Re: [Tutor] Open Source database software

2008-11-25 Thread Alan Gauld
Mike Meisner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote I'd like to get away from using Microsoft Access. I have a number of Access databases to convert. The obvious choice would be the OpenOffice DB. I believe it can read Access format - although I've never tried... 1. A relational database management

Re: [Tutor] Open Source database software

2008-11-25 Thread Kent Johnson
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 7:19 PM, Mike Meisner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3. A good GUI front end for creating the database, creating forms for user data input, queries, reports, etc. For this you might look at Dabo: http://dabodev.com/ I haven't worked with it myself but some people like it a

[Tutor] [Fwd: Re: My horrible looking program needs improvement.]

2008-11-25 Thread spir
Hello Peter, Your program's structure is rather well designed... with words and whitespace. You just need to export each consistent part of your main() into a specialised section: module, object, function. I would suggest (use the names that make sense for you, not mine): * Config class that

[Tutor] Leaving PHP for Python

2008-11-25 Thread Jason DeBord
Hello All, This is my first message on the mailing list. I am excited to get started developing content / backend for the web with Python. I have a background in PHP, but am convinced that Python is a better, more powerful language. I am on a Windows XP machine and I have been using XAMPP for

Re: [Tutor] My horrible looking program needs improvement.

2008-11-25 Thread Peter van der Does
On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:04:35 +0100 spir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Peter, Your program's structure is rather well designed... with words and whitespace. You just need to export each consistent part of your main() into a specialised section: module, object, function. I would suggest

Re: [Tutor] Leaving PHP for Python

2008-11-25 Thread Don Jennings
Welcome! I suggest you take a look at django [1]. You'll find that it has documentation [2] and an active developer community [3]. Of course, for your questions about learning python, you've already found a very helpful community : ) Take care, Don [1] http://www.djangoproject.com/ [2]

Re: [Tutor] Leaving PHP for Python

2008-11-25 Thread bob gailer
Jason DeBord wrote: Hello All, This is my first message on the mailing list. I am excited to get started developing content / backend for the web with Python. I have a background in PHP, but am convinced that Python is a better, more powerful language. I am on a Windows XP machine and I

Re: [Tutor] Leaving PHP for Python

2008-11-25 Thread Kent Johnson
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 7:43 AM, Jason DeBord [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The following for example: from mod_python import apache def handler(req): req.write(Hello World!) return apache.OK Frankly, I don't understand what is going on in the above. This is a bit different compared

Re: [Tutor] Leaving PHP for Python

2008-11-25 Thread W W
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 6:43 AM, Jason DeBord [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The following for example: from mod_python import apache def handler(req): req.write(Hello World!) return apache.OK Frankly, I don't understand what is going on in the above. This is a bit different compared

[Tutor] accessing list from a string

2008-11-25 Thread Bryan Fodness
I have a list in a text file that is in the python format., Positions = [2.5,2.8] and would like to grab the values. for line in file('list.txt'): if line == Positions: x1,x2=Positions I know this does not work. Is there a direct way to get my x1 and x2 values.

Re: [Tutor] accessing list from a string

2008-11-25 Thread Mark Tolonen
Bryan Fodness [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I have a list in a text file that is in the python format., Positions = [2.5,2.8] and would like to grab the values. for line in file('list.txt'): if line == Positions: x1,x2=Positions I know

Re: [Tutor] accessing list from a string

2008-11-25 Thread A.T.Hofkamp
Bryan Fodness wrote: I have a list in a text file that is in the python format., Positions = [2.5,2.8] Why do you use Python format for storing data? (Python format is for storing programs, usually) and would like to grab the values. for line in file('list.txt'): if line

Re: [Tutor] Open Source database software

2008-11-25 Thread Marc Tompkins
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 4:19 PM, Mike Meisner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to get away from using Microsoft Access. I have a number of Access databases to convert. There's an open source package out there called mdbtools, specifically for working with Access databases. The Python port

Re: [Tutor] python question

2008-11-25 Thread Kent Johnson
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 11:52 AM, Daniel J Kramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Kent I have been playing with the ,lower command and am not having much luck. It seems like a simple task, but it is not working for me. Here is the code def main(): score = 0 printWelcome to the

Re: [Tutor] python question

2008-11-25 Thread Daniel J Kramer
Hi Kent got it! Is it because Python must recognize the answer as lower case? sorry if that might seem like a dumb question, but I am looking to understand this program. cheers Daniel On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 12:38 PM, Kent Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 11:52 AM,

Re: [Tutor] python question

2008-11-25 Thread Kent Johnson
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 12:45 PM, Daniel J Kramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Kent got it! Is it because Python must recognize the answer as lower case? It's because you change the user input to lower case, so you have to compare it against a lower case answer. Maybe this helps: In [1]: s=Abc

