[Tutor] No beep from winsound.Beep(500, 500)

2009-12-18 Thread Richard D. Moores
My laptop, a Toshiba Satellite running Python 3.1 and Vista 64-bit SP2, with the speakers on and otherwise working, won't give me a beep: >>> from winsound import Beep >>> Beep(500, 500) Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in Beep(500, 500) RuntimeError: Failed to beep Plea

Re: [Tutor] Send Hex

2009-12-18 Thread Mark Tolonen
"Григор" wrote in message news:acd355e80912180634l1c7a545fo7be9d5e99138b...@mail.gmail.com... Hi Can I send date and time like Hex in to the Serial port or file. from time import * It preferable to just use "import time" import time def TimeMake():

Re: [Tutor] Field/Variable References

2009-12-18 Thread Dave Angel
John Filben wrote: Can someone please let me know how to read a file one record at a time (just say fixed block for now - see small example below) and assign columns to fields. Then reference the field names with if-then-else logic. Sample Fixed Block File: John98762 John82634 John11234 Tha

Re: [Tutor] Field/Variable References

2009-12-18 Thread Serdar Tumgoren
> Why negative indexes when fields lengths are known? I'll admit I made a few assumptions based on what I could glean from the OP: * names will vary in length in a questionnaire or poll (which this appears to be) * answers will always be represented by a single digit * area code (at least in US)

Re: [Tutor] Field/Variable References

2009-12-18 Thread Kent Johnson
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 8:57 AM, John Filben wrote: > Can someone please let me know how to read a file one record at a time (just > say fixed block for now - see small example below) and assign columns to > fields.  Then reference the field names with if-then-else logic. > > Sample Fixed Block Fi

Re: [Tutor] Field/Variable References

2009-12-18 Thread spir
Serdar Tumgoren dixit: > > Thank you - can you please assume that the data provided is the following: > > > > Columns 1 - 4 = Name (in record 1 of example = "John") > > Column 5 = Answer1 (in record 1 of example = "9") > > Column 6 = Answer2 (in record 1 of example = "8") > > Column 7 = AreaCode

Re: [Tutor] Field/Variable References

2009-12-18 Thread Serdar Tumgoren
I'm reposting John's follow-up question (below) to the list. > Thank you - can you please assume that the data provided is the following: > > Columns 1 - 4 = Name (in record 1 of example = "John") > Column 5 = Answer1 (in record 1 of example = "9") > Column 6 = Answer2 (in record 1 of example = "8

Re: [Tutor] Field/Variable References

2009-12-18 Thread Serdar Tumgoren
> Can someone please let me know how to read a file one record at a time (just > say fixed block for now - see small example below) and assign columns to > fields.  Then reference the field names with if-then-else logic. > > Sample Fixed Block File: > > John98762 > John82634 > John11234 > Hi John,

[Tutor] Field/Variable References

2009-12-18 Thread John Filben
Can someone please let me know how to read a file one record at a time (just say fixed block for now - see small example below) and assign columns to fields.  Then reference the field names with if-then-else logic. Sample Fixed Block File: John98762 John82634 John11234 Thank you.  John Filben

Re: [Tutor] What is URL to online Python interpreter?

2009-12-18 Thread Tim Golden
Scott Nelson wrote: On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 09:32:44PM -0800, Benjamin Castillo wrote: What is URL to online Python interpreter? There is also http://codepad.org/ which also supports lots of languages (Python, Ruby, Perl, PHP, C/C++...). Pretty slick. You can also use it as a public pastebi

Re: [Tutor] What is URL to online Python interpreter?

2009-12-18 Thread Scott Nelson
> > On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 09:32:44PM -0800, Benjamin Castillo wrote: > > What is URL to online Python interpreter? > There is also http://codepad.org/ which also supports lots of languages (Python, Ruby, Perl, PHP, C/C++...). Pretty slick. You can also use it as a public pastebin (this link w

Re: [Tutor] Generating Unique Permutations

2009-12-18 Thread Robert Johansson
I think you mean a multiset not a necklace. A necklace is invariant under rotations and reflections aabb=abba=bbaa=baab and abab=baba. Seems that some people name them bags instead of multiset. Maybe this can help you finding more examples? I see that you got a few already. /Robert Från: tutor

[Tutor] Send Hex

2009-12-18 Thread Григор
Hi Can I send date and time like Hex in to the Serial port or file. from time import * def TimeMake(): '''Formating time and data (dd-mm-yy hh:mm) and change it like ASCII''' Time=list(localtime()) #get Time and Date Time[0]=str(Time[0])#Make (

Re: [Tutor] Generating Unique Permutations

2009-12-18 Thread Kent Johnson
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 12:54 AM, Michael Morrissey wrote: > I'm looking for an efficient way to create all the unique, non-duplicated > permutations of a list (I believe these are called "necklaces" in > combinatorics). I need to do this without actually generating every possible > permutation (w

Re: [Tutor] Generating Unique Permutations

2009-12-18 Thread Shashwat Anand
may be this can be helpful: http://blog.bjrn.se/2008/04/lexicographic-permutations-using.html On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 6:01 PM, R. Alan Monroe wrote: > > > I'm looking for an efficient way to create all the unique, non-duplicated > > permutations of a list > > This may or may not help: > http://c

Re: [Tutor] Generating Unique Permutations

2009-12-18 Thread R. Alan Monroe
> I'm looking for an efficient way to create all the unique, non-duplicated > permutations of a list This may or may not help: http://code.activestate.com/recipes/190465/ Alan ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscripti

Re: [Tutor] Generating Unique Permutations

2009-12-18 Thread spir
Michael Morrissey dixit: > I'm just a philosophy teacher, and I don't know much about mathematics or > computers. I'm writing a python program (not the best language for this > topic, but it is what I know), and I need to solve a problem which requires > more knowledge than I have. I'm hoping you