Re: [Tutor] Trailing spaces affect output in a way I don't understand.

2012-12-15 Thread boB Stepp
On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 10:55 PM, boB Stepp wrote: > It is funny in retrospect: If I had wanted to create a newline > character I would do the correct thing, but seeing the backslashes as > part of a picture, even after I went into PyScripter's options and > turned on ALL special characters, I wa

Re: [Tutor] Trailing spaces affect output in a way I don't understand.

2012-12-15 Thread boB Stepp
On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 10:43 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> What greatly puzzles me is that "GAME" prints correctly, but "OVER" >> does not. Why? > > > Wow! This is a tricky question, but so obvious in hindsight. > > The problem is that you have three lines, all in "OVER", that end with > a backs

Re: [Tutor] Trailing spaces affect output in a way I don't understand.

2012-12-15 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On 16/12/12 15:16, boB Stepp wrote: In the following code: print( """ _____ _____ / _| /| / |/ | | | | | / /| | / /| /| | | |__ | | _ / ___ |/ / |__/ | | |

Re: [Tutor] Image Processing

2012-12-15 Thread Alan Gauld
On 15/12/12 19:50, Ashkan Rahmani wrote: 3- Is there any other image processing library for python 3? 4- Basically python 3 or 2.7 is suitable for image processing? PIL is the defacto standard for image processing on Python. It is officially only available on Python 2.7 (although I think I saw

[Tutor] Image Processing

2012-12-15 Thread Ashkan Rahmani
I have developed some simple c++/qt/opencv application with face detection functionality. for some reasons I'm going to start again them and I wan to use python 3. Unfortunately I found opencv not supported in python 3. 1- as I'm new in python programming, is python 3 good choice for me? 2- Opencv

Re: [Tutor] Recommended texts for self-study to master software engineering?

2012-12-15 Thread boB Stepp
On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 6:48 AM, Wayne Werner wrote: > > Rather than simple self-study, why not take advantage of the offerings by > such folks as Coursera, Edx, or Kahn Academy? > I had briefly looked at Kahn Academy quite a while back, but it did not seem (at that time) to have what I needed.

Re: [Tutor] Recommended texts for self-study to master software engineering?

2012-12-15 Thread boB Stepp
On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 3:27 AM, Alan Gauld wrote: > OK, the first thing to point out is that software engineering is not the > same as programming. In the same way that civil engineering is not the same > as bricklaying. > > SE is about the skills and practices needed to run repeatable software

Re: [Tutor] Learning Python through automating web application testing.

2012-12-15 Thread wrw
On Dec 7, 2012, at 5:46 PM, marcusw4...@hotmail.co.uk wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm new to posting on mailing lists so hopefully I've picked the correct one > for my question(s). > > A little about my programming experience first. > [byte] > Because of this fear I've never admitted I've got

Re: [Tutor] Recommended texts for self-study to master software engineering?

2012-12-15 Thread Wayne Werner
On Fri, 14 Dec 2012, boB Stepp wrote: This is obviously not a directly python-related question; however, I do believe that it would be of interest to many aspiring programmers who are diligently learning python on their own. So, through self-study, I would like to be able to acquire the knowled

Re: [Tutor] Recommended texts for self-study to master software engineering?

2012-12-15 Thread Alan Gauld
On 15/12/12 05:26, boB Stepp wrote: In my case what I would eventually like to be able to do is develop complex, graphically intensive educational software. OK, the first thing to point out is that software engineering is not the same as programming. In the same way that civil engineering is

Re: [Tutor] Clearing Python text

2012-12-15 Thread Kwpolska
On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 2:10 AM, Mike G wrote: > I use Windows XP, Python 2.7, Notepad++ as my editor, and generally > run my .py files from cmd, this is how I toggle between running my .py > file after an edit (and save) and subsequently clearing the screen - > it's pretty easy. > > I "arrow-up/a