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 something

Re: Accessing class attribute

2013-09-12 Thread Dave Angel
On 12/9/2013 02:15, chandan kumar wrote: Hi , I'm new to python Welcome. I hope you enjoy your time here, and that the language treats you as well as it's treated me. ,please correct me if there is any thing wrong with the way accessing class attributes. None of the following uses class

Re: Parsing an html line and pulling out only numbers that meet a certain criteria

2013-09-12 Thread Dave Angel
On 11/9/2013 23:03, Cory Mottice wrote: I am using line.rfind to parse a particular line of html code. For example, this is the line of html code I am parsing: strong class=temp79spandeg;/span/strongspan class=lowspanLo/span 56spandeg;/span/span and this is the code I use to split the

Re: Python GUI?

2013-09-12 Thread Dave Cook
and slots is by far the most powerful and flexible. wxPython's event manager adds some flexibility. Dave Cook -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python GUI?

2013-09-12 Thread Dave Cook
On 2013-09-12, Dave Cook davec...@nowhere.net wrote: There's also a markup language available, enaml: http://docs.enthought.com/enaml/ I should have mentioned that it's *Python*-based markup, not an XML horrorshow. http://pyvideo.org/video/1231/enaml-a-framework-for-building-declarative-user

Re: Python GUI?

2013-09-12 Thread Dave Cook
On 2013-09-12, Robert Kern robert.k...@gmail.com wrote: There is nothing forcing you to use the GUI designers if you don't want to. There's also a markup language available, enaml: http://docs.enthought.com/enaml/ Dave Cook -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

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

2013-09-11 Thread Dave Angel
On 11/9/2013 01:39, William Bryant wrote: On Wednesday, September 11, 2013 5:11:23 PM UTC+12, John Gordon wrote: In ef8de6db-5f35-4d07-8306-bcec47b1e...@googlegroups.com William Bryant gogobe...@gmail.com writes: Hey, I am very new to python, I am 13 years old. I want to be able to

Re: Language design

2013-09-11 Thread Dave Angel
On 11/9/2013 07:42, Wayne Werner wrote: On Tue, 10 Sep 2013, Ben Finney wrote: The sooner we replace the erroneous “text is ASCII” in the common wisdom with “text is Unicode”, the better. I'd actually argue that it's better to replace the common wisdom with text is binary data, and we

Re: global variable across modules

2013-09-11 Thread Dave Angel
On 11/9/2013 08:50, chandan kumar wrote: Hi , I'm trying to understand using global variable across different modules. Python doesn't have such a thing, unless you consider builtins. Here is what i have tried so far without much success.Please ignore any indentation issue  in the below

Re: Send alt key to subprocess.PIPE stdin

2013-09-11 Thread Dave Angel
On 11/9/2013 10:26, Wanderer wrote: How do I send the command 'Alt+D' to subprocess.PIPE? That's not a command, it's a keystroke combination. And without knowing what RSConfig.exe is looking to get its keystrokes, it might not even be possible to feed it any keystrokes via the pipe. if the

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

2013-09-11 Thread Dave Angel
On 11/9/2013 15:31, William Bryant wrote: @Dave Angel What is .lower() ? It is a method on the str class. You could teach yourself. At the interpreter prompt, type help(test response.lower) Or on the web: http://docs.python.org/2/library/stdtypes.html#str.lower There are lots of other

Re: global variable across modules

2013-09-11 Thread Dave Angel
On 11/9/2013 17:49, John Pote wrote: Chris, Interesting. # Test1.py Debug_Value = # Test2.py from Test1 import * # is exactly equivalent to Debug_Value = I take it then that assigning to Debug_Value in Test2.py will not change the value of Debug_Value in Test1.py. That's

Re: Dealing with Lists

2013-09-10 Thread Dave Angel
On 10/9/2013 17:08, stas poritskiy wrote: Greetings to all! i ran into a little logic problem and trying to figure it out. my case is as follows: i have a list of items each item represents a Group i need to create a set of nested groups, so, for example: myGroups = [head, neck,

Re: Dealing with Lists

2013-09-10 Thread Dave Angel
of neck, while neck is parent of arms and so on. They're just strings, not parents of anything. But the real question is whether that list I described is what you wanted: [head, [neck, [arms, [legs I'm not sure I understand how to apply your chop list example, dave Call it with a list

Re: Dealing with Lists

2013-09-10 Thread Dave Angel
On 10/9/2013 22:14, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Tue, 10 Sep 2013 14:08:45 -0700, stas poritskiy wrote: Greetings to all! i ran into a little logic problem and trying to figure it out. my case is as follows: i have a list of items each item represents a Group i need to create a set of

Re: Monitor key presses in Python?

