Re: [Tutor] str.split and quotes

2005-04-08 Thread Marilyn Davis
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, C Smith wrote: > Tony wrote: > With Python 2.4 I get these results (all imports are factored > out, all give > the same result except for CSV which strips the "s) with > timeit.py: > > Just a note here in terms of results.  Although the results are all

Re: [Tutor] str.split and quotes

2005-04-08 Thread C Smith
Tony wrote: With Python 2.4 I get these results (all imports are factored out, all givethe same result except for CSV which strips the "s) with timeit.py: Just a note here in terms of results.  Although the results are all the same and they work for the case where there is single quoted phrase wit

Re: [Tutor] Re: How to create multi disks zip file

2005-04-08 Thread Liam Clarke
Personally, I tend to winRar. Paying for software isn't a bad thing. Open source != free. On Apr 9, 2005 2:35 PM, Lee Harr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:>>I'm a newbie. My friend asked me for a help. He wanted to backup his files>>into multi disks zip file. Is there any possibilities for me to help him

Re: [Tutor] GUI-trouble

2005-04-08 Thread Liam Clarke
Hi Øyvind, A few errors in this here function - > def message():> print New_Toplevel_1.v.get()> #   print self.v.get()  This doesn't seem to work eitherYour class New_Toplevel_1 is not instantiated as New_Toplevel_1 - you created an instance of it as >w = New_Toplevel_1 (root)So def message

[Tutor] Re: How to create multi disks zip file

2005-04-08 Thread Lee Harr
I'm a newbie. My friend asked me for a help. He wanted to backup his files into multi disks zip file. Is there any possibilities for me to help him by using python? Err... you probably could, but why reinvent the wheel? WinZip? winzip is not free, and I always found it terribly annoying. Info-ZI

RE: [Tutor] Talking to mssql?

2005-04-08 Thread Danny Yoo
On Sat, 9 Apr 2005, j2 wrote: > Well, doesn't fly for me, because I can't install it. Can you offer any > help on the below? Hi J2, This is a slightly specialized question for tutor; you might be able to get some better help by asking on the db-sig mailing list: http://mail.python.org/mail

[Tutor] Re: Notepad++ support for Python

2005-04-08 Thread jsoares
I need a backup editor for IDLE, so I'm trying Notepad++. It looks nice, but there is no direct support for running Python.What you have to do is click the "Run" menu item and then you type the command line for the Python interpreter. This should be simple; there are only to .exe files: python and

RE: [Tutor] Talking to mssql?

2005-04-08 Thread j2
>I had the same question. The best I found is this: >http://www.object-craft.com.au/projects/mssql/ >but that has a lot of strong language saying "this isn't ready for use". > >I found it perfectly usable for simply running queries, but haven't tried >to do anything more complicated with it. Not

Re: [Tutor] Recursive list checking

2005-04-08 Thread joe_schmoe
Rick Muller wrote: On Apr 8, 2005, at 11:37 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: joe_schmoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For example, this is what I am currently doing: =code block # generate unique numbers and append to list nmbr01 = random.randrange( 1, 20 )

Re: [Tutor] Re: IDLE crashing suddenly

2005-04-08 Thread Danny Yoo
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've noticed that after 20 or 30 compile/link/execute runs, IDLE > crashes. This seems to happen pretty consistently. At the time, I'm not > doing anything that might cause it to crash. Does this happen to anyone > else? What causes it? Is it just a

[Tutor] Re: Class - superclass

2005-04-08 Thread Andrei
Bernard Lebel wrote on Fri, 8 Apr 2005 15:05:13 -0400: > I'm experimenting with basic inheritance concepts, and something that > I would assume to work returns an error. > class A: > ... def __init__( self ): > ... self.a = 13 > ... class B( A ): # create sub-class of cl

RE: [Tutor] Re: Support

2005-04-08 Thread Alberto Troiano
Thank you Jeff Case Closed until I test it with MySQL blob typeI'll let you know hot it went Thanks guys AlbertoFrom: "Jeffrey Maitland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: tutor@python.org >Subject: [Tutor] Re: Support >Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 15:00:19 -0400 > >Alberto Troiano writes: > >>

[Tutor] Class - superclass

2005-04-08 Thread Bernard Lebel
Hello, I'm experimenting with basic inheritance concepts, and something that I would assume to work returns an error. >>> class A: ... def __init__( self ): ... self.a = 13 ... >>> class B( A ): # create sub-class of class A ... def __init__( self ): ... self.b =

Re: [Tutor] Support

2005-04-08 Thread Kent Johnson
Alberto Troiano wrote: Thanks Apparently it worked but one question do What kind of data is the return of the function tostring() It's a string Can i put it in a blob type of a databaseor maybe in a longtext?? I would try longtext. Kent ___ Tutor

