Re: [Tutor] parsing Spreadsheet document
Christopher Spears cspears2...@yahoo.com wrote I want to fill a database with the contents of a spreadsheet. The spreadsheet was created by OpenOffice and is a .sxc document. I think the best approach is to save the spreadsheet as a .csv document If you have control over the document then yes I'd go that way too. You could save in Excel format and use pyExelerator etc as an alternative option. Alan G. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
[Tutor] Still making Cribbage game, NEED HELP Please
I am still working on my cribbage game..
if you want rules or an outline of the rules/project information,
it is HERE - http://jongarvin.com/cawthra/files/ics3u/cribbage_project.pdf
I have attached a copy of what i have so far..
i have built a deck with 52 cards AND made a dictionary containing each card
and its value such as Jacks and kings worth a value of 10.
I was wondering if people could give me ways to finish this project WITHOUT
CLASSES because we havent learnd them yet OR could somebody right their own
program for this cribbage game so i can compare or get ideas from your coding.
This also contains my PSUEDOCODE if anybody wants to review how i did things or
what certain things do
MY CODE for Cribbage::
from random import*
## December 2 - Jan 20, 2010
## Last mode 8/12/09
## Program by John Dananhy, Phil Sulinski Chris Schueler 4
## We present the Tech-Sauve Cribbage game
##Sudo Code
#Functions
#DisplayTitle
#Printing the rules of how to play cribbage
#GetPlayer names
#ask of there names and set it to a variable named Player1/2
#Build the deck
#loop through 52 times
#call from two diffrent arrays holding the suite and card number
#combined the suite and card value to create a new variable
#append the new variable to the empty array Deck
#return the new values
#Main Program
#ask the user if they would like to learn to play
#if yes print the DisplayTitle function
#otherwise continue with the main program
#Get the players' names from the function GetPlayer1/2
#Creating the array holding the diffrent values of the cards (numbers)
#Creating the array holding the diffrent suite values
#these are the arrays that the Build_Deck function uses
#sorts the suits in order
#creates the various empty arrays that the program will use
#Defining the winning value
#Using the function Builed_Deck to build the deck
#Player1's hand is randomly drawn from the deck and appended to the array
P1hand
#That card is removed from the deck so it won't be taken twice
#The same is done for Player2
#Next the top card is drawn by randomly selecting a card from the deck
#Player1 is asked to select a card from their hand to put in the crib
#this is repeated telling Player1 to take another card from his hand
#These cards are appended to the array crib and removed from the
Players hand
#This is repeated for Player2
#Print all the values to the screen
#Displays title and instructions
def DisplayTitle():
print
print Welcome to Tech-Sauve Cribbage
print
printInsctructions
print
print 1) Only played with two players (for now)
print 2) The program starts with a full deck of 52 cards
print 3) Deals out 6 cards to each player with a Suit letter
print 4) Then asks each player what 2 cards they want to discard to the
crib
print 5) Then the program saves the crib in a temporary deck
print 6) Players start showing cards to get an ammount equal to 31
print 7) Once all the cards have been played, program counts the score
print 8) Then the program will count all possible scores in each hand
printAnd it will add the players points to their total score
print 9) First player to reach a score of 121 wins the game
#Gets players names
def GetPlayer1():
print
Player1 = str(raw_input(Player 1's name ))
return Player1
def GetPlayer2():
print
Player2 = str(raw_input(Player 2's name ))
return Player2
#Building the deck
def Build_Deck():
for R in range (0,52):
cardnumb = numbers[R]
cardsuit = suits[R]
card = str(numbers[R])+str(suits[R])
#All cards are put into the deck
Deck.append(card)
return Deck,numbers,suits,card,cardnumb,cardsuit
##DICTIIONARY CARD VALUES
cards = {AH : 1,2H : 2,3H : 3,4H : 4,5H : 5,6H : 6,7H : 7,8H :
8,9H:9,10H : 10,JH : 10,QH : 10,KH : 10,\
AC : 1,2C : 2,3C : 3,4C : 4,5C : 5,6C : 6,7C : 7,8C :
