Need help to sort out the below code...

2013-09-13 Thread mnishpsyched
Hello guys, i am new to programming and trying to solve this small coding: my purpose is to take in values from the user based on a menu provided for selection the output looks like this... please select from the following menu: 1. pizza 2. steak 3. pasta 4. burger type in any number from above

Re: Language design

2013-09-13 Thread Vito De Tullio
Chris Angelico wrote: > Making line breaks significant usually throws people. It took my > players a lot of time and hints to figure this out: > http://rosuav.com/1/?id=969 fukin' Gaston! -- By ZeD -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python GUI?

2013-09-13 Thread Michael Torrie
On 09/13/2013 12:23 PM, eamonn...@gmail.com wrote: > On Friday, September 13, 2013 4:02:42 AM UTC+1, Michael Torrie > wrote: >> On 09/12/2013 10:03 AM, eamonn...@gmail.com wrote: I think your >> hate of gui designers is about 10 years out of date now, even if >> you still prefer not to use them. >

Re: Python GUI?

2013-09-13 Thread Dave Angel
On 13/9/2013 15:37, eamonn...@gmail.com wrote: > I disagree with you. It's not hard, and I apologise if its ever sounded that > way, but it is the fun part for me. I love spending hours(days even) > debugging. > > Well, thanks all for depressing me. Time to give up programming and find > someth

Re: Python GUI?

2013-09-13 Thread Ben Finney
eamonn...@gmail.com writes: > But is it efficient to use an axe? Which criterion is more important to *you* — fun, or efficiency? > Is it sensible to use an axe when there is a chainsaw? No. Which criterion is more important to *you* — fun, or sensibility? > Eventually, everyone will be using

Re: new to python

2013-09-13 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Fri, 13 Sep 2013 12:02:26 -0700, Abhishek Pawar wrote: > what should i do after learning python to get more comfortable with > python? Write programs with Python. Lots of programs. Even just little programs which you throw away afterwards is fine. The important part is, write write write. D

Re: Python GUI?

2013-09-13 Thread eamonnrea
But is it efficient to use an axe? Is it sensible to use an axe when there is a chainsaw? No. Eventually, everyone will be using chainsaws, and no one will be using axes. This is my point: to have fun and be productive, but apparently it's not possible. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listin

Re: Language design

2013-09-13 Thread Mark Janssen
On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 4:57 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: > Evangelical vicar in want of a portable second-hand font. Would > dispose, for the same, of a portrait, in frame, of the Bishop-elect of > Vermont. > > I think you could quite easily reconstruct the formatting of that, > based on its interna

Re: Python GUI?

2013-09-13 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Fri, 13 Sep 2013 12:37:03 -0700, eamonnrea wrote: > I disagree with you. It's not hard, and I apologise if its ever sounded > that way, but it is the fun part for me. I love spending hours(days > even) debugging. > > Well, thanks all for depressing me. Time to give up programming and find > so

Re: Language design

2013-09-13 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 5:32 AM, Terry Reedy wrote: > Poetry, including that in English, often *is* concerned with formatting. > Code is more like poetry than prose. > > >> You can take this >> paragraph of text, unwrap it, and then reflow it to any width you >> like, without materially changing m

Re: Help please, why doesn't it show the next input?

2013-09-13 Thread William Bryant
Thanks for the contructive critisism - :D I'll try fix it up! -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Help please, why doesn't it show the next input?

2013-09-13 Thread MRAB
On 13/09/2013 23:12, William Bryant wrote: On Thursday, September 12, 2013 9:39:33 PM UTC+12, Oscar Benjamin wrote: On 12 September 2013 07:04, William Bryant wrote: > Thanks everyone for helping but I did listen to you :3 Sorry. This is my code, it works, I know it's not the best way to do i

Re: Help please, why doesn't it show the next input?

2013-09-13 Thread John Gordon
In <364bcdb3-fdd5-4774-b7d2-040e2ccb4...@googlegroups.com> William Bryant writes: > Hello, I've done this so far but why doesn't the mode function work? > def mode(): > global NumberOfXItems, Themode > for i in List: > NumberOfXItems.append(i) > NumberOfXItems.append(Lis

Re: Help please, why doesn't it show the next input?

