[Tutor] Problems padding a string with 0's while deconcatonating

2005-12-04 Thread Josh Yagy
Hello everyone, this is my first time using the tutor e-mail, so if I mess up any common format or something just let me know :). Alright, for a little background, I'm in the process of writing a merkle-hellman cryptosystem for my CS15 class. I'm doing fine till I get to the decatonation of the

Re: [Tutor] Words alignment tool

2005-12-04 Thread Danny Yoo
On Sun, 4 Dec 2005, Srinivas Iyyer wrote: > Contr1SPR-10 SPR-101 SPR-125 SPR-137 SPR-139 SPR-143 > contr2SPR-1 SPR-15 SPR-126 SPR-128 SPR-141 SPR-148 > contr3SPR-106 SPR-130 SPR-135 SPR-138 SPR-139 SPR-145 > contr4SPR-124 SPR-125 SPR-130 SPR-139 SPR-144 SPR-14

[Tutor] my text adventure

2005-12-04 Thread david
i have finally got save and restoring to work. here is my code for posterity. :) i was (i think) putting the player in a room that wasnt the room from the pickle. but somehow the same room. anyway comments welcome.   import sysimport stringimport pickleimport os.path   world = {}rooms = []cl

Re: [Tutor] Words alignment tool

2005-12-04 Thread Kent Johnson
Srinivas Iyyer wrote: >Dear Expert programmers, > >I aplogise if this mail is out of context here. > >I have a list of elements like these: > >Contr1 SPR-10 SPR-101 SPR-125 SPR-137 SPR-139 SPR-143 >contr2 SPR-1 SPR-15 SPR-126 SPR-128 SPR-141 SPR-148 >contr3 SPR-106 SPR-130 SPR-135 SPR-138 S

Re: [Tutor] my text adventure, saving and restoring

2005-12-04 Thread david
thanks that was very helpful. i added all that stuff because i was trying to figure out some way of getting at the descriptions and exits. that is the part i'm stuck on. but knowing that world is all i need is good because i can focus my efforts better. thanks. > You could make your save() metho

Re: [Tutor] my text adventure, saving and restoring

2005-12-04 Thread John Fouhy
On 05/12/05, david <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > when i restore from the pickle i can see my exits and descriptions are still > there. > def save(self): > f = open('savefile', 'w') > pickle.dump(world,f) > pickle.dump(rooms,f) > for i in rooms: > pickl

[Tutor] Words alignment tool

2005-12-04 Thread Srinivas Iyyer
Dear Expert programmers, I aplogise if this mail is out of context here. I have a list of elements like these: Contr1 SPR-10 SPR-101 SPR-125 SPR-137 SPR-139 SPR-143 contr2 SPR-1 SPR-15 SPR-126 SPR-128 SPR-141 SPR-148 contr3 SPR-106 SPR-130 SPR-135 SPR-138 SPR-139 SPR-145 contr4 SPR-12

[Tutor] script run problem

2005-12-04 Thread Mishra, Ashwini
Hi everyone, I am not able to run any script in python ver2.4.2. under window xp.I get the following error messagepython.exe has encountered a problem and needs to be closed. Though path for python.exe is correct.Error meeasge generated by MS office is ?xml version="1.0" encodin

[Tutor] my text adventure, saving and restoring

2005-12-04 Thread david
when i restore from the pickle i can see my exits and descriptions are still there. but look won't see the description and move can't move to the next room. i am stumped. what is going on here? how can i fix it? please help?       IDLE 1.1.2  No Subprocess >>> >rooms[<__main__.R

Re: [Tutor] Socket connection

2005-12-04 Thread Danny Yoo
> I need to get some whois-info from whois.ripe.net. I have been able to > connect and get the info that I need, but I would like to know what is > the most 'polite' way of doing so. I need to do quite a few whois > lookups (from my server logs) and don't want to risk creating more > hassle for t

Re: [Tutor] my text adventure

2005-12-04 Thread Danny Yoo
On Sun, 4 Dec 2005, david wrote: > i fixed this myself ! i think i can get everything working now so > please disregard previous messages. if you haven't already. :) That's great! By the way, you asked a while back if trying to write a text-adventure game was a good way to learn how to progra

Re: [Tutor] Search theory for luddites?

