Re: [Tutor] Help with choices for new database program

Martin Walsh wrote: On 07/03/2010 10:25 AM, Jim Byrnes wrote: Jeff Johnson wrote: [snip] http://dabodev.com/ Please check it out. And go to www.leafe.com and subscribe to the dabo-user email list. I would like to try out Dabo, but I don't see it in the Ubuntu repositories and I would like

Re: [Tutor] Help with exercises from learning to program python wikibooks

On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 07:39, Zubin Mithra wrote: > The Python tutorial for both 2.x and 3.0 is really good. > Python 2.x - http://docs.python.org/tutorial/ > Python 3.0 - http://docs.python.org/release/3.0.1/tutorial/ The 3.0 link is broken. Try Dick Moo

Re: [Tutor] Running a python script as root.

"Srihari k" wrote The script still works as before .. date: cannot set date: Operation not permitted Sun Jul 4 23:37:37 IST 2010 I guess this because the python interpreter is still being run by the normal user and is unprivileged to set the date ? Is it ? I'd hope so! No matter what the s

[Tutor] Running a python script as root.

I have a small script that uses python-gammu to read time from my phone and set the system time: #!/usr/bin/python import gammu sm=gammu.StateMachine() sm.ReadConfig() sm.Init() cell_time=sm.GetDateTime() import os os.system('date -s \'%s\''% cell_time) Now this script works when i run it as root

Re: [Tutor] Help with exercises from learning to program python wikibooks

CC'd to tutor for completeness On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 3:58 PM, John Palmer wrote: > yep i'm using version 2.6.5. > > Would you recommend using the newer version? as on the python website it > seems to imply that the different versions have different uses and if in > doubt you should use version 2

Re: [Tutor] Help with exercises from learning to program python wikibooks

On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 7:02 PM, Hugo Arts wrote: > On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 3:20 PM, John Palmer > wrote: > > Hi > > > > I've just decided to try an learn python but i'm already stuck on one of > the > > first exercises, i've given the link below: > > > > http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Python_Progra

Re: [Tutor] Help with exercises from learning to program pythonwikibooks

"John Palmer" wrote I've looked at the solution but it appears not to be working when i use this code File "hello.py", line 1 print ("Hello, ", end=" " ) ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax This is Python V3 syntax, I suspect you have Python v2 installed. This is not

Re: [Tutor] Help with exercises from learning to program python wikibooks

On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 3:20 PM, John Palmer wrote: > Hi > > I've just decided to try an learn python but i'm already stuck on one of the > first exercises, i've given the link below: > > http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Python_Programming/Creating_Python_programs > > The exercise that i'm stuck on is

[Tutor] Help with exercises from learning to program python wikibooks

Hi I've just decided to try an learn python but i'm already stuck on one of the first exercises, i've given the link below: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Python_Programming/Creating_Python_programs The exercise that i'm stuck on is number three: I've looked at the solution but it appears not to

Re: [Tutor] Help with choices for new database program

On 07/03/2010 08:25 AM, Jim Byrnes wrote: Jeff Johnson wrote: On 07/02/2010 11:40 AM, Chris C. wrote: I'm writing this question because I want, for my own satisfaction, to rewrite one of my Access dbs (one that does our finances) into a stand-alone Python database program using SQLite. I know I'