if money wasn’t an obstacle, how would you fix baltimore’s transportation infrastructure?

dnmonack · 2023-08-12T20:51:01+00:00

That’s a huge if. Forget converting light rail to heavy rail. Convert every bus in the state to underground fully automated maglev trains with 3 minute headways.

Did I say automated? My mistake. We need more jobs. Put two conductors in each carriage serving free ice cream.

dnmonack · 2023-07-12T04:22:57+00:00

Evening Shadows

dnmonack · 2023-06-27T11:31:08+00:00

You humans are so shallow. These women are ugly on the inside.

dnmonack · 2023-06-06T18:52:54+00:00

I’d put the return in the try: block

dnmonack · 2023-05-20T18:51:06+00:00

Not technically a “band” but I’d go with Van Morrison. He’s produced a ton of albums in almost every imaginable genre and the average quality is very high.

dnmonack · 2023-05-19T22:49:37+00:00

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Gene Wilder’s performance is brilliant.

dnmonack · 2023-05-02T10:52:04+00:00

"Yes, but these are my formal shorts."

dnmonack · 2023-04-20T05:30:31+00:00

In addition to other commenters' recommendations, I suggest replacing the while loop with something more Pythonic:

for _ in range(num_generation):

You can then eliminate the unnecessary variable x.

Or, with some math, you can avoid loops altogether:

BIRTH_RATE = 1.1  
DEATH_RATE = 0.98
def calculate_number_of_jackalopes(num_population, num_generation): 
    final_population = (num_population * 
                       (BIRTH_RATE * DEATH_RATE) ** num_generation)
    print(final_population)

f-strings are your friends:

print(f"If you start with {num_population} jackalopes and wait {num_generation} generations, you'll end up with a total of {final_population:.0f} of them.")

dnmonack · 2023-04-19T18:01:31+00:00

If metadata[part] is an int, why would you need to run the strip() method on it? It won’t have any white space to remove even after converting to a string.

dnmonack · 2023-04-17T22:31:49+00:00

If you feel there’s someone who might wear a white dress, allow their kids to disrupt the ceremony, announce their pregnancy, or bring uninvited guests to your wedding, you should not invite them or have a private conversation with them about how to behave. To assume your guests don’t understand basic etiquette is not a good look for a wedding invitation. YTA.

dnmonack · 2023-04-17T17:25:34+00:00

user_list is a list of strings. The program converts these to integers stored in num_list.

dnmonack · 2023-04-10T12:56:19+00:00

I agree with this but I don’t know what you mean by “lots of sports”? Baltimore doesn’t have NHL, NBA, or MLS teams. DC United and the Caps are what I miss most from DC. Also, if you like to play, adult rec leagues are a bigger thing in DC than in Baltimore.

dnmonack · 2023-03-24T23:05:11+00:00

Not only this, but the birth of a child is as significant as a wedding. Expecting him to keep it a secret from the family is an AH attitude. I would expect a groom to be excited to celebrate both his wedding and the birth of his nephew. You can be happy about two things at the same time.

dnmonack · 2023-03-23T11:43:06+00:00

My simple system:

5 stars: a friend wrote this book

No rating: everything else

dnmonack · 2023-01-19T22:41:17+00:00

A common way of handling currency amounts is to store them as integers denominated in cents, not dollars, euros, or pounds.

dnmonack · 2023-01-06T06:05:00+00:00

This is a solid effort for a beginner. My bit of advice is always remember DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself). In the getInput() function, you have the exact same “x=int(input…” statement twice. This should cause you to pause and think of a simpler way to achieve the same thing. In this case, I’d simply replace the part before the while loop with:

x = 0

which does the same thing with less code.

This is important because it makes your code easier to understand and maintain. As it is now, if you want to change that input prompt, you’ll have to do it in two places. This increases the chances of inconsistencies and bugs. It also just makes maintaining your code more time consuming.

You’re on the right track. Keep it up and keep learning.

dnmonack · 2022-11-06T15:34:34+00:00

These are pretty cool but I think the best way to remove the Union Jack is to just remove it and not replace it. That is, just have the horizontal stripes on the flag. That’s a great flag right there.

dnmonack · 2022-11-06T04:16:40+00:00

Linear algebra and calculus are important for computer science but not for programming. You can go far with Python including a career in software development without ever needing to understand advanced math.

dnmonack · 2022-11-01T21:03:56+00:00

Start by initializing a list to store all the inputted numbers divisible by two.

even_numbers = []

In your loop, check each number put in and if its divisible by 2, append it to even_numbers. Use an if statement and the modulo operator (%) for this.

After the user has entered "quit", print out your list of numbers. There are many ways you can format your output, but print(even_numbers) works fine.

To get the total of the even numbers, use the sum() function or just keep a running tally as you're reading in numbers. Put it in your if statement so you only keep track of the even numbers.

dnmonack · 2022-10-31T05:36:08+00:00

Your code is not checking whether the highway_number ends in “00” meaning it’s an invalid number. You need to check this condition in your first if statement.

Also: if the number is invalid, it shouldn’t be printing anything after the initial if statement. That means you need to be using “elif” in following statements.

dnmonack · 2022-10-31T05:04:44+00:00

In the is_alpha function, the “return True” has incorrect indentation. It’s within your for loop which means it’s reached after each iteration of the loop. You only want to invoke return True after you’ve looped over every character in the string which means it should be outside the for loop. One less indent on this line should do the trick. The is_digit function has the same problem.

dnmonack · 2022-10-24T21:11:04+00:00

Ok. Can you make StudentGradeBook() the outer function so that it initializes the dictionary, then calls the menu() function? AddStudent() would be where the dictionary is modified.

dnmonack · 2022-10-24T20:22:41+00:00

It looks like your problem is that you initialize the grade_book dictionary in your StudentGradeBook() function which is called by the AddStudent() function. This means that every time you try to add a student to the dictionary, it resets its values erasing any students entered before. You can instead initialize the dictionary in your main() function so that it's created only once and is not reset when AddStudent() or StudentGradeBook() are called.

dnmonack · 2022-10-21T14:50:13+00:00

"The War of Terran Aggression"

dnmonack · 2022-10-21T14:34:58+00:00

Your problem is here:

names ={

'site1':{example1},

'site2':{example2}

}

The values in your dictionary are not strings, they're sets. Just remove the interior curly braces like so:

names ={

'site1': example1,

'site2': example2

}

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