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For 2023 (and 2024 ...) - we are now fully retired from IT training.
We have made many, many friends over 25 years of teaching about Python, Tcl, Perl, PHP, Lua, Java, C and C++ - and MySQL, Linux and Solaris/SunOS too. Our training notes are now very much out of date, but due to upward compatability most of our examples remain operational and even relevant ad you are welcome to make us if them "as seen" and at your own risk.

Lisa and I (Graham) now live in what was our training centre in Melksham - happy to meet with former delegates here - but do check ahead before coming round. We are far from inactive - rather, enjoying the times that we are retired but still healthy enough in mind and body to be active!

I am also active in many other area and still look after a lot of web sites - you can find an index ((here))
Some gems from an introduction to Python

This week, I ran a private Introduction to Python course - using Python 2.7 at customer request - and here are some of the code snippets I wrote in front of the class - little things I may not have blogged about in the past. Complete examples being emailed to the delegates!

 # Using an exception to see in an object exists (in this case within a dict)
 # --------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
         try:
                 counter[website] += 1
         except KeyError,e:
                 counter[website] = 1
                 print e
 
 # sorting and printing by value
 # -----------------------------
 
 def byvalue(that,this):
         return cmp(counter[this],counter[that])
 
 domains = counter.keys()
 domains.sort(byvalue)
 
 for d in domains:
         print "%-8d %s" % (counter[d],d)
 
 # printing documentation within a test harness
 # --------------------------------------------
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
         # (main test code here)
         print
         print person.__doc__
 
 # printing with old and new formatters
 # ------------------------------------
 
 print "%8.2f is the value for %-7s today" % (people[person],person)
 print "{0:8.2f} is the value for {1:<7s} today".format(people[person],person)
 
 # How to unwrap a collection into a function
 # ------------------------------------------
 
 sz = (12,16)
 # print getArea(sz[0],sz[1]) ; this is the long-winded way!
 print getArea(*sz)
 
 # decorator ... new and old ways
 # ------------------------------
 
         @staticmethod
         def factory(raw):
                 # code
                 return product
         # decorator at top of method does the following:
         # factory = staticmethod(factory)
 
 # generator ... and list code as comments
 # ---------------------------------------
 
 def places():
         # small = []
         for lyne in fh.xreadlines():
                  (code on line)
                  # small.append(fol[6])
                  print "splash"
                  yield fol[6]
         # return small
 
 # functions that take different parameter patterns
 # ------------------------------------------------
 
 def myrange(*inputs):
         # passed a list
         if isinstance(inputs[0],list):
                 inputs = inputs[0]
         # passed three params
         if len(inputs) == 3:
                 etc
 
 # variety of regular expressions to match a postcode
 # --------------------------------------------------
 
 poco = re.compile(r'[A-Z]{1,2}[0-9]{1,2} {1,}[0-9]{1}[A-Z]{2}')
 poco = re.compile(r'(([A-Z]{1,2})[0-9]{1,2}) {1,}([0-9]{1}[A-Z]{2})')
 poco = re.compile(r'(([A-Z]{1,2})[0-9]{1,2}) {1,}([0-9]{1}[A-Z]{2})$')
 poco = re.compile(r'(([A-Z]{1,2})\d[A-Z0-9]?)\s+([0-9][A-Z]{2})',re.IGNORECASE)
 
 
 # static variable in a function
 # -----------------------------
 
 def more():
         print "dot"
         try:
                 more.keep += 1
         except:
                 more.keep = 1
         print more.keep
 
 # lazy operator, python style with and and or
 # -------------------------------------------
 
 def getNet(amount,vset=None):
         # vatrate is an external (fallback) variable
         vr = (vset == None) and vatrate or vset
 
 
 # using a slice on a string
 # -------------------------
 
 uat = sample.find("u")
 sat = sample.find(" ",uat)
 print sample[uat:sat]

(written 2016-10-29)

 
Associated topics are indexed as below, or enter http://melksh.am/nnnn for individual articles
Q110 - Object Orientation and General technical topics - Programming Algorithms
  [202] Searching for numbers - (2005-02-04)
  [227] Bellringing and Programming and Objects and Perl - (2005-02-25)
  [642] How similar are two words - (2006-03-11)
  [1157] Speed Networking - a great evening and how we arranged it - (2007-04-21)
  [1187] Updating a page strictly every minute (PHP, Perl) - (2007-05-14)
  [1391] Ordnance Survey Grid Reference to Latitude / Longitude - (2007-10-14)
  [1840] Validating Credit Card Numbers - (2008-10-14)
  [1949] Nuclear Physics comes to our web site - (2008-12-17)
  [2189] Matching disparate referencing systems (MediaWiki, PHP, also Tcl) - (2009-05-19)
  [2259] Grouping rows for a summary report - MySQL and PHP - (2009-06-27)
  [2509] A life lesson from the accuracy of numbers in Excel and Lua - (2009-11-21)
  [2586] And and Or illustrated by locks - (2010-01-17)
  [2617] Comparing floating point numbers - a word of caution and a solution - (2010-02-01)
  [2894] Sorting people by their names - (2010-07-29)
  [2951] Lots of way of converting 3 letter month abbreviations to numbers - (2010-09-10)
  [2993] Arrays v Lists - what is the difference, why use one or the other - (2010-10-10)
  [3042] Least Common Ancestor - what is it, and a Least Common Ancestor algorithm implemented in Perl - (2010-11-11)
  [3072] Finding elements common to many lists / arrays - (2010-11-26)
  [3093] How many toilet rolls - hotel inventory and useage - (2010-12-18)
  [3102] AND and OR operators - what is the difference between logical and bitwise varieties? - (2010-12-24)
  [3451] Why would you want to use a Perl hash? - (2011-09-20)
  [3620] Finding the total, average, minimum and maximum in a program - (2012-02-22)
  [3662] Finding all the unique lines in a file, using Python or Perl - (2012-03-20)
  [4325] Learning to program - what are algorithms and design patterns? - (2014-11-22)
  [4401] Selecting RECENT and POPULAR news and trends for your web site users - (2015-01-19)
  [4402] Finding sum, minimum, maximum and average in Python (and Ruby) - (2015-01-19)
  [4410] A good example of recursion - a real use in Python - (2015-02-01)
  [4652] Testing new algorithms in PHP - (2016-02-20)
  [4656] Identifying the first and last records in a sequence - (2016-02-26)

Y199 - Python - Fast Start
  [2017] Python - a truly dynamic language - (2009-01-30)
  [3519] Python - current versions and implementations (CPython, Jython, IronPython etc) - (2011-11-13)
  [4709] Some gems from Intermediate Python - (2016-10-30)
  [4712] A reminder of the key issues to consider in moving from Python 2 to Python 3 - (2016-10-30)
  [4713] Equality (in Python) - (2016-10-30)


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