On 01/26/2014 02:12 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 09:11:56AM +0100, spir wrote:
As a foreigner, I noticed that english native speakers use both the series
round / square / curly / angle brackets, and individual terms parens (no
'd' ;-) / brackets / braces / chevrons. No maj
On 26/01/2014 01:55, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
This is an international forum, and English an international language
with many slight differences between variations and dialects. Even in
American English alone, there are ambiguous terms. "Coke" could mean a
beverage by the Coca-Cola company, a gene
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 02:39:11PM -0500, bob gailer wrote:
> On 1/24/2014 10:28 PM, bob gailer wrote:
>
> Sorry for misspelling parens.
>
> My reason for requesting the various names is that it makes
> communication clear, explicit and terse.
>
> When someone says just "brackets" what does he
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 09:11:56AM +0100, spir wrote:
> As a foreigner, I noticed that english native speakers use both the series
> round / square / curly / angle brackets, and individual terms parens (no
> 'd' ;-) / brackets / braces / chevrons. No major issue, except for
> 'brackets' which c
On 25/01/14 19:39, bob gailer wrote:
On 1/24/2014 10:28 PM, bob gailer wrote:
Sorry for misspelling parens.
My reason for requesting the various names is that it makes
communication clear, explicit and terse.
When someone says just "brackets" what does he actually mean?
In UK English speakin
On 1/24/2014 10:28 PM, bob gailer wrote:
Sorry for misspelling parens.
My reason for requesting the various names is that it makes
communication clear, explicit and terse.
When someone says just "brackets" what does he actually mean?
For more grins see
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/
On 25/01/2014 03:28, bob gailer wrote:
And please call () parends and [] brackets, and{} braces. Saves a lot of
confusion.
Not in the UK or Australia, with the former being where English came from.
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On 01/25/2014 05:14 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 10:28:09PM -0500, bob gailer wrote:
And please call () parends and [] brackets, and{} braces. Saves a lot of
confusion.
If you think that parentheses are spelt with a "d", you're certainly
confused :-)
They're all bracket
On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 8:38 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>
> However, there's more to it than this. For starters, you need to decide
> on the exact behaviour. Clearly, "file not found" errors should move on
> to try the next prefix in the path list. But what about permission
> denied errors?
Prior
On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 10:28:09PM -0500, bob gailer wrote:
> And please call () parends and [] brackets, and{} braces. Saves a lot of
> confusion.
If you think that parentheses are spelt with a "d", you're certainly
confused :-)
They're all brackets. Often the type of bracket doesn't matter,
On 1/24/2014 4:47 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Hi Tobias, and welcome.
On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 07:34:18PM -0700, Tobias Quezada wrote:
hello community,i am a newbie to python and program in general.
the script below works in python 2.7.3 on windows but not in the python 2.7.3
ubuntu terminal.
On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 04:31:49PM -0500, Keith Winston wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 4:50 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> > Python does not use a search path for the open() function, only for
> > imports. With open(), it uses a simple rule:
> >
> > - absolute paths will look only in that exact lo
> Ah! I was just running into this... I did not know that. So there's no
> way to get it to search a path (other than coding some string
> concatenation of path names or something, of course) to open a file?
Potentially distutils.spawn.find_executable might apply,
http://docs.python.org/2/dis
On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 4:50 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Python does not use a search path for the open() function, only for
> imports. With open(), it uses a simple rule:
>
> - absolute paths will look only in that exact location;
>
> - relative paths are always relative to the current working d
On 24/01/14 02:34, Tobias Quezada wrote:
>>>fp=open("prez.dat","r")
>>>x=fp.read
>>>(print(x)
/IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'prez.dat'/
Python can't see your file. You can check what python
is seeing by importing os and using listdir():
import os
os.listdir(',') # . is
hello community,i am a newbie to python and program in general.
the script below works in python 2.7.3 on windows but not in the python 2.7.3
ubuntu terminal.
>>>fp=open("prez.dat","r")>>>x=fp.read>>>(print(x)***i used fp for file
>>>pointer.I am using windows 7 and it works but on ubuntu 12.04
On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 04:22:20AM -0500, Keith Winston wrote:
> The file would appear to not be on your search path, that is, in any
> directory in which Python is expecting to find it.
Python does not use a search path for the open() function, only for
imports. With open(), it uses a simple rul
Hi Tobias, and welcome.
On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 07:34:18PM -0700, Tobias Quezada wrote:
> hello community,i am a newbie to python and program in general.
> the script below works in python 2.7.3 on windows but not in the python 2.7.3
> ubuntu terminal.
>
> >>> fp=open("prez.dat","r")
> >>> x=fp.
Tobias Quezada wrote:
> hello community,i am a newbie to python and program in general.
> the script below works in python 2.7.3 on windows but not in the python
> 2.7.3 ubuntu terminal.
>
fp=open("prez.dat","r")>>>x=fp.read>>>(print(x)***i used fp for file
pointer.I am using windows 7 an
I should have mentioned, the other possibility is that the file does
not, in fact, exist, but I assume you put it out there somewhere?
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The file would appear to not be on your search path, that is, in any
directory in which Python is expecting to find it. Either move it to a
directory on your path, or change your path to include it's location.
The easiest way to find out what your path is, that I know, is
import sys
sys.path
Good
hello community,i am a newbie to python and program in general.
the script below works in python 2.7.3 on windows but not in the python 2.7.3
ubuntu terminal.
>>>fp=open("prez.dat","r")>>>x=fp.read>>>(print(x)***i used fp for file
>>>pointer.I am using windows 7 and it works but on ubuntu 12.04
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