On Dec 4, 2007 7:21 PM, earlylight publishing
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thank you everyone for your help! I have no idea why it never occured to me
to Google it. Thanks for the code. Now let's see if I can get this sucker
to work!
1) Wikipedia -- learn a basic vocabulary so you can enter
At 02:41 PM 12/4/2007, bhaaluu wrote:
I'm running the Python 2.4.3
interactive interpreter
in a Konsole at a bash prompt:
$ python
help
Type help() for interactive help, or help(object) for help about
object.
But look what I get with Python 2.5.1 and Win XP:
Greetings,
Recently a thread about Python's online help utility was buried
within another thread with a different Subject. So I thought I'd
try to summarize that thread within a thread in a thread of its own.
It would be helpful for those running different versions of Python
on differnet systems
On Monday 03 December 2007, Tiger12506 wrote:
##
s = '/home/test/'
s1 = s.lstrip('/ehmo')
s1
'test/'
##
I've been having some problems posting to this list,
so this is also a kind of test:
I just wrote a global lstring
def
jeff witt wrote:
here are a few questions that go through my head...
how does python get applied to a GUI?
There are many possibilities, see
http://wiki.python.org/moin/CategoryPyGUI
Also you can use native window toolkits on Windows and Mac.
is
it accepted in the world of programming
On Monday 03 December 2007, Tiger12506 wrote:
##
s = '/home/test/'
s1 = s.lstrip('/ehmo')
s1
'test/'
##
I've been having some problems posting to this list,
so this is also a kind of test:
I just wrote a global lstring
def
Hi Jeff,
On Dec 5, 2007 7:30 AM, jeff witt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
i have some questions about programming in general and python,..
Welcome! You have a lot of great questions. Tell your brother to relax.
First off, Python is a great first language because it was written
with an eye
Sorry if this isn't the right place for it, but today's xkcd comic strip is
very apropos for the newly illuminated in all things Python.
http://www.xkcd.com/
Tony R.
On Dec 5, 2007 12:00 PM, bhaaluu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Greetings,
On Dec 5, 2007 10:30 AM, jeff witt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I dun understand the mistake. My aim is to accept an integer number. The
python lookup in IDLE asks for a string object but the interpreter returns
with the following error message. Some one pls explain.
Thank You
PS : I understand that i can do type conversion after getting input thru
Mahesh N wrote:
I dun understand the mistake. My aim is to accept an integer number. The
python lookup in IDLE asks for a string object but the interpreter
returns with the following error message. Some one pls explain.
Thank You
PS : I understand that i can do type conversion after
On Friday 30 November 2007, Eric Brunson wrote:
Tim Johnson wrote:
Hello:
I'm seeing some strange behavior with lstrip operating
on string representations of *nix-style file paths
Example:
s = '/home/test/'
s1 = s.lstrip('/home')
s1
'test/' ## '/test/' was expected! '/' was
Trying this again. This list has not be receiving all
of my emails..
==
On Friday 30 November 2007, Eric Brunson wrote:
Tim Johnson wrote:
Hello:
I'm seeing some strange behavior with lstrip operating
on string representations of *nix-style file paths
Mahesh N wrote:
I dun understand the mistake. My aim is to accept an integer number.
The python lookup in IDLE asks for a string object but the interpreter
returns with the following error message. Some one pls explain.
Thank You
PS : I understand that i can do type conversion after
On Monday 03 December 2007, Tim Johnson wrote:
I appear to be having a weird problem with the List Server.
At first, email sent to this address did not appear at
all.
After contacting the ML maintainers only one email from
me to this address go through. When I replied to the
thread which the
Greetings,
On Dec 5, 2007 10:30 AM, jeff witt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
i have some questions about programming in general and python,..
my brother (who is a programmer) guides me to .net languages, and i am
not too sure why, however, he is getting sick of me pestering him with my
On Dec 6, 2007 2:31 AM, Mahesh N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I dun understand the mistake. My aim is to accept an integer number. The
python lookup in IDLE asks for a string object but the interpreter returns
with the following error message. Some one pls explain.
Thank You
PS : I understand
On Dec 6, 2007 2:37 AM, Eric Brunson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mahesh N wrote:
I dun understand the mistake. My aim is to accept an integer number.
The python lookup in IDLE asks for a string object but the interpreter
returns with the following error message. Some one pls explain.
Thank
Ricardo Aráoz wrote:
The other way to handle it would be to include in the documentation that
windows paths should have '/' or '' instead of '\\'.
