Re: [Tutor] Video file metadata? (MP4/WMV)

2008-03-05 Thread Alan Gauld
Allen Fowler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote That being said, what is the correct way to parse binary files in Python? The safest way is to open in binary mode and use read() to get the data then use the struct module to decode the data into python objects. There is a very basic intro to this at

Re: [Tutor] Video file metadata? (MP4/WMV)

2008-03-05 Thread Ian Ozsvald
Hi Allen. I don't know of a Python module but I believe that ffmpeg will do what you want. Inside ShowMeDo I start it using os.spawnv and I use Python to do some processing on ffmpeg's output. We use it to transcode incoming AVI/MOVs to .FLV files. This would be more involved than just

Re: [Tutor] Video file metadata? (MP4/WMV)

2008-03-05 Thread Kent Johnson
Allen Fowler wrote: what is the correct way to parse binary files in Python? http://docs.python.org/lib/module-struct.html and perhaps http://construct.wikispaces.com/ Kent ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org

Re: [Tutor] Translate this VB.NET code into Python for me?

2008-03-05 Thread Kent Johnson
Alan Gauld wrote: You could do a GUI example and use IronPython to show how it copes with GUI code. Since IP can access the same GUI library as VB.NET they should be very similar in code structure. Here is a blog post I came across recently that shows a number of ways to construct a GUI in

Re: [Tutor] Video file metadata? (MP4/WMV)

2008-03-05 Thread Terry Carroll
On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Allen Fowler wrote: I can't seem to find a simple description of the MP4 sepc... it might be because there is not one. :) Does this help? http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/fdd/fdd000155.shtml I think, though, that using Python to drive an already-written utility

[Tutor] hello can you help me solve this problem

2008-03-05 Thread Christopher Marlett
This may be a very broad question but whatever help you could give me would be great. Exercise 2.4.5.1. * Make a program scene.py creating a scene with the graphics methods. You are likely to need to adjust the positions of objects by trial and error until you get the positions you want. Make

Re: [Tutor] hello can you help me solve this problem

2008-03-05 Thread bob gailer
Christopher Marlett wrote: This may be a very broad question but whatever help you could give me would be great. Exercise 2.4.5.1. * Make a program scene.py creating a scene with the graphics methods. You are likely to need to adjust the positions of objects by trial and error until you

[Tutor] Const on Python

2008-03-05 Thread Tiago Katcipis
Its a simple question but i have found some trouble to find a good answer to it, maybe i just dont searched enough but it wont cost anything to ask here, and it will not cost to much to answer :-). I have started do develop on python and i really liked it, but im still learning. Im used to

Re: [Tutor] hello can you help me solve this problem

2008-03-05 Thread Alan Gauld
Christopher Marlett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote Exercise 2.4.5.1. * Make a program scene.py creating a scene with the graphics methods. You are likely to need to adjust the positions of objects by trial and error until you get the positions you want. Make sure you have graphics.py in the same

Re: [Tutor] Const on Python

2008-03-05 Thread John Fouhy
On 06/03/2008, Tiago Katcipis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: learning. Im used to develop on c++ and java and i wanted to know if there is any way to create a final or const member, a member that after assigned cant be reassigned. Thanks to anyone who tries to help me and sorry to bother with a

Re: [Tutor] Const on Python

2008-03-05 Thread Tiago Katcipis
Thanks for the help John. I agree with you that the programmer is already a grow person and should know when he can modify a attribute :-). Instead when other people will be able to continue to develop on the code i writed the const would give confidence that someone would not mess with my

Re: [Tutor] Const on Python

2008-03-05 Thread bob gailer
Tiago Katcipis wrote: Its a simple question but i have found some trouble to find a good answer to it, maybe i just dont searched enough but it wont cost anything to ask here, and it will not cost to much to answer :-). Well there is a cost (at least to me) to read all the extra words that

Re: [Tutor] Translate this VB.NET code into Python for me?

2008-03-05 Thread Dick Moores
At 10:22 AM 3/5/2008, Kent Johnson wrote: Alan Gauld wrote: You could do a GUI example and use IronPython to show how it copes with GUI code. Since IP can access the same GUI library as VB.NET they should be very similar in code structure. Here is a blog post I came across recently that