[Tutor] self (again)

2006-08-13 Thread John Aherne
the code. Hope I have explained myself so people can understand what I mean. Looking forward to the light of understanding. Regards John Aherne ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

[Tutor] key_press_event

2006-08-13 Thread John CORRY
the 'a' appear in 'atest'. It is like the code works first, sets the text to 'test' and then the key press works and inserts the 'a'. Do I need to disconnect the key press signal? Thanks, John. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http

Re: [Tutor] [pygtk] key_press_event

2006-08-13 Thread John CORRY
Sandro, That's exactly what I need. Thanks, John. def callback3(self,data,widget): input = data.get_text() print input data.set_text(test) If you don't return True, default callback will be called that insert the 'a'. I have something like

Re: [Tutor] wx.Notebook query in wxpython

2006-08-10 Thread John Fouhy
and unchecking should hide it. [...] Hi Amresh, I suggest you try asking on the wxPython list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (you will probably have to subscribe first). The people on that list are both very knowledgable and very helpful :-) -- John. ___ Tutor

Re: [Tutor] Rock, Paper, Scissors

2006-08-10 Thread John Fouhy
structure that expresses what beats what, and then reduce your code to: if human.choice == computer.choice: print 'Draw!' elif # human beats computer print 'Human wins!' else: print 'Computer wins!' HTH :-) -- John

Re: [Tutor] searching for a string in a dictionary

2006-08-09 Thread John Fouhy
think what he wants is: if 'teststring' in [s.type for s in all_types] ... -- John. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] searching for a string in a dictionary

2006-08-09 Thread John Fouhy
On 09/08/06, Alan Gauld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But type is still not accessible as an attribute. It looked to me like he wanted a list of dictionaries in which case it wouyld be: if teststring in [s['type'] for s in all_types] Err, that is what I meant :-) -- John

Re: [Tutor] Exercise in writing a python function.

2006-08-08 Thread John Fouhy
constraint is met. Hi Kermit, Is there anything particular that you're stuck on? I think I understand your function, although I'm not sure what role z plays. Are you looking for help on how to translate the description you've given into logic suitable for programming? -- John

Re: [Tutor] Exercise in writing a python function.

2006-08-08 Thread John Fouhy
On 09/08/06, Kermit Rose [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello John. Thanks for replying. In my previous version, I used z as the critical value,. Since I created zlim, a function of z, to be passed in as a parameter, I no longer need z in the parameter list. In another part of the program

Re: [Tutor] creating a method name on the fly

2006-08-07 Thread John Fouhy
that all the information about your GUI is brought together in one place where it's easy to see, and all the mechanical work is pushed off to one side :-) -- John. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] Rock, Paper, Scissors

2006-08-07 Thread John Fouhy
that always pick what the human picked in the previous round tend to do better than random (unless the human notices, at which point they start doing very badly :-) ). -- John. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman

Re: [Tutor] (*args, **kwargs)

2006-08-05 Thread John Fouhy
], args[2])# could replace this with: return _range(*args) def _range(start, stop, step): # etc HTH! -- John. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] syntax error

2006-07-31 Thread John Fouhy
conditions, so it doesn't have its own condition. What I often like to do is to use a comment to indicate what is true in the 'else' branch. eg: else: # node.cargo = self.head.cargo self.last.next = node self.last = node HTH! -- John

Re: [Tutor] The In Operator

2006-07-26 Thread John Fouhy
: key in dict is equivalent to dict.has_key(key)) (are you new to programming in general, or just python in particular?) -- John. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] Is there a method like this already?

2006-07-24 Thread John Fouhy
) is a datetime.timedelta, and (date1-date2).days is the number of days in the timedelta. Reading the documentation helps! -- John. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] What's the invalid syntax?

2006-07-24 Thread John Fouhy
On 25/07/06, Nathan Pinno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's the invalid syntax? I don't know, what did python tell you when you tried to run the code? -- John. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] confused by linked queue

2006-07-24 Thread John Fouhy
--+-- None |||| | cargo-\|| cargo-\| \---+/\---+/ | | \|/ \|/ cargomore cargo Hope this helps; if not, ask more questions :-) -- John

[Tutor] loops to assign variables

2006-07-22 Thread John CORRY
= self.wTree.get_widget(ent) Is it possible to do what I want it to do? Am I on the right lines? Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, John. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] : finding out if the horizontal scrollbar on a Tix.CheckList is being used or not

2006-07-21 Thread John Fouhy
with: tkFont.Font instances support a .measure method. So, if f is a tkFont.Font, then f.measure('hello world!') will return how many pixels wide that string would be on the screen. You could maybe compare this with the width of the widget itself? -- John. ___ Tutor

[Tutor] Good teamwork!

