[Tutor] One on one tutor

2014-04-05 Thread Keith Adu
Hi my name is Keith, am a beginner with no experience in python or computer science. Am looking for someone to work with me one on one, I have many question that I need answered, my question are basic as of the moment because am starting, I don't want to send an email to everyone about my que

Re: [Tutor] One on one tutor

2014-04-05 Thread Leam Hall
On 04/04/2014 07:49 PM, Keith Adu wrote: Hi my name is Keith, am a beginner with no experience in python or computer science. Am looking for someone to work with me one on one, I have many question that I need answered, my question are basic as of the moment because am starting, I don't want t

Re: [Tutor] One on one tutor

2014-04-05 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 05/04/2014 00:49, Keith Adu wrote: Hi my name is Keith, am a beginner with no experience in python or computer science. Am looking for someone to work with me one on one, I have many question that I need answered, my question are basic as of the moment because am starting, I don't want to

Re: [Tutor] One on one tutor

2014-04-05 Thread Alan Gauld
On 05/04/14 00:49, Keith Adu wrote: Hi my name is Keith, Hi Keith. am a beginner with no experience in python or computer science. That's fine, about half of the people on the tutor list are beginners of one kind or another. I'd guess maybe 15% at any one time are complete beginners like

[Tutor] Question about equality of sets

2014-04-05 Thread Jim Byrnes
Ubuntu 12.04 python 3.3 I was working through an exercise about sets. I needed to find the duplicates in a list and put them in a set. I figured the solution had to do with sets not supporting duplicates. I finally figured it out but along the way I was experimenting in idle and got some res

Re: [Tutor] Question about equality of sets

2014-04-05 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sat, Apr 05, 2014 at 12:46:19PM -0500, Jim Byrnes wrote: > Ubuntu 12.04 python 3.3 > > I was working through an exercise about sets. I needed to find the > duplicates in a list and put them in a set. I figured the solution had > to do with sets not supporting duplicates. I finally figured i

Re: [Tutor] Question about equality of sets

2014-04-05 Thread Jim Byrnes
On 04/05/2014 01:15 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Sat, Apr 05, 2014 at 12:46:19PM -0500, Jim Byrnes wrote: Ubuntu 12.04 python 3.3 I was working through an exercise about sets. I needed to find the duplicates in a list and put them in a set. I figured the solution had to do with sets not suppo

Re: [Tutor] Storing dictionary value, indexed by key, into a variable

2014-04-05 Thread John Aten
I read the article on data driven programming that Danny linked too, and did some additional looking around. I couldn't find anything directly using Python, but I got an idea of the concept and went crazy with it. This may still be off the mark, but I created a complex combination of lists and d

Re: [Tutor] Storing dictionary value, indexed by key, into a variable

2014-04-05 Thread Alan Gauld
On 05/04/14 20:53, John Aten wrote: The complete code will follow, but I have a spooky new problem. Welcome to the world of data driven programming. Its seductive but brings its own set of challenges. Structuring the data and how you format it visually makes a huge difference to your ability

Re: [Tutor] Storing dictionary value, indexed by key, into a variable

2014-04-05 Thread Peter Otten
John Aten wrote: > I read the article on data driven programming that Danny linked too, and > did some additional looking around. I couldn't find anything directly > using Python, but I got an idea of the concept and went crazy with it. > This may still be off the mark, but I created a complex com