Re: [Tutor] Which non SQL Database ?

2010-12-05 Thread Knacktus
Am 04.12.2010 23:42, schrieb Jorge Biquez: Hello all. Newbie question. Sorry. As part of my process to learn python I am working on two personal applications. Both will do it fine with a simple structure of data stored in files. I now there are lot of databases around I can use but I would

Re: [Tutor] printing in python 3.x

2010-12-05 Thread Alan Gauld
Monte Milanuk memila...@gmail.com wrote ... I was under the impression that controlling exactly layout via html was kind of difficult and somewhat fragile. Absolutely true, especially compared to PDF. But its much better than it was say 10-15 years ago. But if you can construct the page such

Re: [Tutor] Which non SQL Database ?

2010-12-05 Thread Alan Gauld
Jorge Biquez jbiq...@icsmx.com wrote Talking with a friend about what he will do (he use C only) he suggest to take a look on dBase format file since it is a stable True enough and Dabo is worth a look since it provides not only a dbase format db engine but a good GUI builder tool too.

Re: [Tutor] Which non SQL Database ?

2010-12-05 Thread Knacktus
Am 05.12.2010 10:41, schrieb Alan Gauld: Jorge Biquez jbiq...@icsmx.com wrote Talking with a friend about what he will do (he use C only) he suggest to take a look on dBase format file since it is a stable True enough and Dabo is worth a look since it provides not only a dbase format db

Re: [Tutor] Which non SQL Database ?

2010-12-05 Thread Alan Gauld
Knacktus knack...@googlemail.com wrote Why not use SQL? SQLlite comes with Python, is small, easy to use and if necessary can be used in-memory and as such fast. The NoSQL databases seem to be en vogue. Some big internet companies have started to use them, like Google with its Big Table.

[Tutor] Tkinter Scale Question

2010-12-05 Thread Sean Finnegan
Hi Everyone, I have successfully visualized 4 layers in Tkinter and am now trying to apply some sort of zoom in/out and pan function so that the layers can be seen more closely. I am using a package to visualize the map layers where i have separate py files for points, polylines, polygons, map,

[Tutor] role playing game - help needed

2010-12-05 Thread Alan Stern
Hi all. My name is Al Stern. I am an absolute beginner to programming and based on what I'd read, decided to try Python as my 1st language. I am starting with a book called Python Programming for the Absolute Beginner by Michael Dawson. The book has been pretty good and up to this point, I