[Tutor] suggestion for group project

2004-12-17 Thread Brian van den Broek
Hi all, A while ago, in a response: Danny Yoo said unto the world upon 2004-11-29 17:14: I just got in contact with Nick Parlante of the Nifty Assignments project; he's been collecting material on fun projects: http://nifty.stanford.edu/ The projects there look pretty nice. In fact, I'm thinking

[Tutor] Nifty

2004-12-17 Thread Matt Williams
I'd be interested, Matt On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 11:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Send Tutor mailing list submissions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor or, via email, send a message with

Re: [Tutor] Nifty

2004-12-17 Thread David Broadwell
I just got in contact with Nick Parlante of the Nifty Assignments project; he's been collecting material on fun projects: http://nifty.stanford.edu/ What do others think? Private channel or not, I'm in. (at least until classes spike up again in early February) Sounds like a good way to burn

Re: [Tutor] A little Tkinter question

2004-12-17 Thread Marilyn Davis
On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Gregor Lingl wrote: Marilyn Davis schrieb: Hi Tutors, I'm reviewing GUIs and wondering: When you pack a component, and you specify fill = BOTH, how is this different from expand = YES? Hi Marilyn, This is a bit tricky and hard to explain, so I

Re: [Tutor] Python structure advice ?

2004-12-17 Thread Dave S
Sorry for the delay, real world work took me away ... everything was global, how you guys handle a modern structured language Don't worry this is one of the hardest bad habits to break. You are not alone. The easiest way is to just pass the data from function to function in the function

Re: [Tutor] Python structure advice ?

2004-12-17 Thread Dave S
Jeff Shannon wrote: Dave S wrote: Kent Johnson wrote: Why do you say this is 'cheaty'? A class is basically a collection of data (state) and functions to operate on that state. Sorry for the delay, real world work got in the way ... Well I understand classes to be used when multiple instances

Re: [Tutor] About Perl's Integer module

2004-12-17 Thread Jeff Shannon
Mohamed Lrhazi wrote: Hello all, I ported to python a little Perl script that applies some math algorithm that I do not understand... My version seems to give the same results as the Perl version... but just to make sure I am asking the following: The Perl version starts by testing whether Perl

[Tutor] Tkinter questions

2004-12-17 Thread Mark Kels
Hi all , I got some Tkinter related questions for a project that I'm making: 1. How to add an image to a button ? 2. How can I print text using Tkinter (I want it to be cross platform, so I cant use modules like win32print ) ? 3. How to I make the program to always open in a full window ? Thanks

Re: [Tutor] Polish translation of my tutor

2004-12-17 Thread Pawel Kraszewski
Dnia pitek, 17 grudnia 2004 20:59, Alan Gauld napisa: |Are there any Polish speakers on the tutor list who would like |to check a new version of my tutorial? There are no formal links |to it yet as there are only a few pages but it can be found at: That would be me. First of all

Re: [Tutor] TypeError: 'int' object is not callable??

2004-12-17 Thread Jacob S.
Sorry about that last message. Kent just posted and answered my question with his example. Thank you all! Jacob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jacob S. Sent: Friday, December 17, 2004 3:54 PM To: Kent Johnson Cc: [EMAIL

Re: [Tutor] TypeError: 'int' object is not callable??

2004-12-17 Thread Kent Johnson
Jacob S. wrote: Thank you! Wait, though. How do I do this? def differentnoofvars(*args,**kwargs): ## By the way, is it **kwargs or **kwds? Call it what you like, it's an ordinary function parameter. kwds is commonly used but you can use kwargs. print kwargs another(kwargs) Should be

Re: [Tutor] Python structure advice ?

2004-12-17 Thread Alan Gauld
For what it's worth, it seems to me to be perfectly normal to have classes that are only ever intended to have a single instance. For example, you're never likely to need more than one HTML parser, and yet htmllib.HTMLParser is a class... That's true but the argument for a class in that case

Re: [Tutor] dbcp module

2004-12-17 Thread Rene Bourgoin
Yes i believe im looking for the python version of the Jakarta databse connection pool!! --- On Fri 12/17, Kent Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Kent Johnson [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 07:12:40 -0500 Subject: Re: [Tutor] dbcp

Re: [Tutor] Tkinter questions

2004-12-17 Thread Alan Gauld
I got some Tkinter related questions for a project that I'm making: 1. How to add an image to a button ? I find the easiest way is to create an PhotoImage object attach the graphic file(jpg,bmp,gif) to that and assign the PhotoImage object to the Button.image property. You can animate the image

Re: [Tutor] dbcp module

2004-12-17 Thread Danny Yoo
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, Rene Bourgoin wrote: Yes i believe im looking for the python version of the Jakarta databse connection pool!! Hi Rene, I haven't looked at this too closely yet, but there are projects out there for connection pools. For example: http://sqlrelay.sourceforge.net/

Re: [Tutor] Python structure advice ?

2004-12-17 Thread Dave S
Kent Johnson wrote: Dave S wrote: Separate modules is good. Separate directories for anything other than big programs (say 20 or more files?) is more hassle than its worth. The files are better kept in a single directory IMHO. The exception being modules designed for reuse... It just makes life

Re: [Tutor] dbcp module

2004-12-17 Thread Rene Bourgoin
Ive been learning to interact with databases using python and i was looking for ways to return a SELECT query result in a plain format. what i mean by plain format is : name numberaddress Fred Smith 2125553243 1 main st All the pratices ive done return the results in

Re: [Tutor] dbcp module

2004-12-17 Thread Kent Johnson
The recipe you cite has the pp() function and an example of its use. It sounds like that is what you want. Kent Rene Bourgoin wrote: Ive been learning to interact with databases using python and i was looking for ways to return a SELECT query result in a plain format. what i mean by plain

Re: [Tutor] least squares

2004-12-17 Thread Kent Johnson
Have you tried contacting the author of the Scientific package? His email address is on the main web page. Kent mdcooper wrote: Hi Danny, Thanks for the reply - I was purposely vague just to see what people would ask for. The code uses LinearAlgebra.py from Numeric and LeastSquares.py from

Re: [Tutor] dbcp module

2004-12-17 Thread Danny Yoo
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, Rene Bourgoin wrote: Ive been learning to interact with databases using python and i was looking for ways to return a SELECT query result in a plain format. what i mean by plain format is : name numberaddress Fred Smith 2125553243 1 main st All

Re: [Tutor] dbcp module

2004-12-17 Thread Danny Yoo
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, Kent Johnson wrote: The recipe you cite has the pp() function and an example of its use. It sounds like that is what you want. Part of the pandemonium was my fault. I completely missed your earlier post here: