
>f = open('test', 'r')
>for line in f:
>print line[0].upper()+line[1:],
I know this is homework, so I didn't want to say anything (especially
as I'm a newcomer, also just starting to learn the language), but it
seems OK to mention that if you hunt around some more in the standard
library documentation, you'll find an even shorter way to write this.
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On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:58:27 -0700 (PDT), powah
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>Thank you for your hint.
>This is my solution:
>f = open('test', 'r')
>for line in f:
>print line[0].upper()+line[1:],
Will your program handle empty lines of input correctly?
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+line[1:],
>
>Will your program handle empty lines of input correctly?
Strangely enough, it seems to do so, but why?
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On Sat, 27 Jun 2009 13:02:47 +0200, Peter Otten
<__pete...@web.de> wrote:
>Angus Rodgers wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 27 Jun 2009 11:39:28 +0100, I asked rhetorically:
>>
>>>Will your program handle empty lines of input correctly?
>>
>> Strangely enough,
On Sat, 27 Jun 2009 12:13:57 +0100, I wrote:
>the \r\n sequence at the end of a Win/DOS file
Of course, I meant the end of a line of text, not the end of
the file.
(I promise I'll try to learn to proofread my posts. This is
getting embarrassing!)
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w do you actually get to see the raw bytes of a file in Windows?
OK, this seems to work:
f = open('test001A.txt', 'rb') # Binary mode
print repr(f.read())
Output:
'abc xyz\r\nBd ef\r\n\r\ngH ij\r\n'
Indeed, when a Windows file is opened for reading in binary m
On Sat, 27 Jun 2009 13:49:57 +0200, Peter Otten
<__pete...@web.de> wrote:
>Angus Rodgers wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 27 Jun 2009 13:02:47 +0200, Peter Otten
>> <__pete...@web.de> wrote:
>>
>>>Angus Rodgers wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sat, 27
just get my hands dirty with some C++ compiler or
other, and get my original code working on my present machine
(possibly in ANSI C instead of C++), and call it from Python?
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On 28 Jun 2009 08:00:23 -0700, a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) wrote:
>In article <0qec45lho8lkng4n20sb1ad4eguat67...@4ax.com>,
>Angus Rodgers wrote:
>>
>>Partly as an educational exercise, and partly for its practical
>>benefit, I'm trying to pick up a programm
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