Re: [Tutor] I know you will hate this but...

2005-05-18 Thread Andrei
Smith, Jeff jsmith at medplus.com writes: But there is no way to enforce standard settings. When new versions are installed or someone just makes a mistake the settings might change and you won't know until it's too late...possibly weeks later. Programs when updated tend to keep their

Re: [Tutor] help me on python + snack

2005-05-18 Thread Michael Lange
On Tue, 17 May 2005 21:18:09 -0700 (PDT) Mahmad Sadique Hannure [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Mahmad, Hello friends, I m currently working on sound stuff. I have installed all stuff related to Snack. My code for playing mp3 song is like this #!/usr/bin/python2.3 from Tkinter import *

Re: [Tutor] Perl equivalent of $#var

2005-05-18 Thread Smith, Jeff
The most common usage is to get the last member of an array as with myarray[$#myarray] and I realize in Python, this can be done with myarray[-1] My current dilemma is that I've got a program that takes one argument and needs to be run multiple times with this argument being

[Tutor] Password

2005-05-18 Thread Øyvind
Hello. I am trying to make a loginbox for a program, and need to make a somewhat safe passwordroutine. Will this work? import md5 h = md5.new() h.update(password) h.hexdigest() The user enters a password first. These lines will create a string: '12c0faae657b3d068c0f19b71f5b43bc' This string

Re: [Tutor] Password

2005-05-18 Thread Alberto Troiano
Hey I think that is a good built-in way to protect your passwords, but then I don't know if a text file is the best way to store them. I think (in my opinion) I consider using a database to store tha info. There is a way to make the entry appears as *. txtPass=Entry(root,width=25,show=*) The

Re: [Tutor] Perl equivalent of $#var

2005-05-18 Thread Premshree Pillai
On 5/18/05, Smith, Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a more Pythonic way to get the Perl equivalent of $#var other than len(var) - 1 By Pythonic, if you mean OO, you can do this: ['foo', 2, 'baz'].__len__() -- Premshree Pillai http://www.livejournal.com/users/premshree/

[Tutor] How to convert hex representation of char? (Challenge part 8)

2005-05-18 Thread Pieter Lust
Hello, I'm stuck on part 8 of the Python Challenge. To solve it, I want to feed 2 pieces of data to a Python module. I get those pieces by reading the webpage source, and then splitting it on ', like this: import urllib pagesource = urllib.urlopen(site_address).read() parts =

[Tutor] Finding word in file

2005-05-18 Thread Joseph Quigley
I'm making a program that opens a file and tries to find the word you specify. I can't get it to find the word! I also would like to know how I can get it to print 2 lines above and 2 lines below the line with the word specified. One more thing, the try: IOError won't work... I type the name of

Re: [Tutor] Finding word in file

2005-05-18 Thread Bernard Lebel
Hi Joseph, To answer your last question first, you should use the os.path.exsits() method to see if the path is valid: http://www.python.org/doc/2.4.1/lib/module-os.path.html As for finding a word in a text, I would suggest to write a basic text parser that would work on small files. def

Re: [Tutor] Finding word in file

2005-05-18 Thread Bernard Lebel
Ooops, a part of my code was missing, sorry about that. Here is it again, complete. def parseText(): # oFile: text file to test # myWord: word we are looking for # Get all lines into list aLines = oFile.readlines() # Perform list

Re: [Tutor] Password

2005-05-18 Thread Andrei
Øyvind wrote on Wed, 18 May 2005 14:46:43 +0200 (CEST): The user enters a password first. These lines will create a string: '12c0faae657b3d068c0f19b71f5b43bc' This string will be stored in the file settings.txt That's a very good way of preventing the user's password from being reconstructed.

Re: [Tutor] Perl equivalent of $#var

2005-05-18 Thread Blake Winton
My current dilemma is that I've got a program that takes one argument and needs to be run multiple times with this argument being validated based on the previous one. So proper usage might be myprog red myprog blue myprog green where it would be wrong to do myprog

Re: [Tutor] How to convert hex representation of char? (Challenge part 8)

2005-05-18 Thread Alan G
onepart and anotherpart contain many hex representations of nonprintable characters, like '\x14'. But I can't manage to convert those to the actual nonprintable characters. Any hints on how to do this? '\x14' is the actual non printable charactewrs. If it were printable you would see its

Re: [Tutor] Finding word in file

2005-05-18 Thread Alan G
I'm making a program that opens a file and tries to find the word you specify. I can't get it to find the word! What are you trying? You could simply read through the file line by line using the string search methods. Store the previous 2 lines then when found print the previous two lines,

[Tutor] Python debugger under Tiger?

2005-05-18 Thread Mike Hall
Does anyone know of a Python debugger that will run under OSX 10.4? The Eric debugger was looked at, but it's highly unstable under Tiger. Thanks.-MH___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] Troubles with Python modules

2005-05-18 Thread Alberto Troiano
I'm sending the commands you asked I'm still can't make it work and I don't know what else should I do I'll aprecciate any help Best Regards Alberto From: Danny Yoo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Alberto Troiano [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: tutor@python.org Subject: Re: [Tutor] Troubles with Python modules Date:

Re: [Tutor] Python debugger under Tiger?

2005-05-18 Thread jfouhy
Quoting Mike Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Does anyone know of a Python debugger that will run under OSX 10.4? The Eric debugger was looked at, but it's highly unstable under Tiger. Thanks. pdb should work :-) -- John. ___ Tutor maillist -

Re: [Tutor] I know you will hate this but...

2005-05-18 Thread Lee Harr
Inconsistent indentation styles are very annoying in other languages, but a fatal problem in Python. But there is no way to enforce standard settings. When new versions are installed or someone just makes a mistake the settings might change and you won't know until it's too late...possibly weeks

[Tutor] buttons, scrollbar, tkinter

2005-05-18 Thread Ron Alvarado
Is there any way to change this to put in a column of buttons and it will scroll like it does now. I've tried but when I put in the buttons the scrollbar just grows with all the buttons and won't do anything. from Tkinter import * root = Tk() scrollbar = Scrollbar(root) scrollbar.pack(side=RIGHT,

Re: [Tutor] buttons, scrollbar, tkinter

2005-05-18 Thread jfouhy
Quoting Ron Alvarado [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Is there any way to change this to put in a column of buttons and it will scroll like it does now. I've tried but when I put in the buttons the scrollbar just grows with all the buttons and won't do anything. I'm not exactly sure what you're after here

[Tutor] ANN: new release of RUR-PLE

2005-05-18 Thread André Roberge
Version 0.8.6a is now available. This version is mostly a bug fix version. * unicode problem corrected (bug introduced in version 0.8.5) * linenumber information on syntax errors corrected * removed the URL browser capability * corrected typo and change explanation of next_to_a_beeper() in

Re: [Tutor] Python debugger under Tiger?

2005-05-18 Thread Lee Cullens
Mike, You may not be looking for a commercial IDE, but I am very happy with WingIDE and using it with Tiger. Lee C On May 18, 2005, at 6:54 PM, Mike Hall wrote: I should of specified that I'm looking for an IDE with full debugging. Basically something like Xcode, but with Python support.