2013-09-13 Thread William Bryant
On Thursday, September 12, 2013 9:39:33 PM UTC+12, Oscar Benjamin wrote: > On 12 September 2013 07:04, William Bryant wrote: > > > Thanks everyone for helping but I did listen to you :3 Sorry. This is my > > code, it works, I know it's not the best way to do it and it's the long way > > round b

Re: Python GUI?

2013-09-13 Thread eamonnrea
On Friday, September 13, 2013 8:50:13 PM UTC+1, Joe Junior wrote: > On 13 September 2013 16:37, wrote: > > > I disagree with you. It's not hard, and I apologise if its ever sounded > > that way, but it is the fun part for me. I love spending hours(days even) > > debugging. > > > > > > Well,

Re: Python GUI?

2013-09-13 Thread eamonnrea
On Friday, September 13, 2013 8:56:15 PM UTC+1, Neil Cerutti wrote: > On 2013-09-13, Joe Junior wrote: > > > On 13 September 2013 15:39, John Gordon wrote: > > >> In <76784bad-cd6d-48f9-b358-54afb2784...@googlegroups.com> > > >> eamonn...@gmail.com writes: > > >>> they're making programming e

Re: Python GUI?

2013-09-13 Thread Neil Cerutti
On 2013-09-13, Joe Junior wrote: > On 13 September 2013 15:39, John Gordon wrote: >> In <76784bad-cd6d-48f9-b358-54afb2784...@googlegroups.com> >> eamonn...@gmail.com writes: >>> they're making programming easier... by not coding as much. >>> Oh well, guess coding is dead :( >> >> Pressing keys o

Re: Python GUI?

2013-09-13 Thread Joe Junior
On 13 September 2013 16:37, wrote: > I disagree with you. It's not hard, and I apologise if its ever sounded that > way, but it is the fun part for me. I love spending hours(days even) > debugging. > > Well, thanks all for depressing me. Time to give up programming and find > something else to

Re: new to python

2013-09-13 Thread Abhishek Pawar
On Saturday, September 14, 2013 12:45:56 AM UTC+5:30, Ben Finney wrote: > Abhishek Pawar writes: > > > > > what should i do after learning python to get more comfortable with > > > python? > > > > Welcome! Congratulations on finding Python. > > > > Get comfortable with Python by spending

Re: new to python

2013-09-13 Thread Abhishek Pawar
On Saturday, September 14, 2013 12:45:56 AM UTC+5:30, Ben Finney wrote: > Abhishek Pawar writes: > > > > > what should i do after learning python to get more comfortable with > > > python? > > > > Welcome! Congratulations on finding Python. > thanks you inspire me > > > Get comfortable wi

Re: Python GUI?

2013-09-13 Thread Terry Reedy
On 9/13/2013 9:27 AM, Kevin Walzer wrote: On 9/11/13 4:55 PM, eamonn...@gmail.com wrote: Tkinter -- Simple to use, but limited With the themed widget introduced in Tk 8.5, Tkinter is now a peer to the other GUI toolkits in most respects, surpasses them in some (canvas widget), and lags behind

new to python

2013-09-13 Thread Abhishek Pawar
what should i do after learning python to get more comfortable with python? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python GUI?

2013-09-13 Thread eamonnrea
I disagree with you. It's not hard, and I apologise if its ever sounded that way, but it is the fun part for me. I love spending hours(days even) debugging. Well, thanks all for depressing me. Time to give up programming and find something else to do with my life. -- https://mail.python.org/mai

Re: new to python

2013-09-13 Thread Ben Finney
Abhishek Pawar writes: > what should i do after learning python to get more comfortable with > python? Welcome! Congratulations on finding Python. Get comfortable with Python by spending time working through beginner documentation http://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide> and doing all the ex

Re: Language design

2013-09-13 Thread Terry Reedy
On 9/13/2013 7:16 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 8:13 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Fri, 13 Sep 2013 09:04:06 +0200, Antoon Pardon wrote: Not only that. There are a lot of python code snippets on the net that for whatever reason lost their indentation. There is no algorithm

Re: new to python

2013-09-13 Thread MRAB
On 13/09/2013 20:02, Abhishek Pawar wrote: what should i do after learning python to get more comfortable with python? There's really nothing better than practice, so start writing something that will be interesting or useful to you. It doesn't have to be amazing! :-) -- https://mail.python.or

Re: Python GUI?

