Phyton

[marco.nawijn at colosso.nl]

On Sunday, March 6, 2016 at 6:10:22 PM UTC+1, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> On 06/03/2016 15:28, marco.nawijn at colosso.nl wrote:
> > On Sunday, March 6, 2016 at 3:16:19 PM UTC+1, Diego ... wrote:
> >> Hello! I have a question in an exercise that says : Write an expression to determine whether a person should or should not pay tax . Consider paying tax people whose salary is greater than R $ 1,200.00
> >>
> >> I do not know how to mount the logical expression !!!
> >>
> >> It's like:
> >>
> >> salary = 1250
> >> tax = Not True
> >> salary > 1200 or not tax ????
> >
> > Hello Diego,
> >
> > You are looking for the "if" statement. See the link below for
> > the corresponding documentation:
> >     https://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/controlflow.html
> >
> > Your example would become something like:
> >
> > salary = 1250.
> > if salary > 1200:
> >      has_to_pay_tax = True
> > else:
> >      has_to_pay_tax = False
> >
> > Marco
> >
> 
> Why in the year 2016 are people still giving links to the Luddite Python 
> 2 docs?
> 
> -- 
> My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
> what you can do for our language.
> 
> Mark Lawrence



On Sunday, March 6, 2016 at 6:10:22 PM UTC+1, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> On 06/03/2016 15:28, marco.nawijn at colosso.nl wrote:
> > On Sunday, March 6, 2016 at 3:16:19 PM UTC+1, Diego ... wrote:
> >> Hello! I have a question in an exercise that says : Write an expression to determine whether a person should or should not pay tax . Consider paying tax people whose salary is greater than R $ 1,200.00
> >>
> >> I do not know how to mount the logical expression !!!
> >>
> >> It's like:
> >>
> >> salary = 1250
> >> tax = Not True
> >> salary > 1200 or not tax ????
> >
> > Hello Diego,
> >
> > You are looking for the "if" statement. See the link below for
> > the corresponding documentation:
> >     https://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/controlflow.html
> >
> > Your example would become something like:
> >
> > salary = 1250.
> > if salary > 1200:
> >      has_to_pay_tax = True
> > else:
> >      has_to_pay_tax = False
> >
> > Marco
> >
> 
> Why in the year 2016 are people still giving links to the Luddite Python 
> 2 docs?
> 
> -- 
> My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
> what you can do for our language.
> 
> Mark Lawrence


> Why in the year 2016 are people still giving links to the Luddite Python 
>2 docs?

As Ian already mentioned, the Python 2 docs came up as the first hit on
Google. However, I agree with you that for a newcomers to Python a link
to Python 3 would probably have been more appropriate (not that I believe
the content of the sections would be any different). 

As a side note, you are probably aware that if you look at the Linux
ecosystems there are still a lot of distributions that have Python 2
as a default. There are still also large mainstream libraries that
do not (or just very recently) have support for Python 3. For me this
in particular applied to VTK. I am now finally ready to move to Python 3.

Marco