Re: [Tutor] How to deal failed function and 0xDEADBEEF type errors...

2010-07-15 Thread Alan Gauld
"Sean Carolan" wrote Run it by itself and there's no output: testNestEggFixed Try to print it and it throws this error: print testNestEggFixed What am I missing here? parentheses? I assume you are from a Visual VBasic background? Unlike VB Python requires you to have the parentheses af

Re: [Tutor] Python Book recomandation!

2010-07-15 Thread Alan Gauld
"Daniel" wrote Python website, but I have a question regarding it. With what book I should start learning Python? Or should I take them in the order they are presented there on the website?I have no previous programming experience, thanks. Don't try to read them all! They all present much

[Tutor] Toronto PyCamp 2010

2010-07-15 Thread Chris Calloway
The University of Toronto Department of Physics brings PyCamp to Toronto on Monday, August 30 through Friday, September 3, 2010. Register today at http://trizpug.org/boot-camp/torpy10/ For beginners, this ultra-low-cost Python Boot Camp makes you productive so you can get your work done quickl

Re: [Tutor] Python Book recomandation!

2010-07-15 Thread Guilherme P. de Freitas
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Eric Hamiter wrote: > As a fellow complete beginner, I have actually started a web site that > details just this. I'm learning as I go and have tried to put together > a curriculum of sorts that will helpfully guide other newbies as well, > and reinforce what I'm l

Re: [Tutor] Python Book recomandation!

2010-07-15 Thread Joseph Gulizia
I've found "Snake Wrangling for Kids" http://code.google.com/p/swfk/ by Jason Biggs an easy, fun and understandable free e-book. I also have started reading "Head First Programming" from O'Reilly which teaches programming using Python. I have others also but those two have been the easiest to re

Re: [Tutor] str format conversion help

2010-07-15 Thread eMyListsDDg
yep, i noticed. ;^) no prob, through your help, it is working the way i needed. thanks >> print "[%s]" % ('-'.join([hex(v) for v in theValue]) ) > Oops, that leaves 0x at the front of each byte. > You could strip that off with > print "[%s]" % ('-'.join([hex(v)[2:] for v in theValue]) )

Re: [Tutor] Python Book recomandation!

2010-07-15 Thread David Hutto
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Eric Hamiter wrote: > Hi Daniel, > > As a fellow complete beginner, I have actually started a web site that > details just this. I'm learning as I go and have tried to put together > a curriculum of sorts that will helpfully guide other newbies as well, > and reinf

Re: [Tutor] Python Book recomandation!

2010-07-15 Thread Shashwat Anand
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 2:37 AM, Daniel wrote: > Hello, I recently browsed the BeginnersGuide/NonProgrammers section of the > Python website, but I have a question regarding it. With what book I should > start learning Python? Or should I take them in the order they are presented > there on the w

Re: [Tutor] Python Book recomandation!

2010-07-15 Thread Robert
'Building Skills in Python" by Steven Lott, This free book is simply awesome http://homepage.mac.com/s_lott/books/python.html I went thru the "short" books first : "Dive Into Python" and "Byte of Python" - they are good for a bit of foundation then come to this one, and this one rreinforces concep

Re: [Tutor] Python Book recomandation!

2010-07-15 Thread Eric Hamiter
Hi Daniel, As a fellow complete beginner, I have actually started a web site that details just this. I'm learning as I go and have tried to put together a curriculum of sorts that will helpfully guide other newbies as well, and reinforce what I'm learning for myself. http://letslearnpython.com/

[Tutor] Python Book recomandation!

2010-07-15 Thread Daniel
Hello, I recently browsed the BeginnersGuide/NonProgrammers section of the Python website, but I have a question regarding it. With what book I should start learning Python? Or should I take them in the order they are presented there on the website?I have no previous programming experience, thanks.

Re: [Tutor] Request for help learning the right way to deal with listsin lists

2010-07-15 Thread Christopher King
I will spilt it up and add comments. Books =\ #Assign to Books [Book('War & Peace", [3, 56, 88]), #The first is a Book named 'War & Peace' Book("Huck Finn", [2, 5, 19])] #You use the book class twice in a row, one for each book On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 8:09 AM, Payal wrote: > On Tue, Jul 13, 201

Re: [Tutor] append, list and variables

2010-07-15 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 7/15/2010 11:32 AM Mary Morris said... Hi, I'm working on a program that parses through all of our source code at my office and i need to get my code to print a list of the decorators. I used a find(@) to locate all the decorators, but I need to assign them to a variable somehow to get it to

[Tutor] append, list and variables

2010-07-15 Thread Mary Morris
Hi, I'm working on a program that parses through all of our source code at my office and i need to get my code to print a list of the decorators. I used a find(@) to locate all the decorators, but I need to assign them to a variable somehow to get it to print a list. How do I do this? How do I ass

Re: [Tutor] How to deal failed function and 0xDEADBEEF type errors...

2010-07-15 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 7/15/2010 11:07 AM Sean Carolan said... Try to print it and it throws this error: print testNestEggFixed That's not an error -- that's what testNestEggFixed -- a function located at 0x0214D5F0. If you intended to _execute_ the function, add parens and the appropriate parameters to you

[Tutor] How to deal failed function and 0xDEADBEEF type errors...

2010-07-15 Thread Sean Carolan
Spoiler alert: This was encountered while working on MIT OCW 6.000 problem set 4. http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-00-introduction-to-computer-science-and-programming-fall-2008/assignments/ps4.py My function returns a list as it should: #

Re: [Tutor] Path?

2010-07-15 Thread Adam Bark
On 15 July 2010 17:21, Jim Byrnes wrote: > Adam Bark wrote: > >> On 14 July 2010 17:41, Jim Byrnes wrote: >> >> Adam Bark wrote: >>> >>> On 14 July 2010 02:53, Jim Byrnes wrote: Adam Bark wrote: > > > > > If I use the terminal to start the program it has

Re: [Tutor] Path?

2010-07-15 Thread Jim Byrnes
Adam Bark wrote: On 14 July 2010 17:41, Jim Byrnes wrote: Adam Bark wrote: On 14 July 2010 02:53, Jim Byrnes wrote: Adam Bark wrote: If I use the terminal to start the program it has no problem using the file. There are multiple files in multiple directories so I was lookin

[Tutor] Parsing through decorators program

2010-07-15 Thread Mary Morris
So my new internship asked me to write a program that would parse through all of our source code on an svn server, find all the decorators and print them. I found all of the decorators by finding the '@' symbol. What I still have to do is write something that will make the computer print all of th

Re: [Tutor] Request for help learning the right way to deal with listsin lists

2010-07-15 Thread Payal
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 08:35:45AM +0100, Alan Gauld wrote: > If the data gets more complex you could put the data into a class: > > class Book: > def __init__(self, title, pages=[]): > self.title = title > self.pages = pages > > Books = [ Book('War & Peace", [3,56,88]), >

Re: [Tutor] str format conversion help

2010-07-15 Thread ALAN GAULD
> print "[%s]" % ('-'.join([hex(v) for v in theValue]) ) Oops, that leaves 0x at the front of each byte. You could strip that off with print "[%s]" % ('-'.join([hex(v)[2:] for v in theValue]) ) Sorry, Alan G. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.o

Re: [Tutor] str format conversion help

2010-07-15 Thread eMyListsDDg
thanks, def conv_tst(bytes) return ('-'.join([binascii.hexlify(v) for v in bytes])) i ended up experimenting with the suggestions and the above returns what i'm looking for, i.e., the formatted mac addr to store in a sqlite db. i'm sure there are other ways, though the abov