2013-09-13 Thread Joe Junior
On 13 September 2013 15:39, John Gordon wrote: > In <76784bad-cd6d-48f9-b358-54afb2784...@googlegroups.com> > eamonn...@gmail.com writes: > >> they're making programming easier... by not coding as much. Oh well, >> guess coding is dead :( > > Pressing keys on a keyboard was never the hard part of

Re: Python GUI?

2013-09-13 Thread John Gordon
In <76784bad-cd6d-48f9-b358-54afb2784...@googlegroups.com> eamonn...@gmail.com writes: > they're making programming easier... by not coding as much. Oh well, > guess coding is dead :( Pressing keys on a keyboard was never the hard part of coding. -- John Gordon A is for Amy,

Re: Python GUI?

2013-09-13 Thread eamonnrea
On Friday, September 13, 2013 4:02:42 AM UTC+1, Michael Torrie wrote: > On 09/12/2013 10:03 AM, eamonn...@gmail.com wrote: >I think your hate of gui designers is about 10 years out of date now, > even if you still prefer not to use them. So, you are recommending not to code as much? :'( That is w

Re: Python GUI?

2013-09-13 Thread petmertens
Enthought.traits !! http://code.enthought.com/projects/traits/ I started using traits a couple of months ago and I really like it. Traits provides a framework which creates a UI based on your data structures. Using some "hints" you can do anything you want. Just check out their website and try t

Get the selected tab in a enthought traits application

2013-09-13 Thread petmertens
Hi, I have a traits application with a tabbed group: Group( Group(label="a", dock='tab'), Group(label="b", dock='tab'), layout='tabbed') Beneath the tabbed group, there is button which should perform some action depending on the selected tab. So I would like to know which of both tabs, 'a' or '

Re: Python GUI?

2013-09-13 Thread eamonnrea
I don't like the idea of being able to drag and drop anything in the programming world. Outside of that, I use D&D programs a lot. I got into GUI programming because I thought that I could get away from them, but I guess not. Maybe I'm against them because if I can't code, I don't have anything

Re: Stripping characters from windows clipboard with win32clipboard from excel

2013-09-13 Thread random832
On Fri, Sep 13, 2013, at 10:38, stephen.bou...@gmail.com wrote: > > Hm, that gives me a "Type str doesn't support the buffer API" message. > > Aha, I need to use str(s, encoding='utf8').rstrip('\0'). It's not a solution to your problem, but why aren't you using CF_UNICODETEXT, particularly if you

Re: Another question about JSON

2013-09-13 Thread Anthony Papillion
On 09/13/2013 08:24 AM, Peter Otten wrote: > Anthony Papillion wrote: > >> And I get a traceback that says: No JSON object could be decoded. The >> specific traceback is: >> >> Traceback (most recent call last): >> File "coinbase_bot.py", line 31, in >> getCurrentBitcoinPrice() >> File "c

Re: Stripping characters from windows clipboard with win32clipboard from excel

2013-09-13 Thread Neil Cerutti
On 2013-09-13, stephen.bou...@gmail.com wrote: > On Thursday, September 12, 2013 10:43:46 PM UTC-5, Neil Hodgson wrote: >> Stephen Boulet: >> >> >> >> > From the clipboard contents copied from the spreadsheet, the characters >> > s[:80684] were the visible cell contents, and s[80684:] all sta

Re: Stripping characters from windows clipboard with win32clipboard from excel

2013-09-13 Thread stephen . boulet
On Friday, September 13, 2013 9:31:45 AM UTC-5, stephen...@gmail.com wrote: > On Thursday, September 12, 2013 10:43:46 PM UTC-5, Neil Hodgson wrote: > > > Stephen Boulet: > > > > > > > > > > > > > From the clipboard contents copied from the spreadsheet, the characters > > > s[:80684] were

Re: Another question about JSON

2013-09-13 Thread John Gordon
In Anthony Papillion writes: > I'm still working to get my head around JSON and I thought I'd done so > until I ran into this bit of trouble. I'm trying to work with the > CoinBase API. If I type this into my browser: > https://coinbase.com/api/v1/prices/buy > I get the following JSON returne

Re: Stripping characters from windows clipboard with win32clipboard from excel

2013-09-13 Thread stephen . boulet
On Thursday, September 12, 2013 10:43:46 PM UTC-5, Neil Hodgson wrote: > Stephen Boulet: > > > > > From the clipboard contents copied from the spreadsheet, the characters > > s[:80684] were the visible cell contents, and s[80684:] all started with > > "b'\x0" and lack any useful info for what

Re: Another question about JSON

2013-09-13 Thread Peter Otten
Anthony Papillion wrote: > Hello Again Everyone, > > I'm still working to get my head around JSON and I thought I'd done so > until I ran into this bit of trouble. I'm trying to work with the > CoinBase API. If I type this into my browser: > > https://coinbase.com/api/v1/prices/buy > > I get th

Re: Python GUI?

