[Tutor] Closing triple quotation marks.

[Lisi]

On Sunday 19 June 2011 14:23:25 col speed wrote:
> On 19 June 2011 14:46, Lisi <lisi.reisz at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sunday 19 June 2011 08:39:43 Alan Gauld wrote:
> > > "Lisi" <lisi.reisz at gmail.com> wrote
> > >
> > > > It does indeed.  Thank you, both of you.  I have clearly not got the
> > > > terms
> > > > command, method, function (and feature?) clearly sorted out in my
> > > > mind, so
> > > > that is obviously where I need to go.  I am supposed to be
> > > > researching
> > > > import, but I have not yet succeeded in seeing why it is a problem.
> > > > So I'll
> > > > switch to looking up method, function etc.
> > >
> > > Add "callable" to your list of search terms.
> > > Python has the concept of "callable objects" and
> > > you can call a callable by using parentheses.
> > > You can also test whether an object is callable
> > > or not:
> > >
> > > for obj in list_of_objects:
> > >      if callable(obj):
> > >          print obj()      # call obj first
> > >      else:
> > >          print obj        # just use the obj value
> > >
> > > HTH,
> >
> > Thank you!
> >
> > Lisi
> >
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> A good way to learn is making mistakes(in language it's the *only* way). I
> don't think I will mistake variable_name with "variable_name" in the near
> future!
> I downloaded a text file of prime numbers - lots of them. Being clever(!),
> I knew they were strs and I had to convert them to ints, so:
> 1. I put them all in memory - first mistake, but not fatal
> 2. I, very cleverly(I thought) used a list comprehension to convert them to
> ints - OK
> 3. I did something like:
> for prime in tooManyPrimes:
>     f.write("prime")
>
> I did this with about 6 files!

!! ;-)

Thank you for the marvellous mental image!  Prime numbers will never be the 
same again.

Lisi