Re: [Tutor] accessing list from a string

2008-11-25 Thread Lie Ryan
On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 06:59:13 -0800, Mark Tolonen wrote: Bryan Fodness [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I have a list in a text file that is in the python format., Positions = [2.5,2.8] and would like to grab the values. for line in file('list.txt'):

[Tutor] Python GIL

2008-11-25 Thread OkaMthembo
Hi all, I wish to find out what the Global Interpreter Lock is and its relevance regarding the serving of high traffic Python sites. My understanding from what i read is that its a state whereby only one interpreter can be invoked on a physical machine. How does this impact performance of web

Re: [Tutor] Leaving PHP for Python

2008-11-25 Thread Spencer Parker
You might also want to look at Pylons...its another excellent web framework built for Python. The community around it, I feel, is better than Django. People are pretty willing to answer any and all questions you have. It gives more control to the developer as oppiosed to Django. I just switched

Re: [Tutor] Python GIL

2008-11-25 Thread Chris Fuller
Python interpreters running in separate processes have no affect on each other. This is the easiest way to get around the limitations of the GIL. The GIL generally has limited effect on multithreaded applications on a single-core machine. It can be a serious bottleneck on multicore

[Tutor] text file to excel csv file using python programming

2008-11-25 Thread Gilbert
Hi People, I tried to look for some answers but I see only same data format processing ( *.txt to *.txt ) in python. my question is how to convert a text file ( e.g. *.log, *.dlg ) to excel *.csv using python programming. any suggestion and where I can get this information for further

Re: [Tutor] text file to excel csv file using python programming

2008-11-25 Thread Serdar Tumgoren
Hi Gilbert, Check out the csv module in python's standard library. It can convert from .txt into Excel and vice versa http://www.python.org/doc/2.5.2/lib/module-csv.html ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org

Re: [Tutor] text file to excel csv file using python programming

2008-11-25 Thread Gilbert
Hi Serdar, ok thanks for your quick reply. I'll try to check this module. Hi people serdar, in case you have some websites or books you can recoomend that have some sample python codes for converting text files ( e.g. *.dlg, *.log ) to *.csv, kindly share. best regards, Gilbert On Wed,

Re: [Tutor] text file to excel csv file using python programming

2008-11-25 Thread Serdar Tumgoren
Hey Gilbert, The below link leads to a very basic script I put together with some assistance from several of the tutors on this list. It might give you a basic idea on how to use the csv module. http://forjournalists.com/cookbook/index.php?title=Itemizer

Re: [Tutor] text file to excel csv file using python programming

2008-11-25 Thread Gilbert
Hi Serdar, I will check on this. thanks a lot. best regards, Gilbert On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 7:40 AM, Serdar Tumgoren [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Hey Gilbert, The below link leads to a very basic script I put together with some assistance from several of the tutors on this list. It might

[Tutor] How to get smooth, terminal-like interaction over the web

2008-11-25 Thread tchomby
I have an idea for a python program I want to write. I want to make this program accessible over the web for people to play with. And that's where I'm stuck -- I don't know what module, framework, protocol, or whatever to use to webify it. It's a simple text-based program, the interaction

Re: [Tutor] accessing list from a string

2008-11-25 Thread Alan Gauld
Bryan Fodness [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote I have a list in a text file that is in the python format., Positions = [2.5,2.8] When you say in the Python format do you mean it is real Python codfe or just that it happens to look like Python? If the latter what format is it really? If its a

Re: [Tutor] How to get smooth, terminal-like interaction over the web

2008-11-25 Thread Alan Gauld
tchomby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote It's a simple text-based program, the interaction would work perfectly in a terminal with the computer printing out lines of text to the user, and the user typing in lines of text and pressing return, and this is the kind of interaction I want to enable on a

Re: [Tutor] accessing list from a string

2008-11-25 Thread Kent Johnson
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 3:14 PM, Lie Ryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Instead, in python 2.6, you may use ast.literal_eval(). Which restrict the eval to literal syntax only, and prohibit any function calling. That's very cool, thanks! Alternatively, for previous versions of python, or for more

Re: [Tutor] accessing list from a string

2008-11-25 Thread John Fouhy
On 26/11/2008, Alan Gauld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You could use eval to evaluate the string but that would be dangerous since the striong could be a malicious piece of code. But you can make it a lot safer by wrapping it in a function with known effect, thus: s = [2.5,2.8] # your string

Re: [Tutor] text file to excel csv file using python programming

2008-11-25 Thread Kent Johnson
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 6:16 PM, Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi People, I tried to look for some answers but I see only same data format processing ( *.txt to *.txt ) in python. my question is how to convert a text file ( e.g. *.log, *.dlg ) to excel *.csv using python programming.