Re: Python noob having a little trouble with strings

2017-10-28 Thread William Ray Wing
OSX has been shipping with Python 2.7 for several years. I’m not sure why you are seeing 2.6. Bill > On Oct 27, 2017, at 2:48 AM, Lutz Horn wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 07:59:10PM -0700, randyli...@gmail.com wrote: >> Hi Bob, thanks for responding. I'm not sure where to do so, my >> pro

Re: Python noob having a little trouble with strings

2017-10-27 Thread Lutz Horn
On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 07:59:10PM -0700, randyli...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi Bob, thanks for responding. I'm not sure where to do so, my > professor had us download Pycharm for mac's which uses python 2.6 The code from your question is not specific to Python 2 or 3. Just try it in the Python install

Re: Python noob having a little trouble with strings

2017-10-27 Thread Naman Bhalla
I guess your professor just asked you to download Pycharm. It is just MacOS that happens to have Python 2.6 inbuilt. Had your professor actually wanted you to be using Python 2 (I doubt), that would have been 2.7. Regardless of that I recommend having latest Python 2 or 3 as per your requirement

Re: Python noob having a little trouble with strings

2017-10-27 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sat, Oct 28, 2017 at 1:14 AM, Christopher Reimer wrote: > On Oct 27, 2017, at 1:49 AM, Peter J. Holzer wrote: >> >> BTW, I find it hard to believe that PyCharm for the Mac "comes with" >> Python 2.6. Python 2.6 is quite old. The Linux version isn't bundled >> with a python interpreter and just

Re: Python noob having a little trouble with strings

2017-10-27 Thread Christopher Reimer
On Oct 27, 2017, at 1:49 AM, Peter J. Holzer wrote: > > BTW, I find it hard to believe that PyCharm for the Mac "comes with" > Python 2.6. Python 2.6 is quite old. The Linux version isn't bundled > with a python interpreter and just uses whatever is already installed on > the machine. I guess it'

Re: Python noob having a little trouble with strings

2017-10-27 Thread Peter J. Holzer
On 2017-10-27 02:59, randyli...@gmail.com wrote: > On Thursday, October 26, 2017 at 7:41:10 PM UTC-7, boB Stepp wrote: >> On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 9:25 PM, wrote: [...] >> Why not find out for yourself and print these in the Python >> interpreter? For instance: >> >> > py >> Python 3.6.2 (v3.6.

Re: Python noob having a little trouble with strings

2017-10-26 Thread randyliu17
On Thursday, October 26, 2017 at 7:41:10 PM UTC-7, boB Stepp wrote: > On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 9:25 PM, wrote: > > If s1 = "Welcome students", what is the output when you print the following: > > > > 1. s4 = 3 * s1 > > > > 2. s1[3 : 6] > > > > 3. 'W' in s1 > > > > 4. S1[-1] > > > > 5. S1[:-1] > >

Re: Python noob having a little trouble with strings

2017-10-26 Thread boB Stepp
On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 9:25 PM, wrote: > If s1 = "Welcome students", what is the output when you print the following: > > 1. s4 = 3 * s1 > > 2. s1[3 : 6] > > 3. 'W' in s1 > > 4. S1[-1] > > 5. S1[:-1] > > Any help would be great, thanks! Why not find out for yourself and print these in the Pytho

Python noob having a little trouble with strings

2017-10-26 Thread randyliu17
If s1 = "Welcome students", what is the output when you print the following: 1. s4 = 3 * s1 2. s1[3 : 6] 3. 'W' in s1 4. S1[-1] 5. S1[:-1] Any help would be great, thanks! -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python Noob, open file dialog

2014-06-18 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 18/06/2014 10:03, cutey Love wrote: I'm on windows, I'm going to uninstall python and reinstall On Wednesday, June 18, 2014 9:32:40 AM UTC+1, alister wrote: Please also see the various comments regarding top posting & google groups Please note that if you carry on top posting and (mis)us

Re: Python Noob, open file dialog

2014-06-18 Thread cutey Love
I'm on windows, I'm going to uninstall python and reinstall On Wednesday, June 18, 2014 9:32:40 AM UTC+1, alister wrote: > On Wed, 18 Jun 2014 00:36:29 -0700, cutey Love wrote: > > > > > No it's still paused after selection and only excutes when the window is > > > closed. > > > > > > On Tu

