Re: [Tutor] if-else statements

2005-10-14 Thread Andrew P
Well, on the bright side, at least Python is being taught in schools. My younger sister is a CS major just starting her programming courses, and it's Java/C++ all the way. I am becoming convinced that lines of code are not only related to the number of bugs and development speed, but learning spe

Re: [Tutor] extract plain english words from html

2005-10-14 Thread Andrew P
You could try: http://www.aminus.org/rbre/python/cleanhtml.py YMMV, as the kids say. But I did choose this over BeautifulSoup or Strip-o-gram to do this particular thing. I don't remember -why- I chose it, but there you go. Easy enough to test all three :) Oh, and if you just want a whole page

Re: [Tutor] output question

2005-10-14 Thread Kent Johnson
Shi Mu wrote: > I found the code for class "now". I got confused by two things: > First, how did the former code I posted know to import tis module of "Now"; You told it to with the statement import now This statement tells Python to look in the directories in its path for a file called now.py

Re: [Tutor] output question

2005-10-14 Thread w chun
On 10/14/05, Shi Mu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I found the code for class "now". I got confused by two things:First, how did the former code I posted know to import tis module of "Now";Second. what does "\" mean following "self.year ,"Thanks a lot!class now:  def __str__(self):return ti

Re: [Tutor] output question

2005-10-14 Thread Shi Mu
I found the code for class "now". I got confused by two things: First, how did the former code I posted know to import tis module of "Now"; Second. what does "\" mean following "self.year," Thanks a lot! class now: def __init__(self): self.t = time.time() self.storetime() d

Re: [Tutor] output question

2005-10-14 Thread Kent Johnson
Shi Mu wrote: > After I run the following python code, I expect to have the printing such as: > The year is 2005 > > However, I got something like: > The year is 2005 > Fri Oct 14 17:43:31 2005 > Fri Oct 14 17:43:31 2005 > The year is 2005 > > What is the reason? Maybe coming from module 'now'?

Re: [Tutor] extract plain english words from html

2005-10-14 Thread Kent Johnson
Marc Buehler wrote: > hi. > > i have a ton of html files from which i want to > extract the plain english words, and then write > those words into a single text file. If you just want the text from a single tag in the document then BeautifulSoup will work well, as Danny and Bob suggest. If you h

[Tutor] output question

2005-10-14 Thread Shi Mu
After I run the following python code, I expect to have the printing such as: The year is 2005 However, I got something like: The year is 2005 Fri Oct 14 17:43:31 2005 Fri Oct 14 17:43:31 2005 The year is 2005 What is the reason? The code follows: import time import now class today(now.now):

Re: [Tutor] extract plain english words from html

2005-10-14 Thread bob
At 03:50 PM 10/14/2005, Marc Buehler wrote: >hi. > >i have a ton of html files from which i want to >extract the plain english words, and then write >those words into a single text file. http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/ will read the html, let you step from tag to tag and extract the

Re: [Tutor] extract plain english words from html

2005-10-14 Thread Danny Yoo
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Marc Buehler wrote: > i have a ton of html files from which i want to extract the plain > english words, and then write those words into a single text file. Hi Marc, The BeautifulSoup parser should be able to do what you want: http://www.crummy.com/software/Beautiful

[Tutor] extract plain english words from html

2005-10-14 Thread Marc Buehler
hi. i have a ton of html files from which i want to extract the plain english words, and then write those words into a single text file. example: <... all kinds html tags ...> this is text from the above, i want to extract the string 'this is text' and write it out to a text file. note that

Re: [Tutor] dictionaries in classes

2005-10-14 Thread w chun
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Luke Jordan wrote:>  I'm trying to have functions to create, edit and store dictionaries >  within a class. i 2nd danny's motion:  make your dictionary an instance attribute (unique to that instance) rather than a class attribute (shared amongst all instances), and 2ndly, don't

Re: [Tutor] python ncurses vs OS X Tiger's xterms.