2013-09-09 Thread Dave Angel
On 9/9/2013 13:39, eamonn...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a way to detect if the user presses a key in Python that works on most OS's? I've only seen 1 method, and that only works in Python 2.6 and less. If you get the key, can you store it in a variable? Also, is there a way to create a

Re: Can I trust downloading Python?

2013-09-07 Thread Dave Angel
On 7/9/2013 21:17, Aaron Martin wrote: Hi, I am thinking about getting a software but it requires python, so that brought up a few questions. Is it safe do download python, and does it come with spam or advertisements? If it doesn't then should I get the latest version? I mostly want to know

Re: Multiprocessing / threading confusion

2013-09-06 Thread Dave Angel
On 6/9/2013 14:27, Paul Pittlerson wrote: f Ok here is the fixed and shortened version of my script: #!/usr/bin/python from multiprocessing import Process, Queue, current_process from threading import Thread from time import sleep class Worker(): def __init__(self, Que):

Re: Find out where a class is used throughout a program.

2013-09-05 Thread Dave Angel
On 4/9/2013 12:32, Azureaus wrote: Hi All, I'm fairly new to Python so please forgive me If I sound confused or include anything a bit irrelevant. I've had some great responses from this group already though so thanks. I have a source file that is laid out roughly like class: class

Re: Cannot form correctly the FORM part of the header when sending mail

2013-09-05 Thread Dave Angel
On 5/9/2013 05:36, Ferrous Cranus wrote: ni...@superhost.gr [~]# cat /tmp/err.out sendmail = 13-09-05 12:20:53 (class 'TypeError', TypeError(sendmail() missing 2 required positional arguments: 'to_addrs' and 'msg',), traceback object at 0x7f3fb4f44488) ni...@superhost.gr [~]# but all

Re: Could someone please paraphrase this statement about variables and functions in Python?

2013-09-05 Thread Dave Angel
On 5/9/2013 12:37, jsri...@gmail.com wrote: I am going through the tutorials on docs.python.org, and I came across this excerpt from http://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/controlflow.html: The execution of a function introduces a new symbol table used for the local variables of the function.

Re: Newbie question related to Boolean in Python

2013-09-05 Thread Dave Angel
On 5/9/2013 16:08, skwyan...@gmail.com wrote: 1. bear_moved = False 2. 3. while True: 4.next = raw_input( ) 5. 6.if next == take honey: 7.dead(The bear looks at you then slaps your face off.) 8.elif next == taunt bear and not

Re: Cannot form correctly the FORM part of the header when sending mail

2013-09-04 Thread Dave Angel
On 4/9/2013 05:57, Ferrous Cranus wrote: Τη Τετάρτη, 4 Σεπτεμβρίου 2013 5:14:31 π.μ. UTC+3, ο χρήστης Piet van Oostrum έγραψε: Where does it display that? Do you happen to read that mail in a Microsoft program? yes. Thunderbird. When did Microsoft take over Thunderbird's development

Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue

2013-09-04 Thread Dave Angel
On 4/9/2013 04:35, Ferrous Cranus wrote: Τη Δευτέρα, 2 Σεπτεμβρίου 2013 9:28:36 μ.μ. UTC+3, ο χρήστης Dave Angel έγραψε: On 2/9/2013 11:05, Ferrous Cranus wrote: Στις 2/9/2013 3:21 μμ, ο/η Dave Angel έγραψε: Starting with the byte string in the error message: f = open(junk.txt

Re: how does not work nested comment in python?

