[Tutor] Question about autocomplete functionality
Hi All, I wrote a small utility several months ago to easily search a project list (an excel spreadsheet) by project name or number etc. However I am thinking of expanding it with the following sort of functionality - the ability to add 'tags' to a given project (tags being just simple descriptive words about a given project). However, this is only really useful if I can keep a running list of all tags that have ever been entered and use a sort of autocomplete functionality to make them quicker to enter. And to reduce the number of, and discourage the use of, 'almost duplicate' tags. Are there any resources out there (libraries, tutorials etc) that could help me figure this sort of autocomplete functionality out? Thanks, Richard ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
[Tutor] How to find a substring within a list of items
I have an object that contains about 3500 list items, each list containing various data, some strings and some floats, like so: ['D', 123.4,'This is a project description', 'type', 52.1,'title'] What is the easiest way to search this list for a given string? So I want to find out if this list contains the string 'scrip' anywhere within it (case insensitive and including being just part of a larger string). Incidentally, I'm using the xlrd module to read in a spreadsheet. I effectively want to quickly pull out a list of lines from that spreadsheet that contain that substring anywhere within them. Maybe there is a better/faster way I should be doing this? I'm trying to give employees here a better/faster way of filtering through the company project list rather than opening up excel and doing a find search each time. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] How to find a substring within a list of items
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Wayne Werner waynejwer...@gmail.comwrote: I don't know if either of these are the best options (they probably aren't), but they should work, and for 3500 it will probably loop faster than opening up excel. HTH, Wayne Thanks Wayne. This would definitely be faster than getting Excel opened and doing it there. Given Alan's great suggestion in only stepping through string fields (this *does* have constant object formats) things should be even quicker. Now to give them a nice simple GUI to do it in. :) Thinking about wxPython (what I'm most used to), though it's been a while. Not sure if there are better options for something simple like this. Great help guys. Thanks. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] List processing question - consolidating duplicate entries
On Nov 27, 2007 5:40 PM, Kent Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a two-liner using itertools.groupby() and operator.itemgetter: data = [['Bob', '07129', 'projectA', '4001',5], ['Bob', '07129', 'projectA', '5001',2], ['Bob', '07101', 'projectB', '4001',1], ['Bob', '07140', 'projectC', '3001',3], ['Bob', '07099', 'projectD', '3001',2], ['Bob', '07129', 'projectA', '4001',4], ['Bob', '07099', 'projectD', '4001',3], ['Bob', '07129', 'projectA', '4001',2] ] import itertools, operator for k, g in itertools.groupby(sorted(data), key=operator.itemgetter(0, 1, 2, 3)): print k, sum(item[4] for item in g) I'm trying to understand what's going on in the for statement but I'm having troubles. The interpreter is telling me that itemgetter expects 1 argument and is getting 4. I understand that groupby takes 2 parameters the first being the sorted list. The second is a key and this is where I'm confused. The itemgetter function is going to return a tuple of functions (f[0],f[1],f[2],f[3]). Should I only be calling itemgetter with whatever element (0 to 3) that I want to group the items by? I'm almost getting this but not quite. ;) RQ ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
[Tutor] Python CMS advice wanted
Hi, I've got a site that is currently a static site. While not unmanageable at the moment (it's still pretty young), we've been entertaining thoughts of converting it to a CMS system. I'm looking for some good suggestions based on some simple criteria: - Python based - I have a rudimentary knowledge of Python and like it, so I'd prefer to go this route - Simple - Our needs are not very complex, we're really just thinking about maintainability and expandability. - We want to be able to customize the look and layout of the site to our whim. I'm a complete newbie when it comes to CMS systems so I'm not sure whether or not it might be better just to go with something like an install of Wordpress instead. Just looking for some suggestions. The current site btw is http://screencasters.heathenx.org RQ ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
[Tutor] List processing question - consolidating duplicate entries
I'm trying to process a list and I'm stuck. Hopefully someone can help me out here: I've got a list that is formatted as follows: [Name,job#,jobname,workcode,hours] An example might be: [Bob,07129,projectA,4001,5] [Bob,07129,projectA,5001,2] [Bob,07101,projectB,4001,1] [Bob,07140,projectC,3001,3] [Bob,07099,projectD,3001,2] [Bob,07129,projectA,4001,4] [Bob,07099,projectD,4001,3] [Bob,07129,projectA,4001,2] Now I'd like to consolidate entries that are duplicates. Duplicates meaning entries that share the same Name, job#, jobname and workcode. So for the list above, there are 3 entries for projectA which have a workcode of 4001. (there is a fourth entry for projectA but it's workcode is 5001 and not 4001). So I'd like to end up with a list so that the three duplicate entries are consolidated into one with their hours added up: [Bob,07129,projectA,4001,11] [Bob,07129,projectA,5001,2] [Bob,07101,projectB,4001,1] [Bob,07140,projectC,3001,3] [Bob,07099,projectD,3001,2] [Bob,07099,projectD,4001,3] I've tried doing it with brute force by stepping through each item and checking all the other items for matches, and then trying to build a new list as I go, but that's still confusing me - for instance how can I delete the items that I've already consolidated so they don't get processed again?. I'm not a programmer by trade so I'm sorry if this is a basic computer science question. RQ ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] Python CMS advice wanted
