[Tutor] Weird import problem with PythonIDE on Mac (was 'import problem')

2005-04-20 Thread Chris Smith
On Tuesday, Apr 19, 2005, Lee Cullens wrote: I assume you mean PythonIDE for Python 2.3 (I usually use 2.4 and WingIDE). Here it is (indents screwed up with var font): HTH, Lee C import timeit def y1(): print ’y1 executed’ def y2(): print ’y2 executed’ for f in [y1,y2]: n

Re: [Tutor] using a dictionary??

2005-04-20 Thread Bob Gailer
At 06:56 PM 4/20/2005, PFraterdeus wrote: Here'a little py script for a plone page template... I just want to translate the 'key' (organicnews) to a 'value' (Organics in the News), for presentation purposes. (the key, of course, is in the URL request) db = request.db if db=="organicnews":   pri

Re: [Tutor] using a dictionary??

2005-04-20 Thread Kent Johnson
PFraterdeus wrote: Here'a little py script for a plone page template... I just want to translate the 'key' (organicnews) to a 'value' (Organics in the News), for presentation purposes. (the key, of course, is in the URL request) db = request.db if db=="organicnews": print "%s" % html_quote('Orga

Re: [Tutor] Help regarding optparse

2005-04-20 Thread Kent Johnson
Prasad Kotipalli wrote: Hello I am a newbie to python, I have been working with getopt for parsing command line options, but i came to know that optparse module is more effecient. Can anyone suggest some ideas why it is powerful than getopt. Another option I like is optionparse from this recipe: h

[Tutor] using a dictionary??

2005-04-20 Thread PFraterdeus
Here'a little py script for a plone page template... I just want to translate the 'key' (organicnews) to a 'value' (Organics in the News), for presentation purposes. (the key, of course, is in the URL request) db = request.db if db=="organicnews": print "%s" % html_quote('Organics in the News

Fwd: [Tutor] crash - switching between text window and graphics/gamewindow (high score)

2005-04-20 Thread D. Hartley
John, Thank you for the suggestion to try the game from the command line. Unfortunately, when I scored high enough to make the high score list and entered in my name (in the dos/command window, now), and clicked back to the game screen, the game screen just closed/crashed, and the command line re

Re: [Tutor] crash - switching between text window and graphics/gamewindow (high score)

2005-04-20 Thread jfouhy
Quoting "D. Hartley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The play file does end in ".py". I am running it on Windows. You can > double-click the play file, and run it straight that way, which is > when the crash occurs. If you right click the file, go to "edit in > IDLE", and hit F5 to run it, the crash does N

Re: [Tutor] TKinter and things over Linux

2005-04-20 Thread R. Alan Monroe
> apt-get and yum are available for Redhat style releases. They will > download and install packages and figure out the dependency issues. > (yum is written in Python so this is slightly on topic.) Gentoo's "emerge" system is also written in Python. Alan ___

Re: [Tutor] crash - switching between text window and graphics/gamewindow (high score)

2005-04-20 Thread Max Noel
On Apr 21, 2005, at 00:19, D. Hartley wrote: Max - I thought it might be a version issue as well, thanks. Also, good luck on your paper! 50 pages, whoo! Haven't done that since grad school, my condolences man. ~Denise :) Thanks... I'm almost done now, only a few more pages and all that will be l

Re: [Tutor] crash - switching between text window and graphics/gamewindow (high score)

2005-04-20 Thread Max Noel
On Apr 20, 2005, at 23:57, Alberto Troiano wrote: Hi The thing is this I get an error that says sort() has no arguments Th error is in the sentence high_score.sort(reverse=TRUE) If you put just sort() it will work but the list will show from low to high and we don't want that 'cause if you make a

Re: [Tutor] crash - switching between text window and graphics/gamewindow (high score)

2005-04-20 Thread Alberto Troiano
Hi The thing is this I get an error that says sort() has no arguments Th error is in the sentence high_score.sort(reverse=TRUE) If you put just sort() it will work but the list will show from low to high and we don't want that 'cause if you make a high score it won't be able to know so you have t

[Tutor] TKinter and things over Linux

2005-04-20 Thread Lloyd Kvam
Learning to install packages from source tar balls is useful knowledge. However, most of the current Linux distributions have package managers that greatly simply installing software. apt-get and yum are available for Redhat style releases. They will download and install packages and figure out t

Re: [Tutor] Help regarding optparse

2005-04-20 Thread Danny Yoo
On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Prasad Kotipalli wrote: > I am a newbie to python, I have been working with getopt for parsing > command line options, but i came to know that optparse module is more > effecient. Can anyone suggest some ideas why it is powerful than > getopt. Hi Prasad, According to:

[Tutor] Help regarding optparse

2005-04-20 Thread Prasad Kotipalli
Hello I am a newbie to python, I have been working with getopt for parsing command line options, but i came to know that optparse module is more effecient. Can anyone suggest some ideas why it is powerful than getopt. Thanks Prasad ___ Tutor maillist -

Re: [Tutor] TKinter and things over Linux

2005-04-20 Thread Bill Campbell
On Wed, Apr 20, 2005, Alberto Troiano wrote: >You're so right and I apologize for my mistake > >Do you or anybody knows where the error.log for this kind o things is? > >or how can I capture the output in a file???Cause is so damn long >that I barely see the 10% of all the things its p

Re: [Tutor] TKinter and things over Linux [how to make a transcript]

