Re: [Tutor] if item.find(extension)!= -1: -- what's the -1?

2010-02-06 Thread David
Thank you Wayne, Kent, it's easy to see clearly once told what to focus on ;-) David On 07/02/10 00:35, David wrote: Hello again, in Knowlton's 2008 book "Python: Create, Modify, Reuse" the author makes frequent use of the term -1 in his code, but doesn't tell to what aim. For want of search

[Tutor] Subprocess Stdout Redirection

2010-02-06 Thread Muhammad Ammar
Hi, Hope you will be fine and good. Following is a snippet of python code i am using for a regression testing. def StartProc(dir, parm): global proc proc_log = open(dir + os.sep + "MyLog.txt","w") #new path for each file if parm: proc = subprocess.Popen(path, 0, None, s

Re: [Tutor] Uninstalling MatPlotLib? (Win7)

2010-02-06 Thread Alan Gauld
"Wayne Watson" wrote I should have installed NumPy before MPL. How do I uninstall it. I'm pretty sure it was an msi file. In that case it should be listed under Add/Remove programs in Control Panel. Alan G ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python

Re: [Tutor] how to graph percentile -- matplotlib, Inkscape, or what?

2010-02-06 Thread Alan Gauld
"David" wrote in message news:4b6d37e4.9050...@gmx.net... matplotlib. I guess the reason why I discarded it before is that I understood matplotlib to be a curve plotting tool, and not so much a tool to draw graphics. I will investigate! It is but a single point on a an axis is a pretty basic

Re: [Tutor] if item.find(extension)!= -1: -- what's the -1?

2010-02-06 Thread Kent Johnson
On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 11:35 AM, David wrote: > Hello again, > > in Knowlton's 2008 book "Python: Create, Modify, Reuse" the author makes > frequent use of the term -1 in his code, but doesn't tell to what aim. For > want of search terms Google is not helpful. Could someone please enlighten > me b

Re: [Tutor] if item.find(extension)!= -1: -- what's the -1?

2010-02-06 Thread Wayne Werner
On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 10:35 AM, David wrote: > Hello again, > > in Knowlton's 2008 book "Python: Create, Modify, Reuse" the author makes > frequent use of the term -1 in his code, but doesn't tell to what aim. For > want of search terms Google is not helpful. Could someone please enlighten > me

[Tutor] if item.find(extension)!= -1: -- what's the -1?

2010-02-06 Thread David
Hello again, in Knowlton's 2008 book "Python: Create, Modify, Reuse" the author makes frequent use of the term -1 in his code, but doesn't tell to what aim. For want of search terms Google is not helpful. Could someone please enlighten me by means of a one-liner as a reply? Thank you! David

Re: [Tutor] language aid (various)

2010-02-06 Thread Emmanuel Ruellan
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Owain Clarke wrote: > > > Seems to be a bit of a consensus here about dictionaries. Let me just > restate my reluctance, using examples from Spanish. > > esperar = to hope > esperar = to wait > tambien = too [i.e. also] > demasiado = too [i.e. excessive] > > So

[Tutor] Uninstalling MatPlotLib? (Win7)

2010-02-06 Thread Wayne Watson
I should have installed NumPy before MPL. How do I uninstall it. I'm pretty sure it was an msi file. My guess is to go to site-packages, and delete individual pieces. Possibly these: C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\pylab.py C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\matplotlib C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\mp

Re: [Tutor] "else:" triggering a Syntax Error

2010-02-06 Thread Benno Lang
On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 9:19 PM, spir wrote: > On Sat, 6 Feb 2010 20:18:53 +0900 > Benno Lang wrote: > >> > if ((self.start_dot.x > self.end_dot.x) and (self.start_dot.y !=   >> > self.end_dot.y)): >> (1) Are you sure you want all those superfluous parentheses? > > @ Benno: I do not find the _inne

Re: [Tutor] "else:" triggering a Syntax Error

2010-02-06 Thread spir
On Sat, 6 Feb 2010 20:18:53 +0900 Benno Lang wrote: > > if ((self.start_dot.x > self.end_dot.x) and (self.start_dot.y != > > self.end_dot.y)): > (1) Are you sure you want all those superfluous parentheses? @ Benno: I do not find the _inner_ ones superfluous at all... @ Stijn: When you ask abo

Re: [Tutor] language aid (various)

2010-02-06 Thread spir
On Fri, 05 Feb 2010 11:29:30 + Owain Clarke wrote: > On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 5:43 AM, Owain Clarke wrote: > > > >> My question is, that if I proceed like this I will end up with a single > >> list > >> of potentially several hundred strings of the form "frword:engword". In > >> terms of p

Re: [Tutor] language aid (various)

2010-02-06 Thread Eike Welk
On Friday February 5 2010 12:29:30 Owain Clarke wrote: > What a helpful forum - much thanks to all who've commented. Seems to be > a bit of a consensus here about dictionaries. Let me just restate my > reluctance, using examples from Spanish. > > esperar = to hope > esperar = to wait You could

Re: [Tutor] "else:" triggering a Syntax Error

2010-02-06 Thread Benno Lang
On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 7:56 PM, Stijn . wrote: > class Line(): #The class >     def __init__( self, start_dot, end_dot, width): #init function >     self.start_dot = start_dot >     self.surface = pygame.Surface((w, h), SRCALPHA) >     self.surface.fill((0,0,0,0)) >     self.end_do

[Tutor] "else:" triggering a Syntax Error

2010-02-06 Thread Stijn .
First of all I'd like to say that I'm new to python, and new to mailinglists. So if I make any mistakes, please correct me. Now, onto my issue: I am trying to put an "else:" statement inside a class: class Line(): #The class def __init__( self, start_dot, end_dot, width): #init function

Re: [Tutor] Simple variable type question

2010-02-06 Thread Antonio de la Fuente
* Antonio de la Fuente [2010-02-05 16:54:59 +]: > Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 16:54:59 + > From: Antonio de la Fuente > To: Python Tutor mailing list > Subject: [Tutor] Simple variable type question > Organization: (muybien.org) > User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) > Message-ID: <2010020516

Re: [Tutor] language aid (various)

2010-02-06 Thread Owain Clarke
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 5:43 AM, Owain Clarke wrote: My question is, that if I proceed like this I will end up with a single list of potentially several hundred strings of the form "frword:engword". In terms of performance, is this a reasonable way to do it, or will the program increasingly sl

Re: [Tutor] how to graph percentile -- matplotlib, Inkscape, or what?

2010-02-06 Thread David
Hello Alan, thanks for the guidance, I will then dig a little deeper into matplotlib. I guess the reason why I discarded it before is that I understood matplotlib to be a curve plotting tool, and not so much a tool to draw graphics. I will investigate! David On 06/02/10 17:15, Alan Gauld w

Re: [Tutor] how to graph percentile -- matplotlib, Inkscape, or what?

2010-02-06 Thread Alan Gauld
"David" wrote is to create a graph in which on the horizontal axis the student's precentile (i.e. performance vis-a-vis her classmates) is indicated by means of a needle stuck into the axis: O (63%) |__|__| | | 0 100 I suspect that I cann

[Tutor] how to graph percentile -- matplotlib, Inkscape, or what?

2010-02-06 Thread David
Dear List, given a list of scores (n = 20, say) a group students received in an exam, I can use sarray = [list of scores] score = student's score scipy.stats.percentileofscore(sarray, score, kind='mean') to calculate the percentile for a given student. What I would like to do is to create a