2006-07-21 Thread John CORRY
! I have downloaded the ValidatedEntry extension and had a quick look at it. It looks like it will sort out my validation problems. A good team effort! Thanks, John. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman

[Tutor] Help me make it look pretty!

2006-07-20 Thread John CORRY
for a way to keep the numbers right justified. Any suggestions or comments as always are greatly appreciated. Regards, John. def callback36(self,data,text37,text38,text39,text40,text41,text42,label): a = text37.get_text() b = text38.get_text() c = text39.get_text() d

Re: [Tutor] Using python to create and save a Ms Word file

2006-07-20 Thread John Fouhy
; it's more helpful than you might expect :-) -- John. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] Comparing times

2006-07-18 Thread John Fouhy
. # untested def cmptime(s1, s2): Compare two times as strings in %H:%M:%S format. return cmp(time.strptime(s1, '%H:%M:%S'), time.strptime(s2, '%H:%M:%S')) -- John. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Tutor] Regular Expression Misunderstanding

2006-07-14 Thread John Fouhy
abcb, which is the longest match, and thus probably the one it found. If you look at the match object returned, you should se that the match starts at position 0 and is four characters long. Now, if you asked for a[bcd]*b$, that would be a different matter! HTH :-) -- John

Re: [Tutor] Regular Expression Misunderstanding

2006-07-14 Thread John Fouhy
can read the documentation --- a combination of both approaches usually works quite well :-) -- John. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] email anonymizing

2006-07-13 Thread John Fouhy
On 14/07/06, anil maran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i want to know how to generate [EMAIL PROTECTED] = [EMAIL PROTECTED] and then how do i do the translation [EMAIL PROTECTED] = [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Anil, Do you have any programming experience in other languages? -- John

Re: [Tutor] Help with strings and lists.

2006-07-13 Thread John Fouhy
everything out :-) -- John. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] abs beginner first project

2006-07-12 Thread John Fouhy
should be fun stuff with data structures. -- John. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

[Tutor] Need Help

2006-07-11 Thread Shappell, John J CW2
(self): return self.balance V/R CW2 John Shappell HHB 2-44 ADA BN Work 270-798-6823 FAX 775-618-2455 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] Need Help

2006-07-11 Thread John or Margaret Montgomery
On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 06:41:23 -0500 Luke Paireepinart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. Shappell, John J CW2 wrote: Here is the assignment [snip assignment] Please don't ask about homework in the future. Did your professor tell you to submit queries to this list? If so, could you ask him

Re: [Tutor] no loops

2006-07-11 Thread John Fouhy
implement it. Hi Chris, You are using iteration. That's what loops are :-) Perhaps you meant to say recursion, which is where a function calls itself. You could solve this recursively, but I think Gregor's comment is closer to what they want you to do. -- John

Re: [Tutor] quickie: a better dynamic dictionary update?

2006-07-11 Thread John Fouhy
first --- keepSet = set(lstKeepers) for key in myDict.keys(): if key not in keepSet: del myDict[key] -- John. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] How can I copy files recursively?

2006-07-10 Thread John Fouhy
(source): for f in files: os.rename(os.path.join(root, f), os.path.join(dest, f)) (although I would do a test run first, if I were you, since I often get os.walk wrong :-) ) -- John. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http

Re: [Tutor] Splitting

2006-07-09 Thread John Fouhy
On 10/07/06, Abhinav Gaurav [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Thanks for your help! I am wondering if it works fine then why it failing on my comp. And what is the remedy for it? What version of python are you running? -- John. ___ Tutor maillist

Re: [Tutor] Wiget

2006-06-29 Thread John Fouhy
in your Frame object? (do you know the difference between local variables and object attributes?) -- John. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] How to check a files size