Re: Python Noob, open file dialog

2014-06-18 Thread alister
On Wed, 18 Jun 2014 00:36:29 -0700, cutey Love wrote: > No it's still paused after selection and only excutes when the window is > closed. > > On Tuesday, June 17, 2014 6:34:41 PM UTC+1, MRAB wrote: >> On 2014-06-17 17:49, cutey Love wrote: >> >> > My first attempt at Python, >> > I'm using Tkin

Re: Python Noob, open file dialog

2014-06-18 Thread Chris Angelico
On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 5:36 PM, cutey Love wrote: > No it's still paused after selection and only excutes when the window is > closed. Treat the file dialog exactly the way you would in a text editor or word processor. Does your program continue as normal then? If not, please be really specific

Re: Python Noob, open file dialog

2014-06-18 Thread cutey Love
No it's still paused after selection and only excutes when the window is closed. On Tuesday, June 17, 2014 6:34:41 PM UTC+1, MRAB wrote: > On 2014-06-17 17:49, cutey Love wrote: > > > My first attempt at Python, > > > > > > I'm using Tkinter and all is going well except when I'm using > > > >

Re: Python Noob, open file dialog

2014-06-17 Thread MRAB
On 2014-06-17 17:49, cutey Love wrote: My first attempt at Python, I'm using Tkinter and all is going well except when I'm using file_path = tkFileDialog.askopenfilename() print "test" opens great and lets me select a file, the problem is it then pauses? instead of continuing with t

Python Noob, open file dialog

2014-06-17 Thread cutey Love
My first attempt at Python, I'm using Tkinter and all is going well except when I'm using file_path = tkFileDialog.askopenfilename() print "test" opens great and lets me select a file, the problem is it then pauses? instead of continuing with the function? until I close, then it goes a

Re: python-noob - which container is appropriate for later exporting into mySql + matplotlib ?

2013-04-15 Thread Chris Angelico
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 9:45 PM, rusi wrote: > I am trying to understand your points Chris. On the one hand you say: > > On Apr 14, 6:22 pm, Chris Angelico wrote: >> No, no, a thousand times no! If I am doing financial transactions, >> even if I'm alone on my machine, I will demand full ACID comp

Re: python-noob - which container is appropriate for later exporting into mySql + matplotlib ?

2013-04-15 Thread rusi
I am trying to understand your points Chris. On the one hand you say: On Apr 14, 6:22 pm, Chris Angelico wrote: > No, no, a thousand times no! If I am doing financial transactions, > even if I'm alone on my machine, I will demand full ACID compliance. On the other you describe a bookmark stora

Re: python-noob - which container is appropriate for later exporting into mySql + matplotlib ?

2013-04-14 Thread Roy Smith
In article , Tim Chase wrote: > I'd really love if there was a simple DNS-lookup module available in > the stdlib, especially if it allowed overriding the server to ask. pip install dnspython -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: python-noob - which container is appropriate for later exporting into mySql + matplotlib ?

2013-04-14 Thread Chris Angelico
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 2:40 AM, Ned Deily wrote: > In article > , > Chris Angelico wrote: > > Actually, this is one place where I disagree with the current decision >> of the Python core devs: I think bindings for other popular databases >> (most notably PostgreSQL, and probably MySQL since it

Re: python-noob - which container is appropriate for later exporting into mySql + matplotlib ?

2013-04-14 Thread Tim Chase
On 2013-04-14 09:40, Ned Deily wrote: > DNS client lookups use published, well-understood > Internet-standard protocols, not at all like talking to a > third-party database, be it open-source or not. That said, even though DNS is a publicly documented standard, I've reached for DNS code in the Py

Re: python-noob - which container is appropriate for later exporting into mySql + matplotlib ?

2013-04-14 Thread Cousin Stanley
Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Fri, 12 Apr 2013 23:26:05 +, Cousin Stanley wrote: > >> The firefox browser keeps different sqlite database files for various >> uses > > Yes, and I *really* wish they wouldn't. > > It's my number 1 cause of major problems with Firefox. Problems with so

Re: python-noob - which container is appropriate for later exporting into mySql + matplotlib ?

2013-04-14 Thread Ned Deily
In article , Chris Angelico wrote: > Actually, this is one place where I disagree with the current decision > of the Python core devs: I think bindings for other popular databases > (most notably PostgreSQL, and probably MySQL since it's so widely > used) ought to be included in core, rather th

Re: python-noob - which container is appropriate for later exporting into mySql + matplotlib ?

2013-04-14 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 9:17 PM, rusi wrote: > On Apr 14, 12:56 pm, Steven D'Aprano +comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: >> I've given my view on >> application developers -- specifically, Firefox -- using a not-quite ACID >> database in a way that is fragile, can cause data loss, > > FUD > Ar

Re: python-noob - which container is appropriate for later exporting into mySql + matplotlib ?

