Re: [Tutor] IF statements
WM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote to IF. The code below was not written by me. It is a copy/paste job from the tutor. I do not have any idea what is going wrong. x = int(raw_input(Please enter an integer: )) Please enter an integer: 42 if x 0: ... x = 0 ... print 'Negative changed to zero' ... elif x == 0: ... print 'Zero' ... elif x == 1: ... print 'Single' ... else: ... print 'More' ... More 12 SyntaxError: invalid syntax It looks as if you maybe cut more than you intended? Also I'm not sure about the ... prompts. I don't have 2.6 yet so maybe its an enhancement to IDLE but notmally IDLE doesn't print ... prompts. Did you cut n paste them too? If so that would confuse IDLE. HTH, -- Alan Gauld Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] first call - newcomer
Anthony Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote This is my first post - I will be brief... Hi, welcome to tutor :-) 1. A brief (but complete) description regarding the use of script editor (I will be using command prompt in Windows), as: Brief and Complete don;t normally go together! If you are using IDLE then Danny yoo's intro is a good place to start. The IDLE section of the Python web site has a more detailed run through oof the faciilities. a. details about loading and saving programs (not in that order) and little specs about pathnames or other requirements (I will probably store all my little goodies in one folder or space). As to paths: PATH should be set to the folder where the Python interpreters live PYTHONPATH should be set to include the folder where your code lives 2. I have been unable to locate the gizmo in the literature to get ascii codes in python. chr(n) is the function you need ord(c) is the one in the opposite direction but... was PRINT VAL(A$) or something. Python will generally figure out what you want to print without explicit conversions, certainly fewer than you will be used to from the early BASIC versions. assign a number to a word (using a simple algorhythm that will give a specific number to every word). Other stuff is pretty easy to find with the book and on-line literature. I will need to get an ascii code out of a string (whose content is not known to the programmer, as raw_input). Then to assign, I will need the actual list with assigned numbers. OK, You lost me here. Can you give an example of what the data would look like? HTH, -- Alan Gauld Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] IF Statements
also i believe the first line can also be written as 'x = input('enter
...') instead of using x=int(raw_input('..') . use raw_input for
string and just input for integer.
regards
rajeev
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This is my first post - I will be brief...
One: I have programmed before - but it has been DECADES...so just a
few simple queries:
1. A brief (but complete) description regarding the use of script
editor (I will be using
Your script editor can be any plain text-editing tools, Notepad could
do.
command prompt in Windows), as:
a. details about loading and saving programs (not in that
order) and little
specs about pathnames or other requirements (I will
probably store all
my little goodies in one folder or space).
Pathnames is free, you can name your program anything your OS allows for
a file. A convention is to name the script ending with .py/.pyw
extension (command-line script/GUI script), although python doesn't
complain if it is not in those extension (in Windows, the extension is
associated with the interpreter). Calling a program from command line is
done like this:
python filename.py
That should get me going ... a book and manual by my side should
suffice for
the rest - - - except for one thing:
2. I have been unable to locate the gizmo in the literature to get
ascii codes
in python. In the old days, it was a list of 256 (or so)
characters that
represented all keyboard symbols (A equalled 36; B equalled 37; et
cetera).
To assign a value, you used Let A$ = ASC (36) where A$ was a
variable
and 36 was the ASCII value for 'A'. I believe the reverse of this
process
was PRINT VAL(A$) or something. I want to play with a program
that will
assign a number to a word (using a simple algorhythm that will give
a
specific number to every word). Other stuff is pretty easy to
find with
the book and on-line literature. I will need to get an ascii code
out of
a string (whose content is not known to the programmer, as
raw_input).
Then to assign, I will need the actual list with assigned numbers.
a = ord('A')
b = chr(36)
-- read on the help file: Built-in Functions
You will be giving me probably the only boost I will need! I will be
available later on,
if I want to take part in the ask/answer system here.
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This is my first post - I will be brief...
One: I have programmed before - but it has been DECADES...so just a
few simple queries:
1. A brief (but complete) description regarding the use of script
editor (I will be using
Your script editor can be any plain text-editing tools, Notepad could
do.
command prompt in Windows), as:
a. details about loading and saving programs (not in that
order) and little
specs about pathnames or other requirements (I will
probably store all
my little goodies in one folder or space).
