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Re: converting letters to numbers

From Piet van Oostrum <piet@vanoostrum.org>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: converting letters to numbers
Date 2013-10-16 16:25 -0400
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Charles Hixson <charleshixsn@earthlink.net> writes:

> On 10/13/2013 10:02 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> On Sun, 13 Oct 2013 20:13:32 -0700, Tim Roberts wrote:
>>
>>> def add(c1, c2):
>>>       % Decode
>>>       c1 = ord(c1) - 65
>>>       c2 = ord(c2) - 65
>>>       % Process
>>>       i1 = (c1 + c2) % 26
>>>       % Encode
>>>       return chr(i1+65)
>> Python uses # for comments, not %, as I'm sure you know. What language
>> were you thinking off when you wrote the above?
>>
>>
>>
> IIRC Lisp uses % for comments, but it may need to be doubled.  (It's
> been doubled in the examples I've seen, and I don't remember the
> syntax.)
> Perhaps Scheme has the same convention, but Scheme could be considered a
> part of the Lisp clade.

Lisp and scheme use semicolon (;). It wouldn't have been that difficult
to look that up I think.
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  Re: converting letters to numbers Robert Day <robertkday@gmail.com> - 2013-10-08 15:47 +0100
    Re: converting letters to numbers kjakupak@gmail.com - 2013-10-08 07:51 -0700
      Re: converting letters to numbers Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2013-10-08 11:01 -0400
  Re: converting letters to numbers random832@fastmail.us - 2013-10-08 11:36 -0400
    Re: converting letters to numbers kjakupak@gmail.com - 2013-10-08 08:44 -0700
      Re: converting letters to numbers random832@fastmail.us - 2013-10-08 11:58 -0400
      Re: converting letters to numbers Tim Roberts <timr@probo.com> - 2013-10-13 20:13 -0700
        Re: converting letters to numbers Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2013-10-14 05:02 +0000
          Re: converting letters to numbers Charles Hixson <charleshixsn@earthlink.net> - 2013-10-16 12:18 -0700
            Re: converting letters to numbers Piet van Oostrum <piet@vanoostrum.org> - 2013-10-16 16:25 -0400
          Re: converting letters to numbers Rotwang <sg552@hotmail.co.uk> - 2013-10-16 23:39 +0100
            Re: converting letters to numbers MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2013-10-16 23:53 +0100
            Re: converting letters to numbers Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2013-10-17 01:21 +0100
          Re: converting letters to numbers Tim Roberts <timr@probo.com> - 2013-10-19 16:31 -0700
          Re: converting letters to numbers rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-10-20 01:33 -0700
  Re: converting letters to numbers Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-10-08 17:05 +0100
  Re: converting letters to numbers Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-10-08 21:24 +0000

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