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Comment on Comprehending Lists and Tuples by Links 21/5/2013: Handbrake Turns 0.9.9, NetBSD 6.1 | Techrights

Links 21/5/2013: Handbrake Turns 0.9.9, NetBSD 6.1 | Techrights — Tue, 21 May 2013 11:25:41 +0000

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Comment on Comprehending Lists and Tuples by brendanscott

brendanscott — Tue, 21 May 2013 06:16:49 +0000

Thanks, small note added

Comment on Comprehending Lists and Tuples by Don O'Donnell

Don O'Donnell — Tue, 21 May 2013 06:07:09 +0000

You leave the impression that only lists (`a_list`) can be used as a source for comprehensions, whereas any iterator will do such as `xrange()` (Python2) or `range()` (Python3). Also it’s the commas that make a tuple, not the parentheses (or the “round braces” as you call them.):
>>> my_tuple = 1, 2, 3 # this looks a lot cleaner.
Parens are only needed to avoid ambiguity as when used in a function call.

Comment on Comprehending Lists and Tuples by brendanscott

brendanscott — Mon, 20 May 2013 22:23:49 +0000

Thanks!

Comment on Comprehending Lists and Tuples by catchmeraghav

catchmeraghav — Mon, 20 May 2013 04:05:06 +0000

simple but good one!

Comment on Comprehending Lists and Tuples by Python 4 Kids: Comprehending Lists and Tuples | The Black Velvet Room

Python 4 Kids: Comprehending Lists and Tuples | The Black Velvet Room — Sun, 19 May 2013 12:34:42 +0000

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Comment on Modelling Chess Positions by brendanscott

brendanscott — Sun, 12 May 2013 00:40:50 +0000

Hi Aden,
This is the first part of the “chess board” project – although it’s not actually a separate project, just a short diversion, the ultimate aim of which is to show why you separate data from the user interface. In the next tutorial we graft a different user interface (view) on top of this data and in the following tutorial, we graft yet another one on top of it. However, this tutorial doesn’t explain any of the basics of Python. For that, start on the getting started page:
http://python4kids.wordpress.com/getting-started/
Regards

Brendan

Comment on Modelling Chess Positions by aden

aden — Sat, 11 May 2013 21:32:52 +0000

Hello, My son and I are new to Python. Can you help point me in the right direction for the beginning of this project. We would like to build the chess board from start to finish. I’m not finding an obvious beginning? It could just be that I’m so new to Python.

Thank you

Comment on Yet Another View of Chess by Python News Roundup – 5/7 | Docstrings

Python News Roundup – 5/7 | Docstrings — Tue, 07 May 2013 14:31:41 +0000

[...] Python4kids continues a tutorial series on a chess model by moving into a isometric view. [...]

Comment on Yet Another View of Chess by brendanscott

brendanscott — Mon, 06 May 2013 21:28:54 +0000

I’ve made an edit, but interested in other views.

Comment on Yet Another View of Chess by Brandon Rhodes (@brandon_rhodes)

Brandon Rhodes (@brandon_rhodes) — Mon, 06 May 2013 19:22:10 +0000

This might not be a reasonable fear — but I worry that there might be children who will be disturbed at the opening story of violence and screaming and a woman who as a result of the screaming might be dead, instead of entertained.

Comment on Yet Another View of Chess by Python 4 Kids: Yet Another View of Chess | Pyth...

Python 4 Kids: Yet Another View of Chess | Pyth... — Mon, 06 May 2013 08:23:29 +0000

[...] One of the women goes over to the set and switches it over. As she goes back to her seat from the radio we hear the theme music again, fading out as the sounds of violence and screaming start again and continue unabated in vigour. [...]

Comment on A Different View on Our Chess Model by Links 5/5/2013: New Debian | Techrights

Links 5/5/2013: New Debian | Techrights — Sun, 05 May 2013 23:09:48 +0000

[...] Python4Kids New Tutorial: A Different View on Our Chess Model [...]

Comment on A Different View on Our Chess Model by Allan Lowin

Allan Lowin — Sat, 04 May 2013 19:31:13 +0000

Hello, I find very interesting as my hobby is python! I would like to see it working. where you have downloaded completely?

Comment on A Different View on Our Chess Model by brendanscott

brendanscott — Thu, 02 May 2013 12:31:45 +0000

updated. Ta.

/usr/bin/python – yes, I have upgraded to eric5 recently and it is giving me a lot of python 3 warnings. That was tinkering to see if I could stop it (it didn’t work)

Comment on A Different View on Our Chess Model by Dave Mawdsley

Dave Mawdsley — Thu, 02 May 2013 01:18:52 +0000

Just a few suggestions:

Top line might work better if it’s:
#!/usr/bin/python

In the import section near the top, use the following:
from Tkinter import PhotoImage

I also used GIMP instead of inkscape and manually converted the images to 60×60 gif’s. I also created a grey 60×60 “black_tile.gif” and a white 60×60 “white_tile.gif”

I also put the program and the images in a folder “chess” on my desktop and ran the program from there, so the variable should read:
DATA_DIR = “../chess”

The program works just fine.

Comment on A Different View on Our Chess Model by todd328

todd328 — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 21:09:23 +0000

Reblogged this on The Black Velvet Room.

Comment on A Short Aside – Some Python Minecraft Stuff by brendanscott

brendanscott — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 23:27:46 +0000

@paul – You’re welcome. Have added a note above. Cheers!

Comment on A Short Aside – Some Python Minecraft Stuff by Paul Spooner

Paul Spooner — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 06:23:39 +0000

Hey there! I’m the webmaster of Peripheralarbor.com and author of those python scripts. Still getting a trickle of traffic through this post. Thanks!
Any feedback? I’ve tried to comment the map altering scripts fairly well, but understanding someone else’s code is always difficult. Let me know if there’s improvements to be made!

Comment on Being Animated by Modelling Chess Positions | Python Tutorials for Kids 8+

Modelling Chess Positions | Python Tutorials for Kids 8+ — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 12:41:29 +0000

[...] square). These coordinates have the same concept as the ones we met in our earlier tutorials (eg here) except that they only have 8 positions in each axis (as opposed to hundreds of pixels in a [...]