2006-06-28 Thread John Fouhy
On 29/06/06, Kent Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: See shutil.copyfile() Why isn't this function in the os module with the other file commands? -- John. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] Writing an Alt-Enter

2006-06-19 Thread John Fouhy
the output you want. -- John. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] Beginner question(s)

2006-06-18 Thread John Fouhy
Also, does anyone know of a PDA that would run python? Some of the new Nokias run python: http://www.forum.nokia.com/python -- John. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] Delete directories recursively

2006-06-16 Thread John Corry
and then calls the function again. Is there a better way to do it? Would appreciate feedback on the code below. import shutil import os def zaps(self): try: shutil.rmtree('f:/m2m') except OSError, inst: print OSError os.chmod(inst.filename, 0666) self.zaps() Regards, John

Re: [Tutor] lambda and creating GUIs

2006-06-16 Thread John Fouhy
:' for attr in dir(e): print '%s: %s' % (attr, getattr(e, attr)) button.connect(clicked, show) -- John. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] lambda and creating GUIs

2006-06-15 Thread John Fouhy
onQuit somewhere else in that method, this code should be a dropin replacement for the line you quote. -- John. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] Offtopic observation

2006-06-07 Thread John Fouhy
approximately five seconds _after_ I send off my question.. -- John. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] Combo Box in Tkinter

2006-06-06 Thread John Fouhy
Check out Python MegaWidgets (pmw.sourceforge.net). On 07/06/06, Keo Sophon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Is there any Combo Box in Tkinter? I looked for it but only found list box. Might it be list box having any option to make itself as a combo box? Thanks, Phon

Re: [Tutor] FileDialogBox in Tkinter

2006-06-05 Thread John Fouhy
--- 'import Tkinter' or 'from Tkinter import *' won't bring it in. New Mexico Tech has a good reference too: http://infohost.nmt.edu/tcc/help/lang/python/tkinter.html It's a bit old, but a lot of it is still accurate, and it goes into more detail than the pythonware one. -- John

[Tutor] Not Really Questions

2006-06-04 Thread John Connors
at Python code and have a very good idea of what is happening and why unless it's written in OOP style in which case I have no idea. John _ Read, write and reply to Hotmail on your mobile. Find out more. http

Re: [Tutor] Hex conversion strangeness

2006-05-24 Thread John Fouhy
) is an integer, and python displays integers in base 10 by default --- hence, you see 33. By the way, you can enter integers in base 8 or base 16, if you want: 0x21, 041 (33, 33) 0x21 is 041 is 33 True HTH! -- John. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org

Re: [Tutor] Calendar Module

2006-05-22 Thread John Fouhy
-\n --- \n - \n' print s Hello World! - --- - Or, you could try typing print calendar.calendar(2006) into your console :-) -- John. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo

[Tutor] Treeview

2006-05-14 Thread John CORRY
improving? Or does it not count as I have solved my own problem? Regards, John. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] Nested list comprehensions

2006-05-14 Thread John Fouhy
translation would be something like: fibs = [0, 1] + [ a+b for (a, b) in zip(fibs, fibs[1:])] But you can't quite do that in python :-) -- John. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] Nested list comprehensions

2006-05-14 Thread John Fouhy
75025 2.14721368219 26 121393 4.08266218193 27 196418 20.1769099145 Hmm, do you know an easy way to check how much memory python is using? My HDD was swapping like crazy by the end of that.. -- John. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http

[Tutor] Problems with Treeview

2006-05-13 Thread John CORRY
, line 1 , in callback53 result = model.get_value(iter,0) TypeError: iter must be a GtkTreeIter What do I need to assign to iter to make this code work? Thanks, John. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman

[Tutor] trouble with re

2006-05-08 Thread Ertl, John
I have a file with 10,000 + lines and it has a coma delimited string on each line. The file should look like: DFRE,ship name,1234567 FGDE,ship 2, ,sdfsf The ,sdfsf line is bad data Some of the lines are messed up...I want to find all lines that do not end in a comma or seven digits and do

Re: [Tutor] trouble with re

2006-05-08 Thread Ertl, John
Kent, Thanks for the nock on the head, that has bitten me before. Taking out the spaces worked great. Thanks again, John Ertl -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kent Johnson Sent: Monday, May 08, 2006 10:53 AM Cc: tutor

Re: [Tutor] Python media player?

