Nathan, > I'm no longer going to use this method. I thought up a more easier > idea for dealing cards. I was going to share it, but with all this > time and effort pointing out things that I should know, instead of > helping me, I don't think I will, because it will probably be ripped > to shreds by you, and dash my idea before it even takes off.
Now I've had some sleep I'll try to be a little kinder. I was not trying to 'rip you to shreds' but to help you. But you are not helping us to help you by posting code that is full of basic syntax errors. Try to fix those yourself and if you get stuck tell us what the problem is and include the error text. Python does very well at printing useful error messages, without which we are left having to read your code line by line. This means we don't know whether you are looking for a new approach, help with the syntax, or just general comments. Many of the mistakes you are making are covered in the various tutorials that are on the web, some time spent reading those will avoid many of the problems you are encountering. And reading documentation is an essential skill for any programmer to learn. While the mailing list is here to help newbies to Python and programming we are all volunteers doing this in our own time. We are happy to help folks who are stuck, we just ask for some help in that you give us as much specific information about the help you need as possible. A subject line saying 'it doesn't work' and a screen full of code is not enough. > I wanted help, and you critised me, > I wanted aid, and you refused, > So I will do it myself! No-one has refused you, but doing it by yourself is a big part of learning and no bad thing. You have made some progress since you started posting to the list, but you could progress faster by paying more attention to the basics. The list is best used for the times when you are unable to make any further progress by yourself. As I said in my post yesterday we are trying to help you to help yourself. I'm sorry if my words sounded harsh but they were borne out of seeing a posting with no clue as to the problem but full of basic syntax errors. And maybe it could have been expressed more subtly but having returned from 3 long days I was not in the mood for sweet talking! :-( Sorry if it offended, it was not meant so to do. Alan G Author of the Learn to Program web tutor http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
