Promoting Python

[alister]

On Tue, 05 Apr 2016 08:06:02 -0400, Joel Goldstick wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 3:31 AM, Rustom Mody <rustompmody at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> On Tuesday, April 5, 2016 at 12:53:13 PM UTC+5:30, Gordon( Hotmail )
>> wrote:
>>> I am struggling to understand the basic principles of Python having
>>> spent many years as a pure Amateur tinkering with a variety of BASIC 
>>> as you can see on my site at http://www.sigord.co.uk/  I think you
>>> will agree all such versions of Basic I have used are far easier to
>>> understand than Python. Though with my limited knowledge I accept
>>> Python may have many advantages over say Liberty Basic etc.
>>>
>>> The problem I am finding is most of the sites claiming to help
>>> understand Python devote far too much space bragging about the wonders
>>> of Python instead of concentrating how to make sensible use of it. For
>>> example I struggle to find examples of such as below if you could
>>> please help me. If I manage to duplicate some of my efforts on my site
>>> with Python I will be happy to upload the code to my site. I will also
>>> try to upload working exec files of such also, except my previous
>>> attempts at downloading the relevant software was blocked by AVG
>>> software as risky.
>>>
>>> Gordon
>>>
>>>
>>> Liberty Basic for n = 32 to 255: print n;chr$(n) : next n
>>
>> I grew up on BBC basic in 1984. Not used thereafter.
>>
>> Your first one is (I guess) this in python:
>>
>>>>> for i in range(32,127):
>> ...   print chr(i),
>> ...
>>   ! " # $ % & ' ( ) * + , - . / 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 : ; < = > ? @ A B C
>>   D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z [ \ ] ^ _ ` a b c d e f
>>   g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z { | } ~
>>
>>
>>> REM BBC Basic FOR c = 1 TO 15 : COLOUR c
>>>   PRINT "Color ";c
>>> NEXT c
>>>
>>> REM BBC Basic c = 0 FOR x = 80 TO 2000 STEP 96
>>>   GCOL c: CIRCLE FILL x,500,50 : c = c + 1
>>> NEXT x
>>
>> If you tell us some more of what color, gcol etc do someone will likely
>> show you Though in all fairness I dont expect it to be as pithy as the
>> BASIC --
>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
> 
> The color stuff has to do with DOS based 16 color displays I think.
> Or maybe it worked with other 16 color displays of the time

No
If that code is BBC basic then it would print the word Colour followed by 
the numbers 1 - 15

For x in range (1,16):
	print "Colour %s"%x



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