2013-04-14 Thread rusi
On Apr 14, 12:56 pm, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Sat, 13 Apr 2013 10:02:18 -0700, rusi wrote: > > To the OP: > > Steven is welcome to his views about use of databases. > > I haven't given any views about databases. You are twisting "use of databases" to just "about databases" And heres what you

Re: python-noob - which container is appropriate for later exporting into mySql + matplotlib ?

2013-04-14 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sat, 13 Apr 2013 10:02:18 -0700, rusi wrote: > To the OP: > Steven is welcome to his views about use of databases. I haven't given any views about databases. I've given my view on application developers -- specifically, Firefox -- using a not-quite ACID database in a way that is fragile, can

Re: python-noob - which container is appropriate for later exporting into mySql + matplotlib ?

2013-04-13 Thread someone
On 04/14/2013 12:34 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 5:34 AM, someone wrote: I think maybe I'll experiment a bit with both mySql (small/medium sized databases) and for critical/important stuff I should go with PostgreSQL PostgreSQL isn't majorly slower than MySQL, and it's a

Re: python-noob - which container is appropriate for later exporting into mySql + matplotlib ?

2013-04-13 Thread someone
On 04/14/2013 12:54 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 8:31 AM, someone wrote: Ok, thank you. I just came across a blog that said pytables is also a very good option? http://www.pytables.org/moin/PyTables?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=non-indexed.png From what I gather, th

Re: python-noob - which container is appropriate for later exporting into mySql + matplotlib ?

2013-04-13 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 8:31 AM, someone wrote: > Ok, thank you. I just came across a blog that said pytables is also a very > good option? > > http://www.pytables.org/moin/PyTables?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=non-indexed.png >From what I gather, that's looking at performance of a non-indexa

Re: python-noob - which container is appropriate for later exporting into mySql + matplotlib ?

2013-04-13 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 6:01 AM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > On Sun, 14 Apr 2013 00:03:25 +1000, Chris Angelico > declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general: > >> True ACID compliance demands support at every level: >> >> 1) The application has to operate in logical units of work, which

Re: python-noob - which container is appropriate for later exporting into mySql + matplotlib ?

2013-04-13 Thread someone
On 04/14/2013 12:22 AM, Walter Hurry wrote: On Sat, 13 Apr 2013 21:34:38 +0200, someone wrote: On 04/13/2013 04:56 PM, Walter Hurry wrote: On Sat, 13 Apr 2013 16:39:12 +0200, someone wrote: I'm not so rich, so I prefer to go for a free database solution rather than an expensive license (

Re: python-noob - which container is appropriate for later exporting into mySql + matplotlib ?

2013-04-13 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 5:34 AM, someone wrote: > I think maybe I'll experiment a bit with both mySql (small/medium sized > databases) and for critical/important stuff I should go with PostgreSQL PostgreSQL isn't majorly slower than MySQL, and it's a lot more trustworthy in terms of database cons

Re: python-noob - which container is appropriate for later exporting into mySql + matplotlib ?

2013-04-13 Thread Walter Hurry
On Sat, 13 Apr 2013 21:34:38 +0200, someone wrote: > On 04/13/2013 04:56 PM, Walter Hurry wrote: >> On Sat, 13 Apr 2013 16:39:12 +0200, someone wrote: >> >>> I'm not so rich, so I prefer to go for a free database solution rather >>> than an expensive license >> ( but I do care about ACID complia

Re: python-noob - which container is appropriate for later exporting into mySql + matplotlib ?

2013-04-13 Thread Roy Smith
In article , someone wrote: > > Some of the early Unix file systems were very fragile. One of the > > (often under-appreciated) major advances in BSD (it was certainly in > > 4.2, not sure how much earlier) was a new filesystem which was much more > > robust in the face of hardware failures and

Re: python-noob - which container is appropriate for later exporting into mySql + matplotlib ?

2013-04-13 Thread someone
On 04/13/2013 10:01 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: On Sun, 14 Apr 2013 00:03:25 +1000, Chris Angelico declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general: [ ] * Create a table with a number of rows with an ID and a counter, initialized to 0 * Repeatedly, in parallel, perform a transaction

Re: python-noob - which container is appropriate for later exporting into mySql + matplotlib ?

