Re: [Tutor] Formatting zip module arguments correctly

2009-04-05 Thread Mark Tolonen
The error indicates your source file cannot be read. Did you have it open in an editor that locks it for exclusive use when you ran your program? Also, the command: zipfile.ZipFile(target, 'w').write(source) writes backup_list to the target zipfile, and returns None, assigning the return

Re: [Tutor] base n fractional

2009-04-05 Thread Chris Castillo
well i want to use a for loop to work from the right most digit to the left most digit at a negative 1 increment. For each digit i want to divide it by 1/base and add the next digit. Then I need to take that sum and multiply it by 1/b to get the decimal equivalent so when I say that to myself i se

Re: [Tutor] Formatting zip module arguments correctly

2009-04-05 Thread Alan Gauld
"Benjamin Serrato" wrote formatting of my zip arguments is incorrect. Since I am unsure how to communicate best so I will show the code, the error message, and what I believe is happening. Thats pretty close to communicating the best way! :-) zip_command = zipfile.ZipFile(target, 'w').writ

Re: [Tutor] base n fractional

2009-04-05 Thread Alan Gauld
"Chris Castillo" wrote I need some help converting the fractional (right side of the decimal) to base 10. I have this but it doesn't work Frankly, based on your algorithm, I'm not sure what exactly you want to do but taking the above statement as a starting point I'd convert the fractional

Re: [Tutor] Formatting zip module arguments correctly

2009-04-05 Thread Kent Johnson
On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Benjamin Serrato wrote: > Please tell me why this code fails. I am new and I don't understand why my > formatting of my zip arguments is incorrect. Since I am unsure how to > communicate best so I will show the code, the error message, and what I > believe is happen

Re: [Tutor] Learn as You Go. Tkinter, PIL, Pmw, etc. and Toolkits--Choices

2009-04-05 Thread Alan Gauld
"Wayne Watson" wrote manipulation - actually creating and editing GIF/JPEG images etc The interaction stuff you need to do using the GUI toolkit. The GUI toolkit, Pmw, Tkinter? Yes exactly. Or wxPython or PyGtK or whatever, they will all provide a canvas type widget which you can progr

Re: [Tutor] Formatting zip module arguments correctly

2009-04-05 Thread bob gailer
Benjamin Serrato wrote: > Please tell me why this code fails. I am new and I don't understand why my formatting of my zip arguments is incorrect. Since I am unsure how to communicate best so I will show the code, the error message, and what I believe is happening. > > #!c:\python30 > # Filenam

[Tutor] Formatting zip module arguments correctly

2009-04-05 Thread Benjamin Serrato
Please tell me why this code fails. I am new and I don't understand why my formatting of my zip arguments is incorrect. Since I am unsure how to communicate best so I will show the code, the error message, and what I believe is happening. #!c:\python30 # Filename: backup_ver5.py import os import

[Tutor] base n fractional

2009-04-05 Thread Chris Castillo
I need some help converting the fractional (right side of the decimal) to base 10. I have this but it doesn't work mynum = raw_input("Please enter a number: ") myint, myfrac = mynum.split(".") base = raw_input("Please enter the base you would like to convert to: ") base = int(base) mydecfrac = 0 f

Re: [Tutor] Learn as You Go. Tkinter, PIL, Pmw, etc. and Toolkits--Choices

2009-04-05 Thread Wayne Watson
Title: Signature.html Alan Gauld wrote: "Wayne Watson" wrote >  The grid is a perfectly good layout manager but like all such >  tools it works in a particular way and has lots of options. Some To me grid looks like simple arithmetic, +, -, * and /, but someone l

Re: [Tutor] Learn as You Go. Tkinter, PIL, Pmw, etc. and Toolkits--Choices

2009-04-05 Thread Alan Gauld
"Wayne Watson" wrote > The grid is a perfectly good layout manager but like all such > tools it works in a particular way and has lots of options. Some To me grid looks like simple arithmetic, +, -, * and /, but someone left out the description (in a fictitious book on arithmetic) of "/ "(

Re: [Tutor] Learn as You Go. Tkinter, PIL, Pmw, etc. and Toolkits--Choices

2009-04-05 Thread Wayne Watson
Title: Signature.html Thanks, very much. Alan Gauld wrote: "Wayne Watson" wrote  I get the feeling, particularly with Tkinter and PIL, that I'm dealing with antiquated  tools, and documentation. They are both quite old and therefore quite stable. They do what I tak

Re: [Tutor] Learn as You Go. Tkinter, PIL, Pmw, etc. and Toolkits--Choices

2009-04-05 Thread Alan Gauld
"Wayne Watson" wrote I get the feeling, particularly with Tkinter and PIL, that I'm dealing with antiquated tools, and documentation. They are both quite old and therefore quite stable. They do what they do well and don't need to change very often. That is a Good Thing in that they are reli

Re: [Tutor] renumbering a sequence

2009-04-05 Thread spir
Le Sat, 4 Apr 2009 20:05:41 -0400, Kent Johnson s'exprima ainsi: > On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Christopher Spears > wrote: > > > > I want to write a script that takes a list of images and renumbers them > > with a user supplied number.  Here is a solution I came up while noodling > > around