Re: [Tutor] decimal module and precision

2011-02-01 Thread Richard D. Moores
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 04:29, col speed wrote: > > You can always change the precision in decimal. Just an idea Not exactly sure what you mean. But I just tried using decimal to get 123.2345274523452345235432452345 ** 2.3 to 300 digits: >>> from decimal import Decimal as D >>> import decimal

Re: [Tutor] Help with range of months spanning across years

2011-02-01 Thread Sean Carolan
> As far as I can tell from quickly going through documentation, no. At > least, not with a quick and easy function. datetime can represent the > dates just fine, and you can add days to that until you hit your end > date, but adding months is harder. timedelta can't represent a month, > which make

Re: [Tutor] Help with range of months spanning across years

2011-02-01 Thread Hugo Arts
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 2:55 AM, Sean Carolan wrote: >> This sounds somewhat like homework. If it is, that's fine, mention it, >> and we will help you. But we won't do your homework for you, so keep >> that in mind. > > A reasonable assumption but this is actually going in a cgi tool that > I'm usi

Re: [Tutor] Help with range of months spanning across years

2011-02-01 Thread Hugo Arts
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 2:30 AM, ian douglas wrote: > It bugs me that so many people are quick to jump on the "we wont' do your > homework" bandwagon -- I was accused of the same thing when I posted a > question to the list myself. I've been programming professionally for many > years but learning

Re: [Tutor] Help with range of months spanning across years

2011-02-01 Thread Sean Carolan
> This sounds somewhat like homework. If it is, that's fine, mention it, > and we will help you. But we won't do your homework for you, so keep > that in mind. A reasonable assumption but this is actually going in a cgi tool that I'm using at work. The input comes from pull-down menus on a web pa

Re: [Tutor] Help with range of months spanning across years

2011-02-01 Thread ian douglas
It bugs me that so many people are quick to jump on the "we wont' do your homework" bandwagon -- I was accused of the same thing when I posted a question to the list myself. I've been programming professionally for many years but learning Python in my spare time... I sent this reply to Sean pri

Re: [Tutor] Help with range of months spanning across years

2011-02-01 Thread Elwin Estle
--- On Tue, 2/1/11, Sean Carolan wrote: > From: Sean Carolan > Subject: [Tutor] Help with range of months spanning across years > To: Tutor@python.org > Date: Tuesday, February 1, 2011, 6:19 PM > I have a function that accepts four > arguments, namely startmonth, > startyear, endmonth, and endye

Re: [Tutor] Help with range of months spanning across years

2011-02-01 Thread Alan Gauld
"Hugo Arts" wrote What would be the most straightforward way to create a list of year/month pairs from start to end? I want to end up with a list of tuples like this: mylist = [(2009, 8), (2009, 9), (2009, 10), (2009, 11), (2009, 12), (2010, 1)] That said, you can do this rather straightf

Re: [Tutor] Alternate button hit problem in tkinter

2011-02-01 Thread Alan Gauld
"Wayne Werner" wrote def one_or_zero(): x = 0 while True: x = not x yield x In case its not obvious how this iis used in a GUI context... So for your exampler crweate a state variable somewhere in your GUI (x in Waynes example) and toggle its value from your button ha

Re: [Tutor] tkinter nested class question

2011-02-01 Thread Alan Gauld
"Elwin Estle" wrote from Tkinter import * class Header_item(object): def __init__(self, lab_text = '', lab_width = 5, ent_width = 5, grid_row = 1, grid_col = 1): self.container = Frame() You haven't specified a parent object for the Frame. I suspect the default parent will be t

Re: [Tutor] Composing lists from both items and other lists

2011-02-01 Thread John Simon
Andre Engels gmail.com> writes > Is: > > [start] + items + [end] > > lightweight enough? Oh man, duh. I knew it was something simple. Thanks :) ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org

Re: [Tutor] Help with range of months spanning across years

2011-02-01 Thread Hugo Arts
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 12:19 AM, Sean Carolan wrote: > I have a function that accepts four arguments, namely startmonth, > startyear, endmonth, and endyear.  For example: > > startmonth = 8 > startyear = 2009 > endmonth = 1 > endyear = 2010 > > What would be the most straightforward way to create

Re: [Tutor] Composing lists from both items and other lists

2011-02-01 Thread Corey Richardson
On 02/01/2011 06:23 PM, Andre Engels wrote: > On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 9:40 PM, John Simon wrote: >> I'm looking for a way to flatten lists inside a list literal, kind of like >> this: >> > start = '(' > end = ')' > items = ['abc', '+', 'def'] > [start, *items, end] >> ['(', 'abc', '

Re: [Tutor] Composing lists from both items and other lists

2011-02-01 Thread Andre Engels
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 9:40 PM, John Simon wrote: > I'm looking for a way to flatten lists inside a list literal, kind of like > this: > start = '(' end = ')' items = ['abc', '+', 'def'] [start, *items, end] > ['(', 'abc', '+', 'def', ')'] > Of course, the star doesn't work the

Re: [Tutor] Composing lists from both items and other lists

2011-02-01 Thread Corey Richardson
On 02/01/2011 03:40 PM, John Simon wrote: > I'm looking for a way to flatten lists inside a list literal, kind of like > this: > start = '(' end = ')' items = ['abc', '+', 'def'] [start, *items, end] > ['(', 'abc', '+', 'def', ')'] > > Of course, the star doesn't work there. I