2005-12-04 Thread Danny Yoo
> My current planned approach is to have each file added read and keywords > extracted (i.e. variable names, libraries imported etc.) and used as > keys in a dictionary, and each key points to a list of files containing > it (files will be stored in a zip or similar). > > i.e. > > words = { > > "im

Re: [Tutor] (no subject)

2005-12-04 Thread Alan Gauld
> then i run my program and create one room. there should now be two rooms. > when i look at rooms i have three rooms! where did this other room come > from? Dunno but have uyou tried asking it about itself using the debugger? Call the description methjod or look at the coordinates... One wee ob

Re: [Tutor] my text adventure

2005-12-04 Thread david
i fixed this myself ! i think i can get everything working now so please disregard previous messages. if you haven't already. :) - Original Message - From: david To: tutor@python.org Sent: Sunday, December 04, 2005 10:06 AM Subject: [Tutor] (no subject) i adde

[Tutor] Socket connection

2005-12-04 Thread Øyvind
Hello. I need to get some whois-info from whois.ripe.net. I have been able to connect and get the info that I need, but I would like to know what is the most 'polite' way of doing so. I need to do quite a few whois lookups (from my server logs) and don't want to risk creating more hassle for their

[Tutor] (no subject)

2005-12-04 Thread david
i added a list of rooms and rooms.append(self) to the Room initialization. then i run my program and create one room. there should now be two rooms. when i look at rooms i have three rooms! where did this other room come from? anyway, thanks for taking time to look at my code.     import sy

[Tutor] Unicode trouble

2005-12-04 Thread Øyvind
>> Might the problem only be related to Win32com, not Python since Python >> prints it without trouble? >That's another issue. First you need to know what you are starting with. >You really should read this: >The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must >Know About U

Re: [Tutor] Command line arguments passing

2005-12-04 Thread Vlad Popescu
I don't have Python on Windows and didn't want to make any assumptions about the way the Windows shell passes parameters. Sorry again for being trivial. On Sun, 2005-12-04 at 09:00 +, Alan Gauld wrote: > > My question is: when invoking a program with, let's say, a filename > > containing space

Re: [Tutor] spam, eggs, and my text adventure

2005-12-04 Thread Kent Johnson
david wrote: > hello :) > i have some questions that are more about programming in general than > python specifically. > suppose, for whatever reason, you had a burning desire to write a > simple text adventure. > how would you start? would you just start writing some code? Alan G and I had a b

Re: [Tutor] my text adventure

2005-12-04 Thread david
thanks. i had actually coded this almost exactly the same. i'll try to make my questions more specific. i am able to pickle and restore world. which is a dictionary of coordinates : room objects. when i look at the savefile that pickle generates i can see all my descriptions and exits. howeve

Re: [Tutor] Search theory for luddites?

2005-12-04 Thread Alan Gauld
> Is there a more efficient approach? I don't think a relational DB > really suits this sort of task at present, Why not? If its a big data set then a proper database will be more effective. The advantages are that you can define many more parameters for searching - author, date, number of acce

Re: [Tutor] Command line arguments passing

2005-12-04 Thread Vlad Popescu
On Sat, 2005-12-03 at 17:23 -0800, Danny Yoo wrote: > > > > My question is: when invoking a program with, let's say, a filename > > > containing spaces as a parameter: > > > > > > myprog -file "Long name" > > > > > > What does sys.argv hold in this case? I am specifically interested in > > > wheth

Re: [Tutor] Command line arguments passing

2005-12-04 Thread Alan Gauld
> My question is: when invoking a program with, let's say, a filename > containing spaces as a parameter: > > myprog -file "Long name" > > What does sys.argv hold in this case? What did you get when you tried it? I ran: ###test.py ## import sys print sys.argv ### p

[Tutor] Search theory for luddites?

2005-12-04 Thread Liam Clarke
Hi all, Going to build a repository for my code snippets (and I know that pre-existing solutions exist, but I like to roll my own to see what I can learn.), and just wondering on how to best store it and search it. My current planned approach is to have each file added read and keywords extracted