2013-09-04 Thread Dave Angel
On 4/9/2013 02:13, vnkumbh...@gmail.com wrote: example: print hello # print comment +world= single line comment print hello # print comment +world= single line comment hello print hello '''print comment''' +world = multiple line comment print hello '''print comment'''

Re: Cannot form correctly the FORM part of the header when sending mail

2013-09-04 Thread Dave Angel
On 4/9/2013 07:29, Ferrous Cranus wrote: Στις 4/9/2013 2:15 μμ, ο/η Dave Angel έγραψε: Τη Τετάρτη, 4 Σεπτεμβρίου 2013 5:14:31 π.μ. UTC+3, ο χρήστης Piet van Oostrum έγραψε: Where does it display that? Do you happen to read that mail in a Microsoft program? yes. Thunderbird. When did

Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue

2013-09-04 Thread Dave Angel
On 4/9/2013 07:38, Ferrous Cranus wrote: Στις 4/9/2013 2:26 μμ, ο/η Dave Angel έγραψε: So first in the interpreter, I ran f = open(junk.txt, w) f.write(b'\xb6\xe3\xed\xf9\xf3\xf4\xef\xfc\xed\xef\xec\xe1 \xf3\xf5\xf3\xf4\xde\xec\xe1\xf4\xef\xf2\n') f.close() snip So

Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue

2013-09-04 Thread Dave Angel
On 4/9/2013 10:29, Ferrous Cranus wrote: Στις 4/9/2013 3:38 μμ, ο/η Dave Angel έγραψε: 'file' isn't magic. And again, it doesn't look at the filename, it looks at the content. So, you are saying that it looks a the content of the file and not of what encoding we used to save the file

Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue

2013-09-02 Thread Dave Angel
On 2/9/2013 00:16, Ferrous Cranus wrote: Have you tried to decode those bytes in various encodings other than utf-8 ? No, because i wasn't aware of what string/variable they were pertaining at. http://pypi.python.org/pypi/chardet is a package which tries to 'guess' an encoding for a

Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue

2013-09-02 Thread Dave Angel
On 2/9/2013 07:49, Ferrous Cranus wrote: snip Στις 2/9/2013 2:38 μμ, ο/η Dave Angel έγραψε: Does that string make any sense to you? Yes it does, it mean Unknown Hostname The Linux 'file' utility thinks this string is in ISO-8859, so you might want to try a decode('ISO-8859-1') as well

Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue

2013-09-02 Thread Dave Angel
On 2/9/2013 07:56, MRAB wrote: On 02/09/2013 12:38, Dave Angel wrote: snip ¶γνωστοόνομα συστήματος I don't have a clue what it might be; it's not English, and I don't know whatever language it may be in. You don't recognise Greek? I recognize most of those as Greek characters

Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue

2013-09-02 Thread Dave Angel
On 2/9/2013 11:05, Ferrous Cranus wrote: Στις 2/9/2013 3:21 μμ, ο/η Dave Angel έγραψε: Starting with the byte string in the error message: f = open(junk.txt, w) f.write(b'\xb6\xe3\xed\xf9\xf3\xf4\xef\xfc\xed\xef\xec\xe1 \xf3\xf5\xf3\xf4\xde\xec\xe1\xf4\xef\xf2\n') f.close() Ιndeed

Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue

2013-09-01 Thread Dave Angel
On 1/9/2013 03:23, Ferrous Cranus wrote: Στις 1/9/2013 10:12 πμ, ο/η Chris Angelico έγραψε: On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Ferrous Cranus nikos.gr...@gmail.com wrote: Ye i'm aware that i need to define variables before i try to make use of them. I have study all of your examples and then

Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue

2013-09-01 Thread Dave Angel
On 1/9/2013 10:08, Ferrous Cranus wrote: snip Here is it: errout = open( '/tmp/err.out', 'w' ) # opens and truncates the error output file try: gi = pygeoip.GeoIP('/usr/local/share/GeoIPCity.dat') city = gi.time_zone_by_addr( os.environ['REMOTE_ADDR'] ) or

Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue

2013-09-01 Thread Dave Angel
On 1/9/2013 09:59, Ferrous Cranus wrote: Στις 1/9/2013 1:35 μμ, ο/η Dave Angel έγραψε: This is my first crack at it (untested): errout = open(/tmp/err.out, w) #opens and truncates the error output file try: gi = pygeoip.GeoIP('/usr/local/share/GeoIPCity.dat') city

Re: UnicodeDecodeError issue

2013-09-01 Thread Dave Angel
On 1/9/2013 18:23, Ferrous Cranus wrote: snip i still wonder how come the invalid byte messge dissapeared Too bad you never bothered to narrow it down to its source. It could be anywhere on those three lines. If I had to guess, I'd figure it was one of those environment variables. The