2013-04-13 Thread someone
On 04/13/2013 07:02 PM, rusi wrote: On Apr 13, 9:15 pm, Chris Angelico wrote: On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 12:39 AM, someone wrote: On 04/13/2013 04:03 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: . . Failure at any level means the overall system is not ACID compliant. Ok, it would be nice to hear/read th

Re: python-noob - which container is appropriate for later exporting into mySql + matplotlib ?

2013-04-13 Thread someone
On 04/13/2013 06:15 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 12:39 AM, someone wrote: On 04/13/2013 04:03 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: Failure at any level means the overall system is not ACID compliant. Roger... But google says sqlite is supposed to be ACID compliant (although maybe n

Re: python-noob - which container is appropriate for later exporting into mySql + matplotlib ?

2013-04-13 Thread someone
On 04/13/2013 04:56 PM, Walter Hurry wrote: On Sat, 13 Apr 2013 16:39:12 +0200, someone wrote: I'm not so rich, so I prefer to go for a free database solution rather than an expensive license ( but I do care about ACID compliance) Sounds to me that PostgreSQL is your man, then. Oh, ok. Th

Re: python-noob - which container is appropriate for later exporting into mySql + matplotlib ?

2013-04-13 Thread someone
On 04/13/2013 04:36 PM, Roy Smith wrote: In article , Chris Angelico wrote: 2) The database engine must employ some form of write-ahead log. [...] one way or another, there must be a way to detect half-done transactions. 3) The operating system and filesystem must support a forced file sync

Re: python-noob - which container is appropriate for later exporting into mySql + matplotlib ?

2013-04-13 Thread rusi
On Apr 13, 9:15 pm, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 12:39 AM, someone wrote: > > On 04/13/2013 04:03 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: > >> Failure at any level means the overall system is not ACID compliant. > > > Roger... But google says sqlite is supposed to be ACID compliant (although

Re: python-noob - which container is appropriate for later exporting into mySql + matplotlib ?

2013-04-13 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 12:39 AM, someone wrote: > On 04/13/2013 04:03 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: >> Failure at any level means the overall system is not ACID compliant. > > Roger... But google says sqlite is supposed to be ACID compliant (although > maybe not "fully" as you indicate, I'm not sure

Re: python-noob - which container is appropriate for later exporting into mySql + matplotlib ?

2013-04-13 Thread Walter Hurry
On Sat, 13 Apr 2013 16:39:12 +0200, someone wrote: > I'm not so rich, so I prefer to go for a free database solution rather > than an expensive license ( but I do care about ACID compliance) Sounds to me that PostgreSQL is your man, then. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: python-noob - which container is appropriate for later exporting into mySql + matplotlib ?

2013-04-13 Thread someone
On 04/13/2013 04:03 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 11:30 PM, someone wrote: On 04/13/2013 01:39 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: Note that there's a caveat: You have to tell SQLite to be ACID compliant, effectively. So, you're saying to me that by default SQLite isn't ACID compl

Re: python-noob - which container is appropriate for later exporting into mySql + matplotlib ?

2013-04-13 Thread Roy Smith
In article , Chris Angelico wrote: > 2) The database engine must employ some form of write-ahead log. > [...] > one way or another, there must be a way to detect half-done > transactions. > > 3) The operating system and filesystem must support a forced file > synchronization (fsync/fdatasync),

Re: python-noob - which container is appropriate for later exporting into mySql + matplotlib ?

2013-04-13 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 11:30 PM, someone wrote: > On 04/13/2013 01:39 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: >> Note that there's a caveat: You have to tell SQLite to be ACID >> compliant, effectively. > > > So, you're saying to me that by default SQLite isn't ACID compliant, if I > begin to use it in my own

Re: python-noob - which container is appropriate for later exporting into mySql + matplotlib ?

2013-04-13 Thread someone
On 04/13/2013 01:39 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 9:08 PM, someone wrote: I just had to google what ACID compliance means and accordingly to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQLite "SQLite is ACID-compliant and implements most of the SQL standard, using a dynamically and

Re: python-noob - which container is appropriate for later exporting into mySql + matplotlib ?

2013-04-13 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 9:08 PM, someone wrote: > I just had to google what ACID compliance means and accordingly to this: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQLite > > "SQLite is ACID-compliant and implements most of the SQL standard, using a > dynamically and weakly typed SQL syntax that does not

Re: python-noob - which container is appropriate for later exporting into mySql + matplotlib ?

2013-04-13 Thread someone
On 04/13/2013 03:44 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Fri, 12 Apr 2013 23:26:05 +, Cousin Stanley wrote: The firefox browser keeps different sqlite database files for various uses Yes, and I *really* wish they wouldn't. It's my number 1 cause of major problems with Firefox. E.g. h

Re: python-noob - which container is appropriate for later exporting into mySql + matplotlib ?

