[Tutor] which is faster

2014-06-10 Thread diliup gabadamudalige
Hi All, This is a Pygame related question and if not answered it's ok and I apologise for asking. But if someone can answer it is much appreciated. In Pygame Which is faster? 1. filling the screen with a colour or 2. blitting an image to screen Thank you for the time. May you be well. --

[Tutor] python sockets

2014-06-10 Thread Jon Engle
I am trying to open ports 1025-65535 with the following code (Mostly found online with small modifications). I am unable to bind anything other than the one port which is selected as input. What am I missing and how do I bind all the ports simultaneously? #!/usr/bin/python # This is

Re: [Tutor] which is faster

2014-06-10 Thread Alan Gauld
On 10/06/14 07:42, diliup gabadamudalige wrote: Hi All, This is a Pygame related question and if not answered it's ok and I apologise for asking. But if someone can answer it is much appreciated. In Pygame Which is faster? 1. filling the screen with a colour or 2. blitting an image to

Re: [Tutor] python sockets

2014-06-10 Thread Lukas Nemec
Hi, fist - are you really triyng to have open 64 000 ports? ok, i suppose you have your reasons, but this is not a good idea - you'll block most applications that use these ports .. The problem is with your main function - you have PORT defined, but it is not global, it is only local, and

Re: [Tutor] python sockets

2014-06-10 Thread Alan Gauld
On 10/06/14 00:33, Jon Engle wrote: I am trying to open ports 1025-65535 with the following code Why would you want to do that? It sounds like a great way to cripple your PC as it runs 64000 threads monitoring each of those ports. And it assumes that nothing else is using those ports

Re: [Tutor] which is faster

2014-06-10 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 12:12:56PM +0530, diliup gabadamudalige wrote: In Pygame Which is faster? 1. filling the screen with a colour or 2. blitting an image to screen Why don't you time it and find out? Don't forget to come back and report what you discover, I'm sure I'm not the

Re: [Tutor] python sockets

2014-06-10 Thread Peter Otten
Lukas Nemec wrote: Hi, fist - are you really triyng to have open 64 000 ports? ok, i suppose you have your reasons, but this is not a good idea - you'll block most applications that use these ports .. The problem is with your main function - you have PORT defined, but it is not global,

[Tutor] [OT] Long delay until my posts appear

2014-06-10 Thread Peter Otten
I'm posting via gmane. Since last month there is a delay (usually a few hours I think) until my posts appear and I seem to be getting a Your message to Tutor awaits moderator approval, would you like to cancel... mail every time I post. I'm trying hard to not get annoyed ;) Is there something

Re: [Tutor] Tutor Digest, Vol 124, Issue 21

2014-06-10 Thread Jon Engle
Thank you for taking the time to help me understand, here is what I am trying to accomplish: Client FW Server - 1024 | Allow | 1024 1025 | Deny | 1025 1026 | Allow | 1026 65535 | | 65535 I am trying to test the outbound configuration of a firewall (treat it like a

[Tutor] python ODE and DAE solver

2014-06-10 Thread He Yang
Hi, I use Maple for my modelling work, and now I am considering switching to Python. Lately, I've spend some time on the documentation of python and SciPy( python based maths package), but only managed to find a ODE solver, can someone familiar with python ODE and DAE solver send me more

Re: [Tutor] [OT] Long delay until my posts appear

2014-06-10 Thread Alan Gauld
On 10/06/14 09:43, Peter Otten wrote: I'm posting via gmane. Since last month there is a delay (usually a few hours I think) until my posts appear and I seem to be getting a Your message to Tutor awaits moderator approval, would you like to cancel... Something has changed on the list server

Re: [Tutor] python ODE and DAE solver

2014-06-10 Thread Alan Gauld
On 10/06/14 13:07, He Yang wrote: I use Maple for my modelling work, and now I am considering switching to Python. Lately, I've spend some time on the documentation of python and SciPy( python based maths package), but only managed to find a ODE solver, can someone familiar with python ODE and

Re: [Tutor] which is faster

2014-06-10 Thread William Ray Wing
On Jun 10, 2014, at 2:42 AM, diliup gabadamudalige dili...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, This is a Pygame related question and if not answered it's ok and I apologise for asking. But if someone can answer it is much appreciated. In Pygame Which is faster? 1. filling the screen with a