2013-09-13 Thread Kevin Walzer
On 9/11/13 4:55 PM, eamonn...@gmail.com wrote: Tkinter -- Simple to use, but limited With the themed widget introduced in Tk 8.5, Tkinter is now a peer to the other GUI toolkits in most respects, surpasses them in some (canvas widget), and lags behind in just two areas: printing (several pla

Another question about JSON

2013-09-13 Thread Anthony Papillion
Hello Again Everyone, I'm still working to get my head around JSON and I thought I'd done so until I ran into this bit of trouble. I'm trying to work with the CoinBase API. If I type this into my browser: https://coinbase.com/api/v1/prices/buy I get the following JSON returned {"subtotal":{"amo

Re: Telnet to remote system and format output via web page

2013-09-13 Thread Chris Angelico
On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 10:31 PM, Jean-Michel Pichavant wrote: > - Original Message - >> I would use something like fabric to automatically login to hosts via >> ssh then parse the data myself to generate static HTML pages in a >> document root. >> >> Having a web app execute remote comman

Re: Telnet to remote system and format output via web page

2013-09-13 Thread Jean-Michel Pichavant
- Original Message - > I would use something like fabric to automatically login to hosts via > ssh then parse the data myself to generate static HTML pages in a > document root. > > Having a web app execute remote commands on a server is so wrong in > many ways. Such as ? JM -- IMPORTA

Re: Language design

2013-09-13 Thread Antoon Pardon
Op 13-09-13 12:13, Steven D'Aprano schreef: > On Fri, 13 Sep 2013 09:04:06 +0200, Antoon Pardon wrote: > >> Op 10-09-13 12:20, Chris Angelico schreef: >>> On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 4:09 PM, Steven D'Aprano >>> wrote: What design mistakes, traps or gotchas do you think Python has? Gotchas

Re: Language design

2013-09-13 Thread Chris Angelico
On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 8:13 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Fri, 13 Sep 2013 09:04:06 +0200, Antoon Pardon wrote: > >> Op 10-09-13 12:20, Chris Angelico schreef: >>> On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 4:09 PM, Steven D'Aprano >>> wrote: What design mistakes, traps or gotchas do you think Python has? >

Re: When i leave a LineEdit widget and run slot

2013-09-13 Thread Vincent Vande Vyvre
Le 13/09/2013 02:33, Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh a écrit : Dear all, QtCore.QObject.connect(self.checkBox, QtCore.SIGNAL(_fromUtf8("clicked(bool)")), lambda: self.interfaceCodesConstructor.setFilterList(self,"name",self.lineEdit.text())) I code pyqt, I have the following code: ///

Re: Python in XKCD today

2013-09-13 Thread Duncan Booth
Roy Smith wrote: > http://xkcd.com/1263/ So now I guess someone has to actually implement the script. At least, that's (sort of) what happened for xkcd 353 so there's a precedent. -- Duncan Booth http://kupuguy.blogspot.com -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Language design

2013-09-13 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Fri, 13 Sep 2013 09:04:06 +0200, Antoon Pardon wrote: > Op 10-09-13 12:20, Chris Angelico schreef: >> On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 4:09 PM, Steven D'Aprano >> wrote: >>> What design mistakes, traps or gotchas do you think Python has? >>> Gotchas are not necessarily a bad thing, there may be good re

Re: Language design

2013-09-13 Thread Chris Angelico
On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 3:08 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > For example, take intersection of two sets s and t. It is a basic > principle of set intersection that s&t == t&s. Note that, while this is true, the two are not actually identical: >>> set1 = {0,1,2} >>> set2 = {0.0,1.0,3.0} >>> set1&set

Re: Language design

2013-09-13 Thread Antoon Pardon
Op 10-09-13 12:20, Chris Angelico schreef: > On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 4:09 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> What design mistakes, traps or gotchas do you think Python has? Gotchas >> are not necessarily a bad thing, there may be good reasons for it, but >> they're surprising. > > Significant indentat