diff --git a/pythonstatcomp.html.markdown b/pythonstatcomp.html.markdown index 6dde1cf0..0e6f1f87 100644 --- a/pythonstatcomp.html.markdown +++ b/pythonstatcomp.html.markdown @@ -38,18 +38,16 @@ r.text # raw page source print(r.text) # prettily formatted # save the page source in a file: os.getcwd() # check what's the working directory -f = open("learnxinyminutes.html", "wb") -f.write(r.text.encode("UTF-8")) -f.close() +with open("learnxinyminutes.html", "wb") as f: + f.write(r.text.encode("UTF-8")) # downloading a csv fp = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/adambard/learnxinyminutes-docs/master/" fn = "pets.csv" r = requests.get(fp + fn) print(r.text) -f = open(fn, "wb") -f.write(r.text.encode("UTF-8")) -f.close() +with open(fn, "wb") as f: + f.write(r.text.encode("UTF-8")) """ for more on the requests module, including APIs, see http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/user/quickstart/ @@ -71,8 +69,8 @@ pets # 1 vesuvius 6 23 fish # 2 rex 5 34 dog -""" R users: note that Python, like most normal programming languages, starts - indexing from 0. R is the unusual one for starting from 1. +""" R users: note that Python, like most C-influenced programming languages, starts + indexing from 0. R starts indexing at 1 due to Fortran influnce. """ # two different ways to print out a column