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    Thread: Any improvements
Post: Any improvements

Hi below is code for a VAT ( UK tax @ 20% ) calculator. Can calculate the tax and also back calculate from a final total. It works, but was wondering if there is a more efficient coding for any of i...
Chuck_Norwich Code Review 2 2,533 Apr-26-2020, 07:30 PM
    Thread: [Tkinter] Entry box not showing 2 decimal places
Post: RE: [Tkinter] Entry box not showing 2 decimal plac...

Oh my g! Was looking and looking and couldn't see it. thanks.
Chuck_Norwich GUI 3 5,713 Apr-24-2020, 05:00 PM
    Thread: [Tkinter] Entry box not showing 2 decimal places
Post: [Tkinter] Entry box not showing 2 decimal places

Hi, below is code(still a work in progress so commented out code that has been played with etc) that will be a VAT calculator. VAT being Value Added Tax in the UK, 20% on many items.Enter your net val...
Chuck_Norwich GUI 3 5,713 Apr-24-2020, 08:23 AM
    Thread: Confused by 'break' in the official documents
Post: RE: Confused by 'break' in the official documents

ok. Yes.Thanks. The visualise Python site is perfect!
Chuck_Norwich General Coding Help 2 2,434 Apr-12-2020, 09:26 PM
    Thread: Confused by 'break' in the official documents
Post: Confused by 'break' in the official documents

Found these examples in the documentation.Was looking up For/Else loops. They both use a break statement. Was a bit confused why the break statement was there so ran them both without the break statem...
Chuck_Norwich General Coding Help 2 2,434 Apr-12-2020, 06:22 PM
    Thread: sum of lisit with no inputs
Post: RE: sum of lisit with no inputs

If anyone interested: Solved in the final few lines by taking the summing of the lists and the resultant variables outside the functions and appending a 0 to each list so the operator has something t...
Chuck_Norwich General Coding Help 17 5,226 Mar-09-2020, 08:36 PM
    Thread: sum of lisit with no inputs
Post: RE: sum of lisit with no inputs

Ok, thank you. Now I get it.
Chuck_Norwich General Coding Help 17 5,226 Mar-08-2020, 04:12 PM
    Thread: sum of lisit with no inputs
Post: RE: sum of lisit with no inputs

Ok, thanks for replies. Not had time to play with new info yet. Making more sense to me now.
Chuck_Norwich General Coding Help 17 5,226 Mar-08-2020, 12:08 PM
    Thread: sum of lisit with no inputs
Post: RE: sum of lisit with no inputs

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Chuck_Norwich General Coding Help 17 5,226 Mar-08-2020, 08:53 AM
    Thread: sum of lisit with no inputs
Post: RE: sum of lisit with no inputs

What throws me is that it works as long as I add something to each list. But if I add nothing to the list it doesn't work. Still trying to get my head around the answers given - they may be correct bu...
Chuck_Norwich General Coding Help 17 5,226 Mar-07-2020, 09:30 PM
    Thread: sum of lisit with no inputs
Post: RE: sum of lisit with no inputs

ok, ok, processing - still getting my head around programming. What you say makes sense. But it works when there are inputs. I guess because they are global. Thank you. Have a direction now.
Chuck_Norwich General Coding Help 17 5,226 Mar-06-2020, 07:53 PM
    Thread: sum of lisit with no inputs
Post: RE: sum of lisit with no inputs

Hi. Traceback as follows Error:Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:/Users/Ron McMillan/PycharmProject/invoice_generator/monthly_cis.py", line 155, in <module> hmrc() File "C:/Us...
Chuck_Norwich General Coding Help 17 5,226 Mar-06-2020, 04:46 PM
    Thread: sum of lisit with no inputs
Post: RE: sum of lisit with no inputs

Code is below. So you don't have to trawl through the whole lot: The lists are at lines 49 and 50. The first list is appended at line 59 The second list is appended at line 89 The first list is summe...
Chuck_Norwich General Coding Help 17 5,226 Mar-05-2020, 06:09 PM
    Thread: sum of lisit with no inputs
Post: sum of lisit with no inputs

Hi. Creating a program which is working fine-ish. Big bug I can't get around is that as part of program are two empty lists which have numbers put into them coming from user inputs. Lists are then s...
Chuck_Norwich General Coding Help 17 5,226 Mar-04-2020, 08:13 PM
    Thread: TypeError: 'tuple' object is not callable
Post: RE: TypeError: 'tuple' object is not callable

Of course! Just couldn't see it. And yes, will post within correct tags in future.
Chuck_Norwich General Coding Help 2 3,125 Feb-29-2020, 08:23 PM
    Thread: TypeError: 'tuple' object is not callable
Post: TypeError: 'tuple' object is not callable

Hi, Overall description of need: In the Uk our tax year begins in April. So April is tax month 1. I require an output of the tax month number - example is that February is tax month 11. The function...
Chuck_Norwich General Coding Help 2 3,125 Feb-29-2020, 05:28 PM
    Thread: 2 sets of radiobuttons
Post: RE: 2 sets of radiobuttons

Ok. Yes, missing info. Tkinter
Chuck_Norwich GUI 4 2,807 Nov-27-2019, 07:52 PM
    Thread: 2 sets of radiobuttons
Post: 2 sets of radiobuttons

Hi, have looked ont web, but I can't seem to find a definite answer. Have a pair of radio buttons: rad_lt = Radiobutton(root,text='Lighting circuit',value=1) rad_nonlt = Radiobutton(root,text='Non-...
Chuck_Norwich GUI 4 2,807 Nov-27-2019, 05:10 PM
    Thread: Saving as docx file from excel with new filename
Post: RE: Saving as docx file from excel with new filena...

Thanks. Will give it a whirl.
Chuck_Norwich General Coding Help 4 2,981 Oct-03-2019, 08:01 PM
    Thread: Saving as docx file from excel with new filename
Post: RE: Saving as docx file from excel with new filena...

Hi again, so this didn't do what I was thinking. If you print the src_file it gives this: C:\Users\Ron McMillan\Desktop\demo1.xlsx\demo1.xlsx And the print dest_file gives this: C:\Users\Ron McMill...
Chuck_Norwich General Coding Help 4 2,981 Oct-03-2019, 05:49 PM

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