Re: Down with tinyurl! (was Re: importing excel data into a python matrix?)

2010-09-20 Thread Brian Victor
Tim Harig wrote: Posting two URLs rather defeats the purpose of using a URL shortening service in the first place; but, if that is what you feel is effective, then by all means, do so. You are the master of your posts and you have the right to post them using whatever methods and formating

Re: looping through possible combinations of McNuggets packs of 6,9 and 20

2010-08-12 Thread Brian Victor
Baba wrote: def can_buy(n_nuggets): [snip] can_buy(55) as you can see i am trying to loop through all combinations of values bewtween 1 and n_nuggets and when the equation resolves it should return True, else it should return False. I was hoping that when i then call my function and ask it

Re: Builtn super() function. How to use it with multiple inheritance? And why should I use it at all?

2010-07-31 Thread Brian Victor
Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Sat, 31 Jul 2010 14:25:39 +1200, Gregory Ewing wrote: Steven D'Aprano wrote: A / \ C B \ / D / \ E F Yes, a super call might jog left from C to B, but only when being called from one of the lower classes D-F. That's

Re: Accumulate function in python

2010-07-19 Thread Brian Victor
dhruvbird wrote: Hello, I have a list of integers: x = [ 0, 1, 2, 1, 1, 0, 0, 2, 3 ] And would like to compute the cumulative sum of all the integers from index zero into another array. So for the array above, I should get: [ 0, 1, 3, 4, 5, 5, 5, 7, 10 ] What is the best way (or

Re: Solutions for hand injury from computer use

2010-07-01 Thread Brian Victor
Emile van Sebille wrote: When I started having trouble about ten years ago, I switched to a keyboard with integrated mouse pad. No problems since... Where did you find that? I've been looking for one. (Assuming you mean a trackpad, and not a mouse pad.) That said, my own solution was the

Re: Dynamic Form

2009-09-24 Thread Brian Victor
victorsubervi wrote: On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 9:13 PM, BJ Swope bigbluesw...@gmail.com wrote: Is your web browser re-submitting the form with the same data if you refresh the screen? yes I'm surprised no one has mentioned this before, but the standard approach to this problem is to redirect

Re: wxPython beginners problem

2008-08-15 Thread Brian Victor
Ivan Reborin wrote: win.Show This line isn't doing anything. It needs to be: win.Show() # note the parentheses -- Brian -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: shorten this: if char in ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz:

2008-06-24 Thread Brian Victor
cirfu wrote: if char in ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz: cant i write something like: if char in [A-Za-z]: Either of the following should do what you want, without resorting to regular expressions: import string if char in string.letters: or if char.isalpha(): --

Re: [OT] Fractions on musical notation

2007-12-16 Thread Brian Victor
Gabriel Genellina wrote: On 16 dic, 06:40, Lie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [btw, off topic, in music, isn't 1/4 and 2/8 different? I'm not very keen of music though, so correct me if I'm wrong.] As a time signature 1/4 has no sense Actually, I'm playing a show right now that has a one beat

OpenGL on Intel Mac

2006-04-06 Thread Brian Victor
I am attempting to build PyOpenGL on my Intel iMac. The transcript of the build failure is here: http://brianhv.org/temp/pyopengl-build.log I'm using the universal MacPython 2.4.3 and PyOpenGL-2.0.1.09. The highlight of the build log is:

Re: python gui using boa

2005-11-24 Thread Brian Victor
ash wrote: I have another query for you - how can i make a captionless frame draggable in wxWindows? If you look at the wxPython demo, there's a Shaped Window demo under Miscellaneous that does this. The key portion is on line 86 in my version: #v+ def OnMouseMove(self, evt): if

Re: python gui using boa

2005-11-23 Thread Brian Victor
ash wrote: Thanks Steve, i found out the solution to the problem. but a good tutorial on sizers is still missing. plug type=shameless Try this article I wrote a while back. It should at least help you get started. The code samples are written in C++, but they are trivially translated to

Re: [newbie]search string in tuples

2005-08-20 Thread Brian Victor
Viper Jack wrote: but i want check on several object inside the tuple so i'm trying this: list=[airplane,car,boat] Note that this is actually a list, not a tuple as your subject suggests. For the difference, take a look at this:

Re: Wheel-reinvention with Python

2005-08-15 Thread Brian Victor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Torsten Bronger wrote: I've been having a closer look at wxPython which is not Pythonic at all and bad documented. Probably I'll use it nevertheless. Aye. Couldn't agree more. You know, whenever someone mentions wxPython being badly documented, I have to wonder

Re: Sizers VS window size

2005-02-22 Thread Brian Victor
Deltones wrote: However, if I add this part from the tutorial, I get a much smaller window. Why is there an interference with the result I want when adding the sizer code? [snip] self.sizer.Fit(self) As noted in the the docs for Fit(): Tell the sizer to resize the window to match the sizer's