Pathnames is free, you can name your program anything your OS allows for
a file. A convention is to name
Re: [Tutor] IF statements
On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 10:51 PM, WM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I used to do Basic and enjoyed it. Someone said Python was a vastly better language than Visual Basic, which I considered playing with. So I sought to give it a go but struck a sticking point very early. I am now going through the Python tutorial. All went well until I came to IF. The code below was not written by me. It is a copy/paste job from the tutor. I do not have any idea what is going wrong. IDLE 2.6 x = int(raw_input(Please enter an integer: )) Please enter an integer: 42 if x 0: ... x = 0 ... print 'Negative changed to zero' ... elif x == 0: ... print 'Zero' ... elif x == 1: ... print 'Single' ... else: ... print 'More' ... More 12 SyntaxError: invalid syntax Did you paste the and ... or were they printed by the interpreter? Examples often show the entire contents of a session in the interpreter, including the and ... prompts. When you enter the example yourself you should not include them. Also Please enter an integer: is output from the program and 42 is user input to the program, you should not paste either of them. Where did the 12 come from? It looks like interpreter output but there is nothing preceding it that would print a 12. Kent ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
[Tutor] Delete file before function ends
Greetings all, Not sure if this is possible, but I'll ask anyway. Below is a code snippet that creates my problem... What I'd like to do, is create a plain text file, use the associated program to open said textfile, (using os.startfile) and after the associated program has what it needs to open the file and then of course, has the current focus, I'd like to delete the text file in the background, so to speak. (Please assume that the program doesn't lock 'mytextfile.xyz' when it opens it.) What happens with the code snippet below, is that it doesn't really start the second program until the function is finished. I tried using time.sleep() in between the os.startfile() and os.remove(), but it just delays opening 'mytextfile.xyz' and actually deletes the file before my second program can open it up. Any way around this?? path = c:\MyFolder\mytextfile.xyz #bunch of stuff here to create 'mytextfile.xyz os.startfile(path) os.remove(path) Thanks everyone, Adrian ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] Delete file before function ends
Adrian Greyling wrote: Not sure if this is possible, but I'll ask anyway. Below is a code snippet that creates my problem... What I'd like to do, is create a plain text file, use the associated program to open said textfile, (using os.startfile) and after the associated program has what it needs to open the file and then of course, has the current focus, I'd like to delete the text file in the background, so to speak. (Please assume that the program doesn't lock 'mytextfile.xyz' when it opens it.) What happens with the code snippet below, is that it doesn't really start the second program until the function is finished. I tried using time.sleep() in between the os.startfile() and os.remove(), but it just delays opening 'mytextfile.xyz' and actually deletes the file before my second program can open it up. Any way around this?? path = c:\MyFolder\mytextfile.xyz #bunch of stuff here to create 'mytextfile.xyz os.startfile(path) os.remove(path) Strange. I would have expected the opposite effect: the os.startfile runs (notepad, or whatever) but doesn't return control until it's complete. In any case, try the following snippet. The sleep is needed because the app probably won't launch in time to get there before the remove does. code import os import subprocess import time FILENAME = os.path.abspath (temp.txt) f = open (FILENAME, w) f.write (blah blah) f.close () subprocess.Popen ([FILENAME], shell=True) time.sleep (1.0) os.remove (FILENAME) /code TJG ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] Delete file before function ends
Adrian Greyling wrote: path = c:\MyFolder\mytextfile.xyz BTW, I hope you're using raw strings in your real code, or else you're going to come a cropper one day when a filename begins with t. TJG ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] IF Statements
Rajeev Nair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
also i believe the first line can also be written as 'x =
input('enter
...') instead of using x=int(raw_input('..') . use raw_input
for
string and just input for integer.
No, use input() only in very special circumstances or when
experimenting for personal use only.
Use int(raw_input()) for all production code. It is much safer.