8,9C:9,10C : 10,JC : 10,QC : 10,KC : 10,\
AD : 1,2D : 2,3D : 3,4D : 4,5D : 5,6D : 6,7D : 7,8D :
8,9D:9,10D : 10,JD : 10,QD : 10,KD : 10,\
AS : 1,2S : 2,3S : 3,4S : 4,5S : 5,6S : 6,7S : 7,8S :
8,9S:9,10S : 10,JS : 10,QS : 10,KS : 10}
##Variables Needed sorts the deck
numbers = [A,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,J,Q,K]*4
suits = [H,C,S,D]*13
suits.sort()
##List of arrays used
Deck = []
P1hand = []
P1value = []
P2hand = []
P2value = []
Crib = []
CribValue = []
TCvalue = []
##Setting start scores
P1_score = 0
P2_score = 0
Winner = 121
ele = 51
##Building the deck
Deck,numbers,suits,card,cardnumb,cardsuit = Build_Deck()
## MAIN PROGRAM
##~
##Asks
[Tutor] Rép. : parsing Spreadsheet document
If you just want to load the data into python one time, rather than connecting
to the file, it would be more handy to paste the cells from the clipboard.
Here's how I do it on windows:
from win32clipboard import * #(pywin32 module required)
def pastetable(): OpenClipboard() try: a=GetClipboardData(13) except:
CloseClipboard()return None CloseClipboard()
a=a.split('\r\n') for n, b in enumerate(a):
a[n]=b.split('\t') return a
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Re: [Tutor] Sound problems
Tim Goddard wrote:
I'm still learning, and this may be better served on a pygame mailing
list but I thought I'd try here first.
I'm following the python programming for absolute beginners which uses
livewires and pygame to do some simple games. My difficulty comes
from not using the module versions used in the book and using the
latest online offerings.
The book creates a simple program to play music and sound in a console
environment.
initially the code was (shortened for brevity):
from livewires import games
# load a sound file
missile = games.load_sound(missile.wav)
#load the music file
games.load_music(theme.mid)
choice == None
while choice != 0:
print
1 - play missile sound
2 - play music
choice = raw_input(Choose your selection: )
if choice == 1:
missile.play()
elif choice == 2:
games.play_music()
Which gives an error because the load_music is not part of the latest
games.py module. So after reading through games.py I discovered that
most of it is a pass through to pygames. Also the sound does not
play.
My modified code which plays music but still not sound is:
from livewires import games
# If I don't keep the above line, I get an error that pygame.mixer is
not initialized properly
import pygame
# load a sound file
missile = pygame.mixer.Sound('pickup.wav')
# load the music file
pygame.mixer.music.load(theme.mid)
menu code
if choice == 1:
missile.play(3) # loop .wav three times.
print Playing missile sound
elif choice == 2:
pygame.mixer.music.play()
print Playing theme music
My question is why won't the sound play in the console? When I use
the same code in a program with a screen, it plays normally.
Thanks in advance!
If I may make a guess (I've never used pygame), I'd suggest that the
sound playing logic counts on using the event loop for its timing. So
without an event loop, no sound.
DaveA
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Re: [Tutor] More on unit testing - tests for external data...
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Alan Gauld alan.ga...@btinternet.comwrote: Remember, in testing you are not trying to prove it works but rather to demonstrate that it doesn't! So in that way it's a bit like the the scientific method (or exactly like)? You create a hypothesis and design tests to invalidate your hypothesis... and if they fail to invalidate you may have a valid hypothesis. Simply replace hypothesis with program and you get the testing procedure? -Wayne -- To be considered stupid and to be told so is more painful than being called gluttonous, mendacious, violent, lascivious, lazy, cowardly: every weakness, every vice, has found its defenders, its rhetoric, its ennoblement and exaltation, but stupidity hasn’t. - Primo Levi ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] Sound problems
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 8:40 AM, Dave Angel da...@ieee.org wrote:
If I may make a guess (I've never used pygame), I'd suggest that the sound
playing logic counts on using the event loop for its timing. So without an
event loop, no sound.