Whoa!. Lots of very good advice here. Thanks to all. After reading it all I'm wondering if maybe a templating system like Cheetah might be the way to go for us. I'll have to do a lot more reading and exploring. I'd love to learn something like Django but like it has been said, that's really a framework you'd use to build a CMS. And this site is really a labour of love and not a business venture so the time we invest into it at the moment is kind of in short supply. While we have less than 50 entries at the moment, adding each one is still quite a hack. I've written a small wxpython app to take away some of the pain of it, but it's still prone to corruption and still too much work. I think I'll have to watch some demo's to get a feel for how some of these systems work before going down any specific path, because a lot of it is still Greek to me. Again sincere thanks for all the great info, and I'll try to check back in on this thread once we get going on a solution. RQ ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] Which GUI?
On 8/2/07, scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was thinking about finding a copy of that book, so maybe starting WxPython would be easier then and not worry about Tkinter. Is WxPython in Action a very good book? I'm no programmer by trade, but dabble in Python/wxPython for fun and bought the book several months ago. I've found it to be very good. There are a lot of good online tutorials as well, but I was never sure if they were up to date with the later versions of the framework - so the book was blessing to me. I found the book to be very useful and clearly written. It's no reference manual (the online docs serve that purpose) but I think it really helped me get a good foundation in how to program with wxPython. IMO a good book is still more useful and efficient than online articles or tutorials for a newbie (like me) most of the time. It's nice to be able to thumb through and study some concept without flipping back and forth to some web page. I own a lot of computer books, and I've found Learning Python (an O'Reilly Book) and wxPython in Action to be my two most useful ones. RQ ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] Which GUI?
On 8/2/07, Eric Brunson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Switching gears from linear to event driven programming is a pretty significant paradigm shift. Will this book help him get his head around that? That's one of the main reasons why I bought it actually. I couldn't grasp in any significant way how it worked. I could build a working wxpython program based on tutorials etc. but didn't really know why/how it worked. There are early sections in the book dealing with the basics of the event-driven paradigm as well as a section discussing the Model-View-Controller pattern too. It's not exhaustive on the subject by any means, but cleared up a lot of questions for me. It doesn't just throw you into building a detailed wxpython app without any background as to how it works - although it does get you going immediately with some small hello world type stuff to immediately build a little confidence. ;) RQ ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] eyeD3 module installation on XP
Sorry Tino, Missed your response completely. Your advice on using cygwin was spot-on. I hadn't thought of using that. Per my response to Terry, I've got the .10 version up and running now. Thanks. RQ ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
[Tutor] Fwd: eyeD3 module installation on XP
On 7/16/07, Terry Carroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You might want to try downloading .10 instead of the current release and see if that works for you. See http://eyed3.nicfit.net/releases/ Sorry I can't help more. Nope. That's fine. Based on your response I was able to upgrade my Cygwin (didn't have the make utility installed) and then was able to download the .10 version and it's installed and working here right now. Awesome. I won't be doing much coding here at work but I like to dabble now and then ;). I'll (hopefully) be able to install the .deb package without problem on my ubuntu box at home. Thanks a lot. RQ ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
[Tutor] eyeD3 module installation on XP
I'm interested in writing a small app - or attempting to ;) - which will involve using the eyeD3 python module to process id3 tags of a given set of files. There are source downloads as well as downloads for various linux distros, which is fine. However I also might want to work on this in XP. I'm not sure how to install this on a Windows system. The install instructions in the source code download describe the normal ./configure, make, make install which I've used several times before when installing stuff on my home linux box, but I'm not sure these will work on my Xp system. Any pointers on how to go about installing this module? There's a file called 'setup.py.in' as well. Not sure what that does.. Are there any id3 tag processing modules other than eyeD3 that I should be looking at? Thanks. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
[Tutor] How can I escape a pound symbol in my script?