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Author of the Learn to Program web site
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[Tutor] Fwd: IF statements
Forwarding to the list... -- Forwarded message -- From: Thomas Walch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 10:35 AM Subject: Re: [Tutor] IF statements To: Kent Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Entering the code in the interpreter I could not find an issue. No error at all. Might be that you launched some things in the interpreter by mistake? Anyhow, I put the code in an editor and saved it as xxx.py. Again no error while running the program. Just try again. Might be different then. I suggest to download SPE: http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=4161 and try to run it as file too. Have a nice time Thomas Kent Johnson schrieb: On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 10:51 PM, WM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I used to do Basic and enjoyed it. Someone said Python was a vastly better language than Visual Basic, which I considered playing with. So I sought to give it a go but struck a sticking point very early. I am now going through the Python tutorial. All went well until I came to IF. The code below was not written by me. It is a copy/paste job from the tutor. I do not have any idea what is going wrong. IDLE 2.6 x = int(raw_input(Please enter an integer: )) Please enter an integer: 42 if x 0: ... x = 0 ... print 'Negative changed to zero' ... elif x == 0: ... print 'Zero' ... elif x == 1: ... print 'Single' ... else: ... print 'More' ... More 12 SyntaxError: invalid syntax Did you paste the and ... or were they printed by the interpreter? Examples often show the entire contents of a session in the interpreter, including the and ... prompts. When you enter the example yourself you should not include them. Also Please enter an integer: is output from the program and 42 is user input to the program, you should not paste either of them. Where did the 12 come from? It looks like interpreter output but there is nothing preceding it that would print a 12. Kent ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] IF Statements
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 7:24 AM, Rajeev Nair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
also i believe the first line can also be written as 'x = input('enter
...') instead of using x=int(raw_input('..') . use raw_input for
string and just input for integer.
Yes, although that is not really recommended, this has been discussed
very recently.
Also, please don't include the entire digest in your reply!
Kent
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Re: [Tutor] Delete file before function ends
Adrian Greyling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote that creates my problem... What I'd like to do, is create a plain text file, use the associated program to open said textfile, (using os.startfile) and after the associated program has what it needs to open the file and then of course, has the current focus, I'd like to delete the text file Thats potentially going to cause the associated program to crash but assuming you know what you are doing there... What happens with the code snippet below, is that it doesn't start the second program until the function is finished. Correct, that's what you asked it to do :-) time.sleep() in between the os.startfile() and os.remove(), but it just delays opening 'mytextfile.xyz' and actually deletes the file before my second program can open it up. Really? That shouldn't happen! path = c:\MyFolder\mytextfile.xyz You probably want to either use forward slashes or put an r in front of the quotes, otherwise Python will treat the \ as an escape character... #bunch of stuff here to create 'mytextfile.xyz os.startfile(path) os.remove(path) If you want the remove to run in parallel with the startfile you probably need to use threads to start the application in one thread and then pause and then delete the file in the other thread. Alan ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] Delete file before function ends
Thanks for the input folks. Sadly, Tim's suggestion yields the same results as I was getting previously. My second program very graciously tells me that the file I'm trying to open doesn't exist. Like the code snippet I posted, the timer.sleep(x) line just waits the 'x' seconds until opening 'mytextfile.xyz, instead of opening it, and then waiting 'x' seconds to delete the file. Sorry about naming the path to my file so poorly!! I'm a little more careful in my programs! I'm a newbie and I was more concerned about an understandable question! As a newbie, Alan, I was kinda scared you'd say that threads were the answer here! (It sounds like someone is going to get sucked into a worm hole or something...) Looks like the next class in my Python education is going to be Threads 101... Thanks for all the input, I might even be learning something! Warmest regards, Adrian On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 1:31 PM, Alan Gauld [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Adrian Greyling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote that creates my problem... What I'd like to do, is create a plain text file, use the associated program to open said textfile, (using os.startfile) and after the associated program has what it needs to open the file and then of course, has the current focus, I'd like to delete the text file Thats potentially going to cause the associated program to crash but assuming you know what