Also, livewires is a pretty ancient - AFAICT they haven't had a new release
in over a year. Pygame is a little more active in its development and is
really easy enough with so much documentation there's no reason to learn
livewires.
Here's a simple example of playing a midi file with pygame only:
import pygame
pygame.init()
pygame.mixer.music.load('ISawHerStandingThere.mid')
pygame.mixer.music.set_endevent(pygame.QUIT)
pygame.mixer.music.play()
while True:
event = pygame.event.poll()
if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
print 'Quitting'
break
Of course, replace ISawHerStandingThere.mid with whatever music file you
want to play...
HTH,
Wayne
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Re: [Tutor] More on unit testing - tests for external data...
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Wayne Werner waynejwer...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Alan Gauld alan.ga...@btinternet.com wrote: Remember, in testing you are not trying to prove it works but rather to demonstrate that it doesn't! So in that way it's a bit like the the scientific method (or exactly like)? You create a hypothesis and design tests to invalidate your hypothesis... and if they fail to invalidate you may have a valid hypothesis. Simply replace hypothesis with program and you get the testing procedure? -Wayne Nice analogy! And like with a scientific hypothesis, you can never be sure your program is correct, only that all your attempts to prove it incorrect has failed. Kent ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] More on unit testing - tests for external data...
Wayne Werner waynejwer...@gmail.com dixit: On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Alan Gauld alan.ga...@btinternet.comwrote: Remember, in testing you are not trying to prove it works but rather to demonstrate that it doesn't! So in that way it's a bit like the the scientific method (or exactly like)? You create a hypothesis and design tests to invalidate your hypothesis... and if they fail to invalidate you may have a valid hypothesis. Simply replace hypothesis with program and you get the testing procedure? -Wayne programming is modelizing -- like a scientist's job Denis la vita e estrany http://spir.wikidot.com/ ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] parsing Spreadsheet document
On 12/9/2009 10:05 PM Christopher Spears said... I want to fill a database with the contents of a spreadsheet. The spreadsheet was created by OpenOffice and is a .sxc document. What is the best way to do this? I think the best approach is to save the spreadsheet as a .csv document and then just parse the file. Am I on the right track here? OpenOffice can be scripted with python, and if you're planning on pushing the data with python anyway, I think I'd look at writing it as an OpenOffice script... Emile ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] What books do you recommend?
Good points. I guess being as new as I am I'm not always sure of the obvious way to do something or what I think is right, may not be an having explained examples are best, particularly after I've spent time solving the problem. But others may not find this useful. I admit that learning this stuff does not come particularly easy to me, so I tend to need more hand holding than others. Becky On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 7:34 PM, Che M pine...@hotmail.com wrote: But the reason I ask this, is because there are SO many different approaches you could take to a single problem, I guess that depends a lot on what sorts of problems you are thinking in terms of. At least in many cases, perhaps one of the points of the Zen of Python is useful: There should be one--and preferably only one--obvious way to do it. I myself have been trying to stick to that for now; to learn some standard ways to do certain things, to not reinvent the wheel but instead to use the standard library and modules to do what I need done (since someone already needed it done before and coded it well then).Yes, gaining more flexibility in how you could approach something is also good, but for learning I have tried to establish a core of basic approaches first, and alternate approaches second. I feel that if it works, it's readable, simple, and re-usable, I put it in the toolbox. how do you know which is correct or why one is better than the other? You can dig yourself in to holes with more complex problems, and not understand why. This list is one good resource for comparing notes on correctness of approach. You'll see people ask if something is Pythonic or not, etc. -- Windows 7: Unclutter your desktop. Learn more.http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/videos-tours.aspx?h=7secslideid=1media=aero-shake-7secondlistid=1stop=1ocid=PID24727::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WWL_WIN_7secdemo:122009 ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
[Tutor] Trying to send a URL via XMPP
Hi,
I'm trying to send a message to a user via XMPP - but I want them to
receive a clickable word.