Re: right adjusted strings containing umlauts

2013-08-28 Thread Dave Angel
On 28/8/2013 04:01, Kurt Mueller wrote: Because I cannot switch to Python 3 for now my life is not so easy:-) For some text manipulation tasks I need a template to split lines from stdin into a list of strings the way shlex.split() does it. The encoding of the input can vary. For further

Re: split lines from stdin into a list of unicode strings

2013-08-28 Thread Dave Angel
On 28/8/2013 04:32, Kurt Mueller wrote: This is a follow up to the Subject right adjusted strings containing umlauts You started a new thread, with a new subject line. So presumably we're starting over with a clean slate. For some text manipulation tasks I need a template to split lines

Re: [error] [client 178.59.111.223] (2)No such file or directory: exec of

2013-08-28 Thread Dave Angel
On 28/8/2013 07:14, Ferrous Cranus wrote: But i cannot test it without looking at the error log which is scrolling like hell and doesn't even quit with a ctrl+c I take it this 'error log is shared with other users, and you can't constrain them to cease and desist for a while? How will i

Re: [error] [client 178.59.111.223] (2)No such file or directory: exec of

2013-08-28 Thread Dave Angel
On 28/8/2013 07:38, Ferrous Cranus wrote: no this is the general error log apache produces for all the server. Is there a way to grep error logging info, pertainign only to my specific nikos account or my superhost.gr domain? I now nothing about Apache logs, but how about grepping the

Re: multifile programming on python 3

2013-08-25 Thread Dave Angel
Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh wrote: Dear all, I need help about multifile programming on python 3 and i questioned on stackoverflow : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18391230/eclipse-python-nameerror-name-mymodule-is-not-defined I thank you if you answer me. --mohsen You have a response

Re: Checking homogeneity of Array using List in Python

2013-08-25 Thread Dave Angel
sahil301...@gmail.com wrote: I am unable to check homogeneity of Array. I have take Array type Int to be default for my code. Instead of getting Error on NON-INT Values. But none of them below are int values. I want to take input as string. Then check if all input is in (0-9) form, I

Re: can't get utf8 / unicode strings from embedded python

2013-08-24 Thread Dave Angel
David M. Cotter wrote: Steven wrote: I see you are using Python 2 correct It's hard to say what *exactly* is happening here, because you don't explain how the python print statement somehow gets into your C++ Log code. Do I guess right that it catches stdout? yes, i'm redirecting stdout to

Re: Exception Handling Practices / Patterns

2013-08-24 Thread Dave Angel
snarf wrote: Greetings, As I tread through my journey of OO I am trying to determine if there is a good approach for exception handling within classes. From my readings and gatherings - it seems I have found a common theme, but I am trying to solicit from the experts. Here is what I

Re: Help regarding urllib

2013-08-24 Thread Dave Angel
malhar vora wrote: On Saturday, August 24, 2013 4:15:01 PM UTC+5:30, malhar vora wrote: Hello All, I am simply fetching data from robots.txt of a url. Below is my code. siteurl = siteurl.rstrip(/) Sorry for last complete. It was sent by mistake. Here is my code. siteurl

Re: Using PyQT with QT Designer

2013-08-23 Thread Dave Angel
Michael Staggs wrote: That's the problem though. It is exactly how I want it in designer. It's perfect as it is in designer when I preview it. Here is a screenshot of the preview: http://i.imgur.com/ULRolq8.png The problem isn't that I can't design it in QT Designer. It is designed just

Re: Replace blanks with letter

2013-08-22 Thread Dave Angel
eschneide...@comcast.net wrote: I wanted the program to stop only after all the letters were typed; why in the world would I try to write a program with blanks for each letter that seem intended to be filled, only to have it stop if the last letter is typed, or have to type each letter so

Re: Replace blanks with letter

2013-08-21 Thread Dave Angel
eschneide...@comcast.net wrote: Thanks. I am running into a bunch of problems with the following code, all of which are clear when running the program import random letters='abcdefg' blanks='_'*len(letters) print('type letters from a to g') print(blanks) for i in range(len(letters)):

Re: Replace blanks with letter

2013-08-20 Thread Dave Angel
eschneide...@comcast.net wrote: Is there also a way to have the code remember what I typed and not stop after the first letter the user types? For example, if I typed 'a' once, thus returning 'a__', and then typed in 'b', I want the code to return 'ab_' and so on. I wasn't clear

Re: Importing variables non-deterministic?

