Re: [Tutor] argparse: how to use the returned Namespace object?

2010-11-04 Thread Walter Prins
On 5 November 2010 00:40, Mac Ryan wrote: > > Thank you Walter. I got it and it works! :) > Excellent. I thought I'd mention here you can also create your own Namespace object (e.g. if you find accessing __dict__ not ideal or something you can do your own implementation, which will work as long

Re: [Tutor] Server

2010-11-04 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Chris King wrote: Dear Tutors, May server and client programs aren't working. They basically simplify socket and SocketServer. Run them directly to test them. They do work locally. They don't work from one computer to the next on the same network. Please Help. It's probably a network is

[Tutor] Server

2010-11-04 Thread Chris King
Dear Tutors, May server and client programs aren't working. They basically simplify socket and SocketServer. Run them directly to test them. They do work locally. They don't work from one computer to the next on the same network. Please Help. Sincerely, Me, Myself, and I P.S. How to

Re: [Tutor] argparse: how to use the returned Namespace object?

2010-11-04 Thread Mac Ryan
On Fri, 2010-11-05 at 00:17 +, Walter Prins wrote: > > > On 4 November 2010 23:20, Mac Ryan wrote: > My question boils down to: how can I expand the Namespace > object in > order to get a list of keyword arguments? > > If "ns" is your Namespace object, then use ns.__

Re: [Tutor] argparse: how to use the returned Namespace object?

2010-11-04 Thread Walter Prins
On 4 November 2010 23:20, Mac Ryan wrote: > My question boils down to: how can I expand the Namespace object in > order to get a list of keyword arguments? > If "ns" is your Namespace object, then use ns.__dict__, which you can directly pass to your commands, e.g. do_stuff(**ns.__dict__) I'll

[Tutor] argparse: how to use the returned Namespace object?

2010-11-04 Thread Mac Ryan
Hi, I'm writing a small command line utility using the argparse module (I am on python 2.6.6 so that's not in the standard lib, but this should not play any role in my problem, I believe). My goal is to use a class that I already wrote and cannot change for a GUI app, as a command

Re: [Tutor] Looking for a tutor to review my code and provide constructive feedback.

2010-11-04 Thread Luke Paireepinart
Your code is not bad overall, pretty great for a beginner actually. I would say you should read guido's style guide though; some of your variable and function naming is nonstandard python. - Sent from a mobile device with a bad e-mail client. -

Re: [Tutor] Looking for a tutor to review my code and provide constructive feedback.

2010-11-04 Thread Luke Paireepinart
Also for your confirm entries read about sentinel values for while loops. It saves you repeating the conditional in the loop body. And you might want to .lower().strip()[0] the input choice so that they can use y, Y, yes, or whatever. Remember, users suck at generating accurate and correct input

Re: [Tutor] Looking for a tutor to review my code and provide constructive feedback.

2010-11-04 Thread Luke Paireepinart
Also for your confirm entries function, read about while loops - Sent from a mobile device with a bad e-mail client. - On Nov 4, 2010, at 3:10 PM, Glen Clark wrote: > Hello, > > I have completed my first python script. This is after watc

Re: [Tutor] Advantages or disadvantages on Platform?

2010-11-04 Thread Knacktus
Am 04.11.2010 20:43, schrieb Jorge Biquez: Hello all. I am newbie and studying and working hard learning python. Per your advise I am on 2.7 . I have one question for you. I can work on Windows (XP) or under Ubuntu . The advantage of using Ubuntu is that you learn how to work in a Linux/Unix

Re: [Tutor] Advantages or disadvantages on Platform?

2010-11-04 Thread Robert Berman
> -Original Message- > From: tutor-bounces+bermanrl=cfl.rr@python.org [mailto:tutor- > bounces+bermanrl=cfl.rr@python.org] On Behalf Of Jorge Biquez > Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 3:44 PM > To: tutor@python.org > Subject: [Tutor] Advantages or disadvantages on Platform? > >

[Tutor] Looking for a tutor to review my code and provide constructive feedback.

2010-11-04 Thread Glen Clark
Hello, I have completed my first python script. This is after watching a video guide on python and is my first attempt at writing code in python. While the code is not very useful I got the idea for it when googling "python projects for beginners". The idea was to create a script that asked the u

[Tutor] Advantages or disadvantages on Platform?

2010-11-04 Thread Jorge Biquez
Hello all. I am newbie and studying and working hard learning python. Per your advise I am on 2.7 . I have one question for you. I can work on Windows (XP) or under Ubuntu . Do you see any advantages or disadvantanges to be working in one or another ? My main goal , for now, is use Python for

Re: [Tutor] if statement

2010-11-04 Thread Francesco Loffredo
On 02/11/2010 20.07, Glen Clark wrote: sorry: NumItems = int(input("How many Items: ")) Entries = [] for In in range(0,NumItems): Entries.append("") for In in range(0,NumItems): Entries[In]=str(input("Enter name " + str(In+1) + ": ")) for In in range(0,NumItems): print

Re: [Tutor] Displaying picture and Text

2010-11-04 Thread Alan Gauld
"Alan Gauld" wrote fhdl = Image.open("C:\Users\StarShip\PyProgs\\bbsparkle.gif") fhdl.show() The Tkinter PhotoImage object can display jpg. I can't recall if it does gifs. Sorry I got that wrong, it can display gifs but not jpgs (despite the fact that jpgs are used more often for photo

Re: [Tutor] Displaying picture and Text

2010-11-04 Thread Patty
Thank you for all the replies - I think I will want to use Tkinter since it also has the timer I am looking for and I do have one book that has a big chapter on using Tkinter. If I find that I am having trouble understanding Python GUI programming. I may be able to copy some code from the book

Re: [Tutor] Displaying picture and Text

2010-11-04 Thread Wayne Werner
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 3:58 AM, Alan Gauld wrote: > > wrote > > > of my python program where a picture is supposed to display with a few >> lines of text below it. >> > > To do this you will need to use some kind of GUI. > The simplest option is probably to use the Text widget in Tkinter > whic

Re: [Tutor] Displaying picture and Text

2010-11-04 Thread Alan Gauld
"Alan Gauld" wrote ...a picture is supposed to display with a few lines of text below it. To do this you will need to use some kind of GUI. The simplest option is probably to use the Text widget in Tkinter I just had a thought. The simplest option might be to use HTML to create a simple

Re: [Tutor] Displaying picture and Text

2010-11-04 Thread Tim Golden
On 04/11/2010 04:24, pa...@cruzio.com wrote: Hi - I am running Python 2.6.6 on my HP netbook with Windows 7. The default picture viewer is set to HP Photo Viewer. I am working on a part of my python program where a picture is supposed to display with a few lines of text below it. Ideally, I wou

Re: [Tutor] Displaying picture and Text

2010-11-04 Thread Alan Gauld
wrote of my python program where a picture is supposed to display with a few lines of text below it. To do this you will need to use some kind of GUI. The simplest option is probably to use the Text widget in Tkinter which can display both Images and text. Ideally, I would like this to s