2005-10-14 Thread Alan Gauld
> On Fri, Oct 14, 2005, Alan Gauld wrote: >>Bill this is a guess but try setting the terminal type to vt220 >>or vt330 or similar rather than xterm. Does that make any difference? > > I haven't tried fiddling the terminal type, and would prefer not > to unless it's the last resort. The reason I s

Re: [Tutor] dictionaries in classes

2005-10-14 Thread Danny Yoo
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Luke Jordan wrote: > I'm trying to have functions to create, edit and store dictionaries > within a class. Here's a small example of a class: ## class Person: def __init__(self, name): self.name = name ## Let's try pickling an instance of it: #

[Tutor] dictionaries in classes

2005-10-14 Thread Luke Jordan
Hi,   Another stumped beginner here.   I'm trying to have functions to create, edit and store dictionaries within a class. What I can't figure out is how to retain the edits after making them. I think it has something to do with namespace. Ideally I'd like to pickle class instances and be able to a

[Tutor] question about pychart

2005-10-14 Thread nephish
Hey there, i have a simple app that plots some numbers sent by a field sensor with respect to time. i am trying to do this in pychart, but the problem is, when the numbers come in, they do so at almost random times. y shows the value sent by the sensor x plots the time that the value came in. what

Re: [Tutor] comiling python to microchip?

2005-10-14 Thread Hugo González Monteverde
If you mean a small one like a microcontroller (ARM, AVR, Dragonball, 68x000) then no. If you're using, say, embedded Linux on ARM, then it probably works, here's a link: http://www.vanille.de/projects/python.spy Hope it helps, Hugo Jeff Peery wrote: > is it possible to take python code and c

Re: [Tutor] Python 2.4.1 on Mndrk Linux 10.1 - path

2005-10-14 Thread Nick Lunt
Hi Andy, > Behalf Of Andy Dani > > Python 2.3.2 came with the linux distribution which is located in > /usr/lib. > > Installed 2.4.1 in /usr/local/Python-2.4.1 > > updated /etc/profile path so IDLE or "python" would point to the > latest version (2.4.1). > > PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/Python-2.4.

Re: [Tutor] Python 2.4.1 on Mndrk Linux 10.1 - path

2005-10-14 Thread Norman Silverstone
> I want to be able to launch and run python 2.4.1, from the user account so I > do not need to be "root" every time. I use Ubuntu Linux and Python 2.4.1 comes with it. All I need to do is to open a terminal and type python and press enter. What's the problem? Norman _

Re: [Tutor] if-else statements

2005-10-14 Thread Danny Yoo
> > For some reason, the months that have 31 days work fine, but the > > months that have 28/30 do not work. > > How do you know that? > > Show us why you think there's a problem in the program. We have our own > opinions, of course, but it'll be very helpful if you try explaining how > you're th

Re: [Tutor] python ncurses vs OS X Tiger's xterms.

2005-10-14 Thread Bill Campbell
On Fri, Oct 14, 2005, Alan Gauld wrote: >Bill this is a guess but try setting the terminal type to vt220 >or vt330 or similar rather than xterm. Does that make any difference? I haven't tried fiddling the terminal type, and would prefer not to unless it's the last resort. >curses uses the termcap

Re: [Tutor] if-else statements

2005-10-14 Thread Danny Yoo
> I'm having some trouble with my if, else statements. Ok, let's pause for a moment: it seems like you're having problems with more fundamental problems than just simple if/else statements. In the past questions you've written: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/tutor/2005-October/041863.htm

Re: [Tutor] First post

2005-10-14 Thread Danny Yoo
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Anthoni Shogan wrote: > this is my first post as a test.. Hi Anthoni, Ok, we see you. In general, it's usually not a good idea to write test messages on these kinds of mailing lists: it adds to the "noise" in the channel. Anyway, do you have a question about learning Pyt