2013-08-19 Thread Dave Angel
Antoon Pardon wrote: Op 17-08-13 17:01, Steven D'Aprano schreef: And here you re-import the name y from struct_global. That rebinds the current module's y with whatever value struct_global.y has *now*, rather than a second (or a minute, or an hour) earlier when the first import took

Re: refresing the edited python function

2013-08-19 Thread Dave Angel
Sudheer Joseph wrote: Thank you Dieter, I never thought it will be so difficult task, All I was thinking was that, I just do not know how it is done. I wonder how the code developers work in this case every time a function is modified one has to restart the console is

Re: Importing variables non-deterministic?

2013-08-19 Thread Dave Angel
Antoon Pardon wrote: Op 19-08-13 11:18, Chris Angelico schreef: snip The issue was regarding imports, and it's perfectly safe to import a constant, even if the interpreter doesn't protect you from then being a total idiot and changing it. Python doesn't have constants, so you statement

Re: opposite of __init__.py

2013-08-19 Thread Dave Angel
Tamer Higazi wrote: Hi people! I have asked myself a question, if there is a opposite of __init__.py like __del__.py ?! Others have answered your question, but I wanted to correct a misunderstanding: I want, that when the application ends, certain functions are executed. I know I could

[issue18772] Fix gdb plugin for new sets dummy object

2013-08-19 Thread Dave Malcolm
Dave Malcolm added the comment: Antoine's patch looks reasonable to me, FWIW. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue18772

Re: Local variable in a closure

2013-08-18 Thread Dave Angel
w.w.mil...@googlemail.com wrote: Is f local or not? http://pastebin.com/AKDJrbDs Please have a little respect, and include the source in your message. You managed quite nicely to keep it small, but you put it in an obscure place that some people won't be able to reach, and that might not

Re: .split() Qeustion

2013-08-15 Thread Dave Angel
Terry Reedy wrote: On 8/15/2013 2:28 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 5:54 PM, Joshua Landau jos...@landau.ws wrote: On 15 August 2013 16:43, Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com wrote: A mole is as much a number (6e23) as the light year is a number (9.5e15). A mole is a number.

Re: .split() Qeustion

2013-08-15 Thread Dave Angel
Roy Smith wrote: In article 520da6d1$0$3$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com, Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote: On Thu, 15 Aug 2013 16:43:41 +0100, Chris Angelico wrote: A mole is as much a number (6e23) as the light year is a number (9.5e15). Not quite.

Re: Verifying Variable value

2013-08-14 Thread Dave Angel
chandan kumar wrote: Hi , Is there a way to validate variable values while debugging any python code.Run below example  in debugging mode and i would like to know the value of c (I know print is an option) with any other option other than printing. In C# or some other tools we can verify

Re: multithreading in python

2013-08-13 Thread Dave Angel
samaneh.yahyap...@gmail.com wrote: hi my program work by 4 thread but when i use more thread it terminates I simplified your code so anybody could run it, and tested it inside Komodo IDE, on Python 2.7 #!/usr/bin/env python import sys import os import time import threading class

Re: multithreading in python

2013-08-13 Thread Dave Angel
samaneh.yahyap...@gmail.com wrote: hi my program work by 4 thread but when i use more thread it terminates snip how can i solve this problem I simplified the code so I could actually run it, and tested it in Python 2.7, both under Komodo IDE and in the terminal. The code:

Re: Question about function failing with large number

2013-08-13 Thread Dave Angel
Anthony Papillion wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 So I'm using the function below to test a large (617 digit) number for primality. For some reason, when I execute the code, I get an error telling me: OverflowError: long int too large to convert to float In

Re: Am I not seeing the Error?