[Tutor] code review

2014-06-10 Thread Adam Gold
Hi there. I've been writing a script that is now finished and working (thanks, in part, to some helpful input from this board). What I'd really like to do now is go through it with an 'expert' who can point out ways I may have been able to code more efficiently/effectively. I don't think it

Re: [Tutor] Simple python help

2014-06-10 Thread Joel Goldstick
On Jun 10, 2014 3:14 PM, Stephen Brazil steph...@nmsu.edu wrote: Hello! I am brand new to python and need to know how to make the attached lines of code work. Should be pretty self-explanatory. You need to quote 'Stephen' ___ Tutor maillist -

Re: [Tutor] Simple python help

2014-06-10 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 10/06/2014 15:55, Stephen Brazil wrote: Hello! I am brand new to python and need to know how to make the attached lines of code work. Should be pretty self-explanatory. I am not responding to Stephen and his amazing technicolour code, sorry :-( -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our

Re: [Tutor] python sockets

2014-06-10 Thread Matthew Ngaha
On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 5:28 PM, Jon Engle jon.en...@gmail.com wrote: startingPort=input(\nPlease enter starting port: ) startingPort=int(startingPort) def setup(PORT): PORT = startingPort#arbitrary port not currently in use There's a conflict with this PORT

Re: [Tutor] Simple python help

2014-06-10 Thread Marc Tompkins
On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 7:55 AM, Stephen Brazil steph...@nmsu.edu wrote: Hello! I am brand new to python and need to know how to make the attached lines of code work. Should be pretty You need quotes. Stephen (without quotes) is an object, which you haven't previously defined. 'Stephen' is

Re: [Tutor] Simple python help

2014-06-10 Thread Joel Goldstick
On Jun 10, 2014 3:14 PM, Stephen Brazil steph...@nmsu.edu wrote: Hello! I am brand new to python and need to know how to make the attached lines of code work. Should be pretty self-explanatory. Also, copy and paste code. Use text only not rtfm or html to post. Lose the curly braces. Python

Re: [Tutor] python sockets

2014-06-10 Thread Marc Tompkins
On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 9:28 AM, Jon Engle jon.en...@gmail.com wrote: for port in range (startingPort, 65535): thread.start_new_thread(setup, (port,)) startingPort=startingPort+1 #print startingPort I think you just need this: for port in range (startingPort, 65535):

Re: [Tutor] python sockets

2014-06-10 Thread Marc Tompkins
On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 2:00 PM, Jon Engle jon.en...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, so after making the changes the code does bind the startingPort variable but that is the only port that gets bound. Also when connecting to the startingPort I receive the following error: Please enter starting

Re: [Tutor] which is faster

2014-06-10 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 09:57:51PM +0530, diliup gabadamudalige wrote: Thank you very much for the links. I will install this module, time the two code snippets and then share the info. Thank you very much! You're welcome, but there is no need to install the timeit module, it is part of the

Re: [Tutor] code review

2014-06-10 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 04:51:20PM +0100, Adam Gold wrote: Hi there. I've been writing a script that is now finished and working (thanks, in part, to some helpful input from this board). What I'd really like to do now is go through it with an 'expert' who can point out ways I may have been

Re: [Tutor] python ODE and DAE solver

2014-06-10 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 08:07:56PM +0800, He Yang wrote: Hi, I use Maple for my modelling work, and now I am considering switching to Python. Lately, I've spend some time on the documentation of python and SciPy( python based maths package), but only managed to find a ODE solver, can

Re: [Tutor] Simple python help

2014-06-10 Thread Alex Kleider
On 2014-06-10 07:55, Stephen Brazil wrote: Hello! I am brand new to python and need to know how to make the attached lines of code work. Should be pretty self-explanatory. [cid:40C1630E-BBA6-41A6-A641-3B1FBE3CBFB8] ___ Tutor maillist -

Re: [Tutor] Simple python help

2014-06-10 Thread Alan Gauld
On 10/06/14 15:55, Stephen Brazil wrote: Hello! I am brand new to python and need to know how to make the attached lines of code work. Should be pretty self-explanatory. Not if your mail tool doesn't display images. This is a text based list so your code is invisible... But on another mail