[Tutor] Re: Support

2005-04-08 Thread Jeffrey Maitland
Alberto Troiano writes: ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor I would personally use a blob. That is why they are there. To store that binary data. I am sure you could use a longtext but this way space

[Tutor] Recursive list checking

2005-04-08 Thread Rick Muller
On Apr 8, 2005, at 11:37 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: joe_schmoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For example, this is what I am currently doing: =code block # generate unique numbers and append to list nmbr01 = random.randrange( 1, 20 ) nmbr_list.append( n

Re: [Tutor] Support

2005-04-08 Thread Alberto Troiano
Thanks Apparently it worked but one question do What kind of data is the return of the function tostring() Can i put it in a blob type of a databaseor maybe in a longtext?? That'll be allThanks for the reply Kent Alberto>From: Kent Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >CC: tutor@python.org >Subject:

[Tutor] Re: IDLE crashing suddenly

2005-04-08 Thread jsoares
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Re: [Tutor] Associate functinos with Dictionary/Class Usage

2005-04-08 Thread Luke Jordan
Yes, Danny - that makes sense. I was getting hung up how to handle the parens in this part dict['some'](thing) all clear now. :-) On Apr 7, 2005 4:40 PM, Danny Yoo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Luke Jordan wrote: > > > I am looking for a little clarification of how exa

Re: [Tutor] Re: Recursive list checking

2005-04-08 Thread Kent Johnson
Jeffrey Maitland wrote: joe_schmoe writes: Dear Pythonites I am looking for a more elegant solution to a piece of code that is too unwieldy and reptitive. The purpose of the code is for a new addition to a list to check whether it is a duplicate of a list element already a member of that list, a

Re: [Tutor] str.split and quotes

2005-04-08 Thread Marilyn Davis
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Kent Johnson wrote: > Marilyn Davis wrote: > > Is there a reason to prefer one over the other? Is one faster? I > > compiled my regular expression to make it quicker. > > The only way to know which is faster is to time them both. The timeit module > makes it pretty easy to

[Tutor] Re: Recursive list checking

2005-04-08 Thread Jeffrey Maitland
Jeffrey Maitland writes: joe_schmoe writes: Dear Pythonites I am looking for a more elegant solution to a piece of code that is too unwieldy and reptitive. The purpose of the code is for a new addition to a list to check whether it is a duplicate of a list element already a member of tha

[Tutor] Re: Recursive list checking

2005-04-08 Thread Jeffrey Maitland
joe_schmoe writes: Dear Pythonites I am looking for a more elegant solution to a piece of code that is too unwieldy and reptitive. The purpose of the code is for a new addition to a list to check whether it is a duplicate of a list element already a member of that list, and if so to regenera

Re: [Tutor] Support

2005-04-08 Thread Kent Johnson
Alberto Troiano wrote: I tried the code below but the image gets messed up: import Image im=Image.open("auto.jpg") im.show() ###This is to show the image so you can see it m=im.tostring() ima=Image.fromstring("RGB",im.size,m)###I tried also with F,RGBA and L mode instead of RGB maybe ima=Image.fro

Re: [Tutor] comparison function/built-in needed

2005-04-08 Thread joe_schmoe
Kent Johnson wrote: joe_schmoe wrote: Greetings I am attempting to compare the items in two lists across two criteria - membership and position. For example: list_a = [ 0, 4, 3, 6, 8 ] list_b = [ 1, 8, 4, 6, 2 ] Membership = There are 3 items that are common to both lists, that is 3 items in lis

[Tutor] Recursive list checking

2005-04-08 Thread joe_schmoe
Dear Pythonites I am looking for a more elegant solution to a piece of code that is too unwieldy and reptitive. The purpose of the code is for a new addition to a list to check whether it is a duplicate of a list element already a member of that list, and if so to regenerate itself randomly and

Re: [Tutor] Support

2005-04-08 Thread Alberto Troiano
Hi Thanks Brian for the tip I tried the code below but the image gets messed up: import Image im=Image.open("auto.jpg") im.show() ###This is to show the image so you can see it m=im.tostring() ima=Image.fromstring("RGB",im.size,m)###I tried also with F,RGBA and L mode instead of RGB ima.show() Than

Re: [Tutor] Support

2005-04-08 Thread Brian van den Broek
Alberto Troiano said unto the world upon 2005-04-08 10:35: I am trying to make an application with Python 2.3.4, PIL 1.1.5 and I want to convert an image file to binary so I can store it in a MySQL database and then retrieve it and show it from binary to Image again so I can show the image Please h

[Tutor] Support

2005-04-08 Thread Alberto Troiano
I am trying to make an application with Python 2.3.4, PIL 1.1.5 and I want to convert an image file to binary so I can store it in a MySQL database and then retrieve it and show it from binary to Image again so I can show the image Please help Thanks Alberto ___