2013-08-13 Thread Dave Angel
Denis McMahon wrote: On Sat, 10 Aug 2013 22:19:23 -0400, Devyn Collier Johnson wrote: I am checking my 1292-line script for syntax errors. I ran the following commands in a terminal to check for errors, but I do not see the error. JOB_WRITEURGFILES =

Re: Getting a value that follows string.find()

2013-08-13 Thread Dave Angel
englishkevin...@gmail.com wrote: I know the title doesn't make much sense, but I didnt know how to explain my problem. Anywho, I've opened a page's source in URLLIB starturlsource = starturlopen.read() string.find(starturlsource, 'a href=/profile.php?id=') And I used string.find to find a

Re: .split() Qeustion

2013-08-13 Thread Dave Angel
eschneide...@comcast.net wrote: How can I use the '.split()' method (am I right in calling it a method?) without instead of writing each comma between words in the pie list in the following code? Also, is there a way to use .split instead of typing the apostrophes? Thank you. import

Re: back with more issues

2013-08-12 Thread Dave Angel
Kris Mesenbrink wrote: darn i was hoping i could put off learning classes for a bit, but it seems that is not the case. i have tested it a bit and it seems to be working correctly now. import random class player(): hp = 10 speed = 5 attack =

Re: Calling Python macro from ctypes

2013-08-12 Thread Dave Angel
Peter Otten wrote: Steven D'Aprano wrote: Is it possible to call a Python macro from ctypes? For example, Python 3.3 introduces some new macros for querying the internal representation of strings: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0393/#new-api So I try this in 3.3: py import

Re: Introduction to my fellow Python Friends

2013-08-11 Thread Dave Angel
Krishnan Shankar wrote: Hi Friends, Hi, and welcome to the mailing list. snip I figured out that the best way is to talk to the experts and so i subscribed to this mailing list. It will be cool if anybody can help me out by telling the etiquette of this mailing list, like 1. How to

Re: back with more issues

2013-08-11 Thread Dave Angel
Kris Mesenbrink wrote: import random def player(): hp = 10 speed = 5 attack = random.randint(0,5) The net resut of this function is nothing. It assigns values, then they're lost when the function returns. A function is the wrong way to deal with these three names. def

Re: Issues with if and elif statements in 3.3

2013-08-08 Thread Dave Angel
krismesenbr...@gmail.com wrote: def town(): print (You stand in the middle of Coffeington while you descide what to do next, you have herd rumor of the Coffeington Caves that run under the city, would you like to check them out?) answer = input() if answer == (yes) or

Re: right adjusted strings containing umlauts

2013-08-08 Thread Dave Angel
Kurt Mueller wrote: Am 08.08.2013 16:43, schrieb jfhar...@gmail.com: On Thursday, 8 August 2013 15:23:46 UTC+1, Kurt Mueller wrote: I'd like to print strings right adjusted. print( '{0:3}'.format( 'ä' ) ) Make both strings unicode print( u'{0:3}'.format( u'ä' ) ) Why not use rjust for

Re: right adjusted strings containing umlauts

2013-08-08 Thread Dave Angel
Kurt Mueller wrote: Now I have this small example: -- #!/usr/bin/env python # vim: set fileencoding=utf-8 : from __future__ import print_function import sys, shlex print( repr( sys.stdin.encoding ) ) strg_form = u'{0:3} {1:3}

Re: beginner question (True False help)

2013-08-07 Thread Dave Angel
eschneide...@comcast.net wrote: What I wanted to happen is when the user typed something other than 'y' or 'yes' after being asked 'go again?', the batman==False line would cause the program to stop asking anything and say 'this is the end'. Instead, what is happening is that the program

Re: new to While statements

2013-08-07 Thread Dave Angel
Vito De Tullio wrote: Dan Sommers wrote: while asking for reponse: while adventuring: that's a funny way to say `while True:`... Funny, perhaps, the first time you see it, but way more informative than the other way to the next one who comes along and reads it.

