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    Thread: Better than an array
Post: RE: Better than an array

As mentioned earlier my lifetime programming language was Basic. I ran a test of your suggestion and it gives an error message I have no idea how to deal with. Any suggestion most helpful. tia oldcity...
oldcity General Coding Help 4 2,453 Dec-13-2018, 01:01 AM
    Thread: Better than an array
Post: Better than an array

Using Linux Mint 18.2 and Python 3.5.2 as before I'm old school basic. Need help with this array type problem. tia oldcity #!/usr/bin/python3 #AT&T #FP&L #WATER #GAS ...
oldcity General Coding Help 4 2,453 Dec-12-2018, 07:09 PM
    Thread: Help with stripping output
Post: RE: Help with stripping output

Solved. Thank you. I'm a little thick sometimes also may read too fast. oldcity
oldcity General Coding Help 6 3,453 Oct-28-2018, 07:40 PM
    Thread: Help with stripping output
Post: RE: Help with stripping output

Found that Python 3.5 is on my system Did not get same results as you. Used with python and python3. Used with print(*item) and with print(item). Results below. Also do not see or understand how yo...
oldcity General Coding Help 6 3,453 Oct-27-2018, 10:24 PM
    Thread: Help with stripping output
Post: RE: Help with stripping output

What I needed was a clean output as below. For result from dcatagory1 and decatagory2 In other words display horizontal lines. 1. AT&T 2. FP&L 3. WATER 4. GAS 5. PLAN. D 6. AAR...
oldcity General Coding Help 6 3,453 Oct-27-2018, 05:40 PM
    Thread: Help with stripping output
Post: Help with stripping output

Using Linux Mint 18.2 and Python 2.7.12. The routine runs fine the way it is. However the output is too busy with characters " [] ' , ". I have done many searches looking for the correct way to...
oldcity General Coding Help 6 3,453 Oct-26-2018, 03:55 PM
    Thread: Incomplete Output
Post: RE: Incomplete Output

Had bad info re: 3. + on my system. Had bad info to use '#!/usr/bin/python3' Do not require 3. + for in-house. Found could call using; import os and the command os.system(('python filename.py') from m...
oldcity General Coding Help 6 3,711 Oct-21-2018, 07:08 PM
    Thread: Incomplete Output
Post: Incomplete Output Part 2

Part 2 Revised. Using Linux Mint 18.2 and running programs from Python 3.5 which is the default for 18.2. Running the program from Basic-Menu.py the tuple in Verify-Expenses.py fails. But running t...
oldcity General Coding Help 6 3,711 Oct-20-2018, 08:28 PM
    Thread: Incomplete Output
Post: Incomplete Output

Using Linux Mint 18.2 and running programs from Python 3.5 which is the default for 18.2. Upon of doing python Basic-Menu.py and making selection '3' the file names are not presented. On entering a nu...
oldcity General Coding Help 6 3,711 Oct-19-2018, 08:03 PM
    Thread: If statement not working
Post: < SOLVED >RE: If statement not working

Did complete re-write. Thanks
oldcity General Coding Help 4 3,112 Oct-14-2018, 10:45 AM
    Thread: If statement not working
Post: If statement not working

Using Linux Mint 18.2 and Python 2.7 with Python 3.5. Help needed do not understand why the ' if (number == line_num) ' does not work. The routine continues and gives results for ' expenses-18 '. How ...
oldcity General Coding Help 4 3,112 Oct-09-2018, 11:57 PM
    Thread: Tuple no attribute error
Post: Tuple no attribute error

Linux Mint 18.2 Python 3.5. Am old time BASIC person. Help. Have no understanding how to deal with this. An example please. #!/usr/bin/python3 # with open( 'expenses-18', 'r') as yrs_file: f...
oldcity General Coding Help 3 9,965 Oct-06-2018, 02:51 PM
    Thread: Array alternative
Post: RE: Array alternative

Thanks for the tips. Using Linux Mint 18.2. Python 2.7 is the default, have just learned 3.5 is on the system. Will be using it as I have no skill in installing 3.7. My programming background is fr...
oldcity General Coding Help 3 3,495 Oct-01-2018, 07:47 PM
    Thread: Array alternative
Post: Array alternative

I do something like this in perl have no idea how to in python help please. tia oldcity #!/usr/bin/python i = 0 with open('test-exp-yrs', 'r') as file: for line in file: datafile = line.strip("...
oldcity General Coding Help 3 3,495 Oct-01-2018, 05:26 PM
    Thread: Help with subprocess..call
Post: Help with subprocess..call

Came out of the old BASIC. Using Linux Mint 18.2 fully updated. The old os.system command now no longer. Below is my code. For information have done "chmod +x verify-expenses.py". Need explicit help...
oldcity General Coding Help 1 2,562 Sep-28-2018, 03:19 PM
    Thread: How to do in Python
Post: RE: How to do in Python

Please help. Show me how to do this. Have indented code and get no complaint. As it is still only reports last item. What is correct? The plan is to work with 11 categories. tia Example of expenses-...
oldcity Data Science 6 3,433 May-24-2018, 03:53 PM
    Thread: How to do in Python
Post: RE: How to do in Python

Would only do the last item in list of 'expenses-18'. Need to loop thru file. expenses-18 010118,1,1.00,1 020218,2,2.22,2 030318,3,33.33,3 040418,4,44.44,4 #!/usr/bin/python num_lines = sum(1 for li...
oldcity Data Science 6 3,433 Apr-27-2018, 03:07 PM
    Thread: How to do in Python
Post: How to do in Python

Using Python version 2.7.12 on Linux Mint 18.2. Will be upgrading os next week. My background is that of various forms of basic and some perl. I have researched and am unable to figureout how do the ...
oldcity Data Science 6 3,433 Apr-26-2018, 03:20 PM

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