2006-05-08 Thread John Fouhy
, maybe? I got that from the cheese shop (under the links menu at python.org): http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/PyMedia/1.2.3.0 See also http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi?:action=browseasdf=338. -- John. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http

[Tutor] Button Signals

2006-05-07 Thread John CORRY
. Any help greatly appreciated. Thanks, John. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] Button Signals

2006-05-07 Thread John CORRY
Liam, Thanks for the prompt reply. That is working for me. Regards, John, -Original Message- From: Liam Clarke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 07 May 2006 13:06 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: tutor@python.org Subject: Re: [Tutor] Button Signals Hi John, I'll answer

[Tutor] 2 Combo Boxes! What was I thinking?

2006-05-06 Thread John CORRY
? Any help greatly appreciated. Thanks, John. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

[Tutor] Stumbled onto the answer!

2006-05-06 Thread John CORRY
]) store.append ([Tue]) store.append ([Wed]) store.append ([Thu]) store.append ([Fri]) store.append ([Sat]) store.append ([Sun]) combo2.set_model(store) combo2.set_text_column(0) combo2.set_active(0) It works but I am not sure why. Regards, A Very Happy John

[Tutor] Nested list comprehensions

2006-05-05 Thread John Clark
of reading the nested list comprehension syntax that makes sense, I would appreciate it if you would share it. Thanks, -John ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

[Tutor] 2 Combo Boxes! What was I thinking?

2006-05-04 Thread John CORRY
? Any help greatly appreciated. Thanks, John. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

[Tutor] Books

2006-05-03 Thread John Connors
birthday. So I was wondering (bearing in mimd that I'm only 2 or 3 steps above total beginner), what is the one book on python that I shouldn't be without? John _ realestate.com.au: the biggest address in property http

Re: [Tutor] Halting execution

2006-05-03 Thread Ertl, John
be a bit more careful about giving examples that are quick fixes as opposed to best practice. John -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hugo González Monteverde Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 12:05 PM To: tutor@python.org Subject

[Tutor] question about run time

2006-05-02 Thread Ertl, John
with compiling but I am not sure. Any ideas how to speed this up? I am running python 2.4 on a RHE3.0 cluster. Thanks, John Ertl ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] question about run time

2006-05-02 Thread Ertl, John
Kent, The files are very small (a few hundred lines). Maybe it is a network issue? But then why is it always slow the first time in the morning? I don't know network stuff but that seams a bit strange. Thanks, John Ertl -Original Message- From: Kent Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [Tutor] question about run time

2006-05-02 Thread Ertl, John
Kent, I will check with the systems guys...and the Perl guys down the hall to see if they have the same problem. Thanks for the help. John Ertl -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kent Johnson Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 12:27 PM

Re: [Tutor] question about run time

2006-05-02 Thread Ertl, John
myUse.sendEmail(%s memory/inode limit reached on gpfs % myUse.userName) -Original Message- From: Danny Yoo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 1:32 PM To: Ertl, John Cc: tutor@python.org Subject:Re: [Tutor] question about run time I have been using python

Re: [Tutor] simple question about numeric types

2006-05-02 Thread John Fouhy
simplify that line to: if isinstance(v, (int, float)): block (also, you might want to check if it's a long as well --- ie: isinstance(v, (int, float, long))) Another possibility, maybe: try: int(v) block except ValueError, TypeError: pass -- John

[Tutor] How Big Is Too Big?

2006-04-29 Thread John Connors
? John _ New year, new job – there's more than 100,00 jobs at SEEK http://a.ninemsn.com.au/b.aspx?URL=http%3A%2F%2Fninemsn%2Eseek%2Ecom%2Eau_t=752315885_r=Jan05_tagline_m=EXT ___ Tutor

[Tutor] Silly Dice Game

2006-04-29 Thread John Connors
for that round was %d % (totalScore) playAgain = raw_input(\nPlay again? (y/n) ) print if playAgain != y: break John _ realestate.com.au: the biggest address in property http://ninemsn.realestate.com.au

Re: [Tutor] Silly Dice Game

2006-04-29 Thread John Fouhy
On 30/04/06, John Connors [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The wife and I play a silly dice game and I thought it would be a good challange for me to write it as a program. No specific question, just wondering if my technique is ok and is there anything that could be done better. The 2 hardest things