Re: [Tutor] dictionary2unicode and unicode2dictionnary

2005-04-08 Thread Kristian Zoerhoff
On Apr 8, 2005 6:29 AM, BRINER Cedric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > <(hint: rsmFirstname = françois)> > > import pickle > > q=pickle.dumps(a) > >>> type(q) > > so this is a string > > >>> unicode(q) > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "", line 1, in ? > UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' co

[Tutor] Re: Help with classes

2005-04-08 Thread Andrei
Kevin gmail.com> writes: > Well this OOP stuff is realy hard for me as I have never even > programmed it took me a while just to understand defs. However I am > determined to learn how to do it. My biggest problem is with __init__ > I still don't understand how to use it. Though I did try somthin

[Tutor] Talking to mssql

2005-04-08 Thread Lloyd Kvam
The freetds project talks to Sybase and mssql http://www.freetds.org/ http://mail.python.org/pipermail/db-sig/2005-April/004403.html A new sybase module has been released. Note the instructions for installing with freetds. -- Lloyd Kvam Venix Corp _

Re: [Tutor] OO newbie

2005-04-08 Thread Kent Johnson
Alan Gauld wrote: this exemple will also works if you replace the: super(C,self).__init__( *args, **kw) by dict.__init__(self, *args, **kw) but I do not understand this dict.__init_... call. Shouldn't you call the super class constructor?? super is just a convenience feature added to make Python s

[Tutor] dictionary2unicode and unicode2dictionnary

2005-04-08 Thread BRINER Cedric
hi, sorry to relaunch this topie but I really need this to work. (o.o)' how can I have an unicode pickled data ??? e.g. a={'partition': u'/export/diskH1/home_evol/ricquebo', 'rsmFirstname': u'Fran\xe7ois', 'rsmLastname': u'Ricquebourg', 'size': u'8161222.0', 'size_max': '1'} <(hint: rsmFirstna

[Tutor] GUI-trouble

2005-04-08 Thread Øyvind
Hello. I am trying to make a little gui. It has a button and a checkbox. If I push the button, it is supposed to print the value of the checkbox. But, I can not seem to get it right. How should I define the variable? Where should I put it? I have tried every way possible, and gotten lots of differ

RE: [Tutor] How to create multi disks zip file

2005-04-08 Thread Dionysius Malle
Hi Brian, Thanks for the help. I'll get the code. Ony. -Original Message- From: Brian van den Broek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005 12:58 PM To: Dionysius Malle Cc: tutor@python.org Subject: Re: [Tutor] How to create multi disks zip file *** Y

Re: [Tutor] OO newbie

2005-04-08 Thread Alan Gauld
> > super is just a convenience feature added to make Python slightly > > more like some other OOP languages. It is effectively just a > > wrapper around the explicit call to the super class: > > > > Thus super(C,self...) is the same as > > > > dict.__init__(self...) > after you telling me that dic

Re: [Tutor] str.split and quotes

2005-04-08 Thread Kent Johnson
Marilyn Davis wrote: Is there a reason to prefer one over the other? Is one faster? I compiled my regular expression to make it quicker. The only way to know which is faster is to time them both. The timeit module makes it pretty easy to do this. Here is a simple example of using timeit for a d

Re: [Tutor] Re: Help with classes

2005-04-08 Thread Alan Gauld
> Well this OOP stuff is realy hard for me as I have never even > programmed it took me a while just to understand defs. That's OK, OOP is quite a strange concept for many folks. Its actually easier to learn as a beginner than for folks who have been programming without OOP for a long time! > det

[Tutor] Thanks for Regex help

2005-04-08 Thread D Elliott
Thanks to Matt, Kent and Danny for helping me with my regex question. I will try your suggestions this morning. In response to Danny's question about tokenising first, there are reasons why I don't want to do this - the initial problem was that filenames in my test data were being tokenised as

Re: [Tutor] OO newbie

2005-04-08 Thread BRINER Cedric
> > 1- > > this exemple will also works if you replace the: > > super(C,self).__init__( *args, **kw) > > by > > dict.__init__(self, *args, **kw) > > > > but I do not understand this dict.__init_... call. > > Shouldn't you call the super class constructor?? > > super is just a convenience feature a

Re: [Tutor] Re: Help with classes

2005-04-08 Thread Kevin
Well this OOP stuff is realy hard for me as I have never even programmed it took me a while just to understand defs. However I am determined to learn how to do it. My biggest problem is with __init__ I still don't understand how to use it. Though I did try somthing different with my code rather the

[Tutor] Re: Help with classes

2005-04-08 Thread Andrei
Bob Gailer alum.rpi.edu> writes: > At 12:22 PM 4/7/2005, Andrei wrote: > >Kevin gmail.com> writes: > > > > > I am fooling around with classes and I was trying to create a very > > > small one player text adventure. I made a class called commands here > >I don't think you're making proper use of