you are doing there... What happens with the code snippet below, is that it doesn't start the second program until the function is finished. Correct, that's what you asked it to do :-) time.sleep() in between the os.startfile() and os.remove(), but it just delays opening 'mytextfile.xyz' and actually deletes the file before my second program can open it up. Really? That shouldn't happen! path = c:\MyFolder\mytextfile.xyz You probably want to either use forward slashes or put an r in front of the quotes, otherwise Python will treat the \ as an escape character... #bunch of stuff here to create 'mytextfile.xyz os.startfile(path) os.remove(path) If you want the remove to run in parallel with the startfile you probably need to use threads to start the application in one thread and then pause and then delete the file in the other thread. Alan ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] Delete file before function ends
On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 02:15:06PM -0400, Adrian Greyling wrote: As a newbie, Alan, I was kinda scared you'd say that threads were the answer here! (It sounds like someone is going to get sucked into a worm hole or something...) Looks like the next class in my Python education is going to be Threads 101... Threads are one approach, but if you aren't ready to jump into them, that's not the only way to solve your problem. However, please understand that your application is trying to do something that's a bit more advanced than the newbie level. Any time you need to synchronize the operation of multiple programs, there are complications and platform dependencies involved that may not be as simple as you first think. One natural, but naive, approach is to simply drop in a delay loop or call to time.sleep() to have the parent program wait long enough for the child program to have done what it needs to do. The problem is you are only guessing how long is long enough, and will probably be wrong enough of the time to be a problem. You need to work out some way to have the parent program wait for a definite signal that the child is finished before moving forward. That could be to use a subprocess invocation method which guarantees the child will complete before it returns. Or it could be that you watch for an artifact created by the child, or wait for the child process (or thread) to exit, or any of several other things. Browse through the subprocess module for some hints of things you can try. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] Delete file before function ends
What OS are you using, Adrian? On WinXP, this worked fine:
import os
def files():
os.startfile('myfile.txt')
os.remove('myfile.txt')
-Wayne
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Re: [Tutor] Delete file before function ends
I'll take a peek at the subprocess docs Steve, and see if I can learn
something there... Thanks for the suggestion!
I'm using WinXP as well Wayne.. Not too sure why yours works, and mine
doesn't.. I'll revisit what I'm doing and also check into Steve's
suggestion.
Adrian
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What OS are you using, Adrian? On WinXP, this worked fine:
import os
def files():
os.startfile('myfile.txt')
os.remove('myfile.txt')
-Wayne
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Re: [Tutor] Read a random record in dictionary object from csv module reader?
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 3:32 PM, xbmuncher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: import csv reader = csv.DictReader(open(test_csv.csv, r)) You should open the file with mode 'rb' reader is not an actual dictionary from my understanding.. so I don't know how to access properties like the 'total items' in the dictionary I want to be able to extract a random dictionary entry from the csv file, how can I do this by using the csv reader module? If I can't, then show me a better way to do it then.. reader is not a dictionary at all; it is a factory for dictionaries. It produces a new dict for each line in the input file. Given your code above, and assuming that the first line of the CSV file contains field names, you can say for d in reader: # d is a dict mapping field names to value for one line in the input file. If you want all the items in a list, you could say all_items = list(reader) Then len(all_items) is the number of items in the dictionary and random.choice(all_items) would give a randomly selected item dict. Kent ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
[Tutor] Help Python String Search
Hello, I'm a beginner Python user and I have simple python issue I can't seem to solve. I want to do a truth test on a string to see if a another string is contained within it. I found that typically the re module has the methods to accomplish this. However, every string I'm searching begins with a metacharacter. For example: if the string '*I need *help' contains the word 'help' then true, else false.. Any advice you can provide would be great. Thanks, Adam ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
[Tutor] Using the curses module (or a better solution)
I'm maintaining a framework of tests which are run on a diskless Linux client, in character mode (no graphical desktop). The tests often print out a lot of info, which scrolls off the screen. I'd like to add a 1-2 line no-scroll-area at the top of the screen, so as to print a message which indicates the progress of the current test. I am thinking about using the Python curses module for this, unless someone would suggest an alternative solution, although I'm not sure if the curses module has this non-scroll area capability. http://www.amk.ca/python/howto/curses/ Ideally I'd like something which works on Windows Linux, but since the test environment on Linux is non-graphical, packages like WxPython can't be used. Thanks ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