2013-04-12 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Fri, 12 Apr 2013 23:26:05 +, Cousin Stanley wrote: > The firefox browser keeps different sqlite database files for various > uses Yes, and I *really* wish they wouldn't. It's my number 1 cause of major problems with Firefox. E.g. http://kb.mozillazine.org/Bookmarks_history_and_t

Re: python-noob - which container is appropriate for later exporting into mySql + matplotlib ?

2013-04-12 Thread someone
On 04/13/2013 01:26 AM, Cousin Stanley wrote: someone wrote: So SQLite is very good for "practicing" Yes it is but it is also very good for much more than just practice Check the wikipedia info http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sqlite Very interesting...

Re: python-noob - which container is appropriate for later exporting into mySql + matplotlib ?

2013-04-12 Thread Cousin Stanley
someone wrote: > > So SQLite is very good for "practicing" > Yes it is but it is also very good for much more than just practice Check the wikipedia info http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sqlite "It is arguably the most widely deployed database engine, as

Re: python-noob - which container is appropriate for later exporting into mySql + matplotlib ?

2013-04-12 Thread someone
On 04/12/2013 06:58 PM, Cousin Stanley wrote: someone wrote: As you can see, on my system I had to use: print row[0] , row[1] instead of: print row[ 'xtime' ] , row[ 'col4' ] I'm not sure exactly why The magic there is setting up the row_factory after the database connection .

Re: python-noob - which container is appropriate for later exporting into mySql + matplotlib ?

2013-04-12 Thread Cousin Stanley
someone wrote: > As you can see, on my system I > had to use: > > print row[0] , row[1] > > instead of: > > print row[ 'xtime' ] , row[ 'col4' ] > > I'm not sure exactly why The magic there is setting up the row_factory after the database connection dbc = DBM.connect( 'some.s

Re: python-noob - which container is appropriate for later exporting into mySql + matplotlib ?

2013-04-12 Thread someone
On 2013-04-11 20:44, Cousin Stanley wrote: Cousin Stanley wrote: The stand-alone sqlite interpreter can first be used to create an empty database named some.sql3 and create a table named xdata in that data base sqlite3 some.sql3 '.read xdata_create.sql' This step can

Re: python-noob - which container is appropriate for later exporting into mySql + matplotlib ?

2013-04-12 Thread someone
On 2013-04-11 19:58, Cousin Stanley wrote: someone wrote: I want to put this table into an appropriate container such that afterwards I want to: 1) Put the data into a mySql-table You might consider using sqlite3 as a database manager since it is "batteries included" with p

Re: python-noob - which container is appropriate for later exporting into mySql + matplotlib ?

2013-04-11 Thread someone
On 04/11/2013 07:58 PM, Cousin Stanley wrote: someone wrote: You can be creative with the data selections and pass them off to be plotted as needed If mysql is used instead of sqlite3 you should only have to monkey with the data type declarations in xdata_create.sql and th

Re: python-noob - which container is appropriate for later exporting into mySql + matplotlib ?

2013-04-11 Thread Cousin Stanley
Cousin Stanley wrote: > The stand-alone sqlite interpreter can first be used > to create an empty database named some.sql3 > and create a table named xdata in that data base > > sqlite3 some.sql3 '.read xdata_create.sql' This step can also be done in python without using th

Re: python-noob - which container is appropriate for later exporting into mySql + matplotlib ?

2013-04-11 Thread Cousin Stanley
someone wrote: > > I want to put this table into an appropriate container > such that afterwards I want to: > > 1) Put the data into a mySql-table > You might consider using sqlite3 as a database manager since it is "batteries included" with python The stand-alone sqlite

Re: python-noob - which container is appropriate for later exporting into mySql + matplotlib ?

2013-04-11 Thread someone
On 2013-04-11 10:49, someone wrote: On 2013-04-11 03:39, Cousin Stanley wrote: Is there any clever way of avoiding this for loop, for either this container or another clever container type? Ah, I see - I can also just add a numpy array, i.e: -- import matplotlib.p

Re: python-noob - which container is appropriate for later exporting into mySql + matplotlib ?

2013-04-11 Thread someone
On 2013-04-11 03:39, Cousin Stanley wrote: for row in list_tuples : print ' ' , row.date , row.time , row.col1 , row.col3 , row.col4 file_source.close() Oh, that's great - thank you - I didn't know this named-tuple container before... I'm still wondering whether or not it's the optimal

Re: python-noob - which container is appropriate for later exporting into mySql + matplotlib ?