The choice would depend on whether the authors consider there is a use
for the escape character, and what value that escape character might
Dear Pythonistas
Over a year ago I dabbled in learning Python, working my way through a
few tutorials, the Deitel's How to program in Python and Hetland's
Practical Python, until I came across the OOP sections. My mind just
froze up, and I found myself wondering if I had really understood
$ python
help()
help 'topics'
[snip]
CODEOBJECTS FRAMES POWER TUPLES
[snip]
help 'POWER'
5.4 The power operator
The power operator binds more tightly than unary operators on its left;
http://xkcd.com/353/
:-)
Kent
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Gentlemen:
There appears to still be a problem.
The email below was also sent, but I do not see
that it has been received. Send time was about
2 hours previous to this.
(09:27:42 Alaska Standard Time)
tim
Hello,
i have some questions about programming in general and python,..
my brother (who is a programmer) guides me to .net languages, and i am not
too sure why, however, he is getting sick of me pestering him with my
questions,..
i like the little i know about python, it seems to be user
On Dec 5, 2007 4:01 PM, Mahesh N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I dun understand the mistake. My aim is to accept an integer number. The
python lookup in IDLE asks for a string object but the interpreter returns
with the following error message. Some one pls explain.
Thank You
PS : I understand
Bryan Fodness wrote:
speed = int(raw_input(prompt))
Is this how ALL known integers should be input?
Yes, with probably a try/except block and a while loop around it to
handle invalid input.
There are two good reasons for doing this instead of using input:
- it guarantees that the
On Dec 5, 2007 4:46 PM, Bryan Fodness [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Dec 5, 2007 4:16 PM, Jerry Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
speed = int(raw_input(prompt))
Is this how ALL known integers should be input?
I don't think I understand the question. If you are prompting your
user to enter an
jeff witt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
my brother (who is a programmer) guides me to .net languages,
OK, Python is a .NET language too.
and i am not too sure why,
.NET is the new Microsoft standard and their counter attack on Java.
It offers a language neutral runtime environment that allows you
At 04:35 AM 12/5/2007, bhaaluu wrote:
It seems to be case-sensitive Mr. Moores!
When I entered 'power' (like you did), I also got:
help 'power'
no Python documentation found for 'power'
Try entering: 'POWER' (all caps, just like in the output).
Thanks! I should have tried that.
Dick Moores
Kent Johnson wrote:
Norman Khine wrote:
Hello,
I am having difficulties in converting the following to display the
difference that has passed in hours and seconds in a nice way.
from datetime import datetime
now = datetime.now()
posted = date
difference = now - posted
namespace['date']
Mahesh N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
PS : I understand that i can do type conversion after getting input
thru
raw_input(). But how does input() function work?
prompt=temme a number\n
speed =input(prompt)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File pyshell#56, line 1, in module
speed
On Dec 5, 2007 5:43 PM, andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear Pythonistas
[snip]
So, after this long-winded introduction, I was hoping to pick the wisdom
of this list to get some pointers of what to do/not to do to make the
most effective use of the few hours I have to learn how to program
Mahesh N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
More over i find python to be a little sluggish after having worked
with C
and Java.
If you translate C or Java code into python you will usually
get a less than optimal implementation. Python should be
barely slower than Java and often faster. Compared to
C
On Dec 5, 2007 4:16 PM, Jerry Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Dec 5, 2007 4:01 PM, Mahesh N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I dun understand the mistake. My aim is to accept an integer number. The
python lookup in IDLE asks for a string object but the interpreter
returns
with the following
So I eventually got to sending mail with python.
Some articles, trying and google led me to this script:
import smtplib
import time
date = time.ctime(time.time( ))
From = '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
To = ['[EMAIL PROTECTED]', '[EMAIL PROTECTED]']
Subj = 'Hi'
text = ('From: %s\nTo: %s\nDate: %s\nSubject:
Johnston Jiaa wrote:
Just don't distinguish between quick and slow drags. Just keep a
temporary variable that has the previous mouse position, and draw
ovals from there to the current mouse position every time your
function is called.
I now have the variable with the previous mouse
Hello again to all the wonderfully helpful folks on this list. Today I did my
Google homework and I found this neat bit of code for a countdown timer.
import time
import threading
class Timer(threading.Thread):
def __init__(self, seconds):
self.runTime = seconds
Ricardo Aráoz wrote:
So I eventually got to sending mail with python.
Some articles, trying and google led me to this script:
import smtplib
import time
date = time.ctime(time.time( ))
From = '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
To = ['[EMAIL PROTECTED]', '[EMAIL PROTECTED]']
Subj = 'Hi'
text = ('From:
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