Hi, I'm writing a very simple python script which writes out some predefined text to a file (which will later become part of an html file). I need to write out a pound sign '#' to the file and I can't figure out how to escape it. I've tried '\#' and '\u0023', but neither works. How can I do it? Thanks. RQ ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] How can I escape a pound symbol in my script?
Thanks for the quick responses guys... I was fooled by Vim and my own inexperience. I had forgotten to escape a preceding quote and the pound symbol was generating a python comment which showed up in syntax highlighting... Grrr. Problem fixed now. [walking away embarrassed...] ;) ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
[Tutor] how can I compare a local directory or file with a remote one
I'm interested in writing a quick script that would run a diff-type command that would compare a local directory to a remote one to identify the changes in the files within that directory. I was initially thinking that I would maybe use the linux diff command in conjunction with the wget command (or something similar) to create a local copy but that involves downloading files. Is there any way in python to do a similar thing but without having to download a copy of the remote files/directories? Any ideas? ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] gmail
On 5/29/07, Adam Urbas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, I have gmail now, but I'm not sure how to turn off HTML. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor When you're typing in your email, you should see a ' Plain text' button link on the upper left. This will put you in plain text mode. Likewise you'll see a similar button to switch back to 'Rich Formatting' mode from there. RQ ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
[Tutor] Podcast aggregator - OPML Parsing?
I'd like to try my hand at writing a very simple podcast aggregator for linux. I'll be using wxPython and have found the Universal Feed Parser which looks good for me to use, but I'm having trouble finding a similar module that might parse OPML files. Does anybody know of a good one? Or should I do that myself. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] Running an exe from Python
On 2/22/07, Nagendra Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What it does is that opens and closes the command window really fast and displays a value of 1 in the interpreter. How can I get python to display the results in the interactive window or what is the right way to do this. I assume you're using the PythonWin editor that comes from ActiveState. I tend to use the editor to create and edit the scripts, but I open a separate command line window (or terminal) for testing and running the scripts. This way, the output is right there and remains visible. If you run the script from within the PythonWin editor it will generate the output and then immediately close the output window and you miss seeing it. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] Replying to the tutor-list
On 2/14/07, Mike Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The following tutor faq has an explanation: http://www.python.org/infogami-faq/tutor/tutor-why-do-my-replies-go-to-t he-person-who-sent-the-message-and-not-to-the-list/ It seems like this is designed for the 5% case when it makes the other 95% of normal reply cases more difficult. I would (like to) think that the vast majority of replies are meant for all eyes. I would think it's the responsibility of the person replying if he/she wants to respond privately only rather than making that the defacto default. Hitting reply in Gmail responds only back to the sender and not to the list. I've been corrected (politely I might add) on more than one occasion. Either way, it's a good list though. ;) ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] Replying to the tutor-list
On 2/15/07, Alan Gauld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I dunno about you but 95% of my email is private, only about 5% comes from mailing lists. Yeah, me too, but I guess it seems easier to just hit 'reply' 100% of the time and have it go to the right recipient. My point really was that 95% of the time, the recipient is everyone in the mailing list, and only 5% of the time do I want to privately respond to a mailing list item. I've just noticed that Gmail doesn't even show a reply-all button if there is only one sender. If there is a cc included then it becomes available. Either way I will just remember to hit reply-all. No big whup. RQ ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] Trouble getting os.execl() command to work
On 2/11/07, Luke Paireepinart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: for name in filelist: oops! filelist still contains the non-normalized names of the files! Dang! Thank you sir. I should have recaptured the file list before continuing on. Alan - thanks for the great info as well. I will check it out and hopefully streamline it. I haven't worked with the os module much before, thanks for pointing me in the right direction. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
[Tutor] Converting Filenames to Lower case
Hi, I'm interested in a writing a quick python script for use on the command line. I'm at the linux terminal inside a directory with a bunch of files. The files have mixed case (some are .JPG and some are .jpg, etc..) I'd like to be able to run a python script that will take all the files in the directory I'm in and convert all the filenames and extensions to lower case. Any ideas on where to look? I've fiddled quite a bit with very basic scripting but nothing to do with getting files from the current directory and processing their names. Can anybody point me in the right direction to get started? ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