2013-04-10 Thread Cousin Stanley
someone wrote: > > I want to put this table into an appropriate container > such that afterwards I want to: > > 1) Put the data into a mySql-table > 2) Be able to easily plot column 1 vs. either of the other columns > using matplotlib etc... > Consider editing your data file into

python-noob - which container is appropriate for later exporting into mySql + matplotlib ?

2013-04-10 Thread someone
Hi, Here's my data: --- 20130315T071500 39000. 10 26 48000. 1 40 20130315T071501 39000. 10 26 48000. 2 42 20130315T071501 39000. 10 26 47520. 15 69 20130315T071501 39000. 10 26 47160. 1 70 20130315T071501 3

Re: Python Noob Question.

2012-12-10 Thread Alexander Blinne
Am 05.12.2012 21:24, schrieb Owatch: > Thanks a TON for your answer thought, this is exactly what I really hoped for. > The problem for me is that I don't actually know anything about writing a > function that opens a network socket, and "connects to that plugin und asks > it for the > informati

Re: Python Noob Question.

2012-12-05 Thread Owatch
Re On Monday, December 3, 2012 4:19:51 PM UTC+2, Alexander Blinne wrote: > Hello, > > > > by having a quick look at their website i found a plugin for CoreTemp > > which acts as a server and can be asked for status information of the > > cpu. Now your task is really simple: write a little fun

Re: Python Noob Question.

2012-12-03 Thread Alexander Blinne
Hello, by having a quick look at their website i found a plugin for CoreTemp which acts as a server and can be asked for status information of the cpu. Now your task is really simple: write a little function or class that opens a network socket, connects to that plugin und asks it for the informat

Re: Python Noob Question.

2012-12-03 Thread Owatch
On Sunday, December 2, 2012 11:44:05 PM UTC+2, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Sun, 02 Dec 2012 12:33:58 -0800, Owatch wrote: > > > > > Sorry, but I was redirected here via a thread on another forum > > > concerning where to find help for Python. (Python-forums.org not working > > > for me) > > >

Re: Python Noob Question.

2012-12-02 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sun, 02 Dec 2012 12:33:58 -0800, Owatch wrote: > Sorry, but I was redirected here via a thread on another forum > concerning where to find help for Python. (Python-forums.org not working > for me) > > I wanted to ask if there was any way I could write a simple Python > Temperature program. Whe

Python Noob Question.

2012-12-02 Thread Owatch
Sorry, but I was redirected here via a thread on another forum concerning where to find help for Python. (Python-forums.org not working for me) I wanted to ask if there was any way I could write a simple Python Temperature program. Where essentially it somehow (Now sure how, I'm a noob remember)

python noob

2009-10-19 Thread bostongeek21
i am brand new to the python and programming world just finished reading byte out of python which is an excellent book. As i am new to the programming world im kind of at a lose as to where to go from here? i am just learning so im not as experienced as most of you but i would like to get my feet w

Re: Python Noob - gui module, book, annoying questions

2009-09-01 Thread Mark
On Aug 29, 8:20 am, Pherdnut wrote: > I want to write cross-platform stuff. Any opinions on the best GUI > module for that? The "big three" cross-platform ones are PyQt4, wxPython, and PyGtk. I prefer PyQt4, but I'm biased as you'll see. > I like a good juicy, but concise book for reading on my

Re: Python Noob - gui module, book, annoying questions

2009-08-29 Thread Che M
On Aug 29, 3:20 am, Pherdnut wrote: > I want to write cross-platform stuff. Any opinions on the best GUI > module for that? > > I like a good juicy, but concise book for reading on my commute > downtown. I was thinking of checking Python in a Nutshell. Good? Bad? > Better? > > Is 3.0+ more object

Python Noob - gui module, book, annoying questions

2009-08-29 Thread Pherdnut
I want to write cross-platform stuff. Any opinions on the best GUI module for that? I like a good juicy, but concise book for reading on my commute downtown. I was thinking of checking Python in a Nutshell. Good? Bad? Better? Is 3.0+ more object based? I'm actually an FED and one of the things I

Re: Python Noob - a couple questions involving a web app

2009-04-30 Thread Carl Banks
On Apr 28, 1:47 pm, "Kyle T. Jones" wrote: > Been programming for a long time, but just starting out with Python. > Not a professional programmer, just that guy in one of those > organizations that won't hire a pro, instead saying "Hey, Kyle knows > computer stuff - let's have him do this (and tha