Re: [Tutor] Silly Dice Game

2006-04-29 Thread John Connors
G'day John, If I were you, I would look at separating more of my program out into functions. Good use of functions will make your program more readable, easier to debug, and easier to change, should the rules of your dice game change :-) Yes, the rules change on a regular basis, usually

Re: [Tutor] Alan Gauld's tut - namespaces

2006-04-27 Thread John Connors
the namespaces part of the tutorial. John _ Bounce Back from sickness and injury today. http://a.ninemsn.com.au/b.aspx?URL=http%3A%2F%2Fclk%2Eatdmt%2Ecom%2FMOS%2Fgo%2Fnnmsngem001007mos%2Fdirect%2F01%2F_t=753470755_r

Re: [Tutor] how to *really* copy a list

2006-04-27 Thread John Fouhy
to reverse the end for you as well. So, we could rewrite the last function as: def mirror(seq): end = seq[-2::-1] return seq + end Which means there is a one-line version as well: def mirror(seq): return seq + seq[-2::-1] HTH! -- John

[Tutor] Checking in lists

2006-04-26 Thread John Connors
doesn't work and if the syntax is wrong why doesn't it return an error. John PS I apologise if this is a duplicate, hotmail did some kind of spam check when I tried to send it, I've waited 30 mins and I don't think it went the 1st time so I'll post it again

Re: [Tutor] Alan Gauld's tut - namespaces

2006-04-26 Thread John Connors
G'day Payal, I had trouble understanding the namespaces section of the tutorial too but it all clicked the other day when Alan explained the difference between import first and from first import * John Hi, In Alan's tutorial I haven't got the example of print42() even after reading

[Tutor] How to compile _tkinter in Fedora Core 4

2006-04-25 Thread John Hsu
: test_tcl ... John Hsu ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] How to compile _tkinter in Fedora Core 4

2006-04-25 Thread John Connors
G'day John, There is a problem with a recent python update and fedora, if you go to http://forums.fedoraforum.org/ and do a search in the forum for tkinter and/or idle you will find the fix. I'm running Fedora Core 5 and found I had to install tkinter, I had to do a yum install tkinter

[Tutor] Importing Modules

2006-04-24 Thread John Connors
G'day, I'm having trouble understanding the difference between, import sys and from sys import * It seems to me they both do the same thing. John _ New year, new job – there's more than 100,00 jobs at SEEK http

Re: [Tutor] Splitting a number into even- and odd- numbered digits

2006-04-19 Thread John Fouhy
' s1, s2 = s[::-2], s[-2::-2] s1 '13579' s2 '2468' -- John. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

[Tutor] My Name is John and I copy and paste

2006-04-18 Thread John CORRY
]))) c.execute('UPDATE cost_grid SET ie_rrp_20 = ? where cost_grid_id = ? and finish_dro = ?', ( float(row[62]), row[0], float(row[2]))) db.commit() c.close() Thanks, John. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman

[Tutor] School Boy error

2006-04-16 Thread John CORRY
\n'] The full error is Traceback (most recent call last): File C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\databasemanager.py, line 30, in ? c.execute(stat, listy[-1]) TypeError: parameters must be a list of tuples Thanks, John. ___ Tutor maillist

[Tutor] School Boy Error

2006-04-16 Thread John CORRY
(most recent call last): File C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\databasemanager.py, line 31, in ? c.execute(stat, sql_list) TypeError: parameters must be a list of tuples Unfortunately sql_list gives the same error. Thanks, John. ___ Tutor

[Tutor] School Boy Error - Update

2006-04-16 Thread John CORRY
requires floats for the numbers instead of strings. I assume that the numbers in listy[0] are now strings. Am I now going to have to throw listy[0] through a function to make the numbers into floats or is there another way to do this? Am I on the right track? Thanks, John

[Tutor] Difficulty connecting with odbc drivers

2006-04-15 Thread John CORRY
, '[Microsoft][ODBC Driver Manager] Data source name not found and no default driver specified', 6044) What am I doing wrong and what do I need to do? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, John. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor

[Tutor] Difficulty connecting with odbc drivers

2006-04-15 Thread John CORRY
, '[Microsoft][ODBC Driver Manager] Data source name not found and no default driver specified', 6044) What am I doing wrong and what do I need to do? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, John. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor

