Re: [Tutor] making a list of a custom object

2014-09-20 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Hi Kate, and welcome! My replies are interleaved between your questions. On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 04:25:50PM -0500, Kate Reeher wrote: > I have a custom class called Game, and it has a variable called > "goals". I'd like to make this a list of custom objects, with various > information about t

Re: [Tutor] question 1

2014-09-20 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Hi Clayton, and welcome. My responses are interleaved between your questions below. On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 03:20:09PM -0700, Clayton Kirkwood wrote: > I'm ramping slowly unfortunately. How does one go about knowing which module > to import to make certain functions work? Experience, practice, r

Re: [Tutor] question 1

2014-09-20 Thread Danny Yoo
>> Secondarily, why can you import a module without it importing all of its >> daughters? > > The act of importing a module is "recursive": if you import a module, > and that module itself has import statements, then Python will do the > import of the child modules too. And so forth. Hi Deb, Oh!

Re: [Tutor] question 1

2014-09-20 Thread Danny Yoo
On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 3:20 PM, Clayton Kirkwood wrote: > I’m ramping slowly unfortunately. How does one go about knowing which module > to import to make certain functions work? I have a read() that fails because > there is no definition for it. Specific details may help here. Can you tell us

Re: [Tutor] Subprocess help

2014-09-20 Thread Danny Yoo
> The command I need to run is "BYPASSROOT=yes > ./octosetupBROADCASTER-linux_i386.bin" Semantically, the command above means: execute "./octosetupBROADCASTER-linux_i386.bin" in an environment that binds BYPASSROOT to "yes". The subprocess.Popen command takes in an optional "env" argument,

[Tutor] Subprocess help

2014-09-20 Thread Crush
Hey all, hope everyone is well. I am trying to write a script that automates a certain task I have recently found myself doing a lot lately. The command I need to run is "BYPASSROOT=yes ./octosetupBROADCASTER-linux_i386.bin" I know how to use subprocess to execute the "./octosetup..." command

[Tutor] question 1

2014-09-20 Thread Clayton Kirkwood
I'm ramping slowly unfortunately. How does one go about knowing which module to import to make certain functions work? I have a read() that fails because there is no definition for it. I am using the Wing IDE. I have traversed much of the developer's guide and can't find any certainty. Secondar

Re: [Tutor] making a list of a custom object

2014-09-20 Thread Dave Angel
Kate Reeher Wrote in message: > I have a custom class called Game, and it has a variable called "goals". I'd > like > to make this a list of custom objects, with various information about the > goals. > class Game: > goals = {} That's a class attribute; the others below are instance a

Re: [Tutor] Help

2014-09-20 Thread diliup gabadamudalige
http://cscircles.cemc.uwaterloo.ca/run-at-home/ On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 11:04 AM, Danny Yoo wrote: > On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 4:36 PM, Art Pelletier wrote: > > > > I am a beginner with pythons programming I would like to see if their > is a site that has samples programs that I can practice on

[Tutor] making a list of a custom object

2014-09-20 Thread Kate Reeher
I have a custom class called Game, and it has a variable called "goals". I'd like to make this a list of custom objects, with various information about the goals. class Game: goals = {} class Goal(object): def __init__(self,time,goal_by,assist_by,team,is_powerplay ):