Re: Python Noob - a couple questions involving a web app

2009-04-30 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
David Smith a écrit : Kyle T. Jones wrote: (snip question and answers recommending Django) Thanks everyone! Wow, pretty much a consensus - a rarity with these "types" of questions, at least in my experience. >> Ok, sounds like I need to be looking at Django. Thanks for the advice! Cheers

Re: Python Noob - a couple questions involving a web app

2009-04-29 Thread Kyle Terry
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 8:24 AM, David Smith wrote: > Kyle T. Jones wrote: > > Bruno Desthuilliers, my dear, dear friend, there was this time, oh, > > 4/29/2009 3:02 AM or thereabouts, when you let the following craziness > > loose on Usenet: > >> Kyle T. Jones a écrit : > >>> Been programming fo

Re: Python Noob - a couple questions involving a web app

2009-04-29 Thread David Smith
Kyle T. Jones wrote: > Bruno Desthuilliers, my dear, dear friend, there was this time, oh, > 4/29/2009 3:02 AM or thereabouts, when you let the following craziness > loose on Usenet: >> Kyle T. Jones a écrit : >>> Been programming for a long time, but just starting out with Python. >>> Not a profes

Re: Python Noob - a couple questions involving a web app

2009-04-29 Thread Kyle T. Jones
Bruno Desthuilliers, my dear, dear friend, there was this time, oh, 4/29/2009 3:02 AM or thereabouts, when you let the following craziness loose on Usenet: Kyle T. Jones a écrit : Been programming for a long time, but just starting out with Python. Not a professional programmer, just that guy i

Re: Python Noob - a couple questions involving a web app

2009-04-29 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
Kyle T. Jones a écrit : Been programming for a long time, but just starting out with Python. Not a professional programmer, just that guy in one of those organizations that won't hire a pro, instead saying "Hey, Kyle knows computer stuff - let's have him do this (and that, and the other, etc)".

Re: Python Noob - a couple questions involving a web app

2009-04-28 Thread Emile van Sebille
Kyle T. Jones wrote: So, the higher ups want a web app that'll let them enter (from an intranet page) a rather simple, but quite lengthy, list - details to be stored in a MySQL database... just normal stuff here, entering, editing, and deleting entries, sorting, etc. The last couple times I'

Re: Python Noob - a couple questions involving a web app

2009-04-28 Thread Arnaud Delobelle
"Kyle T. Jones" writes: > Been programming for a long time, but just starting out with > Python. Not a professional programmer, just that guy in one of those > organizations that won't hire a pro, instead saying "Hey, Kyle knows > computer stuff - let's have him do this (and that, and the other,

Python Noob - a couple questions involving a web app

2009-04-28 Thread Kyle T. Jones
Been programming for a long time, but just starting out with Python. Not a professional programmer, just that guy in one of those organizations that won't hire a pro, instead saying "Hey, Kyle knows computer stuff - let's have him do this (and that, and the other, etc)". So, the higher ups wan

Re: Total Python Noob

2008-10-09 Thread Tom Lake
"Chris Rebert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 11:22 PM, Tom Lake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have Python 2.6 installed on Vista Ultimate. When I try to calculate sqrt (or any transcendental functions) I get the following error sqrt(2) Tra

Re: Total Python Noob

2008-10-09 Thread shstein2002
On Oct 9, 11:22 pm, "Tom Lake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have Python 2.6 installed on Vista Ultimate.  When I try to calculate > sqrt (or any transcendental functions) I get the following error > > >>> sqrt(2) > > Traceback (most recent call last): >   File "", line 1, in > NameError: name 's

Re: Total Python Noob

2008-10-09 Thread Chris Rebert
On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 11:22 PM, Tom Lake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have Python 2.6 installed on Vista Ultimate. When I try to calculate > sqrt (or any transcendental functions) I get the following error > sqrt(2) > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "", line 1, in > NameError

Total Python Noob

2008-10-09 Thread Tom Lake
I have Python 2.6 installed on Vista Ultimate. When I try to calculate sqrt (or any transcendental functions) I get the following error sqrt(2) Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in NameError: name 'sqrt' is not defined What am I doing wrong? Tom Lake -- http://mail.pyth

Re: python noob help

2008-10-06 Thread piloneur
On 6 oct, 09:36, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:08:58 -0700, toyko wrote: > > So yeah, I have this assignment for my computer science class, > >http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~boyd/231/as1.pdfso far this is what I > > have wrote, any suggestions cause I

Re: python noob help

2008-10-06 Thread Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
On Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:08:58 -0700, toyko wrote: > So yeah, I have this assignment for my computer science class, > http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~boyd/231/as1.pdf so far this is what I > have wrote, any suggestions cause I am stuck! Learn Python and actually *think* about the problem and a solut

python noob help

2008-10-06 Thread toyko
- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/python-noob-help-tp19832962p19832962.html Sent from the Python - python-list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python noob SOS (any [former?] Perlheads out there?)

