Re: [Tutor] Learning about callbaks

2008-01-02 Thread ALAN GAULD
Yes, exactly like that. Well done, you are now callback aware :-) Alan G. - Original Message From: Michael Bernhard Arp Sørensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Alan Gauld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: tutor@python.org Sent: Wednesday, 2 January, 2008 8:19:23 PM Subject: Re: [Tutor] Le

Re: [Tutor] Learning about callbaks

2008-01-02 Thread Michael Bernhard Arp Sørensen
Hi. On Jan 2, 2008 6:36 PM, Alan Gauld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can you modify the program *without modifying the classes* to use an > ordinary function as the callback? Say this goodbye function: > > def goodbye(): > print "goodbye world" > > This should not require more than 5 lines of

Re: [Tutor] Learning about callbaks

2008-01-02 Thread Alan Gauld
"Michael Bernhard Arp Sørensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > I've read what to wrote about the *parentheses*. I see why I was > wrong in my > premature assumption. but I fail to understand why it did work. I suspect that if you look closely you'll find that the "testing" print statement came a

Re: [Tutor] Learning about callbaks

2008-01-02 Thread Michael Bernhard Arp Sørensen
Hi again. On Jan 2, 2008 2:25 PM, Alan Gauld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I did some research, reading and test last night and I finally got > > it > > working. > > Sorry, but you didn't! However you are very nearly there... > Darn. :-( I've read what to wrote about the *parentheses*. I see w

Re: [Tutor] Learning about callbaks

2008-01-02 Thread Alan Gauld
"Michael Bernhard Arp Sørensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > I did some research, reading and test last night and I finally got > it > working. Sorry, but you didn't! However you are very nearly there... class UserInput: def __init__(self): pass def test_callback(self, this_call

Re: [Tutor] Learning about callbaks

2008-01-02 Thread Michael Bernhard Arp Sørensen
Greetings, my master. I think you need to strip back and simplify, it looks like > you may have been reading too many different resources > and incorporated some ideas without really understanding > what they do and why. I'm humbled by your insight. This is absolutely true. I did some research,

Re: [Tutor] Learning about callbaks

2008-01-01 Thread Alan Gauld
"Michael Bernhard Arp Sørensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > I have a game class and a menu class. When the user chooses > "quit" in the menu, I want the menu object to call a method that > executes a quit_program() from the game class. self.game.quit_program() should do it. Except in your cod

Re: [Tutor] Learning about callbaks

2008-01-01 Thread Michael Bernhard Arp Sørensen
Greetings, my masters. This is somewhat difficult to transfer to my program with 2 classes/objects. All examples I've seen is not for more than one instance of a single object. I use more than one class in my program. I have a game class and a menu class. When the user chooses "quit" in the menu,

Re: [Tutor] Learning about callbaks

2007-12-30 Thread Tiago Saboga
On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 09:17:42AM -, Alan Gauld wrote: > Yes, the Python tutor list is one of the best features of Python. This expresses exactly the way I feel about python. Everytime I have to work in another language, I keep asking myself: but where is the tutor mailing list for this langu

Re: [Tutor] Learning about callbaks

2007-12-30 Thread Alan Gauld
"Michael Bernhard Arp Sørensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > Greetings, my master. Nah, there are no masters on the tutor list, we are all learning together, just at different stages. If you really want the masters go to comp.lang.python! :-) > I'm writing a game based on curses. OK, That give

Re: [Tutor] Learning about callbaks

2007-12-29 Thread Dave Kuhlman
On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 04:58:39PM +0100, Michael Bernhard Arp S?rensen wrote: > Hi there. > > I want to learn about callbacks because we use it at work in our software. > > I there a short "hello world"-like version of a callback example? > In Python, any object that can be *called* can be con

Re: [Tutor] Learning about callbaks

2007-12-29 Thread Michael Bernhard Arp Sørensen
Greetings, my master. I'm writing a game based on curses. I have my own screen object and several child objects to handle sub windows with e.g. menues, board/map/views and log outputs. All user input is done with screen.getch and later sent to the dynamic menu for selecting menu points. My imidi

Re: [Tutor] Learning about callbaks

2007-12-29 Thread Alan Gauld
"Michael Bernhard Arp Sørensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > I want to learn about callbacks because we use it at work in our > software. Can you be more specific about what you want to know. Callbacks are used in many different ways from event handling methods in a GUI to network programming t

Re: [Tutor] Learning about callbaks

2007-12-29 Thread Tiger12506
rently) ## - Original Message - From: "Michael Bernhard Arp Sørensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2007 10:58 AM Subject: [Tutor] Learning about callbaks Hi there. I want to learn about callbacks because we use it at

[Tutor] Learning about callbaks

2007-12-29 Thread Michael Bernhard Arp Sørensen
Hi there. I want to learn about callbacks because we use it at work in our software. I there a short "hello world"-like version of a callback example? -- Med venlig hilsen/Kind regards Michael B. Arp Sørensen Programmør / BOFH I am /root and if you see me laughing you better have a backup. ___