Python has no "printf" or "sprintf" - use the % operator on a string object which is the format string instead. Let me show you that ...
Firstly, what do we get if we do NOT format?
>>> val = 1. / 17.
>>> print val
0.0588235294118
Here it is, formatted to 4 figures after the decimal place:
>>> ....
The Melksham Chamber of Commerce was one the founding 6 members of the Wessex Association of Chambers of Commerce, which has now grown to 17 members and shares offices, staff, intelligence, training facilities, marketing and more across Wiltshire and a somewhat beyond. You can find old reference to ....
Yesterday - "Learning to Program in Python" - and I'm now teaching the day so that it's both Python 2 and Python 3 compatible. But it's really an intro day, and we'll vary how we go for the following 3 days of the course, majoring in an appropriate direction for our group - that's a luxury we have ....
A "Thank you" to the person who commented as follows:
"Your website and articles are one of the best I have seen in on the internet. Thank you so much for putting forth these write-ups of so many complex Python topics in a very easy to understand manner." about my recent blog article on running ope ....
The new government isn't as keen on the "Regional Spatial Strategy" that so much effort went into putting together ... they may pass much responsibility back to the (Unitary) council. But then the Unitary council may not vary very much from the plans anyway.
Consultations on the Core strategy are ....
"I wonder what HIS agenda is ..." - a question asked at the Steering Group meeting for the TransWilts Community Rail Partnership, when we met earlier today. And the question - about someone else who's a good ear-bender in the railway campaigning arena - is a good one. If someone's on the payroll ....
A web server access log file contains a whole series of hit records ... each of which is logically turned into an object as different fields have different characteristics. These hit objects can then be logically arranged into visit objects.
Today, I gave a Object Oriented Programming in PHP train ....
On our web site, we "wrap" all of our pages in a PHP shell, which allows us to reference extra information easily within any of our pages, provide up to date course and hotel data on every page, and keep a dynamic log of current visitors in a database. The wrapper is applied through Apache http ser ....
It's surprisingly rare that I'm asked for my own training record ... and that's probably no bad thing, as it's only a part of what I have learned over the years. It's a vital part, but the additional practical experience, and hours and days of less formal study, add together to make a more complete ....
It's just seven miles from Melksham (pop 25,000) to Calne(pop 15,000) - and the two towns are both part of the Wiltshire Unitary area, with a lot in common. The road between them - the A3102 - always seems busy.
The Problem
You would think that there would be a bus service that let you get betwee ....