[Tutor] first call - newcomer

[Pierre Dagenais]

Anthony Smith wrote:
> This is my first post - I will be brief...
>  
> One:  I have programmed before - but it has been DECADES...so just a 
> few simple queries:
>  
> 1.  A brief (but complete) description regarding the use of script 
> editor (I will be using
>      command prompt in Windows), as:
>  
>          a.  details about loading and saving programs (not in that 
> order) and little
>               specs about pathnames or other requirements (I will 
> probably store all
>               my little goodies in one folder or space).
>  
>   
Hi,
You save programs by writing them in a file with a .py extension. Ex.: 
myProgram.py
Then there are different ways of loading a program, from the dos command 
line you can do: C:\myProgram.py, that one I couldn't find in the 
litterature, I had to ask, thank you Alan.
>       That should get me going ... a book and manual by my side should 
> suffice for
>        the rest - - - except for one thing:
>  
> 2.  I have been unable to locate the gizmo in the literature to get 
> ascii codes
>     in python.  In the old days, it was a list of 256 (or so) 
> characters that     represented all keyboard symbols (A equalled 36; B 
> equalled 37; et cetera).
>    To assign a value, you used "Let A$ = ASC (36)" where A$ was a 
> variable
>     and 36 was the ASCII value for 'A'.  I believe the reverse of this 
> process
>     was PRINT VAL(A$) or something.  I want to play with a program 
> that will
>    assign a number to a word (using a simple algorhythm that will give a
>     specific number to every word).  Other stuff is pretty easy to 
> find with
>     the book and on-line literature.  I will need to get an ascii code 
> out of
>      a string (whose content is not known to the programmer, as 
> raw_input).
>     Then to assign, I will need the actual list with assigned numbers.
>  
> You will be giving me probably the only boost I will need!  I will be 
> available later on,
> if I want to take part in the ask/answer system here.
>  
>  
> Thanks a lot,
>  
> Anthony
>  
> 8:27 pm PST October 4th, 2008
>  
>  
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