Re: [Tutor] Difficulty connecting with odbc drivers

2006-04-15 Thread John Corry
Liam, Thanks for the quick response. I have changed the code so that dsn is now DSN. However I get the same error. Any other thoughts? Regards, John. -Original Message- From: Liam Clarke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 15 April 2006 15:02 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: tutor@python.org

[Tutor] odbc

2006-04-15 Thread John CORRY
) It gives me the same error that I am experiencing when I run my code. Does this mean that I have not installed something that I need or have not installed something properly. Thanks, John. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http

Re: [Tutor] odbc

2006-04-15 Thread John Corry
. Is this what I need to log onto with python first before I access the database file? Regards, John. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kent Johnson Sent: 15 April 2006 15:40 Cc: tutor@python.org Subject: Re: [Tutor] odbc John CORRY wrote: I

[Tutor] Good Hustle Hit the Showers!

2006-04-15 Thread John Corry
Hi, Good advice. I configured the ODBC data sources as advised and I am now able to query my database files. Thanks, John. -Original Message- From: Lloyd Kvam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 15 April 2006 16:04 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Kent Johnson; Tutor Python Subject: Re: [Tutor

Re: [Tutor] MySQLdb question

2006-04-14 Thread Allen John Schmidt, Jr.
Patty wrote: I have a data structure in a python file that looks something like this: my_map= { host1: {target1, target2, target3 }, host2: {target4, target5, target6 }, } cursor.execute(SELECT %s FROM targets WHERE target_name = %s % (ahost, target)) Can

[Tutor] Can anyone help me plz

2006-04-13 Thread John Brokaw
I'am very new to pygame, and python and any help would help me so much thx. I have no idea whats wrong the chimp.py ex. works perfect, but when I get to http://rene.f0o.com/mywiki/LECTURETHREE, I get so stuck becuz the callwindow = pygame.display.set_mode((468, 60)) makes a window like it should

[Tutor] Databases

2006-04-13 Thread John Corry
knowledge with databses. I have created and modified some gadfly databases but on a very simple level. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, John. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] Extending a list within a list comprehension

2006-04-11 Thread John Fouhy
] -- John. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] Question about list

2006-04-10 Thread John Fouhy
what your goals are before you go diving towards a solution :-) -- John. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

[Tutor] Space the final frontier!

2006-04-04 Thread John Corry
=\n'] 002, borfiled, dial= 02890 618521, dial= 002, borfiled, dial= 02890 618521, dial= ['003, newcomp, dial=02890419689, dial='] 003, newcomp, dial=02890419689, dial= 003, newcomp, dial=02890419689, dial= Any help would be greatly appreciated. Regards, John

Re: [Tutor] file?

2006-04-03 Thread John Fouhy
!' sys.exit() ziparchive = zipfile.ZipFile(inputfilename, 'r') # ... -- John. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] Newbie: Passing variable into re.compile

2006-03-29 Thread John Fouhy
On 30/03/06, Jerome Jabson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: import re arg1 = '10 p = re.compile(r + arg1 + '\.(\d+\.\d+\.\d+)') Have a look at string substitutions :-) --- http://docs.python.org/lib/typesseq-strings.html p = re.compile(r'%s\.(\d+\.\d+\.\d+)' % arg1) -- John

Re: [Tutor] Python tutor

2006-03-28 Thread John Lesko
This actually sounds like very good idea. I have not heard of it before, but I think it would be a very good way to learn. Let me know if you find anything.JohnOn 3/28/06, Noufal Ibrahim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings all, Are there any programs for python that offer an interactive

Re: [Tutor] Program for outputing the letter backward

2006-03-28 Thread John Fouhy
this output? Hint: the len() function will tell you how long a string is. eg: if vehicle == 'car' then len(vehicle) == 3. -- John. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] Bigrams and nested dictionaries

2006-03-28 Thread John Fouhy
this: D['d']['c'] = 1 TypeError: object does not support item assignment. I can't reproduce this... D = {} D['d'] = {'a':7, 'b':0} D['d']['c'] = 1 D {'d': {'a': 7, 'c': 1, 'b': 0}} Are you sure you haven't mistakenly assigned something other than a dict to D or D['d'] ? -- John

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