[Tutor] Trouble getting os.execl() command to work
I'm having a slight problem here. I've got a script (shown below) which is run from the command line. I am converting the filenames to lowercase and then, for each .cr2 file, I'm building a command line and running it. Seems pretty simple. I print the resulting command line and it looks fine, but os.execl() won't seem to execute it. It tells me no such file or directory. Yet I can cut and paste the printed line onto the command line and execute it and it works fine. Am I missing something? Here's the code: import os import string # get a list of the files in the current working directory filelist = os.listdir(os.getcwd()) # run through the list and convert all of them to lowercase for name in filelist: lowered_name = string.lower(name) print name + - + lowered_name os.rename (name,lowered_name) # run through the list again and for all .cr2 files run # the exiftool command to copy the exif data from cr2 to jpg file for name in filelist: #extract extension ext = name[-3:] if ext == 'cr2': jpg_dest = name[:-4]+.jpg cmd_string = /home/richard/ExifTool/exiftool -TagsFromFile + name + -exif:all + jpg_dest print cmd_string#this string looks correct os.execl(cmd_string) #the resulting command throws an error ?? ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] free IDE for Python?
On 11/14/06, Tim Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've used vim in the past for python and recommend it for ease ofuse and support. I also use emacs, which may be found harder tolearn but has the advantage of being able to evaluate code directlyin the editor. timI have to chuckle when you recommend Vim for ease of use. Now don't start flaming me quite yet. I'm a big fan of Vim and I'm in the midst of learning it myself. I think it's a very powerful editor and I like it a lot. But recommending it for ease of use might be a little stretch. It's like a lot of things, the higher learning curve ultimately gets you greater rewards. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] A simple list question...
On 9/7/06, Kent Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, it doesn't. You are confused somewhere; my guess is your original data has newlines. Sorry, my bad. When I created the original list I was splitting a string in two pieces. The latter portion of the string had a newline at the end. I had taken the slice with [index:] instead of [index:-1]. Thanks for the help and the tips regarding other ways to do it. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] Style query
I believe you can find it here:http://www.python.org/doc/essays/styleguide.htmlAuthored by Guido Van Rossum himself.Cheers, RichardOn 8/13/06, dave s [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As my programs become more complex I am aware of the need to adopt aconsistent style. To differentiate between classes, instances objects I usecapital letters for example:A class uses 'MyClass'A class instance 'myInstance' A def uses 'myDef'An object 'myobject' or 'my_object' etcCan any of you more experienced programmers outline your style or critique myway of doing this ? Tell me if you have a different system - I am trying to get myself into good habits :)Is there a Python style guide anywhere ?CheersDavePSI have started using packages, so much easier and more flexable than longPYTHONPATH declarations and am now proramming with QT :). ___Tutor maillist-Tutor@python.orghttp://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
[Tutor] Raw files and jpeg thumbnail extraction
I am interested in extracting jpeg thumbnails that are stored in my camera's Canon .CR2 raw files. Does anybody know of any python libraries with this kind of functionality? Is dcraw the only way to implement this functionality? I'm writing a simple gui to selectively process raw files into jpegs, but I really would like to pick the photos based on thumbnails. I read somewhere that most digital camera raw files contain jpeg thumbnails that would be much quicker to load than doing an on-the-fly conversion just to get the thumbnails. Can anybody point me in a good direction on this? ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
[Tutor] Writing python scripts to control GIMP
Hi,I'm interested in learning about how to write python scripts that can control the GIMP. I've read about several scripts but I'd like to know where to start learning about how it's done. Anybody got any good places to look for tutorials, references etc? ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] How can I copy files recursively?
On 7/11/06, Alan Gauld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Things which are easy in the shell are usually less easy in Python.In your case a simple cp -r will copy the files and an rm -rf willdelete the originals.Or you could just use mv on the top level folder. But I don't want the sub folders to come along with the copy. I'd like to grab the mp3 files out of a set of subfolders and place them all into a single folder somewhere else. I'm completely lost when it comes to bash scripting, so I may take Michael P. Reilly's suggestion as a starting point since it's the only one I understand at first glance ;). I'm really a newbie to python programming so readability and understanding it is first on my list. Efficiency and speed is secondary to me at the moment.Thanks to all for the help. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
[Tutor] How can I copy files recursively?