I'm using Python 2.4 on RHEL 5.4 and python-xmpp-0.4.1-6 from EPEL.
I've tried variations on:
jid = xmpp.protocol.JID('motherin...@jabber.sekrit.org.uk')
cl = xmpp.Client(jid.getDomain())
cl.connect()
cl.auth(jid.getNode(),'notgoodenough')
cl.send(xmpp.protocol.Message(snelsonsm...@jabber.sekrit.org.uk, html
xmlns='http://jabber.org/protocol/xhtml-im'body
xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'pa
href='http://rt.sekrit.org.uk/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=#77'Ticket #77
updated./a/p/body/html))
But every time I just receive the raw html
Any idea what I am doing wrong?
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Re: [Tutor] Trying to send a URL via XMPP
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Stephen Nelson-Smith sanel...@gmail.comwrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to send a message to a user via XMPP - but I want them to
receive a clickable word.
I'm using Python 2.4 on RHEL 5.4 and python-xmpp-0.4.1-6 from EPEL.
I've tried variations on:
jid = xmpp.protocol.JID('motherin...@jabber.sekrit.org.uk')
cl = xmpp.Client(jid.getDomain())
cl.connect()
cl.auth(jid.getNode(),'notgoodenough')
cl.send(xmpp.protocol.Message(snelsonsm...@jabber.sekrit.org.uk,
html xmlns='http://jabber.org/protocol/xhtml-im'body xmlns='
http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'pa href='
http://rt.sekrit.org.uk/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=#77'Ticket #77
updated./a/p/body/html))
But every time I just receive the raw html
Any idea what I am doing wrong?
I don't know anything about xmpp, but you could try receiving a message and
inspecting how that is built?
HTH,
Wayne
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Re: [Tutor] What books do you recommend?
Becky Mcquilling ladymcse2...@gmail.com wrote Good points. I guess being as new as I am I'm not always sure of the obvious way to do something or what I think is right, One thing to remember is that it is always subjective. There is no such thing as an absolute right way to do it There are too many factors and virtually all solutions reflect a set of compromises by the designer But others may not find this useful. I admit that learning this stuff does not come particularly easy to me, Its not easy to learn a new way of thinking and thats essentially what programming is. Some people will always find it easier and some harder but it is fundamentally a challenging activity for everyone - and that's part of what makes it fun! -- Alan Gauld Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.alan-g.me.uk/ ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] More on unit testing - tests for external data...
So, this, 'test environment', this is just like a directory where I place my code and associated files to test for the existence (and non-existence) of various stuff, right? Any real-world examples/case studies to point to? It seems like there are a lot of people on this list interested in getting more familiar with unit testing, but not a whole lot of non-trivial, python-specific examples being passed around. I can write a function in a programming 101 class that accepts two arguments and returns a value by computing the hypotenuse of a triangle (or whatever). I can then build a unit-test for that making sure it fails and passes as needed. Cake. But jump into the real-world where many things are not so trivial, and I'm at a loss for where this unit-testing business all fits in. Basically, I'm trying to become a better programmer. (Who isn't?) I'd like to transition from 'hacky but gets the job done' or 'oh my God it actually works' to 'eloquent and bulletproof'. Without some kind of a mentor or vast array of tutorials to lay down the law when I screw up, or pass on some kind of approval when I get something right - it's been frustrating as hell. Case studies/tutorials anyone? Thanks! -Modulok- On 12/10/09, spir denis.s...@free.fr wrote: Wayne Werner waynejwer...@gmail.com dixit: On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Alan Gauld alan.ga...@btinternet.comwrote: Remember, in testing you are not trying to prove it works but rather to demonstrate that it doesn't! So in that way it's a bit like the the scientific method (or exactly like)? You create a hypothesis and design tests to invalidate your hypothesis... and if they fail to invalidate you may have a valid hypothesis. Simply replace hypothesis with program and you get the testing procedure? -Wayne programming is modelizing -- like a scientist's job Denis la vita e estrany http://spir.wikidot.com/ ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