Re: Beginner question

2013-08-06 Thread Dave Angel
eschneide...@comcast.net wrote: Why won't the 'goodbye' part of this code work right? it prints 'ok' no matter what is typed. Much thanks. def thing(): print('go again?') goagain=input() if goagain=='y' or 'yes': This expression doesn't do what you think. The comparison

Re: Hangman question

2013-08-05 Thread Dave Angel
eschneide...@comcast.net wrote: I'm on chapter 9 of this guide to python: http://inventwithpython.com/chapter9.html but I don't quite understand why line 79 is what it is (blanks = blanks[:i] + secretWord[i] + blanks[i+1:]). I particularly don't get the [i+1:] part. Any additional

Re: Creating a running tally/ definitely new to this

2013-08-05 Thread Dave Angel
gratedme...@gmail.com wrote: I currently working on a game, where I need to maintain a running tally of money, as the player makes purchases as they navigate thru game. I not exactly sure how to do this in python. I know it is a fairly basic step, nonetheless. Any assistance would be

Re: outputting time in microseconds or milliseconds

2013-08-04 Thread Dave Angel
matt.doolittl...@gmail.com wrote: ok so now i import the module like this: from time import strftime, time i made the write statement like this: self.logfile.write('%s\t'%(str(strftime(%Y-%m-%d, self.logfile.write('%s\t'%(str(strftime(%H:%M:%S,

Re: Crawl Quora

2013-08-03 Thread Dave Angel
Umesh Sharma wrote: Hello, I am writing a crawler in python, which crawl quora. I can't read the content of quora without login. But google/bing crawls quora. One thing i can do is use browser automation and login in my account and the go links by link and crawl content, but this method

Re: Removing matching items from a list?

2013-08-03 Thread Dave Angel
kevin4f...@gmail.com wrote: snip Would you also happen to know how I could set up a list that keeps track of the removed sets? Let's see, i think that makes 5 times you've asked the same question, counting the dups you apparently sent to the same person. Instead of writing all these

Re: outputting time in microseconds or milliseconds

2013-08-02 Thread Dave Angel
matt.doolittl...@gmail.com wrote: Hey everybody, I am using 2.7 on Ubuntu 12.10. and what version of Python are you using? I don't know if it matters, but it's useful to always supply both Python version and OS version. All I need to do is to print time with the microseconds. I have been

Re: Python: Code is ignoring the if and else

2013-08-02 Thread Dave Angel
kevin4f...@gmail.com wrote: I'm trying to create a game of Go Fish in Python. But I've stumbled onto a little problem that I can't seem to figure out how to deal with. snip Please list the program the way you are actually running it. The present one will not run very long before

Re: Python and PyQt (Windows) - AttributeError: 'module' object has not attribute run

2013-08-01 Thread Dave Angel
alesssia wrote: I developed a python3-PyQt4 application (I’m a newbie!) on a 32-bit Linux platform, and I’m experiencing some problems when testing it on Windows platforms (Windows 7 and 8, both 64-bit). I have a module called Pmc.py that contains two methods: run and main, but only the

Re: script to Login a website

2013-08-01 Thread Dave Angel
wachk...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday, July 31, 2013 12:21:59 PM UTC-4, John Gordon wrote: SNIP lots of double-spaced stuff How is the data in 'users.txt' and 'password.txt' organized? Given the filenames, I would expect that 'users.txt' contains one username on each line, and

Re: script to Login a website

2013-08-01 Thread Dave Angel
wachk...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday, July 31, 2013 11:33:25 AM UTC-4, wach...@gmail.com wrote: I have created a script to log in a website. It gets its username and password from two files, then log's in with this credentials. My code is not showing me what username it is using to login

Re: How do I deal with packet data

2013-08-01 Thread Dave Angel
Pacopag wrote: Hi. I have the hex stream of a packet that a program sent over the network. Now I want to view the data in the packet. I'm pretty sure the data was just a string (or at least contains a string), but when I decode it I just get gibberish. For example, the packet is sent

Re: Does Python 'enable' poke and hope programming?

2013-08-01 Thread Dave Angel
CM wrote: snip what now strikes me as a Very Bad Habit, which is poke and hope (trial and error) programming (of several names this page provided, I kind of like that one): I recall when a compile took up to two days, before we got the punched paper tape to begin testing. If we wanted

Re: PEP8 revised: max line lengths

2013-08-01 Thread Dave Angel
Terry Reedy wrote: The diff with all the changes is here http://hg.python.org/peps/rev/fb24c80e9afb Just out of curiosity, where is coding cookie defined? I found enough distant references to decide it was supposed to mean the coding line (line 2, typically in Unix). But I originally

Re: Python and PyQt (Windows) - AttributeError: 'module' object has not attribute run

2013-08-01 Thread Dave Angel
alesssia wrote: snip My guess is that somehow when the zip file was extracted, the case of this file was not preserved, and it came out pmc.py. The zip was not extracted because there was no zip. I copied the code from my computer to a USB pen drive and ran the code from there.