2008-02-02 Thread samwyse
kj wrote: > I'd written a Perl module to facilitate the writing of scripts. > It contained all my boilerplate code for parsing and validating > command-line options, generating of accessor functions for these > options, printing of the help message and of the full documentation, > testing, etc. A

Re: Python noob SOS (any [former?] Perlheads out there?)

2008-01-31 Thread grflanagan
On Jan 31, 2:56 pm, "A.T.Hofkamp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2008-01-30, grflanagan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Jan 29, 5:39 pm, kj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > For command line options I get a long way with this: > > > [code python] > > def _getargs(): > > allargs = sys.argv

Re: Python noob SOS (any [former?] Perlheads out there?)

2008-01-31 Thread A.T.Hofkamp
On 2008-01-30, grflanagan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 29, 5:39 pm, kj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For command line options I get a long way with this: > > [code python] > def _getargs(): > allargs = sys.argv[1:] > args = [] > kwargs = {} > key = None > while allargs: >

Re: Python noob SOS (any [former?] Perlheads out there?)

2008-01-30 Thread grflanagan
On Jan 29, 5:39 pm, kj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > It's not the Python syntax that I'm having problems with, but rather > with larger scale issues such as the structuring of packages, > techniques for code reuse, test suites, the structure of > distributions,... Python and Perl seem to come

Re: Python noob SOS (any [former?] Perlheads out there?)

2008-01-30 Thread kj
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wildemar Wildenburger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >kj wrote: >> Is there any good reading (to ease the transition) for Perl >> programmers trying to learn Python? >> >www.diveintopython.org Thanks. Not for Perl programmers specifically, but it looks useful all the same.

Re: Python noob SOS (any [former?] Perlheads out there?)

2008-01-30 Thread kj
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Reedick, Andrew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Be that as it may, the activation barrier to using Python for my >> scripting remains too high. >>=20 >> I'd written a Perl module to facilitate the writing of scripts. >> It contained all my boilerplate code for parsing and v

Re: Python noob SOS (any [former?] Perlheads out there?)

2008-01-29 Thread Wildemar Wildenburger
kj wrote: > Is there any good reading (to ease the transition) for Perl > programmers trying to learn Python? > www.diveintopython.org While it is a bit dated by now (Python 2.2), that thing worked wonders for me. Shows you Python in action and presents a fair amount of its philosophy along th

Re: Python noob SOS (any [former?] Perlheads out there?)

2008-01-29 Thread Rick Dooling
On Jan 29, 10:39 am, kj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd written a Perl module to facilitate the writing of scripts. > It contained all my boilerplate code for parsing and validating > command-line options, generating of accessor functions for these > options, printing of the help message and of t

Re: Python noob SOS (any [former?] Perlheads out there?)

2008-01-29 Thread Paddy
On Jan 29, 4:39 pm, kj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's not the Python syntax that I'm having problems with, but rather > with larger scale issues such as the structuring of packages, > techniques for code reuse, test suites, the structure of > distributions,... Python and Perl seem to come from

RE: Python noob SOS (any [former?] Perlheads out there?)

2008-01-29 Thread Reedick, Andrew
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:python- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of kj > Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 11:39 AM > To: python-list@python.org > Subject: Python noob SOS (any [former?] Perlheads out there?) > > > > For many

Re: Python noob SOS (any [former?] Perlheads out there?)

2008-01-29 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
kj a écrit : > For many months now I've been trying to learn Python, but I guess > I'm too old a dog trying to learn new tricks... For better or > worse, I'm so used to Perl when it comes to scripting, that I'm > just having a very hard time getting a hang of "The Python Way." > (snip) > > I'd w

Python noob SOS (any [former?] Perlheads out there?)

2008-01-29 Thread kj
For many months now I've been trying to learn Python, but I guess I'm too old a dog trying to learn new tricks... For better or worse, I'm so used to Perl when it comes to scripting, that I'm just having a very hard time getting a hang of "The Python Way." It's not the Python syntax that I'm ha

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