Re: [Tutor] Object designer applications - are there any?

2011-08-05 Thread Christian Witts
On 2011/08/05 01:01 PM, Flynn, Stephen (L P - IT) wrote: snip It struck me that if I write a read in Sybase DDL and spit out Oracle DDL routine and so forth, I'd get a lot of reuse out of it. However, I've not done much OOP at all and consequently, my object design skills are somewhat

Re: [Tutor] Object designer applications - are there any?

2011-08-05 Thread Flynn, Stephen (L P - IT)
I'll certainly give it a look-see - thanks Christian I'm going to end up writing converters anyway, as at some point I'm going to be given (for example) a COBOL copybook for a file and have to translate that into an Oracle table version (actually I already have tools to do this, but if I'm

Re: [Tutor] Object designer applications - are there any?

2011-08-05 Thread Alan Gauld
On 05/08/11 12:01, Flynn, Stephen (L P - IT) wrote: Anyway, nearly all of this work, at some point, involves me reading a Data Dictionary for the source system and converting it to an Oracle table definition. More often than not this DDL is in text form and I convert it to Oracle DDL

Re: [Tutor] Object designer applications - are there any?

2011-08-05 Thread python
Stephen, You might check out the SQL management tools from Embarcadero. They may provide some of the conversion capabilities you are looking for. And they generate beautiful documentation. Perhaps you could wrap the features of this product with Python scripts to acheive your goals? Malcolm

Re: [Tutor] Object designer applications - are there any?

2011-08-05 Thread Flynn, Stephen (L P - IT)
However, I've not done much OOP at all I'm not sure you need OOP for this. As you say a routine ie a function might be all you need along with some data structures - probably dictionaries to define the translations needed. I suspect you're correct Alan, but as I'm using this an a learning

Re: [Tutor] Object designer applications - are there any?

2011-08-05 Thread Robert Sjöblom
It struck me that if I write a read in Sybase DDL and spit out Oracle DDL routine and so forth, I'd get a lot of reuse out of it. However, I've not done much OOP at all and consequently, my object design skills are somewhat non-existent. Whilst I have a rough idea of what my properties my

Re: [Tutor] Object designer applications - are there any?

2011-08-05 Thread ALAN GAULD
I'm not sure you need OOP for this. I suspect you're correct Alan, but as I'm using this an a learning exercise for the language it seemed too good an opportunity to miss That's fine so long as we understand why you are going down the OOP route. can relate a table to an object in my

[Tutor] Python loop isn't working

2011-08-05 Thread Susana Iraiis Delgado Rodriguez
Hello list! I have a python script which works with other libraries in order to create maps. The script looks for an extension in a specific directory and with mapnik makes the thumbnails. The module works fine from Python command line and Pyton IDLE, but I need this program to run from MS-DOS,

Re: [Tutor] Python loop isn't working

2011-08-05 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 8/5/2011 9:14 AM Susana Iraiis Delgado Rodriguez said... Hello list! I have a python script which works with other libraries in order to create maps. The script looks for an extension in a specific directory and with mapnik makes the thumbnails. The module works fine from Python command line

[Tutor] Re : Python loop isn't working

2011-08-05 Thread kliat...@gmail.com
Can you try to split it into fonctions Because it is hard to read it. Envoyé depuis mon HTC - Reply message - De : Susana Iraiis Delgado Rodriguez susana.delgad...@utzmg.edu.mx Pour : tutor@python.org Objet : [Tutor] Python loop isnapos;t working Date : ven., août 5, 2011 18:14 Hello

Re: [Tutor] Python loop isn't working

2011-08-05 Thread Alan Gauld
On 05/08/11 17:14, Susana Iraiis Delgado Rodriguez wrote: The module works fine from Python command line and Pyton IDLE, but I need this program to run from MS-DOS, when I added the try statement it started to fail. Module runs but doesn't do what I need. Console shows: C:\Python26shp2png.py

[Tutor] Converting from a single module to a package

2011-08-05 Thread Tim Johnson
I'm been coding in python now for close to 10 years. one of the modules that I have composed for re-use has gotten pretty big: It is implemented as import tlib as std I am thinking about 'downsizing' this module and breaking it up into smaller components, thus a package. And I would like to

Re: [Tutor] Indexing a list with nested tuples

2011-08-05 Thread Christopher King
On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 10:44 PM, Alexander Quest alexxqu...@gmail.comwrote: have [0] to indicate that I want to go to the second value within that first item, which is the point value Actually [0] is the first element. I would go with [1]. ___ Tutor

Re: [Tutor] Converting from a single module to a package

2011-08-05 Thread Christopher King
To make a package, you make a folder named what you want to name the package, for example: virus_toolkit. Then you make a file in it called __init__.py. This is what you import if you import the virus_toolkit. You usually put documentation and general functions in this I believe (I'm not 100% sure

Re: [Tutor] [Python-ideas] multiple intro statements [was: combine for/with statement]

2011-08-05 Thread Christopher King
I give +0. I'm sure that it could come in use somewhere, as long as it isn't used everywhere. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] Converting from a single module to a package

2011-08-05 Thread Tim Johnson
* Christopher King g.nius...@gmail.com [110805 12:03]: To make a package, you make a folder named what you want to name the package, for example: virus_toolkit. Then you make a file in it called __init__.py. This is what you import if you import the virus_toolkit. You usually put documentation

Re: [Tutor] Indexing a list with nested tuples

2011-08-05 Thread Alexander Quest
My bad- meant to say [1]. Thanks. -Alexander On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Christopher King g.nius...@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 10:44 PM, Alexander Quest alexxqu...@gmail.comwrote: have [0] to indicate that I want to go to the second value within that first item, which is

Re: [Tutor] Converting from a single module to a package

2011-08-05 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 8/5/2011 4:22 PM Tim Johnson said... * Christopher Kingg.nius...@gmail.com [110805 12:03]: To make a package, you make a folder named what you want to name the package, for example: virus_toolkit. Then you make a file in it called __init__.py. This is what you import if you import the

Re: [Tutor] Converting from a single module to a package

2011-08-05 Thread Tim Johnson
* Emile van Sebille em...@fenx.com [110805 15:51]: On 8/5/2011 4:22 PM Tim Johnson said... * Christopher Kingg.nius...@gmail.com [110805 12:03]: To make a package, you make a folder named what you want to name the package, for example: virus_toolkit. Then you make a file in it called