Re: PEP8 revised: max line lengths

2013-08-01 Thread Dave Angel
Terry Reedy wrote: On 8/1/2013 7:33 PM, Dave Angel wrote: Terry Reedy wrote: The diff with all the changes is here http://hg.python.org/peps/rev/fb24c80e9afb Just out of curiosity, where is coding cookie defined? I found enough distant references to decide it was supposed to mean

Re: importing modules

2013-07-30 Thread Dave Angel
On 07/29/2013 05:57 PM, syed khalid wrote: I am attempting to import modules from Shogun to python from a non-standard python directory ie from my /home/xxx directory. is there a way on ubuntu to selectively some modules, scripts, data from one directory and others modules, scripts from another

Re: import syntax

2013-07-29 Thread Dave Angel
On 07/29/2013 03:48 PM, Devyn Collier Johnson wrote: The PEP8 recommends importing like this: import os import re not like this: import os, re Why is that? Is there a performance advantage to one of the styles? Pep 8 is not about performance, it's about readability. And unless the two

[issue17449] dev guide appears not to cover the benchmarking suite

2013-07-29 Thread Dave Malcolm
Dave Malcolm added the comment: On Mon, 2013-07-29 at 14:01 +, Ronald Oussoren wrote: Ronald Oussoren added the comment: The attached patch for the benchmark README.txt should document the status quo. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file31073/issue-18181-full-v3.txt

Re: Critic my module

2013-07-27 Thread Dave Angel
On 07/27/2013 09:19 AM, Devyn Collier Johnson wrote: SNIP About the aliases, I have tried setting pwd() as an alias for os.getcwd(), but I cannot type pwd() and get the desired output. Instead, I must type pwd. I tested this in Guake running Python3.3. os.getcwd() '/home/collier'

Re: Critic my module

2013-07-27 Thread Dave Angel
On 07/27/2013 08:56 AM, Devyn Collier Johnson wrote: SNIP Somehow during this thread, you have changed your purpose for this library. It used to be a library that Python programmers could import and use. And now, it's a shell replacement? The user runs the Python interpreter, and

Re: Critic my module

2013-07-27 Thread Dave Angel
On 07/27/2013 12:32 PM, Alister wrote: On Sat, 27 Jul 2013 08:56:10 -0400, Devyn Collier Johnson wrote: Good point about the Made by/Copyright suggestion. Although, I have not copyrighted the file, can I still say Copyrighted by -- There is no special process to Copyright anything. the

Re: Creating a Simple User Interface for a Function

2013-07-25 Thread Dave Angel
On 07/25/2013 12:03 PM, CTSB01 wrote: I have the following code that runs perfectly: def psi_j(x, j): rtn = [] for n2 in range(0, len(x) * j - 2): n = n2 / j r = n2 - n * j rtn.append(j * x[n] + r * (x[n + 1] - x[n]))

Re: Creating a Simple User Interface for a Function

2013-07-25 Thread Dave Angel
On 07/25/2013 04:58 PM, CTSB01 wrote: snip Sorry Dave, to answer each part of your response: 1) I decided to use Python 2.7, and I will be sure to specify this in all future threads. 2) It is a list of positive integers. In fact, it is always going to be a list of positive increasing

Re: how: embed + extend to control my running app?

2013-07-24 Thread Dave Angel
On 07/24/2013 08:51 PM, David M. Cotter wrote: update: okay so the python27.dll is in /windows/system32 so ignore that i've set my include directory correct, so i can compile i've set my additional libraries directory to the libs directory (where the .lib files are. (note: NOT including Lib

Re: How to read a make file in python and access its elements

2013-07-22 Thread Dave Angel
On 07/22/2013 03:09 PM, san wrote: How to read/load the cmake file in python and access its elements. I have a scenario, where i need to load the make file and access its elements. I have tried reading the make file as text file and parsing it,but its not the ideal solution Please let me know

Re: Beginner - GUI devlopment in Tkinter - Any IDE with drag and drop feature like Visual Studio?

2013-07-21 Thread Dave Cook
/Packaging_PySide_applications_on_Windows Dave Cook -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

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