I know this is probably a dumb question:I've got mp3 files that are downloaded (by ipodder) into individual subfolders. I'd like to write a quick script to move (not copy) all the mp3 files in those folders into a single destination folder. I was thinking I could do it easily from the linux command line (cp -r copies the subfolders out as well) but I can't figure out how to do it. Is there an easy way to achieve this using Python? I am assuming this would be something Python was designed to make easy.. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] Python video?
On 4/13/06, Steve Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On a similar line, I've recently discovered podcasts.I spend a lotof time driving, and have been listening through the Security Nowbroadcasts, and the last few days some stuff on Evolutionary Theory. Does anyone know of some good sources for programming-type discussions- talks or lectures I could download and listen to?I've found some neat stuff at http://itconversations.com. They publish quite a few podcasts per week, some interest me, some don't, but they cover quite a large range of topics.Here's a link to part 1 of a 2-part podcast interview with Guido Von Rossum: http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail545.htmlAlso, Leo Laport has started (finally!) a podcast on open source called Floss. He does several podcasts these days. You can find them (and the Floss podcast) here: http://twit.tvYou can also do a search on 'programming' or 'python' at http://podcastalley.com and sometimes find some good podcasts.One other way that's kind of neat, is to use http://podzinger.com which does searches via speech recognition on podcasts.There's quite a lot of potential sources for good programming related podcasts, however finding them is the tough part. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] Question About Function Arguments and Returned Results
On 4/11/06, Kent Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is no need to pass the class object in to the function, you cancreate it in the function and return it. A class might be nice becauseit gives names to the various values. A dict can also be used for this. Do what feels right :-)To be more specific, I'm going to have probably 6 functions that do similar things. They all take slightly different arguments, they all do slightly different calculations, but the results of all the functions are the same format. So I guess it makes sense to use a class. Now, when you say 'create it in the function', you mean create the class instance inside the function and return that instance? The class itself is defined somewhere else in the module containing the functions so that all the functions have access to it. (Total newb to python and classes so sorry if that's a stupid question). ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] preliminary app design question
On 4/5/06, Alan Gauld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sounds like creating each app as a class which can be instantiated ondemand by the master application would be a possible design option.I guess writing the master program (or some simplified version of it) would be required from the start in order to make launching the separate design programs possible (for testing, debugging etc..). The class approach coupled to a config XML file would do this.Define a file that looks something like applicationsapplicationdisplayNameMy Foo App/displayNameclassNameFoo/className/icon src=""> params param nameMyName/name/value default=15 /param param nameAnotherName/name/value default=0 /param /params /applicationapplication displayNameMy Bar App/displayNameclassNameBar/className/icon src="">params param nameSomeName/name/value default=None /param /params /application/applications Then you can read that and use it to construct a menu or set of buttonsor toolbar or whatever.So for the master program this makes sense. However, what about the input/output data of each individual design app. All the different programs will share some common data but each one may have different components, and some will be large arrays of numbers, is XML still applicable for that type of file data? I think my first task will likely be settling on what I need each component of the system to do and how they will interact. It's becoming more complex the more I discuss it.. ;) Obviously this won't happen right away, I would likely develop each small design app as a standalone and then when I've got 3 or 4 done I would tie them together with the project app.Why wait for 3 or 4 just add them one by one! Its just aase of editing the config file... In fact you could eveb make a config applet to createthe xml entries as your first project!Ease myself into it. ;) Investigate ElementTree - its much easier than the standard xml domand sax parsers that ship with Python.I have the documentation printed out for study. Thanks for the help. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] preliminary app design question
On 4/5/06, Hugo González Monteverde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now seriously. Are there file formats meant to be used and understood byother programs in principle (we know it is a nice feature, but is itnecessary?)?There will be input data and output results from program A that may be utilized by program B. If the two independent designs are linked to the same project then they will share this data, if they aren't part of the same project they wouldn't. I would assume that would mean that the file formats of all the design programs would have to be readable and changeable by the master program. Not sure if this necessitates XML, but to me it seems like standardizing the formats will make things simpler.hope this rant helps a bitIt did. Thanks. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