[Tutor] Help with range of months spanning across years

2011-02-01 Thread Sean Carolan
I have a function that accepts four arguments, namely startmonth, startyear, endmonth, and endyear. For example: startmonth = 8 startyear = 2009 endmonth = 1 endyear = 2010 What would be the most straightforward way to create a list of year/month pairs from start to end? I want to end up with a

[Tutor] Composing lists from both items and other lists

2011-02-01 Thread John Simon
I'm looking for a way to flatten lists inside a list literal, kind of like this: >>> start = '(' >>> end = ')' >>> items = ['abc', '+', 'def'] >>> [start, *items, end] ['(', 'abc', '+', 'def', ')'] Of course, the star doesn't work there. Is there any easy, syntactically-lightweight way to get tha

Re: [Tutor] Alternate button hit problem in tkinter

2011-02-01 Thread Wayne Werner
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 3:24 PM, ANKUR AGGARWAL wrote: > Hey > I am developing a zero-cross game from the basics of the tkinter. I want > something like this- > > We have 4 buttons like 1 2 3 4 > i want the output should change on the alternate button hit. Like inorder i > hit- > Button return > 1

[Tutor] Alternate button hit problem in tkinter

2011-02-01 Thread ANKUR AGGARWAL
Hey I am developing a zero-cross game from the basics of the tkinter. I want something like this- We have 4 buttons like 1 2 3 4 i want the output should change on the alternate button hit. Like inorder i hit- Button return 1 1 3 0 2 1 4 0 B

[Tutor] tkinter nested class question

2011-02-01 Thread Elwin Estle
...at least I think it would be nested. Anyway, I have several "widget groups" that I want to create inside a frame, which is inside a class. I started to just do them with copying and pasting, and changing the values for each one (the first one is commented out, I left it in so you could see

Re: [Tutor] Formatting a string

2011-02-01 Thread Becky Mcquilling
Thanks, as always. It all works. Becky On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 7:08 AM, Alan Gauld wrote: > "Becky Mcquilling" wrote > > > Basically, I need to format a string as an example: >> >> "He is {what}.format("{wild}") >> >> I want to insert wild in place of what and output the resulting text WITH >>

Re: [Tutor] Formatting a string

2011-02-01 Thread Alan Gauld
"Becky Mcquilling" wrote Basically, I need to format a string as an example: "He is {what}.format("{wild}") I want to insert wild in place of what and output the resulting text WITH the curly braces. what = 'wild' "Here is {what}".format(what=what) 'Here is wild' "Here is {what}".forma

Re: [Tutor] Need help on Setup.py

2011-02-01 Thread Walter Prins
Hi Victor, On 1 February 2011 07:38, Victor Binns wrote: > I have been trying to add some of the extras with python such as pywin32 > and others. > > when i click on setup.py it does not work. > > I need help on the problem. > > This is because setup.py is not intended to just be run without pa

Re: [Tutor] Formatting a string

2011-02-01 Thread Karim
Complete test copy & paste: karim@Requiem4Dream:~$ python Python 2.7.1rc1 (r271rc1:86455, Nov 16 2010, 21:53:40) [GCC 4.4.3] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> "He is {what}".format(what="{wild}") 'He is {wild}' >>> I don't get the missing "."

Re: [Tutor] Formatting a string

2011-02-01 Thread col speed
You're missing a "." that if your computer is the same as mine, looks like something left behind by a mosquito On 1 February 2011 18:33, Karim wrote: > > Hello, > > >>> "He is {what}".format(what="{wild}") > 'He is {wild}' > > Regards > Karim > > > On 02/01/2011 09:44 AM, Becky Mcquilling wrote:

Re: [Tutor] decimal module and precision

2011-02-01 Thread col speed
You can always change the precision in decimal. Just an idea On 31 January 2011 22:23, Richard D. Moores wrote: > > Which is accurate to only 16 digits; my Windows Vista calculator gives > 2.9231329473018093516404474158812 for 23.45**.34 > > And using mpmath with Python 2.6 does exactly as p

Re: [Tutor] Formatting a string

2011-02-01 Thread Karim
Hello, >>> "He is {what}".format(what="{wild}") 'He is {wild}' Regards Karim On 02/01/2011 09:44 AM, Becky Mcquilling wrote: Quick question to the group to solve an immediate problem and then if anyone has a dead simple reference on formatting strings it would be greatly appreciated as I'm f

Re: [Tutor] Need Help in installing MySQLdb-Python

2011-02-01 Thread Tommy Kaas
Fra: tutor-bounces+tommy.kaas=kaasogmulvad...@python.org [mailto:tutor-bounces+tommy.kaas=kaasogmulvad...@python.org] På vegne af Victor Binns Sendt: 1. februar 2011 01:19 Til: Tutor python Emne: [Tutor] Need Help in installing MySQLdb-Python I have Python 2.6.3 I went to the following

[Tutor] Formatting a string

2011-02-01 Thread Becky Mcquilling
Quick question to the group to solve an immediate problem and then if anyone has a dead simple reference on formatting strings it would be greatly appreciated as I'm finding this to be pretty confusing. Basically, I need to format a string as an example: "He is {what}.format("{wild}") I want to

Re: [Tutor] Need help on Setup.py

2011-02-01 Thread Alan Gauld
"Victor Binns" wrote I have been trying to add some of the extras with python such as pywin32 and others. when i click on setup.py it does not work. I need help on the problem. "It does not work" is pretty vague, can you give more specifics? How are you running it? What error messages do you