[Tutor] IF statements-1
TO THIS ORIGINAL POST I GOT SIX REPLIES. WM wrote: I used to do Basic and enjoyed it. Someone said Python was a vastly better language than Visual Basic, which I considered playing with. So I sought to give it a go but struck a sticking point very early. I am now going through the Python tutorial. All went well until I came to IF. The code below was not written by me. It is a copy/paste job from the tutor. I do not have any idea what is going wrong. IDLE 2.6 x = int(raw_input(Please enter an integer: )) Please enter an integer: 42 if x 0: ... x = 0 ... print 'Negative changed to zero' ... elif x == 0: ... print 'Zero' ... elif x == 1: ... print 'Single' ... else: ... print 'More' ... More 12 SyntaxError: invalid syntax IS THIS THE WAY TO ANSWER? OR SHOULD I DO INDIVIDUAL REPLIES? JOHNSON 1 The copy above is exactly from the book, via COPY PASTE, from IDLE26 thru More. I keyed in the 12 to generate the error message. JOHNSON 2 All that was running was IDLE from the desktop and the tutor from the Python.Org site. I will not do the down-load right now as I want the tutor to work with the program with no tinkering. JOHNSON 3 I did not understand Nair's reply, so I didn't follow thru there. What is the entire digest and how do I not include it? LANE I keyed in 12 Enter. The rest is copy/paste. I will key the text into Notepad then run it, as you suggest. GAULD Not so. You can check on the tutor, the code stops at 'More'. It's funny about the dots, they were in the tutor but not in IDLE, although the indents were the same. Then, in the e-mil, there they were. IDLE hides dots? What do I know? NAIR Your post to me starts, also I believe... It looks like the front end got truncated. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] Help Python String Search
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 5:37 PM, Deitemeyer, Adam R [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm a beginner Python user and I have simple python issue I can't seem to solve. I want to do a truth test on a string to see if a another string is contained within it. I found that typically the re module has the methods to accomplish this. However, every string I'm searching begins with a metacharacter. For example: if the string '*I need *help' contains the word 'help' then true, else false.. This would only be an issue with regexes if the pattern you are searching for contained metacharacters. Then you would escape them. But John's approach is simpler in this case. Kent ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] Using the curses module (or a better solution)
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 6:58 PM, Tony Cappellini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm maintaining a framework of tests which are run on a diskless Linux client, in character mode (no graphical desktop). The tests often print out a lot of info, which scrolls off the screen. I'd like to add a 1-2 line no-scroll-area at the top of the screen, so as to print a message which indicates the progress of the current test. I am thinking about using the Python curses module for this, unless someone would suggest an alternative solution, See the recent discussion of urwid for discussion of a similar problem. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.tutor/50500/ If the tests are based on unittest or assert, you might be interested in nose; it suppresses output for tests that pass. http://code.google.com/p/python-nose/wiki/NoseFeatures Kent ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
[Tutor] IF statment 2
Hey, guys, forgive me; I can't help being a fool. Just now I READ the program and it worked perfectly! 42 is more than 1 so it printed More. My error was that I imagined there was a loop where no loop could be. Oh, me; oh, my. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] IF statements-1
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 9:48 PM, WM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: TO THIS ORIGINAL POST I GOT SIX REPLIES. IS THIS THE WAY TO ANSWER? OR SHOULD I DO INDIVIDUAL REPLIES? Either way is OK. It helps to quote a bit of the post to which you are replying, for context. And please don't use all caps, it is interpreted as shouting. And you seem to be a bit off in your attributions... JOHNSON 1 The copy above is exactly from the book, via COPY PASTE, from IDLE26 thru More. I keyed in the 12 to generate the error message. You can't just paste the examples verbatim from the tutorial. The examples are showing you both the text that you type and the output of the interpreter. In particular the and ... are output and should not be typed or pasted in. JOHNSON 3 I did not understand Nair's reply, so I didn't follow thru there. What is the entire digest and how do I not include it? That was a note to Rajeev, who included a lot of extraneous text in his reply. Did you start at the beginning of the tutorial or are you starting with section 4? Kent ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] Using the curses module (or a better solution)
See the recent discussion of urwid for discussion of a similar problem. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.tutor/50500/ This looks interesting. Thanks! ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