2005-04-20 Thread Danny Yoo
On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Alberto Troiano wrote: > You're so right and I apologize for my mistake > > Do you or anybody knows where the error.log for this kind o things is? > > or how can I capture the output in a file???Cause is so damn > long that I barely see the 10% of all the things

Fwd: [Tutor] crash - switching between text window andgraphics/gamewindow (high score)

2005-04-20 Thread D. Hartley
Thanks for the suggestion. The ".pyw" extension runs the game without a text window at all, which actually is kind of nice. However, there were two problems: a). the program still crashed out when i scored a score that would have put me on the high score list b). i cant see the high score list

RE: [Tutor] crash - switching between text window andgraphics/gamewindow (high score)

2005-04-20 Thread Alberto Troiano
Hey Denise That was fast Try changing the extension to .pyw and tell me if this fix it By the way you didn't say nothing about the game :D Regards Alberto From: "D. Hartley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: "D. Hartley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Python tutor Subject: [Tutor] crash - switching between t

[Tutor] crash - switching between text window and graphics/gamewindow (high score)

2005-04-20 Thread D. Hartley
The play file does end in ".py". I am running it on Windows. You can double-click the play file, and run it straight that way, which is when the crash occurs. If you right click the file, go to "edit in IDLE", and hit F5 to run it, the crash does NOT happen. I'm not sure why (but this is also wh

Re: [Tutor] TKinter and things over Linux

2005-04-20 Thread Alberto Troiano
You're so right and I apologize for my mistake Do you or anybody knows where the error.log for this kind o things is? or how can I capture the output in a file???Cause is so damn long that I barely see the 10% of all the things its print out I'll look up for the log and send it to you

RE: [Tutor] crash - switching between text window and graphics/gamewindow (high score)

2005-04-20 Thread Alberto Troiano
Hey I'm curious What extension are you using on your game??? is it .py??? And what OS are you running the game??? Another thing. I made a space ship game to learn Python. Is there a possibility that we exchange the games so we can know differents points of view

Re: [Tutor] TKinter and things over Linux

2005-04-20 Thread Danny Yoo
> >>I couldn't print the exact error because it's a lot of pages that says > >>mostly the same Hi Alberto, No, that's precisely the kind of wrong kind of attitude toward error messages that's making this debugging much harder than it should be. You may think that those error messages are most

Re: [Tutor] A simple Perl to Python regex xlation question

2005-04-20 Thread Kent Johnson
Smith, Jeff wrote: What's the quickest (and most Pythonic) way to do the following Perlism: $str = s/d+/d/; (i.e. collapsing multiple occurrences of the letter 'd' to just one) import re s = re.sub('d+', 'd', s, 1) if I understand the perl...this replaces just one occurance of d+. If you wa

Re: [Tutor] TKinter and things over Linux

2005-04-20 Thread Alberto Troiano
Could it be a problem wth gcc library and if so, gcc library is the C compiler or am I wrong in that? The exact error is the following: error: compiled 'gcc' failed with exit status 1 I'm reinstalling Red Hat 9.0 with the EVERYTHING option so there can be no problem Thanks aga

[Tutor] A simple Perl to Python regex xlation question

2005-04-20 Thread Smith, Jeff
What's the quickest (and most Pythonic) way to do the following Perlism: $str = s/d+/d/; (i.e. collapsing multiple occurrences of the letter 'd' to just one) Thanks, Jeff ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/lis

Re: [Tutor] TKinter and things over Linux

2005-04-20 Thread Max Noel
On Apr 20, 2005, at 16:52, Alberto Troiano wrote: Hey Didn't work I try the python2.3 setup.py build I couldn't print the exact error because it's a lot of pages that says mostly the same the final error says error: mysql ended exit with status 1 I run the other command python2.3 setup.py install

Re: [Tutor] TKinter and things over Linux

2005-04-20 Thread Alberto Troiano
Hey Didn't work I try the python2.3 setup.py build I couldn't print the exact error because it's a lot of pages that says mostly the same the final error says error: mysql ended exit with status 1 I run the other command python2.3 setup.py install and the same error What can I do I'm desperate Ju

Re: [Tutor] Installation Routines (Joseph Quigley)

2005-04-20 Thread Max Noel
On Apr 20, 2005, at 00:04, Joseph Quigley wrote: My point is for practice and knowledge. Sure, I have Setup 2 Go (the paid version) and Install Creator (not paid) Then again, how many free installers are there for linux? emerge and apt-get come to mind. rpm is inferior (no dependency resolution)

Re: [Tutor] Installation Routines (Joseph Quigley)

2005-04-20 Thread Joseph Quigley
Its not hard, but its not easy either to do it right. And given the profusion of installers already available ranging from free to expensive there really is little point in writing something that probably won't be as good as the already available alternative. Remember user expectation, if you writ

Re: [Tutor] How to obfuscate a database password.

2005-04-20 Thread David Driver
So I could do the folowing: Create a DB logon for each user that has permissions to just about everything. Have them log on each time. This would require an application that they could manage their passwords. I already needed an application for managing permissions within the applic

Re: [Tutor] inexplicable MySQLdb behavior, INSERT data doesn't appear

2005-04-20 Thread Liam Clarke
Seems a lot of wrappers are moving away from autocommit for performance reasons. pysqlite has removed it as of the alphra 2.0On 4/20/05, Danny Yoo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:> hi all, while recently trying to insert some data into the following> table:>