[Tutor] Python 2.4.1 on Mndrk Linux 10.1 - path

2005-10-14 Thread Andy Dani
Python 2.3.2 came with the linux distribution which is located in /usr/lib. Installed 2.4.1 in /usr/local/Python-2.4.1 updated /etc/profile path so IDLE or "python" would point to the latest version (2.4.1). PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/Python-2.4.1/:." export PATH But it is still poin

Re: [Tutor] "Decompile" pyc file

2005-10-14 Thread Kent Johnson
Bernard Lebel wrote: > Hello, > > Is there a way to "decompile" a pyc file? I have a big problem where > the py file was lost, but the pyc file is instact. I would need to > extract the source code from the pyc file. Google 'python decompiler' try http://www.freshports.org/devel/decompyle/ or th

[Tutor] "Decompile" pyc file

2005-10-14 Thread Bernard Lebel
Hello, Is there a way to "decompile" a pyc file? I have a big problem where the py file was lost, but the pyc file is instact. I would need to extract the source code from the pyc file. Thanks for any suggestion Beranrd ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@pyt

Re: [Tutor] __slots__

2005-10-14 Thread Liam Clarke
> Can't you read the data from the binary file as needed? > For example build a table of object ids versus file locations > and then use seek() to go to an object and load it from file > on demand? > > > So, in doing so, I end up with a whole lot of objects, but it's a > > whole lot of objects I ca

Re: [Tutor] redemo.py and r'python\.org'

2005-10-14 Thread Kent Johnson
Dick Moores wrote: > Kent Johnson wrote at 19:21 10/13/2005: > >> > BTW in redemo.py, what do the checkboxes VERBOSE, LOCALE, and DOTALL >> > mean? (I understand IGNORECASE and MULTILINE.) >> >> http://docs.python.org/lib/node115.html > > > OK, but that didn't help with LOCALE. From > http://en

Re: [Tutor] how to create GUI for Python progs

2005-10-14 Thread paul brian
It seems to depend on what you want easygui --- Very simple, very easy to set up, but is NOT event driven (ie the program uses it much like it would use raw_input but with drop boxes. All other guis are event driven - that is the gui has the main loop, and when it detects (a button click)

Re: [Tutor] passing variable to python script

2005-10-14 Thread paul brian
There are several approaches ranging from the simple but limited to rather advanced. raw_input is the simplest but it is to be deprecated, and more importantly it limits you to entering commands after the script is running. automation becomes harder $ myscript Those args are put into a list ca

[Tutor] Fwd: if-else statements

2005-10-14 Thread paul brian
My apologies - I keep failing to reply-all. -- Forwarded message -- From: paul brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Oct 14, 2005 10:04 AM Subject: Re: [Tutor] if-else statements To: Andre Engels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I would also suggest you look at either datetime module or the mx.Date

Re: [Tutor] guidance for web site development

2005-10-14 Thread Johan Geldenhuys
I am also looking for a good tutorial on this subject. Have you tried http://www.modpython.org/ ? I think that the mod_python mailing list will be a better place to ask. I'm going to. Johan nitin chandra wrote: > Hi!... >i am new to Python and i want to develop a website with forms; data

Re: [Tutor] if-else statements

2005-10-14 Thread Andre Engels
2005/10/14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello > > I'm having some trouble with my if, else statements. For some reason, the > months that have 31 days work fine, but the months that have 28/30 do not > work. Am I doing something wrong? it is supposed to take a date as an > input like 9

Re: [Tutor] guidance for web site development

2005-10-14 Thread Anthoni Shogan
nitin chandra wrote: > Hi!... >i am new to Python and i want to develop a website with forms; data >submitted through forms will be stored in PostgreSQL. >I am working on deriviant of FC3, OpenLX. >I have Apache 2.0.54 version installed, which is pre-configured with >mod_python. >how do i lo

[Tutor] guidance for web site development

2005-10-14 Thread nitin chandra
Hi!... i am new to Python and i want to develop a website with forms; data submitted through forms will be stored in PostgreSQL. I am working on deriviant of FC3, OpenLX. I have Apache 2.0.54 version installed, which is pre-configured with mod_python. how do i load and view my .py/.html web p