Re: Good starterbook for learning Python?

2005-07-06 Thread Renato Ramonda
Lennart ha scritto: > Programming Python will I sell as a book that i read secondly, and use as a > reference. I'd like to suggest also "Thinking like a CS in python": a schoolbook used in real classes to teach the basis of programming. -- Renato Usi Fedora? F

Re: Folding in vim

2005-07-06 Thread Renato Ramonda
Terry Hancock ha scritto: > > Yep, this is what I just set up in my .vimrc. Works beautifully. And (you probably already know, but it could be of use to others) you can bind the activation of some or all of those commands to au (autocommand) depending on the file extension. That way you can

Re: Folding in vim

2005-07-05 Thread Renato Ramonda
Sybren Stuvel ha scritto: >>If using Vim it would be something like "set softtabstop=4". > > > This gives you a mixture of tabs and spaces, which I don't like. I'd > rather use real tabs for indenting. If you then use another tab width, > you only see a wider indent, but the rest of the code is o

Re: debugger?

2005-07-03 Thread Renato Ramonda
Qiangning Hong ha scritto: > Eric3 need pyqt so it is not free under windows platform. Eric3 has had a free version for months now on windows, since the kde on win32 project recompiled the free versions on windows. And qt4 now has a GPL version free on windows too. -- Renato --

Re: How to find Windows "Application data" directory??

2005-06-29 Thread Renato Ramonda
Trent Mick ha scritto: > Note that the APPDATA environment variable is only there on *some* of > the Windows flavours. It is there on Win2k and WinXP. It is not there on > WinME. Dunno about Win95, Win98, WinNT... but you may not care about > those old guys. That's (I guess) because the DOS spawn

Re: help!

2005-06-24 Thread Renato Ramonda
Johannes Findeisen ha scritto: > some filesystems do support that. From the ext2 specification > ( http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/ext2intro.html ): > > "As a response to these problems, two new filesytems were released in > Alpha version in January 1993: the Xia filesystem and the Second > Exten

Re: extreme newbie

2005-06-18 Thread Renato Ramonda
Grant Edwards ha scritto: > Python is required and Java is optional and not installed by > default in the Linux distros I'm familiar with. > > I don't know how many Windows systems have Java installed. > I don't think any of mine do. It's pretty much the other way round: java CANNOT be included

Re: extreme newbie

2005-06-18 Thread Renato Ramonda
cpunerd4 ha scritto: > > Another reason I was thinging java was because you can > run it in the browser. Bad idea in 99% of the cases: applets are evil. -- Renato Usi Fedora? Fai un salto da noi: http://www.fedoraitalia.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/list

Re: extreme newbie

2005-06-18 Thread Renato Ramonda
cpunerd4 ha scritto: > thanks all for the advice. The reason I was thinking about using java > (or C or something) was that it is a little more secure than > distributing the source code isn't it? As in "protecting your code from prying eyes"? Then java is exactly like python: I can distribute a

Re: What is different with Python ? (OT I guess)

2005-06-15 Thread Renato Ramonda
Terry Hancock ha scritto: > > It's the reverse-translation from the French "Informatique". Or maybe the italian Informatica... -- Renato Usi Fedora? Fai un salto da noi: http://www.fedoraitalia.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: anygui,anydb, any opinions?

2005-06-11 Thread Renato Ramonda
Tim Roberts ha scritto: > Hardly. Sizers have been the primary method of placing multiple controls > in wx for as long as I've been using it, which goes back to 2.3. In fact, > it's hard to create a non-trivial wx app WITHOUT using sizers. All of the > wx GUIs place controls in nested sets of s

Re: Fast text display?

2005-06-09 Thread Renato Ramonda
Paul Rubin ha scritto: > The installer is going to download more stuff? Yuccch, I'd rather not > need a network connection to do an install. Anyway, wxpython built ok > on FC3. The problem was wxwidgets, which needed an obsolete version > of GTK. I spent at least an hour or two messing around w

Re: Start application & continue after app exits

2005-06-09 Thread Renato Ramonda
guy lateur ha scritto: > I see what you mean, but wouldn't a call to open(fn, 'w') on a filename > that's in use (for reading or writing) result in an error condition or > something? I'm a noob, btw. Uh... no, not on linux. Try this: $ touch foo.txt $ gedit foo.txt & (write something in it an

Re: Fast text display?

2005-06-09 Thread Renato Ramonda
Mike Meyer ha scritto: > Then I can go do something useful while the package system downloads, > compiles and installs all the required software. I don't know if > Debian has a similar system for installing from source. Gentoo does if > you want to stay with Linux. Debian actually has such a mecha

Re: Fast text display?

2005-06-09 Thread Renato Ramonda
Riccardo Galli ha scritto: > GUI cross platform need external support, in a OS or in another. Sure, but using win32 versions of gtk and glade plus py2exe and InnoSetup (if you want to build a fancy installer) will give you a self contained gui program in windows. Big, sure, but self contained :

Re: anygui,anydb, any opinions?

2005-06-09 Thread Renato Ramonda
Thomas Bartkus ha scritto: >>Then download gtk2.6 and glade for windows and then install pygtk and >>code away to your satisfaction! :-D >> > > > I *will* try that. On linux you probably have everything installed or a command away, on windows use this: http://gladewin32.sourceforge.net/ choo

Re: anygui,anydb, any opinions?

2005-06-08 Thread Renato Ramonda
Tim Roberts ha scritto: > Renato Ramonda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>wxWidgets apps look ALMOST native on windows (combobox and similar >>widgets are emulated, and look really bad), > > > That just isn't true. They use the standard combo box. Then i

Re: anygui,anydb, any opinions?

2005-06-08 Thread Renato Ramonda
Thomas Bartkus ha scritto: > The attractiveness of wxPython here is that it extends the platform > neutrality of Python to GUI interfaces. On a Windows platform, the work > looks like any other Windows program. On Gnome/Linux, the identical code > fits right into the Gnome desktop scheme. *Big*